Report: Kashie Natt Files Lawsuit Against NCAA Seeking Eligibility

A Cowboy is going the legal route to try to get on the floor this season.

Kashie Natt has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA after the NCAA canceled his eligibility waivers, according to On3’s Pete Nakos. Natt is requesting an injunction from a Payne County judge to be eligible for the 2026-27 season.

The NCAA’s Division-I Cabinet approved a five-for-five eligibility model last week, which means athletes have five years to participate in five years of college athletics. The start of that time is either an athletes initial full-time enrollment in college or their 19th birthday.

Natt began his college basketball career at the junior college at Southern University-Shreveport. He was then went to NAIA LSU-Alexandria for a few years. It sounds like it’s there where Natt’s making his case, with his legal filing stating his “five-year period commenced when he enrolled at LSUA in August 2022, it does not expire until August 2027. Under that construction, Plaintiff should be eligible for one more season during the 2026-27 academic year without any additional waiver.”

Natt has been removed from Oklahoma State’s roster, meaning the Cowboys are down to 13 of a possible 15 players. OSU coach Steve Lutz said earlier this offseason that Natt and Parsa Fallah were each seeking waivers for eligibility.

“He’s an unbelievable human being,” Lutz said earlier this month. “He’s constantly bringing energy. He’s constantly bringing energy. Today, we started off practice … you get a towel, and you have hold the towel over your head. And then you have to do step slides, defensive step slides, like old school. I’ve never really said you have to say ‘ball’ or you have to say whatever, and Kashie decided, ‘Hey, coach, we’re gonna call ball, ball, ball, ball.’ Well, it’s contagious, and he’s just got that personality. So, it’s been enjoyable.”

Listed at 6-foot-3, Natt transferred to Oklahoma State from Sam Houston, where he was the reigning Conference-USA Defensive Player of the Year. This past season was Natt’s first at the Division-I level, where he averaged 10.8 points, 8.2 rebounds, 2.4 assists and a pair of steals a game.