One of Oklahoma State men’s basketball’s incoming transfers is taking the NCAA to court in hopes of getting one more season.
Kashie Natt, the former Sam Houston guard who had been waiting on a waiver to be cleared for 2026-27, has had that waiver canceled. Now Natt and his attorney, Darren Heitner, are suing the NCAA for an injunction that would let him play, according to On3 Sports and other outlets.
The case was filed in Payne County, Okla., where Stillwater sits and where Oklahoma State is the county’s major school. In the filing, the suit argues that the NCAA failed to handle Natt’s request the way it should have.
“The NCAA breached its contractual obligations … without applying the individualized waiver criteria invoked by OSU without reasoned engagement with the extenuating circumstances submitted, without properly evaluating the five-year-clock issue, and without adjudicating the requests under the process the NCAA’s own bylaws contemplate,” per the suit.
Natt’s path through college basketball has been a long one. He was listed as a graduate student in Sam Houston’s bio for the 2025-26 season after transferring there from LSU-Alexandria, an NAIA program in Alexandria, La.
He graduated from Rayville (La.) High School in 2021, spent his first college season at Southern University-Shreveport, then moved on to three seasons at LSU-A.
At LSU-A, Natt piled up a decorated résumé. He became a two-time NAIA All-American, won the 2025 NAIA National Player of the Year award, and left as the program’s all-time leader in scoring with 1,592 points and rebounding with 780 boards.
He then logged his fifth college season at Sam Houston in 2025-26, earning CUSA Defensive Player of the Year honors while averaging 8.2 points per game.
The timing of his waiver request matters. Natt filed before the NCAA approved its new “5-for-5” legislation, the age-based eligibility framework that gives student-athletes five years to play five seasons without redshirts or other waivers unless extenuating circumstances apply.
The NCAA could be counting his junior college year from 2021 in that clock. Natt’s suit says the clock should begin with his enrollment at LSU-A in August 2022, which would leave him with another year available.
The Diego Pavia ruling has already led the NCAA to grant waivers to some athletes who began at junior college, though it remains unclear whether Natt had previously received one.
For now, Natt is not listed on Oklahoma State’s roster. Parsa Fallah is also not on the roster while he seeks a waiver for an additional year.
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