{"id":235386,"date":"2026-04-17T09:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235386\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:07:19","slug":"mens-basketball-signs-talented-guard-from-prep-school-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235386\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Signs Talented Guard From Prep School In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; Xavier University head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/goxavier.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/richard-pitino\/4878\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4878\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Pitino<\/a> announced the signing of Gedeon Basson to an athletics aid agreement. Basson, a 6-1 and 200-pound guard from Cameroon, played most recently in the U.S. at Victory Rock Prep in Bradenton, Fla.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We are excited to welcome Gedeon to our Xavier family,&#8221; said Pitino.\u00a0&#8220;He&#8217;s an athletic, versatile, combo guard who will make a huge\u00a0 impact on the court and in the locker room.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBasson averaged 18.0 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists in the 2025 U19 World Cup last summer.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBasson is one of three incoming freshmen signed to date on the roster for the 2026-27 season, including Kalek House, a 6-3 guard from Chandler, Ariz., and\u00a0Asher Elson, a 6-10 forward from Brooklyn, N.Y.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI &#8212; Xavier University head coach Richard Pitino announced the signing of Gedeon Basson to an athletics aid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-235386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}