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Crepe Myrtles inhabit the landscaping on the Evansdale campus.
Spring finally in bloom at WVU Roads and Grounds planted flowers all over campus to bring a smile to students’ faces BY JORDYN JOHNSON CULTURE EDITOR
If you haven’t noticed, WVU Roads and Grounds services planted beautiful spring flowers all over campus. Roads and Grounds services deal with snow plowing in the winter, setting up events, cleaning up litter and more. “Our goal is to make the campus a safe and aesthetically pleasing environment for all students, staff and visitors,” said Ed Mason, Assistant Director of Roads and Grounds at WVU. “Our highly visible annual flower program receives much positive feedback and is one service which allows us to showcase our skills.” Tulips, crocuses and daffodils typically kick off the spring flower season here in West Virginia. Roads and grounds services plants the bulbs for the tulips in the
“We hope they make your day a bit brighter.”
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- Ed Mason, Assistant Director of Roads and Grounds at WVU fall so they will bloom in the spring. “They are not reliably hardy from year to year, so we treat them as annuals,” Mason said. “Prior to spring commencement, we remove the tulips and install summer annual flowers throughout campus.” Roads and Grounds services works with the WVU Evansdale Greenhouse as well as WVU students. Roads and Grounds orders the flowers each fall and are planted and cared for by graduate horticulture students. Dr. Sven Verlinden and Silas Childs, Greenhouse Director, works with students to help grow the flowers.
“This collaboration makes our flower displays truly West Virginia University grown and nurtured,” Mason said. “We can obtain flowers at reasonable pricing that are gown in the Greenhouse specifically to suit our WV climate and installation timing needs. We highly appreciate this unique effort.” During the fall semester, mums are planted in August so they will be in peak season when students return to campus. Mums are great flowers to keep on WVU grounds because they are colorful and easy to care for. Sometimes Roads and Grounds services will plant kale, flowering cabbage and pansies along with
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Tulips bloom on campus after being planted in the fall. the mums to compliment them, and there is a chance they will bloom again in the spring. Even during the holiday season in the winter, Roads and Grounds decorates campus with evergreen garland, wreaths and other holiday arrangements accented with red, blue or gold bows. “We try to vary our flower designs from year to year and
use our blue and gold color themes if at all possible,” Mason said. “Much effort goes into planting, fertilizing, watering and maintaining our campus displays, and we take great pride in the positive comments and recognition we receive.” “We hope they make your day a bit brighter,” Mason said.
West Virginia begins spring soccer schedule The 2018 roster will continue the spring season on April 13 against Pitt.
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NEWS
Bob Roberts named national chief of the year 2018 Awards
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University Police Chief Bob Roberts was named national chief of the year by the National Association of Campus Safety Administrators. The National Association of Campus Safety Administrators is an organization dedicated to security on college campuses across the country. “It’s always a great honor to receive recognition from your profession,” Roberts said. “It’s been an honor to lead and mentor the staff of the UPD and to see many of them advance.” A nomination process was completed in order to earn the award. Roberts was one of several officers and safety supervisors from university campuses around the country to earn an award. “Student and campus safety must always be front and center,” he said. “I have been blessed to work around many outstanding people who are true professionals.” Roberts has served as chief of the University Police for 28 years. He attributes his success to his years of experience and his leadership style of community engagement. “This award is the acknowledgement of a career spent serving others and is the icing on the cake. The cake is and always has been our campus and her students,” he said. Roberts thanked National Association of Campus Safety Administrators for this honor and for the services they do for campus safety. “This is a well-deserved honor,” said President Gordon Gee in a press release on WVU Today. “Under his lead-
NACSA 2018 Chief of the year •Award winner: Bob Roberts •Organization: University Police Department (West Virginia University) NACSA 2018 Chief of the year •Award winner: Rick Morris •Organization: North Greenville University NACSA 2018 Officer of the year •Award winner: Doug Stone •Organization: Campus Safety (Trine University) NACSA 2018 Officer of the year •Award winner: Charles Kessler •Organization: Department of Public Safety (Coastal Carolina University) NACSA 2018 Supervisor of the year •Award winner: Amanda Peterson •Organization: Lynn University PHOTO VIA WVU TODAY
University Police Chief Bob Roberts ership, West Virginia University has become recognized as one of the safest college campuses in the country. He is a student-centered leader — and that makes him and our department extremely effective.” Roberts gave two presen-
tations during panel discussions on emergency notification and emergency planning during the NACSA conference when he was nominated in 2008 for the Campus Safety Director Award. The annual awards will be presented at the 2018 Na-
tional Association of Campus Safety Administrators Annual Conference in conjunction with the 13th annual National School Safety Conference and Exposition held from July 23-27 in Orlando, Fla.
