Following a four-year college basketball career that covered 138 games, Ole Miss standout point guard Sean Pedulla has agreed to an Exhibit 10 contract with the Portland Trail Blazers, according to multiple reports late Thursday night.
He went undrafted through the two rounds and 59 selections that comprised the 2025 NBA Draft across Wednesday and Thursday night. An Exhibit 10 deal is a one-year, minimum salary contract with no other bonuses. The Exhibit 10 attachment gives NBA teams the ability to convert the contract into a two-way deal, but only if they do so before the start of the regular season
Pedulla finished his final season of college basketball as Ole Miss' leading scorer and with a third team All-SEC nod. He finished seventh in program history in career assists per game (3.75), career three-point percentage (39.2 percent), 87 three-pointers for the season (eighth most in program history), 68 season steals (fifth most in school history) and played in 1,181 minutes which is the fifth most in program history. Coming from Virginia Tech, Pedulla averaged 18.8 points and nearly 5.0 assists per game.
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The Edmond, Oklahoma native was instrumental in one of Ole Miss' most successful seasons in recent memory. He helped lead the Rebels to their second Sweet 16 appearance in program history and won 24 games, tied for the second most in a single season. More importantly, the one-year transfer rental was able to help raise the bar for Ole Miss' program moving forward.
"The program is in great hands," Pedulla said earlier this year. "Coach Beard is the best of the best. He's going to have teams here year in and year out. He's raised expectations for ourselves, our staff, our basketball program. That was the biggest thing."
Ahead of the 2025 NBA Draft, ESPN rated Pedulla as the 75th overall prospect on their Top-100 prospect list. He'll turn 23 years old in October.
"Sean really was big for me," second-year Ole Miss guard Zach Day said of Pedulla earlier this month. "He was like a big brother to me. We played one-on-one a few times. I would work out with him and we just mutually grew a respect for each other. I really tried to lean on him because he really taught me a lot about the game of basketball and life in general."