Towns to make college hoops return at Howard

• Jeff Borzello, ESPN Personnel WriterMay 19, 2023, 02:08 PM ET

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  • Graduate of University of Delaware.Seth Towns, the

previous Ivy League Player of the Year who has missed out on 4 of the previous 5 seasons with injuries, announced Friday that he will go to Howard for his 8th season of college basketball.Towns made his decision understood in a post on social networks, writing that he was”so blessed. “Towns, who will be 26 years old at the start of the next college basketball season, hasn’t played given that

2020-21. He told The Columbus Dispatch on Friday that he has actually altered his outlook on basketball.”I believe I have actually reorganized my relationship with basketball,”Towns informed the paper.” It is much healthier now.

I’m not stating I put my whole identity into basketball, but guy, it was hard, since that’s kind of the only expert aspiration I’ve had. Everything else was type of subsidiary to that. Now I believe I have actually launched myself from the need to play at whatever level.”He started his career in 2016 at Harvard, where he won Ivy Player of the Year as a sophomore in 2017-18 after balancing 16.0 points and 5.7 rebounds per game while shooting 44.1%from 3-point variety. Towns would miss out on the next 2 seasons with knee injuries prior to entering the website as a graduate transfer in 2020. He is from Columbus, Ohio, and eventually dedicated to home town Ohio State.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Towns ended up playing in just 25 games for the Buckeyes, averaging 3.8 points in 2020-21 prior to missing out on the next season with a back injury. In September, Towns announced he was stepping away from

basketball due

to the various injuries he had actually suffered over the previous couple of years.He could have up to two years of eligibility at Howard, depending upon how many years he receives a medical redshirt. He has played only three overall seasons at Harvard and Ohio State, and one was 2020-21, which the NCAA considers to be the coronavirus-impacted campaign.Howard advanced to the NCAA competition last season for the very first time considering that 1992, completing 22-13 general and winning the MEAC regular-season and tournament championships. Coach Kenny Blakeney has made it a top priority to upgrade the Bison’s talent level because taking over in 2019, with Towns the latest example.