Special to Detroit Free Press
Sitting at the podium following the Michigan women’s basketball team’s Round of 32 win, Naz Hillmon held back tears.
Hillmon, a junior forward, has put together one of the best seasons in program history this year. She averaged 25.1 points and 11.3 rebounds across 18 regular season games, becoming the Wolverines’ first Big Ten Player of the Year and All-American.
But those were individual accomplishments. When Michigan knocked off No. 3 seed Tennessee on Tuesday to clinch the program’s first Sweet 16 berth, she was all about the team.