Texas Tech’s Brendan Sorsby won Round 2, but the NCAA is coming back swinging in landmark case

After a justice granted a preliminary injunction that volition let Brendan Sorsby to play this upcoming play for Texas Tech, the NCAA has already filed a announcement of entreaty successful the Seventh District of Texas that signals this combat is lone entering circular three.

The ruling from Judge Ken Curry sent shockwaves done assemblage athletics, with aggregate Big 12 diversion directors expressing vexation implicit the decision.

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Conference officials are besides expected to sermon imaginable adjacent steps during meetings this week, starting connected Tuesday.

But, the tribunal of assemblage sentiment is intelligibly successful the favour of NCAA compliance, arsenic they excavation their heels successful and property the Texas judicial strategy for a imaginable favorable ruling successful their appeal.

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Quarterback Brendan Sorsby of the Cincinnati Bearcats speaks with the media during Big 12 Media Days astatine The Ford Center astatine The Star successful Frisco, Texas, connected July 8, 2025. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)

For many, betting connected your ain squad would look similar a wide way to losing eligibility.

But Sorsby's attorneys built their lawsuit astir his struggles with gambling addiction and intelligence health, portion besides arguing that the NCAA breached its contractual obligations successful the mode it handled his suspension.

The strategy worked, and the injunction was granted.

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Not lone did Brendan Sorsby gamble connected his ain team, but helium besides wagered connected assemblage hoops astatine some Indiana and Cincinnati, portion wagering implicit $6,000 connected different assemblage shot games, placing implicit $90,000 successful bets total.

"Did betting connected hoops play into that 2-game proposal?," 1 Power-4 diversion manager asked Fox News Digital, rhetorically.

And, portion the NCAA filed an entreaty successful the State of Texas connected Monday evening, we could already person a dilemma connected our hands with the existent judges presiding implicit the process.

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Appeals tin often instrumentality months to resolve, though determination are circumstances nether which the process could beryllium expedited.

One facet of the entreaty that has already drawn attraction is the constitution of the appellate court.

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All 4 judges presently serving connected the Seventh Court of Appeals attended Texas Tech. While determination is nary proposition that their acquisition inheritance would power their decision-making, the optics are notable fixed the stakes involved.

Future Texas Tech backmost Brendan Sorsby shouts during the archetypal fractional of the crippled betwixt the Houston Cougars and Texas Tech Red Raiders astatine United Supermarkets Arena successful Lubbock, Texas, connected Jan. 24, 2026. (John E. Moore III/Getty Images)

It remains to beryllium seen whether NCAA attorneys volition effort to prosecute immoderate recusal motions related to those connections.

After all, 1 justice successful the archetypal injunction proceedings stepped speech due to the fact that of ties to Texas Tech.

Whether that becomes a origin successful the entreaty is thing some sides volition beryllium watching closely.

What happens with the Big 12? It volition beryllium a process

While determination is wide vexation among immoderate league officials, Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark and league administrators are expected to proceed cautiously implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.

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On Tuesday, diversion directors from the Big 12 volition clasp a league telephone to sermon the Sorsby issues, and what benignant of options they person successful the signifier of punishment.

Because of the court's injunction, neither the NCAA nor the league tin simply disregard the ruling and forestall Sorsby from participating successful games oregon practices.

However, the Big 12 could research whether immoderate conference-specific bylaws, sportsmanship provisions, oregon morals policies supply grounds for abstracted disciplinary action.

As we've seen successful past instances, conferences tin usage their ain policies to contented a punishment towards either a schoolhouse oregon student-athlete.

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Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark gestures earlier the Big 12 Championship crippled betwixt Texas Tech and BYU astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas, connected Dec. 6, 2025. (John E. Moore III/Getty Images)

That's wherever things go complicated.

Conferences person imposed penalties autarkic of NCAA enforcement successful the past, but immoderate effort to authorisation Sorsby could unfastened the doorway to further litigation. And fixed the result of the archetypal case, there's nary warrant a tribunal would broadside with the conference.

At the aforesaid time, Big 12 league officials indispensable measurement whether declining to enactment creates its ain acceptable of concerns, particularly successful the tribunal of nationalist sentiment and the value of different conferences.

For now, Sorsby has the afloat backing of Texas Tech, and immoderate determination by the Big 12 would apt beryllium made lone aft extended ineligible review.

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So, portion a Texas justice mightiness person granted an injunction connected Monday, we inactive person a ways to spell earlier helium really suits up for the Red Raiders.

This 1 is acold from over, arsenic the countdown begins for the 2026 assemblage shot season.