Uzan withdrawing from draft to return to Houston

Houston defender Milos Uzan volition retreat his sanction from the 2025 NBA draft, cause Aman Dhesi of PNW Sports Group told ESPN connected Tuesday.

Uzan was named to the All-Big 12 2nd squad aft averaging 11.4 points and 4.2 assists, shooting 43% from 3 this season. He helped Houston to a 35-5 record, including Big 12 regular-season and tourney championships and a No. 1 effect successful the NCAA tournament, wherever the Cougars mislaid to Florida successful the nationalist title game.

Uzan's instrumentality is simply a large boon for caput manager Kelvin Sampson, who has a beardown assertion for preseason No. 1 ranking aft returning 3 starters successful Uzan, second-leading scorer Emanuel Sharp and Big 12 antiaircraft subordinate of the twelvemonth Joseph Tugler.

Houston brings successful 3 top-25 precocious schoolhouse recruits successful Chris Cenac (No. 6 successful ESPN 100), Isiah Harwell (No. 6) and Kingston Flemings (No. 22), arsenic good arsenic a erstwhile All-Big 12 defender successful Pop Isaacs from the transportation portal.

The 22-year-old Uzan volition person a 4th and last play of eligibility to marque his people astatine the assemblage level, aft showing important advancement arsenic a junior, catapulting him firmly onto the radar of NBA scouts. Uzan has fantabulous size, lasting implicit 6-foot-4 to spell on with much-improved perimeter shooting (43% 3P%), defence and decision-making, and volition apt beryllium asked to enarthrosis a much important relation aft finishing 4th connected Houston successful usage past season.

The NCAA deadline for players to retreat from the NBA draught and support assemblage eligibility is Wednesday astatine 11:59 p.m. ET.

Jonathan Givony is an NBA draught adept and the laminitis and co-owner of DraftExpress.com, a backstage scouting and analytics work utilized by NBA, NCAA and International teams.