Durant Will Jump to Pros

Longhorns freshman heartthrob Kevin Durant has announced he will leave Texas for the NBA draft.  Durant averaged a frankly absurd 25.8 points and 11.1 rebounds over the course of an award-sweeping first-year campaign that ended one game short of the Sweet Sixteen. Texas benefitted from a new NBA rule that grants eligibility to players only  a year after graduating from high school.

Sportswriters nationwide have already begun sinking their pointy, self-important teeth into a genuinely interesting question:  Will the team with the No. 1 draft pick select Durant or Buckeyes center Greg Oden?  Oden, the season's other freshman phenom, has not yet declared he will enter the draft, but the sportswriters are optimistic. (More NBA stories.)