The SEC has seen the rise in more gambling across different sports over the last five years.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey when asked about the new reality gambling brings to college athletics, said Olympic sports like volleyball, soccer, softball and even gymnastics are not immune from having bets placed.
“It was football and men’s basketball and women’s basketball in the postseason and baseball in the postseason if you go back five years,” Sankey said during a Q&A session at the Associated Press Sports Editors summer conference on the campus of IUPUI. “Now it’s all those sports all season long, incredible volume and it’s volleyball, and its soccer and its softball. I haven’t heard the gymnastics report for us yet but those are very different realities and dynamics that are emerging around us.”