Daisha Simmons, a 5-foot-10 guard from Jersey City, New Jersey, started her career at Rutgers, played two seasons at Alabama and is now enrolled as a graduate student at Seton Hall. A look at the major events of her college career.
• Simmons played the first year of her college basketball career at Rutgers in 2010-11.
• She sat out 2011-12 after transferring to Alabama.
• Simmons started for the Crimson Tide in 2012-13, averaging 12.4 points.
• Coach Wendell Hudson moved to an administrative role at Alabama after the 2012-13 season, and the school hired Kristy Curry to replace him.
• Simmons started 29 of 30 games and averaged 13.8 points as a junior. She graduated in December 2013.
• In March 2014, Simmons told Curry and her staff she would return for her senior season and signed an apartment lease. Alabama renewed her scholarship for another year.
• Simmons visited New Jersey in April and said she realized health issues with her mother and brother were worsening, and she felt she needed to be closer to home.
• Simmons told Curry in May that she wanted to transfer. Simmons said she cited both her desire to help her family more and the fact that she had not been accepted into Alabama's MBA program and wanted to pursue a post-graduate degree. Curry did not agree to release Simmons from her scholarship.
• In June, Simmons met with Alabama deputy director of athletics Shane Lyons, who denied her release. An appeals committee also denied it. Later in the month, Alabama agreed to give Simmons permission to have contact with two schools near her home, Seton Hall and St. John's. Lyons has indicated he did not know the severity of Simmons' brother's illness.
• Simmons transferred to Seton Hall, which is approximately 10 minutes from her family's home. She was admitted into an MBA program there.
• Seton Hall requested that the NCAA give Simmons a waiver to allow her to be eligible immediately. She needed that even as a graduate student, because she had already transferred once in her collegiate career. In August, Alabama informed the NCAA that the school did not support the waiver.
• The NCAA gave Simmons a sixth year to finish her eligibility, saying she would have to sit out the 2014-15 school year and then compete in 2015-16.
• Simmons and her family retained attorney Donald Jackson, who requested that Alabama support the waiver, which they think would change the NCAA's mind and allow Simmons to play this year. However, Alabama officials said they consider the matter closed.
• This week, Jackson lodged a complaint against Alabama about potential Title IX violations. He alleged "harassment" because the women's basketball staff released some players from their scholarships while initially attempting to block Simmons from transferring.
• On Tuesday evening, espnW learned that Alabama will approve the waiver to allow Simmons to play. The NCAA is expected to review the case. Seton Hall coach Tony Bozzella is hopeful the NCAA will now rule to allow Simmons to play this season.