North Texas forward Brenen Lorient will return to college basketball, according to Jon Chepkevich of Draft Express (Twitter link), who reports that he’s withdrawing his name from the 2025 NBA draft.
Lorient is a 6’9″ athletic forward who averaged 11.7 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.1 blocks, and 0.9 steals per game while shooting 47.8% on three-pointers (in just 23 total attempts) in his junior season. He was named the AAC Sixth Man of the Year and All-AAC First Team.
Chepkevich reports that Lorient, who spent his first two years at Florida Atlantic University, will play his senior year at West Virginia, joining four-star shot-making wing Jayden Forsythe and newly-hired coach Ross Hodge.
Lorient declared for the draft while maintaining his NCAA eligibility last month. He is not on ESPN’s current big board of this year’s top 100 league prospects and he falls just outside ESPN’s top-100 transfer portal list.
College early entrants have until the end of the day on May 28 to withdraw from the NBA draft if they want to retain their NCAA eligibility.