Superstars Flop in Tourney

By: Mat McGowan

The NCAA Tournament is crazy and unpredictable every year without fail.

Could this be the craziest?

Stick with me here.

As of this Sunday, players like Tyler Ennis, Doug McDermot, Joel Embiid, Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker are all sitting at home contemplating whether or not they should enter the NBA draft. The reason for this is because they and their respective teams have been booted from the tournament.

These players make up five of the top ten players in the country.

This isn't a good look for the NCAA, losing this star power this early in the tournament.

However there could be a greater impact to these early departures.

College players are required to attend one year of college in order to be eligible for the NBA draft, a subject that has been highly debated.

Given the fact that these college stars exited early, most of which had bad games, they may be inclined to stick around for another year in fear of their draft stock dropping.


It remains to be seen what path these young men will choose, but there is certainly a new aspect to be looked at here when it comes to the age requirement. On one hand you have NBA teams that don't want to draft players that aren't ready to player and on the other you don't want to deny college players the opportunity to play and get paid at a higher level.