MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Middle Tennessee has been aided by high-level play from new faces all season, but one new Lady Raider has been the queen of them all. That also happens to be her name.
A'Queen Hayes came to MT in the summer of 2018 as a graduate transfer from Eastern Kentucky, where she starred for one season on the hardwood at Alumni Coliseum. She was first-team All-Ohio Valley Conference, ranking in the top 12 in the league in scoring, rebounding, assists, assist-to-turnover ratio, steals and minutes.
The redshirt senior's collegiate basketball story started long before she donned the blue and white of Middle Tennessee and the maroon of EKU, though, and it included a familiar face who now sits on MT's sidelines.