Alex Karaban Withdraws From NBA Draft, Will Return

STORRS – UConn men's basketball standout Alex Karaban (Southborough, Mass.) will withdraw from the 2024 NBA Draft and return to Connecticut for his third season of action in 2024-25. The rising redshirt junior is a two-year starter and back-to-back national champion.

Karaban has started 77 of the 78 games he has appeared in as a Husky, starting all but two contests over the last two championship season. He has averaged 11.3 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game in Storrs. As a redshirt-sophomore in 2023-24 he scored 13.3 points per game along with 5.1 rebounds and shot 49.5 percent from the floor.

A preseason watch list honoree for the 2024 Karl Malone Award, Karaban was a unanimous selection to the 2023 BIG EAST All-Freshman team and earned a spot on the league's weekly honor roll five times as a sophomore last season. He scored a career-high 26 points on a pair of occasions this season and scored 20 or more on eight occasions.

Karaban returns to a 2024-25 UConn roster that brings back six other members of the 2023-24 squad and a tremendous incoming class of three freshmen and two transfers.