Cartier Diarra Season 2020-21

2020-21: Played in four games … Opted out of the season on Dec. 15 … Totaled seven points, three rebounds and a block against Penn State (12/8) … Cracked the double-digit plateau for the first time at Tech, posting 10 points and finished with three assists and two rebounds against USF (11/29) … Owned five points, three rebounds and three assists versus No. 3/3 Villanova (11/28), with his most clutch assist coming with two seconds left in the second half for the go-ahead bucket by Keve Aluma … Logged 19 minutes of action and made his first four shots, finishing with eight points, three rebounds and two assists against Radford (11/25). 

Kansas State: Played in 95 games, drawing 58 starts … 2020 first-team Academic All-Big 12 … Averaged 13.3 points, 3.8 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.8 steals per game in 2019-20 and was one of only seven players nationally to average that stat line or better … One of only two Big 12 players to rank in the league's top five in assists and steals and top 15 for scoring this past season … Led the Wildcats in 20-point games, boasting five in 2019-20 … Earned Big 12 Player of the Week after scoring a career-high 25 points against Tulsa thanks to a career-best six 3-pointers … Had 15 games of owning two or more steals this past year … Posted the first 10-assist outing by a Kansas State player since 2014 and led the Wildcats in assists in 21 games last year.

Personal: Cartier Ducati Diarra … Born in Manhattan, New York on Feb. 6 … Son of Sirima Diarra and Danyelle Lee … Brother of Abraham, Cyncere and LadiRoyale … Majored at Kansas State in human development and family sciences and will be earning his master's at Tech in consumer studies.