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MASHBURN AND KENTUCKY AWAIT MICHIGAN IN NEW ORLEANS
Blue not afraid of red-hot Wildcats
by Ken Davidoff Kansas coach Roy Williams: the game away early each time. Marymount team did, where they
and Adam Miller "No comment." The Wildcats led, 27-17, on Flor- make you shoot the ball and you
Daily Basketball Writers North Carolina coach Dean ida State, 34-8 over Wake Forest, just go down and toss up all
To think that not a soul would Smith "No comment." 27-8 on Utah and a smothering 29- threes, but at the same time, one
comment on it. Now it is time to comment. For 9 on first-round foe Rider. out of every three shots they take
Oh, it was in the promotional now it is reality. Junior forward Jamal Mash- are three-point shots, but you've
material: "Final Four Preview." In a way. burn - who averages 20.8 points gotta look at the other two-thirds
But three months ago, at the Dec. Sunday's NCAA tournament per game and is as comfortable and you can dribble-drive or go
28-30 Rainbow Classic in action sealed the field for New shooting triples as he is playing in inside."
Honolulu, Hawaii, no coach, no Orleans, and three of the four the post, headlines the ensemble "That's one thing I've never,
player - no trainer, for heaven's Rainbow Classic semifinal teams - but he is by no means the ever heard - that Michigan was
sake - would discuss the are in it. Kansas plays North Car- whole story. playing in a mismatch," Kentucky
possibility that the tournament olina in the first semifinal; Satur- Kentucky also gets significant coach Rick Pitino said.
could be an advance showing for day at 5:45 p.m., while Michigan contributions from junior point Mashburn, who announced his
the Final Four matchups. guard Travis Ford. The transfer eligibility for the NBA draft this
The question was asked inces- from Missouri has dished out 160 past Feb. 26, has received the
santly by the media, "So is this a assists this season, and he is majority of the attention. Due to
Final Four preview? How do you second to Mashburn in scoring the fans' and media's interest in
think this bears for the rest of the with 13.7 ppg. the All-American, the Wolverines
season? Can we expect a repeat As a team, the Wildcats are spent a good amount of time
performance in April?" red-hot shooters. They drained fielding Mashburn questiosn after
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wanted the answer to the last ques-k (rinlud NCAA ournangt " H a bige imy
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won the Classic going away. After from three-point range. Fisher said. "He's good. He makes
a heartstopping, buzzerbeating, But it's the numbers that make big-time plays."
high-flying 79-78 victory oer the sat impressive: the SEC tour- "Mashburn, he plays more
then-No. 5 North Carolina Dec.29 nament champions poured in 333 facing the basket than I do,"
sealed by Jalen Rose's putback triples, more than doubling their Juwan Howard said. "I'm just
SaturdLy in the lane as the buzzer sounded plays Kentucky in the second opponents' 139. looking forward to the challenge.
-the then-No. 6 Wolverines game, 30 minutes after the conclu- Further, Kentucky takes the The Chris Webber-Mashburn
came back to pound Kansas, 86- sion of the first. concept of a deep bench to new matchup by all accounts is one of
yk74, in the tidle game. But Wolverine fans shouldn't heights. Eleven of the 14 on the the most awaited duels of the
The Jayhawks were the No. 2 get too excited at the popc of a Wildcat roster see over nine mi- sao.Wbea las x
team in the nation at the time, but Michigan-Kansas or Michigan- nutes of action each game. pressed confidence over his chan-
they were stifled by the larger North Carolina rematch just yet. The Michigan players ack- ces against the Monster Mash.
,rMichigan lineup. Knaoint The Wildcats block the way- nowledge the Wildcats will be a "esagetpaebtte
guard Adonis Jordan scored only and they come to the Superdome challenging opponent, but they in lost to Tennessee," Webber said.
four points in the contest. on a roll, no way fear them or their light- "He's a great player, and they lost
SHowever, the coaches' answers The Southeast regional champ- ningquick perimeter game. to Vanderbilt. ... I'm always
KRSTOFFER GILLETTE/Daiy became monotonous. ions (30-3) have won their four "We like to play transition, betting on myself. I don't care if
Chris Webber and his Wolverine teammates head to New Orleans this Michigan coach Steve Fisher: games in the tournament by an too," Rose said. "It's not like they we're playing the Pistons, I'd bet
Saturday to take on Kentucky in the NCAA tournament semifinals. "No comment." average of 31 points, and have put (use) transition like the old Loyola on myself."
