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2019-20 Men's Basketball

31 Seth Towns

  • Height 6-7
  • Weight 215
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Columbus, Ohio
  • Highschool Northland

Biography

Career Highs
Points: 31, at Columbia 2/2/18
FG: 11, twice
FGA: 21, at Columbia 2/2/18
3FG: 6, twice
3FGA: 10, vs. Yale 3/11/2017
FT: 9, twice
FTA: 12, twice
Rebounds: 12, twice
Assists: 6, at Cornell 2/3/18
Blocks: 3, vs. Fordham 12/3/2017
Steals: 3, four times
Minutes: 36, at Dartmouth 1/20/18

Senior (2019-20): 
Landed on Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Watch List and the Lou Henson Award Watch List ... Did not see any action due to injury ... Ruled out for the season on Dec. 23, 2019.

Junior (2018-19): 
Lou Henson Award watch list … Missed 2018-19 season due to injury … Helped Harvard to its second-straight Ivy League Championship, its seventh in nine seasons, and a berth in the NIT for the second-consecutive season.

Sophomore (2017-18): 
AP All-America honorable mention, is the fourth-player in program history to earn the honor … Lou Henson All-American … Ivy League Player of the Year, becomes the fourth Harvard player and third sophomore in league history to win the award … Unanimous All-Ivy League first team selection … USBWA All-District selection … NABC All-District first team … Ivy League Tournament All-Tournament team … Ivy League Player of the Week (Jan. 22) … College Sports Madness All-Mid Major second team … College Sports Madness Ivy League preseason second team … College Sports Madness Ivy League Player of the Week (Jan. 22, 29) … Ivy League Honor Roll eight times … Averaged 16.0 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game, improved to 18.6 points per game in Ivy play … Scored 20 points with seven rebounds in the season-opener against MIT (Nov. 10) … Had a double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds at Holy Cross (Nov. 16) and totaled 17 points and three steals at Manhattan (Nov. 18) … Scored 25 points with six rebounds and six made 3-pointers at Kentucky (Dec. 2) … Kicked off a stretch of 15-straight games in double figures with 12 points against Boston University (Dec. 21) … Scored 20 points at Wofford and netted 26 with five triples at Dartmouth (Jan. 20) … Scored 30 points on 11-for-19 shooting and four triples against Brown (Jan. 27) … Totaled a career-high 31 points with six made threes at Columbia (Feb. 2) … Had 24 points against Brown (Feb. 16) … Had back-to-back 20-point outings with 22 at Penn (Feb. 24) and 20 against Cornell (March 2) … Notched back-to-back double-doubles with 13 and 10 against Columbia (March 3) and 24 and a career-high 12 rebounds against Cornell (March 10) … Averaged 18.5 points and 9.0 rebounds per game at the Ivy League Tournament … Helped Harvard to its sixth Ivy League championship in program history, and its second-ever berth in the NIT.

Freshman (2016-17):
Saw action in 28 games, starting 20, including the last 10 ... Second on the team in points ... Averaged 12.3 points and 4.4 rebounds ... Posted double-figures 18 times and 20-plus four times... Led the team in scoring seven times ... Ranks No. 15 in scoring in the Ivy League ... In conference-only games, ranks 10th in scoring (13.0 ppg) ... In his debut with the Crimson, scored seven points and pulled down three rebounds against Stanford (Nov. 11) ... Recorded 2 points against Holy Cross (Nov. 22), adding six boards and five assists ... Recorded a career best 17 points, adding six rebounds at UMass (Nov. 26) ... Led the team with 17 points on 5-of-11 shooting against George Washington (Nov. 29) ... Recorded a monster night with 24 points against Northeastern (Dec. 6), adding six boards and three assists ... Posted 18 points, four rebounds and two assists in the win over BC (Dec. 7) ... Registered 13 points and four rebounds in the win at Bryant (Jan. 16) ... Led the team with 19 points, adding two assists and a steal against Dartmouth (Jan. 21) ... Posted his first double-double at Columbia (Jan. 28) with 12 points and a career-high 12 rebounds ... Against Penn (Feb. 3), chipped in 11 points and three rebounds ... Poured in 17 points in the 10-point comeback at Brown (Feb. 10) ... Named Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week after averaging 20.5 points and 5.5 rebounds against Columbia (Feb. 17) and Cornell (Feb. 18) ... Ivy League Rookie of the Week Feb. 27 after averaging 17.0 points and 8.0 rebounds in a 2-0 weekend against Yale and Brown ... Set a personal best at Princeton (March 3) with 26 points, adding a team-high eight rebounds. 

Seth Towns with Ronald Sullivan, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Harvard University Criminal Justice Institute. Seth is a resident of Winthrop House, where Professor Sullivan serves as the Faculty Dean. Professor Sullivan is also a founding member of Coach Amaker’s “Breakfast Club,” and a mainstay at all Harvard games in the courtside seats directly across from our bench.

Background:
Four-year starter at Northland High School … Served as captain as a junior and senior … Set school records for points in a career (2,018), single-season (759), and game (47) … Earned first team All-State honors as a junior and senior … Named District Player of the Year as a junior and senior, and first team All-City as a sophomore, junior, and senior …  Also competed in track and field as a junior and in cross country as a senior … Was a member of the National Honor Society … Placed second in the NESB National Tri-Math-A-Lon competition … Named to the Super Honor Roll all 16 quarters of high school … Served as the Stem Club academic chair as a senior and was a peer tutor.

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Historical Player Information

  • 31

    2016-17First-Year

    F
    6'7" 205 lbs
    31
  • 31

    2017-18Sophomore

    F
    6'7" 215 lbs
    31
  • 31

    2018-19Junior

    F
    6'7" 215 lbs
    31
  • 31

    2019-20Senior

    F
    6'7" 215 lbs
    31