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Wolverines Set for Big Dance as No. 6 Seed in South Bend
3/19/2025 11:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan women's basketball team (22-10) will head to Notre Dame's Purcell Pavilion in South Bend, Ind., for the first round of the NCAA Tournament as the No. 6 seed in the Birmingham Regional. U-M will face No. 11 seed Iowa State on Friday (March 21) at 11:30 a.m. The game can be seen on ESPN2.
Notes
• U-M is making its seventh straight and 13th overall appearance in the NCAA Tournament in this year's event. It is the first time Michigan has ever earned seven consecutive bids to the NCAA Tournament in program history. U-M is 11-12 all-time in the NCAA Tournament over its previous 12 appearances. Michigan has two Sweet 16 appearances in school history (2021, 2022) and an Elite Eight appearance in 2022. U-M has advanced to the second round in 1990, 2001, 2013, 2018, 2019 and 2023.
• J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family head women's basketball coach Kim Barnes Arico is making her 12th appearance in the NCAA Tournament, with the first four berths coming at St. John's. Barnes Arico is 14-11 in the NCAA Tournament, with her teams winning at least one game in 10 of her previous 11 appearances. She is 9-7 as the Michigan head coach in the NCAA Tournament. KBA is also the Michigan program leader with eight NCAA Tournament appearances as head coach, accounting for more than 60 percent of Michigan's berths.
• Michigan is the No. 6 seed in the Birmingham 3 region, tying for the second-best seed in program history. It is the third time U-M has grabbed a six seed, with the other two coming in 2021 when the tournament was in San Antonio and in 2023 when U-M played at LSU. Michigan made the Sweet 16 as a No. 6 seed in 2021.
• A record-setting 12 Big Ten Conference schools received berths into the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship. The 12 berths are the top mark among all Division I conferences, followed by the SEC (10), ACC (8) and Big 12 (7). UCLA, USC, Maryland, Ohio State, Michigan State, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, Indiana, Nebraska and Washington will be joining the Maize and Blue in the tournament.
• Michigan has reached the 20-win mark for the 12th time under Barnes Arico, entering the NCAA Tournament with a 22-10 record. Michigan has 16 20-win seasons in program history, with KBA at the helm for 12 of them. The only season that a Barnes Arico-coached team did not win 20 games was the 2020-21 campaign when U-M only played 22 total contests en route to the 2021 NCAA Sweet 16. For her entire coaching career, KBA has reached the 20-win mark 18 times. Michigan's 22 wins are tied for the fifth-most in school history.
• Michigan has seven players heading to their first NCAA Tournament in Olivia Olson, Syla Swords, Mila Holloway, Te'Yala Delfosse, Aaiyanna Dunbar, Ally VanTimmeren and Brooke Quarles Daniels. Â
• Olson and Swords are two of 13 freshmen nationally to average at least 15.0 points per game and the only teammates to do so. In addition, with one more point scored by Swords, they will become the first teammates in Big Ten history (NCAA era) to each score 500 points in the same season. Olson currently has 517 points, ranking second in program history by a freshman.
• There are just 17 freshmen nationally who have started at least 30 games, with Michigan's trio of Holloway (32), Olson (32) and Swords (31) accounting for nearly 18 percent of the group. U-M is the only school nationally to have multiple freshmen who have started at least 30 games. Of the 15 schools to start a freshman at least 30 games, only four made the NCAA Tournament -- Michigan, UConn, Vanderbilt and Louisville.
• One of four returners this season for the Maize and Blue, senior Jordan Hobbs has been the glue for a young team. She has started every game over the past two seasons and is putting up career numbers as a senior. Hobbs is averaging 13.4 points, 4.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 31.1 minutes per game. She is one of five players in program history to make four NCAA Tournaments in a career.
• Greta Kampschroeder has started all 32 games this season for the Wolverines at the post position after playing primarily as a guard during her first two seasons at Michigan. She is averaging 6.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 23.6 minutes per game. She is regularly tasked with guarding the other team's primary post player. She has scored in double figures in seven games this season, highlighted by a 23-point performance at Akron (Dec. 20).
