NCAA president says he hopes to "dramatically limit" prop betting

NCAA President Charlie Baker said helium hopes to "dramatically limit" prop betting astatine the collegiate level and beyond, informing astir however the sports betting signifier has changed the "character and the civilization of fandom," and demeaned pupil athletes.

"Go beryllium successful the stands down the seat astatine a large clip assemblage hoops game, and conscionable perceive to immoderate of this worldly that's being directed astatine the kids who are portion of those teams," Baker said successful an interrogation for "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." The interrogation was taped connected July 1 and aired Sunday. 

A proposition, oregon "prop," stake involves placing a wager connected an idiosyncratic subordinate oregon lawsuit that isn't needfully tied to the last result of the game. A stake could impact the fig of passing yards oregon points scored by an idiosyncratic subordinate during a game, oregon a wager connected a team, similar which squad volition people first. 

But Baker said pupil athletes apt person classmates, friends and household members "on a beauteous regular basis," asking, "'don't instrumentality the archetypal pitch, don't instrumentality the archetypal shot, don't drawback the archetypal pass. I don't privation you to suffer the game, but here's each the different things I privation you to do, truthful that I tin marque money.'"

"Honestly, it's disgraceful, it's demeaning, and it's incredibly demoralizing for pupil athletes," Baker said. "And I deliberation we're starting to triumph this treatment and this statement with the public, and I'm anxious to person a batch of the folks who are portion of our assemblage get profoundly progressive and organized connected this one."

Baker, who served arsenic politician of Massachusetts from 2015 until 2023, said the NCAA was the archetypal to "really rise the alarm astir prop bets."

"I started talking astir that beauteous overmuch arsenic soon arsenic I got the occupation successful the outpouring of '23 due to the fact that I heard astir it a batch from pupil athletes, who said the sound and the maltreatment that they were taking from betters astir prop bets was truly disturbing," Baker said. 

A 2024 NCAA report connected online maltreatment successful its championships recovered astir 750 instances of sports betting-related maltreatment and match-fixing allegations, accounting for 12% of each the maltreatment identified. And a 2025 study recovered that wrong the erstwhile year, 36% of Division I men's hoops pupil athletes reported experiencing maltreatment connected societal media related to sports betting.

The NCAA began a run successful 2023 to advocator for expanding regulations connected sports betting to support pupil athletes, aft a slew of authorities laws person legalized the signifier successful caller years. Earlier this year, Baker called on authorities gambling commissions to fortify regulations to destruct gambling connected idiosyncratic prop bets, aft encouraging the regulatory assemblage that oversees prediction markets to suspend the markets until caller regulations tin beryllium imposed. 

Asked by CBS News' Ed O'Keefe what the NCAA tin bash to guarantee that pupil athletes aren't betting connected games, Baker said the NCAA runs "the largest integrity programme successful the world" wherever they "catch, unfortunately, a batch of young radical betting connected sports." 

Baker noted that the NCAA runs a surveillance programme astatine each large championships, wherever they way "all the postulation connected societal media and notify the authorities astir the worldly we deliberation is peculiarly atrocious erstwhile it comes to coaches, players, oregon officials to get those radical Xed disconnected the platforms for the remainder of the tournament."

He added that, successful galore cases, they've had to notify section authorities "about peculiarly assertive maltreatment that's been directed astatine pupil athletes."

The prop betting sermon has besides made its mode to the nonrecreational leagues. Last year, the MLB said it was weighing banning each prop betting, portion it has enactment successful spot immoderate circumstantial restrictions, and the NFL has besides attempted to ace down connected immoderate elements of the practice. 

Baker said he's been "really pleased" to spot nonrecreational leagues "start to measurement up and say, 'this prop betting worldly is atrocious news, it's atrocious quality for our players, it's atrocious quality for their families.'"

"And my anticipation is that we, moving unneurotic with our colleagues and the nonrecreational leagues, tin dramatically limit, importantly reduce, and successful my mind, astatine slightest astatine the collegiate level, get escaped of each of the antagonistic prop bets, and hopefully astir of the prop bets," helium said.