NCAA Suspends Illinois Star for Selling Gear Pre-NIL

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The NCAA has suspended University of Illinois junior center Kofi Cockburn, a returning Consensus All-American and the Big Ten’s preseason Player of the Year, for the first three games of the basketball season after Cockburn sold his Illini team-issue gear on a website.

As reported by Sports Illustrated, Cockburn was expected remain in the NBA draft at the time he sold the gear on The Players Trunk in June, well before the July 1 effective date for new NCAA rules regarding athletes' ability to profit from their name, image and likeness.

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