Donte Ingram (born August 15, 1996) is an American

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player for

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of the

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for the

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. Before Loyola, he attended

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and was teammates with

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player

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. Ingram drew national attention after helping the 2017–18 Ramblers reach the

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round of the 2018 NCAA tournament. He was named to the second-team All-

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as a senior.

Early life and high school

Ingram was born on August 15, 1996. He is the son of Don Ingram, who played basketball in the Marines, and grew up in

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. In middle school he competed in

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(AAU) play for Team Trouble, alongside future

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player Jordan Caroline. He attended Danville High School for two seasons. He competed in AAU for Mean Streets, and

, who played on a different AAU team, convinced him to transfer to

in Chicago. As a junior, Ingram was utilized as the

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on the Class 4A state championship team. Due to residency issues, Ingram was declared ineligible by the

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on January 15 but was reinstated on February 5.

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, a native of Chicago, persuaded Ingram to come to Loyola (Illinois) after receiving a scholarship offer from

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. One of the reasons Ingram picked the team is because his older brother DaJuan Gouard, who is now a community college coach, played for a

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championship in 2002 with the Ramblers.

College career

When Ingram arrived at Loyola, the team had had three straight losing seasons, but he liked coach

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and the "family" feel of the program. He was an important piece of the 2014–15 Loyola Ramblers team that won the

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as a freshman, averaging 5 points and 3.1 rebounds per game. As a sophomore, he posted 7.4 points per game. His best game that year was a 19-point performance against

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on March 3, 2016. Ingram sprained his MCL in early December 2016 but recovered quickly. On December 17, he had 20 points and nine rebounds in an 81–75 win over

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and hit the three-pointer to send the game to overtime. Ingram set career highs with 30 points and 10 rebounds in a 102–98 loss to

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on December 29. He improved his scoring average to 13.6 points per game as a junior and added 6.6 rebounds per game. Ingram led the conference in three point shooting with 47.3 percent and was named to the Third Team All-

. As a senior, Ingram averaged 11.5 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. He was named to the Second team All-Missouri Valley Conference. Ingram was an important contributor to Loyola's 10–1 start, the best in 52 years, which included an upset of

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. He contributed 18 points and eight rebounds in the final of the 2018 Missouri Valley tournament against

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and was named most outstanding player. With the win, Loyola reached its first NCAA tournament since 1985. The Ramblers received an 11 seed, and in the Round of 64, Ingram hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer on a pass from

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to defeat

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64–62 and finished with 13 points. He led Loyola on an improbable run to its first Final Four since 1963, scoring 12 points in the Elite Eight win against

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. He received some media attention when a message from

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prompted him to open a

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account. After the season Ingram signed with Edge Sports International in preparation for the

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College statistics

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Professional career

Ingram worked out with several teams in preparation for the NBA draft and was praised for his size, versatility, shooting and defense. Despite going undrafted, he was signed by the

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to an NBA Summer League roster. In five games in the Las Vegas Summer League, Ingram averaged 6.0 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per game, shooting .312 from the field. His best game came in the fourth game against the

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where he finished with 13 points, four assists and two rebounds. He signed with the Mavericks on October 8, 2018. He was waived three days later. He was then added to the roster of the

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, the Mavericks’

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affiliate. On the season, Ingram appeared in 43 games for the Legends, averaging 3.7 points and 2.2 rebounds per game. For the 2019–20 season, Ingram was acquired by the Hornets'

affiliate, the

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. On February 26, 2020, Ingram scored 17 points in a 129–115 loss to the

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. He averaged 4.8 points and 2.4 rebounds in 16.6 minutes per game. On February 11, 2021, Ingram signed with the

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for the

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. He averaged 18.3 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.4 assists, and 1.7 steals per game. Ingram signed with Dutch club

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of the

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on June 12. For the 2022–23 season, he played in Romania with

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. In the 2023–24 season, Ingram played for

of the

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. His teammate and friend, Saieed Ivey, was killed in June 2016; as a memorial, Ingram had custom Nike shoes made with the number 2 — Ivey's jersey number — on the top of the shoe and the acronym FINAO (failure is not an option), one of Ivey's favorite sayings, on the side.

References

External links

Loyola Ramblers bio
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