Fair Selected in WNBA Draft
4/15/2024 9:10:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Syracuse guard Dyaisha Fair was selected 16th overall in the 2024 WNBA Draft by the Las Vegas Aces on Monday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, N.Y.Â
Fair becomes the sixth player in WNBA history to be drafted out of Syracuse University and the third second round pick.Â
Third all-time in NCAA Division I women's basketball scoring with 3,403 points, Fair guided Syracuse to back-to-back 20-win seasons including a NCAA Tournament appearance this year after transferring from Buffalo in 2022. Fair is a consensus Third Team All-American and was twice named All-ACC First Team during her tenure at Syracuse. She scored 2,035 points at Buffalo from 2019-22 and helped the Bulls to the MAC Tournament Championship and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2022.Â
While at Syracuse, Fair has etched her name in the record books. She became the fastest player to score 1,000 points at SU in women's basketball history in just 50 games. She holds the career scoring average record with 22.0 ppg and broke her own program record for three-pointers in a game with nine in a comeback win vs. #15 Florida State in January.Â
The 5-foot-5 Rochester, N.Y., native joins Brittney Sykes (Washington Mystics) as the only active Syracuse player in the WNBA. Beth Record was the first Syracuse player drafted in 2001 when she went 64th overall in the 4th round to the Los Angeles Sparks. Kayla Alexander became the first-ever first round lottery pick in 2013 when the San Antonio Stars selected her eighth overall. Following Syracuse's National Championship Game appearance in 2016, Brianna Butler was selected 23ther overall (2nd Round) by the Los Angeles Sparks.Â
Sykes and Alexis Peterson became the first Orange duo to be selected in the same WNBA Draft Class in 2017. Sykes is Syracuse's highest pick in program history at No. 7 by Atlanta while Peterson went 15th overall (2nd Round) to the Seattle Storm. Â
For full WNBA Draft coverage of Dyaisha Fair, follow @CuseWBB on social media.Â
Fair becomes the sixth player in WNBA history to be drafted out of Syracuse University and the third second round pick.Â
With the 16th overall pick, Dyaisha Fair is going to Vegas! pic.twitter.com/iTMPYU3fxf
— Syracuse Women's Basketball (@CuseWBB) April 16, 2024
Third all-time in NCAA Division I women's basketball scoring with 3,403 points, Fair guided Syracuse to back-to-back 20-win seasons including a NCAA Tournament appearance this year after transferring from Buffalo in 2022. Fair is a consensus Third Team All-American and was twice named All-ACC First Team during her tenure at Syracuse. She scored 2,035 points at Buffalo from 2019-22 and helped the Bulls to the MAC Tournament Championship and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2022.Â
While at Syracuse, Fair has etched her name in the record books. She became the fastest player to score 1,000 points at SU in women's basketball history in just 50 games. She holds the career scoring average record with 22.0 ppg and broke her own program record for three-pointers in a game with nine in a comeback win vs. #15 Florida State in January.Â
The 5-foot-5 Rochester, N.Y., native joins Brittney Sykes (Washington Mystics) as the only active Syracuse player in the WNBA. Beth Record was the first Syracuse player drafted in 2001 when she went 64th overall in the 4th round to the Los Angeles Sparks. Kayla Alexander became the first-ever first round lottery pick in 2013 when the San Antonio Stars selected her eighth overall. Following Syracuse's National Championship Game appearance in 2016, Brianna Butler was selected 23ther overall (2nd Round) by the Los Angeles Sparks.Â
Sykes and Alexis Peterson became the first Orange duo to be selected in the same WNBA Draft Class in 2017. Sykes is Syracuse's highest pick in program history at No. 7 by Atlanta while Peterson went 15th overall (2nd Round) to the Seattle Storm. Â
For full WNBA Draft coverage of Dyaisha Fair, follow @CuseWBB on social media.Â
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