Perhaps the most important college basketball news of last week was broken by an NBA reporter and centered on the NBA’s commissioner and the head of its players’ union. When ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Adam Silver and Michele Roberts met with the Commission on College Basketball—the group chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and assembled by the NCAA this fall in the wake of the FBI’s recruiting sting—one of the sport’s most well-tread subjects of debate was reanimated: the impact of one-and-done players on college basketball, and what would happen if the NBA eliminates the draft-entry age limit that produces them.
Why Changing the One-And-Done Rule Will Only Make Matters Worse for College Basketball
