Hassan Diarra is a college basketball guard for the UConn Huskies, a team from the Big East Conference. He is in his senior year, as of February 2025. Diarra was ranked as a four-star recruit and No. 1 player in Connecticut by 247Sports and ESPN and attended Putnam (Conn.) Science Academy for three seasons. He helped his side to the National Prep Championship twice, once in 2018-19 and then again in 2019-20. Diarra became the school’s all-time leading scorer after recording 1,469 points. He started his high school career with Holy Cross in Queens, N.Y., and stayed there for two seasons. He averaged 13.2 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 4.1 assists while playing AAU ball with the PSA Cardinals on the Nike EYBL Circuit.
Diarra attended 18 games as a freshman in 2020-21 when he averaged 5.8 points, 2.1 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.1 steals, and shot .350 overall. As a sophomore, he attended all 40 games for Texas A&M and started three of them. He averaged 6.2 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1.4 assists, shooting .370 overall, and led the Aggies to a 27-13 record and to the championship game of the NIT. He moved to UConn for his junior year after spending two seasons at Texas A&M, where he attended 58 games, starting nine, and averaged 351 career points, grabbing 108 rebounds, with 86 assists, 47 steals, and shooting .363 overall. In his junior year, he attended 36 games and started three. He averaged 2.1 points, 1.3 rebounds, 1.8 assists per game. In the 2023-24 season, Diarra won the 2024 BIG EAST Sixth Man Award. He attended all 40 games and averaged 6.1 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game in 19.3 minutes per game.
Hassan Diarra’s NIL deal
Hassan Diarra has NIL Deals with brands like Tommy Fund, Bleeding Blue For Good, 22 Threads Apparel, and Dunkin’, according to On3 website data.
Hassan Diarra's NIL deal tracker
| Date | Deal partners |
| 5/01/24 | Bleeding Blue For Good |
| 6/02/24 | Tommy Fund |
| 2/13/24 | 22 Threads Apparel |
| 5/23/23 | Dunkin’ |
Hassan Diarra's notable NIL deals
Tommy Fund
Tommy Fund is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that has provided “emotional, educational, medical and financial support to children with cancer and their families since 1953,” as per their X (formerly Twitter) bio.
Bleeding Blue For Good
Bleeding Blue For Good, a Connecticut Huskies Collective, and Hassan Diarra signed an NIL Deal in 2024. Its service is to help the student-athletes of UConn “profit off of their Name Image and Likeness with opportunities to support local youth-centered charitable causes,” as per the bio of the organization’s X (formerly Twitter). They initially signed the deal in 2023 according to On3 website data.
22 Threads Apparel
22 Threads Apparel is an apparel company that is not affiliated with any college or professional sports team and is “licensed with Hassan Diarra,” as per the company’s official X (formerly Twitter) bio. They announced the NIL Deal with Hassan in 2024.
Dunkin’
Dunkin’ is an American multinational coffee and doughnut company that announced the NIL Deal with Diarra in 2023.
FAQs on Hassan Diarra
A. Hassan Diarra has an older brother, Mamadou, a younger brother, Cherif.
A. Hassan Diarra stands 6ft 2in tall.
A. Hassan Diarra is from Queens, N.Y.
