FRESHMAN (2023-24)
- Played in 25 games, coming off the bench in all of them and playing in 233 minutes of game action
- Averaged 2.0 points per game, pulling in 1.1 rebounds per contest
- Shot 32.7% (16-for-49) from the field and 27.3% (9-for-33) from the three-point line
- Knocked down 72.7% (8-of-11) of his free throws
- Recorded 21 assists, 13 steals and one block
- Tallied a career-high 13 points in just his second collegiate game at No. 13 Miami on Nov. 10, going five-for-seven from the field and going a perfect three-for-three from beyond the three-point arc
- Had a total of two double-digit scoring games, the second of which was at BYU on Feb. 13, scoring 11 points while going four-of-seven from the floor and splashing a pair of triples in five attempts
- Pulled in a season-best five rebounds at West Virginia on Feb. 20
- Recorded three assists three times on the season and led the Knights in assists twice throughout the campaign
- Snatched a pair of steals four times throughout the season, earning three of the four multiple steal performances in his final seven perfromances
PRIOR TO UCF
- Spent time in the top tier of German basketball with Alba Berlin
- Won back-to-back U19 championships with Alba Berlin in 2022 and 2023
- Hit a game-winning, buzzer-beating, three-point shot to win the 2023 U19 championship
- Was the starting point guard on the 2022 German National Team in the U18 European Championship
- Spent time with the third division of German basketball with Bernau, where he averaged 38.5% from three-point land across 18 contests
PERSONAL
- Nils’ father, Sebastian Machowski, was a professional basketball player for 17 years, playing small forward in six different countries. One of his stops was Alba Berlin, the same club that his son went on to play for two and a half decades later. Sebastian is currently in his 17th year of coaching and is at the helm of PGE Spojnia Stargard, a team in the first division of Polish basketball.