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UC San Diego

2026-27 Men's Basketball Roster

22 Yaqub Mir

  • Position Guard
  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 175
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Granite Bay, Calif.
  • High School Granite Bay HS
  • Major Data Science
  • College Roosevelt

Biography

MEDIA
More Than a Triton: Building a Future Beyond the Court

AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2025-26
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll (with Honors)...Played in one game. 

AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN IN 2024-25
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll ... Saw action in three games before suffering a season-ending injury ... Scored six points and came away with two steals in a win over La Verne (Nov. 30).

AS A FRESHMAN IN 2023-24
Did not play (redshirt).

HIGH SCHOOL
A 2023 graduate of Granite Bay High School ... Became the all-time career points leader in 2023 ... Named High School Athlete of the Year in 2020 and 2021, First Team All League in 2022 and 2023 and First Team All CIF Section i 2023... Averaged 14 points, 3 assists, and 2 rebounds in his freshman year, 17 points, 4 assists, and 2 rebounds in his sophomore year, 26 points, 7 assists, and 4 rebounds his junior year, and 31 points, 7 assists, and 4 rebounds during his senior year ... Competed on the track team at his high school ... Played with the West Coast Elite and West Coast All-Stars club teams in 2020, the Play Hard Play Smart club team in 2021 and 2022, and the Team Lillard club team in 2023.

PERSONAL 
Born: April 7 in Granite Bay, Calif.
Parents: Goska and Kashif Mir
Major: Data Science 
Minor: Finance
College: Eleanor Roosevelt 
Future plans: Pursue quantitative finance at a hedge fund by applying mathematical data analysis and AI-driven models to algorithmic trading and stock portfolio optimization. 
Favorite basketball memories: Going to the 2025 March Madness NCAA Tournament last year
Favorite UC San Diego memories: " Cade Pendleton legacy game hitting 4 trey balls at CSUB"
Roots for: Los Angeles Lakers
Favorite Player: Salamah Salem
Hobbies: Surfing, making music, and Playing Piano
Favorite movie: Shutter Island, Memento, Inception
Listens to: Drake, Future, PartyNextDoor, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lucki 
Favorite food: Pad Thai
Favorite social media outlet: Instagram
Fun fact: Acted in a movie as a kid, and still wants to become an actor
Outside of Athletics: "This past summer I interned as an Investment Engineer for Dimensional Fund Advisors asset management where they recently hit over $1 trillion in AUM. Over the summer I was assigned a project to build a Python ETL pipeline to process Bloomberg Per Security API request data and integrated it with internal investment data in Snowflake to analyze request efficiency and associated costs."
 
CAREER HIGHS
Points 6 vs. La Verne 11/30/24
FGM 2 vs. La Verne 11/30/24
FGA 4 vs. La Verne 11/30/24
3FGM 1 vs. La Verne 11/30/24
3FGA 3 vs. La Verne 11/30/24
FTM 1 vs. La Verne 11/30/24
FTA 2 vs. La Verne 11/30/24
Rebounds 2 vs. La Verne 11/30/24
Assists 2 vs. La Verne 11/30/24
Blocks -- -- --
Steals 2 vs. La Verne 11/30/24
Minutes 13 vs. La Verne 11/30/24

Statistics

Season:
2026-27

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Historical Player Information

  • 22

    2023-24Freshman

    Guard
    6'2" 175 lbs
    22
  • 22

    2024-25Redshirt Freshman

    Guard
    6'2" 175 lbs
    22
  • 22

    2025-26Redshirt Sophomore

    Guard
    6'2" 175 lbs
    22
  • 22

    2026-27Junior

    Guard
    6'2" 175 lbs
    22

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