Will Saunders Heads Back to Italy to Start Pro Career

By Bradley Gains on October 2, 2015

GB Basketball - Christian Aarts

Will Saunders has joined Italian Serie A2 side Novipiù Junior Casale, the club announced, despite initial reports of signing with Alba in Hungary.

The GB forward flew out to Hungary following pre-season in Italy with top-division side Orlandina, where Saunders scored 14 points in a friendly against Milan.

First day in Hungary 🇭🇺 pic.twitter.com/udqtPKdgKI

— Yoshi n Mushroom 1⃣ (@willsaunders04) September 24, 2015

But now Saunders is back in Italy after agreeing a season long deal with Novipiu Casale in the second division.

After averaging 13 points and 6 rebounds in his senior year at Charleston Southern, Saunders was rewarded with his first call-up to the GB Senior Men’s side.

Saunders is in line to make his club debut as Novipiu await international clearance ahead of their season opener tonight, against Reggio Calabria.

Check out highlights of his final year in college below:

Do you like our work?

We have a tiny favour to ask. In 2018 we set out to make Hoopsfix sustainable by building our relationship directly with our readers. Up until now, Hoopsfix has been creating editorials, videos and podcasts to provide sorely missing coverage of the British game and its distinct culture and community.

We have funded Hoopsfix with our freelance work creating basketball media, but sadly that means not only does it fall behind our client’s priorities, but some of those clients are the same organisations we need to report objectively on putting us in a conflicted position.

We want to devote more time to our mission of helping British basketball reach its potential, and produce even more content for the basketball community by making Hoopsfix a sustainable 100% independent business funded directly by our readers through Patreon.

If everyone who enjoys our content chose to support us, our future would be much more secure. For as little as $3 per month, you can support Hoopsfix – and it only takes a minute.

We are tremendously honoured and humbled to have a community of people who value what we do, and we look forward to being at the forefront of the British game as it continues to evolve.

Support Hoopsfix