Bearcats Assistant Coach Mantoris Robinson Details Five-For-Five Rule Impact on UC

The NCAA is making a big change to player eligibility in its championship sports, and it’s a big boon for the Bearcats basketball program. Assistant coach Mantoris Robinson spoke with the media about the whole situation on Thursday. The NCAA is now allowing players to play five seasons of college athletics over five years to try to cut through the eligibility headaches that have plagued the ecosystem this decade.

His former Utah State players, Kolby King and MJ Collins, are part of a lawsuit against the NCAA, aiming to have the Class of 2022 mixed in as part of the 5-for-5. As of now, the Class of 2023 is the cutoff.

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He did not comment on the two players trying to play, but it’s not hard to read between the lines with Cincinnati holding two roster spots open this deep into the offseason.

“Yeah, five for five is actually passed, and so what that means for our current seniors they’ll have an extra year. So that’s Trevian Carson, Riley Allenspach, Myles Colvin, Tyler Tejada, and those guys,” Robinson said to the media group.

Robinson has been one of Jerrod Calhoun’s lieutenants nearly this whole decade, joining his Youngstown State staff in 2021 and carrying through the Utah State tenure to here.

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The duo has dialed into how they want to run their programs in the half-decade since linking up.

“Our history. So he’s the coach that gave me a chance,” Robinson said about dialing into this latest opportunity. “We first got a DII job at Fairmont State, so that was 2012. He gave me an opportunity to see what building a program’s like, right? So you roll your sleeves up and you just get to work, and so for a guy like that to see him have an opportunity as a first head coach until now, seeing his family grow, seeing him be…

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