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By 1946 college games at the Garden drew an average of 18, 196 fans.
Some of those fans were gamblers, however, which led to the infamous 1951 game-fixing scandal.
The fiasco involved at least six colleges, four of them in New York City, and 33 players.
Twenty-one players admitted in court to having " dumped " games — intentionally causing their teams to lose in exchange for money.
Some were sentenced to prison, and the careers of several college coaches were destroyed.
According to Sports Illustrated, New York District Attorney Frank Hogan reported that underlying the scandal " was the blatant commercialism which had permeated college basketball.
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