2004-05 BKW vs. IUPUI -- Notes & Quotes
12/11/2004 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
N O T E S
Michigan used its third different starting lineup this season tonight with Tabitha Pool and Janelle Cooper at forward, Katie Dierdorf playing center, and Krista Clement and Becky Flippin at the guard positions. This was freshman Dierdorf's first career start.
In her 80th career and 24th consecutive start, Tabitha Pool grabbed seven rebounds to move her past Jennifer Brzesinski (1992-96) to into eighth place all-time in the Michigan record book with 631 career rebounds.
Pool led Michigan in rebounds for the fourth consecutive game and has been the team's rebounding leader in seven out of eight games this season. Ta'Shia Walker led the team in rebounds against Drake on Nov. 30.
With 16 points in tonight's contest, Pool led Michigan in scoring for the fifth consecutive game. Pool becomes the only Wolverine to score in double figures in all eight games this season. Dating back to last season, Pool has scored in double figures in 10 straight games. Pool also dished out a season-high five assists.
Becky Flippin set career highs in steals with three and points with 12. Her four free throws made are also a career high.
Katie Dierdorf's two blocks and three steals are both career highs. Dierdorf has led the team in blocks three times this season.
Krista Clement made a career-high 5-6 free throws.
Michigan had a season-high five players in double figures in scoring. Pool, Dierdorf, Clement, Flippin and Walker all scored in double digits. The last time Michigan had five players with 10 or more points was on Nov. 17, 2003, at home against Cinncinati.
Michigan set a season high in steals with 13. Pool, Dierdorf and Flippin all had three.
The Wolverines shot over 71.0 percent from the free throw line for the third straight game and the fourth time this season.
Sierrah Moore played the first regular-season game of her career.
Q U O T E S
Michigan Head Coach Cheryl Burnett
On freshman Katie Dierdorf's first career start ... "Having a presence in the low post really makes a huge difference. That's the difference Katie Dierdorf gives us. She really posts up well when we reverse the basketball. We can really find her in the post and it gives us a lot more flexibility. Things take time, it takes time for a lot of our players, but we are progressing nicely."
On tonight's lineup change ... "We are a program where you will see changes in the lineup as long as I am here as the coach for different reasons and different strategies and sometimes just because change is good. Just change for the sake of change, and I really thought our players reacted well. We reemphasized a couple things that the team concept is far superior to what happens to 'I' and we just needed to make sure we reemphasized that and our players reacted beautifully."
On the IUPUI run in the second half ... "I really thought we did a good job in trying to re-gather and that took us about three possessions and a timeout to re-remind us the things we needed to do. We needed to do a lot more time management in a couple of situations and had some bad possessions with the lead being cut. I want to say that IUPUI -- and I told this to their coach today -- is probably the best 1-6 team that we were ever going to play. They have really been playing people well, go up to Marquette and Marquette at the time was undefeated, they played them very close and they have been building confidence. They finally won an overtime game and they do different presses and I thought we did a much better job against their pressure."
On improvements in tonight's performance ... "We really started looking at some of the right places, which is the thing I am appreciating. We still had some ugly possessions, but we are trying to do the right things and then we had some really good possessions, so it was a good feel to gain some confidence."
