Louisville Bro Hits Half Court Shot To Win $38K...Not Allowed To Collect The Money Because He Played Basketball In High School

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Courier Journal - Due to a technicality, the student who made a half-court shot at a recent Louisville women’s basketball game won’t actually walk away with the prize money.

Jackson Logsdon, 20, participated in a halftime contest during the U of L women’s basketball game Thursday at the KFC Yum! Center. He took and made a layup, free throw, 3-pointer and a half-court shot, which should have netted him $38,000.

But Logsdon said he found out later that night that he wouldn’t get the money because he had played basketball in high school, which violated a clause stating contest participants could not have played high school basketball within the last six years.

“It is a huge bummer as I am an out-of-state student,” Logsdon told the Courier-Journal in an email Friday. “It would have went a long way to paying off student loans and anything in that manner. It was still an awesome experience and something I’ll never forget. Very bittersweet though.”

Logsdon, a sophomore at U of L, said he played basketball for three years in high school and mostly came off the bench his senior year. Thursday was his first time participating in a half-court shot contest.

Listen anybody knows me knows how ready I was jump all over the NCAA once again when I saw this story – I mean I LIVE for this shit. Practically salivating as I cracked my knuckles and rubbed my hands together getting them warmed up to churn out a fire anti-NCAA blog. Once again finding a way to weasel their way in to what should be a good story and ruin it for everyone with their stupid bullshit rules and regulations.

Unfortunately, as it turns out…this story just does not qualify. Not only did the NCAA have nothing to do with it (it was a third party company running a promotion)… the kid was just a flat out idiot. Rules pretty clearly stating you couldn’t have played high school basketball, signing a form to that effect, and, according to The Sporting News, even verbally confirming that fact.

Million Dollar Media has released a statement, which provides a signed affidavit that shows that Logsdon did indeed claim he had not played high school basketball in the last six years. They also claim that Logsdon verbally confirmed to a representative that he had not played high school basketball.

I mean is it a dumb rule, I don’t think anyone can argue that. Warming the bench 3 years ago for your high school squad shouldn’t take away the fact you hit a layup, free throw and half court shot in front of a packed semi-full I’d assume pretty empty area during a women’s hoops game.

But rules are rules. This isn’t a woe is me, fuck the NCAA and cry for Jackson story unfortunately.