The Big East Conference, which counts Georgetown among its member institutions, has sent a recommendation to the NCAA that it eliminate the NBA’s “one-and-done” rule of requiring players to be one year removed from high school before being eligible for the NBA Draft.
The proposed solution would ask players to commit to two years if they choose to play in college but would create an “elite player unit” for a handful of high schoolers to go straight to the pros every year, effectively a “two-or-none” policy.
In a two-or-none system, players who go straight to the NBA would give up their college eligibility.
The Pac-12 Conference made a similar suggestion last week for the NCAA’s commission on college basketball, the group headed by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice investigating corruption in the sport.
Rice’s commission is expected to give its reform recommendations to the NCAA board of directors in April.
The Big East and the Pac-12 both ask for the NCAA and USA Basketball to play a bigger role in AAU basketball, which is sometimes viewed as the breeding ground for much of the corruption involving apparel companies and even college recruiters.
• Adam Zielonka can be reached at azielonka@washingtontimes.com.
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