Harrison Ingram kept his eligibility intact to leave his options open, but he ultimately remained in the NBA Draft.
The NCAA-imposed deadline to withdraw as an early NBA Draft entrant and maintain one's college eligibility was 11:59 p.m. ET Wednesday. Boatloads of players pulled out in the final days, and a few players cut it close in the final hours. UNC basketball product Harrison Ingram was not one of those players, which came as no surprise but, in essence, moved his pro status from 99 to 100 percent.
That didn't happen. Instead, he seems to have recently jumped a smidge from being a projected mid-second-rounder to going early in the second round, perhaps even sneaking into the first round.following two seasons at Stanford, the 6-foot-7 Dallas native played in all 37 games for a UNC basketball team that finished atop the ACC regular season standings. A full-time starter who stretched the floor with a 38.5 shooting percentage from downtown, he averaged 12.2 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 1.
Whether late first round or somewhere in the second on June 26-27, Harrison Ingram looks like a lock to become the first Tar Heel to get drafted, not counting anyone who transferred out of the program , since Day'Ron Sharpe came off the board No. 29 overall to the Phoenix Suns back in 2021.Matt Giles is the editor and publisher of FanNation's Blue Devil Country and All Tar Heels, covering the Duke Blue Devils and UNC Tar Heels on SI.com.
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