The Athletic

The Final Four is here, which means NBA executives have gotten a chance to evaluate nearly all of the games of the college basketball season. We’re moving quickly into the pre-draft process, as players are declaring for the draft as you read this story. Boom! In the time you read that sentence, another player probably just announced their intentions to turn pro and are 100 percent committed to the process, but remain open to returning to college. Given that we’re coming up to the end of the college basketball season, it’s time to update the mock draft as we head into college basketball Armageddon this weekend with Duke-North Carolina in New Orleans. Within, you’ll find a good amount of intel, movement and updates from the previous iteration of the mock, which had Chet Holmgren at No. 1 and didn’t include players such as Ohio State’s Malaki Branham, who really has broken out over the last month.