NCAA Academic Rules (Minimum)

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The NCAA requires student-athletes to carry a minimum of 12 credits each quarter or semester and (collectively) pass those 12 hours with a minimum GPA (presumably 2.0 for seniors). The only exception to the 12 hour minimum is for seniors in their last quarter or semester who only need a lesser number of hours to graduate. I doubt that exception applied to either White or Muhammad.

HYPOTHETICALLY if a player dropped 1 or more of his classes, his course load might fall below 12 credits and he would become immediately ineligible.

ALSO if a player earned an Incomplete (rather than a letter grade) in a class, he would not pass a minimum of 12 hours until the Incomplete was converted to a letter grade. Again, he would be ineligible until the I turned into a letter grade.

I have no earthly idea what White or Muhammad did to become ineligible. My guess is that they either dropped below 12 credits or failed to pass 12 credits.

Tom Gray, Uc fan since 1958