After spending just one season with the Ohio State men\u2019s basketball program, Gabe Cupps, a Centerville-native and the 2022 Ohio Mr. Basketball Award winner, will enter the transfer portal. It will be Cupps\u2019 second transfer in as many years after the former Indiana Hoosier transferred to Ohio State from Indiana last spring.<\/p>\n
Cupps arrived in Columbus last March after two seasons at Indiana, and was expected to be the main backup guard to both Bruce Thornton and John Mobley. He appeared in 33 of Ohio State\u2019s 34 games, averaging 1.7 points and 1.1 assists per game while shooting 37.8% from the floor and 25.9% from three-point range. Cupps averaged 12.2 minutes per game.<\/p>\n
The redshirt sophomore continued to play in essentially every game even during the emergence of Taison Chatman in the second half of the season, but his minutes dwindled. Cupps played fewer than 10 minutes in four of Ohio State\u2019s final seven games, including a season-low four minutes during Ohio State\u2019s Big Ten Tournament win over Iowa<\/a> and five minutes against TCU<\/a> in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n He was non-committal about his future with Ohio State after the NCAA Tournament, telling the Columbus Dispatch<\/a>, \u201cI haven\u2019t (thought about it). I\u2019ve been trying to stay present. Stay in the moment, because it\u2019s not being grateful for it and for these guys if I was thinking about next year or the next team. Stay present. I\u2019ll figure that out.\u201d<\/p>\n Cupps was a four-star recruit in the class of 2023 and was the No. 94 overall recruit<\/a> in that class, according to 247Sports. Ohio State recruited Cupps out of high school, but ultimately lost out to the Hoosiers when he made his college decision in November 2021.<\/p>\n