Nov. 16, 2009

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Michigan used a second-half rally to come-from-behind and defeat the Marquette women's basketball team, 67-50, Monday night at Crisler Arena. The loss puts MU at 1-1 overall, while Michigan remains undefeated at 2-0 overall.

With the score 44-42 in favor of Michigan with 6:52 left to play in the game, the Wolverines used a 9-0 run to go ahead, 53-42 with 4:16 remaining and never looked back en route to the lopsided victory.

After junior Tatiyiana McMorris scored a jumper in the paint that broke Marquette's scoring draught, Michigan responded with another 9-0 run which pushed its lead to 18 points, 62-44 with 2:12 to play.

Michigan's Dayeesha Hollins led all scorers with 17 points, while Veronica Hicks added 13 points and six rebounds, and Carmen Reynolds contributed 11 points and five rebounds. The Wolverines shot 45.1 percent for the game (23-of-51), including a scorching 57.7 percent in the second half, and out-rebounded Marquette 44-31.

For Marquette, Michigan native senior Janelle Harris scored 11 points and pulled down a team-high seven rebounds. Junior Angel Robinson also scored 11 points, while sophomore Jessica Pachko recorded 10 points. Overall, the Golden Eagles shot 28.3 percent (15-of-53) from the floor.

The Golden Eagles went into the halftime with a six-point advantage, 26-20, and held as much as 10-point lead (26-16) late in the first half.

The Golden Eagles will be back in action at the Al McGuire Center Thursday, Nov. 19 as they host Creighton at 7 p.m. Tickets are still available. Call (414) 288-GOMU or by logging on to www.gomarquette.com/tickets.

Quotes
Head Coach Terri Mitchell
Opening Statement
It was certainly a tale of two halves. We came out of the game knowing we have a lot to work on. We emphasize all of the time about making the extra pass, and if you look at the statistics we certainly didn't do that tonight seeing that we only had five assists. Now it is back to the drawing board. Michigan played great, the way they packed it in. I knew they would do that and Kevin always challenges you to shoot from the outside. We didn't knock shots down and gave up some easy looks inside. It just multiplied.

About Marquette's defense in the second half...
I thought when they did push us out, we didn't do our job that we need to to start our offense in the appropriate spots. We were getting pinned on the sideline and Angel wasn't passing it and that took us out of our rhythm.

About the physical nature of the game...
It was a very physical game. That is what we are used to playing in the BIG EAST. That is nothing different for us. They finished and we didn't. We had a lot of looks going to the hoop and we didn't finish those.

About Michigan getting to the free throw line...
I think it changed the rhythm (of the game). There was a lot of quick, quick, quick calls and our players were getting tentative on defense. It happens. We had to beat them to the spot quicker and adjust quicker. We have to adjust in those situations.