After playing for Washington in the NBA’s Las Vegas Summer League and reaching a tentative agreement to sign an Exhibit 10 contract with the Wizards, undrafted guard Seth Trimble has committed to returning to college basketball for the 2026/27 season and will transfer from UNC to Louisville, he tells Pete Thamel of ESPN.

Trimble is one of many four-year college players who had been on track to sign a training camp contract with an NBA team before a Colorado district ruling created a path for those players to return to school for another year. That ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney in Denver, granted four-year college athletes from the high school class of 2022 a fifth year of eligibility for 2026/27, as long as they haven’t yet signed a professional contract.

As Thamel notes, it’s not certain that the ruling will hold up, with the NCAA fighting hard to reverse it. While there’s a plan in place to institute a “five-for-five” rule that will grant college players eligibility over five seasons once their clock begins, the NCAA wants to have that rule apply to players who enroll in college in the fall of 2027 rather than retroactively to athletes who had already exhausted their eligibility.

The NCAA has said it won’t give a blanket waiver to the class of 2022 and has asked the Tenth Circuit to reverse the preliminary injunction granted by Judge Sweeney (Twitter link).

In the meantime, Trimble – who entered the transfer portal in the spring – is making plans to play under coach Pat Kelsey in Louisville after spending his first four college seasons at UNC. He told Thamel that he considers North Carolina “home” but decided to consider other options due to the Tar Heels’ roster logjam.

Trimble, who turned 22 on Sunday, came off the bench in his first two college seasons before starting part-time as a junior and full-time as a senior. The 6’3″ shooting guard missed time early in the 2025/26 season with a broken forearm, but he was a reliable contributor in the 24 games he played, averaging 14.0 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 1.3 steals in 32.5 minutes per contest.

In five Summer League games for the Wizards, Trimble averaged 10.8 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 1.4 APG, and 1.6 SPG in 23.3 MPG.