Three Duquesne University basketball players who received releases from their scholarships when Ron Everhart was hired as coach this spring are transferring in the fall.

Ronnie Thomas, a 6-foot-9 sophomore who averaged 4.0 points and 2.1 rebounds, is headed to Division I Wright State, which was 13-15 this season. He will sit out 2006-07 and will have three years' eligibility.

"He's a very skilled post player whom I remember watching as a high school senior," Wright State coach Brad Brownell said of Thomas, a native of Middlebury, Ind., who played at Northridge High School. "We feel he will become a very good player in the Horizon League."

Sophomore forward Chauncey Duke, who started 26 games and averaged 8.2 points and 4.6 rebounds, is headed to Kentucky Wesleyan, a Division II school, where he will be eligible immediately. He will have two more years to play.

Redshirt freshman forward Brian Kelly, who averaged 3.3 points and 2.3 rebounds in 27 games, is headed to Clayton State University, a Division II school, in Morrow, Ga. Kelly, a Decatur, Ga., native will have three years' eligibility.

Sophomore forward DeVario Hudson, the team's second-leading scorer (9.4 ppg) and rebounder (5.4 rpg), still is undecided and 6-10 redshirt sophomore Sean McKeon (3.9 ppg, 2.2 rpg) has talked to IUP of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.

In its efforts to crack down on secondary schools that give quick and easy grades to high-profile athletes, the N.C.A.A. has drawn up an initial list of 15 schools from which it will no longer accept transcripts.

The N.C.A.A.'s plan was outlined in a document that was e-mailed to colleges across the country over the weekend. The list of so-called invalid schools will be made final by July 1. This would allow students who have attended schools under review to know if they could enroll in college this fall.

"That's the first list of subsequent lists," said Kevin Lennon, a vice president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. "More to come, is the way I would look at it."

None of the 15 schools are regarded as an athletic powerhouse.

One of the schools on the list was University High School in Miami, which closed in December in the wake of an investigation by The New York Times that revealed it gave easy grades to high-profile athletes.

Also on the list were Celestial Prep in Philadelphia and Philadelphia Christian School, two schools attended by the former George Washington University star Omar Williams, who graduated from the university this spring. Williams's questionable academic record in high school drew scrutiny from George Washington's faculty senate.

A number of schools that have come under scrutiny for their questionable academic standards were not on the initial list. Lennon said that N.C.A.A. staff members had visited at least seven schools and that they were currently on the road visiting other questionable schools.

Lennon confirmed that Lutheran Christian Academy in Philadelphia was one of the schools the N.C.A.A. had visited. Lutheran Christian is coached by Darryl Schofield, the former coach at Celestial Prep and Philadelphia Christian School.

In an article in The Times in February, four former Lutheran Christian players were quoted as saying that they were not required to attend classes and that their only teacher was Schofield. In an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday, Schofield called the publicity surrounding his school and the N.C.A.A. investigation "a public lynching." Reached on his cellphone last night, Schofield hung up and did not respond.

The e-mailed document also noted that the N.C.A.A. could deny a transcript from schools not on the invalid list. The N.C.A.A. has given its clearinghouse the authority to deny transcripts that reflect questionable jumps in grade point average.

Lorenzo Romar, the Washington men's basketball coach, already has a contract that runs through 2013.

But that isn't stopping Huskies athletic director Todd Turner from working on a new deal for Romar that will make it even harder for the coach who has led UW to two straight Sweet 16s to leave the school.

"We're working on it," Turner said Tuesday when asked about the possibility of a new contract for Romar, who has coached at UW for four seasons.

Romar, who has given no indication he wants to leave Washington, said earlier this week he turned down a chance to talk with the Sacramento Kings about the NBA team's recent vacancy.

Turner said the new contract talks with Romar weren't spurred by Sacramento's interest in Romar but said that indicated further why he feels it is important to make Romar feel appreciated at Washington.

"What I've told him is that he can achieve his life's dreams here at Washington, so we are working on it," Turner said.

Turner would not reveal specifics of talks or whether Romar will be offered more years, more money, or both, nor when a new deal might be completed.

Romar, who played at Washington from 1978 to 1980 and returned as head coach in 2002, agreed to a new eight-year contract worth an estimated $1 million a year in March 2005.