{"id":117972,"date":"2025-09-04T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117972\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:23:12","slug":"arizona-womens-basketball-adds-international-standout-blessing-adebanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117972\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Women\u2019s Basketball Adds International Standout Blessing Adebanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"444\" data-start=\"169\">TUCSON, Ariz.\u00a0\u2013 Arizona Women&#8217;s Basketball head coach Becky Burke announced the addition of sophomore Blessing Adebanjo, a 6-foot-3 power forward\/center from Lagos, Nigeria. Adebanjo will join the Wildcats after an accomplished career at Yamanashi Gakuin University in Japan.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"958\" data-start=\"486\">Adebanjo averaged\u00a015.1 points, 9.7 rebounds, 4.0 assists and \u00a07.7 blocks per game\u00a0in her lone collegiate season in Japan. She posted a\u00a0career-high 45 points and 17 rebounds in a single game. Her efforts also earned her recognition as one of the prestigious Rookies Tournament&#8217;s Best 8 and Best 5 selections, while claiming the\u00a0leading scorer award.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1273\" data-start=\"960\">In addition to her standout rookie season, Adebanjo was named\u00a0Athlete of the Year\u00a0and served as her team&#8217;s\u00a0lead\u00a0rebounder.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1758\" data-start=\"1404\">&#8220;Blessing is an incredible athlete. She is long, versatile and exactly what we are looking for in the caliber of players we need to compete for a Big 12 championship. She is an incredible young woman with a great spirit and eagerness to be great. We are very lucky to have her and expect Blessing to be an immediate impact on our team,&#8221; said Burke.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Yamanashi Gakuin, Adebanjo attended\u00a0Japan Aviation Academy\u00a0where she competed in the\u00a02023 Winter Cup All-Japan Games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; TUCSON, Ariz.\u00a0\u2013 Arizona Women&#8217;s Basketball head coach Becky Burke announced the addition of sophomore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-117972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}