NCAA announces rule changes, including agents in college

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Lindell Wigginton, guard, looks for an open pass during the men’s basketball game against Alcorn State on Dec. 10 at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones won 78-58.

Sam Stuve
August 8, 2018

With the college basketball season a few months away, the NCAA announced a few changes that are going to be implemented in the future.

The biggest change includes “allowing ‘elite’ prospects to represented by an agent and the NCAA will also permit players to return to college if the player goes undrafted in the NBA draft,” according to Yahoo Sports NBA Insider Shams Charania.

This means that NCAA will now allow top high school and college prospects to have an agent if that agent has NCAA certification.

When it comes to players returning to college if they are not drafted in the draft, the new rule may not apply to every player.

According to CBS Sports senior writer Matt Norlander, the rule “only applies to players with NBA Combine invites. NCAA cites research that shows players with combine invites almost always get picked.”

Going forward, these rules will play a big effect on not only the NBA but college basketball as well. If these rules would have been implemented last season, it could have had an effect on current players such as DeAndre Ayton and Marvin Bagley III

Another change that has been made is that universities are now required to report all outside income they receive, no matter who the donates the income.

A few other notable changes include the NCAA now attempting to establish subpoena power, and that the NCAA can use information from certain, well-established agencies to punish schools that break the rules.

All of these changes come 11 months after an FBI probe into college basketball unearthed that some schools may have been linked to agents who may have paid players to go to a certain school. Some have suggested that these new rules were made because of the FBI probe.