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CULTURE
Two Debate Team members qualify for nationals “The debate team helps me prepare for my future by giving me the confidence to believe in what I say.”
BY JORDYN JOHNSON CULTURE EDITOR
For the first time since 1986, the WVU Debate Team had two students qualify to compete in the National Debate Tournament. Seventy-eight teams from the country qualified to compete in the tournament that was held at Wichita State University March 23-26. Those who qualified were: Brooke Modestita, a freshman and Boston native studying women’s and gender studies with a minor in Africana studies, Ellen Baker, a sophomore from Kansas City studying fisheries and wildlife resources. Both women had experience debating in either high school, like Modestita did, or middle school like Baker. “The debate team is helping me reach my future goals in many different ways,” Modestita said. “One important way is the research skills that have made writing essays and research projects so much easier. It has also allowed me to network and meet many influential people from many different backgrounds that support me 100 percent of the way.” The debate team prepares
- Ellen Baker, sophomore fisheries and wildlife student
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The WVU Debate Team competes from September to April and travels to different states such as North Carolina and New York for competitions for the competition all year, and their season lasts from
September to April. The team travels to various tourna-
ments from North Carolina to New York in order to com-
pete against the best debate teams in the country. “We travel about every other weekend from September to March,” said Samantha Godbey, Director of the WVU Debate Team. “This year we are debating if the United States federal government should establish a national health insurance.” The team meets twice a week to practice and make sure they are up to date on current events and the other teams they will compete against. “Training and practice on the debate team is different than other teams and clubs,” Modestita said. “We read various articles and construct the arguments we want to make at the upcoming tournament and then refine and improve our arguments as needed.” Five of the students on the team are in the Everly College of Arts and Sciences, one from the Davis College of Ag-
riculture and one from Natural Resources and Design. “My main goal in the position is to help the students achieve their goals,” Godbey said. “Anytime my students succeed, I am filled with pride.” At the National Debate Tournament, the teams will discuss national health insurance and will be able to advocate for or against the topic. With eight preliminary rounds per tournament lasting two hours each, the team that wins the tournament will have to work extremely hard to win. “The debate team helps me prepare for my future by giving me the confidence to believe in what I say,” Baker said. “Debating has helped me realize my own potential as an activist and has helped me refine my skills in strategizing, organizing and networking to achieve my goals.”
Unpredictable weather stifles students’ plans BY JULIA HILLMAN
ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR As students returned from their tropical spring break vacations, they were not welcomed by the warm spring weather that they were hoping for in Morgantown. Spring is supposed to be full of colorful flowers and chirping birds, not below-freezing temperatures and snow. In the month of April alone, there have been threats of the Morgantown area seeing up to eight inches of snow. The weather seems to be giving Morgantown residents a sense of false hope later this week with highs reaching 70 degrees, but that will quickly change early the following week with temperatures predicted to be in the mid 40’s. With summer break quickly approaching, students are beginning to fret that their early vacations may be filled with icy winds
and frostbite. Even Twitter has been blowing up about the horrible weather Morgantown has been experiencing. WVU students feel like they are living in Chicago, not Morgantown. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the eastern region of the United States could see below normal temperatures all the way until mid-june. The 2018 never-ending-winter has already hindered so much for the area. Lacrosse players have been wearing long pants when they practice, there’s really no green anywhere and students have been wearing parkas to class much later in the semester than they should have needed to. The 2018 Blue and Gold spring football game was cancelled this past weekend, and the WVU baseball team can’t seem to get a game in because of the climate. This prolonged winter has also made those with spring allergies anxious for what to
come. If the pollen doesn’t start soon, then they could be affected all the way through June. The only way to stop this awful natural event? Residents can make sure that they wear their pajamas the correct way to show Mother Nature that they indeed do not want anymore snow. So, we’re begging you Morgantown… give us spring!
