Women's Basketball
vs. Nebraska
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Crisler Arena
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Women's Gymnastics
Meet the Wolverines
Friday, 7 p.m.
Cliff Keen Arena
Buckeyes
struggle to
fimd iche
in hockey
By DARREN EVERSON
Daily Hockey Writer
Thanks to junior forward Jerry
*Welsh's team-leading 28 goals, Ohio
State notched 24 victories and when
all was said and done, the Buckeyes
found themselves atop the CCHA -
in 1972.
Ohio State has not reached that
point since, coming up short in each
of the 20 seasons it has been in the
league (the Buckeyes didn't play in
the CCHA from 1973-75). This year
. no exception thus far. When the
uckeyes entertain Michigan Friday,
they will enter the game in last place
without a league win to their credit.
Such futility begs the question:
What's gone wrong?
"What's happened (to the pro-
gram) - you can't put your finger
on," said Welsh, who is in his 20th
year as Ohio State's head coach.
"There just isn't any one thing."
Welsh has seen his share of suc-
cess while at Co-
lumbus. Between
1978 and 1984,
Ohio State aver-
aged more than 24
kx, wins per season,
finishing second
in the CCHA five
out of the six
years.
Back then, the
Welsh Michigan hockey
program was certainly not a winning
one. Its resurrection, however, came
to pass about the same time Ohio
State fell apart. In the process of
winning league titles and making
NCAA appearances, the Wolverines
have run up a 21-game unbeaten
streak against the Buckeyes.
0 This dominance is no accident.
Michigan's teams have been made
up of junior hockey and high school
stars both from in- and out-of-state,
while Ohio State almost exclusively
features non-Ohio athletes. The glar-
ing lack of native Buckeyes might
not be much of a surprise, either.
"High school and junior hockey
'is real big in Bowling Green but it
st doesn't exist anywhere else in
he state," said Ohio State captain
Adam Smith, who hails from Bowl-
ing Green and is one of just two
Buckeyes from Ohio.
"The thing was that it was tough
before to play both junior and high
school hockey because there were
rules against it, but that's changed
now."
Ohio certainly isn't a hockey hot-
*ed like Michigan and Canada are,
and the lesser amount of interest is
perhaps most evident in the fans, or
lack thereof.
"As far as knowledge (of the
game), the fans are a bit behind,"
Bowling Green State defenseman
Quinn Fair said. "It's not like in
Canada where everyone and their
dog knows the game, but they're defi-
eitely picking it up. You get asked a
few silly questions by some of the
fans but I see the interest."
Fair ought to know about Cana-
dian-style hockey, having grown up
and played in Ontario. He chose to
continue his hockey career at Kent
State (another CCHA school in Ohio),
but when that school dropped its pro-
gram at the end of last season, Fair
4 pted to head to yet another Ohio
Rniversity -just not Ohio State.
"One of the obvious reasons is the
facility there and the tradition (at
Bowling Green)," said Fair, who also
See BUCKEYES, Page 10
'M' cagers ground Eagles
Brzezinski's career high 28 points leads Wolverines
By RAVI GOPAL
Daily Basketball Writer
YPSILANTI --Led by a dominat-
ing performance from junior forward
Jennifer Brzezinski, the Michigan
women's basketball team crushed East-
ern Michigan (2-3), 82-67, last night.
Brzezinski's 28 points and 18 re-
bounds were both season highs for
the Wolverines (3-3). She also passed
the 300 mark in both career scoring
and rebounding last night. Brzezinski
attributed her success this season to
the removal of the brace that had been
on her left knee all of last year.
"I feel so free," Brzezinski said.
"It was very annoying."
Her frontcourt mate, freshman
Pollyanna Johns, also had a big night.
Johns tallied 15 points and cleared 12
boards. Michigan coach Trish Rob-
erts had nothing but praise for the 6-
foot-3 center.
"That's the best she's played," Rob-
erts said. "When she gets the rebound,
she gets the outlet pass very quickly."
With Brzezinski and Johns pouring
in 20 points and 17 rebounds by half-
time, the Wolverines took a43-32 half-
time lead into the lockerroom.
Yet, Michigan was not without its
problems in the early going. Although
the Eagles put on a woeful offensive
display, going 3-for-16 from the field
to begin the game, the Wolverines
couldn't gain the lead. This was largely
due to Michigan's turnovers. Fresh-
man point guard Molly Murray was
the main culprit, giving the ball away
three times in the first few minutes of
the game. Murray remained concerned
about her play outside of her natural
forward position.
"My game's still coming along,"
Murray said. "I'm not too confident
(playing the point)."
The Wolverines bested Eastern in
the shooting department, going 18-
of-40 (.450) from the field in the first
half, to offset their poor ballhandling.
Keyed by runs of 7-0 and 9-2, Michi-
gan took the lead at 23-22 and never
looked back. Freshman guard Akisha
Franklin played an important role in
the two surges, with her defense flus-
tering the Eastern backcourt. Her 10
points was her high for the season.
