Sonoran Hot Reads: NCAA improves NBA Draft rules for prospects

This will certainly benefit players trying to figure out their draft stock

Some much-needed rules changes came down on Wednesday with regards to the NBA Draft and potential prospects losing their eligibility when looking to declare early. One of the changes is pushing the date back of when a player can withdraw their name, and that date is ten days AFTER the NBA Combine this year. A player can also go through the draft process multiple times in their career without jeopardizing their eligibility

- The Pac-12 also was going to propose student-athletes can make money off their likeness, but decided to table it until a future date

- We moved USC to the top of our Pac-12 Power Rankings, and then they promptly went out and crushed UCLA in Pauley to make us look like geniuses

- Arizona only has 15 regular season games, and Bill Walton will call eight (!) of them

- The Pac-12 has some really good freshmen, and one will be in Tucson on Thursday that's not Allonzo Trier

- Kobi Simmons will announce his college decision on Saturday. Arizona's been picking up some serious steam over at 247Sports

- The Daily Star put together a basketball injury tracker in case you want to be sad

Football

- Pro Football Focus has Scooby Wright as a first round pick. This is video his dad took of him training:

Scooby Wright ,241 lbs 120% injury free. TwoStarScoob fully Heathy and getting it done in Miami. Bear Down Big Dog http://pic.twitter.com/9Qg9nlXXiZ

— Philip Wright (@GoAz_33) January 14, 2016

- It looked like Jeff Casteel was heading to UTEP, but that is not the case anymore

- Arizona was certainly not the only team to change coordinators in the Pac-12 this offseason

Baseball

- Perfect Game has four Pac-12 teams within their preseason top 14

Other sports

- Men's tennis gets their spring schedule started at Texas Tech this weekend

- An incoming diver was selected to Eller's ELITE program

Tucson news

- Someone in Chino Hills, CA won the Powerball, and apparently people think they should hang out where the ticket was sold

ICYMI - Here were tonight's @PowerballUSA numbers: http://pic.twitter.com/FUeXCJ5SdO

— Arizona Athletics (@AZATHLETICS) January 14, 2016

- Downtown Tucson is about to get even more residential space

- A suspicious death occurred on the north side

- The animals at Reid Park Zoo got a fun little snow day

Streetcar issue on Congress @whatsuptucson but I got to sing some Bowie while I waited. http://pic.twitter.com/FO8cH7Gvzn

— Suzanne (@TrojanSuzanneR) January 14, 2016

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