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Powell, Bello Claim Weekly Honors from Big Ten
2/3/2020 12:25:00 PM | Women's Basketball
MINNEAPOLIS – The Minnesota women's basketball team had multiple honorees take home hardware from the league offices this week as Jasmine Powell was named the Big Ten co-Freshman of the Week, while Taiye Bello was placed on the Big Ten Player of the Week Honor Roll.
Sharing honors with Wisconsin's Sydney Hilliard, Powell averaged a team-high 17.7 points, as well as 5.0 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 2.0 steals per game while making the first three starts of her career last week.
Powell made the first start of her career Monday night at Indiana and played all 40 minutes. She scored 15 points, grabbed three rebounds and added a team-high three assists. In a 67-61 win over Nebraska Thursday, Powell tied a career high with 19 points, while her 7-of-17 shooting also tied personal bests for field goals made and attempted. She added seven rebounds, four steals and three assists. The Huskers held a 55-49 lead with 8:24 to play, but it was all Minnesota the rest of the way as the Gophers embarked on a 13-2 run to take control with Powell scoring six points during the stretch. Minnesota led 62-59 with less than two minutes to play against the Huskers and Powell nailed a clutch 3-pointer to provide the exclamation point as the lead grew to six.
Powell equaled her career high Sunday in a 73-71, double overtime win over Rutgers with 19 points. Playing over 47 minutes, Powell was a perfect 10-of-10 at the free throw line and had five rebounds with four assists. Powell's 10-for-10 performance marked the most makes without a miss at the line this season by a Gopher.
It's the first Freshman of the Week honor of Powell's career. With fellow freshman Sara Scalia winning twice already, this is just the second time in program history that multiple Gophers have won Freshman of the Week accolades in one season since the award was introduced in 2009-10. It also happened in 2011-12 with Kayla Hirt and Mikayla Bailey.
Bello recorded double-doubles in all three games last week, averaging 14.3 points, 15.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks. She now has double-doubles in four of her last five games and has 10 or more rebounds in five straight contests. She has 11 double-doubles this year and 26 in her career.
Bello started the week with 11 points and 13 rebounds at Indiana Monday. In a 67-61 win over Nebraska Thursday, Bello recorded 13 points and 10 rebounds, including nine points and eight rebounds in the second half alone as the Gophers rallied from six down in the final quarter to win.
Bello saved her best performance for last though in a 73-71, double overtime win Sunday over Rutgers. In just the eighth game in program history to go more than one overtime, Bello scored 19 points and grabbed a career-high 22 rebounds, including 14 on the defensive end. It tied for the fifth most rebounds in a game in program history and tied for 10th most in Big Ten annals. It was the highest rebound total for a Gopher since Amanda Zahui B. also had 22 against DePaul in the first round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament.
Offensively, she was 15-of-19 at the free throw line, recording the second most free throw attempts in program history and tying for the second most makes. Both numbers were also the most by a Big Ten player this year. Playing over 46 minutes against the Scarlet Knights, Bello also blocked four shots, tied a career high with three assists, recorded two steals and attempted the first two 3-pointers of her career in her 113th game. Bello made two clutch free throws with just 3.9 seconds left to force overtime, then made a putback layup with 34 seconds left in the first overtime that tied the game and force a second overtime.
Bello was named the Big Ten Player of the Week earlier this season on Dec. 9 and previously was on the league's Honor Roll on Nov. 19, 2018.
Sharing honors with Wisconsin's Sydney Hilliard, Powell averaged a team-high 17.7 points, as well as 5.0 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 2.0 steals per game while making the first three starts of her career last week.
Powell made the first start of her career Monday night at Indiana and played all 40 minutes. She scored 15 points, grabbed three rebounds and added a team-high three assists. In a 67-61 win over Nebraska Thursday, Powell tied a career high with 19 points, while her 7-of-17 shooting also tied personal bests for field goals made and attempted. She added seven rebounds, four steals and three assists. The Huskers held a 55-49 lead with 8:24 to play, but it was all Minnesota the rest of the way as the Gophers embarked on a 13-2 run to take control with Powell scoring six points during the stretch. Minnesota led 62-59 with less than two minutes to play against the Huskers and Powell nailed a clutch 3-pointer to provide the exclamation point as the lead grew to six.
Powell equaled her career high Sunday in a 73-71, double overtime win over Rutgers with 19 points. Playing over 47 minutes, Powell was a perfect 10-of-10 at the free throw line and had five rebounds with four assists. Powell's 10-for-10 performance marked the most makes without a miss at the line this season by a Gopher.
It's the first Freshman of the Week honor of Powell's career. With fellow freshman Sara Scalia winning twice already, this is just the second time in program history that multiple Gophers have won Freshman of the Week accolades in one season since the award was introduced in 2009-10. It also happened in 2011-12 with Kayla Hirt and Mikayla Bailey.
Bello recorded double-doubles in all three games last week, averaging 14.3 points, 15.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks. She now has double-doubles in four of her last five games and has 10 or more rebounds in five straight contests. She has 11 double-doubles this year and 26 in her career.
Bello started the week with 11 points and 13 rebounds at Indiana Monday. In a 67-61 win over Nebraska Thursday, Bello recorded 13 points and 10 rebounds, including nine points and eight rebounds in the second half alone as the Gophers rallied from six down in the final quarter to win.
Bello saved her best performance for last though in a 73-71, double overtime win Sunday over Rutgers. In just the eighth game in program history to go more than one overtime, Bello scored 19 points and grabbed a career-high 22 rebounds, including 14 on the defensive end. It tied for the fifth most rebounds in a game in program history and tied for 10th most in Big Ten annals. It was the highest rebound total for a Gopher since Amanda Zahui B. also had 22 against DePaul in the first round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament.
Offensively, she was 15-of-19 at the free throw line, recording the second most free throw attempts in program history and tying for the second most makes. Both numbers were also the most by a Big Ten player this year. Playing over 46 minutes against the Scarlet Knights, Bello also blocked four shots, tied a career high with three assists, recorded two steals and attempted the first two 3-pointers of her career in her 113th game. Bello made two clutch free throws with just 3.9 seconds left to force overtime, then made a putback layup with 34 seconds left in the first overtime that tied the game and force a second overtime.
Bello was named the Big Ten Player of the Week earlier this season on Dec. 9 and previously was on the league's Honor Roll on Nov. 19, 2018.
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