Best wishes in her professional career.
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Maya Dodson helped power the Irish to a 24-9 record and an advancement to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 in her lone season aboard.
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Nearly all players around the nation have been granted a fifth season of eligibility under the NCAA’s COVID-related policy.
What’s different for Dodson is that her fifth season would’ve spanned six years overall, although other players have had careers that have spanned at least seven years, sometimes at multiple schools.
Further, when Dodson sat out in 2020-21, she even cited the pandemic as one of her reasons.
Pretty sure the rule as stated by the NCAA was the 2020-21 season did not count as an eligible year so you could play or not, it wouldn't count. Dodson chose not to play, but her three playing years prior to 2020-21 and this year all count as eligible years.
I think her only hope was to get them to negate her 2019-20 season when she came back from injury, played something like the last 9 games, and then the NCAA tournament was cancelled.
I hardly ever want to try to make sense of the NCAA’s decisions, but the difference may be that Meyers didn’t choose to sit out a year. Her school didn’t have a season.
Meyers also played 2 years before 2020-2021 and then played this year - she has only played three years, therefore she has one more year in grad school. She would have that year whether she played in 2020-21 or not.
Simple rule - when counting years of eligibilty, just ignore 2020-21 - it was magically erased by the NCAA.