Men's Tennis vs. Cincinnati Saturday,1 p.m. Liberty Sports Complex S Hockey at Bowling Green Friday, 7 p.m. Bowling Green Badgers snap Wolverines' nine-game win streak, 71-58 *Cheeseheads prove 'M' fans need overhaul MADISON - How does that line go? "My love is like a red, red rose"? 6 Wisconsin fans may lack a Rose of their own on the basketball court, but the stands were as red as the overworked flower of the same name last night at f < *Wisconsin Fieldhouse. So bedecked in their colors were the fans, so sincere were their chants that the whole scene smacked of a pep rally in a high school gym. f At one point during the night, the student section - f 3' every last Badger booster-joined hands and serenaded their fake-furred mascot with the school's alma mater, "Varsity." (Guess what, faithful readers: Michigan has an alma , mater, too, and it's not that series of vertical slugs and "hails" 4nterrupted by singing.) By Wisconsin students' volume and vigor, you'd . RACHEL think they were cheering for the Big Ten leading BACHMAN Wolverines, rather than their own players, who had lost Bach's Score their last four games in a row. Before tipoff, they yelled wildly, as if the surgeon general had just revealed swiss cheese as the miracle cure for cancer. Even the alumni did their part. When they suspected Juwan Howard had traveled, three dozen pot-bellied, balding men in expensive sweaters stood and twirled their hands in disgust. It looked liked a landlocked synchronized swimming routine, but at least the guys were involved. * Is there a Michigan law barring those over 25 from standing up? Obviously, the cheeseheads are doing something right. - Inspired by our neighbors to the West, the following are a few suggestions for making Crisler Arena more home-team friendly: r 1. Remove all seat cushions from Arena seats. Let's face it, folks. Crisler's accommodations are more comfortable than a nap afterThanksgiving dinner. What Wolverine fans need is good old-fashioned discomfort. With Wisconsin-like wooden bleachers, there would be much more motivation to stand. Instead of this kind of scene: "Pass the pillow I took from that Northwest flight, will ya?" "Shhhhh! I'm trying to sleep." We could enjoy this one: Go Blue! Hey, you- what are you doing? You know, they don't sit ELIZABETH LIPPMAN/Daily down at Wisconsin..." Michigan forward Olivier Saint Jean corrals a rebound in last night's 71-58 See BACHMAN, Page 8 loss tq Wisconsin. CM'lee loo to reviVe fiat power play Wisconsin beats Blue with superior defense By TIM RARDIN DAILY BASKETBALL WRITER MADISON - Wisconsin coach Stu Jackson said before last night's game between his Badgers and No. 3 Michigan that the Wolverines had a penchant for keeping themselves in basketball games when they weren't playing well. That trait has allowed them to pull out more than a handful of close con- tests so far this season. But this time around, Michigan (12-3 BigTen, 20-5 overall) couldn't keep it close enough, long enough, as Wisconsin (7-8, 16-8) ended its four-game losing skid with a 71-58 victory at the Wisconsin Field House. "Wisconsin did to us what we have been doing to otherpeople," Michigan coach Steve Fisher. "They played out- standing individual and team defense. We never got into a flow." After an Andy Kilbride three- pointer put the Badgers up,51-47, with 8:05 to play, Jalen Rose responded - as he is apt to do - with a three-point play on the other end to cut the lead to 51-50. Rose's effort brought the Wolver- ines closer than they had been since Wisconsin led, 5-4, early in the game, and it appeared as if Michigan was on the brink of pulling out yet another tight affair. But that would not be the case this time around. "I thought Jalen was going to get on a run and lift up everybody," Fisher said. "We still had achance, but when (Wisconsin) had to have a stop, or a basket, they got it. We made arun toget it to 51-50 and they weren't going to let us win." Indeed, theBadgerscameoutofan official timeout and reeled off six un- answered points - capped off by a Grant Johnson putback - to extend the lead back to seven with just over five minutes to go. Michigan would narrow the lead back to two again after a Dugan Fife triple, and a steal by Fife that led to a pair of free throws from Rose at the 4:40 mark, but the Badgers answered them as they did all game long. A mini 4-0 run extended their lead to six, but after a Howard free throw, the Wolverines were still within strik- ing distance. That is until Brian Kelley, who made his presence felt on the defensive end all night, put back a Finley miss and was fouled by Rose. Rose exited with his fifth personal and just 15 points, and Kelley's ensu- ing free throw gave his Badgers an eight-point cushion, 64-56, with 2:47 to play. "Kelley's