Iiru.* iNYOt W+Yt4NNr 3a"zr,.r Making the grade Jennifer Brzezinski, a junior on the Michigan women's basketball team, was selected to the GTE Academic All-District team as a starter who achieved a cumulative grade-point average of 3,20 or above. Brzezinski led the Wolverines in scoring (12.6 ppg), rebounding (9.2 rpg), blocks (1.3 bpg) and steals.(2.1 spg). Page 8 Thursday, March 2, 1995 0, Wolvenines declaw Wildcats ,81 -64 . Jackson, King lead Blue into the Madness March is finally here. It's the month that diehard Michigan basketball fans live for. And for the first time all season, an NCAA tournament bid seems a certainty. Seniors Jimmy King and Ray Jackson have been through the March wars before, and it looks like they are ready to roll again. Last night, the senior co- captains had one of their steadiest combined performances of the season. __...... __Jackson tallied 18 points on 8- of-I2 shooting from the floor. >>King shot 7 of 9 for 16 points. "I thought Ray Jackson PAUL did a really BARGER good job of Barger letting the than Life game come to him," Michigan coach Steve Fisher said. "He was really good tonight." March means a lot more than just another turn of the calendar to King and Jackson. It means that the Fab Five era is almost officially over. One more game at Crisler and, more importantly, one more crack at the NCAA tournament. Barring a major collapse, the senior Wolverines will end their careers somewhere in the field of 64. King and Jackson would not have let it happen any other way. They are playing their best basketball when it really counts, and by doing so they are building confidence in their young teammates. "They mean so much to this team," freshman Maurice Taylor said. "They do more than what everybody sees on the court. They help us off the court. They keep our confidence level high." King and Jackson's experience, as well as that of junior Dugan Fife, will be even more important as the freshmen embark on their first trip to the Big Dance. Everybody remembers what happened when King and Jackson were freshman. Every Michigan fan is hoping that the new crop of freshmen can duplicate that feat. Although a repeat performance seems awfully unlikely, the possibility is still there. King and Jackson have a huge advantage since they are the two most experienced players in the entire tournament. The Wolverines are the only team in the nation to reach the Elite Eight in both of the last two seasons Every Michigan player, coach Michigan shoots 66 percent in first half; Zitzmann debuts in one minute of action By Scott Burton Daily Basketball Writer At the end of the 1994-95 cam- paign, the Michigan basketball team may conclude that last night's 81-64 victory over Northwestern was one of the most memorable games of the year. The reasons for such an conclu- sion will have nothing to do with the result. After all, the Wildcats (5-20 Big Ten, 1-15 overall) didn't offer more than a token challenge, and Michigan (10-5, 16-11) put the game away early in the second half. But thanks to the quick blowout, the game was marked by some of the most unusual garbage-time play Crisler Arena has seen in a long time. Included in the melee was the Wol- verine debut of 5-foot-6 freshman walk-on Mickey Zitzmann. Between colliding with a team- mate and throwing up two badly- missed three-pointers in one minute of play, Zitzmann's performance hardly was the beginning of an ac- complished Division I career. But despite being the victim of good-na- tured ribbing from his teammates for his play, Zitzmann couldn't have been more elated. "It was the zenith of my basketball career," Zitzmann said. "I've been telling the guys all along that they got to get me in against Northwestern, and they took care of it. I've been looking forward to this game all sea- son." Although Zitzmann'splaying time was a source of excitement for the whole team, his presence more im- portantly signified that the Wolver- ines had done their job in the game in efficiently putting the pesky Wildcats away. "We had to come in and play hard, because if we didn't there is no ques- tion they are capable of coming in and beating anybody," freshman Maurice Taylor. "We may have more talent and athleticism, but we still had to play good basketball to come out with a victory." Although the Wildcats stayed within 10 points for most of the first half, Michigan's high-percentage shooting sparked the Wolverines to a 14-6 run to go into the lockerroom with a 47-33 lead. Michigan's starters shot a com- bined 16 for 20 in the stanza, includ- ing Ray Jackson's and Jimmy King's 5 for 5. In all, the Wolverines shot 66 percent from the field in the first 20 minutes of play. Michigan increased the Wildcats' deficit to 18 points after the first five minutes of the second half. Unfortu- nately, the first wave of garbage time infested the game, and the Wolver- ines failed to score for nine straight possessions spanning six minutes. However, the Wildcats could only score six points in that span and never cut the margin closer than 56-46. And after a Maceo Baston dunk at 10:32, the Wolverines ran off eight unan- swered points to put the game away. "Tonight was a confidence builder," Jackson said. "I