Denzel Aberdeen commits to Florida Gators

Kentucky Basketball guard Denzel Aberdeen has discovered his subsequent house, committing to the Florida Gators on Friday, in accordance to Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports. Aberdeen returns to the college he spent his first three seasons at earlier than suiting up for the Wildcats this previous season.

Aberdeen, who has performed 4 full seasons of faculty basketball, is making use of for a fifth season of eligibility. I made the announcement on the primary night time the switch portal opened.

While it appears like a protracted shot that Aberdeen will get yet another season, Florida is clearly keen to take that probability, and it is smart that is the college that provides him the perfect probability to get that fifth season.

The probably argument for Florida shall be that Aberdeen solely appeared in 12 video games as a real freshman in Gainesville and barely performed. They’ll probably declare there was some type of hardship that Aberdeen confronted as to why that season should not depend towards their eligibility clock.

But if that does not work, the NCAA is contemplating permitting all gamers to play 5 full seasons inside a five-year window. However, that won’t go into impact till subsequent season, so it’s miles from a assure that Aberdeen shall be taking part in school basketball once more this fall.

Best of luck to Aberdeen, no matter the place he is taking part in basketball subsequent season!