Former G League C Charles Bediako’s return to Alabama men’s basketball “will extend at least one more game and possibly more” as the hearing on the matter “that was supposed to happen Tuesday has been pushed back,” according to Nick Kelly of AL.com. Tuscaloosa judge James H. Roberts Jr. “ordered an extension on Bediako’s temporary restraining order against the NCAA ‘for ten (10) days from the date of its natural expiration without objection.’” The extension was “made because one of the NCAA’s attorneys, Taylor Askew, is located in Tennessee and would have been unable to attend the hearing set Tuesday ‘because of weather issues affecting the area in which he resides.’” If it is “10 days from the date the hearing was supposed to take place, that would be Feb. 6,” if it is “10 days from when the original restraining order was set to expire, that would be Feb. 9.” Alabama is “set to play Missouri on Jan. 27, Florida on Feb. 1, Texas A&M on Feb. 4 and Auburn on Feb. 7.” Until a “hearing takes place, Bediako can keep playing.” The NCAA “denied the reinstatement of Bediako,” but Roberts, who is “listed as an Alabama athletics donor, this past Tuesday granted Bediako a temporary restraining order against the NCAA that made him immediately eligible to play college basketball again,” (AL.com, 1/26).
Hearing delay keeps Charles Bediako eligible for Alabama
