NEW YORK – Miye Oni, the 2019 Ivy League Player of the Year, was selected by Golden State Warriors with the 58th pick in the 2019 NBA Draft.
 
Oni becomes the eighth Ivy League player to be drafted in the second round of the draft and the first since Penn’s Jerome Allen was drafted in 1995 by the Minnesota Timberwolves. Allen spent nine seasons in the NBA before returning to his alma mater as a coach and now serves as an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics.
 
The Northridge, California native joins Jeremy Lin as Ivy League alums in the NBA and the 89th player overall in Leauge history. Lin, in his ninth season, became the seventh Ivy League player in conference history to win an NBA Championship as the Toronto Raptors won its first title in franchise history.
 
Oni, the 2019 Ivy League Player of the Year, led the Bulldogs to its second Ivy League title in the previous five seasons and the program’s first Tournament Championship with a win over Harvard. Oni was recently named to Honorable Mention All-America by the Associated Press. The Northridge, California native averaged 17.1 points per game and 6.3 rebounds per game, while scoring double figures in 27 of the 29 games he appeared in this season, including 30 or more points three times. Oni, a unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection, had five points and five rebounds in Yale’s first-round NCAA loss to LSU.
 
Oni ranks 10th in program history with 1,308 career points, fourth all-time with 174 three-pointers, sixth with 91 blocks and 10th with 287 assists.
 
Oni, the third Bulldog to be named the Ivy League Player of the Year after finishing among the league leaders in every statistical category, scored in double figures in all but two games he appeared in. The junior tallied at least 30 points three times, which was only two shy of the school record, and became only the fifth player at Yale to record back-to-back 30-point games (31 vs. Dartmouth, 35 vs. Princeton).

The Bulldogs finished with a 22-8 overall record, won Ivy League regular season and tournament titles and nearly pulled off an upset in the NCAA Tournament.