think we grew and took a step forward as a team." Stimulating that growth was the return of freshman Jerod Ward. The highly-touted forward had been side- lined with a knee injury since Jan. 23. He entered the game late in the first- half to a standing ovation from the Crisler Arena crowd. NORTHWESTERN (64) FG FTRob. Min. M-A M-AQ-T A F Pts. Neloms 27 4-6 8.121.4 1 3 16 Chamberlain 28 3-9 3-44-8 1 4 9 Williams 32 2-5 0-21.5 2 2 4 Carlisle 21 2-10 0-01-3 2 0 4 Branch 24 4.8 .1-20-3 1 2 10 Lee 23 3.7 1-20-0 0 0 8 Duerksen 19 2-4 4-41-2 2 2 8 Kraft 20 1-4 2-21-4 0 2 4 Dean 6 0-1 1-20-0 0 0 1 Totals 200 21-54 20-3011-32 8 15 64 FG%- .389. FT%- .667. Three-point goals: 2-6, .333 (Branch 1-1, Lee 1-2, Carlisle.0-1, Duerksen 0-1, Neloms 0-1). Blocks: 2 (Branch, Kreft) Turnovers: 23 (Lee5, Chamberlain 4, Duerksen 4, Neloms 3, Carlisle 2, Kreft 2, Williams 2). Steals: 2 (Duerksen, Neloms). MICHIGAN (81) FG FT Reb. Min. M-A M-A 0-T' A F Pts. Jackson 27 8-12 0-01-5 3 4 18 Taylor 25 7-11 4-61-3 3 2 18 Ndiaye 27 2-7 0-03-8 2 2 4 King 30 7-9 1-21-1 2 1 16 Fife 23 3-5 2-20-1 1 3 9 Baston 22 5-9 0-14-9 1 3 10 Conlan 13 0-2 0-00-0 1 0 0 Mitchell 15 1-6 2.42-3 0 5 4 Ward 6 1-3 0-00-0 0 0 2 Crawford 7 0-2 0-01-1 0 0 0 Morton 3 0-1 0-00-1 0 0 0 Zitzmann 1 0-2 0-00-2 0 0 0 Lengemann 1 0-1 0-01-1 0 0 0 Totals 200 34-70 9-1516-40 13 20' 81 FG%-.486. FT%- .00 Three-point goals:4-11.364 (King 1-1, Jackson 2-4, File 1-2, Mitchell 0.1, Ward 0- 1, Zitzmann 0-2). Blocks: 5 (Baston 2, Conlan Ndiaye Taylor). Turnovers: 22 (Ndiaye 6, King 5, Jackson 4, Conlan 3, Baston 2. File, Taylor). Steals: 13 (Baston 3, King 3, Ndiaye 3, File, Mitchell, Taylor. Ward). Northwestern........33 31 -64 Michigan.2..........4734-81 Crisfer Arena - A: 13,562 DOUGLAS KANTER/Daily Maurice Taylor and the Wolverines moved one step closer to sealing an NCAA bid with last nights win over Northwestern. Moeller adds Campbell, Hoke to fill vacancies on football staff By Ryan White Daily Sports Editor Michigan football coach Gary Moeller has filled the holes in his coaching staff. Last week, Moeller hired Erik Campbell as the Wolverines' new receivers coach and Brady Hoke to coach the team's outside lineback- ers. Campbell is a former defensive back for Michigan and played on the Wolverines' 1986 Big Ten champi- onship team. He was previously in charge of the running backs at Syra- cuse, and at age 29 he becomes the youngest Michigan assistant. Campbell played in four bowl games for the Wolverines and played briefly for the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League in 1988. Aside from Syracuse, Campbell has also coached at Ball State and the United States Naval Acadamy. Hoke, 37, spent his last six years at Oregon State as a defensive line and inside linebackers coach. Hoke played college football in the Mid-American Conference at Ball State and was a Second Team All-Conference line- In adding Erik and Brady to our staff, Michigan is getting two tremendous coaches." - Gary Moeller Michigan football coach backer in 1980. He began coaching at Grand Val- ley State in 1983 and was the defen- sive line and special teams coach at Western Michigan from 1984-86. "In adding Erik and Brady to our staff, Michigan is getting two tremen- dous people who are outstanding coaches," Moeller said. "Both of our new coaches are also impressive in their ability to communicate with play- ers." Hoke and Campbell replace of- fensive line coach Les Miles who took the offensive coordinator job at Oklahoma State and secondary coach Bill Harris who is now the defensive coordinator at Stanford. There are also some changes among the coaches already on Moeller's staff. Defensive coordinator Lloyd Carr will add the defensive secondary to his responsibilities. Kit Cartwright will drop receivers to concentrate solely on quarterbacks. Bobby Morrison will move to tackles and tight ends, replacing Mike DeBord, who will switch to coaching the Wolverines' interior offensive linemen. Carr will be taking over the defen- sive backs hoping to solidify a defen- sive backfield that was a major prob- lem for the Wolverines last season. He also has the problem of trying to fill the void left by Ty Law who has announced that he will play in the National Football League next sea- son. Amani Toomer will be under the tutelage of new receivers' coach Erik Campbell next season. See BARGER, Page 10 APP 10 0 FOR CIC STAFF! *Responsible for gathering, organizing filing and sharing information. Information focuses primarily on the UM events, facilities, services, departments and student organizations as well as selected community services and events. *Terms of employment are either: 1 gill 'M' netters bounce back after defeat By Alan Goldenbach Daily Sports Writer The Michigan women's tennis' team couldn't have expected to go through the entire regular season un- defeated. However, its first loss may have come a bit premature. The Wolverines (5-1) began their spring break trip with a trip to Lexing- ton, Ky. to face twelfth-ranked Ken- tucky. After pummeling Iowa and Minnesota the week before to the tunes of 8-1 and 7-2, respectively, 1iEIM~ riiu Uil 91 What is the Best MCAT Preparation for YOU? Ignore the claims; Ask your Friends.