Men's college hoops offseason winners and losers: Florida retains as Kansas, Kentucky face uncertainty

Florida star Thomas Haugh was a projected lottery pick for the 2026 NBA Draft, so the assumption was that Haugh’s college days were over. Assumptions can no longer be made.The presence of name, image and likeness and the free-transfer era have created rampant roster turnover throughout the sport — a setting where Kansas could be returning just one player from its roster — but NIL has also impacted retention in a slightly unexpected way: Players who were locks to enter the NBA Draft in the past are no longer locks. Now both Haugh and UConn’s Braylon Mullins have chosen to wait on their NBA futures to get paid handsomely to play another season of college basketball.Advertisement