June 8 (UPI) -- Texas Tech's Brendan Sorsby, who was previously ruled ineligible for gambling on college sports, was granted a temporary injunction and cleared to play.
Texas judge Ken Curry ruled Monday in Lubbock County, Texas district court that attorneys for the quarterback demonstrated that the football star "will suffer a probable, imminent and irreparable injury" if the court did not issue the injunction and Sorsby he was not allowed to play for the Red Raiders next season.
The NCAA can appeal the ruling.
"The NCAA strongly disagrees with the court's ruling in this case and is deeply concerned about the damaging, far-reaching and broadly destabilizing ramifications of this outcome -- which undermines and corrupts the integrity of sports," the NCAA said in a statement.
"The NCAA is committed to supporting student-athlete mental health but must continue to aggressively defend against actions that defraud college athletics and threaten competitive integrity, such as betting on one's own sport."
