The Kentucky Wildcats will lose their seven top scorers to the NBA Draft this summer after the players who led the team to a 38-1 record this season announced that they would be turning professional.
Karl-Anthony Towns, Willie Cauley-Stein, Devin Booker, Trey Lyles, Dakari Johnson, Andrew Harrison and Aaron Harrison helped the Wildcats to 38 successive victories before a loss to the Wisconsin Badgers in the final four of the NCAA tournament.
Towns and Cauley-Stein are expected to be lottery picks this year alongside Duke's Jahlil Okafor, who also declared for the Draft on Thursday.
"This was a decision that had to be made, and now is the time to go," Cauley-Stein, who averaged 8.9 points and 6.4 rebounds this season, told reporters.
The NBA Draft takes place on June 25.
