Yuat Alok (born 1 January 1997) is a New Zealand college basketball player for the New Mexico State Aggies of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). He previously played for the TCU Horned Frogs.
| New Mexico State Aggies | |
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| Position | Power forward |
| League | Western Athletic Conference |
| Personal information | |
| Born | (1997-01-01) 1 January 1997 (age 25) Kenya |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
| Listed weight | 225 lb (102 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Impact Academy (Sarasota, Florida) |
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| Career history | |
| 2015 | New Zealand Breakers |
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Alok was born in Kenya, where he played football, and raised in Auckland, New Zealand after moving there with his family in 2005. He began playing basketball in his first year of high school and became a member of the New Zealand Breakers academy.[1] In the 2014–15 season, Alok played for the Breakers in the National Basketball League (NBL) as a development player.[2] At age 17, he moved to the United States for his senior year of high school in order to play for Impact Academy in Sarasota, Florida.
As a freshman and sophomore, Alok played college basketball at Chipola College, where he was a second-team All-Panhandle Conference selection both years. As a sophomore, he averaged 12.3 points and seven rebounds per game.[3] For his junior season, Alok transferred to NCAA Division I program TCU, being drawn there because head coach Jamie Dixon had previously coached his friend and countryman Steven Adams. Alok was considered the top junior college recruit in the country by JucoRecruiting.com.[4] He played 10 games for TCU, averaging 3.3 points and 2.5 rebounds in 13.1 minutes per game, before suffering a season-ending hand injury. On 17 January 2019, Alok transferred to UCF.[5][6] In December 2019, as he was set to debut for UCF, he was ruled ineligible for the remainder of the season. Alok moved to New Mexico State as a graduate transfer.[7]