On Thursday, the NCAA announced they would be granting an extra year of eligibility to Division I student-athletes who were ruled ineligible to compete during or since 2019-2020.
Since the transfer portal was integrated into college athletics in 2018, it has only become more common. Up until earlier this spring, a player was penalized if they were a multiple-time transfer, being ruled ineligible by the NCAA for a certain amount of time, usually a season.
West Virginia has seen their fair share of player ineligibility, such as RaeQuan Battle, who was ineligible for the beginning of this past men’s basketball season. Fans may remember the debacle between Battle and the NCAA, with even politicians being involved. Battle was eventually granted eligibility and made his season debut against Radford on Dec. 20, 2023.
However, this ruling comes a day after the deadline for men’s college basketball players to withdraw from the 2024 NBA draft. Noah Farrakhan, who also missed games for WVU in 2023, will be granted an extra year of eligibility. Although the most recent examples of Mountaineer student-athletes being ineligible are men’s basketball players, the ruling goes for all sports.
