The NCAA has banned six former college basketball players for their role in schemes to manipulate games for betting purposes.

After three separate investigations, the NCAA announced the permanent bans on Friday. The governing body said the players provided information to known bettors, and they also failed to cooperate with the investigations or provided false or misleading information.

The players and their schools are Cedquavious Hunter, Dyquavian Short and Jamond Vincent, New Orleans; Donovan Sanders and Alvin Stredic, Mississippi Valley; and Chatton "BJ" Freeman, Arizona State.

None of the six are still enrolled at those schools.

In the New Orleans case, the NCAA said a student-athlete reported overhearing Hunter, Short and Vincent talk about a third party placing a bet for them on

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