Four star forward Eddie Ekiyor won’t actually play a game for the Xavier Musketeers. Just before 2016 started, we learned that the Canadian big man had committed to Xavier. Now, eight months later, he’s gone without ever playing a minute in anger. Ekiyor is no longer enrolled at Xavier and will instead play for Carleton University in Ottawa. Sharp observers noted that Ekiyor wasn’t at Xavier’s preseason softball game and has been conspicuously absent in the intervening time as well.
Ekiyor was supposed to shore up Xavier’s interior in the mold of some of the athletic leapers that have transferred in, such as Travis Taylor.