Lawyers for former Tennessee basketball player Zakai Zeigler filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday using the NCAA's recent sweeping changes to its eligibility rules to bolster their case challenging the association's previous policy of limiting athletes to four seasons in five years. The amended lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for Tennessee's Eastern District cites the new age-based eligibility rules adopted in June as “compelling evidence” that the NCAA had “substantially less restrictive alternatives” available. “In adopting it, the NCAA abandoned the very restraints it long maintained were essential, replacing them with a five-year competition model it had previously opposed,” according to the amended lawsuit, which was first reported by Knox News.
