Kentucky Wildcats lose seven players to NBA Draft

The Kentucky Wildcats will lose their seven top scorers to the NBA Draft this summer after the players who led the team to a 38-1 record this season announced that they would be turning professional.

Karl-Anthony Towns, Willie Cauley-Stein, Devin Booker, Trey Lyles, Dakari Johnson, Andrew Harrison and Aaron Harrison helped the Wildcats to 38 successive victories before a loss to the Wisconsin Badgers in the final four of the NCAA tournament.

Towns and Cauley-Stein are expected to be lottery picks this year alongside Duke's Jahlil Okafor, who also declared for the Draft on Thursday.

"This was a decision that had to be made, and now is the time to go," Cauley-Stein, who averaged 8.9 points and 6.4 rebounds this season, told reporters.

The NBA Draft takes place on June 25.