Kansas’ basketball program has 16 players listed on opening-night rosters of NBA teams as the 2017-18 season begins.
The Jayhawks are tied nationally with North Carolina for third most NBA players of any college team. Kentucky is first with 27 and Duke second with 20 in figures supplied by Kentucky’s athletic department. The NBA will put out its own list of players per college later this week.
Oklahoma City’s Nick Collison enters the 2017-18 season as KU’s longest-tenured pro. The 36-year-old power forward, who played on KU’s 2002 and ’03 Final Four teams, is beginning his 15th season, all with the Thunder organization.