Wisconsin guard John Blackwell declared for the NBA draft on Thursday after enjoying a solid sophomore season.

It’s been a remarkable year for Fears, who skipped his senior year of high school and reclassified to attend Oklahoma and play this season.

The freshman guard announced his decision Wednesday on ESPN's The Paul Finebaum Show, per ESPN's Jonathan Givony. Fears averaged 17.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 1.6 steals while averaging 30 minutes through 34 games of his freshman season. He is ranked as the No. 8 overall prospect on B/R's latest 2025 NBA Draft Big Board.

The Brooklyn Nets will be the biggest team to watch in the 2025 NBA Draft, as they will have four first-round picks this year. At 25-51, Brooklyn is in competition for top-five lottery odds, and could very well end up taking generational prospect Cooper Flagg at No.

Cooper Flagg might be the best American-born basketball prospect since LeBron James entered the 2003 NBA Draft. That’s a bold claim to make against the likes of Anthony Davis at Kentucky, Zion Williamson at Duke,

A quartet of No. 1 seeds converge on San Antonio this weekend as a Cinderella-free March bracket funnels into a star-studded Final Four.