Alexus Dye, who recently completed her collegiate career at the University of Tennessee, has signed a WNBA training camp with the Connecticut Sun, the organization announced on Tuesday.
“Alexus brings great energy and effort to the floor,” Sun head coach and general manager Curt Miller said about Dye. “While an undersized post, she is relentless on the boards and has won at every level.”
In her one season at Tennessee after transferring from Troy University, the 6-0 forward was one of three players to start all 34 games for the Lady Vols in 2021-22. She was fourth in scoring and third in rebounding, tallying 10.2 points and 7.7 rebounds per contest while shooting 43 percent from the field. Dye, who made the top 10 for the 2022 Katrina McClain Award, finished third on the team with seven double-doubles.
The Birmingham, Ala., native carded four of those double-doubles in her last five games, as she led the team in scoring and rebounding during that run through the SEC and NCAA Tournaments at 17.6 points and 10.8 rebounds per outing. She was named to the SEC All-Tournament Team after averaging 21.0 ppg. and 12.0 rpg. while shooting 61 percent from the field in games vs. Alabama and Kentucky. During three NCAA Tournament games, Dye again led the Lady Vols with averages of 15.7 and 10.0, shooting 44 percent from the field and 82 percent from the free-throw line.
She finished her three-year span at the NCAA Division I level with 1,104 points and 892 rebounds, averaging 12.1 and 8.9 per game, respectively, while starting 75 of 91 contests during her time at Troy and Tennessee. Dye recorded 39 career double-doubles, including 61 games scoring in double figures with 12 efforts of 20 or more points. Prior to that, she played at the community college level for two seasons at Gulf Coast State in Panama City, Fla.
-UT Athletics
