The University of New Orleans and NCAA are investigating unspecified improprieties in the school’s men’s basketball program, athletic director Vince Granito said Wednesday.

The school suspended starters Dae Dae Hunter, Jah Short, Jamond Vincent and James White after the team’s 74-58 loss to University of Incarnate Word on Jan. 27, Granito said. White was the team’s leading scorer with an average of 19.2 points per game.

TheFieldof68.com, a website that covers college basketball, reported Wednesday that the suspensions were “due to an investigation into sports gambling.”

Granito declined to comment on the reasons of the suspension, citing player privacy.

“We suspended the four players at that time for violation of team rules that needed to be investigated,” Granito said. “Nothing has changed on that. They’ve been out since then, and the investigation is still ongoing.”

The news comes one day after a Sports Illustrated report about a widespread gambling ring in pro and college basketball that is being investigated by the U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. The report described the investigations findings as “one of the most pervasive point-shaving scandals in North American sports history.”

UNO and its men’s basketball program have an unrelated press conference scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Lakefront Arena.