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OPINION
Trump addresses 50th anniversary of MLK assassination BY KAMERON DUNCAN OPINION EDITOR
April 4th marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. King is widely regarded as one of the most integral and important figures of the civil rights movement, and therefore, the anniversary of his death is rightfully a prime opportunity for reflection and introspective thought. One individual who took an opportunity to engage in said reflection was President Donald Trump, who tweeted a video in which he gives a statement on King and his message. The video includes footage of King, interspersed with footage of Trump. In the video, Trump says that “the promise that he (King) fought for could never be taken away.” In a cruel bit of irony, much of President Trump’s time in office to this point has been spent doing exactly that. King stood for many things, but perhaps above all else he stood for the basic tenets of racial equality. The premise that no man or woman is better than or superior to another simply because of the color of his or her skin. Some of the President’s comments as well as some of his voting decisions seem to indicate that he holds a different opinion on that issue. From calling countries with high minority populations “shitholes” to insinuating that Nigerians should “go back to [living in] their
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Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the march on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. huts,” all the way to the very controversial attempts of his cabinet to remove the provisions of DACA, it’s clear to see that the Trump presidency has had a checkered history when it comes to the matter of racial harmony. As Trump himself says in this very video, King worked tirelessly toward a future in which “every American from every walk of life can
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live free from fear, liberated from hatred, and uplifted by boundless love from their fellow citizens.” Statistics show that we have yet to reach that future as a country. In fact, they show a country perhaps more divided than ever before. According to the Washington Post, the FBI reported that hate crimes in America increased in the first year following President Trump’s election. The FBI’s findings saw that 5 percent more hate crimes occurred within this period than the year prior. Of the more than 6,000 individual hate crimes, nearly 60 percent of victims were targeted “because of bias against the victim’s race or ethnicity.” It’s ultimately impossible to determine whether or not the divisive and targeted rhetoric that the President provided during his campaign and in events prior to it led to this spike in these sorts of incidents, but the data seems to suggest that there is a link. It’s difficult to see where Trump and King would have had much, if any, common ground. Based on what we know of King and his values and beliefs, it’s difficult to see him approving of a man who led a years-long crusade to prove that America’s first Af-
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. rican-American president was an illegal citizen. It’s also difficult to see King relating to a man who, after a 1973 investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, settled out of court when accused of violating the Fair Housing Act by disproportionately leasing rental properties to white tenants as opposed to minority renters.
King would have likely opposed Trump’s vehement attempt in 1989 to have five men (four black, one Hispanic) be sentenced to death for a crime they were later fully exonerated of. Trump took out full-page newspaper ads to incriminate these men, known as the “Central Park Five.” For President Trump, a
man with such a contentious and controversial history with matters of race, to speak as if he walks in the same shoes and fights the same battles as a man like Dr. Martin Luther King is irresponsible, incomprehensible, and ultimately flat out insulting to the legacy of King and others involved in the Civil Rights movement.
