Tiffany_Mitchell_(basketball)

Tiffany Mitchell (basketball)

Tiffany Mitchell (basketball)

American basketball player

Tiffany Mitchell (born September 23, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She also currently plays for the Galatasaray of the Eurocup and Turkish Basketball Leagues. Mitchell played college basketball for the South Carolina Gamecocks, where she was a two-time SEC Player of the Year. After concluding her collegiate career, she was selected ninth overall in the 2016 WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever. During the WNBA off-seasons, Mitchell has played overseas in Russia, Turkey, Israel and Australia.

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College career

Between 2012 and 2016, Mitchell played college basketball for the South Carolina Gamecocks. In 2014 and 2015, she was named the SEC Player of the Year.[1]

College statistics

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  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
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Professional career

WNBA

Mitchell was selected ninth overall in the 2016 WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever. She scored a game-high 18 points for the Fever in her WNBA debut. She played all 34 games during the 2016 season and averaged 8.6 points per game, earning a place in the WNBA All-Rookie Team.[3] In 2021, she played her sixth season for the Fever.[4]

On January 31, 2024, Mitchell was traded to the Connecticut Sun alongside the 19th pick in the 2024 WNBA draft in exchange for Natisha Hiedeman.

Overseas

In her first WNBA off-season, Mitchell played for Nadezhda Orenburg of the Russian Women's Basketball Premier League during the 2016–17 season.[5]

Mitchell's next overseas stint came during the 2018–19 season. She started the season in Turkey with Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyespor, later joining OGM Ormanspor in December 2018. She left OGM Ormanspor in January 2019 and in March 2019 joined Elitzur Ramla in Israel.[5]

Mitchell returned to Elitzur Ramla for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons.[5]

Melbourne Boomers

For the 2021–22 season, Mitchell moved to Australia to play for the Melbourne Boomers of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL).[6] The Boomers won the WNBL title in that season, Mitchell scoring 16 points in the deciding game against Perth. [7]

Galatasaray

On 19 July 2023, she signed with Galatasaray of the Turkish Women's Basketball Super League (TKBL).[8]

On 30 November 2023, Galatasaray and Mitchell announced that they parted ways by mutual agreement.[9]

REG

In November 2023, Mitchell was announced by Rwandan club REG for the FIBA Africa Women's Basketball League.[10] Mitchell was the top scorer of the league season, after averaging 23.7 points per game on 45.2% shooting from the field and 40.0% from three-point range.[11]

WNBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career best ° League leader

Regular season

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Postseason

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References

  1. [1]
    "Tiffany Mitchell". gamecocksonline.com. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  2. [2]
    "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  3. [3]
    "Tiffany Mitchell". wnba.com. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  4. [4]
    "Tiffany Mitchell 2021 Season Review". wnba.com. October 20, 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  5. [5]
    "Tiffany Mitchell". australiabasket.com. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  6. [6]
    "BOOMERS SIGN WNBA STAR TIFFANY MITCHELL". wnbl.basketball/melbourne. July 15, 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  7. [7]
    "Lynx Give It All But Boomers Win WNBL Championship". wnbl.basketball/melbourne. April 9, 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  8. [8]
    "Tiffany Mitchell Galatasaray Çağdaş Faktoring'de!" (in Turkish). Galatasaray. July 19, 2023. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
  9. [9]
    "🙏 #ThankYou Tiffany Mitchell 👏". Galatasaray Basketbol (@GSBasketbol) _ X. 30 November 2023. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
  10. [10]
    Sikubwabo, Damas (2023-11-29). "WNBA star Tiffany Mitchell joins REG Women". The New Times. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  11. [11]
    "Players statistics of the FIBA Africa Women's Basketball League 2023". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
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