Michigan
Harvard
Wolverines to Trek East to Face Harvard
11/30/2023 3:38:00 PM | Women's Basketball
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan women's basketball team (6-1) will start a three-game road swing this weekend, heading to Harvard to face the Crimson (5-2) on Saturday afternoon (Dec. 2) at Lavietes Pavilion.
Notes
• Michigan hits the road for the second time this season, playing its first true road game against Harvard. U-M went 2-1 at the Battle 4 Atlantis in its other trip away from Crisler Center.
• Over its last two games, Michigan has had eight different people reach double figures - four in each. Against Eastern Michigan (Nov. 24), Chyra Evans (15), Laila Phelia (15), Greta Kampschroeder (12) and Elissa Brett (10) each reached double figures. In Michigan's win over SIUE (Nov. 29), Alyssa Crockett (16), Lauren Hansen (14), Jordan Hobbs (12) and Macy Brown (12) each reached the 10-point plateau. Evans, Crockett and Brown have each recorded new career bests in scoring over the stretch.
• Michigan tied a school record in its win over SIUE, hitting 14 three-pointers at a 56.0 percent clip. It tied the mark set on Nov. 13, 2009, when U-M hit 14 triples against Ball State. U-M has hit at least 10 three-pointers in each of the last two games after hitting 10 on 50.0 percent shooting against Eastern Michigan (Nov. 24). Over the last two games, U-M has shot 53.3 percent from deep en route to 12.0 three-point makes per game. Seven different Wolverines have made a three-pointer over the last two games, led by six from Kampschroeder and four each from Crockett and Hobbs.
• For the second time in her U-M tenure, head coach Kim Barnes Arico will face off against a former assistant coach in Harvard head coach Carrie Moore. Moore, a Michigan native, spent the 2021-22 season in Ann Arbor before becoming the HC at Harvard in the spring of 2022. Michigan advanced to the 2022 Elite Eight during Moore's lone season in Ann Arbor. The only other time KBA squared off against a former assistant was a 60-40 win over St. John's in the 2017 WNIT against Joe Tartamella, who took over at St. John's.Â
• Michigan reached the century mark for the first time since the 2017-18 season, scoring 103 points against SIUE (Nov. 29). It is the seventh time in Barnes Arico's tenure that the Wolverines have hit the 100-point mark and is tied for the 11th-most points in a single game in program history.
• Michigan has had 10 players record a double-figure scoring game thus far, with Phelia scoring at least 10 points in six games. Hansen (4), Cameron Williams (2), Hobbs (3), Evans (2), Taylor Williams (1), Kampschroeder (1), Brett (1), Brown (1) and Crockett (1) have each reached double figures in scoring this season.
• U-M leads the Big Ten in offensive rebounding (16.7 per game), turning those into 16.4 second-chance points per game after putting up 10 second-chance points against SIUE (Nov. 29). U-M is also first in the Big Ten in rebounding margin at +11.3. Taylor Williams leads the conference in offensive rebounds per game at 3.3 per game.
• Michigan's road swing to start the month of December will continue with games at Toledo (Dec. 6) and at Illinois (Dec. 10).
