It’s Official: Jennings Goes to Europe

Brandon Jennings’ saga is over. Well, not quite. But it’s official that he will not be playing at the University of Arizona, as Wildcats fans might have hoped. He has instead chosen to begin his professional basketball career early, with a European team. Jennings’ official statement read:

“Over the course of the last two months I have consulted a number of people in basketball before coming to this decision. I would like to thank the University of Arizona for their interest and support through this process.”

Jennings and the Wildcats were waiting for test results from the last of Jennings’ college entrance exams, test results that need to be up to par in order to attend the University. He has a scholarship waiting for him at Arizona if he was able to be get a high enough score, so this news comes as a bit of a surprise, as his options were not yet whittled down to just Europe. Just like Lute Olsen said, we here at the Final Four Blog are a little disappointed that he will not be playing college ball, but at the same time we do want to wish him the best of luck. Who knows? This might just be the best possible situation for Jennings, who would have likely been a one-and-done player anyways.

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