there was an article released last week in regards to eligibility for the Uni Games team:
QUESTIONS surrounding the student eligibility of several players in Basketball Australia's men's and women's teams for next month's World University Games in Russia have been allayed by one word - "leniency".
Australian University Sports chief executive officer Don Knapp yesterday said as long as a player had attended, was attending or was enrolled to attend any higher education institution, they were deemed eligible to compete at the WUG.
Australia's men's and women's teams include selections who have recently been enrolled at universities and not attended.
"We have to accept the submissions of national sporting organisations," Knapp said of BA's selected teams.
"But the rules for eligibility, by necessity, are very lenient.
"If you have just finished at any higher education institution such as TAFE, university, college, private college, you are eligible."
Knapp said a student athlete only needed to show they were enrolled to be accepted.
"Complicating this is online learning, for example," he said.
"And it's not uncommon in a Commonwealth Games or Olympic Games year for a student athlete to take six months off to compete.
"They would still be eligible for Uni Games."
When BA released its teams yesterday, with the exception of those players attending universities in the US, it did not specify which universities its players had or were attending.
"Participants attending the World University Games require approval from Australian University Sport who determine athletes' eligibility for the tournament based on registration with a university or equivalent program, among other criteria," BA said in a statement when challenged to provide the information.