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A Tennessee chancellor issued a temporary injunction Friday that grants 19 Division I basketball players, including Vanderbilt’s Jalen Washington, an additional season of eligibility while blocking the NCAA from preventing their entry into the transfer portal. Chancellor I’Ashea Myles of the Davidson County Chancery Court issued the 33-page ruling after hearing arguments July 22, determining the athletes have satisfied legal grounds for the injunction.
The portal will operate Monday at noon through August 10 at 8 a.m., allowing the players to explore transfer options and enabling schools to recruit them. Myles’ order explicitly prohibits the NCAA from denying, impeding, or conditioning recruitment, transfer, or certification of the plaintiffs based on the contested eligibility determination.
Washington led the legal challenge filed July 6 by the Texas Trial Group, joined by players from Texas, Mississippi, Providence, St. Bonaventure, and Memphis. The complaint alleged the NCAA applied its eligibility rules inconsistently, citing a pattern of waiving restrictions for certain groups of athletes while denying similar relief to the plaintiffs.
In her ruling, Myles specifically highlighted the NCAA’s 2025-26 season waiver for players with junior college or NAIA experience, noting each plaintiff had competed against beneficiaries of such waivers. The court also barred the NCAA from enforcing restitution rules against the athletes and their respective institutions during the coming season.
The NCAA declined to comment on the ruling Friday evening. The organization had approved a revised eligibility model June 23 permitting five seasons of competition within a five-year window beginning at full-time enrollment or the academic year following a player’s 19th birthday.
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