Nation's No. 3 player, Ashley HS star Saniya Rivers commits to South Carolina

Saniya Rivers, who is ranked as the No. 3 girls basketball player in the country by ESPN, committed to play at the University of South Carolina over the weekend. Rivers announced her choice in a video posted to Twitter that has been viewed upwards of 200,000 times.

Rivers won Girls Basketball Player of the Year at the 2019 HSOT Honors and finished as runner-up in this year's HSOT Honors.

As a junior at Ashley, the 6-foot guard averaged 25 pointer per game, 12 rebounds per game, six steals per game, and four assists per game. Rivers scored 1,152 points over her freshman and sophomore seasons at Laney. Between the her efforts at both schools, Rivers has scored 1,876 career points. Rivers and her family were displaced by Hurricane Florence in 2018, hence her transfer to Ashley.

Ashley went 25-5 overall in the 2019-2020 season. The screaming Eagles were knocked out by Southeast Raleigh in the fourth round.

Rivers is the highest-ranked player to come out of North Carolina since Butler's Cierra Burdick in 2011.