TCU Adds Stanford Transfer Guard Agnes Emma-Nnopu to 2023-2024 Roster
5/16/2023 7:04:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Emma-Nnopu appeared in 82 games across three seasons for the Cardinal
FORT WORTH – Agnes Emma-Nnopu has officially signed a financial aid agreement to join TCU women's basketball ahead of the 2023-2024 season.
Emma-Nnopu, a 5-11 guard, suited up in 82 games over three seasons for national power Stanford. She helped return the Cardinal to the apex of the college basketball landscape during her stay in Palo Alto. Emma-Nnopu was a contributor on Stanford's 2021 NCAA Championship squad as a freshman. Stanford advanced to two Final Fours and claimed the Pac-12 regular season championship in each of Emma-Nnopu's three seasons with the program.
Originally from Ocean Grove, Victoria, Australia, Emma-Nnopu has two years to play two seasons at TCU.
Last season, Emma-Nnopu earned 11 starts while shooting 42.6 percent from distance. Eight of Emma-Nnopu's starts in 2022-2023 came in Pac-12 play on a Stanford squad that produced a 15-3 conference record.
Emma-Nnopu tallied 107 points while averaging a career-best 13.4 minutes per contest last winter. More than half of her scoring output came from behind the arc. Emma-Nnopu drained 20-47 three-point field goal attempts. Her three-point field goal percentage would have ranked 13th national among all Division I players had she been eligible for inclusion in NCAA statistical rankings. Emma Nnopu's also connected at a 79 percent clip at the charity stripe.
Her top-three scoring performances all sparked conference wins. Emma-Nnopu poured in a career-high 17 points across 16 minutes to will Stanford to a road victory at Arizona State on Feb. 12. She shot 5-6 from long range in the win. Emma-Nnopu chipped in eight points in wins over Oregon State on Jan. 27 and Oregon on March 2.
She carved out a rotational role in 2021-2022 on a Cardinal squad that concluded the winter with a 32-4 overall record and advanced to the Final Four. Emma-Nnopu appeared in 27 contests and averaged five minutes per game off the bench.
As a freshman, Emma-Nnopu came off the bench 22 times during Stanford's National Championship run. She was the only player to snag more offensive rebounds than defensive boards.
She has represented her homeland on the global stage for five straight seasons. Emma-Nnopu is a four-time medalist for Basketball Australia and has competed in FIBA tournaments since the U16 level. She won gold in 2017 at the U16 Asia Qualifiers, earned a silver medal three years later at the U19 FIBA World Cup and picked up a pair of bronze medals at the U17 FIBA World Cup and the U18 Asia Qualifiers.
Emma-Nnopu was born in Aba, Nigeria and moved to Australia at the age of three.
She left home and relocated to the Australian Institute of Sport in 2018, where she lived and trained with the nation's top amateur athletes. Emma-Nnopu played in all four Victoria Country Junior State teams during her prep career. and earned back-to-back gold medals as a member of the U20 Victorian Women's State team in 2019 and 2020.
Emma-Nnopu is a 2019 graduate of Lake Ginninderra College. She is the second member of her family to play college basketball. Her cousin, Buchi Awaji, enjoyed a four-year playing career with stops at Kansas State, Southern Mississippi and Citrus College.
Emma-Nnopu, a 5-11 guard, suited up in 82 games over three seasons for national power Stanford. She helped return the Cardinal to the apex of the college basketball landscape during her stay in Palo Alto. Emma-Nnopu was a contributor on Stanford's 2021 NCAA Championship squad as a freshman. Stanford advanced to two Final Fours and claimed the Pac-12 regular season championship in each of Emma-Nnopu's three seasons with the program.
Originally from Ocean Grove, Victoria, Australia, Emma-Nnopu has two years to play two seasons at TCU.
Last season, Emma-Nnopu earned 11 starts while shooting 42.6 percent from distance. Eight of Emma-Nnopu's starts in 2022-2023 came in Pac-12 play on a Stanford squad that produced a 15-3 conference record.
Emma-Nnopu tallied 107 points while averaging a career-best 13.4 minutes per contest last winter. More than half of her scoring output came from behind the arc. Emma-Nnopu drained 20-47 three-point field goal attempts. Her three-point field goal percentage would have ranked 13th national among all Division I players had she been eligible for inclusion in NCAA statistical rankings. Emma Nnopu's also connected at a 79 percent clip at the charity stripe.
Her top-three scoring performances all sparked conference wins. Emma-Nnopu poured in a career-high 17 points across 16 minutes to will Stanford to a road victory at Arizona State on Feb. 12. She shot 5-6 from long range in the win. Emma-Nnopu chipped in eight points in wins over Oregon State on Jan. 27 and Oregon on March 2.
She carved out a rotational role in 2021-2022 on a Cardinal squad that concluded the winter with a 32-4 overall record and advanced to the Final Four. Emma-Nnopu appeared in 27 contests and averaged five minutes per game off the bench.
As a freshman, Emma-Nnopu came off the bench 22 times during Stanford's National Championship run. She was the only player to snag more offensive rebounds than defensive boards.
She has represented her homeland on the global stage for five straight seasons. Emma-Nnopu is a four-time medalist for Basketball Australia and has competed in FIBA tournaments since the U16 level. She won gold in 2017 at the U16 Asia Qualifiers, earned a silver medal three years later at the U19 FIBA World Cup and picked up a pair of bronze medals at the U17 FIBA World Cup and the U18 Asia Qualifiers.
Emma-Nnopu was born in Aba, Nigeria and moved to Australia at the age of three.
She left home and relocated to the Australian Institute of Sport in 2018, where she lived and trained with the nation's top amateur athletes. Emma-Nnopu played in all four Victoria Country Junior State teams during her prep career. and earned back-to-back gold medals as a member of the U20 Victorian Women's State team in 2019 and 2020.
Emma-Nnopu is a 2019 graduate of Lake Ginninderra College. She is the second member of her family to play college basketball. Her cousin, Buchi Awaji, enjoyed a four-year playing career with stops at Kansas State, Southern Mississippi and Citrus College.
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