SPRTS nday Trivia What are the only teams other than the Buffalo Bills to lose four Super Bowls? (Answer, page 2) b ~ ~'~' - 'K' 'K 'K',' 4' & "'~ ~ ~ ~4 4, 'K ~~''~' <'2 4'K~x~- <'K <~v' > ,)'~, 'K *K~'K42AK'K - K-," U inside SPORTSMonday Men's Tennis M' Sports Calender AP Top 25 WMEB Hockey Poll Athlete of the Week Q&A Close But No Sugiura Gymnastics Preview Hockey Men's Basketball 2, 2 2 2 2 3 3 4-5 6 7 8 M' Sl- ? " Nllo e b ck Rose, Howard lead Mich-igan to yet another down- to-the-wire victory, 79-75, over visiting Badgers B'y BRETT FORRES T 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 victories over Irish, BuckeyesN 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- ing as well as we're capable of playN~ ing!' , p 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. uait 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 rrphnnl raennrd ho-ina a rtlbcnnlfl anal1 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. T1nwxncpn r nnPYCs1ll ic~t oandrrnthia By ARCDILL ER 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 wiAth like mon 'c cnrtc °i r' .. '"