Wolverines to Hit the Road for Western Michigan

» Michigan is playing its first road contest of the season, heading to Kalamazoo for the first time since Nov. 18, 2013, to face Western Michigan.
» U-M is coming off an 88-40 win over Mount St. Mary's on Friday (Nov. 9) to start the year, when four players scored in double figures.
» Hallie Thome (1704 points) needs 11 more points to move past Jennifer Smith (1,714) into third all-time in Michigan career scoring.

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Thursday, Nov. 15 -- at Western Michigan (Kalamazoo, Mich.), 7 p.m.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan women's basketball team (1-0) hits the road for the first time this season, heading to Kalamazoo to face Western Michigan (1-1) on Thursday (Nov. 15) evening at University Arena.

• Senior Hallie Thome scored 25 points in the season opener, upping her career total to 1,704 points. She is just the fourth Wolverine to reach the 1,700-point mark, and is poised to move past Jennifer Smith's third place mark of 1,714 with just 11 more points. Thome also has 695 career rebounds, making her one of three players in school history with 1,600 points and 600 rebounds. She joins Trish Andrew and Smith in that club. She is on pace to graduate second in career points and could become the first player in school history to have 2,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds.

• Senior Nicole Munger made four triples in the season opener against Mount St. Mary's, moving her career total to 121. She is nine away from breaking into the top 10 in Michigan history, with the No. 10 spot being held by Madison Ristovski with 130 three-pointers. Munger's .406 career percentage from behind the arc puts her first on the career list as one of two players to shoot at least 40 percent from deep (Jennifer Keifer, .400).

• Western Michigan (1-1) is coming off a 66-54 loss to New Mexico State on Sunday (Nov. 11). WMU features three double-figure scorers in Leighah-Amori Wool (18.0 ppg), Kamrin Reed (11.5 ppg) and Maddie Watters (10.5 ppg). The Broncos are averaging 61.5 points per game on 35.2 percent shooting while allowing 63.5 points per game on 43.2 percent shooting. WMU holds a 15-14 lead in the all-time series with Michigan, but U-M has won 11 of the last 12 games between the two.

• Western Michigan marks the first of two consecutive Wolverine opponents from the state of Michigan. U-M is heading to Kalamazoo for the first time since Nov. 18, 2013, when the Maize and Blue defeated WMU, 73-45. The Wolverines will return home to host Detroit Mercy on Monday (Nov. 19) to complete the two-game in-state swing. Michigan also will head to Rochester, Michigan to face Oakland on Dec. 9.

• Michigan picked up on the defensive end of the floor in the second half of its 88-40 win over Mount St. Mary's, holding the Mountaineers to just 11 points over the final 20 minutes of the game. U-M gave up just eight points in the third quarter and three in the fourth quarter. Its fourth-quarter performance is the second-best defensive effort in a quarter since the NCAA switched to quarters before the 2015-16 season. It was the 12th time in program history that Michigan has kept a team under 10 in multiple quarters in the same game.

• Michigan will return to Crisler Center on Monday (Nov. 19) to host Detroit Mercy at 7 p.m. Fans can receive free admission by showing their football ticket from Saturday's (Nov. 17) game against Indiana. Monday's home game will be Michigan's last until Dec. 6.

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