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NCAA grants eligibility to a player who played professionally for 2 years

yoda said:
yet another puzzler...

James Nnaji was drafted in the NBA Draft of 2023 - 2 1/2 yrs ago......
The NCAA just ruled him eligible with four full years of eligibility...
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one of the NBA pros who started all this craziness just went scoreless with zero rebounds but a foul & a turnover
in just one minute of garbage time as Baylor's season ended with an embarrassing defeat to Arizona State
But who knows, maybe in a couple years when he's 30 years old, he might crack the starting lineup.
 
yoda said:
Another lawsuit to get the juco waiver again this year -
If it works, Corey Thomas can play in 2026-27

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Bradley coaches really wanted that kid a couple years ago, Brody Robinson of Garden City CC, but he committed to UT-Arlington. Then he transferred to Oakland for his senior year.
Stats- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/stats/_/id/5107377/brody-robinson
https://twitter.com/x/status/1768353921209172262
 
Michael Jordan has just signed an NIL agreement to play another season at UNC after receiving a waiver from the NCAA following a lawsuit in which he claimed he had lost out on potential earnings as he graduated prior to the NIL.

Following this move, the NCAA issued a strong statement, "The NCAA doesn't broadly give 'extra years'. It grants TARGETED waivers that allow additional seasons in specific circumstances."

In other news, Darnell Brody.
 
Tommy said:
Michael Jordan has just signed an NIL agreement to play another season at UNC after receiving a waiver from the NCAA following a lawsuit in which he claimed he had lost out on potential earnings as he graduated prior to the NIL.

Following this move, the NCAA issued a strong statement, "The NCAA doesn't broadly give 'extra years'. It grants TARGETED waivers that allow additional seasons in specific circumstances."

In other news, Darnell Brody.
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yes
Darnell Brodie deserves an extra year because.... well just because he's Darnell Brodie!

and Tucker DeVries should get another shot at winning a game in the NCAA Tourney - after transferring multiple times
to get that opportunity and falling short - He desperately needs to repair his NBA Draft stock!
Two years ago, when he was still with Drake he was hyped up as a 1st round pick!
Now he's late 2nd round for some mock drafts and his injuries and poor shooting in 2025-26 dropped him off some mock drafts.

in his two NCAA Tourney games with Drake, both- embarrassing low scoring losses, Tucker was 1-13 in one of them and 6-18
in the other for a total of 7-29 (24% overall) and just 2-15 (13%) from 3-point range. His 3-point shooting in 2025-26 with IU
was well below average at just 33%.

He should have gone in the draft in 2024, he hurt his draft chances by staying the last two seasons.
 
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Da Coach said:
One of the top players who has played 3 years in the G-League, just committed to new Providence head coach Brian Hodgson.
He has reportedly turned down NBA contracts so he could retain college eligibility. He'll get paid more in NIL money than he could have earned on an NBA rookie contract.
https://twitter.com/x/status/2042451676288700482
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Do players like this actually go to class? When a team's GPA is calculated are these outliers excluded? Maybe this player had a light bulb go off over his head and has decided to major is quantum physics.
 
64NIT said:
Do players like this actually go to class? When a team's GPA is calculated are these outliers excluded? Maybe this player had a light bulb go off over his head and has decided to major is quantum physics.
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Whatever happened to that graduation rate statistic? If players weren't graduating, wasn't it supposed to pull scholarships, or am I misremembering?
 
