Jahvon Quinerly returning to Alabama for another season

Alabama guard Jahvon Quinerly introduced Saturday night that he’ll stay in class to play subsequent season as a substitute of getting into the 2022 NBA draft.

Quinerly, who had till Sunday evening to declare for the draft, made the announcement in a quick Twitter submit.

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“I’ll preserve it quick and easy,” Quinerly wrote on Twitter. “I’m coming again. #RTR”

Quinerly tore his ACL lower than 4 minutes into Alabama’s first-round NCAA match loss final month, which coach Nate Oats later mentioned put a “massive kink” within the junior’s plans to enter the draft. The workforce had honored Quinerly on senior day weeks earlier with the expectation he wouldn’t return.

Quinerly entered final season as a projected second-round NBA draft choose however noticed his three-point taking pictures drop from 43.3 p.c in 2020-21 to twenty-eight.1 p.c. He averaged 13.8 factors per sport however struggled at instances with turnovers and defensive effort, with Oats notably benching Quinerly for the primary six-plus minutes of a February sport at Vanderbilt.

It’s not but identified when Quinerly will probably be out there to play for Alabama this upcoming basketball season, which begins in early November. Final 12 months, ahead James Rojas tore his ACL in June and returned by January, whereas guard Nimari Burnett tore his ACL in September and didn’t play.

Burnett and Quinerly, as soon as wholesome, will present a veteran presence subsequent season in a backcourt that may even embrace Ohio switch Mark Sears and three freshmen — Jaden Bradley, Brandon Miller and Rylan Griffen.

Quinerly, who will flip 24 in November, was a five-star prospect within the 2018 class and McDonald’s highschool all-American who initially dedicated to Arizona earlier than decommitting amid an FBI investigation into Wildcats assistant E-book Richardson. He performed one season at Villanova earlier than transferring in 2019 to Alabama, the place he needed to sit out his first season after unsuccessfully making use of for an NCAA waiver to pay instantly.

Quinerly’s choice to not enter the draft comes after three of his teammates within the Tide’s backcourt final season — JD Davison, Jaden Shackelford and Keon Ellis — all entered the June 23 draft.

Mike Rodak is an Alabama beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Comply with him on Twitter @mikerodak.