Wolverines to Host Ferris State Sunday in Exhibition Action
11/5/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Nov. 5, 2015
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The University of Michigan women's basketball team plays its lone exhibition contest of the season on Sunday (Nov. 8), welcoming Ferris State to Crisler Center. Tip is set for 2 p.m. Admission to the contest is free, and the entire team will be available for autographs following the game.
• Head coach Kim Barnes Arico enters her fourth season in Ann Arbor after becoming the program's first head coach to record three straight 20-win seasons. She has 62 wins in three seasons, already ranking fifth all-time at U-M. She recently signed a contract extension, keeping her in Ann Arbor through the 2020-21 season.
• Michigan is coming off a 20-15 season and a WNIT semifinal appearance in 2014-15. It marked the fourth straight 20-win campaign for the Wolverines, the longest streak in school history.
• U-M returns its leading scorer from last season in sophomore Katelynn Flaherty (14.3 ppg). The Maize and Blue also brings back a pair of starters in Siera Thompson (10.9 ppg) and Danielle Williams (2.4 rpg, 39 steals).
• The Wolverines have just four scholarship upperclassmen on the 2015-16 roster in seniors Madison Ristovski and Kelsey Mitchell, along with juniors Danielle Williams and Siera Thompson.
• Today's game will give fans a look at the new NCAA rules for this season. The game will consist of four 10-minute quarters, and teams will shoot two free throws on the fifth foul of each quarter for the rest of the period. Media timeouts will now occur at the first deadball under the five-minute mark or on the first called timeout of the period, if before five minutes remaining. [ Rule Changes ]
• Ferris State went 11-14 last season and welcome first-year head coach Kendra Faustin to the sidelines this season. Faustin came to Crisler Center during the 2012-13 season as the head coach of the Niagara Purple Eagles before returning to her home state this summer to coach the Bulldogs.
• Michigan lost a senior class of Nicole Elmblad (7.8 ppg, 7.0 rpg), Cyesha Goree (13.8 ppg, 10.5 rpg) and Shannon Smith (13.7 ppg, 4.5 rpg) that accounted for 51 percent of U-M's scoring and 59 percent of its rebounding last year.
• Michigan welcomes a four-member freshman class in Boogie Brozoski, Hallie Thome, Nicole Munger and Sam Trammel. Brozoski and Thome were Parade All-Americans, the first time Michigan has had more than one in a recruiting class.
• At 6-foot-5, Hallie Thome is the tallest Wolverine on the roster. It is the first time since the 2009-10 season that U-M has featured a player at least 6-5 (Krista Phillips, 6-6).
• Michigan will kick off the regular season next weekend, hosting Binghamton on Saturday (Nov. 14) at noon. Binghamton head coach Linda Cimino was a player for Michigan head coach Kim Barnes Arico at Adelphi. [ Tickets ]
