Ohio State has replenished its backcourt depth with a late transfer addition.
Former Kansas State, Samford and Florida guard Ques Glover committed to the Buckeyes out of the transfer portal and will spend his final year of collegiate basketball playing for Jake Diebler in Columbus.
Glover updated his Instagram account on Monday to reflect that he is now a Buckeye, and an Ohio State spokesperson confirmed that Glover had joined the team.
Glover will not be one of Ohio State’s 13 scholarship players this season. However, he will receive NIL compensation that covers his costs for attending the university.
Glover's college basketball career has seen more mountains and valleys than Hannibal when he was crossing the Alps.
The Glover File
- Year: Sixth-year senior
- Size: 6-0/185
- Pos: Guard
- School: Kansas State (2023-24)
- Career Stats: 10.3 PPG, 1.8 RPG, 2 APG
A three-star prospect from the class of 2019 ranked 366th overall in the 247Sports composite rankings, Glover spent his first two campaigns at Florida, where he signed out of Bearden High School in Knoxville, Tennessee.
He went from playing just 12.4 minutes per game as a freshman to an even slimmer 8.4 per contest as a sophomore, averaging 4.4 and 2.5 points, respectively. That called for a change of scenery and he entered the transfer portal in 2021.
From there he landed at Samford and found a career resurgence, posting a gaudy 19.2 points, 4.4 assists and 1.2 steals per game in 2021-22. He scored 14.7 points per contest in 2022-23 with the Bulldogs, playing 6.6 fewer minutes per game. His shooting efficiency went up, however, especially from 3-point territory where he went from making 30.8% of his looks as a junior to 37.8% as a senior.
With one year of eligibility remaining thanks to a COVID-19 waiver, Glover flashed enough in his two campaigns with the Bulldogs for another opportunity at a power conference school, so he entered the portal a second time and ended up at Kansas State after briefly enrolling at BYU. Unfortunately, he never took the court for the Wildcats due to multiple lower-body injuries that held him out all season.
A redshirt and another portal entry later, Glover is a Buckeye.
Adding a sixth-year senior with a considerable scoring background – even at a Southern Conference school – is about the best Diebler and his staff could have hoped for following a season-ending injury to sophomore guard Taison Chatman in mid-June. The window for players to enter the transfer portal closed on April 30 and most prospects in the portal had already committed to new schools before Chatman’s injury. The Buckeyes had a scholarship available but were not pursuing another guard at the time of Chatman's ACL tear.
There were significant plans for Chatman in the team's rotation, and following his injury, only three true guards remained on Ohio State's active roster between Meechie Johnson Jr., Bruce Thornton and freshman Juni Mobley.
Career bests of 19.2 points per game, 4.4 assists per game and 37.8% from three – all at Samford – indicate Glover has the potential to find a role for the Buckeyes in 2024-25. If nothing else, he will give the Buckeyes an experienced hand to turn to should another guard be made unavailable during the campaign.
Ohio State still plans to use its last available scholarship for the 2024-25 season to add another player to its frontcourt.
