| Olivia Miles | |
| Number: | 5 |
| Position: | Point guard |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 10 |
| League: | Atlantic Coast Conference |
| Team: | Notre Dame Fighting Irish |
| Birth Date: | 29 January 2003 |
| Birth Place: | Summit, New Jersey, U.S. |
| High School: | Blair Academy (Blairstown, New Jersey) |
| College: | Notre Dame (2021–present) |
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Olivia Miles (born January 29, 2003) is an American college basketball player for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
Born in Summit, New Jersey and later a resident of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Miles played basketball for Blair Academy in Blairstown, New Jersey.[1] In her junior season, she averaged 13.6 points, 8.1 rebounds and 7.6 assists per game,[2] leading her team to the Prep A state title.[3] Miles competed for the Philadelphia Belles on the Amateur Athletic Union circuit, with whom she won a Nike Elite Youth Basketball League title in June 2019.[4] In addition to basketball, she played soccer in high school.[5] Miles was selected to the Jordan Brand Classic roster.[6] Rated a five-star recruit by ESPN, she committed to play college basketball for Notre Dame after also considering Stanford and North Carolina.[7]
Miles opted to enroll early at Notre Dame and joined the team on January 25, 2021.[8] Over six games in her first season, she averaged 9.3 points and 3.5 assists per game.[9] On November 21, 2021, Miles posted 14 points and 14 assists, three short of the program single-game record, in a 94–35 win over Bryant.[10] On December 8, she joined Marina Mabrey as the only Notre Dame freshmen to record a triple-double, with 11 points, 13 rebounds and 13 assists in a 73–56 win against Valparaiso.[11] Miles scored a season-high 30 points in a 74–61 win against Boston College on January 30, 2022.[12] In the first round of the NCAA tournament, she became the first freshman in women's or men's tournament history to register a triple-double, with 12 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in an 89–78 victory over UMass.[13] As a freshman, Miles averaged 13.7 points, 5.7 rebounds and 7.4 assists per game, ranking second to Caitlin Clark in assists among NCAA Division I players.[14] She was named first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).[15]
On December 10, 2022, Miles posted 13 points, 13 rebounds and 14 assists in a 108–44 win over Merrimack, surpassing Skylar Diggins-Smith and Jackie Young for the most triple-doubles in Notre Dame history, with three.[16] On February 16, 2023, she made the game-winning shot as time expired, while recording 18 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists, in a 78–76 victory over Louisville.[17] Miles suffered a season-ending knee injury during her team's regular season finale against Louisville on February 26. As a sophomore, she averaged 14.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 6.9 assists per game. Miles was named first-team All-ACC, second-team All-American by the Associated Press (AP) and third-team All-American by the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA).[18]
Miles played for the United States national under-16 team at the 2019 FIBA Under-16 Americas Championship in Chile. She averaged 5.2 points, 2.2 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game, helping her team win the gold medal.[19]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2020-21| style="text-align:left;"| Notre Dame| 6 || 0 || 22.7 || 51.1 || 10.0 || 46.7 || 3.7 || 3.5 || 1.2 || 0.2 || 3.0 || 9.3
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2021-22| style="text-align:left;"| Notre Dame| 33 || 33 || 33.4 || 45.5 || 27.0 || 67.7 || 5.7 || bgcolor=#d3d3d3 | 7.4° || 1.8 || 0.2 || 3.8 || 13.7
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2022-23| style="text-align:left;"| Notre Dame| 28 || 28 || 31.7 || 46.0 || 22.8 || 76.7 || 7.3 || bgcolor=#d3d3d3 |6.9° || 2.1 || 0.2 || 3.3 || 14.3 |-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|67||61||31.6||46.1||24.6||71.0||6.2||6.8||1.9||0.2||3.5||13.6
|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[20]