By Mike Cranston
Associated Press
DAVIDSON ó Davidson star Stephen Curry will meet with his father this weekend, then decide whether to stay for his senior season or enter the NBA draft.
“I’m 50 percent in the middle. Every five minutes, I’m thinking one way, I’m thinking the next way,” the nation’s leading scorer said Wednesday, two days after the Wildcats’ season ended with a loss in the NIT. “I’m just playing mind games with myself right now.”
Curry said his dad, former NBA sharpshooter Dell Curry, has been gathering information about where he’d be drafted. Curry, who has been projected as a lottery pick in several mock drafts, said he will decide well before the April 26 deadline.
“I guess that’s one of the points ó going when you’re hot,” Curry said. “If I can be confident I can be a lottery pick, there’s a lot of risk involved in coming back and having that draft stock fall a little bit. But any answer is going to be discovered when I talk to my parents.”
The lightly recruited, 6-foot-3 Curry burst onto the national scene a year ago when he averaged 32 points in four NCAA tournament games, leading the upstart Wildcats within a missed 3-pointer of the Final Four.
Moving from shooting guard to point guard this season, the slender Curry averaged 28.6 points. He had 15 games of 30 or more points, including games of 44 points against Oklahoma and North Carolina State and 41 against Chattanooga.
He shot 45 percent from the field, including 39 percent from 3-point range. He closed the season with 26 points in Monday’s loss at Saint Mary’s.