Judges sound a skeptical note about players arguments in key college eligibility case
Oct 13, 2026
The attorney representing athletes in a key case regarding the NCAA’s new five-year eligibility rule took a series of questions from judges who sounded skeptical about the players’ ability to pinpoint the depth of the economic harm they’ve suffered from the rule. A lower-court judge in the cas
e, Wisne vs. NCAA, initially ruled in favor of the players, granting all NCAA athletes who graduated high school in 2022 a fifth year of eligibility. An appeals court blocked that ruling and its full hearing came in front of a three-judge panel, which will rule on the case at a later date. ...read more read less