The decision followed a nearly nine-hour hearing during which numerous athletes took the stand to explain why they should be allowed to return to play college sports after turning pro.
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The lawsuit was filed by players who were not included in the Indianapolis-based NCAA’s controversial new rule that grants most players five years of eligibility, beginning next season.
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An amended TV contract after the expansion of the men’s basketball tournament made it possible for the NCAA to expand its efforts to generate more money from its biggest events.
A series of lawsuits has been filed in state and federal courts since the Division I Council approved age-based eligibility June 23.
Lawyers for the Indianapolis-based NCAA are seeking to consolidate eligibility lawsuits in Tennessee’s Middle District, where other lawsuits are pending.
The model was approved in Division I last month and would replace the current Division II model.
In the past, the top four teams in a conference have been placed in different regions to protect them from playing each other until the Final Four.
The judge said the eligibility rules have been applied to 2022 high school graduates in an arbitrary and capricious manner, adding the plaintiffs would suffer “irreparable injury” without an injunction.
Two dozen men’s and women’s college basketball players are suing the Indianapolis-based NCAA, claiming the new age-based model unfairly shuts them out of further competition.
Indiana regulators are considering a request to ban all bets on the performances of individual college athletes.
The NCAA believes the age-based model will make rules easier to administer and help make roster management more predictable for coaches.
The NFL informed the 22-year-old quarterback, who was declared ineligible for college football after for making thousands of bets on sporting events, that it will not hold a supplemental draft this year.
Transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby will not play for the Red Raiders this fall and will enter the NFL supplemental draft instead.
According to court filings, Brendan Sorsby made thousands of impermissible bets on college and pro sports while at Indiana University, the University of Cincinnati and Texas Tech.
Even though the NCAA has ruled Sorsby ineligible, a recent injunction in a Texas court prevents the enforcement of that ban while the case plays out.
The NCAA said it strongly disagreed with the court’s ruling and “is deeply concerned about the damaging, far-reaching and broadly destabilizing ramifications of this outcome — which undermines and corrupts the integrity of sports.”
The new age-based eligibility model, which could be approved by the NCAA Division I Council on Friday, would address circumstances that led to the aging of rosters across all sports.
College sports has been looking to Washington, D.C., for help as it grapples with rising costs of paying players and an out-of-control transfer portal that have threatened smaller sports, many involving women, that make up the backbone of the U.S. Olympic pipeline.
Women’s flag football is looking to join a list of sports that have gained NCAA championship status through the Emerging Sports for Women program.
The expansion of the tournaments will be bankrolled by around $300 million in extra funding courtesy of new sponsorship opportunities for beer, wine, spirits and hard seltzer.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA announced Thursday that it will expand its two March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season, a long-expected move. It is the first expansion of the tournaments in 15 years, when they were bumped to 68 teams each.
IHSAA Commissioner Paul Neidig said the rule aims to clarify what high school student athletes are permitted to do.
