University of Richmond Athletics
Addition of Yale's Noah Yates Completes Spiders Signing Class
05/16/2018 | Men's Basketball
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. -- Former Yale forward Noah Yates has signed with the University of Richmond and will join the Spiders for the 2018-19 season. Yates averaged 5.4 points and 2.9 rebounds for the Bulldogs last season, his second with the team after spending his first two years at Yale as a member of the school's football program. As a graduate transfer, Yates will be eligible to play immediately and is expected to have two years of eligibility remaining. He selected Richmond after receiving interest from more than a dozen Division I schools and plans to pursue an advanced degree in Finance at the Robins School of Business.Â
Yates is the sixth and final member of the Spiders signing class of 2018. He joins Wagner's Blake Francis, who will have to sit out the 2018-19 season per NCAA regulations, as incoming transfers to the Spiders program. The four other members of the class -- Souleymane Koureissi of New Rochelle, N.Y., Andre Gustavson of Helsinki, Finland, Jake Wojcik of San Jose, Ca., and Matt Grace of Ontario, Canada -- will be true freshmen this fall. Richmond now has 13 players under scholarship for the 2018-19 season, the maximum allowed by the NCAA.Â
Yates, a native of Point Pleasant, N.J., spent his first two years at Yale as a tight end on the school's football team. Elbow injuries limited him to one game over two seasons for the Bulldogs, and Yates, who was an all-state selection in football, an all-conference selection in baseball, and a state champion in basketball at Point Pleasant Beach High, decided to join the basketball team prior to the 2016-17 season.
Yates appeared in 11 games as a junior before playing in all 31 games for the Bulldogs as a senior this season. He scored a career-high 17 points in a win at Cornell in February and earned starts at Kennesaw State in December and against Princeton in March. He finished second on the team in three-point shooting, making 38.2 percent of his shots from deep. Over his final nine games of the season, Yates made 54.3 percent of his shots from the field, eighth best in the Ivy League over that span.Â
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Yates is the sixth and final member of the Spiders signing class of 2018. He joins Wagner's Blake Francis, who will have to sit out the 2018-19 season per NCAA regulations, as incoming transfers to the Spiders program. The four other members of the class -- Souleymane Koureissi of New Rochelle, N.Y., Andre Gustavson of Helsinki, Finland, Jake Wojcik of San Jose, Ca., and Matt Grace of Ontario, Canada -- will be true freshmen this fall. Richmond now has 13 players under scholarship for the 2018-19 season, the maximum allowed by the NCAA.Â
Yates, a native of Point Pleasant, N.J., spent his first two years at Yale as a tight end on the school's football team. Elbow injuries limited him to one game over two seasons for the Bulldogs, and Yates, who was an all-state selection in football, an all-conference selection in baseball, and a state champion in basketball at Point Pleasant Beach High, decided to join the basketball team prior to the 2016-17 season.
Yates appeared in 11 games as a junior before playing in all 31 games for the Bulldogs as a senior this season. He scored a career-high 17 points in a win at Cornell in February and earned starts at Kennesaw State in December and against Princeton in March. He finished second on the team in three-point shooting, making 38.2 percent of his shots from deep. Over his final nine games of the season, Yates made 54.3 percent of his shots from the field, eighth best in the Ivy League over that span.Â
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