FAYETTEVILLE — At one point in time, he says, Daniel Gafford was 100 percent ready to enter his name in the 2018 NBA Draft and leave Arkansas after one season.
Gafford added, though, after announcing in late March he would return to school that it was his plan all along to stay in school for two years.
"I pretty much told (Mike Anderson) everything on my mind," he said in April. "I said I was thinking about going. In my mind, I wanted to go, but in my heart I wanted to say."
Continuing to grow - as a player and person - was essential for him, and he has certainly done that this calendar year.