Sports Monday Trivia
What Big Ten basketball
team has the best overall
winning percentage in the
history of the Big Ten, the
* best winning percentage in
the eighties and a winning
record against all other Big
Ten teams?
(For the answer,
turn to the bottom of page 2)
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The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday- February 19, 1990
* MICHIGAN TAKES 4TH STRAIGHT TITLE
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by Jeni Durst
Daily Sports Writer
"Gotta love it!"
That exclamation by co-captain Amy Honig best
defined the feeling that surrounded the Michigan bench
at the women's swimming Big Ten Championships in
Indianapolis.
The Wolverines brought home their fourth
consecutive conference title, giving Honig and her
fellow seniors a sweep of the championships over their
four years at Michigan.
"I think this was the best one," senior Gwen DeMaat
said. "Maybe it's just because I'm a senior, I don't
know, but it's just that our team this year is so close, it
makes winning a lot better."
Michigan demolished their opponents in scoring 699
* points over the three day competition. Northwestern
finished second with 502 points.
Yet the Wolverines' dominance was not always so
evident. After the first day of competition (Thursday),
the team was ahead by less than 40 points (equivalent to
two first place wins or one relay victory). Minnesota's
and Northwestern's presence could definitely be felt as
they vied to upset the defending champs.
The Wolverines captured only one first place
Thursday, the 400-yard medley relay, in which they set
a new Big Ten record and qualified for the NCAA
Championships.
"I got about three hours sleep Thursday night,"
n Big Ten
Michigan coach Jim Richardson said."They (Minnesota
and Northwestern) took it to us. First day and they took
it right to us. Of course, we didn't help ourselves any
because we didn't swim well at all."
It was the performances of Friday's competition that
catapulted the Wolverines to success. By the time of
finals Saturday night, Michigan's lead had increased to
101 points.
"We we're down after the first morning and we just
sucked it up, had a team meeting, and, boy, came back
that night and said 'uh uh, we're going to be tough,"'
Richardson said. "To me it was like the Rose Bowl, not
this year but last year, when we were down at the half
and we came back and just were awesome in the second
half."
Frosh Mindy Gehrs set the pace by placing second in
Friday's initial event, the 400 individual medley, with
an NCAA qualifying time of 4:20.
In the 200 freestyle, first-year swimmer Kathy
Deibler and DeMaat finished 2nd and 3rd respectively
followed by Michelle Swix and Katherine Creighton in
8th and 9th place.
From then on it was all Michigan. Jennifer Eck was
first in the 100 breaststroke followed by a second place
Ann Colloton. Both swimmers hit NCAA qualifying
times in this race as well as the 200 breast.
The breaststroke results were repeated just moments
later in the 100 backstroke when Stefanic Liebner and
See BIG TEN, Page 2
Senior co-captain Amy Honig hugs first-year swimmer Missy McCracken after McCracken qualified for the
NCAA Championships in the 200-yard butterfly during the Big Ten Championship meet n Indianapolis.
Cagers finally miss Higgins as their
four- gam
by Mike Gill
Daily Basketball Writer
COLUMBUS - Four wins in a
row proved Michigan could win
without Sean Higgins. But with an
inside game hampered by fouls and
Higgins absence proved too much
for the Wolverines to overcome.
Buckeye frosh Jimmy Jackson's
rebound and subsequent tip-in with
13 seconds left in the game gave
Ohio State a 64-61 win over the
.fifth-ranked Wolverines. Jackson's
bucket proved to be the climax in a
series of crazy events in a sloppily
played, poorly refereed, Big Ten
contest before a sold-out St. Johns
Arena crowd and an ABC regional
television audience.
Michigan coach Steve Fisher
took a page out of the playbook
Michigan State coach Jud Heathcote
used in his game with the
Wolverines earlier in the year. Fisher
had Demetrius Calip foul Mark
Baker with the score tied at 61 and
14 seconds remaining.
"I was very surprised," Buckeye
coach Randy Ayers said, sounding
like Fisher a few weeks back when
Heathcote did the same to his team.
winning
"It's a good strategy. Steve knew
what he wanted to do. It was very
decisive."
"It could've worked out all right
had we secured the rebound," Loy
Vaught said. "Then, things could've
been in our favor."
Baker, who seconds earlier missed
a similar one-and-one situation, this
time hit his first shot. Then
Jackson, with Mike Griffin on his
left and Chris Seter on his right,
moved towards the basket, grabbed
the ball off Baker's miss, and hit the
shot.
