Ohio State Adds Former Kansas State Guard Ques Glover Through Transfer Portal

Ohio State added some much-needed backcourt depth on Monday, plucking former Kansas State veteran guard Ques Glover from the transfer portal. Glover, a sixth-year senior from Knoxville, Tenn., will play his final collegiate season with the Buckeyes as a non-scholarship player, but will receive NIL compensation that will cover his costs for attending Ohio State. 

Ohio State is the fourth school Glover will attend in what has been a topsy-turvy career for the guard. Entering college as a three-star prospect out of Knoxville (Tenn.) Bearden in 2019, Glover spent his first two seasons at Florida, where he averaged 3.6 points, 0.6 assists and 0.9 rebounds in just 10.8 minutes per contest for the then-Mike White-led Gators. 

Glover then sought out a new chapter of his college career during the 2021-22 season when he transferred to Samford. There, he instantly became one of the top scorers in the Southern Conference, averaging a career-high 19.2 points per game on 46.8 percent shooting while adding 4.4 assists, 2.8 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game in 2021-22. It was an impressive stat line that earned him first-team All-Southern Conference honors and a spot as a finalist for the Lou Henson Award, given annually to the nation’s top mid-major player. 

Glover continued that success into his redshirt junior campaign in 2022-23 despite missing nearly two months due a meniscus injury, scoring 14.7 points per game on 48.0 percent shooting along with 2.5 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game while taking home second-team All-Southern Conference honors. 

Those two successful years at mid-major Samford allowed him to — after a brief stint at BYU that was cut short due to a NIL issue with the school — transfer to a more notable school in Kansas State ahead of the 2023-24 season to use his extra year of COVID-19 eligibility. But a nagging knee injury forced him to miss the entire season with the Wildcats, giving him another year of college eligibility via a medical redshirt which he will now use at Ohio State. 

Now in his sixth year, Glover will look to bring added scoring and shooting prowess to a Buckeyes’ backcourt this season that is anchored by veteran guards Bruce Thornton and Meechie Johnson Jr. but relatively thin towards the back-end of the roster following sophomore guard Taison Chatman’s season-ending ACL injury earlier this summer. 

Ohio State is looking for true freshman Juni Mobley Jr. to emerge as a potential player in the backcourt while also relying on wing Micah Parrish and guard Evan Mahaffey to pick up some ball-handling duties, making the addition of Glover an important one considering the team’s overall inexperience at guard beyond the two projected starters Thornton and Johnson. 

Glover’s status as a preferred walk-on gives the Buckeyes one more open roster spot for the 2024-25 season, which they will reportedly use to add an international big man.