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2021-22 Women's Basketball Roster

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32 Aaliyah Nye

  • Position Guard
  • Height 5-11
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown East Lansing, Mich.
  • High School East Lansing High School
  • Instagram aaliyah.nye
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Biography

HONORS & AWARDS

  • 2022 All-Big Ten Honorable Mention (Media & Coaches)
  • 2022 Winter Academic All-Big Ten

2021-22 - SOPHOMORE

  • Played in 27 games and made 25 starts
  • Led the team and ranked 18th in the Big Ten in scoring at 12.4 points per game
  • Ranked fifth in the big ten in both three-pointers per game (2.56) and three-point percentage (.369)
  • Finished the season with 69 three-pointers, the ninth-most in a single season in program history
  • Recorded career-high totals in scoring (23), rebounds (7), and steals (7) in opener vs. NC Central (11/9/21)
  • Tied the Illinois program record for three-pointers in a Big Ten Game (7), accounting for her game-high 21 points, and matched her personal best with seven rebounds in win over Wisconsin (1/9/22) 
  • Tied a career-high with 23 points, including a pair of three-pointers, vs. Nebraska (2/12/22)
  • Set a career-high for scoring with 25 points, including five three-pointers, vs. No. 18 Ohio State (2/14/22)

2020-21 - FRESHMAN

  • Played in 18 games, including starts in the final 10 games of the season
  • Averaged 8.1 points and 2.2 rebounds over 23.0 minutes per contest
  • Missed five games with a broken toe
  • Led the team in three-point shooting (.351) hitting 27 of 77 attempts from distance
  • Ranked first on the team with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.38 (18-13)
  • Tallied six points, including one three-pointer, and three rebounds in 17 minutes as a reserve in collegiate debut vs. Indiana State (11/25/20)
  • Scored 10 points and notched two steals in her Big Ten debut at Nebraska (12/10/20)
  • Returned to the court to score a career-high 15 points, including 3-for-7 from three-point range in the Illini’s home game vs. Nebraska (1/25/21)
  • Posted four consecutive double-digit scoring games with 12 points vs. No. 15/14 Indiana (2/14/21) and 11 points at No. 9/10 Maryland (2/17/21), at RV/RV Rutgers (2/20/21) and vs. RV/25 Northwestern (2/24/21)
  • Scored a career-high 17 points, including 4-for-10 3FGs, in Illinois’ Big Ten Tournament victory over Wisconsin (3/9/21)

HIGH SCHOOL

  • 2020 Ms. Basketball runner-up
  • Named AP Division 1 Player of the Year, earning back-to-back first-team All-Michigan honors
  • Also selected as 2020 Player of the Year by the Lansing State Journal
  • Helped East Lansing High School to a Class A state runner-up finish as a sophomore
  • Hit a state-record six three-pointers in her high school state championship game
  • Averaged 16.1 points and 5.2 rebounds per game to lead the Trojans to a 23-1 mark in her COVID-19-shortened senior season (2019-20)
  • Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal and Detroit News Dream Team honoree
  • Scored 1,370 career points at East Lansing High School, leading the Trojans to a 90-8 overall record
  • Played AAU basketball, alongside Illini teammate Aaliyah McQueen, for the Michigan Storm.

Personal

  • Daughter of James Nye and LaQueena Douglas
  • Born Aug. 14, 2002
  • Has two sisters, older sister, Aazhenii, and a twin sister Aashawnti
  • Father played football at Albion College
  • Lists her hobbies as biking and swimming as hobbies
  • Plans to major in engineering
  • A proud tribal citizen of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe).

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 32

    2020-21Freshman

    Guard
    5'11"
    32
  • 32

    2021-22Sophomore

    Guard
    5'11"
    32