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Draft Decisions: Peat, Momcilovic, Tanner, Fears, More

By | at May 27, 2026 11:14 pm

Koa Peat has decided to leave Arizona and remain in the NBA draft, according to Jeff Borzello of ESPN. Sources tell Borzello that although Peat kept his options open for another season of college basketball, his focus over the past two months has been on staying in the draft and starting his pro career.

Peat had a productive freshman season with the Wildcats, followed by a strong NCAA tournament where he averaged 17.2 points and 7.6 rebounds in five games. However, Borzello notes that his stock began to slip at the draft combine in Chicago, where he couldn’t get his shot to fall. He wound up shooting 6-of-25 in the spot-up drill and 7-of-25 in the three-point star drill, which gave him the second-worst combined performance in those two categories.

Borzello adds that Peat had a noticeably different form on his jumper that featured a slower motion and a lower release point.

“Just trying to work on that as much as I can, trying to shoot the ball the same way every time,” he told ESPN. “Trying to eliminate misses left and right, trying to miss long or short. Trying to focus on that. Not getting too consumed about it because I can do a lot of other things that affect the game, but I’m trying to work on that … I feel like that breakthrough is going to come soon.”

Peat was projected as a late first-round pick in ESPN’s most recent mock draft, going to Boston at No. 27. Jeremy Woo suggests that at 6’7″, his NBA future could be as a small-ball center.

While Peat opted to stay in the draft, most prospects who made their decisions on Wednesday chose to return to school, including Alabama’s Amari Allen, Illinois’ Andrej Stojakovic and Arkansas’ Billy Richmond as we outlined earlier. Here’s a roundup of the decisions that were announced prior to Wednesday’s 11:59 pm ET deadline for players to withdraw and maintain their college eligibility:

  • Milan Momcilovic, formerly of Iowa State, will take his name out of the draft and decide on his next school, his agents tell Borzello (Twitter link). Momcilovic established himself as the best shooter in the nation last season and is considered to be the top player in the transfer portal.
  • Tyler Tanner is withdrawing from the draft and will return to Vanderbilt, per Pete Thamel of ESPN (Twitter link). The point guard earned All-SEC and honorable mention All-American honors as a sophomore, averaging 19.5 points and 5.1 assists in 36 games.
  • Jeremy Fears will return to Michigan State next season, agent Mike Miller tells Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports (Twitter link). Fears was a second-team All-American selection as a junior, leading Division I players in assists at 9.4 per game.
  • Dennis Parker is withdrawing from the draft and will transfer from Radford to Kansas, according to Jon Chepkevich of Draft Express (Twitter link). Parker will be a senior next season.
  • Finley Bizjack will forgo the draft and transfer from Butler to West Virginia for his senior season, his agents tell Chepkevich (Twitter link).
  • Rowan Brumbaugh will pass up the draft and transfer from Tulane to SMU, per Chepkevich (Twitter link). Brumbaugh will be a senior next season.
  • Colby Garland is staying in college and will transfer from San Jose State to Georgia Tech for his senior season, Chepkevich adds (Twitter link).
  • After committing to Texas Tech, former Hofstra guard Cruz Davis will pull out of the draft and play for the Red Raiders as a redshirt senior, tweets Joe Tipton of On3. The 22-year-old was the Coastal Athletic Association’s Player of the Year in 2025/26.
  • Another player staying in the draft is Stanford’s Ebuka Okorie, his agent confirms to Goodman (Twitter link). He led the ACC in scoring this season at 23.2 PPG as a freshman.
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NBA Announces Initial Early Entrant List For 2026 Draft

By | at April 27, 2026 4:10 pm

The NBA has officially released the initial list of early entrants for the 2026 draft, announcing in a press release (Twitter link) that 71 players have filed as early entry candidates. Of those prospects, 60 are from colleges and 11 had been playing for teams internationally.

While that early entrant total exceeds the number of players who will be selected in this year’s draft (60), it’s down significantly from the figures we’ve seen in recent years. In fact, it’s the lowest since 2003, per Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress (Twitter link). A record 353 early entrants initially declared for the draft in 2021, but that number dropped to 283 in 2022, 242 in 2023, 201 in 2024, and 109 a year ago.

The NCAA’s NIL policy, which allows college athletes to be paid based on their name, image, and likeness, has been a major factor in that downward trend — fewer prospects feel the need to go pro as soon as possible when they’re earning big money at the college level.

The huge dip in the past two years can also be attributed in large part to the fact that nearly all college seniors are now automatically draft-eligible. In recent years, most fourth-year seniors faced an “early entrant” decision because they were granted an extra year of NCAA eligibility due to COVID-19 and didn’t have the 2020/21 season count toward their typical limit.

This year’s total of 71 early entrants figures to decline even further by May 27 and again by June 13, the two deadlines for players to withdraw their names from the draft pool. The former date is for college players who wish to retain their NCAA eligibility, while the latter is for international prospects. The leftover early entrants after June 13 will join the college seniors with no remaining eligibility and other automatically eligible players in this year’s draft pool.

Our tracker of early entrants for the 2026 draft is fully up to date and can be found right here.

Here are the changes we made to our tracker today:

Newly added players

College players:

These players either didn’t publicly announce that they were entering the draft or we simply missed it when they did.

International players:

These players weren’t previously mentioned on our list of international early entrants. The country listed here indicates where they last played, not necessarily where they were born.

Players removed

Despite reports or announcements that the players below would declare for the draft, they didn’t show up on the NBA’s official list.

That could mean a number of things — they may have decided against entering the draft; they may have entered the draft, then withdrawn; they may have had no NCAA eligibility remaining, making them automatically draft-eligible; they may have incorrectly filed their paperwork; or the NBA may have accidentally omitted some names.

Because they’re absent from the league’s official list, we’ve removed the following names from our own early entrant list.

Note: Some of these players may also be transferring to new schools. Their 2025/26 school is listed here.

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