The injury bug has bitten Ohio State forward Seth Towns once again.
The Buckeye basketball program announced Tuesday that the sixth-year senior, who transferred from Harvard ahead of the 2020-21 season, will undergo back surgery "soon," and is expected to return this season within three to four months.
Towns, who was named the Ivy League Player of the Year in the 2017-18 season, missed the subsequent two years entirely due to ongoing knee injuries. Towns, a Columbus native and Northland High School alum, missed the first six games of this past season for the Buckeyes while continuing to rehab injuries.