Big Sky Conference Announces Partnership with U.S. Integrity
LAS VEGAS, NV (Sept. 1, 2021) – The Big Sky Conference announced Wednesday a multi-year partnership with U.S. Integrity Inc., a technology and data-driven analytics company that monitors match-fixing, game manipulation, and other unethical or illegal betting-related activity.
“With the legalization of sports gambling in numerous states within our conference’s footprint, our membership felt it was important to be proactive to understand and monitor this landscape,” Commissioner Tom Wistrcill said. “We are proud to partner with industry leader U.S. Integrity, which will play a pivotal role in educating our student-athletes, coaches, and administrators across the Big Sky about this increasingly prevalent topic.”
U.S. Integrity’s proprietary, best-in-class product analyzes dozens of data sets, including account-level wagering detail – a unique differentiator that is delivered to USI directly from sportsbook partners – to proactively identify potentially suspicious wagering activity and irregular contest-level patterns for customers across the domestic sports betting market. U.S. Integrity provides technology services to leagues, teams, athletic conferences and universities, as well as sportsbook operators.
“With the expansion of sports betting in the west, including Arizona and Washington in the coming weeks, it’s critical for the Big Sky and university leadership to have tools to track, in real time, the tremendous engagement that sports betting brings to Big Sky competition,” said Matthew Holt, CEO and Co-Founder of U.S. Integrity.
The Big Sky Conference joins the Pac-12, SEC, Big XII, West Coast Conference and dozens of other NCAA members as U.S. Integrity clients.
“Sports betting and television will bring much more attention and scrutiny to the Big Sky beginning this fall,” Holt said. “We’ll be there for every game in every sport, starting with all 13 football teams in action this weekend."
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About U.S. Integrity
U.S. Integrity is a leading technology-driven sports wagering monitoring company, providing the highest level of protection against betting-related fraud and corruption. USI’s mission is to grow the legal, regulated sports betting market by providing solutions that ensure sports betting integrity in every play, every game, every sport. USI partners with a number of the largest professional sports leagues and collegiate conferences in the U.S., as well as licensed sports-betting operators and regulators. USI is based in Las Vegas and New York. For additional information, visit www.usintegrity.com.
About the Big Sky Conference
Founded in 1963, the Big Sky Conference is a NCAA Division I conference competing in the Football Championship Subdivision. With 165 teams representing 15 institutions in 16 sports (seven men’s, nine women’s), the Big Sky prides itself on its “#ExperienceElevated” platform that emphasizes the unique traits and lifelong benefits that the conference and its member institutions provide to around 4,000 student-athletes each year. The conference has 11 full members (Eastern Washington University; the University of Idaho; Idaho State University; the University of Montana; Montana State University; Northern Arizona University; the University of Northern Colorado; Portland State University; Sacramento State; Southern Utah University; and Weber State University) located in eight states across the western United States, plus two football affiliate members (Cal Poly and UC Davis) and two men’s golf affiliate members (Binghamton University and the University of Hartford). Conference members have won 11 NCAA championships, including seven in football by five different members as well as four titles by NAU men’s cross country over the past five seasons. For more information, visit BigSkyConf.com and the Big Sky’s accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
