Former Duke star Jared McCain lights up 3-point line at NBA Draft Combine

Jared McCain, who averaged more than 14 points per game as a freshman, lit up the 3-point line during Monday’s drills at the NBA Draft Combine.

[autotag]Jared McCain[/autotag], unsurprisingly, is a great 3-point shooter.

The former Blue Devil averaged more than 41% from beyond the arc in his freshman season, and he fared a lot better than that during Monday’s drills at the NBA Draft Combine.

McCain took 25 attempts from behind the 3-point line during a drill in front of NBA scouts. He made 19 of them.

While he played for head coach Jon Scheyer at Duke, McCain made eight 3-pointers in two separate games for the Blue Devils. He scored 25 points in the first half against Florida State and he made six 3-pointers in the first half against James Madison in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

The 6-foot-3 guard’s offensive ceiling moved him inside the top 10 on two major draft boards recently, with both The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor and Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman considering him one of the best players on the board. He gave the scouts in attendance on Monday no reason to second-guess that logic.

McCain and the rest of the available prospects will wait until June 26 to hear their names called in the NBA Draft.