Massachusetts law allows bets to be placed on Massachusetts colleges and universities only when the team is playing in a tournament with at least three other participants.

Sports Wagering Director Bruce Band told commissioners at the start of Thursday’s meeting that the matter is being vetted by the Investigations and Enforcement Bureau and will be before the commission in greater detail “in the coming week or so.” The commission on Thursday also heard a more in-depth review of similar violations of the state’s new betting law at MGM Springfield - which involved an error labeling Harvard University a school in Connecticut - and announced plans to hold adjudicatory hearings March 14 on the first two violations that came to light, at Encore and Plainridge Park Casino. Having already owned up to taking illegal bets on a Boston College women’s basketball game and assuring regulators that it had addressed the problem, Encore Boston Harbor in Everett is again under Gaming Commission scrutiny for taking forbidden bets on BC women’s hoops.

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