College basketball’s scoring and assist leader this season announced on Tuesday that he is declaring for the NBA Draft after completing one of the most prolific and talked about freshman seasons in recent memory.
The 6-foot, 2-inch point guard who grew up in the shadow of the University of Oklahoma, just a few miles away the Lloyd Noble Center, where the Sooners play basketball, will end his one season of college basketball as the only NCAA Division I player to lead the country in both scoring and assists in the 35 seasons that assists have been recognized as an official stat.