NCAA champion with UConn, Alex Karaban (2m06, 21 years old) is one of the biggest fish to have decided on Wednesday to cancel his registration for the 2024 Draft. A starting winger for the Huskies, he announced on its social networks, and unlike Stephon Castle and Donovan Clingan, he apparently did not convince NBA scouts. ESPN ranked him in 36th place among the candidates for the Draft, a potential place in the second round.
Champion in 2022 and 2023, Alex Karaban will be the leader of Connecticut to aim for the triple. This would be an incredible feat since only UCLA, in the 60s and 70s, achieved this with John Wooden as coach, and Lew Alcindor then Bill Walton as leaders.
Author of a “sophomore” season averaging 13.3 points and 5.1 rebounds, Alex Karaban will discover at the start of the school year an 80% remodeled squad, with the arrivals of Aidan Mahaney (Saint Mary's), Tarris Reed (Michigan) and the high school student Liam McNeeley. Among those returning, there will be Samson Johnson, Hassan Diarra, Solomon Ball and Jaylin Stewart.
