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2022-23 Men's Basketball Roster

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33 Buay Koka

33 Buay Koka

  • Position:
    Center
  • Height:
    7-1
  • Weight:
    202
  • Class:
    Graduate Student
  • Hometown:
    Nasir, South Sudan
  • High School:
    The Patrick School (N.J.) (Tulane)

Summary

Biography

Career Highlights:
  • 2x Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2022, 2023) 
  • 2x Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022)
  • Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2022)

2022-23
  • Played in 26 games with one start
  • Connected on 14-of-25 from the field (56.0%) with three blocks and three steals
  • Pulled down five rebounds against Ohio
  • Scored four points against Charlotte
  • Had four points and two rebounds at Washington State
  • Swatted away a pair of shots at Cincinnati
  • Posted a season-high six points, hitting all three of his field goals, with two rebounds and a steal at Robert Morris
  • Grabbed a career-high nine rebounds and had four points and a steal at Milwaukee
  • Had four points against Purdue Fort Wayne in Horizon League Championship First Round

2021-22
  • Played in 20 games with one start
  • Averaged 1.0 points and 0.7 rebounds, shooting 47.4% (9-of-19) from the floor with two assists and two blocks
  • Scored four points hitting both of his field goals with a rebound against Western Michigan
  • Had five points, four rebounds and two blocks against UM-Dearborn
  • Tallied four points against Green Bay in the first round of the Horizon League Championship

2020-21
  • A mid-season graduate transfer from Tulane who played in 11 games with four starts and averaged 2.2 points, 2.0 rebounds and blocked eight shots
  • Made his Titan debut with nine points, two blocks and two rebounds against Wright State
  • Grabbed a career-high eight rebounds with three points, two blocks and two steals in game one against Oakland
  • Had six points with a block in the loss at Oakland
  • Posted four rebounds, a block and a steal in the first home game win over Purdue Fort Wayne

Prior To Detroit Mercy
  • Played in 34 games with Tulane as a freshman, sophomore and junior, but did not see any action as a senior prior to his transfer to Detroit Mercy
  • Scored a career-high 11 points at South Alabama as a sophomore and has twice pulled down a career-best five boards as a freshman against Southeastern Louisiana and five as a sophomore at South Florida
  • A three-time member of the AAC All-Academic Team

High School
  • Rated as a three-star prospect by ESPN.com
  • Played under head coach Chris Chavannes at The Patrick School in Hillside, N.J., which was ranked No. 10 nationally in the USA Today preseason poll and No. 6 by MaxPreps
  • Helped the Celtics to a 29-4 overall record to finish No. 1 in the NJ.com Top 20 after winning the school’s sixth NJSIAA Tournament of Champions and the 2017 South Jersey, Non-Public A title – the school’s first since 2009
  • Played alongside three Division I players in Nick Richards (Kentucky), Jamir Harris (Minnesota) and Marcus McClary (Monmouth)

Personal
  • Son of Nyakong Gach Rik and Kueth Reath Koka 
  • Has seven siblings
  • Graduated with a degree in Public Health from Tulane and is currently pursuing a master’s in Health Service Administration 
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Historical Player Information

  • 33

    2020-21Graduate Student

    Center
    7'1" 202 lbs
    33
  • 33

    2021-22Graduate Student

    Center
    7'1" 202 lbs
    33
  • 33

    2022-23Graduate Student

    Center
    7'1" 202 lbs
    33