WBB Ballin' Out
For those of you who don't follow women's basketball, our ladies have been totally ballin' out lately. They are ranked No. 13 in the country with a 19-4 record and are on a 6-game winning streak, including wins over OSU and MSU. Our women's team has never been ranked higher than 12 in its history, but with a couple of wins this week, we could surpass that.
Tonight, we have a home game against a strong Purdue team at 8 p.m. Unlike men's games, tickets are cheap (6 bucks) and you can sit virtually courtside. The energy is fantastic; the basketball is high quality; and you can get to see Michigan's all-time leading scorer, Katelynn Flaherty, in action for one of the last times.
Let's Crash Crisler and Jam the Gym!!! Go Blue!
February 1st, 2018 at 8:15 AM ^
That's awesome. Kim Barnes Arico is doing a phenomenal job. Still curious why, Kysre Gondrezick, left the team last year.
February 1st, 2018 at 9:16 AM ^
the game is on BTN.
Chengelis had a nice article on Jillian Dunston in the DetNews yesterday.
She’s the unsung hero,” Barnes Arico said. “She does everything. She’s a difference-maker in our program. I say it publicly all the time, she’s arguably our MVP just as much as Katelynn is our MVP because of what she brings to our program, and that doesn’t show up in the box score.
February 1st, 2018 at 9:30 AM ^
Yes, it's on BTN. But don't let that deter those of us in the Ann Arbor area from coming to the game. Cheap tickets and free parking. Plus it's Pink Night to honor breast cancer survivors, and they may be giving a coupon for a free hot dog with your ticket (I'm not sure on this one).
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Your name is too similar to Orlando2, aka CoolGuy, aka probably 8 other names
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Are you having a better day today?
February 1st, 2018 at 12:03 PM ^
I'm torn on if I think Tampa 2 is Orlando2. Didn't Orlando2 also claim to have lived in Alaska?
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Then The 2, The Real 2, The Realest 2
February 1st, 2018 at 11:34 AM ^
You forgot Imaginary 2, The Squre Root Of 2, 2 Factorial (Which Is Still 2), The Base 10 Log Of 2, and so on before someone finally allows the mods to do IP bans somehow.
And with that, I've given some idiot currently lurking in the background an idea. I know it.
February 1st, 2018 at 11:39 AM ^
Words and Roman numerals are options: The Two, the II.
Other languages: Le 2, El 2, Die 2...
February 1st, 2018 at 8:36 AM ^
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February 1st, 2018 at 9:13 AM ^
From earlier this week: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/22218489/connecticut-huskies-men-basketball-program-ncaa-investigation
Plus, I believe they had APR issues.
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February 1st, 2018 at 8:49 AM ^
If we take care of business these next few games, the last regular season game against Maryland could be for the B1G championship (this of course requires Maryland to take care of business as well for it to matter). GO BLUE!!
February 1st, 2018 at 9:06 AM ^
Flaherty the best player in WBB program history? She's making a run at that title if she hasn't already claimed it. Go ladies!
February 1st, 2018 at 9:13 AM ^
you can also sit "virtually courtside" at Men's games, if by virtually you mean that there are plenty of unoccupied seats courtside..
February 1st, 2018 at 9:19 AM ^
No, I mean that you can sit in the first few rows at the WBB games. The actual on-the-floor seats (the Nicholson seats) are all reserved. And, at the men's games, even though many of the blue seats are often unoccupied, you can't sit there without a ticket -- I have tried in the past.
February 1st, 2018 at 10:33 AM ^
1. it was a joke
2. I move down to the lowest 10 rows almost every Men's game--I consider that "virtually courtside".
February 1st, 2018 at 9:42 AM ^
Interesting to note the former WBB Coach Kevin Borseth has the Wisconsin-Green Bay team ranked at #20 with a 19-2 record. They haven't played the toughest schedule, but enough people are convinced enough to rank them.
That said, I'm happy to have KBA as coach.
February 1st, 2018 at 10:20 AM ^
From what I understand, Borseth didn't really feel comfortable at Michigan (perhaps due to being in a bigger conference under a bigger spotlight) so he left and returned to Green Bay despite reasonable success in Ann Arbor (first NCAA bid in eleven years). So yes, GB has dominated the Horizon League but they are the big fish in a small pond.
February 1st, 2018 at 10:30 AM ^
...small-town guy (he's from the u.p., went to lake superior st.), really built a nice program in green bay before he came here...the guy can really coach, though.
February 1st, 2018 at 11:13 AM ^
a horrendous program here. It felt strange when Borseth left, but we were lucky to get KBA. She seems like a great fit as well as a coach and recruiter.
February 1st, 2018 at 11:32 AM ^
Green Bay has been really good for a long time in women's hoops, so they built up some national respect. Not uncommon to see that team ranked.
Glad Borseth is happy and Michigan found a coach to take program up a notch. KBA has been recruiting well so hopefully it continues.
February 1st, 2018 at 1:06 PM ^
On January 5, 2010, Brandon was named athletic director at the University of Michigan, succeeding Bill Martin.
Borseth led the Lady Wolverines to two more WNIT berths in the next three seasons and returned them to the NCAA tournament in 2012, where they lost in the first round.
On April 4, 2012, Borseth announced he was resigning as Michigan's coach and returning to Green Bay to coach at UWGB due to it being closer to his home.
February 1st, 2018 at 10:18 AM ^
Well done, keep it up, GO BLUE!!!!
February 1st, 2018 at 10:26 AM ^
for MBB vs. minny.
go blue!
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February 1st, 2018 at 11:33 AM ^
The top 16 seeds in the nation get to host the first and second round of the NCAA tournament. That's entirely possible for Michigan this year. The games would be either Friday & Sunday, March 16 & 18, or they would be Saturday & Monday, March 17 & 19.
It would be nice to have a big crowd at Crisler if this ends up happening.
February 1st, 2018 at 11:34 AM ^
It seems like we were stuck on an NIT/bubble NCAA level for a long time. Great to see us make the breakthrough.
February 1st, 2018 at 11:38 AM ^
Of our four losses, three were to top 10 teams (@ #5 Louisville; #3 Notre Dame; @ #23 Iowa; #10 OSU in OT) and we avenged one of those losses with a win on the road against OSU.
This is the best team we've ever had. If we go 5-1 down the stretch, we'll tie our best conference record in program history at 13-3. That's a big ask with three on the road reamining, and four of which coming against teams with winning conference records. So I would expect us to end up 12-4 or 11-5 in conference play. Which is still very good.
Single elimination tournaments are often a crapshoot, so I won't put much stock in our NCAA performance, but it will be good to get back to it.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:28 PM ^
So this means we're beating UConn by 40 in the tite game, right?
February 1st, 2018 at 1:18 PM ^