The new age of basketball recruiting
Posted Jul 8, 2005
The Tar Heels have to be delighted with the new NBA age limit because it's likely 6-4 shooting guard recruit Wayne Ellington would have been attracting NBA attention by the end of this season. "They were going to be sweating next June," says Scout.com recruiting analyst Dave Telep. "He would have been a guy who could have made that jump."
(Sporting News)
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