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2024-2025 Men's Basketball Roster

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32 Tanner Christensen

32 Tanner Christensen

  • Position:
    Center
  • Height:
    6-10
  • Weight:
    265
  • Class:
    Graduate Student
  • Hometown:
    Spokane Valley, Wash.
  • Prev School:
    Utah Tech

Summary

Biography

2024-25 (Graduate)

  • All-Big West honorable mention.
  • Only UH player to start all 31 games on the season. 
  • Led the team in more than a half dozen categories.
  • Tops in rebounding (6.9), field goal percentage (.599) and blocks (24).
  • Also led the team in double-doubles (3).
  • Finished second on the team in scoring (10.8 ppg).
  • Posted the fourth-highest single-season field goal percentage in school history.
  • Co-led the team in Big West scoring (11.0 ppg).
  • Also ranked fourth in the conference in rebounding (6.9).
  • Opened the season by averaging 15.0 ppg, 7.3 rpg and shooting 70 percent from the field in leading UH to the OUTRIGGER Rainbow Classic.
  • Named the OUTRIGGER Rainbow Classic Most Outstanding Player.
  • Notched 25 points, including 20 by halftime, in an overtime win over Weber State.
  • Shot 10-of-11 from the floor against the Wildcats and scored the game-tying bucket with six seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime.
  • Earned Big West Player of the Week for the performance.
  • Had two other 20-point games during the year, notching 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting and eight rebounds in a win over San Jose State and 23 points on 10-of-13 shooting and eight rebounds at UC Santa Barbara.
  • Earned CSC Academic All-District Honors.
  • Named to the Big West Commissioners Honor Roll.
  • Earned a spot on the NABC Honors Court.

Prior to UH
  • Has played in 113 games with 93 starts during his collegiate career. 
  • Played last two seasons for Utah Tech in St. George, Utah. 
  • Started all 63 games for the Trailblazers.
  • In 2023-24, averaged 11.5 points and shot 56.4 percent from the floor, while adding 6.8 rebounds per game and 48 blocks.
  • Started his collegiate career at Idaho
  • Played in 50 games in two seasons, for the Vandals.
  • Started 27 of 28 games as a sophomore, while averaging 8.5 points on 57.3 percent shooting, along with 6.4 rebounds per game. 

Prep
  • A 2018 graduate of University High School in Spokane Valley, Wash.
  • A three-year letterwinner for the Titans.
  • and averaged nearly a double-double throughout his high school career. Averaged a double-double as a senior with 16.4 ppg and 10.3 rpg.
  • Named First-Team All Greater Spokane League as a senior and honorable mention as a junior.
  • Served as team captain during both his junior and senior seasons.
  • A member of the National Honor Society while maintaining a 4.0 GPA.
  •  Played club basketball with Eastern Washington Elite.
  • After graduating from high school did a two-year church mission in Argentina.

Personal
  • Born in Provo, Utah.
  • Graduated from Utah Tech with a master’s degree in accounting. 
  • Pursuing a master’s in finance at UH.
  • Has a wife, Emilie.
  • Has a younger brother and a younger sister.
  •  Parents are Kirt and Emily Christensen of Spokane Valley, Wash.
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