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This case has finally been officially ruled on. Beginning in July 1, schools can now directly pay their athletes. Athletic departments can now distribute about $20.5 million in NIL beginning this season.

It also imposes roster limits across the board in all sports. The concern this raised with the judge overseeing the case was walk-ons losing roster spots. This was resolved with an amendment allowing current walk ons or partial scholarship recipients in non-revenue sports to finish out their eligibility at either their current school or able to transfer elsewhere. These players will not count against roster limits during that time.

The way this impacts KU basketball is that Wilder Evers, Will Thengvall, Dillon Wilhite, and Justin Cross can all continue playing D1 ball as walk-ons either here or another school. In theory, Noah Shelby could also go back to walk-on status and give KU 4 more scholarships, but that probably won't happen.

So... how much NIL is a 4.0 GPA worth?

Also $2.8 billion in backpay for athletes dating back to 2016.

So what we got our final four stripped way for is exactly what they are allowing now -- - - -paying athletes holy crap

College basketball will have a couple of significant rule changes for next season.

Coaches will be allowed one challenge per game as long as they have a timeout. The three things that can be challenged are out of bounds calls, goaltending, and restricted arc calls. If a coach is successful, they will get another challenge. Officials can still use replay for everything they previously have been allowed to.

Another big change the NCAA is introducing a continuation rule for fouls similar to what the NBA has.
Another rule change is that incidental contact to the groin area can now be deemed a Flagrant 1 whereas before it was an automatic Flagrant 2 and ejection.

One rule that has been discussed and is not changing yet is game format. Games will still be two 20 minute halves. There's been a lot of discussion about moving to quarters in recent years, but advertisers have been the big hold up on that as they would lose a TV timeout each half.