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[QUOTE="Hey Adrien!, post: 3906652, member: 5787"]
[B]Does Bouk need another year in college to get to the next level? [/B]Maybe.

[B]Will Bouk play another year at UConn. [/B]Heck no.

Gone are the days where lottery picks play another year to maybe improve their stock even more. It makes zero sense for any lottery pick in any school to stick around...there's a reason why over the last four drafts, 80% of top-ten picks drafted out of college are freshman (28 out of 35).

It didn't happen in the '20 draft. Maybe the closest was Jalen Smith as he was a likely first round pick in '19 but worked his way to a top-10 pick. Toppin, Vassell, Haliburton, Lewis...none of these guys were lottery picks after their freshman year.

It didn't happen in the '19 draft. Morant, Hunter, Culver, Hachimura, Johnson...none of these guys were lottery picks entering the '18 draft.

The last projected lottery pick who returned to school was Miles Bridges returning for the '18 draft. Did it help him? Not really...was a potential top-10 pick in the '17 draft and was picked #12 in the '18 draft.

As a potential top-ten pick Bouknight would be crazy not to declare for the draft and any fanbase would be ecstatic to draft him.
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