Michigan women's basketball learned a big lesson the only way you can
The young stars of Michigan women's basketball will long remember this lesson, given by the 1-seed Texas Longhorns in the Elite Eight on Monday night.
FORT WORTH, TX – Now they know. Now they know what this level looks like, feels like, even sounds like. The Michigan women's basketball team no doubt thought they were ready to compete at this level, here in the Elite Eight , a Final Four berth on the line, history on the horizon.
The Wolverines have never been to a Final Four. Again, now they know what it takes after Texas ended their season emphatically, 77-41, holding them to a season low in points on Monday, March 30, and handing them their largest margin of defeat in the NCAA Tournament. And yet the Longhorns also did the Wolverines a favor.
They showed this talented but young Michigan team what is needed to get to the final weekend in the sport. HOW IT HAPPENED: Michigan no match for Texas' physicality as Longhorns roll 77-41 Now Olivia Olson knows the difference between first-team All-America and third-team honors, because she saw it up close in Madison Booker, the Longhorns’ 6-foot-1 pull-up machine. The junior forward dropped 15 in the first half for Texas and made it look easy – off the bounce, off the catch, off the drive.
She was smooth and unbothered, and when she rainbowed a turnaround from the baseline in the second half, she looked like she should be playing with Paige Bueckers and the WNBA's Dallas Wings, about 30 miles down the road. Who knows? Maybe she will be soon.
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