Kentucky’s historic run of producing NBA draft picks is expected to continue tonight with Nerlens Noel and Archie Goodwin. If those two are picked — which is a near-certainty — Kentucky will have produced 17 draft picks in the last four years, a record for any four-year stretch.
Since 1989, when the NBA went to two rounds, the next-best four-year run was 11 picks (North Carolina, 2009-12).
Even if you relax those parameters and include years when the NBA Draft went multiple rounds, the highest number in a four-year span was UCLA’s 14 picks, which happened in two separate four-year runs (1968-71 and 1979-82).