The only way I’m getting this written this week is to keep it a little on the shorter side*, so no real intro today. It’s been a bad brain, pain, and POTS week — I’ve had this draft open since Thursday without any progress.

With that out of the way, let’s get back to the countdown. If you missed it, here’s ten through six:

Read that first! Or don’t, I’m not your mom.

*Update after finishing: lmao, I’m bad at brevity.

I have a feeling that if you’re reading this, you’re already participating, but it’s EDSBS Charity Bowl season and there’s never been a better year to support refugees and New American Pathways. Michigan is losing! This would be a first!

Fire the money cannon, friends. Fire it with relentless fury and kindness.

While I got the strong impression that Syla Swords was the headliner of Michigan’s immensely talented sophomore class heading into the season, Olivia Olson was the team’s best and most consistent player.

Olson led the team in scoring, putting up double figures in every one of the team’s 35 games and 20+ in 17 of them, while taking on a bigger offensive load and still improving her efficiency in almost every category — the only exception was three-point shooting, which she turned around after an early-season slump.

In almost the exact same number of minutes as her exceptional freshman year, Olson took more shots, improved her two-point percentage by over three percentage points, got to the free throw line more often, dished out more assists, cut down on turnovers, recorded 15 more steals, and committed fewer fouls in 2025-26. That is a long, bonkers sentence.

There are already scant few players like her either in program history or around the country. Olson became the third-fastest Wolverine to 1,000 career points and their second-ever All American. She was one of three high-major conference players with a usage rate of 25% or more, an effective field goal percentage over 50, and a turnover rate lower than 14%, per Bart Torvik’s database.

The other two were Northwestern’s all-conference center, Grace Sullivan, and Texas’ national player of the year finalist, Madison Booker. Add in pretty much any cutoff for assists and three-pointers and you’re just left with Olson and Booker.

Upperclassman Olson is going to be a nightmare. A spectacular, delightful nightmare.