Three of the former college basketball players who pleaded not guilty in a sprawling point-shaving case intend to change their pleas, according to court records filed Thursday.
Former Saint Louis forward Bradley Ezewiro, Buffalo and Alabama State guard Shawn Fulcher and New Orleans guard Dyquavion "Jah" Short are all scheduled to appear in federal court July 29 to formally change their pleas. It is not immediately clear whether any of them have reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Attorneys for Fulcher and Short did not reply to messages from ESPN about whether their clients intend to plead guilty, while an attorney for Ezewiro declined to comment.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said the office had no comment "beyond the information on the public docket."
Ezewiro, Fulcher and Short would be the first players to plead guilty from the main indictment, which sent shock waves across the college sports landscape when prosecutors unsealed it in January.
Five other former players, who were charged separately, have previously pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing, as are fixers Jalen Smith and Marves Fairley.
All told, 26 former players and alleged fixers were charged in the point-shaving scheme, which revolves around allegations of point-shaving by 39 players on more than 17 different NCAA Division I men's basketball teams. Some of the defendants, including Fairley and Shane Hennen, have been charged in other federal cases related to fraudulent sports betting or gambling in the NBA and poker.
The allegations about Ezewiro, Fulcher and Short involve different games and teams but follow a similar pattern. Prosecutors allege that each deliberately underperformed in games to help a group of sports bettors such as Smith cash in on bets that their teams would lose or be trailing by a certain margin.
Together, the trio allegedly impacted eight games between February 2024 and January 2025. Prosecutors claim each also attempted to recruit a teammate or teammates to join in the alleged scheme.
Fulcher and Short have been declared permanently ineligible by the NCAA Committee on Infractions following separate investigations into their conduct at Alabama State and New Orleans, respectively. Ezewiro, who also played for Georgetown, LSU and UAB, joined a professional team in the Dominican Republic last month.