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Wetzel: How college basketball ended up signing NBA draft picks

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Ideally, college basketball would have organized itself so that teams weren't adding dudes from European pro leagues in the middle of the season.

Your roster on, say, Nov. 1, is your roster. Is that too much to ask? They have trade deadlines and signing windows in the NBA and NFL, after all. How about this: If you enter the NBA draft, you can't still play college ball.

Of course, ideally, the NCAA and college sports' leadership -- from conference commissioners to high powered athletic directors to famed coaches -- would have, at least by the late 2010s, recognized that change was inevitable and begun planning for it.