Seth Towns to take up 8th year of college basketball eligibility

Seth Towns will enter uncommon air when he takes the courtroom in the course of the 2023-24 season later this fall.

Cities, a former Ivy League Participant of the Yr when he performed at Harvard, transferred to Howard College and can be eligible for his eighth season of faculty hoops. The guard made the announcement in an Instagram publish.

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Harvard Crimson ahead Seth Cities, #31, in the course of the second half of the faculty basketball recreation between the Princeton Tigers and the Harvard Crimson on March 3, 2017, at Jadwin Gymnasium in Princeton, New Jersey. (Wealthy Graessle/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photographs)

“The Mecca. So blessed,” he wrote as a caption of an image of himself in entrance of a Howard College signal.

Cities picked Harvard over the likes of Ohio State and Michigan to start his collegiate profession. He performed two full seasons with the Crimson earlier than he suffered a knee harm that knocked him out of the 2018-19 season and later the 2019-20 season.

He transferred to Ohio State for the 2020-21 season and performed in 25 video games, averaging 3.8 factors and a couple of.2 rebounds per recreation. In 2021, he underwent again surgical procedure and in 2022 introduced he was stepping away from basketball earlier than he introduced he was transferring from the college.

Ohio State Buckeyes ahead Seth Cities, #31, passes beneath the arm of Purdue Boilermakers ahead Aaron Wheeler, #1, in the course of the males’s Large Ten event faculty basketball recreation between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Purdue Boilermakers on March 12, 2021, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (Zach Bolinger/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photographs)

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“I feel I’ve restructured my relationship with basketball,” he instructed the Columbus Dispatch on Friday. “It’s a lot more healthy now. I’m not saying I put my complete identification into basketball, however man, it was onerous, as a result of that’s type of the one skilled aspiration I’ve had. All the things else was type of subsidiary to that. Now, I feel I’ve launched myself from the necessity to play at no matter degree.

“I’m very grateful I’ll have one other likelihood to play and I like the game and all that, however I’d say my connection to it isn’t as unhealthy because it was earlier than.”

Ohio State Buckeyes ahead Seth Cities, #31, shoots a 3 pointer in the course of the males’s Large Ten event faculty basketball recreation between the Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State Buckeyes on March 13, 2021, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (Zach Bolinger/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photographs)

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Cities already has levels from Harvard and Ohio State and will pursue a 3rd one at Howard.