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BYU's Dallin Hall, right, drives past Iowa State's Cade Kelderman during a Big 12 tournament quarterfinal game on March 13, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo. (Charlie Riedel, Associated Press)

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Utah Tech players Ethan Potter (35) and Chance Trujillo (2) celebrate Potter's game-winning basket to defeat Weber State on Dec. 20, 2025 at the Dee Events Center in Ogden. (Brooklyn Fehr, Utah Tech Athletics)

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Davis player Rex Sunderland calls out a play during a 6A second-round playoff game against Layton on Feb. 26, 2021, in Kaysville. (BRIAN WOLFER, Special to the Standard-Examiner)

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Penn State's Maggie Mendelson (4) is defended by UCLA's Kiki Rice (1) and Lauren Betts (51) during a game on Dec. 31, 2025, in State College, Pa. (Gary M. Baranec, Associated Press)

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Three men’s basketball players from Northern Utah schools, and one two-sport women’s star, aren’t done with their college basketball careers just yet.

A series of court rulings, injunctions, and reversals of injunctions across various state and federal courts now — at least, where they currently stand — have handfuls of players who began their careers in the 2022-23 season eligible for a fifth season, effectively grandfathering them into the new five-for-five eligibility framework.

That’s good news for Dallin Hall, Ethan Potter and Rex Sunderland, who are using their fifth seasons to play ball in Utah.

First is Hall. The former Fremont High state champion played three years at BYU before spending his senior season at Virginia. The 6-foot-4 point guard has played 136 games, starting 97, and averages 7.3 points and 4.2 assists per contest over his career.

His fifth year will be in Logan. Utah State announced Tuesday that the Aggies signed Hall for the 2026-27 season, boosting the lineup for first-year head coach Ben Jacobson, who’s at USU after 20 seasons as the head coach at Northern Iowa.

Another bit of news came Tuesday when Utah Tech men’s basketball posted a “he’s back” video to Instagram featuring post player Ethan Potter. The Layton High graduate spent three years as a reserve at Utah Valley before a breakout season last year at Utah Tech.

Once in St. George, Potter took over the Trailblazers’ starting center spot, averaging 16.8 points and 7.8 rebounds per game while shooting a league-high 59.8% and earning a first team selection to the final WAC All-Conference team.

Now he’ll take the court as Utah Tech enters the Big Sky Conference, guaranteeing Potter another game in the Dee Events Center (on Jan. 30, 2027) where he hit a game-winning shot to beat Weber State in December 2025.

He’ll also be teammates with Rex Sunderland, the former state champion at Davis High. The guard has spent his college career at Division I programs well east of Utah, playing three years at New Hampshire and a fourth at Stonehill College (Massachussetts). He’s transferred to Utah Tech as well.

Sunderland won’t play with his former Davis teammate Chance Trujillo, however. Trujillo is one of a line of Utahns to end up at Hawaii later in their careers. He’s transferred there after formerly walking on at Weber State and playing at Snow College, and he’ll play with brothers Tanner and Tiger Cuff of American Fork — the latter of whom was signed to Weber State before the coaching change that brought Kaleb Canales to Ogden.

Weber High alum Hunter Schenck left Utah Tech as well, using his third year to play at Salt Lake Community College before hoping to jump back to Division I ball.

In women’s basketball, former Fremont High state champion Maggie Mendelson is getting the most of her eligibility at one of the country’s most scenic campuses.

Mendelson played both volleyball and basketball at Nebraska, transferred to Penn State to focus on volleyball and won a national championship with the Nittany Lions, then signed up to play one season of hoops there, appearing in 15 games.

Now, the 6-foot-5 forward will play one last season of basketball at Pepperdine. She’s played in 37 career basketball games and stands to grab a larger role with the Waves.