Keeyan Itejere

Marquette Men's Basketball defeats DePaul 89-69

Photo by: Marquette University

Photo by: Maggie Bean

Height:
6-9
Weight:
215
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Knightdale, N.C.
High School:
GRACE Christian School

Honors and Awards
2022-23
BIG EAST All-Academic Team

2022-23 Season Notes - (Fr.): Scored first-career basket against CMU (Nov. 10) ...

2021-22 Season Notes (Fr.): Redshirt Season

High School: Competed under head coach DeShannon Morris at GRACE Christian School (Raleigh, N.C.), contributing 11.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, 3.0 blocks and 2.0 assists per game … Was an All-Eastern Plains Independent Conference selection and tabbed the school’s most valuable player … Was a member of multiple conference championship squads and helped the Eagles to the 3A NCISAA quarterfinals on two occasions … As an all-league performer his junior season, he contributed 9.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game in 2019-20 and helped GRACE Christian to a 21-12 overall record and the second round of the NCISAA 3A state playoffs.

Personal: Born October 14, 2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada … Son of Larry and Chelsey Itejere … One of four children (Jayden, Amaya, Leyna) … Majoring in advertising.