He's not ready to leave quite yet.
E.J. Liddell pulled out of 2021 NBA Draft consideration and announced on Saturday that he will remain at Ohio State for the 2021-22 season.
The third-year junior forward was a first-team All-Big Ten selection when he averaged 16.2 points and 6.7 rebounds per game last season. Now that he's back as an upperclassman, he immediately becomes an early Big Ten Player of the Year candidate – right alongside Trayce Jackson-Davis, Hunter Dickinson and Trevion Williams – and the piece around which Chris Holtmann will build the Buckeyes.