UNC Basketball One-And-Done Absent From Draft Combine Scrimmage Squads

One-year UNC basketball player Drake Powell was among the first batch of 75 talents to receive invites to this week's NBA Draft Combine in Chicago. But as ESPN's Jonathan Givony reported on Monday, the 6-foot-6, 195-pound projected second-rounder from Pittsboro, N.C., is not on any of the four 10-deep rosters for optional scrimmage play tipping off on Wednesday afternoon.

The five-on-five scrimmages provide an opportunity for players to boost their draft stocks. That said, many decide not to participate every year.

As Givony noted, Powell is one of eight projected second-rounders not on tap to compete in the scrimmages, along with Duke's Tyrese Proctor, Australia's Rocco Zikarsky, Tennessee's Chaz Lanier, Alabama's Labaron Philon, Auburn's Johni Broome, Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner, and Florida's Alex Condon.