Former Stony Brook and Miami basketball player Elijah Olaniyi has died after a battle with brain cancer. He was 26 years old.

Elijah Olaniyi, a former college basketball player and Newark native, died Thursday following a battle with brain cancer, ...

The Brooklyn-born, Newark-raised swingman was diagnosed with brain cancer in November of 2023 - which ended his hopes of ...

Elijah Olaniyi was a college basketball star and had hoped to play overseas professionally - but he has tragically died at ...

Former Stony Brook and Miami basketball player Elijah Olaniyi died at the age of 26 after a battle with brain cancer.

Following a string of procedures to remove 95 percent of the tumor and subsequent radiation treatments, Olaniyi declared ...

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 21: Elijah Olaniyi #3 of the Stony Brook Seawolves takes a foul shot during a college basketball game against the American University Eagles at Bender Arena on December ...

The college basketball community is mourning the loss of former Stony Brook and University of Miami star Elijah Olaniyi.

It was less than one month after his graduation from Newark East Side and only days after moving into his dorm at Stony Brook University when basketball became something much more than Elijah ...