NCAA Basketball: 4 biggest losers from 2019 NBA Draft early entrant deadline

Which NCAA Basketball teams were hurt the most from this year’s NBA Draft decisions? Here are the biggest losers from the early entrant deadline.

The early entry deadline for the 2019 NBA Draft passed at midnight on Wednesday night, giving us final answers as to which players are staying in the draft and who is returning for another season of NCAA Basketball.

A vast majority of these decisions follow the same pattern – projected first-round picks leave, projected second-round picks have a tough decision to make, and players projected to go undrafted normally just get feedback from NBA teams before returning to school.

However, every year there are some head-scratching decisions from players who opt to stay in the draft.

There are many non-basketball reasons why players choose to leave school early, whether it be to not be in school anymore or for the immediate money, even if it means a career overseas. Some also know they likely won’t increase their draft stock with another year of college, so they opt to start their professional life early.

Each individual makes their own decision on a case-by-case basis, and college coaches are often very influential in these decisions. For some, those unexpected decisions did not go their way.

Here are the four schools that were hurt the most by the decisions made at the early entrant deadline.