What motivated a college shooting guard to shave points to benefit a Las Vegas-based bettor?
Money.
University of New Orleans starting shooting guard Cedquavious Hunter admitted to shaving points, a broad label for manipulating the outcome of games for betting purposes, for only one reason.
“I was money hungry,” Hunter told “Good Morning America” in a televised interview on Monday. “Fast cash.”
Hunter (who also goes by “Dae Dae”) became a father before learning of the proposition to make $5,000, which the NCAA discovered by searching text message records. He said because “the school wasn’t paying me,” he made the choice to get involved in the illegal plot to miss shots.
“Skip that question,” Hunter first said in the interview, lifting out of his seat before returning to say “basically I had a child. I just had a child. The school wasn’t paying me, so I was trying to get money to actually take care of my child.”
Hunter said he lied to the NCAA.
“I told them I wasn’t doing it. I told them I didn’t know anything but the whole time, I knew everything. But I was trying to lie because I thought I would get my way out of it,” he said.
Hunter was investigated by the NCAA for his involvement in the scheme during the 2024-25 season. He confessed to intentionally missing shots or finding other ways to slow the pace and lower scores.
“Ninety-five percent (of the time) we got the job done,” he said.
Hunter, UNO teammates Dyquavian Short and Jamond Vincent, and three others are permanently ineligible for their roles in the scheme.
Hunter said he decided to speak publicly to encourage other student athletes. “Don’t make the mistake. Don’t do what I did,” he said.