" Baseball comes home
Laxers victorious at
Purdue tournament
sweet home
by Paul Barger
Daily Baseball Writer
The Michigan baseball team (5-
17 overall, 0-4 Big Ten) begins its
longest home stand to date as they
prepare to take on Eastern Michigan
today at 3:00 p.m. at Ray Fisher
Stadium. In addition to being the
longest home stand of the season, it
is the first.
After 22 games in enemy terri-
tory, the Wolverines will finally get
their chance to play in front of the
home fans. The season will be half
over on Sunday and the squad will
have played a scant five home
games. The weather forecast is good
for tomorrow so unlike the canceled
March 23rd game against Saginaw
Valley, baseball will be played in
Ann Arbor this afternoon.
"We're just fortunate that we are
going to get a chance to play,"
Michigan coach Bill Frechan said.
"The field is in pretty good shape
and we're looking forward to play-
ing at home."
The Eagles (7-5) are a formidable
opponent that boasted a team batting
average of .299 before yesterday's
doubleheader at Wayne State.
Senior outfielder Mike Wisely
leads the team with a .476 batting
average and 10 RBI's. Third base-
man Jason McDonald is hitting at a
.432 clip while driving in 12 runs.
Second Baseman James Bostock
tops the RBI list with 14. Eastern
also will pose the Wolverines prob-
lems on the base paths.
"They always run the bases
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well," Freehan said. "They put a lot
of people in motion. My concern is
what our guys do and what our
pitchers do primarily."
Sophomore Matt Humbles will
start on the mound for the first time
in his Michigan career. In his first
season, the lefthander compiled a 3-
6 record with 31 strikeouts in 44.1
innings. However, his action will be
limited as the coaching staff plans to
get six pitchers into the game for at
least one inning of work. The regular
starters will be rested for this week-
end's Big Ten battle with Purdue.
After the Wolverine's disappoint-
ing weekend at Minnesota, Matt
Copp still leads the team in hitting
with a .333 average. Copp, a senior
third baseman, was not slated as a
starter before the season but was
given an opportunity and has not let
Freehan down.
Today's game is the first of two
between the Wolverines and Eagles.
The second game will be played in
Ypsilanti on April 7. The contests
will provide an opportunity for the
Michigan coaches to look at some
players they don't often see in game
situations.
Freehan's hope is to build up a
certain confidence in his younger
players which will enable them to
by J.L. Rostam-Abadi
Daily Sports Writer
They went. They saw. They con-
quemd.
The Michigan men's lacrosse
team increased its record to 10-1 this
past weekend at the Big Ten Club
Lacrosse League Eastern Division
Tournament at Purdue, where it
played three games. The Wolverines
defeated Purdue, Indiana and Illinois,
16-10, 19-0 and 19-4, respectively.
The top five Michigan scorers of
the three-game rendez-vous were at-
tackman Doug Henke (15 goals and
3 assists), attackman Stevan Simich
(9-7), midfielder Ivan Frank (6-2), at-
tackman Sten Carlson (5-3) and mid-
fielder Dave Reichel (4-3).
Of the three games, the players
said that Purdue was the most chal-
lenging.
"We were expecting Purdue to be
a pretty tough game," senior mid-
fielder and co-captain Ranjiv Advani
said. "We've always had close games
with them."
And their expectations were ful-
filled - Purdue led, 7-6, at halftime.
Michigan acted quickly, changing
from its ball-denial strategy to regu-
lar team defense. This proved suc-
cessful for the Wolverines, who out-
scored the Boilermakers, 9-4, in the
second half.
The Hoosiers and Illini contests
were not nearly as intense as the
Purdue game. Michigan won virtu-
ally every faceoff against Illinois.'.
"Not one of these games was a
real defensive battle," Michigan
coach Bob DiGiovanni said. "They
(Michigan) played real well overall.
"Since the Oberlin game we've
been shorthanded; we've been miss-
ing a couple of our starters to injury
but we've still played very, very
well and we've gone undefeated. So I
think that helps show that we've got
a lot of depth; a lot of people have
stepped up. If somebody is hurt,
somebody else steps up and does the
scoring or plays the defense. We've
got some good depth on the team,
and that's how you have a successful
season."
The Wolverines are now 4-0 in
the Eastern Division. Last weekend's
tournament basically secured Michi-
gan a top seed for the Big Ten Club
championships in mid-April.
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Matt Copp and Chad Chapman celebrate a run at Ray Fisher stadium last
season. The first home game of this season will be played today at 3 p.m.
come up with some victories in the
frequent down to the wire ball
games.
"You know when people talk
about the basketball team they say
they don't do this and they don't do
that," Freehan said. "You can call
them arrogant, you can call them
cocky, you can call them self-confi-
dent, but they figure out a way to
win. We haven't done that. If we can
figure it out, we can win the close
ones."
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