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A new report on sports betting regulation says West Virginia is among the states using exclusion lists for bettors who harass athletes, coaches or officials, as more states move to restrict college player prop wagers.
According to CNS Maryland, 15 states now ban all college player prop bets, including Maryland, Ohio, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The report also said college player props are available without restrictions in seven states, restricted in 18 states, and illegal or banned in 26 states.
No new West Virginia policy change was reported. But the state was highlighted as one of the jurisdictions that already has a tool to bar certain abusive bettors from sports wagering.
West Virginia’s rule was part of a broader state-by-state comparison
The report said West Virginia has an exclusion-list process for bettors whose conduct crosses a defined threshold. In West Virginia, bettors must harass or show a harmful pattern of conduct directed at a sports official, coach or participant to be placed on the list.
That was contrasted with other states’ approaches. Ohio and Wyoming were also cited as using exclusion lists, while Ohio separately removed college prop bets from its approved wagers in February 2024.
Ohio Casino Control Commission executive director Matthew Schuler said he hopes to see “a marked decrease in student-athlete harassment” over time. The report said Ohio was the first state to take action against abusive gamblers on betting platforms in 2023.
More states are limiting college player props
The article framed college player props as a growing target for regulators and the NCAA. NCAA President Charlie Baker has made eliminating college player prop bets a top priority since 2023, saying, “The prop bet stuff at a minimum needs to go away. Period.”
CNS Maryland reported that an analysis by the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism found more than 7,000 player prop betting lines during the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. During the 2026 tournament, the report said Ohio residents could not legally place prop bets on any players, even though betting platforms still offered more than 200 prop bets on players from four Ohio universities in other markets.
For West Virginia readers, the immediate takeaway is narrower: the source did not report any pending change to West Virginia’s sports betting rules, but it did identify the state as part of the broader effort to address betting-related abuse of athletes and other participants.
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Source: As reported by cnsmaryland.org.
