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2025-26 Men's Basketball Roster

25 Paul Otieno

  • Position Forward
  • Ht./Wt. 6-9 / 230
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Nairobi, Kenya
  • High School Sunrise Christian Academy
  • Major Applied Financial Economics

Biography

2025-26 • Senior
• Helped the Billikens to a school-record 29 wins, an Atlantic 10 regular-season co-championship, and the second round of the NCAA Championship.
• Played in all 35 games and made four starts.
• Averaged 5.3 points and 3.9 rebounds for the Billikens.
• Second on the team with 27 blocked shots.
• Shot 59.1 percent from the field.
• Scored a season-high 13 points twice – first in the win over Bethune-Cookman and again in the home victory against Duquesne.
• Recorded 10 points in the victory against Principia.
• Combined to shoot 4-of-4 from the field in the Billikens’ two NCAA Championship games against Georgia (nine points) and Michigan (five points).

2024-25 • Senior | at Quinnipiac
• First-team All-MAAC selection.
• Averaged a career-best 13.0 points and 8.6 rebounds, both ranking second on the Bobcats.
• Ranked second in the MAAC in blocks per game (2.1), double-doubles (13) and rebounds per game (8.6).
• Finished sixth in NCAA Division I with 3.91 offensive rebounds per game.
• Shot 58.5 percent from the field and 37.5 percent from 3-point range.
• Shot better than 80 percent (86-106) from the charity stripe.
• Scored in double-figures 25 times and had 14 double-digit rebounding games.
• Played against the Billikens at Chaifetz Arena Nov. 25, posting a double-double of 19 points and 10 rebounds while connecting on a then-career-high three 3-pointers.
• Recorded a career-best 28 points on 10-of-13 shooting from the field, 3-of-3 from 3-point range and 5-of-5 from the line against Niagara.
• Brought down a career-high 16 rebounds at Sacred Heart.
• Had a career-best five blocked shots against Mount St. Mary’s.

2023-24 • Junior | at Quinnipiac
• Averaged 11.0 points and 6.9 rebounds while starting all 34 games for the Bobcats.
• Led the MAAC in field-goal percentage (.638).
• Recorded four double-doubles.
• Scored a season-high 24 points against Rider, and followed that up with a 23-point outing against Manhattan.
• Turned in a 19-point, 12-rebound double-double in the Bobcats’ MAAC Tournament victory against Canisius.

2022-23 • Sophomore | at Quinnipiac
• Started in all 32 games and averaged 7.2 points and 6.8 rebounds.
• Shot .583 from the field.
• Registered a season-high 17 points vs. Manhattan, where he shot 8-of-8 from the field.
• Scored in double figures on nine occasions.
• Recorded four double-doubles.

Prior to Quinnipiac
• Played two years at Kilgore (Texas) College from 2020-22.
• In 2021-22, earned NJCAA honorable-mention All-American honors after posting 11 points and 7.6 rebounds while finishing ninth in the country in field-goal percentage (.687).
• Shot an impressive .696 from the field in 2020-21 and averaged 7.8 points and 6.8 rebounds.
 

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