Jacob Larsen (basketball)
| No. 14 – Gonzaga Bulldogs | |
|---|---|
| Position | Power forward / Center |
| League | West Coast Conference |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
May 5, 1997 Holte, Denmark |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Listed height | 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) |
| Listed weight | 227 lb (103 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school |
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| College | Gonzaga (Redshirt) |
| Playing career | 2013–present |
| Career history | |
| 2013–2015 | Virum Vipers |
| 2015–2016 | SISU Copenhagen |
Jacob Glarbjerg Larsen (born May 5, 1997) is a Danish basketball player. A 6’11’’ (210 cm) post player, he joined the Gonzaga University Bulldogs for the 2016–17 season, but will not make his debut with the team until the 2017–18 season due to a knee injury suffered in a preseason practice.
Born in Holte, Larsen started his career in the youth teams at Virum Basketball Klub in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, and was promoted to the club’s men’s team in 2013. He played in the second-tier league in Denmark with the Virum Vipers. In 2014, he helped lead Virum to winning the Danish 1st Division Regular Season title and a trip to the semifinals.
In September 2015, Larsen signed with SISU Copenhagen. Larsen chose SISU since he wanted to play in the best league in Denmark and his familiarity to people from the Danish National Team, including the head coach, as well as many of the squad's youth players. Larsen was hampered by inflammation in his knee, but SISU was sympathetic to his recovery time. Larsen wanted to spend one-year training with professional competition before leaving for the United States to play college basketball after the summer of 2016. In October 2015, it was reported that Larsen was expected to miss the whole season with SISU due to injury.
"Jacob has great size and is doing a great job continuing to develop. We can afford to be patient with him, and in the long run, we feel he is going to be an excellent player."
"We think he has a incredible upside with all the intangibles you like in a big guy – great hands, very good feet, strong body. He’s also cerebral. We love his size and length and tremendous feet. We’re looking at that more in a big guy than if he can touch the top of the backboard. It’s a sneaky trait for our big men. Robert Sacre had tremendous feet. He can really move his feet. Karnowski has good feet too."
In April 2014, Larsen announced his dreams of dominating the second best league in Denmark, then moving on to exerting his dominance in the best Danish league, and then playing college basketball, with hopes of displaying his talent in the NBA someday. In February 2015, while participating in the first-ever Basketball without Borders Global Camp in Manhattan, New York, Larsen was singled out as one of the top performers of the camp. He announced that he planned to enroll in college in 2016, and that Duke, Maryland, and George Washington were among his top suitors.
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