Elias Harris is a German college basketball

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 player from Speyer

Speyer

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, Rhineland-Palatinate

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. He is currently a sophomore at Gonzaga University

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 in Washington state in the U.S.

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 and he is also a member of the German national basketball team

Germany national basketball team

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Junior career

Harris was one of the top junior players in Germany. As a German junior, he spent four years honing his game on Speyer, a German third division team, averaging 20.9 points and 9.2 rebounds per game in his final season. He also competed with the German national junior basketball team

Germany national basketball team

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 at the 2005 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship

FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship

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; 2006 and 2007 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship

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; and 2008 and 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship

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College career

Harris committed to NCAA Division I squad Gonzaga University

Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball

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 prior to the 2009–10 season. He immediately saw action with the Bulldogs despite being a freshman; in his second game of the season, against powerhouse #2-ranked Michigan State University

Michigan State University

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, he scored a team-high 17 points and grabbed a team-high 9 rebounds in a narrow 75–71 loss.

International career

Harris made his debut with the senior German national team at the Eurobasket 2009

EuroBasket 2009

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. Although he was the second youngest player on the team, he averaged 12 minutes per game while seeing action in all six games for the German squad.