A top NCAA policy-making group on Tuesday, June 24 voted to recommend that the association change its rules to allow Division I athletes and athletics staff members to bet on professional sports events, the association announced.
The move by the NCAA Division I Council will not become final until the group concludes meetings on June 25 and will not take effect unless similar governance groups representing Division II and Division III later this summer approve the move and will require formal adoption in October. However, this past April, the Division III Management Council “took action to support, in concept, noncontroversial legislation deregulating betting on professional sports.”
