Lady Vols sign Sun Belt player of year Dye as grad transfer
April 22, 2021 GMT
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The Tennessee Lady Vols have signed Alexus Dye, the Sun Belt Conference player of the Year, as a graduate transfer.
Coach Kellie Harper announced the signing Thursday.
The 6-foot forward is graduating in May at Troy and has one season remaining thanks to the NCAA granting an additional year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
From Birmingham, Alabama, Dye averaged 16.6 points and 12.6 rebounds in 28 games for Troy. She led the nation with 23 double-doubles and ranked second with 352 total rebounds. She shot 49.5% from the floor and 73.7% at the free throw line.
App State women’s basketball senior teammates Lainey Gosnell (Demorest, Ga./Habersham Central) and Pre Stanley (Rockledge, Fla./Rockledge) were named to the Sun Belt All-Conference teams, as the league announced on Thursday.
Stanley earns a postseason all-conference award for the second time in her career, while Gosnell collects her first all-conference honor.
The tandem helped App State accomplish a second winning season in the past three years, was one of four teams in the Sun Belt to win at least 10 games, and made an appearance in the semifinals of the Sun Belt Tournament. Stanley and Gosnell are the first Mountaineer teammates to make the all-conference team since 2016-17 while it’s the first time since 2014-15 (Maryah Syndor) a player has made the all-first team.
The Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns began the Sun Belt Conference Tournament by being presented with the SBC regular season championship. The tournament ended for the Ragin’ Cajuns with a 73-65 loss to Troy in the championship game. Photo by Raymond Partsch III
PENSACOLA, Fla. The Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns lost the rebound battle in Monday’s Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship Game and it played a significant role in them losing an NCAA Tournament berth.
Troy pulled down 58 rebounds and scored 24 second-chance points in a 73-65 victory over Louisiana inside the Pensacola Bay Center. The Trojans have now defeated the Ragin’ Cajuns twice in the SBC Championship Game since 2017.
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NEW ORLEANS – Troy is headed back to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament for the third time in the last five years that the event has been hosted after defeating Louisiana, 73-65, Monday afternoon in the Sun Belt Conference Championship Game at the Pensacola Bay Center.
Troy (22-5) improved to 3-0 all-time in the Sun Belt Tournament Championship Game with two of those victories coming over Louisiana; the Trojans also beat the Ragin’ Cajuns to win the 2017 Sun Belt title. Troy will make its fourth overall NCAA Tournament appearance and third as the Sun Belt Conference representative (2016, 2017, 2021).
Jasmine Robinson scored in double-figures for the 10th time in her last 12 games after dropping a game-high 17 points in addition to dishing out nine dimes and pulling down five rebounds. Troy’s double-double tandem, Alexus Dye and Felmas Koranga, were at it again with a pair of dominant performances. Dye extended her NCAA-leading double-double tally to 22 gam
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