On Sunday the Gophers women’s basketball team’s regular season will come to an end with a game at Williams Arena against seventh-ranked Maryland.
It has been a long year.
The team has had some nice wins but also many disappointing losses — more, perhaps, than most expected when it began. The season has had controversy that threatened to break up the team, but also reconciliation.
Taiye Bello has been in the middle of it all.
Bello, her twin sister, Kehinde, Jasmine Brunson and Masha Adashchyk will be honored on senior day. And then Taiye will go out and — perhaps for the last time in the Barn — play like one of the best post players in program history.
“I want to have fun,” she said. “It’s my last game. Just have fun and try to take everything in, I guess.”
She is still chasing down milestones. Bello is 22 rebounds from becoming the fifth player in program history with 1,000. And this after not becoming a regular starter until coach Lindsay Whalen assumed control last year.
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