Ignas Sargiūnas
| No. 43 – Rytas Vilnius | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Point guard / Shooting guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | LKL BCL | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 11 September 1999 Kaunas, Lithuania | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| College | Georgia (2018–2019) Colorado State (2019–2020) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2015–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2018 | Žalgiris Kaunas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2018 | →BC Žalgiris-2 Kaunas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Cbet / Labas GAS Prienai | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Medi Bayreuth | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Neptūnas Klaipėda | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024–present | Rytas Vilnius | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ignas Sargiūnas (born 11 September 1999) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for Rytas Vilnius of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) and the Basketball Champions League (BCL).
College career
In the 2018–2019 season he played for the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.[1]
In the 2019–2020 season he moved to the Colorado State University, however there he did not play for the Colorado Rams due to the redshirt rule.[1]
Professional career
In 2015–2018 Sargiūnas began his career while playing for the Kaunas Sabonis Basketball Center in the third-tier Regional Basketball League and BC Žalgiris-2 Kaunas, a reserve team of Žalgiris Kaunas in the second-tier National Basketball League.[1]
In the 2021–2022 season Sargiūnas returned to Lithuania and joined the Cbet / Labas GAS Prienai of the Lithuanian Basketball League where he played two seasons.[1][2]
In the 2023–2024 season Sargiūnas signed with the Neptūnas Klaipėda.[1][2]
In the 2024–2025 season Sargiūnas signed with the Rytas Vilnius, the champions of the Lithuanian Basketball League at the time.[1][2] He performed well during the 2025 LKL Finals series versus his hometown team Žalgiris Kaunas, however Rytas Vilnius lost the final series 3–2 in an away game in Kaunas.[3] Nevertheless, Sargiūnas during the 2025 LKL Finals said that it was a pleasure to play successfully versus Žalgiris Kaunas.[4]
National team career
Sargiūnas played for the Lithuania men's national under-16 basketball team in the 2015 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, where he averaged 8.7 points, 2.9 rebounds, 1.6 assists per game and helped the team to win a silver medal.[5] Later he also represented the Lithuania men's national under-17 basketball team in the 2016 FIBA Under-17 World Championship, Lithuania men's national under-18 basketball team in the 2016 FIBA U18 European Championship, 2017 FIBA U18 European Championship and the Lithuania men's national under-20 basketball team in the 2019 FIBA U20 European Championship.[5] Sargiūnas was one of the Lithuania youth national basketball teams key players in most of FIBA youth competitions he played, except in 2016 when he competed with one year older (mostly born in 1998) opponents and teammates.[5]
In 2025, Sargiūnas was for the first time invited to the Lithuania men's national basketball team training camp and in his debut year was included into the final roster of the Lithuania men's national basketball team during a major tournament – EuroBasket 2025.[6][7]
On 27 November 2025, Sargiūnas scored 9 points in the last 10 seconds, including the game winner at the buzzer, of Lithuania's game against Great Britain in the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Ignas Sargiūnas". BasketNews.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 24 August 2025.
- ^ a b c "Ignas Sargiūnas". Lietuvos krepšinio lyga (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 24 August 2025.
- ^ Jukavičius, Vaidas. "X faktoriumi tapęs Sargiūnas – apie emocijų proveržius ir norimą vyšnią ant torto". BasketNews.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 24 August 2025.
- ^ Baranauskas, Povilas. ""Žalgirį" į neviltį varantis "Ryto" kaunietis: tai – vienas malonumas". DELFI (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 24 August 2025.
- ^ a b c "Ignas Sargiūnas". FIBA. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
- ^ "Paskelbtas Lietuvos rinktinės kandidatų sąrašas su šešiolika pavardžių". Lithuanian National Radio and Television (in Lithuanian). 4 July 2025. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
- ^ "Dvyliktukas surikiuotas: paskelbta Lietuvos rinktinės sudėtis Europos čempionatui". DELFI (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 24 August 2025.
- ^ Santino Honasan (28 November 2025). "Lithuania's Ignas Sargiūnas channels inner-Tracy McGrady and scores nine points in 10 seconds in insane comeback win". basketballnetwork.net. Retrieved 28 November 2025.