However, he also became involved in the 1994 Arizona State point shaving scandal along with ASU teammate Isaac Burton.
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) had canceled the Dixie Classic, an annual basketball tournament in Raleigh, North Carolina, due to a national point shaving scandal including one North Carolina player (Lou Brown).
Throughout its history, NC State men's basketball has been placed on probation by the NCAA on four separate occasions (1954-55, 1956-60, 1972-73, and 1989-91) and also sanctioned for multiple players' roles in a massive point shaving scandal in the early 1960s.
Jimmy Burke was given 20 years in prison for the 1978-79 Boston College point shaving scandal, involving fixing Boston College basketball games.
However, this accomplishment was overshadowed by the CCNY point shaving scandal in which seven CCNY basketball players were arrested, in 1951, for taking money from gamblers to affect the outcome of games.
Benjamin Silman of New York is a former student turned campus bookmaker who was jailed for masterminding a point shaving scandal at Arizona State University.
Prior to the start of the 1961 season, the ACC experienced a point shaving scandal.
He averaged 22.5 points per game over two seasons before being implicated along with college teammates Ralph Beard and Dale Barnstable in a point shaving scandal during the 1948-49 season at Kentucky.
The CCNY point shaving scandal of 1950-1951 was a college basketball point shaving gambling scandal that involved seven schools in all, with four in Greater New York and three in the Midwest.
Melchiorre was involved in a massive point shaving scandal in 1951 which brought seven schools and 32 players from around the US to face charges on violations of the New York state penal code.