Michigan’s Katelynn Flaherty and Hallie Thome combined for 44 points to lead the team to a 75-61 win on Friday.
Michigan’s women’s basketball team is moving on.
Hallie Thome and Wolverines all-time leading scorer Katelynn Flaherty combined for 44 points to lead the team to a 75-61 victory over No. 10 seed Northern Colorado on Friday in Waco, Texas.
No. 7 seed Michigan (23-9) advances in the Lexington Region and will face the winner of No. 2 seed Baylor and No. 15 seed Grambling on Sunday.
Northern Colorado (26-7), coming into Friday on a 13-game win streak, had no answer for the 6-foot-5 Thome, who scored a team-high 24 points on 9-of-14 shooting.
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Flaherty, who entered Friday fifth in the country averaging 23.2 points per game, scored 14 in the first half to help the team stake out to a 36-19 lead.
Flaherty and Thome are the first two Michigan teammates to each score 20 points in an NCAA Tournament game.
The Wolverines, who won their first-round game in the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in its seven appearances, led by double digits the entire second half.
They have never advanced to the Sweet 16.
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Michigan, in its first NCAA Tournament since 2013,shot 57 percent from the field, while Northern Colorado shot 42 percent, making just 6 of 19 3-point attempts.
In the Bears’ 91-69 win over Idaho in the Big Sky championship on March 10, they shot 54 percent and were 14 of 25 from behind the arc.
Guard Savannah Scott led Northern Colorado with 25 points, while Savanah Smith scored 16.
