Tickets2021-22 Season (Junior): Did not see game action after suffering preseason injury; was not cleared for practice until conference play.
2020-21 Season (Sophomore): Played in eight games as a walk-on reserve with one start, averaging 4.7 minutes … registered first collegiate start at Temple (2/4) with one steal and one rebound in 10 minutes … recorded an assist in eight minutes at East Carolina (3/7) … tallied two rebounds, an assist and a steal in five minutes against Houston (3/14).
2019-20 Season (Freshman): Played in three games as a walk-on reserve, averaging one minute without recording any statistics.
Prior to Cincinnati: Averaged 13.5 points, 6.0 rebounds during the 2018-19 season at Gould Academy, a prep school in Bethel, Maine … played three seasons of club basketball for the Thames Valley Cavaliers in London, England, averaging 19.5 points, 3.9 rebound and 2.9 assists in the final season (2017-18) … Played Great Britain U16 and U17 and was selected to play on the U18 squad but was held out due to injury.
Personal: Born Jan. 5, 2000 in Sydney, Australia … son of Moirah Van Niekerk and Robert Banks … has two sisters, Aaliyah and Chloe, and two brothers, Ruben and Ryan … has two uncles that previous played Rugby for the Zimbabwe national team in the 1990s … right-handed.
2020-21 Season (Sophomore): Played in eight games as a walk-on reserve with one start, averaging 4.7 minutes … registered first collegiate start at Temple (2/4) with one steal and one rebound in 10 minutes … recorded an assist in eight minutes at East Carolina (3/7) … tallied two rebounds, an assist and a steal in five minutes against Houston (3/14).
2019-20 Season (Freshman): Played in three games as a walk-on reserve, averaging one minute without recording any statistics.
Prior to Cincinnati: Averaged 13.5 points, 6.0 rebounds during the 2018-19 season at Gould Academy, a prep school in Bethel, Maine … played three seasons of club basketball for the Thames Valley Cavaliers in London, England, averaging 19.5 points, 3.9 rebound and 2.9 assists in the final season (2017-18) … Played Great Britain U16 and U17 and was selected to play on the U18 squad but was held out due to injury.
Personal: Born Jan. 5, 2000 in Sydney, Australia … son of Moirah Van Niekerk and Robert Banks … has two sisters, Aaliyah and Chloe, and two brothers, Ruben and Ryan … has two uncles that previous played Rugby for the Zimbabwe national team in the 1990s … right-handed.