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Rose, Howard lead Mich-igan to yet another down-
to-the-wire victory, 79-75, over visiting Badgers
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DI LY BASKETBALL WRI-.TER
The men's basketball matchup be-
tween Michigan (5-2 Big Ten, 13-4
overall) and Wisconsin (4-3,13-3) Sat-
urday evinced a battle between inside
dominance and outside shooting touch.
Te contest lived up to its billing - in
reverse.
The Badgers boast a tall lineup,
including a trio 6 feet 10 or taller, and
their strength would seem to pose prob-
lems for the Wolverines.
But it was the Wolverines who were
tough on the inside, with their more
experienced and more talented muscle.
Wisconsin (read Michael Finley),
though, kept the game close through its
outside shooting ability but in the end it
was Michigan who was able to come
away with a 79-75 victory in front of
13, 548 at Crisler Arena.
Michigan center Juwan Howard and
6-foot-I11, 265-pound Wisconsin fresh-
man Rashard Griffith went at each other
early. Griffith failed to convert over
Howard's outstretched arms on the
game's first shot.
Howard then hit a jumper from 16
feet, and grabbed another two points
off of a Griffith goaltending at the
17:57 mark.
The stage was set - but later be-
came vacant.
Howard finished with 22 points and
a game-high eight rebounds, while
Griffith lhad just seven points and three
boards in 20 minutes of action. The
Badger committed two early fouls and
sat for the final 14:48 of the first half.
"I wouldn't say hie wasn't a real
factor," Howard said of his friend and
fellow Chicagoan Griffith, "There's
just the fact that he got ini foul trouble
early. I just tried my best to find some
way to take it right to him and draw
fouls."
Howard took it to everyone Wis-
consin coach Stu Jackson placed in his
path, going 7-of-I.1 for 14 points in the
first half.
On the Badger end of the court it
was junior forward Michael Finley
doing major damage.
He burned Michigan from the out-
side throughout the afternoon, canning
a school-record seven three-pointers.
Finley finished the contest with a game-
high 30 points.
"(Finley) is no longer a secret,"~
Michigan coach Steve Fisher said.
"He's a highly-advertised great player."
Michigan was without the services
of freshman guard Bobby Crawford,
who sat out his first collegiate game
due to a fractured right wrist.
Although he lost one of his key
guards, Michigan coach Steve Fisher
had to be pleased with the return of
another.
Junior Jimmy King marked his
comeback from a bout with the chicken
pox with a patented jam at the 15:20
mark-of the first half. King stole the ball
and handed it off to Jalen Rose for a
three on one. Rose threw it back on a
no-look pass and King skied through
the lane for two.
"It felt great just being able to play
again, be out on the court in that atmo-
sphere," King said.
Rose added to that ambience, check-
ing in with another big game. The
junior again started slowly, tallying
just five points before the break.
He picked up his play more than a
few notches, though, finishing with a
team-high 23 points on the strength of
6-for-6 shooting in the second stanza.
"I looked up at the score and we
were down," Rose said of the 11:00
mark of the second half, his team down,
60-55. "My teammates were trying to
get me the ball in a position where I
could score.
"They were looking for me. It was
my part from then on to try to make
something happen."
Things did happen, as Rose con-
verted three improbable three-point
plays in the second half.
After his final three-point play with
4:07 left, Rose had some close-range
words for Finley.
See BASKETBALL, Page7
MICHELLE GUY/Daily
Olivier Saint-Jean fights for a loose ball with Wisconsin's Jason Johnsen in the Wolverines' 79-75 victory Saturday.
" Blue downright defensive in
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DAILY HOCKEY WRITER
AUBU RN HILLS -The fans came
out in droves to see the No. 1 team in
the nation. But they probably didn't
expect two-and-a-half periods of score-
less hockey.
. Michigan (20-1-1 CCHA, 25-2-1
overall) finally broke through and de-
feated Notre Dame (8-11-4, 8-15-4), 3-
1, before an NCAA regular-season,
single-game record crowd of 20,427 at
the Palace of Auburn Hills.
Before knocking off the Irish,
Michigan had to defeat Ohio State (1-
@15-4,2-17-4), Fridayjin Columbus and
did so, 5-1.
The Wolverines and Irish remained
deadlocked in a scoreless tie well into
the third period of game. David Oliver's
slapshot from the left circle with 6:36
remaining gave Michigan the lead, Il-
0, and for good. The power-play goal
gave Oliver his 100th career goal,
only the sixth Michigan player to do
So.
