Georgia forward Jailyn Ingram has been granted a waiver by the NCAA for another year of eligibility, according to a report published on Tuesday by Anthony Dasher of UGASports.com.
Ingram will be entering his seventh and final season at the collegiate level in 2022-23.
He spent five seasons at Florida Atlantic, which is where he eclipsed the 1,000- point mark, before becoming a Bulldog. Ingram announced his plans to transfer to UGA last summer.
The 6-foot-7, 225-pound forward averaged 10.7 points and 6.0 rebounds per game before tearing his ACL in the second half against Jacksonville during the Bulldogs’ ninth contest of the 2021-22 season.
Ingram missed the remainder of Georgia’s schedule with the injury.
Former head coach Tom Crean was in tears following the injury in his postgame press conference.
“We’re just going to pray for him,” Crean said in December. “I ask that, if you so choose, you do it for him. I pray that it’s okay, and if it’s not, God’s will be done. … We have really good kids here, young men. So, we’re just going to pray tonight and see how it turns out. He’s an incredible young man. We don’t do what we’ve done to this point without him.”
The loss of Ingram greatly affected junior Jaxon Etter, who also fought back tears after the game.
“This dude is one of the most respected human beings I’ve ever met, ever been around,” Etter said. “He’s a guy who just walked in showing what the right thing to do is, a guy you look up to. So everybody responded when he went down, and it didn’t look good. Those non-contact injuries never do.”
Ingram was a former player at Morgan County High School, which is about 35 minutes from UGA’s campus. He led the Bulldogs to three straight GHSA Class AAA state title games.
MCHS won its first-ever state title in 2014 when Ingram was a sophomore. In 2015, Jenkins County defeated the Bulldogs, 62-60, in the Class AAA state championship game. However, the Bulldogs avenged that loss the following year with a 66-56 win over JCHS.
Ingram went on to sign with FAU. He was a major contributor for the Owls in his first two years before suffering a season-ending injury just a few games into his junior campaign.
The Madison, Ga., native received a medical redshirt and played two more seasons at FAU before transferring.
Ingram took advantage of the NCAA’s COVID-19 ‘free year’ of eligibility last season.
Ingram averaged 10.9 points and 5.2 rebounds per game during his time at FAU. He finished sixth on the Owls’ all-time scoring list with 1,334 career points.
Ingram also placed third overall in program history in both rebounds (630) and field goals made (522), respectively.
He improved his production each season while at FAU and was a threat for the Bulldogs down low before his injury. Ingram led the team in scoring through nine games in 2021-22.
In fact, he reached double-digits in seven of the nine games he played last season.
Georgia recently hired Mike White in March as its new head coach.
Per DawgNation.com, “In all the spring meetings I had with players, he was a guy that was pointed to as much as anyone in terms of his voice in the locker room and him being an extension of staff,” White said. “He’s older, experienced, a voice of reason with maturity.”