Xavier forward Ben Stanley's waiver request denied by the NCAA

Xavier University's men's basketball program had high hopes for transfer Ben Stanley and what he could bring to the Musketeers this season, but those hopes will have to wait a year after Xavier announced Friday that Stanley's waiver was denied by the NCAA, making the 6-foot-6 junior forward, who transferred from Hampton University, ineligible for the 2020-21 season.

Stanley redshirted his first year at Hampton and played there the last two seasons.

When the coronavirus pandemic hit earlier this year, Stanley said that Hampton canceled all in-person classes, and in a July interview with The Enquirer, Stanley said, "That was a big thing, going to a school where I would be in class, learning…