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sep 25 2026A rough start to the season for Ilerna Lleida. Atoumane Diagne will miss the entire season due to a serious injury and the club has already made a move: Aziz Bandaogo will be his replacement in the paint.
Who's Arriving
Bandaogo is a 25-year-old Senegalese center standing 2.13 meters tall, born in Joal Fadiout, with a distinctly college basketball background.
He played for Akron and Utah Valley before landing at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 2025. His best NCAA stats came with the Wolverines: he scored 23 points with 13 rebounds and 7 assists in one game, grabbed 17 rebounds in another, and recorded 6 blocks in a third.
He was not selected in the 2025 Draft and played Summer League with the Toronto Raptors, as well as time with their affiliate, the Raptors 905. Last season he competed in the Turkish league with Demir Insaat Büyükcekmece.
He is also an international player for Senegal since this year.
A Physical Profile
What arrives in Lleida is a big man with considerable size, rebounding ability and shot-blocking presence, with no prior experience in the Liga Endesa.
The club needed exactly that. Zacharie Perrin and he will now be the anchors in the paint for a team that was already being monitored on the market: Baskonia looked at Perrin days ago to address their own interior shortage, though his EuroLeague exit clause doesn't activate until February.
