Four Alabama State Basketball Players Were Paid to Fix Game, NCAA Says

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The NCAA announced on Friday that four Alabama State men’s basketball players engaged in match-fixing for the purposes of winning sports bets.

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The Division I Committee on Infractions panel confirmed that one former student-athlete agreed to the violations, while three either chose not to participate in the investigation or were unresponsive.

Key Takeaways

The four individuals were offered a total of $2,000 for their endeavors.

Two of the four provided false or misleading information to the NCAA during its investigations.

Alabama State won its first March Madness game when all four were all on the team.

Armarr Knox, Shawn Fulcher, Corey “CJ” Hines and Tony Madlock are not currently competing in NCAA sports and are no longer members of the Alabama State basketball program.

The NCAA’s enforcement staff was contacted by Temple University in July 2025 after they were contacted by the FBI regarding Hines, who transferred during the summer. According to the NCAA’s announcement, the FBI provided text messages detailing breaches of match integrity from Hines’ time at Alabama State. 

In interviews with Knox in October 2025 and January 2026, he told the NCAA that Fulcher in December 2024 put himself and his teammates in a group chat with one of two known sports bettors. He also claimed that the bettor offered to pay the student-athletes if they threw their game against Southern Mississippi the following evening. 

Knox went on to state that the second known bettor paid a total of $2,000 to the student-athletes. In accepting these payments and fixing their performances, all four student-athletes committed Level I violations of the NCAA’s ethical conduct rules.

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Both bettors were indicted on Jan. 14 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on wire fraud and bribery charges.

Failure to cooperate

The NCAA interviewed Fulcher in addition to…

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