| Ayoka Lee | |
| Number: | 50 |
| Position: | Center |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 6 |
| League: | Big 12 Conference |
| Team: | Kansas State Wildcats |
| Birth Date: | 12 August 2000 |
| Nationality: | American |
| High School: | Byron (Byron, Minnesota) |
| College: | Kansas State (2019–present) |
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Ayoka Lee (born August 12, 2000) is an American college basketball player for the Kansas State Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference. She holds the NCAA Division I women's single-game scoring record with 61 points.
Lee played basketball for Byron High School in Byron, Minnesota.[1] In her sophomore season, she averaged 24.6 points, 13.8 rebounds and 4.5 blocks per game and was named to the Class 3A All-State team. As a junior, Lee averaged 24.9 points, 16.4 rebounds and 4.1 blocks per game, repeating as a Class 3A All-State selection.[2] In her senior season, she averaged 26.6 points, 15.7 rebounds and 5.5 blocks per game.[3] She scored a school-record 54 points against Cotter High School during the Section 1AA tournament.[4] Lee tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during the state tournament.[1] She earned Class 2A All-State honors and was a finalist for the Minnesota Miss Basketball award.[5] Lee set career and single-season program records for points, rebounds and field goal percentage.[6] In high school, she also competed in volleyball for three years and track and field for two years at the varsity level.[3] A three-star recruit, she committed to playing college basketball for Kansas State.[7]
Lee redshirted her first season at Kansas State to rehabilitate from her torn ACL and was a part of the practice squad.[5] [8] On January 25, 2020, she recorded 23 points, 20 rebounds and five blocks in a 92–74 win against Oklahoma, the first 20-point, 20-rebound game in program history.[9] On February 16, she matched her season-high of 24 points while recording 13 rebounds, four blocks and three steals in an 87–85 win against Oklahoma.[10] As a freshman, Lee averaged 15.7 points, 11.4 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game, earning first-team All-Big 12 and Freshman of the Year recognition.[11] She set the conference record by winning the Big 12 Freshman of the Week award 12 times.[12] On January 31, 2021, Lee posted a sophomore season-high 37 points and 18 rebounds in an 80–70 loss to Oklahoma, scoring the most points by a Kansas State player during a Big 12 game.[13] She averaged 19.1 points, 8.7 rebounds and two blocks per game as a sophomore and was named first-team All-Big 12 for a second time.[14]
In her junior season debut on November 9, 2021, Lee broke the program single-game scoring record with 43 points, nine rebounds, four blocks and three steals in a 103–40 victory over Central Arkansas.[15] On December 11, Lee posted 38 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks in a 79–73 win against South Dakota State.[16] On January 11, 2021, she had 38 points and 11 rebounds in a 73–70 loss to Iowa State.[17] On January 23, Lee set the NCAA Division I women's single-game scoring record with 61 points in a 94–65 win over Oklahoma. During the game, she also had 12 rebounds and three blocks.[18] As a junior, Lee averaged 22 points, 10.3 rebounds and 2.9 blocks per game. She earned her third consecutive first-team All-Big 12 selection and was named a second-team All-American by the Associated Press and the United States Basketball Writers Association.[19] Lee opted to return to Kansas State instead of entering the 2022 WNBA draft but was sidelined for the season after undergoing knee surgery.[20] [21]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2019–20| style="text-align:left;"| Kansas State| 29|| 29||32.0||56.8|| 0.0||70.4||11.4|| 0.4|| 0.8||3.1|| 1.6||15.7|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2020–21| style="text-align:left;"| Kansas State| 25|| 25|| 28.0||62.1|| 0.0||81.2||8.7|| 0.7|| 0.7|| 2.0 ||1.4||19.1|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2021–22| style="text-align:left;"| Kansas State| 33||33|| 31.1||56.3||0.0||7.71||10.3|| 0.7||1.2|| 2.9|| 1.5||22.0|-| style="text-align:center;"| 2022–23| style="text-align:center;"| Kansas State| style="text-align:center;" colspan="12" |Did not play due to injury|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24| style="text-align:left;"| Kansas State| 27|| 27|| 27.2||61.9||1.000||70.3||8.6||0.8||1.0||2.8||1.3||19.7|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career|114||114||29.7||58.9||1.000||75.0||9.8||0.7||0.9||2.7||1.5||19.2|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[22]
Lee's younger brother, Ahjany, plays college basketball for St. Thomas (Minnesota), and her older brother, Ahymad, played at Byron High School.[1] She graduated from Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in psychology and is pursuing a master's degree in couples and family therapy. Lee was named a second-team Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) as a sophomore. She earned first-team Academic All-American and Big 12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors in her junior year.[23]