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By: Sam Novotny, Sarah Boeke
EVANSTON — Turning Northwestern over 14 times, the Michigan women’s basketball team was able to halt the Wildcats’ offense in key stretches of a tight victory. While that defensive presence was key for the Wolverines, turning those turnovers into 26 points was a separator in a close contest.
With one last resume-building chance against Ohio State, the Michigan women's basketball team will look to slow down Sheldon and the Buckeyes
By: Sam Novotny, Jenna Hickey
With the opportunity to close the regular season with a home win, the Michigan women’s basketball team faced what appeared to be an easy matchup. Squaring off with Big Ten bottom-feeder Purdue, the Wolverines found themselves in a closer contest than anticipated, but they were able to pull out the victory in the end.
By: Sam Novotny, Lila Turner
MINNEAPOLIS — After finding out its first-round draw in the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday night, the Michigan women’s basketball team saw a chance at vengeance.
MINNEAPOLIS — At the halftime break of the Michigan women’s basketball team’s upset victory over Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal, the Wolverines had made good on zero 3-point attempts. Shot after shot from deep had gone up, but none of them had come down successfully. Every Michigan run was missing a key ingredient — a momentum-swinging, opponent-crushing dagger from deep.
By: Sam Novotny, Lila Turner
MINNEAPOLIS — In the Big Ten Tournament semifinal game, the stars are bound to come out. The Michigan women’s basketball team, a group that appeared to be peaking at the right time behind All-Big Ten first teamer Laila Phelia, faced the highest remaining seed, No. 3 seed Iowa. After a hot first quarter from the Wolverines, Hawkeye guard Caitlin Clark took over and drove Iowa to victory.
By: Sam Novotny, Lila Turner
In the Michigan women’s basketball team’s Big Ten Tournament semifinal loss to Iowa on Saturday, freshman forward Taylor Woodson subbed into the game and sized up her defensive matchup. Woodson spread her arms wide and bent her knees, looking up to lock eyes with the Hawkeyes’ point guard — reigning national player of the year, Caitlin Clark.
The Michigan women’s basketball team travels to Los Angeles this Saturday as a No. 9 seed to take on No. 8 seeded Kansas in the Round of 64 of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament.
By: Sam Novotny, Grace Lahti
LOS ANGELES — Finding her new home with the Michigan women’s basketball team in her fifth year of collegiate basketball, graduate guard Elissa Brett still remained thousands of miles away from her real home of Adelaide, Australia. After a lauded career at Bowling Green, which included All-MAC first team honors in her senior year, the sharpshooter moved up north and went back to her roots as a basketball player.
Michigan men's soccer won its opening game of the season behind strong performances from its 5-man defensive back line.
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