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Cassius Winston pitches heart screenings, explains why heart is still at Michigan State

(Photo: Daniel Mears, Detroit News)

Detroit — There only are two rounds in the NBA Draft, 60 slots in all. Yet, there are well more than 100 college players who have declared for early entry into the NBA Draft.

Can you say square peg, round hole?

And quite remarkably in this era of college basketball, one of the early entrants isn't Michigan State's Cassius Winston, the reigning Big Ten Player of the Year and an All-American — first-team or second-team, depending on your publication of preference — who announced a month ago he would return for his senior season in East Lansing.