🏀 Kansas Duo Selected in the 2022 NBA Draft

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Kansas guards Ochai Agbaji and Christian Braun have been among the many 58 gamers chosen within the 2022 NBA Draft at Barclays Heart in Brooklyn Thursday evening. Agbaji was the general No. 14 selection of the Cleveland Cavaliers, whereas Braun was taken by the Denver Nuggets and was the No. 21 choice.

“It’s life altering,” KU head coach Invoice Self mentioned of Agbaji and Braun. “Despite the fact that you knew it was going to occur, in a span of seconds lives have modified for a very long time and perhaps endlessly. What they each deliver is a profitable tradition as a lot as something. They’re winners they usually’ll add to any profitable cultures which are already in place on these groups. They’ll make these groups higher.”

Traditionally, Agbaji is the 18^th KU lottery choice and the 12 within the Invoice Self period. The NBA lottery started in 1985 and acknowledges the highest 14 gamers chosen within the NBA Draft. Agbaji and Braun provides Kansas 85 all-time NBA Draft choices, together with 27 within the Self period which started in 2003-04. For the reason that NBA adopted a two-round draft in 1989, Kansas has had 26 first-round choices and 40 whole chosen.

The Remaining 4 and Massive 12 Match Most Excellent Participant, Agbaji was a 2022 Consensus All-America First Workforce honoree, accumulating All-America first-team nods from the NABC, Related Press, The Sporting Information and USBWA. The Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, native is Kansas’ thirty first all-time Consensus All-America First Workforce choice, which is greater than another faculty. He’s the primary Jayhawk to earn the first-team honor since Devonte’ Graham in 2018. Agbaji was named the unanimous 2022 Massive 12 Participant of the Yr after main the convention in scoring with a mean of 18.8 factors per recreation. A four-year starter for KU, Agbaji etched his title into the Kansas data guide. He set the report for consecutive video games of three-point subject objectives made at 53. Agbaji concludes his KU profession ranked fifteenth on the KU profession scoring listing with 1,652 factors, fourth on the three-point subject objectives made (250), fourth on three-point subject objectives tried (670) and ninth in minutes performed (3,978).

Braun averaged 14.3 factors per recreation which was sixth within the Massive 12. The Burlington, Kansas, native was named to the NCAA Match Midwest Area All-Match Workforce and the Massive 12 Championship All-Match Workforce along with be chosen All-Massive 12 Second Workforce in 2021-22. This season, Braun posted 5 double-doubles and he was additionally named to the ESPN Occasions Invitational All-Match in November. Within the 2022 NCAA Match, Braun grew to become the sixty fifth participant in Kansas historical past, twentieth beneath Invoice Self, to attain 1,000 factors for his profession. He at the moment ranks 63rd with 1,018 factors. Braun is a two-time Educational All-Massive 12 First Workforce honoree who was nominated for CoSIDA Educational All-America in 2021 and 2022. He was a member of the 2020 Massive 12 All-Freshman Workforce and has twice gained Massive 12 Participant of the Week throughout his profession.

KANSAS NBA DRAFT HISTORY

Yr – title (spherical/general choice)

1948 – Otto Schnellbacher (Windfall area)

1952 – Clyde Lovellette (1/10)

1953 – Dean Kelley (8/56), Gil Reich (11/32)

1954 – B.H. Born (3/22), Alan Kelley (7/56)

1957 – Maurice King (6/48)

1958 – Wilt Chamberlain (Territorial choice)

1959 – Ron Loneski (10/134)

1961 – Wayne Hightower (1/5), Invoice Bridges (3/32)

1963 – Nolen Ellison (4/29)

1966 – Walt Wesley (1/6), Al Lopes (13/106)

1967 – Ron Franz (4/33)

1968 – Roger Bohnenstiel (9/120)

1969 – Jo Jo White (1/9), Dave Nash (4/48), Bruce Sloan (11/153)

1971 – Dave Robisch (3/44), Roger Brown (4/64), Pierre Russell (13/207)

1972 – Bud Stallworth (1/7)

1975 – Rick Suttle (7/110), Roger Morningstar (8/144)

1976 – Norm Cook dinner (1/16)

1977 – Herb Nobles (6/124)

1978 – Ken Koenigs (5/99), John Douglas (6/118)

1979 – Paul Mokeski (2/42),

1981 – Darnell Valentine (1/16), Artwork Housey (3/47), John Crawford (7/160), Randolph Carroll (10/220)

1982 – Tony Man (2/46), David Magley (2/28)

1984 – Carl Henry (4/80), Brian Martin (9/185)

1986 – Greg Drieling (2/26), Ron Kellogg (2/42), Calvin Thompson (4/71)

1988 – Danny Manning (1/1), Archie Marshall (3/75)

1990 – Kevin Pritchard (2/34)

1991 – Mark Randall (1/26)

1993 – Rex Walters (1/16), Adonis Jordan (2/42)

1994 – Darrin Hancock (2/38)

1995 – Greg Ostertag (1/28)

1997 – Scot Pollard (1/19), Jacque Vaughn (1/27)

1998 – Raef LaFrentz (1/3), Paul Pierce (1/10)

1999 – Ryan Robertson (2/45)

2001 – Eric Chenowith (2/42)

2002 – Drew Gooden (1/4)

2003 – Kirk Hinrich (1/7), Nick Collison (1/12)

2005 – Wayne Simien (1/29)

2007 – Julian Wright (1/13)

2008 – Brandon Rush (1/13), Darrell Arthur (1/27), Mario Chalmers (2/34), Darnell Jackson (2/52), Sasha Kaun (2/56)

2010 – Xavier Henry (1/12), Cole Aldrich (1/11)

2011 – Marcus Morris (1/13), Markieff Morris (1/14), Josh Selby (2/49)

2012 – Thomas Robinson (1/5), Tyshawn Taylor (2/41)

2013 – Ben McLemore (1/7), Jeff Withey (2/39)

2014 – Andrew Wiggins (1/1), Joel Embiid (1/3)

2015 – Kelly Oubre Jr. (1/15)

2016 – Cheick Diallo (2/33)

2017 – Josh Jackson (1/4), Frank Mason III (2/34)

2018 – Devonte’ Graham (2/34), Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk (2/47)

2020 – Udoka Azubuike (1/27)

2022 – Ochai Agbaji (1/14), Christian Braun (1/21)