Sophomore guard Adam Njie Jr. has been excluded from the competition due to “eligibility issues,” the Dayton men’s basketball team announced Sunday.
Dayton goes Adam Njie Jr. benched during NCAA gambling investigation
Sources said Sports illustrated that Njie be withheld from competition due to his possible connection to the ongoing investigation into gambling-related activities in college basketball.
“The University of Dayton has been notified by the NCAA of potential eligibility concerns related to Adam Njie, relating to matters that occurred prior to his enrollment at the university,” Dayton athletic director Neil Sullivan said in a statement. “In light of these concerns and the ongoing review process, Adam will not be participating in athletic competition at this time.”
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In September, the NCAA announced it was investigating gambling-related violations involving 13 players at six different schools.
The players were not named, but their former schools were listed: Eastern Michigan, Temple, Arizona State, New Orleans, North Carolina A&T and Mississippi Valley State.
Three former Eastern Michigan players declined to participate
On Friday, the NCAA announced that three former Eastern Michigan college basketball students failed to cooperate with its investigation into possible sports betting violations, according to a decision by the Division I Committee on Infractions.
Jalin Billingsley, Da’Sean Nelson and Jalen Terry, who are no longer with the program, had their phones captured by an enforcement vendor on Jan. 29 as part of an NCAA investigation into suspicious betting on Eastern Michigan’s Jan. 14 game against Central Michigan.
Enforcement personnel made numerous requests to interview the student-athletes through their legal counsel after their phones were videotaped, police said findings released Friday.
In January 2025, NCAA enforcement staff received reports from multiple integrity monitoring agencies about suspicious gambling activity in the first half of Eastern Michigan’s Jan. 14 game with Central Michigan.
According to ESPN’s David Purdumsportsbooks discovered suspicious betting odds on the first halves of two other Eastern Michigan games last season: vs. Wright State (December 21) and in Toledo (January 7).
On March 17, the student-athletes’ attorney notified NCAA enforcement personnel that the student-athletes would not participate in the lawsuit and ordered the vendor to destroy the footage.
Due to the behavior of the student-athletes, enforcement staff were unable to determine whether a sports betting violation had occurred. According to the committee, the student-athletes’ uncooperative violations are Level I.
Njie spent her first year at Iona
Njie was one of six transfers that head coach Anthony Grant brought in this offseason. He played his freshman year at Iona, where he averaged 12.2 points and 4.2 assists per game while shooting 41.3% from the floor.
In 33 games (28 starts) with the Gaels last season, Njie also recorded 2.8 rebounds and 29.3 minutes per game while shooting 29.2% from 3-point range and 77.4% from the foul line.
Per College basketball referenceNjie finished 16th in points (408) in the MAAC, sixth in assists (140), eighth in steals (56), 12th in field goals (156), fourth in turnovers (95) and seventh in usage percentage (25.6%).
The 6-foot-4, 175-pound Njie was named to the 2024-25 MAAC All-Freshman Team after scoring a career-high 26 points in Iona’s 82-52 win over Canisius on March 2.
He scored four points in 24 minutes of the Flyers’ exhibition game with Penn State on Oct. 19.
It is unclear when Njie will return to court.
The Flyers play their second exhibition game against Bowling Green on Monday, and their season opener for the 2025-2026 season is on November 3 against Canisius.
Dayton and Bowling Green will tip off from UD Arena on Monday at 7 p.m.
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