AI- Team
- Virginia Cavaliers
- League
- NCAA · ACC
- Position
- Center
- Number
- #17
- Height
- 7′0″ (2.13 m)
- Age
- 21 years
- Born
- Aug 14, 2005, Löningen
About Johann Grünloh
The center from Löningen got his first BBL minutes with RASTA Vechta and moved to Virginia in 2025. As a freshman he started all 36 games and ranked among the NCAA's top shot blockers with 2.2 blocks per game. He added significant muscle ahead of his sophomore season.
Season stats
2026/27 season · 1 game
Johann Grünloh has begun the 2026/27 season with the Virginia Cavaliers. It's early in the season: in the opener against Drexel, an 89-60 Virginia win, he played 29 minutes and put up 11 points, 9 rebounds and 1 assist. That is above last season's averages in points and rebounds, when he posted 7.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 0.6 assists per game over 36 games. He also saw the floor far longer than the 21 minutes he averaged then.
| Season | GP | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 1 | 29.0 | 11.0 | 9.0 | 1.0 | 55.6% | 0.0% | 50.0% |
| 2025/26 | 36 | 21.0 | 7.1 | 5.2 | 0.6 | 53.3% | 35.0% | 55.7% |
Last games
| Date | Opp | Result | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/03 | vs DREX | W89-60 | 29 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 5-9 |
| 03/22 | vs TENN | L72-79 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1-4 |
| 03/20 | vs WRST | W82-73 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3-4 |
| 03/14 | vs DUKE | L74-70 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2-3 |
| 03/13 | vs MIA | W84-62 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0-0 |
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Johann Grünloh's career
Johann Grünloh was introduced to basketball by his two older brothers who played the game. He started at VfL Löningen at the age of nine, moved on to TSV Quakenbrück and then played in the youth programs run jointly by the Artland Dragons and SC Rasta Vechta, first in the JBBL and later in the NBBL. At 16 he moved to Vechta and lived with a host family. He was named the NBBL's best newcomer after 2021/22 and made his debut in the second-tier ProA in January 2022.
In 2022/23 he helped both Vechta and its reserve side Rasta II earn promotion, to the Bundesliga and to ProA respectively. He was also named the NBBL's best defender and the best young player in ProB. He became a starter right away in his first Bundesliga season and was voted the league's best German young player for 2023/24. He signed a professional contract in March 2024 and won the German under-19 title with the Quakenbrück/Vechta team in May 2024. The center was seen as a possible second-round pick in the 2025 NBA draft but chose not to declare. Instead he joined the University of Virginia for 2025/26 and plays for the Cavaliers.
Grünloh represented Germany at the 2021 FIBA U16 European Challengers and played at the 2022 U18 European Championship. In 2023 he won bronze with the U18 side and led the tournament in Niš with 3.9 blocks per game. Head coach Gordon Herbert first called him up to the senior national team in February 2024.
Facts from: Wikipedia (de), Wikipedia (en), Wikidata