After stepping away from the Ohio State men’s basketball program prior to the start of the 2022-23 season, forward Seth Towns will reportedly enter the transfer portal.
As first reported by ESPN’s Jeff Borzello, Towns will seek a new home after playing one season for the Buckeyes in 2020-21. Towns missed the entirety of the 2021-22 season after undergoing surgery on his back during the offseason, while setbacks regarding his recovery forced him to step away from the team last season. In his lone season with the Buckeyes, Towns appeared in 25 games — in which he averaged 10.8 minutes per game — and produced 3.8 points and 2.2 rebounds per game.
Towns, a Columbus native, began his collegiate career at Harvard after a successful preps career at Northland High School, where he blossomed into the No. 125 player in the 2016 recruiting class.
He enjoyed immense success while at Harvard, becoming the Ivy League Player of the Year during the 2017-18 season, in which he averaged 16.0 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. During the 2018 Ivy League Championship, Towns suffered a torn ACL which held him out for the next two seasons and ultimately spelled the end of his career with the Crimson.
On March 21, 2020, Towns transferred to Ohio State, where he spent the next two seasons before stepping away from the program on Sept. 4, 2022. Towns’ most noteworthy performance for the Buckeyes came in the quarterfinal of the 2021 Big Ten Tournament, in which Towns hit a pair of massive three-pointers in overtime, scoring six of his 12 points in the extra period, to lift Ohio State past Purdue 87-78.
Although injuries have piled up across his six seasons at the collegiate level, Towns will now seek to play on the third team in his college career.
