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NCAA denies Braxton Beverly’s appeal; Beverly will sit out 2017-18 season

The NCAA is back in top form Monday morning, screwing a kid over a very narrow, technical interpretation of one of its many stupid rules. NC State point guard will not be allowed to play this season, all because he briefly attended summer classes at Ohio State before Thad Matta was fired.

The release from State on Beverly. Keatts with a little more than the standard "we're sad but understand." pic.twitter.com/BxUYtycGZo

— Brant Wilkerson-New (@BrantGNR) October 30, 2017

That was all the NCAA needed to rule Beverly an undergraduate transfer with the requisite penalty of one-year bar from playing.