Angus Brandt

Angus John Brandt (born 26 October 1989[a]) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Veltex Shizuoka of the Japanese B.League.

He played college basketball for Oregon State University before beginning his professional career with the Sydney Kings in 2014.

In his one-season playing for Lake Forest, he averaged 15 points and 10 rebounds per game for coach Matt Vaughn.

[5] As a freshman at Oregon State in 2009–10, Brandt played sparingly for a Beavers team that finished the season with a 14–18 record.

[5][9] On 16 November 2012, Brandt suffered an isolated tear of the ACL in his right knee against Purdue that required surgery and forced him to miss the remainder of the 2012–13 season.

[5][9] As a redshirted senior in 2013–14, Brandt finished 11th in the Pac-12 in field goal percentage with 51.1 percent (138-for-265), and earned second-team Pac-12 All-Academic honors.

[5][9] On 16 June 2014, Brandt signed a three-year deal with the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League.

[13] A knee injury suffered on New Year's Eve saw Brandt miss seven matches during his rookie season with the Kings.

[20] On 20 January 2017, Brandt played a season-high 30 minutes off the bench and had season-best figures of 17 points and 11 rebounds in an 84–78 overtime win over the Cairns Taipans.

[21] The Wildcats finished the regular season in third place with a 15–13 record, and went on to sweep the second-seeded Taipans in the semi-finals to make it through to the best-of-five NBL Grand Final series against the Illawarra Hawks.

In game two of the series, Brandt stepped up to cover the loss of Matthew Knight, who suffered a head injury.

[36] On 19 September 2018, Brandt was ruled out for three to six weeks with an ankle injury he suffered while playing for the Australian Boomers.

[41][non-primary source needed] On 10 February 2019, he recorded 19 points and nine rebounds in a 95–86 overtime win over the Sydney Kings.

[42] He helped the Wildcats win the minor premiership with a first-place finish and an 18–10 record, before going on to advance through to the NBL Grand Final series, where they defeated Melbourne 3–1, with Brandt becoming a two-time champion.

On 29 March 2019, Brandt parted ways with the Wildcats after opting to exercise the European out-clause in his contract.

[61] On 24 October 2017, he was named in the 12-man Boomers squad to compete in the first two games of the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers in November.

[62] In February 2022, Brandt was named in a 17-man Australian Boomers squad ahead of the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers in Japan.

Brandt in March 2017, after winning his first NBL championship