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'' Boys basketball Player of the Year for

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as a senior. He played

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for the

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, where he was the 2013 Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year and finished as the second leading

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(behind

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) and fifth leading rebounder in program history. He led the team to three postseason tournaments and the 2010–11 Ivy League Championship. He holds the

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record for most single-season and career Player of the Week Awards. He earned

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2013 All-American honorable mention recognition. Hummer has played professionally in countries such as Germany, Finland, Turkey, Russia, France (Monaco), Greece and Japan. In 2024, Hummer debuted for the

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High school career

Hummer played for

of the

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(WCAC). He joined the starting lineup for the final two months of his sophomore season. Hummer was a second team 2007–08 All-Metro DC selection by ''

'' as Gonzaga finished as the top-ranked school in the Metro area during his junior year. The team's

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was sophomore

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. Hummer scored 16 points and added 14 rebounds in the 2008 city championship game victory against Theodore Roosevelt High School. He was a 2008–09 All-Metro DC selection and Boys basketball Player of the Year by ''The Washington Post''. Hummer scored a career-high 32 points and added 15 rebounds against

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on January 21, 2009. His performance earned him recognition by ''

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'' as its ESPN RISE National Boys Basketball Player of the Week. The team's success over #15-ranked Dematha propelled it from 43 to 13 in the national rankings. However, Gonzaga lost the 2009 WCAC championship by a 62–61 margin on a last second shot to DeMatha despite 18 points and 10 rebounds by Hummer. Hummer was selected to play in the 2009 Capital Classic. Hummer was a back to the basket player who generally defended opposing high school centers. He had an underdeveloped face-up game yet he was undersized to play that style of game in power conferences. Power conference schools questioned how much potential he had in a league where his low post skills would likely be defended by larger, stronger and/or more athletic players who relegated him to perimeter play. When Princeton head coach

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recruited him, the only competition was mid-major schools and Hummer was not interested in any of them. During his campus visit with his father at his brother Alex's (Princeton Class of 2011) dorm room, he decided at midnight to go hang out at Dan Mavraides room across campus, signalling to his father that he was pretty comfortable with Princeton and likely to attend. Due to Hummer's relationship with former Princeton and current

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head coach

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, he was able to train at the

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gym over the summers. He also played in the Kenner League (the only

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–sanctioned summer league in the Washington, D.C.) during the summer.

College career

Freshman season

On December 13, 2009, Hummer scored 17 points and added 2 steals and 2 rebounds with no turnovers in a 65–50 Princeton victory over . It marked the first game in which Hummer led Princeton in scoring. The following day he earned his first Ivy League Rookie of the Week recognition. On January 29, 2010, Hummer posted 10 points against Brown. He tallied 8 points and 4 rebounds against Yale the following night. He earned his second Ivy League Rookie of the Week award on February 1 as a result. Two of his three highest scoring games for the 2009–10 Tigers came in Princeton's two victories during the postseason 2010 College Basketball Invitational against Duquesne and IUPUI.

Sophomore season

On November 30, 2010, Hummer posted 22 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks against . On December 5, he added 17 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal against . In the two games, he shot 18-for-24 from the field for a 75%

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. On December 6, he earned Ivy League Player of the week. While starting 31 of 32 games, Hummer helped the 2010–11 team earn a share of the

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championship, win a

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against

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and contest

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with a two-point loss in the

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. That year, Hummer was a 2011 Second team All-Ivy and

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(NABC) First Team All-District selection.

Junior season

In the December 7 contest against , Hummer scored the game-winning

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with three seconds left in the game. On December 14, 2011, Hummer tallied 21 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists, and 4 steals in an

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victory over . Then on December 18, he had 20 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks against . These back-to-back 20 point performances, which included a career high in assists against Rider and a career high in steals against Northeastern, earned him Ivy League Player of the Week recognition on December 19, 2011. His 25-point, 15-rebound effort in the December 30 triple

victory over eventual 2012 ACC men's basketball tournament champion

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tied his career-high point production and established a career high in rebounds. When Hummer scored 18 points on February 4, 2012, against

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, he became the 29th Princeton Tiger (and 5th Princeton junior as well as 2nd Hummer family member) to reach the 1000-point plateau. Hummer's 515 points was the highest single-season total by a Princeton player since

. Hummer's efforts helped the 2011–12 team earn a bid to the

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. He was a 2012 unanimous first team All-Ivy and a second team NABC All-District selection.

