St. John’s Chris Ledlum and Jordan Dingle suing NCAA for denying them 2024-25 eligibility

By The Associated Press

FILE -St. John's guard Chris Ledlum (8) drives to the basket past Creighton guard Baylor Scheierman during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, in New York. St. John's basketball players Chris Ledlum and Jordan Dingle have filed a lawsuit against the NCAA for denying their request for an eligibility waiver that would give them one more season of competition with the Red Storm or another team.(AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Adam Hunger]

NEW YORK (AP) — St. John’s basketball players Chris Ledlum and Jordan Dingle have filed a lawsuit against the NCAA for denying their request for an eligibility waiver that would give them one more season of competition. The lawsuit in Queens (New York) Supreme Court contends the NCAA unfairly denied the players their fifth years under the COVID-19 waiver granted to athletes whose 2019-20 seasons were disrupted by the pandemic. Ledlum transferred to St. John’s from Harvard and Dingle from Penn before last season. Ledlum and Dingle also lost the 2020-21 season because the Ivy League opted to have no sports competition that academic year.