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STORRS, Conn. -- The University of Connecticut says freshman basketball player Ater Majok has removed his name from the NBA draft.

Majok, a 6-foot-10 forward who has yet to play a game for the Huskies, said in April that he planned to use the pre-draft period to assess where he stood with the NBA, but planned to return to school.

UConn coach Jim Calhoun has said there is also a possibility that Majok could leave school and play in Europe.

"He's not going to go into the draft, but I don't know what, beyond that, he'll do," Calhoun said Saturday, according to the Hartford Courant. "I talked to him [Friday]. He's going to do whatever he feels he needs to do. It's not much more complex than that.

"I don't think he'll go home. I think it's either [UConn] or Europe," Calhoun said, according to the Courant. "You have to want to join our program. And I think Ater does, but he has a lot of responsibilities."

Majok, a former refugee from Sudan, is not eligible to play at Connecticut until the end of the 2009 fall semester. His name has also been linked peripherally to an NCAA investigation into possible recruiting violations at UConn.

Reports have linked Josh Nochimson, a former UConn student manager, to the appearance of Majok at a basketball tournament last year in Kentucky. Phone calls between Nochimson and UConn's coaches are at the center of an NCAA investigation into possible recruiting violations.

Most of those allegations involve another UConn recruit, Nate Miles. Yahoo! Sports reported in March that Nochimson helped guide Miles to Connecticut, giving him lodging, transportation, meals and representation. Miles, of Toledo, Ohio, was expelled from Connecticut last fall before ever playing for the Huskies.

Calhoun has acknowledged that he or his staff may have made mistakes in recruiting Miles.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.