In the past five years or so, the Louisville basketball team has had a noticeable increase of underclassmen declaring for the draft.
They haven’t been the prototypical one-and-done McDonald’s All-American prospects that schools like Duke and Kentucky pump out, but rather a two-and-through model that has benefited players.
It’s the best of both worlds, these “two-and-through” players have the experience with one season of high level college basketball under their belt, but at the same time they are still very young which is one of the things the NBA raves about when drafting players in the first round.