Michigan Hits the Road for New Year's Eve Contest at Iowa

» No. 21 Michigan faces its third ranked opponent of the season in No. 23 Iowa in the teams' lone meeting this season. It is the first road game for U-M in the Big Ten season.
» Michigan features a trio of double-figure scorers in Katelynn Flaherty (22.7), Hallie Thome (16.6) and Nicole Munger (10.3).
» Head coach Kim Barnes Arico needs one more victory to move into first place alone on the all-time wins list at Michigan. She enters the contest tied with Sue Guevara, the current head coach at Central Michigan, with 123 victories in Ann Arbor.

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 21-ranked University of Michigan women's basketball team (12-2, 1-0 B1G) will continue Big Ten action at No. 23-ranked Iowa (13-1, 1-0 B1G) on Sunday (Dec. 31) at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Tip is set for 3 p.m. CST, and the game can be seen on Big Ten Network.

• Head coach Kim Barnes Arico has racked up 123 wins during her six seasons in Ann Arbor, tying current Central Michigan head coach Sue Guevara atop the U-M wins list. Barnes Arico can become the all-time leader by herself with one more victory. KBA's .654 winning percentage at Michigan is the highest in program history. She is also seven wins away from reaching 400 for her career.

• Senior Katelynn Flaherty holds a host of school records and topped her own by making 10 three-pointers against Penn State (Dec. 28). It was just the sixth time in Big Ten history that a player hit double figures from behind the three-point line. With her 10 triples, Flaherty is now fifth in B1G history with 337 three-pointers. She also cracked the top 10 in scoring in conference history, coming in at No. 9 with 2,337 points.

• Michigan has won eight straight games, the fifth-longest winning streak in program history. It is the longest winning streak for the Maize and Blue since winning 10 straight during head coach Kim Barnes Arico's first season (Dec. 1, 2012-Jan. 17, 2013). It is the third time under Barnes Arico that Michigan has won at least seven straight.

• For the third time in school history, Michigan has won 12 of its first 14 games for a 12-2 record. U-M last won 12 of its first 14 during the 2012-13 season, racing out to a 15-2 record. The Wolverines also started 12-2 during the 2011-12 season.

• U-M is looking for its first undefeated December since going 6-0 in the last month of the year during the 2012-13 season. Michigan also went undefeated in December during the 1998-99 season.

• The No. 23 Hawkeyes are off to a hot start, coming into the game with a 13-1 record and 1-0 mark in the Big Ten after a 56-46 win at Wisconsin on Thursday (Dec. 28). Megan Gustafson leads Iowa, averaging a double-double of 22.1 points and 12.6 rebounds per game while shooting 67.9 percent from the floor. Alexis Sevillian is chipping in 11.4 points per game. Iowa's other double-figure scorer, Makenzie Meyer (11.3 ppg), is out with a broken bone in her left hand. Iowa leads the Big Ten in field goal percentage at .505 and is averaging 81.2 points per game. Iowa leads the all-time series, 47-17, but U-M won the teams' lone meeting last year at Crisler Center (72-70).

• Senior Jillian Dunston has continued to do it all for the Wolverines, averaging a team-high 10.2 rebounds with 3.6 points and 3.9 assists per game. Dunston is the only player in the Big Ten to lead her team in rebounding and assists. She has nine games this season with at least 10 rebounds and is up to 10th all-time in program history with 708 rebounds.