UPDATE: Should Barnes Stay or Go?

KCCI reports Barnes will make a decision today, March 29.

Now that Ames native Harrison Barnes is finished with the NCAA basketball tournament everyone is talking about what the University of North Carolina sophomore should do next.

The 19-year-old forward said he skipped the NBA draft in 2011 so he could build his brand in an article published in the Atlantic Monthly. According to an ESPN blog, Barnes will have to make his decision faster this year. In 2011, underclassmen had until May 8 to decide whether to leave early. This year the deadline is April 10.

Jane Jurgensen, Barnes' Spanish teacher and a said Barnes should go pro.

“He can finish school anytime as he is in optimal physical condition,” she said via email Tuesday.

Barnes reportedly told Fox Sports Florida in February that he would go to the NBA if his team won the NCAA Tournament, which it did not.

That was before UNC's point guard, Kendall Marshall, broke his wrist and the Tar Heel's lost to Kansas on Sunday. In a CBS blog Bruce Wilson said that he thought Barnes should stay with UNC and help “steam roll” the competition in 2013.

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