Michigan coach Kevin Borseth, this is addressed to you.

For the sake of the women's basketball team, freshman guard Dayeesha Hollins needs to receive significant minutes in the Big Ten Tournament for it to have a shot at success. It's that simple.

In the Wolverines 64-63 win over Purdue on Sunday, Hollins wasn't on the starting roster.

“Senior day,” Borseth said. “I wanted the seniors to have a memorable Senior Day.”

Fine.

Senior guard Kalyn McPherson racked in 10 points, senior center Krista Phillips won in front of her parents from Saskatoon, Canada for the first time, and redshirt senior Ashley Jones received the opportunity to play major minutes before saying farewell to Crisler Arena.

And though the aforementioned seniors played the best that they could play, Michigan went into halftime trailing the Boilermakers 33-22.

Hollins didn’t see the hardwood for a single second in the first stanza, and yes, that is the first time that had happened all season. So maybe this concern should just be ignored because after Senior Day, everything will go back to normal?

But it hasn't.

As the season dwindles down, Hollins's minutes have been as well. It started in the team’s 50-45 loss on Feb. 11 to Michigan State when Hollins saw the floor for 34 minutes. Then the following game against Penn State, she accounted for just 26 minutes. Against Wisconsin, she saw 21 minutes of playing time, and most recently in the contest against Purdue, Hollins didn't even start and played 20 minutes, a season low.

Hollins probably didn’t start because of Senior Day, but that doesn’t mean her minutes haven’t been taking a noticeable decline even prior to the game against the Boilermakers.

Why was Hollins the one not to see anytime in the first half of Sunday's game?

She tallied a career-high 27 points in the Wolverines' second-half rally win against Minnesota on Thursday.

Maybe it’s because other than that game, Hollins just hasn’t been playing consistently?

Scratch that — that can’t be the reason.

In Michigan’s 15 wins that Hollins has started in, she has scored double-digits in 12 of them. So it has to be that Hollins just puts her head down too soon when the Wolverines fall behind?

That also can’t be the answer. In the team's 11 losses, Hollins has scored double-digits in nine of those. In fact, Hollins has contributed to the team as much as anyone.

She has drawn the most fouls of anyone else on the team, a skill that Borseth has mentioned at press conferences as being one of the many qualities that can push any team over the win-or-loss edge. Hollins leads the team with 115 free throw attempts.

And she has produced on the boards, too. At five-feet six-inches, she is second on the team with 42 offensive rebounds. She even leads Michigan in assists, dishing out the ball 89 times on the year.

This week, Hollins was recognized as Co-Big Ten Freshman of the Week. She won that same award, along with Big Ten Player of the Week on Dec. 21. At that time, she became the first player in conference history to win both awards. And she is the first Wolverine to win multiple Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors in the same season since Lorea Feldman during the 1985-86 season.

So Borseth, please don’t think that anyone is anticipating radical change in the roster. It certainly seems that Hollins will most likely start in the team’s first Big Ten Tournament matchup against Northwestern this Thursday at noon.

But do look at the amount of time that Hollins has been playing.

She has earned it and without a doubt, deserves some more.