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BYU basketball guard Egor Demin could have a big gathering of NBA scouts in attendance for Tuesday’s sport in opposition to Baylor. (Brice Tucker, Deseret Information)
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PROVO, Utah – The Marriott Heart might be a hub for NBA scouts on Tuesday night time when BYU hosts Baylor.
That’s as a result of two of the top NBA draft prospects for the 2025 draft might be battling in opposition to each other. A pair of heralded freshmen in BYU level guard Egor Demin and Baylor guard VJ Edgecombe.
Round 30 NBA scouts from 15 groups within the Affiliation are anticipated to go to Provo to look at the Massive 12 conflict. The Utah Jazz and Brooklyn Nets could have a couple of particular person represented, a supply tells KSL Sports activities.
Edgecombe has been projected as a High-5 decide subsequent June, whereas Demin, in recent aggregate mock drafts, can be knocking on the door of the top-five vary.
Demin comes into the matchup after two extremely productive video games final week in wins over Colorado and Cincinnati. Within the blowout win over Cincinnati, Demin knocked down three 3-pointers.
Now, he gears up for a matchup that can function two of school basketball’s prime younger gamers on the identical ground in opposition to each other.
“It’s at all times attention-grabbing to play in opposition to these groups,” Demin mentioned on the upcoming matchup in opposition to Baylor and VJ Edgecombe. “I hear about them enjoying in Europe or in Russia and watching them play in March Insanity and having these gamers who’re going to draft. Each staff is attention-grabbing to play in opposition to. There’s at all times good competitors within the Massive 12, as I already know.”
Demin isn’t any stranger to video games that function many NBA scouts in attendance. There was a big gathering of NBA scouts in December when BYU traveled to the East Coast to face Windfall. Demin suffered a knee contusion early in that sport. Then, earlier this month, there have been greater than two dozen NBA scouts to look at BYU’s Massive 12 sport at Houston.
Together with Edgecombe and Demin, different potential NBA draft prospects on this sport embody Baylor’s Robert Wright III, Norchad Omier, and BYU’s Kanon Catchings and Richie Saunders.
“We really feel like we foster an atmosphere right here that helps guys develop and get higher. We clearly have an NBA lens on every thing that we’re doing. So after I speak to my pals within the NBA, I believe these guys are clearly on radars,” BYU coach Kevin Younger mentioned Monday when requested about Egor Demin and Kanon Catchings’s potential NBA trajectories.
“There’s been lots of visitors that’s coming out and in of right here. I get calls on a regular basis. A bunch of persons are coming in tomorrow as nicely. So we’ve had no scarcity of eyes on these guys. I believe lots of that stuff sort of performs itself out because the season goes alongside, draft season goes alongside, exercises go alongside, and interviews go alongside. So sure, I do assume they’ll be there sooner moderately than later, however that may be a relative assertion.”
BYU comes into the matchup with a 13-6 total file and a 4-4 mark in Massive 12 Convention play. Like BYU, Baylor is on a two-game profitable streak and sits at 13-6 total. The Bears are a sport forward of BYU within the league standings, at 5-3 in Massive 12 motion.
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Location: Marriott Heart
Tip-Off: 7 p.m. (MST)
TV: ESPN2
Radio: KSL NewsRadio (102.7 FM, 1160 AM)
Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast (SUBSCRIBE) and Cougar Sports activities Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL Newsradio. Observe Mitch’s protection of BYU within the Massive 12 Convention on X: @Mitch_Harper.
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