Da Coach said:
You are referring to Ryan and Matt Bewley, twin 5-star players from a basketball prep school in Florida who played games for Overtime Elite and were paid while still in high school. They committed to Chicago State in 2023 but were ruled ineligible. No other schools offered them because of their eligibility issue. The twins apparently enrolled at Chicago State and their names and photos were posted on the team's roster page, but they never played while appealing the ineligibility ruling. The ruling was upheld, and they tried entering the transfer portal for some reason, but got no takers-
www.x.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1785691603127955599
The twins sued the NCAA for restricting their right to earn money under the new NCAA NIL ruling.-
www.espn.com

Chicago State brothers sue NCAA over denied eligibility

Twins Matt and Ryan Bewley, former five-star prospects who signed to play basketball at Chicago State, sued the NCAA in federal court after they were denied eligibility for receiving money they say was tied to NIL while at Overtime Elite.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
However, in one of the few court cases that the NCAA prevailed, the court ruled that their payment was not NIL, but were salaries and performance bonuses, thus making them professionals. -
www.sportico.com

OTE Hoops Twins Still Ineligible for NCAA as Court Says Their Pay Isn’t NIL

The NCAA has ruled OTE's Matt and Ryan Bewley ineligible to play college basketball. A federal judge has denied their motion for an injunction.
www.sportico.com www.sportico.com

So they both enrolled at Daytona State College, a junior college in Florida, for the 2024-25 year. Apparently, playing professionally at Overtime Elite was not enough to ban them from playing in the NJCAA. More likely, the NJCAA didn't have the money to fight a lawsuit.
Matt Bewley's 2024-25 freshman stats (8.1 ppg, 5.0 rpg) - https://dscfalcons.com/sports/mbkb/2024-25/bios/bewley_matt_tfm5
On the 2025-26 stats page, he is shown to have appeared in 1 game, 0 minutes, and scoreless and now he is not on the 2025-26 roster-
Matt Bewley on the 2025-26 stats page- https://dscfalcons.com/sports/mbkb/...tatecollege?sort=ptspg&view=lineup&pos=sh&r=0

2025-26 Roster shows only Ryan Bewley- https://dscfalcons.com/sports/mbkb/2025-26/roster
Ryan Bewley's 2025-26 sophomore stats (9.3 ppg, 6.6 rpg)- https://dscfalcons.com/sports/mbkb/2025-26/bios/bewley_ryan_wx40
Ryan Bewley's 2024-25 freshman stats (9.2 ppg, 5.8 rpg)- https://dscfalcons.com/sports/mbkb/2024-25/bios/bewley_ryan_7eo0

It will be interesting to see if the NCAA reverses course and allows them to play after juco.
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The story of the Bewley twins, Matt and Ryan, continues. As noted above, they played professionally for Overtime Elite while still in high school in 2021, and as a result, they were ruled ineligible by the NCAA. In 2023, they enrolled at Chicago State and sued the NCAA, but were not successful, and never played there. They have spent the last 2 years at Daytona State College, a junior college in Florida. Now they have enrolled at Long Island University, and their lawyer obtained a temporary restraining order to allow them to participate in team activities at LIU, hoping to play there in the 2026-27 season.
The twins were at one time rated as 5-star recruits. However, when they did play at Daytona State, they averaged around 8-9 points per game (see stats above). Their next hearing is May 21, and the NCAA, tired of fighting lawsuits, might give up and allow them to play.
https://twitter.com/x/status/2050325857823047895
 
The Bewley brothers turned 19 on Jan 10, 2023. so their 5-year eligibility clock started running then, right?
If they get deemed eligible for NCAA Division I, then under the new NCAA rules, they have already lost 3 of their 5 years of eligibility.
PLUS,
having played pro ball, NCAA may additionally penalize them another full season like they did to
Illinois' Zvonimir Ivisic and like they may do to Georgi. No matter how NCAA rules, count on more lawsuits...
 
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But the NCAA stated the new eligibility ruling would not be applied retroactively.
So that needs to be clarified whether that means that kids graduating this year are not affected by the clock starting at graduation. Or does that only refer to college kids who are in their final year of eligibility not getting a 5th year..
 
Here's a couple stumpers.........

