EUGENE -- After being suspended by Providence before the college basketball season began, freshman Brandon Austin has joined Oregon and will be eligible to play in December 2014, according to several reports.

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each reported Monday evening that the 6-foot-6 Austin -- considered one of the country's 60-best prospects in the 2013 recruiting class and the eighth-best

-- has landed at Oregon for coach Dana Altman. Austin will be the latest transfer to join a Ducks' team with eight transfer players on its roster this season.

One of those transfers -- Joseph Young -- also left Providence before joining Oregon, though Young's route to Eugene first included a stop at Houston, too.

Austin is from Philadelphia and led Imhotep Charter High to a 28-5 record in 2013, including a classification title in which he scored 25 points, grabbed sight rebounds and had three assists in the championship game. Overall he averaged 22 points, eight rebounds and six assists as a senior. Not long after he arrived at Providence he was suspended, with teammate Rodney Bullock, for