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'Jesus is the only reason I'm here right now.' Meet Ben Stanley, Xavier's newest transfer

When Ben Stanley withdrew his name from the NBA Draft and decided to transfer from Hampton University – on the heels of a season in which he averaged 22.0 points and 7.2 rebounds – his phone rang.

Which wasn’t uncommon at the time.

Coaches were calling the 6-foot-6 forward out of Baltimore, Maryland, to gauge his interest and see if they could convince him to join their program.

This call, though, was a little different.

"Coach Steele was the first one to call me. Not the first in my recruitment, but the first on the (Xavier) staff and that was cool because I was getting a lot of calls from assistant coaches from other schools," Stanley said Wednesday night, a few hours after committing to the Musketeers.