Flaherty, Thome Named WBCA All-Region
3/22/2018 1:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
ATLANTA, Ga. -- For the first time in program history, the University of Michigan women's basketball team put two players on the WBCA All-Region Team as senior Katelynn Flaherty and junior Hallie Thome were named to the All-Region 4 Team on Thursday (March 22). The duo is now eligible for the WBCA All-America team and guaranteed to earn All-America honorable mention by selection to the all-region team.
Flaherty, the first three-time all-region honoree in program history, concluded her illustrious career as the all-time leading scorer at Michigan with 2,776 points. She leaves Michigan as the career leader in points, field goals made (984), three-point field goals made (410), double-figure scoring games (127) and 30-point games (13), while holding the single-game record for three-pointers with 10. Flaherty's 410 three-pointers put her second all-time in NCAA Division I history and she is just the second player to ever hit at least 400. As a senior, she averaged 22.9 points per game on 44.3 percent shooting from the floor and 42.3 percent shooting from three-point range. Flaherty scored in double figures in all but one game, stringing together 25 20-point games and three 30-point games. She also averaged a career-high 4.2 assists per game en route to being one of five finalists for the Nancy Lieberman Award.
Hallie Thome
Thome earned a spot on the all-region time for the first time in her career on the heels of a stellar junior season. Thome averaged 17.4 points per game on 61.6 percent shooting while grabbing 7.0 boards in 31.8 minutes per game. She ended the season with four straight 20-point games and scored in double figures 30 times. The lefty tallied a team-high six double-doubles on the season and shot a career-best 77.5 percent from the free throw line. For her career, Thome is one of three players in school history to tally at least 1,600 career points (1,679) and 600 career rebounds (685). Thome was named to the All-Big Ten first team by the media and second team by the coaches. She also made the top 10 list for the Lisa Leslie Award.
Michigan finished the season with 23 wins, the second-most in program history, and earned its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2013.
