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NCAA should empower the Trae Youngs

Here in Oklahoma, we have been largely immune to the One-and-Done plague. College basketball players who go through the motions of attending English comp class while counting the days until they're in the NBA is the charade of schools like Kentucky and Arizona and Duke. Not the Bedlam rivals.

And remarkably, when one of our hoop stars has had such a decision to make, they've gone against the grain of the hardwood. Nine years ago, freshman Blake Griffin could have left OU for lottery land. Four years ago, freshman Marcus Smart could have done the same at OSU.