Sounds awesome. Any sources on this or are you just hoping that it's gonna happen?

Obviously he's a good player, but is he NBL level?

Shane Heal mentioned it this morning on Fox Sports

Why was he ineligible?

Academic reasons apparently

That's one thing about Fearney, he gets all the good college Aussies but doesn't know what to do with them.

Steindl
Sobey
Maynard
Young

Off the top of my head.

Maynard.
Good.

Pick one.

^absolutely correct......ego far outweighs ability for many due to those who surround them trying to exoediate a career

Who's ingles13?

The press released stated he signed as a development player to keep his college eligibility open for next season and pretty sure if you sign an agent that is deemed as turning pro so unlikely he did.

Will he get many minutes?

I thought you weren't allowed to play with pros at all?

Angus Glover has hit the court with the Hawks this season and will play at St Marys next season I believe.

I think the rule is that you cant be paid.

Paid or sign an agent I think

Once you have left college you can't return, even if he's not played, he needed to get his academic up to scratch which is t really that hard as a freshman, so if he's failed that and left then he can kiss any USA college gig away.

Quite a few opinions above on whether William McDW would be able to play NBL for the remainder of this season and then be eligible to head to College in Fall 2017. I do not know anything abut his particular situation other than what has been published on the internet. On what I can see it seems to me that he has a number of issues to consider if he wants to play NCAA next season:

1. Playing on Professional Team - High School graduates can play on a professional team without affecting their eligibility as long as they are not paid above expenses and only play prior to commencing full-time tertiary studies. I believe WMcDW has been at a post-grad Prep school and has not started College so he should be ok on this

2. He cant appoint an agent to represent him and remain amateur

3. Delayed Enrolment - I cant find when/where he graduated High School but if it was Dec 2015 then I would think that he will lose a season of competition due to the delay in attending College

4. Further to above if he plays any organised competition after 1 year after High School graduation or after the time when his high school cohort graduated (whichever is the earliest) then he will also have to redshirt his first year in College

5. The academic issues that prevented him attending Fresno State still need to be addressed - whatever they are - SAT or GPA or Core-courses or graduating HS?

Hopefully is fully aware of his situation and his options for his basketball development and he get on with whatever he wants to do. He looks to be a real talent especially given he is only 18.

Academic eligibility should not be a problem for the vast majority of Aust high school students if managed properly. However the planning needs to start in year 9 and unfortunately there are some players who discover too late (ie yr 11 or 12) that they will not be eligible and the college story ends.

If he was at a prep grad school, he needs to have graduated through there to be eligible for college as that then becomes the stepping stone from high school .
If they don't graduate they are not eligible to apply for college, he can't then go back to his Aussie high school achievements.
Does not matter how good a player he may be the NCAA are very clear on academics.
As a development player in the NBL coming from Queensland to Sydney his expenses probably would have to be covered so again that would make him ineligible for college scholarship.
They can play/train but they cannot be paid nor sign anything but an amateur contract, which means no agent as you said^