​Aug. 13—Trying to make sense of the last five months, Javon Bennett was recently asked how he might have reacted had someone told the Dayton transfer in March he’d be on a Zoom call with an active Hall of Fame coach recruiting the former zero-star prospect to play for a preseason top-15 Gonzaga program.”I would think you’re insane, to be honest,” Bennett said.Five months ago, the odds of that seemed particularly low, if not somewhere closer to zero.First and foremost, Gonzaga didn’t have a pressing need at Bennett’s position with the expected return of starting point guard Mario Saint-Supery. Mark Few’s program was also anticipating the arrival of German prospect Jack Kayil, a hybrid guard who would’ve handled primary ball-handling duties when Saint-Supery was on the bench.Buy by the time Bennett heard from Few’s coaching staff, things had changed in a fairly substantial way — both for the veteran point guard and Gonzaga’s backcourt.Kayil’s surprising decision to stay in the NBA Draft came roughly two months before Saint-Supery stunned college basketball with a mid-summer move to Spanish ACB club Valencia. The Zags had a commitment from French point guard Nathan De Sousa, but that solution felt shaky at best. The 23-year-old remains in limbo waiting on the NCAA to approve his eligibility waiver.Things were starting to shift in Bennett’s life, too.The guard who played 136 games over four seasons at Merrimack and Dayton had completed one NBA workout with his hometown team, the Orlando Magic, when agent Harrison Gaines recommended he put the pre-draft process on pause.There was a small chance Bennett and other graduates of the high school class of 2022 would get another shot at college basketball through new NCAA legislation allowing athletes to play five seasons over five years.It was worth exploring so Bennett, who was also garnering interest from multiple professional clubs in Germany and one in Romania, joined a lawsuit in Ohio with other college basketball players seeking a fifth year. In early July, he and his father flew from Orlando to Cincinnati to sit in on a hearing where Bennett and five other players watched and listened to Ryan Downton present the plaintiffs’ case to Judge Christopher Wagner.”It was definitely tense,” Bennett said. “That was my first time being inside of a courtroom, especially during the jury. … It was a long day.”The hearing lasted roughly five hours and Bennett had to wait another full week for the ruling. He was scrolling social media when he saw the news that Wagner had granted a preliminary injunction, guaranteeing another year of eligibility to the players involved in the suit. Downton followed up with an E-mail to confirm the ruling, and Bennett promptly called his father at work to share the news.”Once it got passed, it kind of just felt like recruitment again,” Bennett said. “I had to wait for college coaches to call me and see what fit and where I was going to play. Gonzaga was definitely an interest w