Federal Court Strikes Down NCAA 5-for-5 Eligibility Rule
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- A federal court ruled against the NCAA's new eligibility rule, dealing the association a major legal loss on the policy
- The ruling grants a fifth season of college eligibility this school year to all high school class of '22 athletes who exhausted their fourth season this spring
Why it matters: The decision temporarily blocks enforcement of the NCAA's new 5-for-5 rule for an entire cohort of athletes who already used four seasons of eligibility, giving those players an additional year to compete while the NCAA faces a court-ordered reversal on the policy it tried to impose.
