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SG Bowen Hardman (transfer to Akron)

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Height: 6'4"
Weight: 170
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
School: Princeton High School
Position: Shooting Guard
 
from a month ago...

Full Court Press: Bowen Hardman Impressed By Ohio State
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During his August unofficial visit, Hardman said, Ohio State’s coaching staff didn’t give him a list of areas to improve in order to earn an offer from the Buckeyes. Instead, the coaches have focused on building a relationship with Hardman and his family.

“They said they trust my game, and I kind of loved it that they said that,” Hardman said. “It's like, 'We want to have a relationship out of basketball with you.' They want to know what character I was, how I treat my family, what I do in my spare time. Every college coach is going to be about your skillset, can you play, can we trust you in the final minutes. And I think that's a big part, just getting to know that player like, 'Can this guy be in the game in the last 5 seconds and hit a shot.' I think that's a big thing.

“I love the way coach Holtmann put things in perspective and was like, 'We love you, you're a great kid. You have a great family and great people behind you. But we want to still kind of get to know you a little bit more and not just basketball-wise.'”

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“Definitely a big thing why they're saying that definitely to pull me in for is being the Ohio kid and being something special,” Hardman said. “I think that's a big part of it is having kind of a family and home feel for it. I think that's a big thing that they do well. It wasn't just about basketball. It was more about the education. You have a place you can come back to for the rest of your life. I think that kind of clicked big time. Definitely an Ohio school, it felt like home. It was really cool to be able to have that experience and connection with those coaches.”

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yeah, i'd call this glowing.


Ohio State scholarship offer to 2022 guard Bowen Hardman leaves impression on family
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“I think we’re still trying to process that it’s all happening as a 15-year-old sophomore, but Ohio State’s amazing,” Dawn Hardman told The Dispatch. “What I like most about the coaching staff is they’re getting to know Bowen as a person, not what he can do on the court but who he is as an individual off the court. And that’s important to me, because if I’m going to send my kid away to school I want to make sure he’s in good hands.”

It’s helped set the Buckeyes apart in the early stages of Hardman’s recruitment.

“They’re not a team to just straight-out offer you a scholarship for skill alone. We’ve talked to (assistant coach Jake) Diebler once a week ever since they started recruiting him. They call him, they ask him how school’s going, what he’s doing in his spare time. They sit down and have real conversations with him, which impresses me because we’ve had offers from three other schools and one of them, once they offered him they haven’t really talked to us very much. I like the fact that before just throwing out an offer they got to know us as a family and him as a person.”

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“I’m excited to see what UC’s going to do with (first-year coach John) Brannen,” Dawn Hardman said. “They’re a great group of kids as well (at Cincinnati). Ohio State, it’s just a different feel up there around the coaches. We’ve really gotten to know them the most out of all the coaching staffs we’ve been with, even though we’ve been around quite a few. It feels like family. I’m sure we’ll see what happens with some of the other schools too, but at this point we really like the feel."

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as with phillips' "feels like home" comment, the key quote from that article:

"It feels like family."
 
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What Bowen Hardman's Commitment Means to Ohio State's 2022 Recruiting Class
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On the Court

Everything about Hardman's game starts with his shot. Calling it silky would be accurate, and the numbers back up such a characterization.

As a sophomore at Princeton, he shot 46.4 percent from the field, 39.5 percent from 3-point range and 92 percent from the free-throw line. To put into perspective how much he relied upon his outside shot, 129 of his 224 shot attempts were from behind the arc, meaning he launched 5.4 triples per game and knocked them down at a near-40-percent clip. With the game of basketball necessitating a higher reliance on outside shooting than ever before, it makes sense why Ohio State wanted him.

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“I think definitely what I do best is penetrating and getting stronger at the basket for a guy my size,” Hardman told Eleven Warriors last year. “But also, I think, one of the biggest things is definitely my shot. Shooting's a big thing now in college, and I feel like I can do that exceptionally well. Also not just that but creating space for shots and creating space for other teammates and moving around. I think that's a big part of my game, as well, is being long for my size and being able to guard well on help side and stuff like that. I think that's a big plus.”

He's listed on national recruiting sites at 6-foot-3 and 160 pounds. But in actuality, he's an inch or two taller with room to grow and fill out his body. As a young prospect, he physically has quite a bit of development left. Ohio State already saw enough to both offer him a scholarship in the fall and honor his commitment this week.

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Intangibles

For being only in high school, Hardman has dealt with a tremendous amount of adversity over the past couple of years. In March 2019, late in his freshman year at Princeton, Hardman's father David died after a year-long battle with multiple myeloma, a rare type of blood cancer.

A Princeton graduate who coached girls' basketball at Cincinnati-area high schools for many years, David Hardman had a significant impact on his son both on and off the court.

"He's the No. 1 guy that I play for," Bowen Hardman told WCPO's Mike Dyer earlier this year.

Hardman, an upbeat high schooler wrapping up his sophomore year, has admirably refused to let that hinder his growth as a basketball player – even though it couldn't have possibly been easy.

"It really could've gone either way when David died," Dawn Hardman said to WCPO. "He could've completely given up basketball, but now he's even more determined to be successful."

In a few years, he'll be playing to honor his dad in a Buckeye uniform.
 
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