BIO: Owen Hulland was born in Adelaide (SA) and began playing basketball as a junior with the Norwood basketball program. Hulland received a scholarship to attend the Australian Institute of Sport (Canberra) in 2017. He spent two years year there and played for the program’s state league team (2017, 2018).
Owen Hulland made his NBL debut with the Adelaide 36ers at 21 years of age. He went scoreless in his first NBL game.
Owen Hulland played one season in the NBL. He averaged 0.1 points, 0.3 rebounds, and 0 assists in 11 NBL games.
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | 21 | Adelaide | 13-23 (7) | 11 | 17.0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 20% | 0 | 3 | 0% | 0 | 0 | 0% | 20% | 0% | 2 | Totals | 11 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 20.0% | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0% | 0% | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | 21 | Adelaide | 13-23 (7) | 11 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 20% | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0% | 20% | 0% | 2 | Total | 11 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 20.0% | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.3 | 0.0% | 0% | 0% | 2 |
| POINTS | REBOUNDS | ASSISTS | STEALS | BLOCKS | TURNOVERS | TRIPLE DOUBLES | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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Hulland joined BA Centre of Excellence for the 2016 SEABL season, appearing in nine games and playing 197 minutes.
Owen Hulland returned to BA Centre of Excellence for the 2017 SEABL season, averaging 6.4 points and 5.3 rebounds across 14 games.
Owen Hulland stayed with BA Centre of Excellence for the 2018 SEABL season, playing seven games and 117 minutes before finishing the year with Norwood in the Premier League.
Owen Hulland joined South Adelaide for the 2021 NBL1 Central season, signing on 30 March and averaging 18.6 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists across seven games.
Owen Hulland joined Forestville for the 2023 NBL1 Central season, playing 17 games before returning in 2024 and averaging 5.9 points, 3.9 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 0.9 blocks across 23 games.
Owen Hulland returned to Forestville for the 2025 NBL1 Central season, continuing with the club after his 2023 and 2024 seasons there.
Owen Hulland joined the University of Hawai‘i program for the 2018–19 season and saw early minutes off the bench as a freshman, appearing in eight games while averaging 3.0 points and 1.4 rebounds in 6.9 minutes per game on 40.9% shooting, before injury sidelined him for 17 of the final 18 games of the season.
His best NCAA moment came in Westwood on 28 November 2018, when Hulland poured in 14 points and four rebounds in just 17 minutes at UCLA, a breakout cameo that showed why Hawai‘i took a swing on the 7-footer’s upside, and he also chipped in eight points in 15 minutes against Hawai‘i-Hilo during the same freshman campaign.
Hulland returned for 2019–20 but again battled health setbacks, missing the first 17 games of the season due to injury, then coming off the bench in 10 contests once he was back in the rotation, including six points and two rebounds in seven minutes in his first game back against UC Santa Barbara, followed by a season-high seven points in 12 minutes the very next week at UCSB.
Across his two seasons at Hawai‘i (2018–2020), Hulland played 18 games and logged 125 total minutes, finishing with 51 points (2.8 per game) and 26 rebounds (1.4 per game), while shooting 41.7% from the field, 30.0% from three, and 83.3% at the line, with his sophomore year featuring a cleaner perimeter sample (5-of-14 from three, 35.7%).
After the 2019–20 season, Hulland’s time in the Rainbow Warriors program ended when he announced he was leaving Hawai‘i to pursue a professional career back home, closing the book on a college stint defined by short bursts of production around injury interruptions.
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