Jarron Cumberland, Trevon Scott and other exiting seniors aren't the only Cincinnati basketball players considering professional options.

Guard Keith Williams could forgo his senior season to turn professional, he announced Friday on Twitter.

“After progressive conversations with my family, coaches and mentors, I’ve decided that I will enter the 2020 NBA Draft with the intent of hiring an agent; however, I will be keeping my options open," Williams said.

The Brooklyn product averaged 12.6 points and 4.6 rebounds per game last season and would have been the Bearcats leading returning scorer next season.

“I have spoken to Keith and his family since the basketball season ended several weeks ago,” said Bearcats' coach John Brannen. “I am in full support of Keith’s desire to enter the NBA Draft process. This is a process that I encourage our underclassmen to go through and I look forward to assisting Keith during it.”

Speaking about the NBA draft process last week on 700WLW, Brannen said he didn't "think we know what that looks like," due to the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Traditional evaluating elements such as the draft combine, scheduled for May 21-24, and private workouts aren't possible during the public health crisis.

Brannen said he told Scott: "You've got to be patient because right now the people that want to evaluate you in the NBA or beyond, they have no idea what their next step is. None of us do, so we have to sit back and allow things to take place and see where that goes."

Per NCAA rules established last year, players can hire agents to help facilitate meetings and workouts with pro teams and return to play in college so long as they request an evaluation from the NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee.

Williams has until June 3 to decide whether to remain in the draft or return to school. The 2020 NBA Draft is scheduled for Thursday, June 25 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., but the league could adjust dates due to the pandemic.

Brannen said, despite the scheduling and evaluation concerns, NBA teams and professional teams overseas will create a way to find the best players available.

"One thing I have learned from the professional ranks, being a professional basketball player and from guys that go to the NBA, is it's a truth serum industry," he said. "Meaning they're going to tell you the truth, but they're going to do everything they need to do to get the evaluations they need to improve their organization. Whether that's now and whether that pushes the combines back three months, it's going to happen because they need to improve their organizations."

Williams appeared in 98 games and started 61 times in his three seasons at UC. Earlier this month, he scored a career-high 30 points on 12-of-18 shooting in a late-season win at USF that helped the Bearcats secure a share of the league's regular-season title and kept them on track to reach the NCAA Tournament.

"If there’s 15 players better than Keith Williams, then we’re a league that should probably get six or seven teams in the NCAA Tournament," said Brannen after Williams was left off the end-of-season All-AAC first, second and third teams. "Because that means we have some really, really serious depth of talent because that young man is a heck of a player as well."