HAYS, Kan. – Fort Hays State Men’s Basketball head coach Mark Johnson announced the signing of Nyjee Wright for the 2017-18 season on Thursday (Apr. 13). A native of Wichita, Kan., Wright is currently a senior at Derby High School. He finished as one of the top scorers in the school’s history.<\/p>\n
A 5-foot, 10-inch point guard, Wright had a big senior season averaging 20.5 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 4.4 assists per game. He buried a career-best 51 3-point field goals for the season as well. With his performance, Wright earned Kansas Class 6A All-State Second Team honors by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association (KBCA), Topeka Capital-Journal<\/em>, and Wichita Eagle<\/em>. He will compete in the KBCA All-Star Game this summer. He was also named to the All-State, All-Classes Top 30 by Sports in Kansas. As a junior in 2015-16, he was an All-State Second Team selection in Class 6A by Sports In Kansas, a Third Team selection by the Topeka Capital-Journal, and an honorable mention selection by the Wichita Eagle.<\/p>\n Wright finished with 1,120 points in his career at Derby, second on the school’s all-time scoring list. He saw a big increase in his scoring production the last two years of high school. After averaging 7.6 and 7.5 points per game his first two years, Wright averaged 16.4 points as a junior, then 20.5 as a senior. Over 86 career high school games, he averaged 3.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. His best numbers in both of those categories happened as a senior, pulling down 5.4 rebounds per game and dishing out 4.4 assists per game.<\/p>\n “We are very excited to have Nyjee sign with our program,” said Johnson. “He is a person of good character and a good student, the type of player we want in our program. He has been coached well under Derby head coach Brett Flory and we look for Nyjee to make a big impact on our program in the years to come.”<\/p>\n Wright will once again team with FHSU guard Aaron Nicholson. Entering his third year with the Tiger program, Nicholson was a teammate of Wright’s at Derby High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HAYS, Kan. – Fort Hays State Men’s Basketball head coach Mark Johnson announced the signing of Nyjee Wright for the 2017-18 season on Thursday (Apr.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3394,7349],"tags":[10567,4153,604,3466,106,10990,103],"class_list":["post-32239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mens-basketball-sports","category-sports","tag-tigerpride","tag-derby-high-school","tag-fhsu-athletics","tag-fhsu-mens-basketball","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-nyjee-wright","tag-tiger-media-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32241,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32239\/revisions\/32241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}