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@mlycan12 Just to clarify-this decision isn’t made by “the NCAA”. It’s made by the committee structure that universities voted for. NCAA staff provides data, a legal perspective and facilitation of meeting materials.Timing & speed of this is unreal. Executive Order/lawsuits likely a factor

One year ago, the NCAA blindsided college athletics with unprecedented roster limits. Thousands of student-athletes lost opportunities as coaches were put in the terrible position of cutting and/or de-committing players. Then AFTER the damage was done, the NCAA introduced the “Designated Student Athlete” designation as a way to let some athletes stay without counting against roster limits. But many programs had already made painful decisions because coaches were told the limits were coming and tried to give athletes as much notice as possible. Now we are about to do this AGAIN. The NCAA is expected to approve a 5th year of eligibility next month — after most programs have already recruited their 2027 classes based on the CURRENT rules and CURRENT roster limits. In women’s soccer, we already operate under a restrictive 28-player cap. You cannot recruit for FOUR classes for years, then suddenly force programs to fit FIVE classes onto the same roster without student-athletes paying the price. Because when seniors stay, someone else loses a spot. More cuts. More decommitments. More athletes caught in the middle of ever-changing rules they had nothing to do with. College recruiting happens YEARS in advance. Families and athletes make life-changing decisions based on the rules in place at the time. If 5th years are approved, they should all be classified as DSAs so as to not count against roster limits. Otherwise the NCAA is about to repeat the exact same disaster all over again. #StopChangingTheRules #HereWeGoAgain #DSAThe5thYears

More of this please.

NBC watching iHart do what every center does every game to every opposing center. Spent very little time watching Wemby hold on every rebound in Game 1.

Where is the mute option on Doris Burke and we can just listen to crowd noise and squeaky shoes?

To my Oklahoma family; this piece comes straight from the heart. I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt. Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it. I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives. When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more. I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game. Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker. But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go. He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career. What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it. So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down. There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller. They belong to children. There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore. As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed. That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present. The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter. Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained. We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection. When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.” Then he said something I will never forget. “Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.” In that moment, basketball felt different. Not smaller, but clearer. Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity. From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me. On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured. oklahoman.com/story/opinion/…

Years ago release requests were handled via fax which later mostly moved to emails.We had to fill out the same info for every individual request.Then a big shift in 2018 that was supposed to help create a common database.This is not for you! I don’t care if you are inconvenienced

Amongst all of the other issues regarding the current state of the Transfer Portal, reporters are now publicly sharing screenshots of an internal NCAA site they should not have access to.

@StormStorm55555 @TheNoahGoldberg Because not everyone that enters the portal gives consent for all of social media to see it. This isn’t a recruiting site, it has actual academic information in it.

@TheNoahGoldberg Why would this he private? It’s dumb to be private

@BankHoops @Coffman_OBU There may be data out there but it will be incomplete or skewed because we didn’t have systems to track who asked for a release vs who actually left and the transfer rules were more restrictive pre-portal as well. Would be interesting to know. We can compare year over year though

@Coffman_OBU Thanks! Thinking there was always turnover but…maybe half current rate.

Talking with our OBU compliance office. Friends, there are 1,336 D2 men's hoops players in that portal right now. There are 289 D2 teams...that's an average of 4.6 players per school in the portal. Absolutely bonkers.

Nick Coliseum

Purdue Head Coach Matt Painter with just a flat out awesome answer in his viewpoint of Queens HC Grant Leonard and the tampering going on at this time of the year Worth everyone's time

@Next2ndBestDude @OklahomaLocalSN @SWOSUW Came here to say this. 2019

@OklahomaLocalSN @SWOSUW made the national championship game in 2021 or so...

Oklahoma Baptist is the first Oklahoma program to reach the NCAA Division II Elite 8 since 2008, when Central Oklahoma fell to Augusta State in double overtime. The only other appearance this century came during Northeastern State’s dominant 2003 National Championship run. Coincidentally, Oklahoma Baptist also reached the NAIA Elite 8 that same year in 2003.

@derekcody 😐 literally my face seeing Texas in. Just knew that would knock us out

If texas is in, we HAVE TO be

YOU CAN HEAR THIS CROWD ACROSS THE ENTIRE 405 🗣️

Our Division. Our Team. Our Day. #D2Day | #MakeItYours | #theGAC

As everyone gets dug out from the ice and snow, please throw some business toward locally owned restaurants and stores. A few slow or closed days can be crippling to them and these are the folks in our communities that consistently support GAC universities.

@BrandonRahbar Mr. Thunder himself, Nicholas Collison. Steven Adams. Perk will always hold a special place in my heart and love that he is on ESPN now. Who would have thought!!

Thunder fans, who is your favorite former Thunder player? Feel free to list more than one player. Using the answers for a video tomorrow.

Absolutely not. This is not the “moderate” Republican candidate for governor Oklahomans. I’m Cyndi all the way anyways but don’t be fooled Okies. Even Stitt is against the fed overreach and lack of humanity.

Some people are built for the moment, some aren’t

The Savannah Bananas are trying to solve one of the most complicated problems in sports...by launching their own (verified) secondary ticketing platform. Here's what you need to know 👇 The Savannah Bananas have always offered cheap tickets — just $35 to $60 per game. There are no fees, and they even pay the taxes for you, meaning the price you see is the price you pay. But with demand increasing over the years, the only fair way to do this was to introduce a lottery. Hundreds of thousands of fans enter the lottery for each game. Winners are chosen at random, and, if selected, you can only purchase up to 5 tickets per game. This lowered the incentive for professional resellers. Not only did you have to win the lottery, but even if you were selected, you could only buy up to 5 tickets. However, this didn't eliminate the problem entirely. Tickets to see the Bananas are still listed on secondary-market ticketing platforms for more than $500. And even if you buy a ticket for 10 times its face value, many of these tickets turn out to be fake. Fans get denied entry at the gate and lose $500 or more. This is why the Bananas are now taking it a step further. The Bananas have spent the last year building out a secondary ticketing platform for fans. They didn't raise any money or increase prices; they just wanted to help fans buy authentic tickets at the price they sell them for. Here's how it will work: Everyone who uses the platform must be verified, and you can only buy or sell up to 5 tickets per game (the same as their lottery limits). There will also be no transaction fees or taxes, with the Bananas covering all fees for both the buyer and seller. But here's the best part... If you can't attend the game and need to sell your ticket, you can only list it at the same price you paid for it — there are no markups or price increases allowed. This is a fantastic idea because it allows people who genuinely can't attend the game to sell their tickets while also helping buyers feel confident that they are getting an authentic ticket without getting ripped off. I wish every sports team cared about its fans this much. Great work @YellowTuxJesse 👏