ha Plow many Michigan players have been selected in the first round of the NBA draft? (Answer, page 2) 'M' Sports Calendar AP Top 25 Bowl Griddes Athelete of the Week Q&A Forrest Fires Women's Basketball Preview Men's Basketball Hockey 2 2 2 2 3 3 4-5 6 .7 agers deail hattanooga,83-1 Familiar cockiness emerges from humbleness By SCOTT BURTON Daily Basketball Writer HATTANOOGA, Tenn. - There had been something clearly wrong with the play of the Michigan basketball team this season. Maybe the Wolverines missed the flair of Jalen Rose or the heady leadership of Juwan Howard. Maybe LL Jimmy King URT and Ray PRESS Jackson weren't ready to adopt the leadership role. Maybe trying to build a cohesive unit on the floor was too much of a challenge with 12 talented players to choose from. Whatever the reason, the &olverines' characteristic abundance of confidence was missing. The cocky swagger of the Fab Five was nowhere to be seen. And their "I'm better than you are, so whatcha gonna do about it?" kind of attitude was simply absent. Painfully present instead were timid shots, bad decisions and a 2-2 team horribly humbled by Arizona nd Arizona State. See COCKY, Page 6 King, Jackson lead effort, break Mocs' 27-game home streak By RYAN WHITE Daily Basketball Writer CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Michigan men's basketball coach Steve Fisher has been waiting all sea- son for seniors Jimmy King and Ray Jackson to step up and lead the team. Saturday, against Tennessee-Chatta- nooga, they did. The twosome scored eight of the Wolverines' final l1 points, combin- ing for 42 overall, as No. 17 Michigan (3-2) pulled away down the stretch to defeat the Moccasins, 83-71, in front of 11,103 raucous fans at UTC Arena. The loss ended the Mocs 27-game home winning streak, which was the fourth longest in the nation. Tennessee-Chattanooga (1 -) fu- "eled by one of its largest crowds ever. cut Michigan's 49-36 halftime lead to only three, 72-69, with 2:47 left in the game. That's when King and Jackson took over. Jackson hit two free throws, and. after a turnover by the Mocs' Shane Neal, King was fouled and hit the back end of his two shots. King put the game away when he stole the ball, made a breakaway layup and was fouled. He made the ensuing free throw and the Wolverines were up, 78-69. King and Jackson, however, were not quite done. A Dugan Fife steal led to a Jack- son dunk. King made another steal to start a break that ended in Fife tossing a pass over his shoulder to freshman Maurice Taylor, who ended the Wol- AP PHOTO verines' scoring with a thunderous slam. King finished with 23 points: Jack- son with 19. "Our seniors. King and Jackson, who have taken some heat for not stepping up - stepped up," Fisher said. "With the experience Ray and myself have, we have to keep it to- gether," King said. "We just kept our heads on straight and put it together down the stretch." Michigan, which led throughout the entire game, began the second halt' against the Moccasins slowly, much like it began the second half against Arizona last Wednesday. Nearly eight minutes went by after halftime before Michigan recorded a field goal against the Wildcats. Against the Mocs, the Wolverines scored their first basket 2:26 into the half. The biggest play of the Mocca- sins' comeback attempt was actually made by Michigan. Jackson fouled Tennessee-Chat- tanooga forward Maurio Hanson and King was slapped with a technical for arguing the call. The Moccasins made all four free throws to shave an I I- point Wolverine lead down to just seven. Fisher removed King after the technical and Jackson took over. "When (the technical) happened, Ray was the guy that brought stability to the team," Fisher said. While it was King and Jackson who put the contest away, Michigan's See MOCS, Page 6 Brendan Born covers Michigan's Ray Jackson Saturday. Jackson finished with 19 points against the Mocs. x .. *t'M' pounds Notre Dame, 11-2 By BARRY SOLLENBERGER Daily Hockey Writer It's a safe bet that "The Victors" is still ringing in the ears of Notre Dame coach Ric Schafer. After all, he had to endure the chorus of the famous song every time the No. 5 Wolverines (7-2 CCHA, 10-4 overall) scored Saturday night at Yost Ice Arena. Michigan's runaway 11-2 romp over the Irish (1-9, 3-11) certainly kept the band busy and Schafer frustrated. "I love the spirit here, I really do," said Schafer of the Wolverine follow- ing. "I just wish that, on some night, we could silence (the band) for a while." While the fight song was loud Saturday night, the Michigan offen- sive firepower was deafening to Notre Dame. Eight Wolverines scored in Michigan's most lopsided win thus far this season. "I had the feeling that all four lines contributed," Wolverine coach Red Berenson said of Saturday's game. "We're going to need every- body on our team before the year is 'Our shot chart looked like a clusterbomb went off in front of our goal.' -- Ric Schafer Notre Dame head coach over." Michigan dropped the bomb on the Irish in the second period. Leading only 3-2 at the first in- termission, the Wolverines blew Notre Dame off the ice with four unanswered goals in the second stanza. Freshman Matt Herr gave Michigan a 4-2 lead 7:41 into the period on a textbook three-on-two. "(John) Arnold gave it to (Mike) Legg and the one defenseman came over," Herr said. "Legg threw it across to me, and all I had to do was put it away in the wide open net." After Kevin Hilton and Brendan Morrison scored back-to-back goals for a 6-2 lead, Schafer pulled starting goalie, Wade Salzman, but the goalie wasn't responsible for the Irish col- lapse. "There were an awful lot of shots in close," Schafer said. "Our shot chart looked like a clusterbomb went off in front of our goal." Salzman's replacement, Matt Eisler, immediately felt the brunt of the Michigan artillery. Only 13 seconds after entering the game, Eisler gave up a goal to Wol- verine forward Ron Sacka and the game was out of Notre Dame's reach at 7-2. Sacka' s success comes on the heels of a position change from center to left wing. "Sacka's playing the best hockey he's played since he's been here," Berenson said. "We've always had him at center ... but he's a different player on the wing." After taking a commanding five- goal lead, the final period-and-a-half Saturday night was statistic-padding time for Michigan. See IRISH, Page 7 MARK FRIEDMAN/Daily Michigan's dominance over Notre Dame Saturday was indicative of how this series has gone the past few seasons. The Wolverines 11-2 victory was their 15th consecutive win over the Irish. Women's basketball picks apart Panthers For the love of the game Amy Johnson dedicates herself to basketball By RAVI GOPAL Daily Basketball Writer After two consecutive setbacks on the road, the Michigan women's bas- ketball team was looking desperately for a 'W.' "We definitely needed a victory," junior Catherine DiGiacinto said. "We really needed to boost our spirits." The Wolverines' prayers were answered Saturday. Led by Amy Johnson's 28 points, the Wolverines defeated Georgia State, 79-63, in At- lanta. sprained left ankle. This prompted Roberts to insert freshman Molly Murray at the point, and the trouble began. Facing the suffocating Panther full-court press, Murray committed 11 turnovers. Taking the ball up the court took its toll on the rookie. "Molly had to play 39 minutes, and was physically fatigued at the end of the game," Roberts said. To aid Murray, Johnson brought the ball up the court on several occa- sions. Yet. the result was similar. Plav- By DAVID ROTHBART Daily Basketball Writer Amy Johnson was 13 when she first fell in love. He was not one of the scrawny kids with braces from her seventh grade History class. He was not the nervous sixth-grader who sat next to her in the cafeteria. His name was Michael Jordan. As she sat with her mother in the living room, watching Michael }'