Mamoudou Diarra has not played a meaningful game of basketball yet in 2018. I’m not just talking about the first two months of upcoming 2018-19 season either. He did not play a single minute in the regular season, conference tournament or NCAA Tournament last season once the calendar turned over to 2018. That’s a roundabout way of saying that Diarra has not really gotten a chance to show the Cincinnati Bearcats what he can do.
It’s perfectly understandable that Diarra did not play in a game after appearing in a total of seven in November and December of his freshman season.