Miye Oni

Olumiye Dimolu "Miye" Oni (born August 4, 1997) is an American-Nigerian professional basketball player for the Osceola Magic of the NBA G League.

He played college basketball for the Yale Bulldogs.

He plays the shooting guard position.

After watching his highlight video in the spring of 2015, Yale head coach James Jones offered him, and Oni committed to play for the team on July 1, 2015.

However, since Yale admissions were closed, he spent his next season playing for Suffield Academy, a prep school in Suffield, Connecticut, located near Yale University.

With Suffield, Oni averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists and earned New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) Class A player of the year distinction.

On February 5, 2016, he scored 52 points with 11 three-pointers versus Wilbraham & Monson Academy at the National Prep School Invitational, breaking his school record and Shabazz Napier's tournament record.

Oni was named most outstanding player of the event.

He was a nominee for the 2016 McDonald's All-American Boys Game.

Oni made his debut for Yale on November 13, 2016, recording a team-high 24 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 assists in a 98–90 upset win over Washington.

In his next game, he posted 13 points, 10 rebounds, and a season-best 5 blocks in an 89–81 victory over Lehigh.

Oni claimed Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors in each of his first three weeks with Yale.

On February 25, 2017, he scored a season-high 27 points while chipping in 7 rebounds and 4 assists, in a 99–86 win over Dartmouth.

By the end of the season, Oni was averaging 12.9 points, 6.3 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game.

He earned second-team All-Ivy League recognition and was named conference Rookie of the Week on five occasions during the season.

Entering the 2017–18 season, the Hartford Courant speculated that the Yale duo of Oni and Makai Mason could be "one of the top backcourts in the country."

On November 14, 2017, his third appearance in his sophomore season, he led all scorers with 20 points in an 86–54 victory over South Carolina State.

Oni erupted for 26 points, his best mark in the season, and recorded team-highs of 7 rebounds and 4 assists on November 25, in a 79–73 loss to Vermont.

On February 24, 2018, he flirted with a triple-double in an 83–73 win over Columbia, matching his season-high of 26 points while leading his team with 9 rebounds and 8 assists.

Through 29 games, Oni averaged 15.1 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 3.6 assists per game, leading Yale in all three categories.

He tied the school record for three-pointers attempted in a single season, with 184.

Oni was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 2019 and was a three-time All-Ivy League selection.

Oni, who is of Nigerian descent, grew up in Northridge, Los Angeles and began playing high school basketball at Viewpoint School, where he was named the divisional player of the year.

He was lightly recruited at Viewpoint and committed to Williams College of the NCAA Division III.

After drawing more interest as a senior at Viewpoint, he committed to Yale, but admissions rules forced him to play an additional season of prep basketball at Suffield Academy before college.

Oni was born to Nigerian parents Opeyemi and Oludotun Oni.

His father is a professor at the University of Phoenix and an engineer.

Oni began playing basketball at age two with a toy hoop and joined a YMCA league with his older sister at age five.

From a young age, he had aspirations to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and admired Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers.

In addition to basketball, he played football, mainly as a safety and wide receiver, and baseball.

Oni began his freshman year at Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California, but transferred to enroll and play basketball at Viewpoint School in Calabasas, California before the season started.

He played for the junior varsity team in his freshman season, when he stood 5 ft and weighed 140 lbs.

He did not play on the school's basketball team as a sophomore to focus on his education.

As a junior, Oni suffered a knee injury that sidelined him for most of the season.

The injury hindered his college recruiting because he did not have film to show college coaches before his senior year.

Oni stood 6 ft and weighed 180 lbs by the time he was a senior.

He had a breakout final season for Viewpoint, averaging 18 points, 9 rebounds, and 4 assists and being named California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division 5AA player of the year.

At Viewpoint, Oni did not draw interest from NCAA Division I basketball programs and was only recruited by Division III school Williams College, where he committed in the fall of his senior year of high school.

However, Williams did not offer enough financial aid for his family to meet the cost of attendance.

During his senior season at Viewpoint, Oni attracted attention from Yale assistant coach Matt Kingsley.