When the star transfer went through the NBA Draft process and couldn’t secure a first-round guarantee, those whispers grew louder. Finally, several recruiting analysts reported Travis would be taking his name out of the draft, but would be headed elsewhere for his final year of eligibility. Kentucky was the runaway favorite.
Now that the 6-foot-8 forward is officially a Wildcat, his former head coach at Stanford says the decision wasn’t a surprise to him in the slightest.
“I wasn’t blindsided by Reid Travis,” Stanford head coach Jerod Haase told basketball analyst Jon Rothstein. “After the season we sat down and he told me that he wanted to be a first-round pick and he wanted to go through the NBA Draft process.