First, the news:
On July 29th, Ben Stanley committed his basketball and academic future to Xavier. After a breakout campaign at Hampton as a sophomore, he was looking for a place to test himself against the best the basketball world has to offer, and the Big East was the obvious place to do that.
Additionally, with the coronavirus pandemic (perhaps you've heard of it?) raging, Stanley needed an academic setting that would accommodate his documented learning disability with in-person classes and a high level of general academic achievement. Xavier fit the bill there.