Before Sunday afternoon, no Northwestern women’s basketball team since 1982 had beaten an opponent ranked 4th or higher. That all changed when Veronica Burton was fouled with three seconds remaining in the second overtime period against No. 4 Michigan, sending her to the stripe with a chance to make history.
“It was time to put it away,” Burton said in the postgame press conference. “My confidence was at an all time high. I knew the game was over as soon as I was going to the line.”
And she was right. The Massachusetts native nailed both of her free-throws, earning Northwestern a hard-fought 71-69 victory over the Big Ten’s best.