Tag: Michigan Women’s Basketball

Naz Hillmon and Aidan Hutchinson win Michigan Athletes of the Year

Both are so deserving! #GoBlue

The Michigan Athletics Department announced on Wednesday afternoon that Michigan women’s basketball star, Naz Hillmon, and Michigan football star, Aidan Hutchinson, were selected as the Michigan Athletes of the Year.

The Michigan Athletics Twitter account tweeted out a video sharing the news while compiling some highlights of both Hillmon and Hutchinson. You can see the video below.

Hillmon left Michigan as arguably the most decorated women’s basketball player to ever play for the maize and blue. She is the program leader in rebounds (1,063), double-doubles (52), and free throws made (487.) Hillmon is the only women’s player to record 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career with the Wolverines. The Michigan phenom ended her Wolverines’ career as the second all-time scorer with 2,183 points — behind Katelyn Flahtery who scored 2,776 points.

During Hillmon’s senior season she averaged 21.0 points-per-game and 9.6 rebounds-per-game — while scoring in double figures in all but one game. She left Ann Arbor as an All-American and a first-team All-Big Ten for the fourth straight year. Hillmon was selected by the Atlanta Dream with the 15th pick in the 2022 WNBA Draft, and she is now the highest-drafted Michigan women’s basketball player ever.

On the men’s side of things, Aidan Hutchinson left Michigan as a fan favorite and one of the greatest to play defensive end. During his senior season, he compiled 62 tackles, 16.5 tackles-for-loss, and set the single-season program record with 14 sacks in 2021. In his final game against Ohio State, he helped Michigan punish the Buckeyes’ offensive line by recording three sacks against CJ Stroud.

At the season end, Hutchinson finshed second in Heisman voting, first-team All-American, he won the Lott IMPACT Trophy, the Rotary Lombardi Award, Ted Hendricks Award and was the co-recipient of the 2021 Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year. Hutchinson was also first-team All-Big Ten and he won the Big Ten Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year, and the Smith-Brown Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year.

Hutchinson was selected second overall in the 2022 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions.

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Ohio State women’s basketball upsets No. 24 Michigan

The Ohio State women’s basketball team upset No. 24 Michigan on Thursday night behind a career night from freshman Madison Greene.

It’s always noteworthy when Ohio State beats Michigan in anything. So … consider the following news item. The Buckeye women’s basketball team disposed of a nationally ranked Michigan team Thursday night.

It was a nip and tuck affair all the way through, with the Buckeyes making plays at the end and from the free-throw line to seal the deal with a final score of 78-69. The game was much closer than the final score would indicate.

Ohio State used a career night from freshman Madison Greene. The 5-8 Pickerington product scored a game-high 23 points on 8 of 10 shooting for the night, and it wasn’t just scattered and folded into the game. Eight of Greene’s points came in the decisive fourth quarter when Ohio State went on a run to take control at the very end.

Greene went 2 for 3 from beyond the arc, made all three buckets she attempted in the last quarter, and also had a game-high three steals to round out a solid box score.

With the win, the Ohio State women improve to 9-6 overall, and 2-2 in the Big Ten, but now have three upsets over ranked squads in 2019. If it can continue to get nights like this from Greene, and the other youngsters continue to develop, the Buckeyes could have a say in what happens the rest of the way in the league.

For now though, Buckeye Nation will once again revel in another win over That Team Up North. The lady Bucks are back in action against Penn State at home on Sunday.