The American Athletic Signs Comprehensive Partnership with U.S. Integrity
Las Vegas, NV (August 29th, 2023) – Today U.S. Integrity (“USI”) announced a comprehensive partnership with The American Athletic Conference to provide sports wagering monitoring systems and educational resources to the conference’s student-athletes, coaches and staff to prevent participation in prohibited sports wagering.
U.S. Integrity will provide integrity monitoring services via its proprietary dashboard to The American. USI conducts analysis across dozens of data sets to proactively identify irregular contest-level officiating and wagering patterns.
“We are extremely pleased to enhance our monitoring and educational systems through this important partnership with U.S. Integrity,” said American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco. “As sports wagering continues to expand nationally and internationally, it is critical for us to provide educational resources to our members and ensure that we have access to the best information to protect the integrity of our contests.”
In addition to the monitoring services provided by the USI dashboard, the agreement additionally covers annual reviews of the conference’s protocols, policies and procedures related to sports wagering, including best practice recommendations and risk assessments. It also allows for on-site education training at all American Athletic Conference member schools.
“We’re incredibly proud to partner with The American Athletic Conference and help tackle the issues that are impacting the integrity space.” says Matthew Holt, USI’s CEO & co-founder. He continued, “The team here at USI are looking forward to working with The American Athletic Conference to ensure and maintain the integrity at the conference level and all AAC athletic properties. The commitment to deliver the highest of integrity standards must start at the student athlete level through the leadership of the conference, and this partnership with the AAC showcases our commitment.”
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 AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE:
The American Athletic Conference (The American), a member of the NCAA, was reconstituted in 2013. The Conference office is located in Irving, Texas, as of July 1, 2023, The American consists of 15 prestigious institutions: the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of North Carolina Charlotte, East Carolina University, Florida Atlantic University, the University of Memphis, the United States Naval Academy (in football only), the University of North Texas, Rice University, the University of South Florida, Southern Methodist University, Temple University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Tulane University, the University of Tulsa, and Wichita State University (in basketball and Olympic sports). Under the leadership of Commissioner Mike Aresco, The American sponsors 21 sports, 20 championships (eight for men and 12 for women); is a member of the College Football Playoff; has television partnerships with ESPN and CBS Sports; in the spring of 2019, signed a landmark television agreement with ESPN that commenced in 2020-21; and has a marketing partnership with Learfield.
For more information, please visit www.TheAmerican.org.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Chuck Sullivan, Assistant Commissioner Communications
csullivan@theamerican.org
Scott Sadin, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Integrity
scott.sadin@usintegrity.com
