aig What is the greatest number of wins in one season for the Michigan women's basketball team? (Answer, page 2) M AP Men's Basketball Top 25 Bowl Griddes! Athlete of the Week Wrestling Q&A Bach's Score Football Men's Basketball Hockey Women's Basketball Gymnastics 2 2 2 2 3 3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10 10 Blue deviled by Duke once again,69-59 Michigan drops sixth in a row to Blue Devils By ANTOINE PITTS Mike Krzyzewski said. "We didn't realize hard. If we continue to do that we're going to Daily Basketball Writer the competitiveness and the talent level of win a lot of games." i DURHAM, N.C. - In a game of tre- Michigan." Following Baston's dunk, Maurice Tay- mendous runs, one team came up with one A Maceo Baston dunk put Michigan up, for picked up two quick fouls which sent him final run and the last laugh. 51-46, with 12:41 to play. However, that to the bench with four personals, leaving the Ninth-ranked Duke (5-1) used a deci- score would be Michigan's only bucket Wolverines without one of their better post sive second-half stretch to turn a five-point over the next eight minutes. The Blue Dev- defenders. deficit into a 10-point lead en route to a 69- ils ran off 15 straight points while the Wol- Duke's Erik Meek took advantage of the 59 victory over No. 23 Michigan (4-3) at verines looked for someone to go to. situation, working inside to score six during Cameron Indoor Stadium. The loss marks "In the second half, we couldn't get a the stretch Taylor was forced to sit. Meek the sixth straight time that the Blue Devils ball to go down," Michigan coach Steve also aided the Blue Devils on the defensive have defeated the Wolverines. Fisher said. "That wears on you after a end, forcing the Wolverines to shoot from the "It was a heck of a win for us against a while. We're disappointed, frustrated but perimeter where they struggled. very good basketball team," Duke coach we'll take heart in the fact that we fought "Erik's been playing outstanding basket- ball," Krzyzewski said. "I think he's in as good a shape as anyone on our team, and he's playing great defense." Duke's outside game came alive during the run which put Michigan away for good. Cherokee Parks hit from outside, as did Ricky Price. Chris Collins drove the lane and flipped up a left-handed scoop shot to further excite the Cameron crowd. The Blue Devils kept working the ball u iinside and began a parade to the free throw line. Meanwhile, the Wolverines tossed up long shots on the other end, choosing not to force the ball into the paint. Krzyzewski's game plan translated into a 29-8 free throw advantage for Duke, which finished the game by outscoring the Wolverines, 23-8, over the J h last 12 minutes. .s "They're a great ball team," Parks said of the Wolverines. "It's no problem getting up . 4 to play them. Everyone comes fired up and .it's always been like that." 3 Equally as dazzling as the Blue Devils' second half run was the stretch Michigan put x lforth in the last portion of the first half. The Wolverines trailed, 28-11, with 9:36 left in the first stanza as Duke looked to blow K the game open early. However, the Wolver- ines had other ideas and began to go to work. Taylor brought down a driving baseline dunk. Willie Mitchell came off the bench to s~ : contribute three straight baskets, including a A 3-pointer, to make it a 28-21 game. Michigan wasn't finished there. The Wolverines continued to go inside to DOUGLAS KANTER/Daily Taylor and get out on the fast break. As There was merriment and mayhem in Durham as the Blue Devils won their sixth straight game over the Wolverines. See BEDEVILED, Page f DOUGLAS KANTER/Daily Duke's Eric Meek dunks over Michigan's Jerod Ward in the first half of Saturday's game. Wins pus By DARREN EVERSON and TOM SEELEY Daily Hockey Writers KALAMAZOO - An early sea- son injury kept Michigan right wing Mike Knuble on the sidelines for four games. Ohio State and Western Michi- gan wish he was still there. Knuble scored five goals for the Wolverines (9-2 CCHA, 12-4 over- all) over the weekend and helped Michigan gain a share of the top spot in the CCHA. Four of Knuble's goals came in Friday night's 7-2 victory + over Ohio State (0-8-2, 2-11-2). Saturday's 4-3 win over Western Michigan (5-5, 10-6-1) places Michi- gan atop the conference standings for1 the first time this season. The Wol- verines are tied for first place with Bowling Green, one point ahead of+ the third-place Spartans.1 icers into first Against Western Michigan, Knuble picked up where he left off against the Buckeyes. Eight minutes into the first period, Knuble took a Kevin Hilton pass and backhanded it past Bronco goalie Brian Renfrew to give Michigan a 1-0 advantage. "Overall, it's just one of those weekends," Knuble said. "I've been getting off to good starts lately and I just tried to keep it going from last night." Knuble's fifth goal of the week- end closed out the senior's explosive weekend, and from there freshman Marty Turco took over. The young goalie had a career- high 33 saves in the victory and was the difference as Western Michigan outshot the Wolverines, 36-21. Previ- ously, Turco's best performance came two weeks ago when he stopped 31 Wisconsin shots at the College Hockey Showcase. The Wolverines won that game, 7-2. "We had an opportunity to get first place, so we were looking for key performances, from not just our se- niors, but from the whole team," Turco said. Michigan took a 4-1 lead at the start of the third period when fresh- man Bill Muckalt fired a shot from the right face off circle that went past Renfrew and found a home just inside the far post. But a Bronco stampede closed a 4- 1 Wolverine lead to a single goal with just under 10 minutes to play. West- ern Michigan's Jeremy Brown netted his second tally of the night when he deflected a Shawn Zimmerman shot from the point past Turco and made See FIRST PLACE, Page 8 JOE WESTRATE/Daily Marty Turco makes one of his 33 saves against Western Michigan in the Wolverines' 4-3 win over the Broncos. Wrestlers drop overtime thriller to Fighting Illini Nurture triumphs over nature Law overcomes troubled past to achieve success By TIM SMITH Daily Sports Writer A coin flip is used for football teams to decide who will receive and who will defend. It may also be used to determine who will be "it" in 'hide and seek'. However, it is not usually the method most desired to decide the out- ome of a game or athletic event. But in the No. 11 Michigan (0-1) wrestling team's 17-16 loss to No. 21 Illinois (1-0) Saturday, the flip essen- tially became the deciding factor after two hours of hard-fought wrestling. Leading 16-14 going into theheavy- weight match. the Wolverines needed the match, 2-1, and give the Illini the victory. "I was confident (in Airron going into the match). I've watched him wrestle all year, and he's done a good job for us," Michigan coach Dale Bahr said. "I don't know what his situation was out there today, he didn't do any- thing. "He just stood around. He's got a lot more offense than that and he can't wait around until ten minutes have gone in the match before he tries to execute a takedown." Richardson, who was wrestling in his first dual meet as a Wolverine, admitted that the imnortance of his By RACHEL BACHMAN Daily Football Writer Ty Law is talking about a simple transaction, a trade of money for product, but it is much more than that. For a star cornerback on the Michigan football team, it could have meant his life. He is talking about selling drugs. "I'm not going to lie," he says. "I did distribute. It was easy to fall into it, because everybody was walking around with $200-300 in their pocket. I had about $5." of our wits." Aliquippa, Pa. used to have bowling alleys on Main Street. It used to have theaters and soda fountains and hair salons - nearly 90 businesses downtown. Today it has 56. Hit hard by the closing of the town's major employer, LTV steel conglomerate, the population dropped from 22,000 to 13,000. Many of the kids who were left turned to either drugs or sports. "A lot of people wouldn't understand because they're not m ". l