MU-2.jpg Former Missouri forward DeMarre Carroll started his college career at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN before transferring to Missouri.  Now Carroll will start his NBA career in the Volunteer State.

Carroll was taken in the first round, as quite a few mock drafts projected, going to Memphis with the 27th overall pick in the draft.  Carroll with join UCONN’s Hasheem Thabeet who was selected 2nd overall by Memphis.  Carroll helped hold Thabeet to just five points in UCONN’s 82-75 win over the Tigers in the Elite 8 game of the NCAA Tournament in Arizona.

With Carroll being selected in the first round, Mizzou now joins Texas and Oklahoma as the only Big 12 schools to have a student-athlete selected in the first round of the NBA, NFL, and MLB draft in the same year.  Carroll is the first Tiger since Linas Kleiza was drafted 27th overall in 2005 (by Portland who traded him to Denver) to be selected in the first round.  Carroll is the 13th Missouri player to
ever be selected in the first round. 

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