03/27/08A 30-2 run in the second half fueled Michigan's 59-45 WNIT third-round victory over Southern Miss. Jessica Minnfield and Stephany Skrba scored 13 points apiece to lead U-M.
Janelle Cooper scored a season-high 22 points and U-M matched a program record with 13 triples en route to a 75-57 win over Virginia Commonwealth in the second round of the WNIT.
Jessica Minnfield got hot at the right time, scoring 18 of Michigan's final 21 points to lead the Wolverines to a gutsy 55-52 win over Illinois in Champaign, Ill.
Michigan had 52 student-athletes named to the winter Academic All-Big Ten squad, led by 15 representatives from the women's swimming and diving team.