2022 Forward Ben Gold Commits To Marquette

Ben Gold

There's never a bad time for recruiting news, that's for sure, and we got some on Monday evening. Ben Gold (6'10''-C-2003), a 6'11' forward in the Class of 2022, made his verbal commitment to play for Shaka Smart and Marquette. Gold's Twitter bio is incredibly helpful here for basic info. He lists himself at 6'11' tall and calls himself a small forward. I suspect that there's nothing about anyone who is 6'11' tall that can be qualified as 'small,' but at the very least it tells us that Gold sees himself as a wing player. At the very least, he believes himself to have the ability to play out there.
In his own words from Rivals: 'Versatile. I can play the three-man. In fact, I usually play the three-man, but I can play the four and the five if need be. It's my versatility.'
As of the first of the year, Marquette was the only college basketball program to offer Gold a scholarship according to that Rivals article. The New Zealand native has been spending the last two years in Australia as part of the NBA Global Academy, which led to him playing in the Tarkanian Classic in Las Vegas around the same time that he took an official visit to Marquette for the home game against Villanova. He did an interview with Prospective Insight around that time, which mentions he had an offer from UC Santa Barbara as well, as well as drawing interest from Utah, Washington State, and Georgia Tech.
Courtesy of: anonymouseagle.com



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