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Aaron Craft Will Retire From Basketball and Enroll in Medical School Following EuroLeague Season

Aaron Craft is returning to Ohio State for medical school.

The Buckeye great plans to retire from basketball following the EuroLeague season, where he currently plays for the Italian club Trento, and will begin medical school at Ohio State, the Italian magazine Corriere della Sera reports.

Throughout his playing career, Craft maintained that he still had plans to become a doctor, and now he's taking that step.

"The passion for medicine is something I have cultivated since I was a child," Craft told Corriere della Sera, after translation. "At the end of my life I want to be more than a player who has chased a ball.