Michigan women's basketball on 'mission' for championships

At the end of the Michigan women’s basketball regular season, head coach Kim Barnes Arico, the winningest coach in program history, said the players and staff sat back and took a moment in the locker room. The eighth-ranked Wolverines had just beaten No. 14 Maryland to complete the long regular season 24-5, 15-3 in the Big Ten. It wasn’t to catch their breath, although they had just completed a tough final stretch the last two weeks against four top-15 teams. That certainly would have been warranted. But instead, the young Wolverines with their strong core of sophomores, used the opportunity to enjoy their...