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Svi Mykhailiuk withdraws from NBA Draft, will return for senior season with KU basketball

Kansas basketball guard Svi Mykhailiuk announced Wednesday night on his Instagram account that he has decided to remove his name from the 2017 NBA Draft and return to KU for his senior season.

Senior year gonna be fun #KUCMB

A post shared by Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk (@sviat_10) on May 24, 2017 at 4:22pm PDT

Mykhailiuk, a 6-foot-8 senior-to-be from Ukraine, declared for the draft on April 12 but did not sign with an agent. He attended the NBA Combine (May 9-14 in Chicago) where he performed well in shooting drills, but then injured his ankle and was unable to play in the second of two Combine games.