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 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Brandon Rush, who led Kansas in scoring last year, has withdrawn from the NBA draft and will play his junior season at the school. A two-time all-conference selection, the 6-foot-6 Rush averaged a team-high 13.8 points for the Big 12 champions.
Sophomore Julian Wright, another starter, has committed to the draft. But with Rush returning, Kansas will have all but one of the 14 players who went 33-5 and captured the Jayhawks' third straight conference title.
"Brandon and I met earlier today and he told me that he was withdrawing his name from the 2007 NBA draft," coach Bill Self said Friday in a statement. "Brandon has handled the process exactly the way the system was designed and has followed through with everything he said he would do. I know in his mind he wanted to do this from a personal standpoint to investigate, but he never lost sight of the fact that he was going to make a smart decision that was based on his well-being for a career and not just the immediate future."
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