Darius Days returning to LSU for senior season

BATON ROUGE, La. — Forward Darius Days is returning to LSU for his senior season soon after at first exploring his prospect to change professional.

Days, who announced his choice all through an on the web chat demonstrate visual appeal in Baton Rouge, had earlier declared his intention to enter this summer’s NBA draft soon after past season. On the other hand, he did not seek the services of an agent or in any other case relinquish his college eligibility.

Days begun 28 of LSU’s 29 video games past season, aiding the Tigers progress to the SEC Event remaining for the 1st time considering that 1993 and win a 1st-spherical NCAA event recreation. He averaged eleven.6 points and a staff-superior seven.eight rebounds a recreation. He created fifty one.9 p.c of his field purpose attempts and shot 40 p.c from three-level range.

His eight double-doubles as a junior tied for the SEC lead past season and gave him sixteen for his profession.

“I really like Louisiana. I really like the persons. It’s likely to be a enjoyable experience,” Days reported on the Jordy Culotta Clearly show, including that he looks ahead to his “last ride” with mentor Will Wade.

“I’m the past one particular left with all the fellas I came in with and we’re searching for a title. We’re attempting to win a title this calendar year,” Days reported. “I listened to about some of the video games in practice above the summertime so I’m pretty enthusiastic about the new fellas and some of the returning fellas. I’m enthusiastic about this season.”

Immediately after past season, numerous top rated gamers, like guards Cameron Thomas and Javonte Good, along with ahead Trendon Watford, announced they would seek the services of agents and enter the NBA draft.

Days took a lot more of an exploratory approach by keeping his eligibility and now returns to a staff welcoming numerous very rated recruits like center Jerrell Colbert of Germantown, Tenn., guard Brandon Murray of Baltimore and ahead Alex Fudge of Jacksonville, Florida.

Wade has also bolstered the roster with three transfers: ahead Tari Eason from Cincinnati, guard Adam Miller from Illinois and guard Xavier Pinson from Missouri.

Days, who has performed in ninety four profession video games with sixty one begins, is on rate to get to a lot more than one,000 profession points, with 852 so far to go with 571 profession rebounds. He also has 117 profession three-tips.

He’s scored as numerous as 24 points in a recreation towards Southern Illinois-Edwardsville past Nov. 26, grabbed as numerous as sixteen rebounds in a recreation on Jan. eight towards Arkansas and his as numerous as 5 three-tips towards Vanderbilt on March 9, 2019.

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