The Big Ten Signs Comprehensive Partnership with U.S. Integrity
LAS VEGAS, NV (August 25th, 2023) – Today U.S. Integrity (“USI”) announced a comprehensive partnership with The Big Ten Conference, as they aim to protect the integrity of their conference and its student-athletes, coaches, and staff.
“The well-being of our students, coaches, and staff, as well as the integrity of our competitions are of paramount importance,” said Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti. “Enhanced transparency through availability reporting and partnering with U.S. Integrity strengthens our efforts to protect those who participate in our games as well as the integrity of the games themselves. I’m grateful for the collaboration of our schools, coaches, and administrators.”
USI will provide integrity monitoring, educational, and social media monitoring services to The Big Ten Conference, via its proprietary dashboard. USI conducts analysis across dozens of data sets to proactively identify irregular contest-level, officiating & wagering patterns.
“We are thrilled to be working with The Big Ten Conference, as they continue their efforts in being proactive to maintain the integrity of their sports,” says Matthew Holt, USI’s CEO & co-founder. “We believe our partnership will provide their student-athletes with the best opportunity to succeed on a level playing field. The partnership will include, but not be limited to providing The Big Ten Conference with a state of the art technology solution for integrity monitoring, dynamic educational training and curriculum, and a robust social media monitoring program. It is through these transparent efforts and initiatives that we will build a cohesive partnership that will deliver the highest of integrity standards for The Big Ten Conference, and its member institutions.”
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 TEN CONFERENCE:
The Big Ten Conference (bigten.org) is an association of world-class universities whose member institutions share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching, and public service. Founded in 1896, the Big Ten Conference has sustained a comprehensive set of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics in the lives of students competing in intercollegiate athletics and emphasize the value of integrity, fairness and competitiveness. The broad-based programs of the 14 Big Ten Conference institutions will provide over $200 million in direct financial support to more than 9,800 students for more than 11,000 participation opportunities on more than 350 teams in 42 different sports. The Big Ten Conference sponsors 28 official conference sports, 14 for men and 14 for women, including the addition of men’s ice hockey and men’s and women’s lacrosse since 2013.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Megan Althoff, Director of Communications, Big Ten Conference
mrowley@bigten.org
Scott Sadin, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Integrity
scott.sadin@usintegrity.com
