One and Done: College Basketball's Silent Killer

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One and Done: College Basketball's Silent Killer

Background

A one and done in college basketball is defined as a college basketball player who withdraws from school to enter the NBA draft after only one year of collegiate play. While there have been great players who have been successful going the one and done path for example, Kevin Durant. There have also been many one and done players who were and are out of the league by age 21 for example Josh Shelby, Rodney White, Joe Alexander. The One and done rule is ruining the greatness of college basketball it’s sucking the life out of traditional basketball powerhouses who attract the top high school players in the country and, its ultimately ruining the lives of those players who don’t make it. There are many dangers and stories that even true hoop-fanatics don’t know about.

Effect on NCAA Tournament

Initially one of the worst effects of the one and done on college basketball is the effect that it’s having on college basketball. Every year since the NBA changed its required age limit to enter the draft to nineteen, we have begun to see more NCAA tournament upsets every year. According to Courtney Taylor of About Stastistics.com says “It reached an all time frantic in 2012 when 15 seed’s Lehigh University and, Norfolk State two little known schools, who were probably just happy to be in the tournament pulled off upsets against powerhouses Duke and Missouri” (Taylor pg. 1). Normally a college basketball fan would love a good upset like those but statistics show that since 1990 only seven fifteen seeds have beaten a two seed and three of them have happened since the age change in the NBA draft back in 2005. (2014 pg. 1)

Now how this relates to the one and done rule...

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