A former University of New Orleans basketball player owns up to his mistake. Cedquavious “Dae Dae” Hunter appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America and admitted to his role in a point-shaving scandal. The NCAA accused Hunter and two of his teammates, Duquavian Short and Jamond Vincent, of intentionally trying to lose against the point spread in at least seven games last season. Hunter admitted he was in on it.
“I’d do my best shooting the ball, but not actually trying to make it, but making it. Like, make a couple and miss a couple.”,” Hunter explained.
Hunter told Good Morning America he and others were approached by a bettor from Las Vegas who had reason to believe that the Privateers and their players were easy targets.
“They’ll look at the record. They’re like, ‘Oh, yeah. It’s a better chance that they lose by a certain spread,"” Hunter said.
Hunter told Good Morning America that he did it so that he could get money to care for his newborn child. When investigators first confronted him, he said he denied any involvement before coming clean.
“I told them I wasn’t doing it. I told like, ‘I didn’t know anything.’ But the whole time, I knew everything,” Hunter admitted.
The NCAA has permanently banned all three players. The scandal will certainly bring back painful memories among New Orleans college basketball fans of a certain age; it comes 40 years after a nearly identical scandal shut down Tulane’s men’s basketball program for four years.
