| Amanze Egekeze | |
| Position: | Power forward |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 8 |
| Weight Lb: | 220 |
| League: | Korisliiga |
| Team: | Kataja |
| Number: | 12 |
| Nationality: | Nigerian / American |
| Birth Date: | 1995 12, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Lake in the Hills, IL |
| Highschool: | Huntley (Huntley, Illinois) |
| College: | Belmont (2014–2018) |
| Draft Year: | 2018 |
| Career Start: | 2018 |
| Years1: | 2018 |
| Team1: | Yokohama B-Corsairs |
| Years2: | 2019 |
| Team2: | Ryukyu Golden Kings |
| Years3: | 2019 |
| Team3: | Niigata Albirex BB |
| Years4: | 2019–2020 |
| Team4: | PAOK |
| Years5: | 2020–2021 |
| Team5: | BC Gries-Oberhoffen |
| Years6: | 2021–2022 |
| Team6: | Donar |
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| Years7: | 2022–present |
| Team7: | Kataja |
Amanze Ikenna Egekeze (born December 3, 1995) is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player who plays for Kataja of the Korisliiga. He also played for the Nigerian national team.[1] He is the son of Gilbert and Lize Egekeze, who are natives of Nigeria. His brothers are Uchenna and, Kemdi and has one sister Ogechi. Uchenna plays basketball at Calvin University.[2]
Egekeze played for Huntley High School, where he was the 2014 Northwest Herald Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Egekeze played on three Class 4A regional champions.[3]
Egekeze competed in college basketball for Belmont, where he scored 1,348 career points. As a senior, he was the second-leading scorer (16.8 per game) and rebounder (5.0 per game) for the Bruins. He was named to the First-team All-Ohio Valley Conference.[4] [5]
On July 13, 2018, Egekeze signed with the Yokohama B-Corsairs of the Japanese B.League.[6] During the 2018–19 season, he also played for the Ryukyu Golden Kings and the Niigata Albirex BB from the same league.[7]
On September 1, 2019, Egekeze signed with the Greek club PAOK.[8] The 2019–20 season was complicated for PAOK..[9] Egekeze and PAOK also participated in the Champions League where they ended at the second to last position of the D group, composed of 8 teams, with 5 wins and 9 losses, thus, not qualifying for the next round.[10]
In June 2020, Egekeze signed with the French club BC Gries-Oberhoffen.[11] Egekeze and the BCGO participated in the Leaders Cup where they ended at the bottom of the D group, composed of 3 teams, with 1 win and 3 losses, thus, not qualifying for the next round.[12]
On June 30, 2021, Egekeze signed with Dutch club Donar of the BNXT League.[13] He helped Donar win the Dutch Cup.
On August 3, 2022, Egekeze signed a one-year contract with Kataja of the Korisliiga.[14] In his first season with Kataja, He averaged 13.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1 steal. He also won the Finnish Cup and beat Salon Vilpas to win a bronze medal in Korisliiga
In December 2020, Egekeze became a member of the Nigerian national basketball team, and played with the team in the qualifiers for AfroBasket 2021.[15]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2014–15| style="text-align:left;"| Belmont| 33 || 23 || 20.0 ||.404 ||.338 || .837|| 3.2 || 0.7 ||0.8 ||0.5 || 5.4|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2015–16| style="text-align:left;"| Belmont| 31 || 31 || 22.7 || .539 || .422 || .768|| 3.4 ||0.7 || 0.4 || 0.4 || 9.0|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2016–17| style="text-align:left;"| Belmont| 30 || 29 || 27.2 || .487 || .384 || .843|| 5.5 ||0.9 || 0.4 || 0.8 || 11.3|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2017–18| style="text-align:left;"| Belmont| 33 ||33 || 34.5 || .505 || .425 || .802|| 6.2 ||0.9 || 0.6 || 0.2 ||16.8|-
|-| align="left" | 2018–19| align="left" | Yokohama|15||15||33.6 ||.417 || .280|| .804 || 6.4 || 1.6 || 0.9 ||0.7 ||13.9|-| align="left" | 2018–19| align="left" |Ryukyu|4||4||38.2||.429||.421||.714 ||7.2 ||1.8 ||1.0 ||0.2 ||12.2|-| align="left" | 2018–19| align="left" | Niigata|2||2||31.5||.613||.467||.857 ||7.0 ||1.0||0.5 ||0.5 ||25.5|-| align="left" | 2019–20| align="left" | PAOK|20||-||12.9||.635||.360||.727 ||2.1 ||0.5||0.1 ||0.1 ||3.8|-| align="left" | 2020–21| align="left" | BCGO|-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-|-