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 face to face.