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Temi Fagbenle
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Fagbenle in 2019
No. 14 – Indiana Fever
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Personal information
Born (1992-09-08) 8 September 1992 (age 32)
Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality American/British
High school
Listed height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight 180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
College
  • Harvard (2012–2015)
  • USC (2015–2016)
NBA Draft 2016 / Round: 3 / Pick: 35th overall
Selected by the Minnesota Lynx
Pro career 2017–present
League WNBA
Women's British Basketball League
EuroCup Women
Career history
2017–2019 Minnesota Lynx
2017–2019 CCC Polkowice
2019 BOTAŞ
2019–2020 Perfumerías Avenida
2020–2021 Reyer Venezia
2021–2022 Çukurova Basketbol
2022-2023 ZVVZ USK Praha
2023–present London Lions
2024–present Indiana Fever
Career highlights and awards
  • EuroCup champion (2024)
  • WBBL Trophy champion (2024)
  • Lega Basket Femminile champion (2021)
  • Copa de la Reina champion (2020)
  • WNBA champion (2017)
  • All Pac-12 Team (2016)
  • First-team All-Ivy League (2014)
  • Ivy League Rookie of the Year (2013)

Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Títílọlá Olúwatóbilọ́ba Fagbenle is an American-born British professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the London Lions of the Women's British Basketball League. She was chosen for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

Fagbenle was born on 8 September 1992 to a Nigerian family in Baltimore, Maryland, and has eleven siblings, including actor O. T. Fagbenle, film producer Luti Fagbenle, and video producer Oladapo 'Daps' Fagbenle. Her family moved to London, United Kingdom when she was aged 2 and she began playing basketball at the Haringey Angels club. When she was fifteen she returned to the United States to study at Blair Academy in New Jersey. She attended Harvard University before transferring to the University of Southern California for her final year of NCAA basketball. As of 2012 she was 1.93 metres (6 ft 4 in) tall and weighs 79.5 kilograms (175 lb).

Basketball career

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Fagbenle dancing with a fan in 2017

During her time at Blair Academy Fagbenle was voted on to the McDonald's All American High School team. She has represented Great Britain at the under-16, 18 and 20 levels and competed at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship held in Serbia.

She was named in the British team for the women's basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London having been fast-tracked into the senior side from the under-20s. She averaged 4.8 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 1.2 blocks and 1 steal in 19.2 minutes per game. GB went 0-5 and failed to qualify from their group.

Her selection for the Olympics came after a 12-month period in which she was unable to play for the Harvard Crimson women's basketball team due to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) declaring her ineligible. Fagbenle had taken the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exam whilst at school in the UK and NCAA rules say that an athlete must be enrolled in college within two years of sitting for the exam; Fagbenle took an additional year to graduate from high school because she repeated a year after moving to the United States.

Fagbenle has won several national championships in Spain, Italy and Great Britain as well as the EuroCup 2024 with the London Lions. In her WNBA rookie season 2017 she won the WNBA championship as a member of the Minnesota Lynx.

In January 2024, Fagbenle was signed by WNBA team Indiana Fever to a training camp contract. She made the final roster and appeared in the first eight regular season games (24 minutes / 9.1 points / 5.6 rebounds) during the first month of the season for the Fever before suffering an undisclosed left foot injury.

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career high ° League leader
Denotes seasons in which Fagbenle won a WNBA championship

WNBA

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2017 Minnesota 21 0 4.2 .500 .000 .778 1.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 1.2
2018 Minnesota 30 2 9.4 .506 .000 .696 2.0 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.7 3.1
2019 Minnesota 18 0 15.1 .519 .167 .722 2.9 0.8 0.3 0.3 1.8 5.4
Career 3 years, 1 team 69 2 9.3 .511 .167 .720 1.9 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.9 3.1

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2017 Minnesota 2 0 2.0 .667 .000 .000 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0
2018 Minnesota 1 0 24.0 .875 1.000 .000 4.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 15.0
2019 Minnesota 1 0 16.0 .500 .000 .000 1.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 0.0 4.0
Career 3 years, 1 team 4 0 11.0 .733 1.000 .000 1.5 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.0 5.8

College

Harvard and Southern California statistics

Source

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2012–13 Harvard 29 358 57.8% 66.7% 68.4% 7.7 1.1 1.0 1.3 12.3
2013–14 Harvard 30 391 53.9% 28.6% 70.5% 9.3 1.7 0.8 1.4 13.0
2014–15 Harvard 28 403 48.1% 22.2% 77.3% 10.4 2.0 1.3 1.0 14.4
2015–16 Southern California 32 436 51.4% 25.0% 70.5% 8.7 1.3 1.8 1.2 13.6
Career 119 1588 52.5% 11.1% 72.2% 6.8 1.5 1.2 1.2 13.3
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