​Donovan Dent may not be done with college basketball, after all.But that doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be returning to the Lobos, even though he does now live in Albuquerque.The former three-year UNM Lobo star point guard who played this past season at UCLA, where it was presumed he was playing his fourth and final season of college basketball, will be a party on a multi-player lawsuit against the NCAA — expected to be filed in the coming days — challenging new eligibility rules that are going into place for the 2026-27 academic/sports year.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe Journal was able to confirm the imminent legal action Tuesday afternoon with Ryan Downton, who is representing Dent and others in the matter and who is the same attorney who represented Albuquerque native Diego Pavia in his landmark antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA just 18 months ago that recovered for the former St. Pius and Volcano Vista high school student and New Mexico State Aggie star quarterback an extra year of eligibility at Vanderbilt.That suit was based on the NCAA’s bylaw — which counted past junior college seasons against an athletes eligibility clock — that ruled student athletes could play four seasons of an NCAA varsity sport.The court win secured for Pavia a million-dollar senior season payday and a Heisman Trophy finalist season for the Commodores.In Dent’s case, and that of many other Class of 2022 high school graduates, the matter is different.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe NCAA earlier this summer passed the new “five-for-five” rule, which essentially gives all student athletes five years to play and will cut back significantly, so the rule hopes, on appeals for extra seasons of eligibility for injuries or other matters. That is for all student athletes moving forward who are part of the Class of 2023 or later.However, just last week in a case brought by Downton and attorney Darren Heitner, former Lobo and Dent teammate Filip Borovicanin was among a group of 24 basketball players in Ohio who were awarded an injunction by a state judge there to play college basketball for their fifth season. Borovicanin followed former UNM coach Richard Pitino to Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.The judge in that case called the NCAA’s rule “arbitrary and capricious” in its application to only the 2022 graduating class considering the classes coming before 2022 were all granted an extra COVID year and the classes after 2022 will all be part of the new blanket five-year eligibility window.The NCAA has said it will appeal that ruling, and plans to do so with any other similar cases, such as the one Dent plans to be a party to, which could mean these matters are still being decided well into the academic year, maybe even the basketball season.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementJust two months ago, Dent, who now lives in Albuquerque with his girlfriend and UNM Medical School student Katelyn Estrada, told the Journal he was not