Durant Will Jump to Pros

Longhorns freshman heartthrob Kevin Durant has announced he will leave Texas for the NBA draft.  Durant averaged a frankly absurd 25.8 points and 11.1 rebounds over the course of an award-sweeping first-year campaign that ended one game short of the Sweet Sixteen. Texas benefitted from a new NBA rule that grants eligibility to players only  a year after graduating from high school.

Sportswriters nationwide have already begun sinking their pointy, self-important teeth into a genuinely interesting question:  Will the team with the No. 1 draft pick select Durant or Buckeyes center Greg Oden?  Oden, the season's other freshman phenom, has not yet declared he will enter the draft, but the sportswriters are optimistic.