NBA draft deadline to declare is Friday night, here’s who still hasn’t decided?

Since Michigan basketball cut down the nets inside Lucas Oil Stadium on April 6, the top priority for men’s college basketball programs over the last two weeks has been finding solutions to holes in their roster from last season with the transfer portal.

Programs like Louisville, Indiana, Texas and Tennessee have proven to be big winners with their activity in the transfer portal, which has included additions of Flory Bidunga and Jackson Shelstad to the Cardinals and Isaiah Johnson and David Punch to the Longhorns.

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But with the transfer portal entry window officially closed, there’s another key entry deadline looming for college basketball players: to declare for the NBA draft, either by forgoing their college eligibility or retaining it by “testing the waters.”

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There have already been some players who enter the portal, committed to a new program and remain in the NBA draft process, like Bidunga and John Blackwell, who announced his transfer from Wisconsin to Duke on Tuesday. There have been players, like UConn’s Braylon Mullins, who were projected to go into the draft but elected to return to college next season instead. But other household names have yet to officially announce their plans for next season with the deadline looming not too far in the distance.

So, with April 24’s deadline looming, who has already declared for the 2026 NBA Draft, and more importantly, who hasn’t, as teams continue to fill out their rosters for the 2026-2027 college basketball season?

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Here’s a closer look at the NBA draft prospect pool and key deadlines and dates for the 2026 NBA Draft:

Who hasn’t declared for NBA draft yet?

Each of the top three projected picks for the 2026 NBA Draft — Duke’s Cameron Boozer, BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and Kansas’ Darryn Peterson — have yet to announce their decision to declare at the time of this writing. All three players are expected to declare for the NBA draft before Friday’s 11:59 p.m. ET deadline.

In USA TODAY Sports’ latest NBA mock draft, Dybantsa is projected to…

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