UPDATE – 10/24/25 – 1 P.M.

Friday morning, U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice remanded Tyon Grant-Foster’s preliminary injunction hearing back to Spokane County Superior Court, blocking the NCAA’s effort to have it moved to federal court.

Grant-Foster’s injunction hearing is set for 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 27, just three and a half hours before Gonzaga hosts Western Oregon for an exhibition game on KHQ, SWX, and SWXLocalSports.com. 

Gonzaga Law graduate Judge Marla Polin will overhear Grant-Foster’s case.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga’s Tyon Grant-Foster was scheduled to appear in Spokane County Superior Court on Thursday for a preliminary injunction hearing regarding his ongoing NCAA eligibility waiver. But less than 24 hours before the hearing, the NCAA filed a notice of removal to federal court, canceling the hearing.

“What did I do? Why are they so against me? I’m being punished because of a situation that I had no control over? I really just want to know why,?” Grant-Foster wrote on Instagram. “This ain’t fair at all, keep dragging it along and prolonging it for what? What am I supposed to do after this, it’s too late for ANYTHING ELSE. Why me bro?”

The NCAA granted Grant-Foster a waiver to practice with Gonzaga on Oct. 2. Then, just over two weeks later, it completely denied his eligibility for the 2025-26 season.

Grant-Foster has played four seasons of NCAA-sanctioned college basketball. He played a COVID season with Kansas, then transferred to DePaul, where he collapsed at halftime of the season opener. He was rushed to the hospital, and doctors had to shock his heart back into rhythm multiple times. He then underwent two heart surgeries and was forced to sit out the remainder of that season and the following year. He played at Grand Canyon for the last two years and transferred to Gonzaga this offseason. He also played two seasons of junior college basketball in 2018 and 2019, but the NCAA does not count those seasons against players.

“He’s got a disability,” Carl Oreskovich, an attorney representing Grant-Foster, said. “He’s got a condition called arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, and he’s had two heart surgeries. Under Washington law, that constitutes a disability, and we think that it’s disability discrimination when they count his years against him when he couldn’t play.”

Gonzaga head coach Mark Few was supposed to attend WCC Media Day in Las Vegas, which was scheduled at the same time as the hearing, but he stayed in Spokane to support Grant-Foster and appear in court with him.

“We are doing everything we can to get this issue before the appropriate court as soon as possible, and we ask Tyon and Coach Few to remain on standby in the event that a judge can hear the matter as soon as (today),” Grant-Foster’s legal team said in a statement. “We look forward to addressing these matters in court and, we hope, seeing Tyon on the basketball court very soon.”

Oct. 28, next Tuesday, is the deadline that Grant-Foster would need to be on scholarship to play this season. If the hearing is pushed back beyond Oct. 28, it’s unclear what would happen.