2021-22 Women's Basketball Roster
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)Â
- 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
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2020-21Freshman
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5'11"
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2021-22Sophomore
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5'11"