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Please Join the Monongalia County Victim Assistance Program as we raise awareness for Victim Rights Week. We will be having a Mock Trial on: Thursday, April 12th, 2018 Doors Open at 6 PM Mock Trial Begins at 7 pm At the Monongalia County Justice Center (75 High Street) We will be conducting a brief section of a trial to demonstrate the rights of victims throughout the trial process. Our objective is to give a glimpse of how the court system works and the impact on victims. This event is open to the public,so please join us in bringing awareness to victim’s rights. “Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.” -Helmut Schmidt
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Outdoor
BY CHLOE COURTADE OUTDOORS COLUMNIST
Earth Day Tasting Tour: save the world one sip at a time
Calling all environmentalists, beer aficionados and weekend warriors: The West Virginia Land Trust’s first annual Earth Day Tasting Tour is coming through Morgantown on Saturday, April 21. Whether you are passionate about protecting clean water, local brews or simply looking for something to do, this event is sure to excite and educate. The event is run by the West Virginia Land Trust in partnership with local distributor Mountain State Beverage. Funds from the event will go to the West Virginia Land Trust, a nonprofit group that protects our natural lands and rivers. The focus will be on conservation, local establishments and how the two are connected. The event will include locations such as Rocka Poke, Apothecary Ale House, Black Bear, Iron Horse Tavern and Starport. Raising awareness and inspiring action is needed to
keep our water pristine, especially in an area with a booming brewery industry like the state of West Virginia and Morgantown. “One of our key priorities is water quality,” said Jessica Spatafore, the director of development and communications for the West Virginia Land Trust. “Pretty much the only way you can protect our water is by protecting the land that borders it.” “So we have this focus on water and about two years ago we launched this ‘clean water makes great beer’ campaign. Because beer is 98 percent water, you need clean water to make great beer,” Spatafore said. We all know clean water is necessary to life, but are we aware of how it affects other facets of our everyday lives? “We just want to get everybody involved and doing something fun for Earth Day.” Spatafore said. “I hope we raise awareness. I hope people will
make that connection that clean water is important for great beer and that clean water is important for life in general. It’s funny because almost every time we have an event that is beer related, people say ‘oh this is brewed with river water.’ They don’t make that connection that yes when you turn on your tap, that’s river water.” You can register for this event on the day of for $35 a person, or in advance for $25 a person. If you would like to register in advance, visit cleanwatermakesgreatbeer.com. Day of Registration will begin at noon at Rocka Poke. The event will span from 12 p.m. until around 6 p.m. and will conclude with pizza at Starport. On Earth Day weekend, have some fun while making a difference by registering for the West Virginia Land Trust’s first annual Earth Day Tasting Tour. Attend the tasting tour so you can save the world one sip at a time.
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The Earth Day Pub Crawl will take place on Saturday, April 21.
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Finfrock motivated to finish WVU career strong BY JAMES WHITLEY SPORTS WRITER
Sara Finfrock achieved her career-best mark for pole vaulting in the indoor season this year with 13 feet and 3.5 inches at the Marshall Invitational on Feb. 9, but she finished second in the event. She is used to pushing herself as she posted her career-best in the outdoor season back at the Big 12 championship in 2016 with 12 feet and 10 inches. With five matches left before the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, Finfrock feels motivated to break her career-best as she finishes her last year in Morgantown. Finfrock played a variety of sports when she was younger. She got into track and field in middle school because her older sister was a runner. “I kind of followed my sister’s footsteps,” Finfrock said. She ended up pole vaulting once she got into high school. Finfrock placed first at the Downingtown West Spring Invitational, vaulting a mark of 10 feet. She also vaulted a thencareer-best mark of 10 feet and 12 inches at the 2014 PIAA District 1 AAA Outdoor Championship in high school. Finfrock followed her dad’s footsteps as she decided to come to West Virginia University. “My dad was a wrestler here at West Virginia,” Finfrock said.”I really wanted to sort of follow him and pursue my dreams of being a West Virginia athlete as well.” Once arriving in Morgantown, Finfrock describes how
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Sara Finfrock lunges over the bar at a meet in Akron, Ohio.
her first season here she had to adjust to things in order to thrive. “It’s definitely a huge transition going from high school to college, so that was a lot of adjustment for me,” Finfrock says. “But once I sort of got the hang of things and adjusting to my new strengths and physique. I mostly improve towards the
outdoor season, more towards the end of the year.” She says the biggest difference between high school track and college is time management. “When you’re in high school, you just have a lot of people telling you ‘This is where you have to be and when,’ ” Finfrock said. “When you come to college, it’s
all on your own. So you got to be able to know to take control of that and take it to where you need to be.” This year, Finfrock set her career-best mark in the indoor season at the Marshall Invitational where she got 13 feet and 3.5 inches. She describes that moment as “a long time coming.”