"I saw it hit the rim," Jackson
said. "I skated right through and
tipped it in. (Griffin and Seter) put
pressure on me end crunched me in
but I was able to slide right through
it."
Rumeal Robinson, who led all
scores with 24 points, could. not
connect on a last-second three point
attempt. Then Vaught rebounded the
miss, ran out past the three point
stripe, but his shot went wide as
time ran out. "When I let it go, it
seemed on the mark," Robinson
said, "of his last try. He (Chris Jent)
jumped out and I just saw the end of
streak is halted
it when it went up."
Michigan fell to 9-4, third place
in the Big Ten (19-5 overall) and a
game-and-a-half behind league-
leading Purdue. Ohio State moved to
7-6 in the conference (13-10 overall).
Since Higgins left the lineup
Stevn CoheL
with a foot injury after a loss to
Purdue three weeks ago, Michigan
had won four in a row by pounding
the ball inside to big men Mills and
See OHIO STATE, Page 4
---
'M.'experienced a
reality test vs. OSU
by Steve Cohen
Daily Basketball Writer
COLUMBUS - Unlike Morris, Felix, or Garfield, the Michigan
basketball team does not possess nine lives. But even without the feline
complement, the Wolverines fell down and landed on their feet throughout
the course of yesterday's game. But as the final buzzer sounded, Michigan
really landed on its feet as the Buckeyes pulled out a 64-61 victory.
Robinson lay supine after a three-point attempt with seconds remaining
in the game clanked off the rim. Michigan, which had played its sloppiest
game of the big Ten season with 21 turnovers, had used up too many lives
AP Photo
Ohio State's Jamaal Brown drives past Michigan's Terry Mills (52) to
score in OSU's 64-61 upset over the Wolverines yesterday in Columbus.
already.
See COHEN, page 4
* Spartans
tie, top
icers overp
" weekend
by Peter Zellen
Daily Hockey Writer
Hoosiers swamp wrestlers
by Matt Rennie
Daily Sports Writer
Michigan wrestling coach Dale
Bahr was forced to shuffle his
lineup, and Indiana proceeded to deal
the Wolverines their first Big Ten
loss of the season.
The Hoosiers convincingly
thrashed Michigan, 26-10, during an
afternoon in which the maize and
blue could manage only two
victories in ten matches.
The Wolverines had to do
without Sam Amine, their starter at
158 pounds, who was sidelined with
a knee injury. Senior co-captain
Larry Gotcher moved up from his
150 slot to replace Amine while
redshirt frosh James Feldkamp filled
in at Gotcher's usual position.
Amine will undergo athroscopic
surgery today to determine how long
he will be out.
The moves resulted in an even
bigger experience gap between the
youthful Wolverines and their
veteran counterparts. Bahr said this
contributed to the defeat.
"They have a fine team," Bahr
said. "I don't think Sam would have
made the difference, but I will say
that when you throw five freshman
and a sophomore against a team with
seven seniors, it's difficult."
The difficulty showed from the
beginning. In the 118-pound match,
Hoosier rookie Lance Ellis set the
tone by dominating Jason Cluff, 11-
3, earning a major decision for
himself and four points for his team.
"I thought Lance Ellis did a nice
job getting started," Indiana coach
Joe MacFarland. "That was
important to get our team going."
See HOOSIERS, Page 6
It's not how you start but how
you finish.
Third period play decided the
outcome of the Wolverines hockey
series against No. 1 ranked Michigan
State as they came away with a 2-2
*tie and a 5-2 loss.
The first game climaxed for
Michigan with a solid effort in the
third to spark a comeback while the
second game was marred by a third
period of mistakes and penalties
which caused a breakdown.
"We didn't win the game but we
won the third period," Michigan
coach Red Berenson said after the tie.
"We were patient and that allowed us
* to get back into rhythm."
The second game went diff-
Moeller's first crew
Rookie coach reels in a top five class,
concentrating on RB and LB corps
JULIE HOLLMANIDaily
Mark Ouimet gets taken down by Michigan State's Kip Miller. Later in
the game, both were charged with coincidental double roughing minors.
S 14.A nudnnffc hinin "Unruh 7.
by Adam Benson
Daily Football Writer
Gary Moeller's first-ever recruit-
ing class has been ranked in the top
fiv 1%c. ..._ n v on~ iin
holes at running back and linebacker.
In those areas, the Wolverines might
have been the best in the country.
"We got some kids who I think
ran _ _ r ta 1 " Xs, ,, ci
Dyson was one of the top players in
Maryland last season, Jason
Kendrick was Kentucky's finest, and
Bobby Powers was the best player in
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