July 10, 2026, 12:27 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
If 2025-26 was it for MJ Collins, the 6-foot-4 guard would have gone out strong. He averaged over 17 points per game for a Utah State team that won a game in the NCAA tournament. However, it may not have been Collins’ college basketball swan song.<\/p>\n
USA TODAY’s Cincinnati Enquirer reports<\/a> that a Hamilton County judge issued a ruling that allows Collins and many other Division I college athletes an additional year of eligibility.<\/p>\n With one more year of college basketball in his future, Collins has committed to play for the Cincinnati Bearcats<\/a>. It’s not hard to connect the dots, as new Cincinnati head coach Jerrod Calhoun was Collins’ coach last season at Utah State.<\/p>\n It’s worth noting that the ruling is subject to appeal, which could change the lay of the land for Collins and the Bearcats before the season begins.<\/p>\n Collins spent the first two years of his college basketball career at Virginia Tech before transferring to Vanderbilt as a junior and to Utah State as a senior.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Contact\/Follow@College_Wire<\/a> on X and@College_Wires<\/a> on Threads. Like our page on Facebook<\/a> to follow ongoing coverage of college sports news, notes, and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 10, 2026, 12:27 p.m. ET If 2025-26 was it for MJ Collins, the 6-foot-4 guard would have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[72400,7,217,231,772,1544,1927,91598,86045,83332,72404,76363,79820,72864,72452,72696,73475,72405,73732,73240,72406,82107,72403],"class_list":["post-783597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-oh","tag-sourcecollege-sports-wire","tag-sstssportscollegecollege-basketball","tag-sstsncollege-basketball","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcincinnati","tag-tagcincinnati-bearcats-mens-basketball","tag-tagcollege-basketball","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagncaa-division-i","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsec-conference-mens-basketball","tag-tagsec-hub","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagvanderbilt-commodores-mens-basketball","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783597","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=783597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}