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KU’s Ochai Agbaji pondered putting his name in 2019 NBA Draft: ‘I did for a little bit’

After KU's annual basketball banquet Tuesday night, April 16, 2019 in Lawrence, Jayhawks freshman guard Ochai Agbaji talked about improving his game and playing with new teammates next season. By

Kansas basketball guard Ochai Agbaji admits he considered testing the 2019 NBA Draft waters with fellow KU freshmen Quentin Grimes and Devon Dotson.

“I did for a little bit,” Agbaji, a 6-foot-5 wing out of Oak Park High School, acknowledged after Tuesday’s Kansas postseason basketball banquet at the Burge Union. “Let me work on my game here,” he added with a big smile.

Unlike Dotson and Grimes, Agbaji was not a McDonald’s All-American his senior in high school.