Fran Dunphy speaks for the first time about how the NCAA point-shaving scandal touched La Salle

Fran Dunphy sat at a long table inside La Salle’s athletic center, his body turned toward a wide window on the other end of a conference room, as if the difficult discussion topic pained him and he was trying to shield himself from the hurt.

A 70-page federal indictment had dropped Thursday accusing more than 39 college basketball players of fixing games and shaving points during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons. Dunphy had read in disbelief as La Salle was mentioned more than once. One of his team’s games was the target of an alleged fix, and one of his former players, Mac Etienne, appeared in the indictment 28 times for shaving points at DePaul University in ’23-24, the season before he came to La Salle. Etienne reportedly reached a plea agreement with prosecutors on Dec. 8.

“Just surprise, disappointment, a bit shocking,” Dunphy said. “Just, how did this happen? Where do we go with it?” At least the retired coach is talking about the scandal, though. Many of the giants of college basketball are not.

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