October 24, 2026 - 6:36 pm

UNLV basketball coach Josh Pastner sat in his arena and watched second-round draft pick Trey Kaufman-Renn play for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA Summer League in July.

Now he’s going to have to try to design a defense to stop him in a college basketball game next month.

Pastner’s task will be made more difficult, at least as things stand, by the fact one of his best players has been ruled ineligible in a different court than the one that green-lighted Kaufman-Renn to play.

If you’re confused, you’re not alone.

Everyone knew when NIL was implemented that there was going to be an uneven playing field in terms of the resource advantage some programs had over others. The inequity in the court rulings on eligibility was more difficult to predict.

UNLV’s AJ Storr entered college in 2022 and has played four seasons. Kaufman-Renn started at Purdue in 2021 and redshirted a year before playing four seasons with the Boilermakers.…