FIBA World Cup 2023 Roster Tracker
August 22, 2023
Mathiang Muo
- Nationality: AUS/SSD
- Date of Birth: 3/04/87
- Place of Birth: Khartoum (Sudan)
- Position: G/F
- Height (CM): 196
- Weight (KG): 95
- Junior Assoc:
- College: Northeastern (2009-2010) / Central Florida CC (2010-2011) / Charleston Southern (2011-2013)
- NBL DEBUT: 17/10/14
- AGE AT DEBUT: 27
- LAST NBL GAME: 9/01/15
- AGE AT LAST GAME: 27
- NBL History: Perth 2015
- Championships: 0
- None
BIO: Mathiang Muo was born in Khartoum (Sudan).
NBL EXPERIENCE
Mathiang Muo made his NBL debut with the Perth Wildcats at 27 years of age. He went scoreless in his first NBL game.
Mathiang Mauot Muo is a Australian-Sudanese professional basketball player for the Geraldton Buccaneers of the State Basketball League (SBL).
The 6’5″ swingman graduated from Charleston Southern University in 2013 before joining the Perth Wildcats of the NBL.
Due to injury, he managed just 15 games for the Wildcats over two seasons.
Muo has also had stints in the SBL for the East Perth Eagles and Goldfields Giants, and played for the SEABL’s Brisbane Spartans in 2016.
In 2018, he helped the Hobart Chargers win the SEABL championship.
Muo was born in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, a city in the heart of the Sudanese civil war in the 1990s.
To help himself and his family survive, Muo worked as a domestic cleaner, earning three dollars a day at the age of 10, leaving home for two-month stints before returning to spend a week with his family.
In 1998, at the age of 11, Muo, along with six siblings and his mother, Elizabeth, escaped to Egypt as refugees.
The family enrolled in a refugee lottery while in Egypt and waited two years to find a new destination.
Eventually, Muo’s family were given the chance to come to Australia on humanitarian visas, moving to Sydney, where he and his family were able to settle down.
Upon arrival in Sydney, Muo began formal education at the age of 13.
He spent the first two years in extensive English training and enrolled in high school.
Mathiang Muo played one season in the NBL. He averaged 1.8 points, 0.6 rebounds, and 0 assists in 15 NBL games.
NBL TOTAL STATISTICS
| SEASON | AGE | TEAM | TEAM RECORD | GP | MINS | PTS | REB | AST | OR | DR | STL | BLK | TO | PF | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% | HS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | 28 | Perth | 16-12 (4) | 15 | 84.0 | 28 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 28 | 39% | 6 | 18 | 33% | 0 | 0 | 0% | 50% | 50% | Totals | 15 | 84 | 28 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 28 | 39.3% | 6 | 18 | 33.3% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 50% | 50% | 11 |
NBL PER GAME STATISTICS
| SEASON | AGE | TEAM | TEAM RECORD | GP | MINS | PTS | REB | AST | OR | DR | STL | BLK | TO | PF | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% | HS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | 28 | Perth | 16-12 (4) | 15 | 5.6 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 39% | 0.4 | 1.2 | 33% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0% | 50% | 50% | Total | 15 | 5.6 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 39.3% | 0.0 | 33.3% | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.0% | 50% | 50% | 11 |
CAREER HIGHS
| POINTS | REBOUNDS | ASSISTS | STEALS | BLOCKS | TURNOVERS | TRIPLE DOUBLES | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
|---|
STATE LEAGUE EXPERIENCE
- East Perth 2014 | Goldfields 2015 | Hobart 2017-18 | Geraldton 2021
FIBA EXPERIENCE
Mathiang Muo joined South Sudan for the 2016 World Indigenous Basketball Challenge, which was held in Vancouver from 10–13 August 2016, and he was named the tournament MVP after South Sudan completed a 4–0 run and won the championship game 98–91 over Lords of the Plains.
He returned to national team duty in March 2017 at the AfroBasket Zone Five qualifiers in Cairo, recording 34 points against Kenya in the fifth/sixth-place playoff game, and later represented South Sudan at the 2021 FIBA AfroBasket where he averaged 10.8 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.3 steals across four games.
Muo also played for South Sudan during the FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifying windows in 2022 and was part of the country’s first national team to qualify for the FIBA Basketball World Cup, with the ‘Bright Stars’ making history at the 2023 tournament by securing the nation’s first World Cup victory on 28 August 2023 with a win over China in Manila, Philippines.
South Sudan finished the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup as the highest-placed African team after defeating Angola in their final game, earning qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, marking the country’s first-ever Olympic appearance.
COLLEGE
Muo played college basketball at Northeastern during the 2009-10 season before transferring to Central Florida CC, where he competed from 2010 to 2011, and then moving to Charleston Southern, where he played from 2011 to 2013.
Muo suited up for Northeastern during the 2009-10 season, which finished 20-13 overall (14-4 in CAA play) and included a National Invitation Tournament appearance under head coach Bill Coen.
In that 2009-10 season, Muo appeared in 29 games and made 1 start, totaling 52 points (1.8 points per game) while shooting 15-for-48 from the field (31.3%), going 7-for-22 on three-pointers (31.8%), and making 15-of-21 free throws (71.4%).
Across those 29 games, he recorded 35 total rebounds (1.2 per game), with 13 offensive rebounds and 22 defensive rebounds, along with 5 assists, 9 steals, 2 blocks, 15 turnovers, and 247 total minutes played (8.5 minutes per game), with his season-high scoring game coming in the Diamond Head Classic win over SMU on December 25, 2009 when he scored eight points.
After leaving Northeastern, Muo moved to Central Florida CC for the 2010-11 season and played 29 games, producing 13.2 points and 4.0 rebounds per game while shooting 48.8% from the field, 44.8% from three-point range, and 70.3% from the free throw line, and he was named to the 2011 FCSAA Region VIII tournament all-tournament team after Central Florida’s postseason run included a 59-56 quarterfinal win over Brevard before a 59-49 semifinal loss to Tallahassee.
Muo then transferred to Charleston Southern, starting all 31 games as a junior in 2011-12 on a 19-12 team coached by Barclay Radebaugh, and he averaged 9.8 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 1.0 assists in 27.0 minutes per game while shooting 42.2% from the field, 43.5% from three, and 80.9% at the line, including a 22-point outing against Stetson on November 21, 2011 in which he hit 6-of-10 from beyond the arc.
As a senior in 2012-13, Muo played 28 games and made 26 starts for Charleston Southern as the Buccaneers finished 19-13, won the Big South South Division title, and reached the NIT, and he averaged 11.2 points and 5.1 rebounds in 29.8 minutes per game while shooting 38.5% overall, 41.2% on three-pointers, and 76.4% on free throws, finishing the season with 314 points, 143 rebounds, and 68 made threes (68-for-165) across 834 minutes.
Across his two Division I stops (Northeastern and Charleston Southern), Muo played 88 games with 58 starts and totaled 671 points and 303 rebounds, and he finished his Division I career as a 39.5% field-goal shooter with 142 made three-pointers (41.6% from deep) and 95 made free throws (77.2%).
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