Roberts attributed Franklin's outburst
to an increase in confidence.
"(Akisha) seemed like she was
scared (in the early part of the sea-
son)," Roberts said.
It was the Wolverines who were
frightened, though, as Eastern cut the
Wolverines' lead down to five, 47-
42, minutes into the second half. But
a Michigan barrage of 10-4 quickly
erased any hopes of a Eagle victory.
Johns, Franklin and sophomore guard
Amy Johnson all joined in the scoring
parade. Johnson posted 12 points for
the game, the first time in three games
that she hasn't led the team in scoring.
The end of the game belonged to
Brzezinski. Blowing by her defend
ers, she carried Michigan to its sec-
and victory in a row.
MICHIGAN (82)
FO FT JIM
MIN MA MA OT A F Pt
Shellman 24 2-8 0-1 0-5 2 3 4
DiGiacinto 21 2-4 0-0 1-5 1 0 4
Brzezinski 31 12-18 4-6 10-18 4 3 28
Murray 33 3-11 1-2 1-4 0 4 9
Johnson 33 6-18 0-1 1-3 2 4 12
Franklin 22 3-11 4-8 2-4 4 3 10
Sikorski 8 0-1 0-0 0-1 03 0
Johns 20 7-9 1-2 7-12 0 4 15
Willard 8 0-0 0-0 2-3 11 0
Totals 200 35-80 10.20 2456 1425 82
FG%:.438. FT%:.500. Three-point goals: 2-17,
.118 (Murray 2-6, Johnson 0-5, Franklin,0-5,
Shellman 0-1). Blocks: 5 (Brzezinski 3, Johns 2).
Turnovers: 19 (Murray 7, Shellman 4, DiGiacinto
2, Johnson 2, Brzezinski, Franklin, Sikorski,
Willard). Steals: 11 (Brzezinski 3, Murray 3,
Franklin 2, Shellman, Sikorski, Johns). Tchnical
Fouls: none.
EASTERN MICHIGAN (67)
PG FT REB
MIN W.A M-A 0OT A F PIS
Parsons 39 6-18 10-13 7-11 0 2 22
Strefling 39 5-12 4-4 3-8 0 3 14
Moorman 39 2-8 4.4 1-8 1 0 8
McCormack 37 4-11 6-7 04 1 3 14
Silvers 22 2-7 2-2 0-1 4 4 7
Waters 16 0-3 24 0-2 1 2 2
Brown 6 0-0 0-1 0-1 02 0
Randle 2 0-0 0.0 0-001 2
Totals 200 19.59 28-35 1540 717 67
FG%:.322. FT%: .800. Three-point goals: 1-7,
.143 (Silvers 1-2, McCormack 0.2, Moorman 0-2,
Parsons 0-1). Blocks: 2 (Strefling, Moorman).
Turnovers: 21 (McCormack 5, Silvers 5,
Moorman 4, Parsons 3, Brown 2, Waters,
Strefling). Steals: 8 (Silvers 3, McCormack 3,
Parsons 2). Technical Fouls: none.
Michigan......4339 -- 82
Eastern Michigan 3235 -67
At: Bowen Field House; A: 325
DOUGLAS KANTER/Daily
Michigan center Jennifer Brzezinski blocks Emily McCormack's shot in the
Wolverines 82-67 victory over Eastern Michigan.
CBS to keep
Final Four
through 2002
NEW YORK (AP)-CBS Sports,
the big loser of 1993, topped off its
comeback year Tuesday with a $1.725
billion NCAA deal that keeps the Fi-
nal Four on CBS through 2002.
Carrying the highest total price
tag of any TV sports rights deal ever
made, it replaces a seven-year, $1
billion deal that still had three sea-
sons to run.
"1994 has been a very busy and
exciting year for CBS Sports," CBS
Sports president David Kenin said.
The NCAA deal comes nearly 12
months after CBS lost the NFC por-
tion of the NFL contract to Fox, cap-
ping a year of infamy in which CBS
also lost the rights to major league
baseball.
"There was a terrific and genuine
sense of loss at this time last year,"
Kenin said, "but it was tempered with
a lot of professional activity.... I think
we felt that anything was possible."
This year alone, CBS has acquired
rights to SEC football and basketball;
Big East football; the Fiesta, Orange
and Cotton bowls; the Army-Navy
game; and the 1998 Nagano Olym-
pics, for which it paid aWinter Games-
record $375 million.
In addition, the network extended
its contratts with Big Ten basketball
and the PGA Championship and PGA
Tour, both for four more years through
1998.
Here is the Associated Press top
25 men's basketballrankings,
with first-place votes in parenthe-
ses:
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4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
North Carolina (54)
UCLA (5)
Arkansas (3)
Kansas (3)
Massachusetts
Florida (1)
Kentucky
Arizona
Duke
Connecticut
Maryland
Minnesota
Cincinnati
Wisconsin
Michigan State
Arizona State
Georgia Tech
Georgetown
Syracuse
Virginia
Ohio U.
New Mexico State
Michigan
Villanova
Wake Forest
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