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The Big Ten Player of the Year will have the chance to prove his NBA worth later this month.

The reigning Big Ten Player of the Year, Ohio State’s Keita Bates-Diop, will be one of the 69 nice players participating in the NBA Combine later this month, according to Yahoo’s Shams Charania. The combine will emanate from Chicago May 16-20.

Along with Bates-Diop, some of the major names participating in this year’s pre-draft workouts will be Oklahoma’s Trae Young, Duke’s Marvin Bagley III, Texas’ Mohamed Bamba, Missouri’s Michael Porter Jr., and more.

SBNation’s Ricky O’Donnell currently has KBD slotted in as the 19th selection in June’s draft, going to the Atlanta Hawks in his last mock draft released earlier this week.