NEWS: Rueben Chinyelu is withdrawing from the NBA Draft and will return to Florida, he told @On3. The 6-10 center and Naismith Defensive Player of the Year averaged 10.9 points and 11.2 rebounds per game this season.
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HUGE NEWS: Florida’s Thomas Haugh will return to Gaineville next season, he announced.
Haugh is a likely first-rounder and possibly even a lottery pick, but loves Florida and also will obviously be compensated extremely well this season in college.
This year’s drafted also loaded in the lottery while next year’s looks lackluster.
Florida and Kentucky played 120 minutes of basketball this season.
Kentucky led zero minutes. At no point in three games did Kentucky ever have a lead.
7,200 seconds, and Kentucky led zero of those seconds.
"I got a lot to prove. This is probably the most motivated I've been since I've been a head coach."
Billy Napier also says he will make a big change from what he did at Florida. An offensive coordinator will call the offensive plays. "I'm excited about that."
Worth a listen.
Sources: Billy Napier is finalizing a five-year deal to become the next head coach at James Madison. A formal announcement is expected on Saturday. Napier is the former coach at Louisiana and Florida.
Sources: Florida is expected to hire Buster Faulkner as the school's next offensive coordinator. He's the successful OC at Georgia Tech, who brings SEC experience from to stints at Georgia.