Senior season

Hummer was the unanimous preseason selection as Ivy League Player of the Year by a wide variety of media outlets, including Rivals.com and

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. He served as co-

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of the

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. On November 24, Hummer posted a career-high 28 points against Lafayette along with 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals, and a block. Hummer tallied 19 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and a steal against Drexel on December 8. He then earned Ivy League Player of the Week on December 10, 2012. Hummer tallied 18 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks against Fordham on December 15. This earned him a second straight Ivy League Player of the Week on December 17, 2012 That week he matched Bill Bradley as the only two Tigers with 1300 career points and 600 career rebounds. On December 20 and 22 against Rider and Bucknell, Hummer posted 15 points, 7 rebound, 5 assists, 2 steals and a block and then 17 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks. These performances earned Hummer a third straight Ivy League Player of the Week award on December 24, 2012. He was the first Princeton Tiger to earn three consecutive Player of the Week recognitions. On January 5, Hummer tied his career high with 28 points and added 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and a block against Elon. Hummer was recognized with his fourth Ivy League Player of the Week award on January 7, 2013. The fourth Player of the Week recognition established a Princeton single-season record, surpassing

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'11. Hummer tied the Ivy League record for single-season Player of the Week awards with his fifth on February 4. Hummer averaged 19 points, 8 rebounds and 5.5 assists in wins against

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and Columbia on February 1 and 2. His seven assists against Columbia was a career high. On February 22, Hummer posted 17 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals against Columbia. The following night, he scored 17 points while adding 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks against Cornell. The weekend victories mark the first weekend road sweep in two seasons. Hummer was rewarded as Ivy League Player of the week on February 25. His sixth player of the week recognitions doubled the previous school record and give him 8 career POTW honors. Hummer posted his first double-double of the season on March 2, when he had 23 points and 14 rebounds as Princeton hosted

for a 58–53 victory. The game marked Princeton's 24th consecutive home win against Harvard. In the game, Hummer passed Kit Mueller and Doug Davis to move into second place on the Princeton career scoring list. The following night he had 13 points and 6 rebounds against Dartmouth. For the week, he earned Ivy League player of the week giving him a record seventh single-season recognition and record tying ninth career recognition. On March 12, the

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named Hummer to its 2012–13 Men's All-District II (NY, NJ, DE, DC, PA, WV) Team, based upon voting from its national membership. Hummer was a unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection as well as Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year, becoming Princeton's first since

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. Hummer also surpassed Davis as the Ivy League's career leader in games played. On March 26, the

named Hummer to its Division I All‐District 13 team as selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC, making him eligible for the State Farm Coaches’ Division I All-America team. It was Hummer's third consecutive NABC honor. Hummer also earned

honorable mention All-American recognition.

Professional career

Hummer was invited to tryout to be a member of the

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' roster for the

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. In January 2014, he signed with

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of the German

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. In August 2014, Hummer signed with the Nilan Bisons Loimaa of the Finnish

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. In January 2016, Hummer signed with

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of the Basketball Bundesliga. On November 24, 2016, Hummer signed with the Turkish team

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. On August 17, 2017, Hummer signed with Russian club

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for the 2017–18

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season. He posted 10.2 points and 4.4 rebounds per game in the VTB League. On August 3, 2018, Hummer inked with

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of the

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. On January 15, 2019, Hummer joined

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for the rest of the 2018–19 VTB United League season. On October 5, 2019, Hummer signed with Teksüt Bandırma of the

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(BSL). On February 29, 2020, Hummer signed with

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of the

(BBL). On July 29, 2020, Hummer signed with

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of the Turkish BSL. He averaged 11.3 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.1 assists, and 1.3 steals per game. In October 2021, Hummer signed with

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of the

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and the

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. In 22 Greek domestic league games, Hummer averaged 13.4 points, 6.4 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 0.5 blocks and 1.7 steals, while playing around 29 minutes per contest. On October 21, 2022, Hummer signed with Galatasaray Nef of the Turkish BSL. On February 1, 2023, Hummer returned to Greece, signing with Peristeri Athens for the rest of the season. In 18 league games, he averaged 9.4 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.4 assists, playing around 21 minutes per contest. On June 21, 2023, Hummer signed with

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of the Japanese

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. On December 14, 2024, Hummer signed with the Tasmania JackJumpers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) for the rest of the 2024–25 season. In 12 games, he averaged 4.6 points per game.

National team career

In 2024, Hummer debuted for the

in the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup European Pre-Qualifiers.

Personal life

Ian's father, Ed, was a member of Princeton's class of 1967 and a former high school All-American. Ed helped

take the 1964–65 Princeton Tigers to the semifinals of the

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. His uncle, John Hummer, was a member of Princeton's class of 1970 and played six seasons in the

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. Ian's mother, Judy, died of

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at the end of his freshman year of high school. His older brother Alex is a Princeton class of 2011 graduate.

References

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