{"id":924265,"date":"2026-10-11T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924265\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:16:08","slug":"potential-fifth-year-basketball-players-in-limbo-everywhere-including-teams-on-slu-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924265\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential fifth-year basketball players in limbo everywhere, including teams on SLU schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figuring out who is or will be eligible for a fifth year of college basketball is a daily battle that tends to only create more questions with every passing hour.<\/p>\n<p>We are weeks from the Nov. 2 opening day and there is a group that is \u2014 for the time being \u2014 ruled eligible and a group that still if fighting its way through courts in various states.<\/p>\n<p>Robbie Avila is in the latter group and I\u2019ve tracked his saga the last two months on this site. Meanwhile, several SLU regular-season opponents have fifth-year players on their rosters or still fighting to become eligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Figuring out who is or will be eligible for a fifth year of college basketball is a daily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-924265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}