The Indiana basketball program is trending for Bellarmine center Langdon Hatton after receiving a Crystal Ball prediction on Sunday. (Bellarmine Athletics)
The Indiana basketball program is trending for another transfer — Bellarmine center Langdon Hatton.
247Sports national basketball analyst Travis Branham submitted a Crystal Ball in favor of Indiana basketball.
Hatton is a 6-foot-10, 240-pound big man who has one year of eligibility remaining.
This past year he averaged 10.5 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game in 31 games.
Hatton shot 33.3 percent from three (15-of-45) last year. In his career, he’s 18-of-55 on 3s. He has the ability to be effective in pick and pop scenarios as he had a 66 percent effective field goal rate on catch and shoot 3s, ranked in the 95th percentile last year.
Hatton is a strong rebounder as well, finishing last year with a defensive rebound rate of 21.7 — third best in the A-Sun conference. His 7.1 rebounds per game ranked sixth in the league.
His best performance last season was 27 points, 12 rebounds and four assists against Kennesaw State. He had 14 points and five rebounds at Kansas State, 11 points and nine rebounds at BYU and 10 points and nine rebounds at Utah.
Hatton played two years at Bellarmine after starting his career at William & Mary.
Hatton is originally from Indiana, playing for North Harrison high school.
Ohio Sate, Louisville, Clemson and Minnesota are some of the programs active in his recruitment.
Indiana has the No. 1 overall transfer class, including a commitment from the No. 2 overall transfer Oumar Ball from Arizona.
The Indiana basketball program has two available scholarships for the 2024-25 season.
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