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Harvard graduate transfer Seth Towns to choose between Ohio State and Duke

Columbus native Seth Towns will choose to continue his basketball career at either Ohio State or Duke. A decision should come this week.

Harvard’s Seth Towns is a wanted man when it comes to schools looking to add a graduate transfer. Widely considered the No. 1 option as a transfer available, he was inundated with interest when he placed his name in the transfer portal just a few short weeks ago.

It now appears as though the Columbus native has been able to cull that list down to just two schools according to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein. One of them is blue blood Duke, the other is the hometown Ohio State Buckeyes. That’s right — OSU is trying to pry away a very talented basketball player away from the Blue Devils and Coach K.

That may sound like it’s far fetched, but the fact that Towns has whittled his list down to two means he is seriously considering both. That should mean OSU has a legitimate shot here especially considering he is a graduate of Northland High School, and since OSU was thought to be the front-runner all along.

Still, having Duke come calling at reportedly the eleventh hour has to have him intrigued, and at this point, there’s at least a very good shot that Towns decides to head to Durham to continue his career.

A 6-foot-7-inches and 215-pounds, Towns was the Ivy League Player of the Year for the 2017-2018 season, but has struggled with getting back on the court after a knee injury suffered at the tail end of the 2018 season.

If he is truly healthy and can be anywhere near the player he was, getting his 16 points and almost six rebounds a game would be a great addition for Ohio State and Chris Holtmann.

Many programs have been awaiting his decision ever since he Tweeted out his intention of picking a school this week, so the news could come at any time.

As soon as it happens, we’ll have the news.

 

Harvard player is furious about ‘horrible, horrible decision’ to cancel Ivy League tournament

“Everyone knows the risks of playing!”

The Ivy League tournaments to decide which team from the conference would clinch a bids to both the women’s and men’s 2020 NCAA tourney were canceled on Tuesday, per an announcement.

The concern was for “the health of students as well as the campus and the general community” with the continuing spread of coronavirus, and the decision handed the titles to the Princeton women’s team and the Yale men’s squad.

It was that decision that angered Bryce Aiken, the Crimson guard and leading scorer. Harvard beat Yale in their two meetings this season and his university was set to host the tournament. Here’s what he tweeted:

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Harvard and Yale players warm up through an climate change protest

The student protest on climate change delayed Saturday’s rivalry game.

Climate change is one of the most important issues of our time and we’re not making light of it.

With that being said, this video of students protesting climate change on the field in the middle of warm-ups during the Harvard-Yale game is absolutely the wildest thing I’ve seen all day.

Out of nowhere a horde of students come into the camera and begin sitting in on the field. As that happens, the players on the field just continue their warm up like it’s absolutely nothing.

Harvard’s kickers who are warming up just…move their footballs up a bit further. The Yale players stretching just continue to stretch like it’s business as usual. The protestors held a banner that read “Nobody wins. Yale & Harvard are complicit in climate injustice.”

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