Brett Added as Graduate Transfer
4/28/2023 11:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Women's Basketball Coach Kim Barnes Arico announced the addition of Elissa Brett as a graduate transfer for the 2023-24 University of Michigan women's basketball team on Friday (April 28). Brett spent the last four seasons at Bowling Green and heads to Michigan for her final year of eligibility.
"Elissa is a proven winner," Barnes Arico said. "She is such a competitor and what is really important during the recruiting process is finding players who fit into our style. One of our core values is competitive greatness; we want players who want to compete at the highest level and who want to win at everything they do. She does all of those things, and I think she is going to be a candidate for our sticker award every single day. She is an exceptional defender who takes charges and rebounds extremely well from the guard position. She can get to the basket and made more than 90 three-pointers last season, so she can really score from all over the court. She also brings a lot of experience to our team, both in the regular season and in the postseason."
Brett spent the previous four years at Bowling Green, graduating 15th in scoring (1,358) and 11th in rebounds (758). For her career, she hit 177 three-pointers to rank seventh all-time. She started in 102 of her 122 appearances, averaging double figures in scoring in each of her last three seasons.
As a senior, she led Bowling Green to the semifinals of the WNIT and to the MAC championship game. She earned a spot on the All-MAC first team, becoming BGSU's first first-team selection in nine seasons. Brett also was named to the all-tournament team and the all-defense team. She led the Falcons in scoring at 14.7 points per game and was second in rebounding at 6.0 boards in 30.9 minutes per game. She scored in double figures in all but six of Bowling Green's 38 games, highlighted by eight 20-point contests.
After starting 11 games during her freshman season, Brett started all but one contest she appeared in over the next three seasons. Her scoring average between her freshman and sophomore seasons nearly doubled, going from 6.3 points per game to 12.0 points per game. She averaged at least six boards per game over her four seasons, going for a career-best 6.7 rebounds per game in 2020-21.
Brett was named to the 2022 Academic All-MAC team and will graduate with a degree in human development and family studies. She is a native of Adelaide, Australia, and joins Chyra Evans as one of Michigan's two Australia natives.
