That is the main reason the NCAA moved the latest withdrawal date to the first day of the Spring Signing period.

The NCAA wanted to give players as much time to withdraw as they could while still enabling the coaches to due their recruiting. That's why players can't wait to the last NBA minute to declare.4

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