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Ohio judge grants preliminary injunction for men’s, women’s hoops players suing NCAA for eligibility
The ruling gives 24 players a chance to enter the transfer portal as the NCAA’s new eligibility rules face a challenge from athletes in similar suits.
- On Thursday, July 9, 2026, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Chris Wagner granted a preliminary injunction blocking the NCAA from enforcing new eligibility rules for 24 college basketball players seeking a fifth year of competition.
- The lawsuit, filed on June 24, challenges the NCAA's age-based eligibility model, which effectively barred athletes who graduated high school in 2022 from a fifth year of competition despite allowing it for subsequent classes.
- This ruling directly impacts rosters at the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University, where players including Filip Borovicanin and MJ Collins, who played for head coach Jerrod Calhoun at Utah State, may now compete for a fifth season.
- The NCAA criticized the decision as "wrong," stating the organization will seek to overturn the ruling and called on Congress to act swiftly "to restore stability, uniformity, and fair competition in college athletics."
- Wagner, who scheduled an August 4 conference to prepare for trial, argued the NCAA's rules were applied in an "arbitrary and capricious manner," noting the organization seeks to evade judicial review while punishing member institutions.
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Ohio judge grants preliminary injunction for men's, women's hoops players suing NCAA for eligibility
An Ohio judge has granted a preliminary injunction for 24 men's and women's college basketball players suing the NCAA to be eligible, claiming the new age-based model unfairly shuts them out of further competition.
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Ohio judge grants preliminary injunction for men’s, women’s hoops players suing NCAA for eligibility
An Ohio judge has granted a preliminary injunction for 24 men’s and women’s college basketball players suing the NCAA to be eligible, claiming the new age-based model unfairly shuts them out of further competition.
·New York, United States
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