Alex Bentley

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Alex Bentley
Alex Bentley at 2015 All-Star Game cropped.png
Free agent
Position Point guard / shooting guard
League WNBA
Personal information
Born (1990-10-27) October 27, 1990 (age 34)
Indianapolis, Indiana
NationalityAmerican
Listed height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Listed weight152 lb (69 kg)
Career information
High school Ben Davis (Indianapolis, Indiana)
College Penn State (2009–2013)
WNBA draft 2013: 2nd round, 13th overall pick
Selected by the Atlanta Dream
Playing career2013–present
Career history
2013 Atlanta Dream
2014–2018 Connecticut Sun
2014–2015 Tarbes Gespe Bigorre
2015–2016 Yakin Dogu
2016–2017 Adana ASKİ SK
2017–2018 Nadezhda Orenburg
2018–2019 Atlanta Dream
Career highlights and awards
Stats at WNBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Alexandria Marie Bentley (born October 27, 1990) is an American professional basketball player. She played college basketball at Pennsylvania State University. She represents the Belarus national team internationally. [1]

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Early life

She was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her parents are Jeff and Marie Wilson; she has one brother, Jeff Wilson III and one sister, Alana Bentley. Her biological father is Albert Bentley, a former NFL player for the Indianapolis Colts (1985 to 1991). She attended Indiana Fever games as a young girl, and later worked as an intern for the team. [2] During high school, she helped her team earn a 30–0 record, a state championship, and a No. 1 ranking in the USA Today Super 25 poll. She averaged 15.7 points, 2.6 assists, 2.2 steals, and 3.2 rebounds in her senior year at Ben Davis High School [3] Bentley was also named a Third Team Parade Magazine High School All-American. [4]

In the 2011–12 season, she received an All-Big Ten first team selection for the second time in her career, making her one of the nine players in school history with multiple first team accolades. [3]

College career

While at Penn State, Bentley led the Big Ten in steals. [5] Bentley majored in broadcast journalism and minored in sociology while at Penn State. She was the fourth player in Big Ten History and the second player in school history with 1,500 points, 500 assists, and 300 steals. [3] During the 2010–11 season Alex Bentley became the eleventh Lady Lion in school history to earn a first team all big ten selection from the coaches. [3] In Bentley's first Big Ten game against Nebraska during the 2011–2012 season she got a then career-high 8 steals. That was the most steals a Lady Lion had acquired in approximately ten years. [3]

During the 2010–11 season Bentley became the eleventh Lady Lion in school history to earn a first team all big ten selection from the coaches. She finished in the top fifteen of the big ten in scoring, assists, field goal percentage, free throw percentage, steals, and assist-to-turnover ratio. [3]

Penn State statistics

Source [6]

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage 3P%  3-point field goal percentage FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game APG  Assists per game SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game PPG Points per game Bold Career high
YearTeamGPPointsFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
2009-10Penn State University3136544.5%31.3%60.0%2.74.01.60.311.8
2010-11Penn State University3550544.6%34.9%79.8%2.75.02.00.314.4
2011-12Penn State University3346542.3%30.2%68.4%2.74.73.00.214.1
2012-13Penn State University3245140.9%28.1%81.5%3.43.53.40.314.1
Career131178643.0%30.9%73.5%2.94.32.50.313.6

Professional career

WNBA

Bentley was selected with the 13th overall pick in the second round of the 2013 WNBA draft by the Atlanta Dream. [3] In her rookie regular season she played in 34 games and started 10 of them. She averaged 22 minutes, 1.4 rebounds, 2.8 assist, and 8.3 points per game in her first regular season as a reserve for the Dream. The Dream were second in the Eastern Conference and advanced all the way to the 2013 WNBA Finals but were swept by the Minnesota Lynx. Bentley averaged 17.5 minutes, 5.8 points, 2.0 assists and 1.8 rebounds per game in her rookie postseason. [7] In 2014, Bentley was acquired by the Connecticut Sun in a three-team trade, which sent Matee Ajavon and the Washington Mystics' 2014 second round draft pick to the Dream, as well as Kara Lawson and the Dream's 2014 third round draft pick to the Mystics. [8] In her first season with the Sun, Bentley became the team's starting point guard. She finished the season averaging 12.2 points per game and a career-high 3.7 assists per game.

In 2015, Bentley was moved to the shooting guard position in the Sun's starting lineup with the arrival of Jasmine Thomas. During the 2015 season, Bentley was voted into the 2015 WNBA All-Star Game, making it her first all-star appearance, and averaged a career-high 14.7 points per game by the end of the season. [9] Also during the season, she scored a career-high 31 points in a win against the Washington Mystics. [10] In 2016, Bentley started in all 34 games for the first time in her career, averaging 12.9 points per game. In a triple overtime loss to the Washington Mystics, Bentley tied her career-high of 31 points in 48 minutes of play. [11]

In 2017, Bentley re-signed with the Sun in free agency once her rookie contract expired. [12] During the 2017 season, Bentley played mostly from the bench, starting in 9 of 31 games and averaging 8.4 ppg.

In 2018, Bentley was traded to the Atlanta Dream in July. [13] After a season with Atlanta, she signed to the Las Vegas Aces but was waived before the season began. [14]

Overseas

In the 2014-15 WNBA off-season, Bentley played in France for Tarbes Gespe Bigorre. [15] In the 2015-16 WNBA off-season, Bentley played in Turkey for Yakin Dogu. [16] In September 2016, Bentley signed with Adana ASKI SK of the Turkish League for the 2016-17 WNBA off-season. [17] In 2017, Bentley signed with Nadezhda Orenburg of the Russian League for the 2017-18 WNBA off-season. [18]

WNBA statistics

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game SPG  Steals per game BPG  Blocks per game PPG Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game FG%  Field-goal percentage 3P%  3-point field-goal percentage FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold Career best°League leader

Regular season

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
2013 Atlanta 341022.1.398.329.7111.42.81.00.01.18.3
2014 Connecticut 343025.6.433.323.7551.73.71.20.02.012.2
2015 Connecticut 252530.0.409.336.8302.02.02.00.21.114.7
2016 Connecticut 343428.8.385.286.7851.92.50.80.01.412.9
2017 Connecticut 31923.7.380.278.8091.92.90.80.10.98.4
2018 Connecticut 19021.7.396.304.8331.43.21.30.11.610.0
2018 Atlanta 16020.8.376.310.5291.53.40.90.11.68.7
2019 Atlanta 29421.9.307.235.8571.93.00.70.31.59.0
Career7 years, 2 teamS22211224.6.387.296.7811.72.91.10.11.410.6

Playoffs

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
2013 Atlanta 8017.6.279.190.8891.82.01.10.30.85.8
2017 Connecticut 1024.0.500.000.5001.02.01.00.00.05.0
2018 Atlanta 5024.0.444.320.7502.02.00.60.02.815.6
Career3 years, 2 teams14020.2.375.255.7891.82.00.90.11.69.2

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  2. ↑ Sean Hans, WNBA.com (2013-07-11). "Alex Bentley: Living the Dream". WNBA.com. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
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