Jim Carty Column

Chris sent me link (thanks!) to this Jim Carty column from today's Ann Arbor News:

"Everyone came in with a whole different mindset," Cooper said. "We weren't going to accept anything but the best. We didn't want to have a season like we had the past three years."

The results speak for themselves.

Monday's win over Virginia Commonwealth was the Wolverines' 18th - just four other teams in the history of Michigan women's basketball have won more.

They're one of four teams in school history to win a postseason game. If they win Thursday against Southern Mississippi, they'll become the first team to ever win two postseason games.

Their nine Big Ten wins more than doubled the combined total over the past three years (four).

Some of it is clearly coaching. If Borseth isn't the best tactician in the Big Ten, he's one of the best.

But the coach himself has nothing but praise for his seniors.

"They're really the heart and soul," he said Tuesday. "Those kids are great people. We're going to miss their leadership. Everybody on the team likes each one of them. They really fit the mold of kids we want to recruit."