Seth Towns scored 13 points and grabbed six rebounds in Howard’s 64-53 win over Boston University on Wednesday. The NCAA cleared the 26-year-old Towns, granting him a rare eighth year of eligibility.
Seth Towns has a new home on the hardwood for the 2023-24 basketball season. Towns announced Friday that he would be transferring to Howard for his eighth and final collegiate season.
I remember when the Ohio State basketball team got Seth Towns in the transfer portal. He had previously been the Ivy League Player of the Year while playing for Harvard back in the 2017-18 season.
It was a big recruiting win for Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann when he was able to lure Seth Towns back to his home state after starring at Harvard.
After stepping away from basketball in September 2022, it appeared former Ohio State Buckeyes forward Seth Towns' career was over. Not so fast. Towns reportedly entered the transfer portal Monday and will open his recruitment, according to ESPN's Jeff Borzello.
Ohio State seventh-year senior forward Seth Towns announced on Sunday afternoon he is stepping away from the game of basketball after an injury-riddled career “It comes with sadness and faith that I must announce I am stepping away from Ohio State and Team 124, and that I will not be playing this season,” Towns said in a post on Twitter.
Hey, I said what if? Looking ahead and attempting to predict the future for things like unpopular opinions and bold predictions are really fun, but ‘what ifs’ are even better because you cant be wrong.
The former Harvard star, now at Ohio State, has battled injuries throughout his college career. View the original article to see embedded media. Between transfer rules, redshirt and graduate years, and the extra COVID-19 year, college basketball players have been able to play the sport well beyond the traditional four years.
As first reported by Adam Jardy of The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio State sixth-year senior forward Seth Towns will take advantage of the extra season of eligibility granted to all student-athletes amid the pandemic and return to the Buckeyes in 2022-23.
Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann announced on Tuesday afternoon that sixth-year senior forward Seth Towns will miss the remainder of the season as he continues to rehab from offseason back surgery.
Towns has already overcome quite a bit to simply check into a game for the Buckeyes. Let’s not close the book on him quite yet. I read an article last week from another website in the Ohio State blogosphere/basketball beat, titled “It’s time to give up on Seth Towns.” My first reaction to this, naturally, was a big fat middle finger.
Let me be very clear about something; Seth Towns can still be a contributing member of the Ohio State basketball team. I think he’s a great young man and a phenomenal leader.
If this whole basketball thing doesn’t work out at Ohio State for Seth Towns, it appears he may have a career in another sport. At least, depending on what you believe with what you see from the WWE when you turn your television set or streaming device on.
Every college basketball season there is a team — or two or three — that flies under the radar and ends up making a splash come March. Or there are some non-power conference programs that enjoy breakout seasons and manage to pull off upsets at the Big Dance.
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