Juke Harris entering draft process and transfer portal
Wake Forest’s breakout star of this past season will not be back with the Deacons.
Juke Harris announced Friday that he’s going to enter the NBA draft process and also the transfer portal.
The Salisbury, N.C., native scored the second-most points (750) in program history this season. Harris went from coming off the bench as a freshman to being third in the ACC in scoring, at 21.4 points per game.
Harris’ sophomore jump came after he played about 19 minutes per game as a freshman, averaging 6.1 points per game.
The 6-7, 200-pounder was also Wake’s leading rebounder this season, with 6.5 per game. Harris went from making 20 of 66 3-pointers as a freshman to an 87-for-262 clip this season (33.2%).
He was also named to the All-ACC second-team.
After Wake’s second-round NIT loss to Illinois State, in which he had 20 points, eight rebounds, four assists and one turnover, Harris talked about what this season meant to him — and the lasting impact it’ll have on him.
“It’s a great group of guys,” Harris said. “Teams like us that really didn’t have the season we wanted to, those teams would fall apart. (There would) be guys fussing and fighting all the time, but if you come into our locker room, even with the season we had, even just now, the chemistry … I feel like I’ll talk to these guys years on from now.”
