Former Illinois basketball player Coleman Hawkins has withdrawn from the NBA Draft and will play a final NCAA season at another school.

Cyril is listed at 6-foot-10, 240 pounds, and is considered by numerous recruiting outlets to be a top 10 center in the class of 2024. He played last season in the Overtime Elite League, which allowed him to test the NBA draft waters while also signing with the Bulldogs.

The CSU men's basketball team picked up a huge addition Thursday when Nique Clifford decided to return to the Rams rather than enter the NBA draft.

Jahmyl Telfort, who averaged 13.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 2023-24, is withdrawing from the NBA draft and returning to the Bulldogs. The 6-7 wing who has played one season at Butler after three years at Northeastern led the Bulldogs in playing time (34.7 minutes per game).

Payton Sandfort is withdrawing from the 2024 NBA Draft and will return to Iowa for his senior season, he announced Wednesday.

Illinois basketball star Coleman Hawkins entered the transfer portal earlier this offseason, but he also went and tested the NBA Draft waters. He went to the combine, and he made it clear that going to the NBA is what he wanted to do.

NBA Draft nearing its deadline, the list of participants has been confirmed after allowing a fair chance of withdrawal from the draft. The young player to pull back his name on Wednesday was Coleman Hawkins,

Coleman Hawkins is coming back to college but it won’t be at Illinois. Stadium’s Shams Charania was the first to report Hawkins is returning for his fifth and final season of eligibility and that it won’t be at Illinois.