Zakai Ziegler finished his athletic eligibility at Tennessee with the end of the Volunteers' 2024-25 men's basketball season. However, the guard has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA seeking a fifth year of eligibility.
Ziegler has already played four seasons for Tennessee and didn't begin his college career until 2021, one year after the 2020-21 class that was allowed one more year of eligibility lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District Court of Tennessee, Zeigler is seeking a preliminary injunction that would allow him to play the 2025-26 season.