Villanova is two games into its season, yet one of the Wildcats’ basketball rookies has been left in a “frustrating” situation. Freshman forward Matthew Hodge is still listed as ineligible with the NCAA,

Villanova freshman Matthew Hodge has been ruled academically ineligible by the NCAA, and an initial waiver to change his eligibility status has been denied, leaving the school and Hodge with one last resort: an appeal,

The NCAA Eligibility Center reviewed his transcripts from both his time in Belgium and the United States and ruled that Hodge was deficient in meeting its qualifier requirement