Michigan Women's Hoops

I don’t think Michigan’s fan support is that level of bad. They’ve been hanging around 9th in the Big Ten (one year at 10th), which isn’t terrible IMO considering the program kinda has been.

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_RB/2021/Attend.pdf

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_RB/2020/Attendance.pdf

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_RB/2019/Attendance.pdf

This is actually exactly where the men’s team has been in the Big Ten the past few seasons (also one year at 10th).

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/2021/Attend.pdf

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/2020/Attendance.pdf

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/2019/Attendance.pdf

I know Crisler’s size limits the men’s team from really moving up, but I think those who go to a lot of the games can agree that the stadium is legitimately full for about 2 games per season, so I’m not sure it matters much in the discussion.

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This is hardly related at all but the talk about Crisler made me think of it. For whatever reason, the cutouts of the Fab 5 were always taken down and laid on the floor during the women’s games. I didn’t cover any other events at Crisler (what a year to decide to limit my exposure to other people and not shoot Women’s Gymnastics- Oops!) so I don’t know if this was a unique situation or if they were taken down for all other events. I have no inside info about it so I’m taking a wild guess and going with that the Athletic Department made a judgement call and said they’d allow them for men’s hoops but nothing else.

I felt like it was an odd thing to always see this 5-seat gap amongst the other cutouts but I guess since the banners are still down, it’s progress that there were cutouts allowed at all.

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Well- I just decided to look to see if there were photos of women’s gymnastics and it looks like the Fabs are up here:
https://mgoblue.com/galleries/womens-gymnastics/womens-gymnastics-vs-nebraska/womens-gymnastics-vs-nebraska/6459/135880
https://mgoblue.com/galleries/womens-gymnastics/womens-gymnastics-vs-nebraska/womens-gymnastics-vs-nebraska/6459/135883

Theory ruined. The mystery continues!

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No. Just no.

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All the above makes sense, but again, seriously, she currently has no assistants?

Might be just as instructive to compare within the AD given the resources/history at Michigan compared to most other schools in the BIG much less Northwestern. When I covered the women’s team at the Daily (during the Borseth years) we used to say that the women’s basketball program was the worst historically in Michigan athletics.

I think it was a very good comparison. Borseth’s years and early KBA years were like the second half of Bill Carmody’s tenure at N’W. Middle of the pack. Now we’ve been consistently top third of the conference the last few years.

But women’s basketball has to the be the only program that’s been around for more than a decade that doesn’t have a Big Ten title.

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Michigan’s womens basketball history is horrible but it was inexcusable. Its still viewed as a very good job with immense potential

-national brand
-elite athletic department
-elite academics(waaaay more important/impactful in womens sports)
-very good mens program
-immense resources

Not comparable to northwestern mens basketball at all. Theres a reason why um has continually poached womens hcs that its history would suggest it shouldnt be able to. Very weird to see assistants leave for lateral jobs unless um is being cheap.

Yeah I didn’t mean to insinuate it was a poor comparison. Admittedly, I don’t know enough to say either way but it strikes me as fair. I just wanted to point out the program’s historical mediocrity (to be kind) is very unique within the athletic department.

I didn’t mean to insinuate there was disagreement. Just saying that at the time, it was the best comparison.

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One coaching slot (and the Recruiting Coordinator position) has been filled by Carrie Moore. Moore most recently held the same positions at UNC:
https://twitter.com/umichwbball/status/1390721349669335050?s=20

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Here’s her bio from UNC’s site:

*Carrie Moore brings a range of experience as a coach and standout player to the Tar Heel staff as the team’s recruiting coordinator and an assistant coach. She has a hand in all aspects of the team, with a focus on Carolina’s guard play. The 2020-21 season was her second at UNC.


Moore came to Chapel Hill in 2019 after five seasons on Courtney Banghart’s staff at Princeton.

Her first two signing classes at UNC have been outstanding. In her first year, she engineered the fall 2019 signing of a five-member recruiting class ultimately ranked No. 10 by ESPNW. In the fall of 2020, the Tar Heels signed a four-member class ranked third nationally. Three of those players were named McDonald’s All-Americans, making UNC one of just four schools nationally with three or more honorees.

During the 2019-20 season, she helped coach the Tar Heels to a scoring average of 73.1 points per game, second in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Senior shooting guard Taylor Koenen earned honorable mention All-ACC honors after establishing new career highs in scoring, field goals, three-pointers, free throws and steals. Koenen ranked in the ACC’s top 10 in scoring and assist/turnover ratio and went on to play professionally overseas. Senior point guard Shayla Bennett led the ACC in assist/turnover ratio and ranked third in assists before also signing a professional contract.


Moore spent a total of seven years, in two separate stints, at Princeton prior to coming to Chapel Hill. In the 2018-19 season, her third as an assistant coach for the Tigers, Princeton won the Ivy League regular season and tournament championships for the second straight year. The Tigers reached the postseason all three years with Moore on the sidelines as an assistant coach, including a WNIT trip in 2016-17.


Moore was an assistant coach at Creighton from 2010-2015. The Bluejays made post-season appearances in all five years, including back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances for the first time in program history (2012 and 2013).


Prior to her move to Omaha, Moore spent two seasons as the Director of Basketball Operations at Princeton. She was part of the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance in 2009-10, as the Tigers went 26-3 on the season, including 14-0 in Ivy League play.


A native of Lathrup, Mich., Moore was a four-year letterwinner at Western Michigan under coach Ron Stewart. She scored a school-record 2,216 points during her career, with 813 of those coming during her senior season. She set nine school records and four Mid-American Conference records as a Bronco.


As a senior, Moore was the 2007 MAC Player of the Year and became the first MAC women’s basketball player to capture the NCAA scoring crown, averaging 25.4 points per game. She also excelled academically, earning second-team Academic All-America honors and a Senior CLASS Award nomination.


She graduated magna cum laude in 2007 with a degree in journalism.


Moore signed WNBA free agent contracts with both the with Phoenix Mercury and the Chicago Sky. She played professionally in Poland for one season, for KSSSE AZA PWSZ Gorzow Wielkopolski.*

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Why is she making a lateral move and leaving her Alma mater?

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The bio says she played at WMU not UNC.

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Ah I misread it when I skimmed the bio. Seems like a good hire!

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From my not very informed position, this looks like a really good hire. A top-10 and a top-3 class in her two years in Chapel Hill is pretty impressive. UNC has more of history of success than we do but I think we’re starting to get on the map.

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Seems like a good hire?

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Warde Manuel must be opening up the $ bag for women bbl assts now. Hooray for him if he is. After all he came from U Conn as his previous gig.

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Getting Toyelle Wilson from Baylor showed he was willing to spend money for KBA’s assistants.

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