RJ Luis, a talented kid who started at UMass, then portalled to St John's where he averaged 18 ppg & was the 2024-25 Big East Player of the Year.
Then he left college and entered the NBA Draft, but went undrafted - signed a two-way G-League contract and spent the year playing
for the Jazz & Celtics G-League teams.
Now he's almost 24 y/o and decides he wants to go back to college and signs with LSU.

another stumper-
Kid named Kyle Cuffe- not much recruiting interest out of high school- went to Mercer, averaged 7 ppg...
..but- thought he could do better so hopped in the portal & went to Syracuse, never started, & avg 3 ppg in 10 min/gm
but surprisingly, he hops in the portal again and lands at KANSAS (2025-26)!!!!!- ...& after 2 GAMES (played just 6 min total), he "suffered a devastating knee injury" and misses the rest of the season

so after missing the rest of 2025-26 he hops in the portal again & lands at St. Johns!!!!!
Career average 5ppg, 1 rpg, 0.5 asst, on 37% shooting
Twilight Zone or AM I MISSING SOMETHING?
 
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yoda said:
Here's a couple stumpers.........

RJ Luis, a talented kid who started at UMass, then portalled to St John's where he averaged 18 ppg & was the 2024-25 Big East Player of the Year.
Then he left college and entered the NBA Draft, but went undrafted - signed a two-way G-League contract and spent the year playing
for the Jazz & Celtics G-League teams.
Now he's almost 24 y/o and decides he wants to go back to college and signs with LSU.

another stumper-
Kid named Kyle Cuffe- not much recruiting interest out of high school- went to Mercer, averaged 7 ppg...
..but- thought he could do better so hopped in the portal & went to Syracuse, never started, & avg 3 ppg in 10 min/gm
but surprisingly, he hops in the portal again and lands at KANSAS (2025-26)!!!!!- ...& after 2 GAMES (played just 6 min total), he "suffered a devastating knee injury" and misses the rest of the season

so after missing the rest of 2025-26 he hops in the portal again & https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HImqY0WXwAAqf7o?format=jpg&name=small[B]lands at St. Johns[/B]!!!!!
Career average 5ppg, 1 rpg, 0.5 asst, on 37% shooting
Twilight Zone or AM I MISSING SOMETHING?
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I can't imagine Luis will be eligible. Will Wade is definitely grasping at straws. I think yesterday he signed a 25- or 26-year-old Israeli pro.
 
This latest lawsuit against the NCAA really has the sports world buzzing....

In case you didn't hear, a college football quarterback (Brendan Sorsby) started at Indiana then transferred to Cincy, and all along the way
he repeatedly bet on thousands of games, some that his team played and that he played in. He placed around $100,000 in bets- a violation of
the most sacred of sports rules - the very rule that destroyed the 1919 White Sox, destroyed Squeaky and the 1951 Bradley Braves,
and ruined Pete Rose's reputation and chance of HOF. He was the quarterback in games that his betting made him wealthy
based on the outcome of the games. But he was good enough to get a MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR NIL deal with Texas Tech
and transferred there.

As would be expected, NCAA ruled him ineligible, but he got one of the top sports lawyers in the country and sued- and just got an
injunction from a sympathetic judge & appeals court and now can play the 2026 College Football season.
Other top football schools are publicly announcing that they will boycott Texas Tech in ALL SPORTS. Georgia & Nebraska have
announced that they will not schedule Texas Tech in any sport and the entire BIG TEN Conference is contemplating the same action.

But Texas Tech & Sorsby are whining that THEY are the real victims here.
They have been caught up in Sorsby's "gambling addiction" - a REAL disease (so they say) that makes him essentially a player with
real disability that they are obligated to support all the way.

What did they expect when every sport gets in bed with the big time gambling sites and vigorously promotes betting on every aspect of every game? And altho NCAA is fighting back, any such appeal to this injunction isn't likely to get ruled on until the FB season is over.
Activist judges are ruiing the sports.

And GET THIS, the ruling that clears the way for Sorsby to be eligible came from a 4-member Appeals court, and
EVERY SINGLE ONE of those four Appeals Court judges are graduates of TEXAS TECH Law School!!
 
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Corruption abounds. Virtue is almost dead in this country, and collectively it was forgotten why gambling is a Vice. Know the times and act accordingly.
 
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