A federal judge granted a class-wide injunction allowing all high school class of 2022 athletes who exhausted their fourth season of college eligibility to compete in a fifth season. The NCAA will appeal this ruling that undercuts their "five for five" eligibility model. librea.one
The transfer portal will open from August 3-10 for newly eligible athletes, while NCAA President Charlie Baker expressed concerns about roster chaos. The Colorado ruling applies broadly to all Division I players who started college in 2022-23, not just a select group, similar to a recent Tennessee decision granting eligibility to 19 basketball players.
