{"id":820623,"date":"2026-08-25T23:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/820623\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T23:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:48:15","slug":"sec-joins-big-ten-in-banning-pros-from-returning-to-college-includes-basketball-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/820623\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC joins Big Ten in banning pros from returning to college, includes basketball players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The Southeastern Conference passed a rule Tuesday banning players who have been drafted by NFL, NBA or WNBA teams or listed on rosters in those leagues, joining the Big Ten in taking a strong stand against this month\u2019s unexpected surge of pro players trying to return to college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The SEC\u2019s rule differs from the one adopted by the Big Ten, which only included football in its decision released earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Combined, it leaves little doubt about where the nation\u2019s two biggest conferences stand in the wake of court orders that were allowing players who had been on pro rosters, then released, to return back to college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It puts LSU on notice. This week, Tigers coach Lane Kiffin added Dae\u2019Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris, a pair of undrafted players out of Mississippi who had tryouts in the NFL over the summer, but were released by their teams during training camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with FOX Carolina. For more free content like this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\">download our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The Southeastern Conference passed a rule Tuesday banning players who have been drafted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[97936,7,7641,97938,97937,67,42584,1116,1117,66],"class_list":["post-820623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-banning-pro-athletes-from-returning-to-college","tag-basketball","tag-big-ten","tag-fox-carolina","tag-fox-carolina-news","tag-news","tag-palmetto-sports","tag-sec","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117158825440480622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820623","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=820623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}