Alabama blinked after all.

After a week of bad press, social media backlash and the possibility of litigation, the SEC school released a statement attributed to athletic director Bill Battle Tuesday night in support of former basketball player Daisha Simmons’ request to play immediately at Seton Hall.

It’s still up to the NCAA to grant Simmons a graduate transfer waiver, part of which required Alabama to agree to allow her to play immediately. The NCAA initially granted her an extra year of eligibility in 2015-16, but Simmons and Seton Hall hopes it will get moved up a year now that they have Alabama’s consent.

Because the talented guard — who averaged 13.8 points and 4.3 assists last year — already has transferred once, leaving Rutgers for the Crimson Tide following her freshman year, she was ineligible for the graduate transfer exception, which states a student-athlete is immediately eligible if the graduate program she enrolls in at her new school isn’t offered at her previous school.

A graduate transfer, Simmons left Alabama in May to be closer to her ill and overworked mother Christina and sick brother Chaz, who is battling end-stage renal disease. She transferred to Seton Hall, a 10-minute drive from her mother’s Jersey City home, where she has been admitted into the school’s MBA graduate program with a focus in sports management.

But Alabama declined to give her its approval for months, until Tuesday, claiming her decision to leave didn’t give the Tide’s women’s program ample time to recruit her replacement. The school considered the case closed.

That all changed Tuesday night. In the backhanded statement, Alabama claimed Simmons didn’t present the proper documentation of her family’s health problems despite being asked to do so repeatedly and also claimed there were “inconsistencies” in her reasons for a transfer.

Now, her future is in the NCAA’s hands.