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Wolverines to Host Wisconsin, Honor Dietz
1/9/2026 4:58:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Promotions
• Diane Dietz Jersey Honoring/Ceremony -- Join us in honoring the achievements of Michigan great Diane Dietz as her No. 21 jersey is raised to the Crisler Center rafters at 1:45 p.m. Stay in your seats at halftime to hear a special address live from Dietz. Doors will open at 12:45 p.m.
• Giveaway -- 2,000 Diane Dietz replica banners
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 9-ranked University of Michigan women's basketball team (13-2, 4-1 Big Ten) returns to Crisler Center to host Wisconsin (11-5, 3-2 Big Ten) on Sunday afternoon (Jan. 11) at Crisler Center at 2 p.m. Michigan will honor the career of Diane Dietz and raise her No. 21 jersey to the rafters in a pregame ceremony beginning at 1:45 p.m. Dietz will also address the crowd at halftime.
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• Diane Dietz will see her No. 21 jersey raised to the rafters before the Wolverines take on Wisconsin. Dietz was the program's first 2,000-point scorer and held that distinction for more than 30 years until Katelynn Flaherty topped the mark during the 2016-17 season. Dietz still ranks fourth all-time in scoring with 2,076 points -- reaching the mark before the advent of the three-point line. Dietz is second all-time in 30-point games (11) and in field goals made (940), as one of two players with at least 900 made field goals. Her 45-point output against Illinois on Feb. 27, 1982, stood as the program record, making her the only player to score more than 40 points in a game, until Naz Hillmon went for 50 against Ohio State (Jan. 21, 2021). Dietz also graduated as the program record holder in steals (229), currently ranking fourth in program history.
One of two Michigan athletes inducted into the Academic All-America Hall of Fame (2009), Dietz was a three-time Academic All-American during her playing career as one of 10 Wolverines with three honors. She was Michigan's first female recipient of the Big Ten Medal of Honor in 1982, considered the most prestigious honor a Big Ten student-athlete can receive. She was inducted into the Michigan Athletics Hall of Honor in 1996 and is a member of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame, inducted in 2019.
• Wisconsin took last year's contest in Madison, but Michigan has won 13 of the last 15 against the Badgers. UW leads the all-time series 42-36, but has not won in Ann Arbor since Feb. 21, 2010.
• Brooke Quarles Daniels enters the contest with 994 career points, needing just six more to join the 1,000-point club for her career. She is coming off a 13-point, 12-rebound double-double -- the first for her in a Michigan uniform. On the season, she has appeared in all 15 games, starting 11 times. She is averaging 5.8 points and 5.0 rebounds in 22.2 minutes per game. BQD leads U-M with 31 steals, racking up seven games with at least three steals.
• Te'Yala Delfosse has thrived in her role coming off the bench for Michigan, most recently scoring 17 points on 5-for-10 shooting with three rebounds and two steals at Penn State (Jan. 8). She has scored in double figures in nine games this season with one 20-point game. She is averaging 10.8 points per game and a team-high 5.7 rebounds per game.
• Michigan has topped the 100-point mark five times this season after recording 105 points against Penn State on Thursday (Jan. 8). It was the second-most points Michigan has ever scored in a conference game and the second time U-M has reached 100 in a conference game this season. This is the first time in program history that U-M has had five 100-point games in a season after recording three during the 1996-97 and 2016-17 seasons. Michigan is averaging 89.1 points per game, good for second in the Big Ten and seventh nationally.
• McKenzie Mathurin has seen action in 10 games off the bench, averaging 6.1 points and 1.0 rebounds in 13.6 minutes per game. She has three double-figure scoring games, the most recent coming at Penn State (Jan. 8) with a career-high 15 points on the strength of three triples. She is shooting 51.3 percent from the field and 47.4 percent from three-point range with nine makes.
• Olivia Olson has scored in double figures in all 15 of Michigan's games this season, averaging 17.7 points per game on 46.6 percent shooting. She has recorded five 20-point games and a pair of double-doubles this season. Olson ranks ninth in the Big Ten in scoring as one of nine players to average at least 17.0 points per game. She was named to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Watch List this week.
• Michigan is in the midst of a two-game homestand and will host Illinois on Thursday (Jan. 15) at 7 p.m.
