Tyasha Harris

Personal: Harris is the daughter of Shannon Greer-Harris and Bruce Harris and has an older brother and two younger sisters. She majored in sport and entertainment management at South Carolina.

Other Professional Experience: Tyasha Harris is a five-year WNBA veteran after being taken by the Dallas Wings with the No. 7 overall selection in the 2020 WNBA Draft. She spent her first three seasons with Dallas before being acquired by Connecticut in a three-team trade on January 15, 2023. Harris has appeared in 167 career regular-season games with 49 starts and has also reached the WNBA Playoffs in four of her five seasons. She owns a 6.6 career scoring average while dishing out 2.6 assists per game.

Harris played in 21 games as a rookie with three starts and contributed 6.8 points and 2.8 assists per appearance. She scored a season-high 13 points with six assists in her WNBA debut against Atlanta on July 26, 2020. She also netted 13 points against Connecticut on August 12, 2020, and against Las Vegas on August 25, 2020. She contributed 4.4 points and 2.7 assists per game during the 2021 campaign while seeing action in 32 contests. In her final season with Dallas during the 2022 campaign, she averaged 5.0 points and 2.8 assists over 35 outings. She came off the bench in all 40 games in the 2023 season with Connecticut and posted a 5.8 scoring average while shooting a career-best 46.4 percent from three-point range. Harris enjoyed the best season of her WNBA career in 2024 with the Sun after netting 10.5 points per contest with a 3.0 assist-per-game clip. As a starter in 38 of 39 games, she notched 23 double-digit scoring efforts, including a career-high 23 points against Washington on June 27, 2024. In that game, she made 9-of-15 shots from the field and all three free throws in the 94-91 victory.

International Experience: Harris led Team USA to the Gold medal at the 2016 FIBA U-18 Americas Cup and was a member of the Silver medal-winning United States squad at the 2017 FIBA U-19 World Cup. She also helped Team USA claim the Silver medal at the 2019 Pan American Games.

At South Carolina: A four-year letter winner at South Carolina, Harris ranks third in program history with 139 games played from 2016-20 and fifth on the all-time ledger with 127 career games started. She finished her college career with 1,340 points and a school-record 702 assists. She also grabbed 426 rebounds at South Carolina, including 121 caroms as a sophomore. She piloted the Gamecocks to the 2017 NCAA Division I title along with two Southeastern Conference regular-season championships and three SEC Tournament crowns. Harris guided South Carolina to a 118-22 record during her career, including a 38-17 mark against nationally-ranked opponents. She was a three-time WBCA All-America selection, including a Third-Team commendation as a senior, and also collected Third-Team All-America notice from the Associated Press and Wooden Award in 2020. Harris was a finalist for the 2020 Naismith Trophy, Wade Trophy, Wooden Award, and Honda Sport Award. The two-time finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Award as the nation’s top point guard was selected as the 2020 Roy F. Kramer SEC Female Athlete of the Year, becoming the third South Carolina women’s basketball player to win the award. The five-time All-SEC performer received First-Team recognition as a senior and also claimed a spot on the All-SEC Second Team as a sophomore and junior by the league’s coaches and media. She was the fourth player in program history to hail from Indiana.

Harris ranks second in South Carolina history with a .792 career free throw percentage and 4,168 minutes played. She holds the program single-season mark with 220 assists during the 2017-18 campaign and also stands as South Carolina’s career leader in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.55). She led the Gamecocks in assists during all four seasons and ranks ninth on the Gamecocks’ career chart with 224 steals. She established a new South Carolina single-season standard by playing 1,208 minutes during her sophomore campaign. During her senior season, she led the SEC and ranked 12th in NCAA Division I with a 5.7 assist average while starting all 33 games. She tallied the 1,000th point of her career against USC Upstate on November 21, 2019, and averaged 5.3 assists per game as a junior to rate third in the SEC. She ranked eighth in the nation with a 3.2 assist-to-turnover ratio and paced the Gamecocks with 17 double-digit scoring performances, including a trio of 20-point outputs. While serving as a team captain during her sophomore campaign, Harris earned WBCA All-Region notice after ranking 21st in the country with a 6.1 assist-per-game clip. She posted six games with 10 or more points and 10 or more assists, the most in a single season in school history. As a freshman, she started in 27 games and earned SEC All-Freshman Team accolades. She led all SEC freshmen with a 2.0 assist-to-turnover ratio and also dished out a team-high 3.2 assists per game while chipping in 5.6 points per contest.