“That was a really, really great moment,” Finfrock said. “I was so excited for days after. I had been trying to break that personal best for two years now . . . I knew I could do it this year to finally achieve that goal was really exciting. I knew I worked hard for it.” However, Finfrock is always motivated to break it again.
“I’m always, always, always wanting to get the next height,” Finfrock said. “That’s the number one thing about pole vaulters is no matter what we always want to get that next bar.” Finfrock calls that achievement her biggest accomplishment yet. “I learned a lot at West Virginia and especially on the track team,” Finfrock said. “I think just improving my commitment, my attendance, my skills. I would say all of it comes into play. I think a lot just being on the team in general.” Her goals for the rest of the outdoor season are to set the bar again and to qualify for regionals. The biggest challenge for Finfrock while at WVU was keeping up with school work. “When we’re on the road, a really good challenge, is trying to keep up with the school work,” Finfrock said. “You get very overwhelmed at times, I think that is the biggest challenge is just making sure you’re not too overwhelmed.” Looking back at all of it, Finfrock says her time here in Morgantown has been “absolutely amazing.” “I have learned the most in these past four years than in my entire life,” Finfrock said. “The best part being I love the girls on the track team, definitely the best part of my experience has been track and field and being able to travel to places and doing what I love to do. Track is something I’m very passionate about.” After WVU, Finfrock will work at the Hershey Company as a sales representative. She hopes to continue pole vaulting in the future.
West Virginia begins spring soccer schedule BY JULIA MELLETT SPORTS WRITER
Following a loss to Sky Blue FC and a Duquesne postponement, the WVU women’s soccer team’s spring slate is underway. The women’s soccer team finished last season 16-4-3 with a trip to the third round of the NCAA Tournament. Since then, big things have happened to head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown’s team. Senior defender Vanessa Flores was named to the Mexican Women’s National Team for a pair of friendlies against the United States on April 5 and 8 in Houston, Texas. Sophomore midfielder Lois Joel visited Portugal in January for a nine-day training camp with the En-
glish Women’s U19 National Team, in preparation for the 2018 European Championship qualifiers. Junior goalkeeper Rylee Foster competed for Canada Soccer at the CONCACAF U20 Women’s Championship, held in Trinidad and Tobago from January 18-28. Last season, Foster lead the Big 12 in clean sheets, with 12, and at no. 1 in the Big 12 with a .64 goals-against average. Although the players are contributing on the field, defender Bianca St. Georges gathered a plethora of awards from her work in the classroom as well. She was named to the United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-America Second Team, holding greater than a 3.3 cumulative GPA while starting at least half of the Mountaineers’ matches.
Additionally, St. Georges has also been named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team twice, the 2015 Academic All-Big 12 Newcomer Team, the WVU President’s List, the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll, and the Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll. In terms of roster movement, Izzo-Brown is returning 18 and adding nine: two transfers and seven freshmen. Graduate transfer and forward/midfielder Nadya Gill came from Quinnipiac and is available for one more year of eligibility. Defender Kayla Morrison came to Morgantown by way of a year at Virginia. She has three years of eligibility left after redshirting her freshman year with the Cavaliers. Although the other seven
are freshmen, they come to West Virginia with plenty of experience. All but two have represented their countries on national teams. Countries represented were the United States (Addison Clark, Lizzie Mayfield, and Jordan Brewster), El Salvador (Mara Rodriguez) and Puerto Rico (Nahla Turner). The remaining two, Mackenzie Aunkst and Alina Stahl, have been rostered with Pennsylvania’s Beadling Soccer Club for multiple years. The 2018 roster will continue the spring season on April 13 against Pitt at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium at 7 p.m. Games against Virginia, in Charlottesville at noon on April 15, and Tennessee in Morgantown on April 21, will conclude the spring season.
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West Virginia defender Vanessa Flores dribbles through the mid field as she looks to make a pass.