Three goals in the last minute -
two empty-net goals for the Wolver-
ines and a goal by the Irish -- ended
the scoring.
"We needed a goal more than we've
needed a goal, I think, all year," Michi-
gan coach Red Berenson said. "We
seemed to be a step slow. I think this
week has been a tough week on our
team."
"We were a little frustrated," Oliver
said. "We couldn't get the puck in and
set it up in the zone. When we did it
would take a bounce in the other direc-
tion and we'd lose it. They definitely
played well, but we haven't been play-
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With the offense sputtering, Michi-4
gan relied on goaltending to keep it in
the game. Steve Shields stopped 32 K
shots for the Wolverines, and his coun- -'
terpart, Greg Louder, was equally asNi
hot -- turning away 24 of 25 shots. ,_ A
"It's great to see Steve Shields play
the way he did," Berenson said. "He_
had to make the difference in the game
tonight and he did. : .
With the two games this weekend,rs
Shields lowered his goals against aver- rN
age to 2.31.,
"There are going to be times where
we're not going to be scoring and your ~4
goalkeeper needs to keep you in they ,'K
game," Shields said. "Hopefully I'm
helping out enough until we can get aMAKRIMADay
See BLUE, Page6 Michigan's David Oliver prepares to shoot the puck in Saturday's game against Notre Dame at the Palace.
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Men's track sets worlid
'record at Mich. Relays
By TOM SEELEY
DAILY SPORTS WRITER
It has been clear from day one that
the distance runners of the Michigan
men's track team would be the strength
of this year's squad. This fact was
never more clear than it was at the
*Michigan Relays Saturday at the Track
and Tennis Building.
In winning the distance medley,
the quartet of junior Nick Karfonta,
sophomores Trinity Townsend and
Scott MacDonald, and freshman
Kevin Sullivan set new collegiate and
world marks. In running the relay in 9
minutes, 33.72 seconds, the squad
broke the eight-year old mark set in
1985 by Arkansas (9:35.6).
* The time also broke the 10-year
old school record, which when it was
set stood as the world record until
Arkansas broke it.
The main goal for Saturday's meet
was qualifying the medley team for
the NCAA Championships' with a
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the medley relay is 9:38.
"We figured if we ran somewhere
around 9:40, we would probably get
in, because it is such a tough stan-
dard," Harvey said.
The Wolverines had hoped to
qualify this week because it was a
non-scoring meet and as the season
progresses, it becomes harder to
qualify. This is because in the bigger
meets of the year, like the Central
Collegiate Championships and the Big
Ten Championships, individuals are
counted on to score big for the team in
their personal events. None of the
participants in Saturday's record set-
ting performance competed in any
individual events.
Karfonta's opening performance
in the 800-meter leg of the event set
the stage for something big.
"After Nick ran the half (mile), we
were well on pace, and then it just
kept getting better and better," Harvey
said.
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DAILY SPORTS WRITER
heL- score is tied. The stands are
y' packed. The stadium echoes as
the crowds chants. The an-
nouncer calls the play-by-play.
"She shoots, she scores!"
What? All this excitement for a
"she"? I've never witnessed such an
atrocity. Women can't play sports!
Te truth is that women do partici-
pate in athletics and for many years
have been an underrepresented ma-
jority and their progress to break
through has been slow.
Why does the general public turn
on the television each weekend ex-
pecting to see women on the sidelines
cheering for the men who compete in
rugged sports?
That's what the NCAA wants to
know as well.
Earlier this month, Michigan Ath-
letic Director Jack Weidenbach sent
his successor, Joe Roberson, and As-
cniti- A th 1 .tir virrtnIr iT17 Tv ro-
Female athletes still
seeks equal treatment
is Title IX.
The controversy has come into
recent debate at Michigan in addition
to most major universities. The Uni-
versity of Michigan's Board in Con-
trol of Intercollegiate Athletics voted
last spring to cut men's gymnastics as
a varsity sport in an attempt to comply
with the guidelines of the Big Ten's
gender equity mandate, which states
that the number of male to female.
athletes shiould be in theratio of 60/40°
by 1997. This season is, scheduled to
be the last for that team. In its place,
women's soccer was added as a Michi-,
gan , varsity sport.
It has taken 21 years since Title IX
was first enacted, but women have
just recently started to see a consider-
able increase in attention.
While women's sports have made
forward progress to attract significant
attention, it has been slow in coming.
One obstacle women's sports has had
to face is the constant comparison
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