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College Basketball?

My older brothers friend who is going to university wanted to know if international students can play college sports. Can they?

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Yea, many of todays college basketball stars are of foriegn countries. But they have to go under the same tough scruninity for playing time then anyone else does.
I think so.Akeem Olajawon was from Nigeria, Dkembe Mutumbo from Zaire.
Assuming you mean an international student playing NCAA sports at an American college, absolutely they can. However, the NCAA has some rather complicated rules about eligibility because officially they want their athletes to be unpaid amateurs. Like they can't have ever been paid to play that sport or taken endorsements for that sport or anything. And even if they didn't get paid themselves, if they played on a team with someone ELSE who got paid, they might be eligible but have to sit out a certain number of games once they join the team. Take a look at the web page I've given you below. It has information from the NCAA about academic eligibility for foreign students and links to another page dealing with the amateurism requirements. The NCAA's Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse will, I believe, have the final say on the matter though. I think anyone who wants to play for an NCAA team has to be approved by them, and they know all those amateurism rules better than anyone else.
Yes, they can! The students have to have all their paperwork in order to pass the NCAA clearinghouse.
Oh yea. Just check out St. Louis University. They have all types of internatinal players play for them.
of course he should go to Florida State for basketball,theyre team is off the hook there
Yes. so long as they meet NCAA or NAIA eligibility requirements.
Yes and usually they are the best players on the college teams.
They sure can.