TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Indiana State Basketball star Jake Odum will continue his professional career during the 2017-18 season with Banvit Basketbol Kulubu in Turkey, it was announced this week. Odum is currently with the Miami Heat NBA Summer League team which is in the Las Vegas tournament quarterfinals and will play next on Saturday, July 15 at 6 pm (ET) against the undefeated Memphis Grizzlies live nationally on ESPN2 and the Watch ESPN app.
Odum began his professional career in 2014 with the Indiana Pacers NBA Summer League in Orlando and then transitioned to the Sacramento Kings later that summer in Las Vegas.
Most recently, Odum completed his third professional season overseas with s.Oliver Wurzburg which is a club located in Wurzburg, Germany. With s.Oliver Wurzburg, he played in 33 games with a 15.3 ppg average as well as 3.5 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.2 steals per game. He was named to the EuroBasket.com All-German Bundesliga Honorable Mention team.
During the 2015-16 season, Odum played for Medi Bayreuth of Germany for the Bundesliga season. There in 34 games he averaged 14.3 ppg, 4.3 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 1.0 steals per game. He was named to the Eurobasket.com German Bundesliga All-Newcomer Team.
His professional rookie season came in 2014-15 when he led PAOK to a third place finish in the Greek League. Additionally, Odum was invited to the 2014 Portsmouth Invitational and was named to the Under Armour All-Select Tournament Team.
He was a two-time All-Missouri Valley Conference First Team honoree in 2013 & 2014 and was a two-time selection to the All-MVC Tournament Team in 2011 and 2014. He led the Sycamores as a freshman to the 2011 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Championship and the Sycamores first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 2001. He recorded the Sycamores' first triple-double since Larry Bird did it in 1979 with 10 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists against Fairfield in the 2011 Old Spice Classic (now Advocare Invitational) and is still the only player in the history of the tournament to do so.