offensive rebound was a monster, monster play," Jackson said. After that, Michigan - despite a fullcourt press, and achange to aquicker lineup -could not climb back. From then on, the Wisconsin de- fense held the Wolverines toj ust three points, while the Badgers scored 14 of theirown tothedelightof some 11,000 Wisconsin fans in attendance. "To hold off the No. 3 team in the nation after a number of surges is a heck of an effort," Jackson said. "We did it defensively; we didn't zone, or triangle-and-two or any of that kind of nonsense." See WISCONSIN, Page 8 MICHIGAN(58) FQ FT REB MIN M.A M*A O4 A FPFM Jackson 34 5-12 1-2 4-6 2 2 11 King 33 4-13 0-1 1-2 1 1 8 Howard 38 5-14 5-9 2-6 1 3 15 Rose 31 5-12 4-4 0-2 3 5 15 Fife 35 3-7 0-0 3-5 0 3 9 Saint-Jean 15 0-1 0-0 1-4 2 3 0 Ndiaye 8 0.1 0-0 0-2 0 3 0 Derricks 5 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 1 0 Crawford 1 0-1 0-0 0-001 0 Totals 200 22-61 10-16 14-31 922 58 FG%: .361. FT%: .625. Three-point goals: 4-20, .200 (Fife 3-7, Rose 1-5, King 0-5, Jackson 0.2, Saint-Jean 0-1). Blocks: 2 (Howard, Saint-Jean). Turnovers: 16 (Jackson 3, King 3, Howard 3, Rose 2. Fife 2, Ndiaye, Derricks). Steals: 16 (Howard 5, King 3, Jackson 2, Rose 2, Fife 2, Saint-Jean 2). Technical Fouls: none. WISCONSIN (71) FG FT RIB MIN MA M OT A F PTS Kelley 23 4-7 1-1 48 0 2 9 Finley 39 5-11 8-11 0-6 1 1 20 Griffith 35 . 5-7 1-3 1-12 1 1 11 Webster 33 4-6 2-6 0-1 5 3 11 Kilbride 15 3-4 2-2 0-0 1 5 11 Petersen 17 2-5 0-1 1-2 0 1 4 Roberts 25 1-5 0-0 0-2.3 1 2 Johnson 5 1-1 0-0 1-1 0 1 2 Hoskins 7 0-0 1-2 0-1 0 0 1 McDuffie 1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 Totals 200 2546 15-26 10.39 1116 71 FG%: .543. FT%: .577. Three-poat goals: 6.14, .429 (Kilbride 3-4, Finley 2-6, Webster 1-1, Roberts 0.3). Blocks: 6 (Griffith 4, Roberts, Johnson). Turnovers: 20 (Griffith 5, Roberts 5, Finley 4, Webster 2, Kelley, Kilbride, Petersen, McDuffie). Steals: 5 (Webster 2, Roberts 2, Griffith). Technical Fouls: none. Michigan......... 26 32 - 58 Wisconsin........ 31 40 - 71 At: UW Field House; A: 11,500 By MICHAEL ROSENBERG DAILY HOCKEY WRITER There is no good time to slump, but some times are better than others. The Michigan hockey team, which has lost three straight games, picked a good time for its first slump of the year. Two weeks ago, the Wolverines Oclinched the Central Collegiate Hockey Association's regular-season title. Since then, Michigan has been looking forward to the end of the regular season. "We were playing the last six games for pride's sake, really,"junior forward Mike Knuble said. "We might have taken them a little lightly." But the Wolverines realize that their days of giving less than a com- Oplete effort are over. Michigan, who visits Bowling Green Friday and plays Ferris State at Yost Ice Arena Saturday, is entering its final weekend of the regular sea- son. The Wolverines will host aCCHA first-round series next week, prob- ably against either Kent or Ohio State. "It's necessary for us to win this weekend," Knuble said. "We wouldn't want to go in on a down note." One of the areas Michigan needs to improve upon is its power play, which was dominant in December and January but has been merely mortal lately. The Wolverines feel that other teams have too much knowl- edge of what Michigan will do on the power play. "Earlier in the season we were basically winning games with our power play," senior forward David Oliver said. "But as the season goes along you have other people watch- ingyourgames. We havepeople(from other teams) who come to Yost just to watch our power play. People watch us on television, they see the power play over and over, and when you do that, you can come up with a good defense for us." As a result, Michigan is making some changes with a man-advantage. "We've tried some new things in practice," Knuble said. "We're mov- ing people around and doing some other things. Teams are trying to stop, (center Brian) Wiseman and we want to give him some more time with the puck." Coach Red Berenson, while dis- appointed with his team's play as of late, said he is not frustrated. "We couldn't seem to get goals in the games when we needed them," Berenson said. "But we haven't played poorly in the games we have lost. On the other hand, there are things we could do better. We're giving up too many goals." Berenson also expressed frustra- tion with the officiating. The coach wrote a letter to the CCHA, and the league responded. "The CCHA likes our input," Berenson said. "I am not trying to cause a problem with the league, but we have had the same official for four straight games. There is an unwritten rule in our league that we don't have the same official for two straight games. That isn't fair to us or to him." 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