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Banna Diop

	Class: Junior
	Hometown: Dakar, Senegal
	High School: Kurashiki Suisho

	Height: 6-6
	Position: Center
	Birthdate: 10/25/1987
	Experience: 2L

05/03/2012

Forty-Eight Utah State Student-Athletes Set To Graduate This Weekend

Among those student-athletes graduating are 17 track athletes, nine football players, four athletes each from women's basketball, soccer and softball, three each from men's basketball, and men's and women's tennis, two golfers, one gymnast and one volleyball player.

03/15/2012

USU Women's Basketball Ends Season With a 69-58 WNIT First-Round Loss at Utah Thursday

Utah State ends the season with a 21-10 record.

03/06/2012

Second-Seeded Aggie Women's Basketball Set to Face Seventh-Seeded Nevada in WAC Tournament Quarterfinals Wednesday

Utah State will take on the Wolf Pack at 3:30 p.m. (MT).

03/03/2012

USU Women Spear Spartans Saturday, 84-71, For School-Record 20th Win

Aggies Have Festive Senior Night With Five Players In Double-Digits, Two With Double-Doubles

03/02/2012

Women's Basketball Closes Out the Regular Season on Senior Night Against San Jose State

The Aggies will thank all six of their seniors.

03/03/2012

Utah State Women's Basketball vs. San Jose State

03/01/2012

Utah State Women's Basketball vs. Hawai'i

02/11/2012

Utah State Women's Basketball vs. New Mexico State

01/19/2012

Utah State Women's Basketball vs. Fresno State

01/03/2012

Utah State Women's Basketball vs. Asbury

• 2010 Academic All-WAC
• 2010 WAC All-Freshman

2010-11 (SO):
Played and started all 33 games... Averaged 9.5 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.3 assists... Ended the season first in the WAC in blocks, averaging 2.56 bpg... Finished the season with a field goal percentage of .483 and a free throw percentage of .653... Tied a USU record with eight blocks against Boise State (Jan. 6)... Scored a career-high 22 points against Idaho (Feb.10) and against Hawai'i (March 3) along with recording a season-high 12 rebounds against Boise State... Had a perfect game from the free throw line against New Mexico State (March 10) going 7-for-7... Made nine three-point field goals during the season.

2009-10 (R-FR):
Played in 29 games and started eight... Averaged 16.7 minutes, 5.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.2 blocks... Had a then-career high 13 points against Montana Western (Nov. 28)... Collected 10 rebounds in three games including Boise State (Jan. 30), LA Tech (Feb. 6) and Pepperdine (Dec. 4)... Posted a career-high five blocks against North Dakota State (Dec. 14)... Was named to the WAC all-Freshman team... Earned academic all-WAC honors as a redshirt freshman.

2008-09 (FR):
Played in nine games for the Aggies before suffering and injury and receiving a medical redshirt... Grabbed six rebounds and scored one point on the season.

HIGH SCHOOL:
Averaged 40.1 points, 12.7 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game playing for Kurashiki Suisho HS in Kurashiki, Japan... Led her team to the quarterfinals of the National High School Championships in 2005... Named first-team all-Japanese high... Leading scorer for three years during high school.

PERSONAL:
Born Oct. 25, 1987... Daughter of I Brahima Diop and Khady Sarr... Has two brothers and five sisters... Married to Racine Guisse... Daughter Diarra Guisse is four... Full name is Ndeye Banna Diop Guisse... Has aspirations to play professional basketball... Major is interdisciplinary studies... Name pronounced Bawna Jop.

YEAR 	        GP-GS   Min-Avg.        FG       PCT    3FG      PCT    FT      PCT     REB-AVG AST     TO      ST      BLK     PF-D     PTS-AVG
2008-09 (Fr.)	9-0	24-2.7	        0-11	.000	0-3	.000	1-2	.500	6-0.7	0	3	0	1	4-0	1-0.1
2009-10 (So.)	29-8	484-16.7	63-146	.432	13-44	.295	27-38	.711	142-4.9	5	27	5	36	58-0	166-5.7
2010-11 (Jr.)	33-33	832-25.2	128-265	.483	9-38	.237	47-72	.653	195-5.9	43	50	15	62	78-1	312-9.5
Totals	        71-41  1340-18.9	191-422	.453	22-85	.259	75-112	.670	343-4.8	48	80	20	99	140-1 	479-6.7