(via Rush the Court)

Maybe this has slipped through the media cracks, but WKYT dropped what I'd consider to be a bombshell last week regarding the potential status of Jodie Meeks.

Meeks has not signed with an agent as yet.  So, if he is not selected in the NBA draft tomorrow night (and that is looking like a realistic possibility), he could invoke the Randolph Morris loophole and return to Lexington.  According to the UK atheltics department, Meeks has not done anything to jeopardize his amateur status, so this looms as an option.

On talent alone, Meeks probably should get picked.  However, just about every team is in some sort of financial bind (I've heard as many as 27 teams were unprofitable in 2008-09).  They could easily decide to, rather than take a college player that would sit on their roster, select a foreign player that can sit overseas for the upcoming season, and just hold the rights to him until several months down the road and not have to pay him right now.  It's a small cost savings, but it's a savings nonetheless.

If this happens, UK is so far and away the preseason #1 next year it'll be scary.

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