Well this came out of nowhere. Former Temple basketball player Hysier Miller has been dismissed by Virginia Tech due to “circumstances prior to his enrollment” –

“Temple transfer point guard Hysier Miller has been permanently released from the Virginia Tech men’s basketball program due to circumstances prior to his enrollment at Virginia Tech. There will be no further comment by the university on this matter.”

I honestly thought Temple was out of the woods with the whole gambling controversy that came up at the end of the season, but I guess not.

For those who don’t remember, here’s a quick synopsis from Pat Forde at Sports Illustrated:

Gambling watchdog company U.S. Integrity sent out an alert to casinos Thursday regarding unusual wagering activity on the UAB Blazers-Temple Owls men’s basketball game, the American Athletic Conference confirms to Sports Illustrated.

“We are aware they flagged it,” AAC men’s basketball director of communications Tom Fenstermaker says.

The betting line moved significantly during the day Thursday leading up to the game. At one casino, the line moved from UAB as a 1.5-point favorite over Temple at the beginning of the day to UAB as an eight-point favorite by mid-afternoon, then settling at seven closer to tip-off. The Blazers routed the Owls, 100–72, in Temple’s home gym, the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia.

After the Owls were flagged they went on an AAC Tournament run for the ages which Miller was a HUGE part of and we never heard anything else until Wednesday, when the news was made public. There are conspiracies galore on Owls message boards and social media. I see a couple people pointing at the Wagner defeat to start the 2022-23 season as a potential red flag because they lost outright and Miller missed the front end of a 1 and 1 when Temple was up six with 1:20 left in the game. That doesn’t really check out. If a guy is shaving points he’s not going to outright lose games. Especially to fucking Wagner. That would just bring unnecessary heat on the program and whomever is running the point-shaving operation. I’d say the AAC Tournament run where he averaged 27.8 PPG immediately following news of the scandal is a bigger red flag. Still, it’s not wrong to question everything about this program since Miller got here. Those were some good teams that underachieved and would leave you scratching your head. A lot of their top players transferred to big time schools and had a significant impact.

Obviously this looks like the end of Miller’s time in the NCAA, which sucks because for all intents and purposes the guy was a good kid. He’d put on free basketball camps and speak out against gun violence in his local community. Hopefully no one currently on the team was a part of anything, because Adam Fisher’s building something good over there.

And wtf NCAA? You had an entire summer and fall to investigate this and the news is coming out a week before the season. Pat Forde reported new information came to light earlier this month. Oh did it? Who’s sitting on their hands over there twiddling their thumbs? Chop chop. Adam Fisher has some games to win. And shouldn’t Virginia Tech be held accountable too, because they took him no questions asked? Even Andy Reid nowadays waits for the investigation to play out before he goes and signs a guy with the off-the-field issues.

A resolution from the NCAA is expected shortly, according to Jeff Neiburg at the Inky. If they don’t find that anyone else on the team last year was involved there shouldn’t be any penalties against Temple. Don’t make these players and this coaching staff an example when Miller played for multiple coaches and half the players from last year’s team are gone. Postseason penalties would be absolute bullshit.

Not gonna lie…this tweet aged terribly: