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2024-25 Men's Basketball Roster

4 Nicholas Ughovwa

  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 218
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Sulphur, La.
  • Highschool St. Louis Catholic

Biography

Awards and Honors
  • 2024-25 SAA Men's Basketball Defensive Athlete of the Year
  • 2024-25 CSC Academic All-District® Men's Basketball Team
  • 2025 Spring Dean's List
  • 2025 Spring SAA Academic Honor Roll
  • 2024 Spring SAA Academic Honor Roll
  • 2023-24 CSC Academic All-District® Men's Basketball Team
  • 2023 Spring SAA Academic Honor Roll
  • 2022 Spring SAA Academic Honor Roll
Senior Season (2024–25): Named SAA Men's Basketball Defensive Athlete of the Year ... Led the conference with 48 blocks while ranking 29th nationally in NCAA Division III ... His 1.85 blocks per game ranked 39th in the nation ... Ughovwa started all 26 games for the Majors during his senior campaign ... He averaged 8.4 points per game and ranked 10th in the league with 142 rebounds (5.5 rpg) ... He also recorded 25 steals and 18 assists ...On Feb. 1, Ughovwa set a career-high with 23 points against Sewanee ... A dominant presence in the paint, Ughovwa finished his collegiate career with 314 rebounds, including 192 defensive rebounds and 122 offensive rebounds, along with 89 blocks and 49 steals ... Over four years, he appeared in 97 games and logged 1,484:23 minutes of playing time.
 
Junior Season (2023-24): Appeared in all 25 games and started in 16 games for the Majors ... Named to the 2023-24 CSC Academic All-District® Men's Basketball team ... Scored 168 points on the season ... Had 24 blocks on the season ... Grabbed 89 rebounds for the year ... Scored 15 points and seven rebounds in only 19 minutes with a win over Hendrix on Jan 14.

Prior to Millsaps: Lettered in basketball and golf ... In basketball Ughovwa was a 2019-20 District 4-3A MVP ... 2019-20 LHSAA All-State Honorable Mention and All-State SWLA 1st Team ... 2019-20 All-District 1st Team ... 2020-21 District 4-3A All-District 1st Team ... 1st and 2nd place district champ ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Future Business Leaders of America ... AP Scholar ... Biliteracy in Spanish ... Honors Diploma ... Ambassador in the National Society of High School Students. 

Personal: Majoring in Government and Politics ... Intern at the Johnson Law Firm ... Shadowed attorney Adam Johnson ... 5x Dean’s List ... Government and Politics Club ... SAA Academic Honor Roll ... Chess Club ... Reid and Cynthia Bingham Award junior year ... Scholar of Distinction ... Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. ... Vice polemarch ... Cousin Galen Robinson played basketball at the University of Houston from (2015-2019) ... Play the alto saxophone in the adult orchestra at Glad Tidings Church ... Son of Dr. Edward and Mrs. Stephanie Ughovwa.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2021-22Freshman

    F
    6'4" 190 lbs
    4
  • 4

    2022-23Sophomore

    F
    6'4" 190 lbs
    4
  • 4

    2023-24Junior

    F
    6'4" 190 lbs
    4
  • 4

    2024-25Senior

    F
    6'4" 218 lbs
    4