A study of the point-shaving scandal involving the 1978-1979 Boston College basketball team, a case that dropped a bombshell on the sports world in the winter of 1981. It is a multi-layered story of greed and betrayal combining sports, gambling and the Mafia. Using background research as well as interviews with the principal characters, the book offers a reconstruction of the case, from the genesis of the plot in the summer of 1978 to the uncovering of the scheme during an unrelated investigation in 1980, to the trial that captivated the sports world in the fall of 1981. It also details the profound effect that the case has had on the principals to this day.