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Ahmad, Konate make smart decisions Esa Ahmad and Sagaba Konate both did what they should have done by declaring for the NBA Draft. Ahmad, a rising senior forward for WVU, did so Thursday. Konate, a rising junior forward, did so two days before on Tuesday. Both announcements came during a period when many of college basketball’s top players announced their professional intentions. But, unlike some, Ahmad and Konate did so without agents, meaning they can retain their NCAA eligibility next season. Unless they decide to hire agents, that is. At that point, their eligibility is washed. This is a great rule by the NCAA. It allows college athletes to put their name in the ring without exhausting their playing days at the college level. It allows them a chance to hear from NBA scouts. It allows them to gather feedback from professional organizations. And that’s exactly what Ahmad and Konate are doing. The forward duo is able to heed NBA teams’ messages. They are able to see what aspects of their game are positives. They are also able to see what they need to work on in order to achieve their NBA/professional basketball dreams. Neither are NBA Draft prospects right now. That is nothing against their games, but neither is rated on any Draft boards for the 2018 NBA Draft in June at the Barclays Center in New York City. Ahmad has perhaps the most talent on the roster. He came to Morgantown as the No. 46 overall recruit in the class of 2015’s ESPN 100. No other player on the roster for the 2018-19 season was rated that high out of high school. The same goes for last year’s 2017-18 roster. He had a number of big-time offers, highlighted by the likes of Indiana, Ohio State, Xavier and Wis-
consin, among others. The talent is certainly there, and at times, Ahmad has certainly showcased that. He has averaged 10-plus points in two straight seasons, and his 5.5 rebounds as a junior were the second-most on the team, only behind Konate. Consistency was an issue for Ahmad, and if he can show his potential and high talent level every game, then there is no reason for him to not get more looks from NBA organizations. He did score in double figures in 13 of the 21 games he appeared in last season, but he also scored five points or less three times and was held scoreless three times. In the final two Big 12 Tournament games, he took a combined eight shots and scored a combined five points, failing to score any in the Championship loss to Kansas. WVU head coach Bob Huggins has constantly raved about Ahmad’s rebounding, and if he can find more consistency offensively as a senior (assuming he returns), then there is no reason Ahmad will not hear his name called. Konate, though, is the most intriguing prospect at WVU and maybe even the entire Big 12 among players that are likely to come back next year. He has only played organized basketball for four years. He grew up playing soccer. There is unlimited potential for Konate. He has only played basketball since 2014, but there are many times when it looks like he has played his entire life. He posted 10.8 points and a team-high 7.6 rebounds per game as a sophomore, yet those numbers do not tell the tale of his repertoire. He blocked 116 shots last season, which ranked second in the country. Through two seasons at WVU, he is at a total of 169, which is the third most in program history. That puts him nine away from Phil Wilson (178) at No. 2 and D’or Fischer (190) at No. 1.
That is remarkable for someone who has played basketball for just four years. If he continues to make strides with his game, like he did from his freshman to sophomore years as he increased his scoring total by 6.7 points, his rebounding total by 4.8 rebounds and his blocking by 1.8 blocks per game, then it is hard to imagine just what he can do in another year at the college level. Potential is a huge thing for Konate. Scouts will love that. NBA organizations will love that. NBA teams often draft players based — not only on their talent — because of their potential. Konate has a lot of both. Another year or two at the college level could make him a definite NBA Draft selection when he heads to the professional landscape. Just look at how this rule benefited (now former) WVU star Jevon Carter. He was already a star as a junior, posting 13.5 points, 3.7 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game that year and earned NABC Defensive Player of the Year honors, but he wanted to see what else he could work on. Like Ahmad and Konate, he submitted the NBA Draft paperwork. He declared, but did so without an agent. That allowed him to hear from NBA scouts without exhausting his final year of eligibility. And it certainly appears that helped Carter. He was a great player going into the 201718 season, but his effort — 17.3 points, 4.6 rebounds, 6.6 assists and 3.0 steals per game, going alongside All-American and Defensive Player of the Year honors — have made him a projected second round pick. Ahmad and Konate have until 5 p.m. ET on June 11 to withdraw their names, and if they do that as they are expected to, then they might find themselves in similar situations as Carter.
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