Penn State’s Josh Reed Wins First Step in Legal Battle Vs. NCAA

Former Penn State basketball player Josh Reed could get a fifth season of eligibility after an Ohio judge granted him and other former college athletes players a preliminary injunction after they sued the NCAA.

Reed was part of a broad lawsuit that challenged the NCAA’s new age-based eligibility model, saying it discriminated against them. Reed was a senior on last year’s Penn State team and exhaused his eligibility under the NCAA’s former model.

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The NCAA adjusted that model this summer, allowing athletes to compete for five seasons. However, the new 5-in-5 model does not apply to athletes who exhausted their eligibility this past season. About two dozen athletes from Ohio, including Reed, filed their lawsuit alleging that the NCAA’s change “violates the covenant of good faith and fair dealing under Ohio law.”

Judge Christopher Wagner granted the preliminary injunction, ruling that the NCAA acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner by not including 2022 high school graduates in the new model, according to the Associated Press. The ruling allows the athletes to enter the transfer portal. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for Aug. 4.

“We hope the NCAA reconsiders its position and allows all other similarly situated athletes from the high school class of 2022 to compete for remaining roster spots in all sports,” plaintiffs’ attorney Ryan Downton said in a statement to the Associated Press.

In a statement, the NCAA called Wagner’s decision “wrong” and said it “disregarded over a century of precedent and substituted its own judgment, on a limited factual record, for the collective expertise of the nation’s leading higher education institutions.”

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“As disappointing as the ruling itself is the decision by some member schools to support a lawsuit designed to circumvent the rules by which those same schools agreed to be bound,” the NCAA said in the statement. “It is fundamentally unfair to the many programs and student-athletes who follow the rules to…

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