OXFORD, OHIO –  The Western Michigan women's basketball team extended is winning streak to 10 games as the Broncos defeated Miami 85-60 on the road at Millet Hall in Oxford, Ohio in the team's highest offensive output of the season. After the victory, WMU improves to 11-2 overall and 2-0 in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and tied the best start through 13 games in program history with the teams from 1971-72, 1975-76 and 86-87.

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During the 2016-17 start the Broncos are now 5-1 at home and on the road, all while reaching the program's longest winning streak since the 1986-87 season where the team won 11 straight. In the Broncos 10-game winning streak, nine of the wins have come by double-digits including each of the last seven.

The Broncos trailed just one time in the game, where the RedHawks hit a 3-pointer to take an early 8-7 lead with 3:23 on the clock. WMU ended the first quarter on an 18-4 run to lead 25-12 at the end of one. WMU reached their largest lead in the first half of 18 points as the Broncos took a 46-28 lead into the break. The RedHawks were never able to recover after that, Western Michigan's largest lead of the game came with just 18 seconds remaining in the game as the Broncos led by 28 points.  

The Broncos outrebounded the RedHawks 44-37 including 32-20 on the defensive glass. WMU shot lights-out at 54.2 percent while holding Miami to just 18-61 (29.5 percent) from the floor. The Broncos doubled up the RedHawks in the paint, winning the battle 40-20.

Redshirt junior Marley Hill and sophomores Breanna Mobley and Deja Wimby combined for 49 of the teams 85 points, with Hill and Wimby leading all scorers with 18 points apiece. Wimby finished just one point shy of tying a career high. Wimby also dished out the team-high six assists to go along with two steals. On the defensive end, she was also a major part in the Broncos  holding Miami's leading scorer Lauren Dickerson scoreless in the game. After Hill's double-digit scoring night, she is the only WMU player to score in double-figures in all 13 games. Mobley continued her dominant season, finishing with 13 points and 15 rebounds, recording her seventh double-double this season and second consecutive to open MAC play.

Western Michigan remains on the road traveling to Muncie, Ind., to face Ball State on Saturday, Jan. 7 at 3:30 p.m. The team returns home to face Bowling Green on Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. in University Arena before hitting the road again, traveling to Eastern Michigan on Saturday, Jan. 14 with game time slated for 2 p.m.