Former Wildcat Bendu Yeaney will return to Tucson on Friday as a member of Oregon State's women's basketball team.
PJ Brown It’s a good thing Bendu Yeaney will be following the pack off of Oregon State's team bus and into McKale Center on Friday afternoon.Yeaney transferred to Oregon State last April to finish out her college career after spending two years as part of the UA program. She roamed the halls of McKale, and was a part of Wildcats teams that advanced to the NCAA championship game and, a year later, hosted the first two rounds of the postseason.
People are also reading… "It's going to be a little emotional because it's going to be my last time ever playing on that court. But I'm excited for it."Yeaney said she's treating Friday like any other game. Yeaney has experience in the old-team department. In the spring of 2021, Yeaney's Wildcats took on Indiana, the school where she had begun her college career.
"It really snuck up on me," she said."I knew I was close, but I didn't know how many points . I wasn't really aiming for it. Everybody puts me in the category as a defensive player, but I don't label myself. I’ve got to just do whatever I need to, to win games. Some games that scoring, some games that's just playing defense."
Yeaney said she thinks about her brother every day. And while it would be easy to walk away from basketball in her sixth college season, especially after knee surgery forced her to miss nearly a month, but that’s not what he would want her to do.The first time she stepped on the court after her brother's death was hard, Yeaney said. But once she started bouncing the ball,"I just forgot about everything.
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