It’s April, so many of the nation’s elite college basketball players are deciding whether they should stay or go. Is it off to the riches of the NBA or back for another year of early-morning classes, dining-hall meals and campus festivities? It’s a difficult question to answer, so we posed it on the NCAA’s Double-A Zone blog to see what our readers had to say on the topic.

There were 629 responses to the Double-A Poll, which asked “If you were going to be a first-round selection, would you leave school early for the NBA?” Fifty-five percent of respondents answered affirmatively, while 28 percent said they would return to school.  Seventeen percent of readers couldn’t decide, and offered definitive “maybes” to the question.

Double-A Zone reader Emanuel wrote: “My personal situation tells me I would go. I may never see that type of opportunity again. But if school is paid for because of a scholarship I'm earning, it may behoove me to stay.”

K13 offered: “I think it depends on money managing, agent, and family status. It's hard not to take a boatload of money when everyone says you're great.”

The poll question asks whether you would leave school early if you were going to be a first-round selection, where the money is guaranteed. One would suspect that the numbers might change if first-round status wasn’t a certainty.

Each week, the Double-A Zone asks a question about a hot topic in intercollegiate athletics.

This week’s question asks if it’s worth it for college basketball programs to recruit blue-chip athletes that might leave in a year or two. Swing by the NCAA’s official blog to cast your vote and share some thoughts on the issues of the day.