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Toledo’s win caps years of persistence

CLEVELAND — Maybe someday the picture really will be worth a thousand words.

It was worth none Saturday.

After the biggest win of their lives, Tricia Cullop and her Toledo women’s basketball team were at a loss.

IN PICTURES: UT women 82, Northern Illinois 71

There was Cullop atop a blue and gold ladder, scissors in one hand, a camera in the other. She sliced off the last lock of the net at Quicken Loans Arena, then, with a smile wider than the Maumee River, snapped a ladder selfie with her tearful but roaring team.