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2025-26 MIT Men's Basketball Roster

Gil Talbot
Robert Krawitz

4 Will Bland

  • Position G
  • Height 6-5
  • Weight 190
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Virginia Beach, Va.
  • High School Princess Anne
  • Major Finance and Urban Planning (Pre-Law)

Biography

Career Highs:
  • Points - 25 at Salve Regina (Jan. 27, 2024)
  • Rebounds - 8 vs. Tufts (Nov. 21, 2023)
  • Assists - 9 vs. Tufts (Nov. 21, 2023)
  • Steals - 4 at Clark (Feb. 14, 2024)
  • Blocks - 2 vs Babson (Jan. 31, 2024)

2024-25:
  • Appeared in one game
2023-24:
  • Appeared and started in 24 games
  • Scored in double figures 11 times, including two games of 20+ points
  • Put up 25 points at Salve Regina on January 27
  • Collected eight boards and nine assists vs Tufts on November 21
  • Averaged 9.4 points and 3.4 rebounds per game
Before MIT:
  • US Marine Corps Student-Athlete of the Year
  • Virginia Beach Male Athlete of the Year
  • District Defensive Player of the Year
  • Named All-District in volleyball and basketball
  • All-Region, All-Tidewater and All-State
  • State qualifier in the high jump
  • Averaged 15.7 points, six assists and five rebounds per game
  • Member of the National Honor Society and the National English Honor Society
  • Founder and President of the Student-Athletes' Mental and Emotional Health (SAME-H) Alliance
  • Member of the Superintendent's Student Advisory Board and the Black Student Union
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude from International Baccalauerate program
  • Received the PAHS Most Balanced Award
  • Named as 2023 Virginia Mental Health Advocacy Champion
Personal:
  • Chief youth spokesperson and national corporate/community engagement intern at the Birdsong Health Literacy Center of Excellence
  • Spring 2025 Initiate of the Rho Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
  • MIT SHASS Burchard Scholar Brother of Chocolate City
  • Founding Board Member of Virginia Humanities Emerging Leaders Council

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Historical Player Information

  • 3

    2023-24First Year

    G
    6'5" 180 lbs
    3
  • 3

    2024-25Sophomore

    G
    6'5" 180 lbs
    3
  • 4

    2025-26Junior

    G
    6'5" 190 lbs
    4