NBA draft status added...
2025: Darius Acuff Jr
2024: Boogie Fland
2023: DJ Wagner
2022: Cason Wallace
1st (10)
2021: TyTy Washington
1st (29)
2020: Devin Askew
undrafted
2019: Tyrese Maxey
1st (21)
2018: Ashton Hagans
undrafted AND Immanuel Quickley
1st (25)
2017: Quade Green
undrafted
2016: De'Aaron Fox
1st (5) AND Malik Monk
1st (11)
2015: Isaiah Briscoe
undrafted
2014: Tyler Ulis
2nd (34)
2013: Andrew Harrison
2nd (44) AND Aaron Harrison
undrafted
2012: Archie Goodwin
1st (29)
2011: Marquis Teague
1st (29)
2010: Brandon Knight
1st (8)
2009: John Wall
1st (1) AND Eric Bledsoe
1st (18)
You're jumping the gun on Devin Askew. He's still in college, about to spend his 5th year at Long Beach State after a year at Kentucky, a year at Texas, and 2 years at California.
But John Calipari would likely agree with you. Last year he did an
interview where he bragged/taunted that players who left his program didn't get drafted (start around the 5:40 mark):
"What are we teaching them [with the] transfer portal? To leave the first sign you get unhappy, first time you're uncomfortable, go to another school. That's good for a 17, 18 year old who's not mature enough to really know? Anyone that's left this program and transferred... I'm going to give you another number. Now I've been there [at Kentucky] 14 years. I think we've had -- well, we've had a couple this year -- probably 12 or 13 kids transfer in my time. Not one has been drafted. You're better off staying and fighting than thinking you just leave."
I don't know if I have the stomach to fact-check Coach Calipari, but I'll try. Here is a list of every player who transferred away from a Calipari program since 2010. Obviously, anyone who followed him to Arkansas this offseason doesn't count.
Sources: Andrew Parrish's
Transfer Tracker for the years 2016-2023 and
Verbal Commits for 2024. For earlier years, I used
Real GM in conjunction with
Basketball Reference.
No longer in college
2010: Darnell Dodson (to Southern Miss)
2011: Stacey Poole (to Georgia Tech)
2013: Ryan Harrow (to Georgia State)
2013: Kyle Wiltjer (to Gonzaga)
2016: Marcus Lee (to California)
2016: Charles Matthews (to Michigan)
2018: Sacha Killeya-Jones (to NC State, but went pro in 2019 after sitting out his transfer year)
2019: Jemarl Baker (to Arizona)
2019: Brad Calipari (to Detroit Mercy)
2019: Quade Green (to Washington)
2020: Johnny Juzang (to UCLA)
2022: Keion Brooks (to Washington)
2022: Zan Payne (to Louisville)
2023: Sahvir Wheeler (to Washington)
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Still in college
2021: Devin Askew (to Texas, now at Long Beach State)
2021: Cam'Ron Fletcher (to Florida State, now at Xavier)
2022: Dontaie Allen (to Western Kentucky, now at Wyoming)
2022: Bryce Hopkins (to Providence)
2023: Daimion Collins (to LSU)
2023: CJ Fredrick (to Cincinnati)
2023: Lance Ware (to Villanova, now at UT-Arlington)
2024: Aaron Bradshaw (to Ohio State)
2024: Jordan Burks (to Georgetown)
2024: Joey Hart (to Ball State)
2024: Ugonna Onyenso (to Kansas State)
I'll be damned. Either Coach Calipari had that stat prepared in his back pocket, or he's good at pulling things out from somewhere near his back pocket. It's a bit misleading, in that some of those players were not going to have pro careers anyway, but, sure enough, none of them were drafted. Johnny Juzang is probably the most successful, having played 38 games (5 starts) for the Utah Jazz in two seasons so far.