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Jersey Number 34
Ikenna Okwarabizie
- Position:
- Center
- Height:
- 6-9
- Weight:
- 250
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Lagos, Nigeria
- High School:
- East HS [IA]
Bio
Career
Played in 27 games over three seasons at UCLA … totaled eight points and 20 rebounds off the bench.
2017-18
Played in eight games … totaled six points and nine rebounds in 29 minutes off the bench … averaged 0.8 points in 3.6 minutes per game … scored a career-high four points in the Bruins’ victory over Detroit Mercy (Dec. 3), connecting on 2 of 3 field goal attempts … registered a career-best three rebounds in a career-high eight minutes in wins over UC Irvine (Nov. 26) and Detroit Mercy (Dec. 3).
2016-17
Played in 12 games … totaled two points and seven rebounds in 31 minutes off the bench … averaged 2.6 minutes per contest … played a season-high six minutes in the team’s season-opening win over Pacific (Nov. 11) … scored one point in each of UCLA’s wins against Portland (Nov. 24) and Washington (March 1) … recorded two rebounds in victories against Long Beach State (Nov. 20) and UC Riverside (Nov. 30).
2015-16
Played in seven games … totaled four rebounds in 13 minutes off the bench, averaging 1.9 minutes per game … recorded two rebounds in a win over Louisiana-Lafayette (Dec. 15) … following his sophomore season, underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder (March 22, 2016).
Junior College
Spent the 2014-15 school year as a freshman competing at Tyler Junior College (Tyler, Texas) under head coach Mike Marquis … averaged 6.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in 34 games (33 starts) … finished second on the team with 41 blocked shots and 237 total rebounds … helped lead Tyler JC to a 25-9 overall record … Tyler JC advanced to the second round of the NJCCA National Basketball Tournament before falling to No. 1-seed Connors State on March 17, 2015.
High School
Spent his senior season at East High School (Sioux City, Iowa), playing for head coach Ras Vanderloo, prior to enrolling at Tyler Junior College … joined the team at East HS midway through the season and in 13 games, averaged 13.2 points and 12.5 rebounds per contest … shot 60 percent from the field as a senior … spent his junior season at St. Louis Christian Academy (St. Louis, Mo.), helping the varsity team to a 25-5 record … while in St. Louis, also competed for the St. Louis Eagles AAU team … grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and moved to the United States in 2012 at age 17 … began to competitively play basketball in 2010 after having exclusively played soccer in Nigeria.
Personal
Full name: Ikenna Casmir Okwarabizie (last name pronounced oak-war-uh-BEE-zee-ay) … nickname is Ike … born in Lagos, Nigeria (city pronounced LAY-gus) … Ikenna is the fifth of Raymond and Josephine Okwarabizie’s six children … has three brothers (Kingsley, Richard and Chidi) and two older sisters (Juliet and Blessing) … grew up speaking English and Igbo (pronounced EE-bo), one of the major languages of Nigeria … is also familiar with Yoruba, another prominent Nigerian language … African-American studies major.
Played in 27 games over three seasons at UCLA … totaled eight points and 20 rebounds off the bench.
2017-18
Played in eight games … totaled six points and nine rebounds in 29 minutes off the bench … averaged 0.8 points in 3.6 minutes per game … scored a career-high four points in the Bruins’ victory over Detroit Mercy (Dec. 3), connecting on 2 of 3 field goal attempts … registered a career-best three rebounds in a career-high eight minutes in wins over UC Irvine (Nov. 26) and Detroit Mercy (Dec. 3).
2016-17
Played in 12 games … totaled two points and seven rebounds in 31 minutes off the bench … averaged 2.6 minutes per contest … played a season-high six minutes in the team’s season-opening win over Pacific (Nov. 11) … scored one point in each of UCLA’s wins against Portland (Nov. 24) and Washington (March 1) … recorded two rebounds in victories against Long Beach State (Nov. 20) and UC Riverside (Nov. 30).
2015-16
Played in seven games … totaled four rebounds in 13 minutes off the bench, averaging 1.9 minutes per game … recorded two rebounds in a win over Louisiana-Lafayette (Dec. 15) … following his sophomore season, underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder (March 22, 2016).
Junior College
Spent the 2014-15 school year as a freshman competing at Tyler Junior College (Tyler, Texas) under head coach Mike Marquis … averaged 6.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in 34 games (33 starts) … finished second on the team with 41 blocked shots and 237 total rebounds … helped lead Tyler JC to a 25-9 overall record … Tyler JC advanced to the second round of the NJCCA National Basketball Tournament before falling to No. 1-seed Connors State on March 17, 2015.
High School
Spent his senior season at East High School (Sioux City, Iowa), playing for head coach Ras Vanderloo, prior to enrolling at Tyler Junior College … joined the team at East HS midway through the season and in 13 games, averaged 13.2 points and 12.5 rebounds per contest … shot 60 percent from the field as a senior … spent his junior season at St. Louis Christian Academy (St. Louis, Mo.), helping the varsity team to a 25-5 record … while in St. Louis, also competed for the St. Louis Eagles AAU team … grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and moved to the United States in 2012 at age 17 … began to competitively play basketball in 2010 after having exclusively played soccer in Nigeria.
Personal
Full name: Ikenna Casmir Okwarabizie (last name pronounced oak-war-uh-BEE-zee-ay) … nickname is Ike … born in Lagos, Nigeria (city pronounced LAY-gus) … Ikenna is the fifth of Raymond and Josephine Okwarabizie’s six children … has three brothers (Kingsley, Richard and Chidi) and two older sisters (Juliet and Blessing) … grew up speaking English and Igbo (pronounced EE-bo), one of the major languages of Nigeria … is also familiar with Yoruba, another prominent Nigerian language … African-American studies major.
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