College basketball notebook: Cincinnati's Evans enters NBA draft

[April 02, 2018]  University of Cincinnati junior shooting guard Jacob Evans is entering his name in the 2018 NBA Draft, he announced Sunday on Twitter.

At 6-foot-6, Evans projects to be a versatile player at the NBA level. He told ESPN he has not signed with an agent yet but does not plan to return to school.

Evans started all 72 games the past two seasons for the Bearcats, averaging 13.5 points as a sophomore and 13.0 points as a junior. He also had career bests of 4.7 rebounds and 3.1 assists this season to go along with 1.3 steals and 1.0 blocks per game.

Evans, who turns 21 in June, is a career 38 percent shooter from 3-point range.

--Gonzaga's flirtations with the Mountain West are either on hold for now or about to have a bit of a surprise resolution.

Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson told reporters at the Final Four in San Antonio that Gonzaga "probably" isn't going to join the conference for the 2018-19 campaign.

Gonzaga is currently within a two-week window in which it is determining whether to remain in the West Coast Conference or jump to the Mountain West. The WCC has made scheduling concessions in its bid to retain its marquee program, which has made 20 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.

 

--Michigan coach John Beilein is focused on the present -- which is to say, preparing his team for Monday night's NCAA Tournament championship game against Villanova.

However, when a reporter asked Beilein about the program's past, the veteran coach indicated a willingness to mend fences in the future. He said he hoped and expected that Michigan will honor its "Fab Five" team before long. The school in 2002 vacated the team's accomplishments because of alleged payments from a booster to ex-players.

"We love the Fab Five, and we continue to reach out to the Fab Five and that team," Beilein told reporters in San Antonio. "It wasn't just five guys on that team, now. That was a team of champions as well. ... When you have the NCAA violations in there, that's a time that it takes some time to heal. But I'm looking forward to the times when we get everybody in that group together."

--Field Level Media

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