HOUSTON — UConn coach Jim Calhoun has said Kemba Walker’s draft status is high enough that he should probably consider leaving school for the NBA.
Walker hasn’t thought much about what he’s going to do but certainly didn’t rule out a return despite prognostications that he’s already got a foot out the door.
“Everybody’s got the perception I’m leaving,” Walker said. “Everybody says, ‘oh, yeah, he’s leaving, he had his senior night already and is graduating early.’ That’s not the case. I just want to get it over. If I was able to come back, I’d probably have just one class, but I don’t see why people make those perceptions. I just want to win the national championship at this point.”
So with the potential of being a lottery pick in the NBA draft, why would Walker come back to Storrs?
“If we win the national championship, I’m thinking back to back,” he said. “We’ll have a great team; we’ll have the same team, actually. Coming back would be fun. These guys are my brothers.”
TOURNEY NOTES: Butler coach Brad Stevens feels for the non-BCS football schools who never get a chance to play for the national championship no matter how good their records are. He said he’s a fan of Boise State and TCU. “I’m one of the guys screaming at the TV when TCU doesn’t get a spot to play for the national championship,” he said. He was excited when someone told him Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore attended a Butler game in Salt Lake City last season wearing a Bulldogs’ T-shirt. “That’s pretty cool,” Stevens said. “Our guys rallied around that. Every time Boise would play, they’d be talking about that the next morning. I think that’s a pretty neat deal. Certainly we understand what they’re going through in a lot of ways.”
Walker may consider NBA
