{"id":3995,"date":"2026-06-24T19:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:04:42","slug":"ohio-lawsuit-alleges-new-ncaa-rule-unfairly-denies-high-school-class-of-22-athletes-a-5th-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=3995","title":{"rendered":"Ohio lawsuit alleges new NCAA rule unfairly denies high school Class of \u201922 athletes a 5th season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after the NCAA Division I Cabinet approved a monumental change in eligibility rules, a group of 15 college basketball players filed a lawsuit in an Ohio state court claiming the new age-based model unfairly shuts them out of further competition.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=3993\">Lakers will re-sign Austin Reaves to a 4-year, $185 million deal, AP source says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NCAA will now allow athletes five seasons of competition over a five-year period that begins with their full-time enrollment or the academic year following their 19th birthday, whichever occurs first. The move will all but eliminate waivers or redshirt years for extended eligibility except for religious missions, pregnancy or active-duty military service. No longer will extensions be considered for athletes who are injured.<\/p>\n<p>Athletes whose eligibility expired by spring 2026 under the traditional model \u2014 four years of competition over five years \u2014 will not be allowed a fifth year of competition under the new rules that go into effect this fall. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Cincinnati (Hamilton County) seeks temporary and permanent injunctive relief that would allow a fifth year of competition for athletes who graduated from high school in 2022 and began their college sports careers that fall and never redshirted. <\/p>\n<p>The new eligibility rule \u201cunjustifiably restrains their ability to earn money through use of their name, image, and likeness (\u2018NIL\u2019) connected to their work as Division I athletes,\u201d attorneys Ryan Downton and Charles Rittgers wrote in the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Similar lawsuits are expected to be filed in other states. A message seeking comment was left with an NCAA spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=3991\">Canes After Dark and Outdoor Sips<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nine of the plaintiffs have played or planned to play next season at Ohio schools. The rest, according to the complaint, have played multiple games in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint said class of 2022 athletes competed for playing time against older athletes who had eligibility extended because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also noted the NCAA allowed 2022 high school graduates to play a full professional season before enrolling in 2023 and that they are not excluded from playing in 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNCAA athletes have a reasonable expectation that they will be treated fairly by the NCAA and that NCAA rules will be applied consistently, regardless of the athlete\u2019s background before they attend an NCAA school and regardless of the year in which they graduated from high school,\u201d the complaint said. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit points out that the plaintiffs don\u2019t challenge the concept of a defined eligibility period or the five-for-five rule itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather, they challenge the NCAA\u2019s application of the rule\u201d that allows players they competed against from the high school class of 2017-20 and 2023-25 an additional year of competition while denying plaintiffs the same opportunity,\u201d the attorneys wrote. \u201cThe NCAA then compounded the problem by allowing former professional players to compete in their fifth year following high school graduation regardless of the number of professional games they had played, while denying plaintiffs the same opportunity for a fifth year of competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=3989\">Soto\u2019s status is undetermined as Lindor gets ready to rejoin Mets, and Senga shifts to bullpen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP college sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-sports<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after the NCAA Division I Cabinet approved a monumental change in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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