A gritty and demanding University of Washington basketball practice was coming to an end when the players suddenly converged on one of their own and began to holler and hug him.
On Tuesday afternoon, this was Nevada transfer guard Tayshawn Comer and his teammates learning in Alaska Airlines Arena that a California court had granted a preliminary injunction enabling him and countless others playing elsewhere to receive a fifth year of college basketball eligibility.
Initially, the 6-foot-1 backcourt player from Indianapolis, Indiana, had been informed he wouldn’t benefit from the new NCAA “five in five” rule because he was considered a graduate after playing four uninterrupted seasons at Eastern Kentucky, Evansville and the Mountain West school…