{"id":68806,"date":"2025-08-09T00:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68806\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:19:08","slug":"belmont-adds-gonzaga-transfer-6-10-graydon-lemke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68806\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont adds Gonzaga transfer, 6-10 Graydon Lemke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainstreetmediatn.com\/author\/JOE+SULLIVAN\" onclick=\"_paq.push([&#039;trackEvent&#039;, &#039;Author Byline View&#039;, &#039;JOE SULLIVAN&#039;]);\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JOE SULLIVAN<\/a><br \/>Main Street Nashville<\/p>\n<p>It might be August, but college basketball recruiting seems to never stop, and Belmont proved that by announcing an addition to its roster on Aug. 8 in big man Graydon Lemke who sat out last season at Gonzaga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to welcome Graydon to our program,\u201d Belmont coach Casey Alexander said in a statement. \u201cOnce we got connected with Graydon, learned about his story and listened to perspective from his former coaches, it was a no-brainer. Graydon is an outstanding young man with tremendous offensive skills for a big. We look forward to getting him into the gym at the Crockett Center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lemke is 6-foot-10 and didn\u2019t see any action last season at Gonzaga as a walk-on. He\u2019s from Las Vegas where he averaged 17.4 points per game at Faith Lutheran High School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a late bloomer in high school,\u2019\u2019 Alexander said. \u201cShooting is his greatest strength. He needs to continue physical development.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lemke joins a solid group of skilled frontcourt players as the roster already includes Brigham Rogers, Sam Orme, Drew Scharnowski and Eoin Dillon.<\/p>\n<p>A Yahoo.com story from April said Lemke had heard from Minnesota, Northern Arizona, Montana State, Tarleton State, Central Arkansas and Elon after entering the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Lemke made a late decision as he committed to Gonzaga in July 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOE SULLIVANMain Street Nashville It might be August, but college basketball recruiting seems to never stop, and Belmont&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-68806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}