Michigan
5-0
Hartford
3-3
Maize & Blue Continues Hot Offense, Runs Past Hartford
11/27/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Nov. 27, 2015
» Katelynn Flaherty and Hallie Thome combined for 42 points on 17-for-21 shooting on the night.
» The Wolverines shot 53.2 percent (33-for-62) from the floor, the fourth time this season that U-M has shot at least 50 percent from the floor.
Site: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Crisler Center)
Score: Michigan 83, Hartford 47
Records: U-M (5-0), HU (3-3)
Next U-M Event: Sunday, Nov. 29 -- vs. Oral Roberts (Crisler Center), 2 p.m.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan women's basketball team used a 22-5 run over the end of the first quarter and beginning of the second quarter to distance itself in an 83-47 win over Hartford on Friday evening (Nov. 27) inside Crisler Center.
Sophomore Katelynn Flaherty paced the Wolverines with 24 points on 9-for-12 shooting, including a 6-for-8 showing from three-point range. Freshman Hallie Thome scored 18 points on 8-for-9 shooting, while junior Siera Thompson went for eight points, seven assists and six rebounds in 31 minutes. Four other Wolverines tallied at least seven points in the contest. Michigan shot 53.2 percent (33-for-62) from the floor while holding Hartford to a 28.6 percent (16-for-56) clip and forcing 20 Hawk turnovers.
Flaherty canned the first of two straight three-pointers on a step-back three with 6:26 on the clock in the first quarter for the first points of the game. Thome punctuated the 8-0 run to open the game with a layup at the 4:52 mark, before the Hawks answered with seven straight points. Thome made a spinning move in the paint, and freshman Nicole Munger hit a mid-range jumper with seven seconds remaining to send U-M to the quarter break with a 12-7 lead.
Michigan continued its run in the opening minutes of the second quarter as a sophomore Jillian Dunston backdoor layup and a pair of Thompson triples gave Michigan a 20-7 advantage just 1:59 into the quarter. U-M's 22-5 run over 7:45 between the first and second quarters culminated in a Flaherty lefty layup for a 30-12 lead with 4:25 remaining in the half.
Hartford answered back with a 7-0 run to trim the Michigan lead to 11, 30-19, but the Wolverines relied on Flaherty and Thome in the final minutes of the half. Flaherty hit her third three-pointer of the game, with Thome making back-to-back layups to send the Maize and Blue to the half with a 37-19 lead.
Thome scored 12 points on 6-for-7 shooting in the first 20 minutes, while Flaherty had 11 and Thompson chipped in six. Michigan shot an even 50 percent (15-for-30) in the first while forcing Hartford into three shot-clock violations and 27.6-percent shooting
In the third quarter, Michigan's lead hovered around 20 points, before a 13-0 run over 1:51 gave the Maize and Blue a 64-30 lead, forcing a Hartford timeout with 2:35 left.
U-M never let the lead fall before 30 points after that and led by as many as 41 in the win.
Michigan continues home action on Sunday (Nov. 29), hosting Oral Roberts at 2 p.m. [ Tickets ]
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