{"id":774554,"date":"2026-02-25T03:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774554\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:47:18","slug":"charles-bediako-files-emergency-motion-with-alabama-supreme-court-for-interim-injunction-against-ncaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774554\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bediako files emergency motion with Alabama Supreme Court for interim injunction against NCAA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Bediako<\/a> has filed an emergency motion with the Alabama Supreme Court in his quest for an interim injunction against the NCAA, according to court records first pointed out by CBS Sports<\/a>. It\u2019s part of the legal process as he seeks to retain his eligibility.<\/p>\n

Bediako previously requested an injunction pending appeal in Alabama state court after Judge Daniel Pruet denied his request for a preliminary injunction. If granted, that would have allowed him to keep playing for Alabama<\/a> with March Madness on the horizon while the appeal was pending.<\/p>\n

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However, Pruet denied that request<\/a> Tuesday. The expectation was Bediako would file an appeal<\/a> to the Alabama Supreme Court, On3\u2019s Pete Nakos<\/a> confirmed.<\/p>\n

Bediako received immediate eligibility last month as a result of a judge\u2019s order, despite playing in an NBA G-League game weeks earlier. He argued he was still within his five-year eligibility window and was granted an order that allowed him to play for Alabama despite going undrafted in 2023.<\/p>\n

Judge Jim Roberts initially granted the TRO, but later recused himself<\/a>. Pruet then ruled Bediako could no longer play<\/a>\u00a0for the Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n

Bediako averaged 10.0 points and 4.6 rebounds across his five appearances while shooting 77.3% from the field. After he received immediate eligibility, there were questions about how his return to college basketball could impact NCAA Tournament seeding \u2013 for both Alabama and the teams the Crimson Tide played during that span.<\/p>\n

Per the terms of the TRO issued by a judge in the state of Alabama, the NCAA is not able to punish the Crimson Tide for putting Charles Bediako into games. But when it\u2019s time to evaluate Alabama\u2019s seeding for the NCAA Tournament, the committee said it would not adjust its process. That means the Tide will not receive any punishment for allowing Bediako to play.<\/p>\n

Alabama had a 3-2 record with Bediako in the lineup. But NCAA Tournament selection committee chair Keith Gill said Saturday that as the committee looked at the big picture, his addition likely didn\u2019t make as much of an impact<\/a> as some injuries across college basketball did. That said, it was a point of discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe certainly talked about it a lot,\u201d Gill said on the CBS reveal show. \u201cThey were 3-2 with Bediako, 16-5 without him. We didn\u2019t necessarily apply, like, a material change to that just because it seemed like it wasn\u2019t as impactful as maybe some of the other injuries may or may not be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Bediako has filed an emergency motion with the Alabama Supreme Court in his quest for an interim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[105809,7,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-774554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-charles-bediako-21-img-academy","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116129224739131676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}