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Clemson not sure how NCAA’s eligibility ruling, MLB Draft will affect next year’s roster

The NCAA Division I Council voted this past Monday to allow schools to provide spring-sport student-athletes an additional season of competition and an extension of their period of eligibility due to losing a year of eligibility because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Council also increased the roster limit in baseball for student-athletes impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the only spring sport with such a limit.

“I think there are still a lot of questions to be answered,” Clemson baseball coach Monte Lee said to The Clemson Insider Tuesday. “We are still trying to digest what it means in terms of how it affects us in terms of roster relief, scholarship relief … how does eligibility for everybody work now?