Wisconsin transfer forward Gus Yalden commits to Seton Hall
Former Wisconsin forward Gus Yalden has committed to Seton Hall, per On3’s Joe Tipton. The news comes after Yalden transferred away from the Badgers on March 28.
Yalden never appeared in a game for Wisconsin and wound up redshirting his entire true freshman season. Coming out of high school, though, he was a four-star prospect, the No. 115 overall player in On3’s Player Rankings for 2023, and the No. 4 player in the state of Indiana for his cycle.
Yalden’s year with the Wisconsin program featured a couple of roadblocks. In late September, with the season a little over a month away, Yalden was involved in an unfortunate scooter accident which forced him to miss crucial practice time in the lead-up to the team’s opener in November.
That scooter incident came at an unfortunate time, as Benjamin Worgull of BadgerBlitz wrote that the crash in late September “was sandwiched between a misdemeanor citation in September for underage drinking and another in late October for possession of marijuana.”
Shortly after that marijuana citation, Yalden, or the “Gus Bus” as fans refer to him, then took a leave of absence from the program at the start of November, less than a week out from the team’s first game. Head coach Greg Gard said that Yalden would remain in school but leave the team to “address a personal family matter.”
He actually returned to the team within the month and, per Worgull, went to the scorer’s table to check into a game on Nov. 27 but was called back to the bench before subbing in. That was the closest Yalden came to entering game action all year.
Seton Hall in the transfer portal
Since the spring transfer portal window opened up, Seton Hall has seen some significant departures. Among those transfers was leading scorer Kadary Richmond, who entered the portal on April 25. But that news was not all that hard for fans to swallow as just one day before, the Pirates landed Ohio State transfer Scotty Middleton.
Alex Weber contributed to this report