MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Since June 24, 2010, the night Da’Sean Butler and Devin Ebanks became back-to-back second-rounders in the NBA draft, West Virginia hasn’t been spotted at the podium.
The drought figures to continue tonight inside Barclays Center, unless some team makes a surprising grab for Juwan Staten—the consummate explosive college point guard who, at 5-foot-11, simply doesn’t measure up to NBA profiles. (From the 400-plus players currently on NBA rosters, a total of five are listed at shorter than 6 feet.)
West Virginia joins Kansas State, Texas Tech and TCU as the only current Big 12 programs who haven’t had a single player drafted in the past four years.