The reputation of basketball has taken a huge hit. After the egregious betting scandal in the NBA, investigators dug into the NCAA and found something similar. Players from three different schools, New Orleans, Mississippi Valley State, and Arizona State, were involved in separate schemes related to point shaving. It has led to a major uproar regarding the normalisation of betting.  In the same vein, a clip regarding an arrest made during a college game has been doing the rounds, but is it real?

In the video, the arrested player is yelling the name Allen Benjamin and that the police caught them. The 10-second-long clip has been shared by multiple online users across platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X. The post features a caption like, “Gambling basketball player gets arrested 😮” without any more details. The person seen arrested in the video is heard screaming, “Allen Benjamin! They’re coming, gang. They got us! Allen Benjamin! It’s over! That gambling s*** over with, on God.”

Was That On‑Court ‘Arrest’ of a College Basketball Star Even Real?

This video is a realistic work of  AI. The players in the background are suspiciously robotic. The crowd looks uninterested in the supposed arrest in the court. There are no credible reports of a college basketball player getting arrested mid-game related to the gambling scheme. In addition, there is no evidence of any current or past NCAA men’s or women’s basketball player named “Allen Benjamin.”

(This is a developing story…)