{"id":770187,"date":"2026-06-25T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/770187\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:24:25","slug":"college-basketball-players-file-first-lawsuit-against-new-ncaa-eligibility-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/770187\/","title":{"rendered":"College basketball players file first lawsuit against new NCAA eligibility rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"NCAA logo\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/755XTT56KREGDA6FBKZUHZFVNY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Attorneys for the 15 players are \u201cseeking an injunction that would block the NCAA from preventing them from playing during the 2026-27 season.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">Fifteen college basketball players filed a lawsuit in Ohio on Wednesday \u201cseeking to prevent the NCAA from enforcing new rules\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/06\/23\/ncaa-adopts-new-five-year-eligibility-model-for-d-i-athletes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">around playing eligibility<\/a>. Division I college athletes now will be allowed to compete in five seasons over five years. Previously, athletes could play four seasons within five years and were allowed to sit out for a \u201credshirt\u201d year. Attorneys for the 15 players are \u201cseeking an injunction that would block the NCAA from preventing them from playing during the 2026-27 season.\u201d Ryan Downton of The Texas Trial Group, who is \u201cheading the litigation,\u201d said the lawsuit is \u201cthe first of five he expects to file in different states surrounding the issue.\u201d The lawsuit says that the rules \u201cunfairly exclude athletes who graduated from high school in 2022, even though those athletes are within five years of enrolling in college for the first time\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/college\/2026\/06\/24\/lawsuit-challenging-new-ncaa-eligibility-rules-filed-in-ohio\/90683861007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, 6\/24<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorneys for the 15 players are \u201cseeking an injunction that would block the NCAA from preventing them from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,217,10880,231],"class_list":["post-770187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-legal","tag-ncaa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116810735149033934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}