As we start counting down the hours until the 2019 NBA Draft in New York, three Virginia Cavaliers — Ty Jerome, Kyle Guy, and De’Andre Hunter — are hoping to hear their names called. Hunter is projected as a lottery pick, making him the first Virginia player drafted in the lottery since Bryant Stith in 1992 (13th overall). The only Cavalier players taken higher than that were Wally Walker (No. 5 in 1976), Ralph (No. 1 overall in 1983), and Olden Polynice (No. 8 in 1987).
De’Andre Hunter is universally projected to go in the top-10, and possibly in the top-5.