ule £idigrn&dIlg *1 WALKER VANDYKE/Daily Michigan senior John Arnold beams while holding the CCHA tournament championship trophy Saturday night. W1icers land No. 2 seed Wolverines head to East Lansing Sunday By Danielle Rumors Daily Sports Writer Teams that have just won a champi- onship rarely look this serious. Although the Michigan hockey team won the CCHA tournament Saturday, it TEXAS 80, MICHIGAN 76 Second round scores 9CM bracket See Page 2B for the entire NCAA tournament bracket. has its sights set on a bigger goal -the NCAA Di- vision I Hockey tournament. Last night, teams all over the country awaited the announce- ment of the brack- ets for the 12- team field. There were only four Massachusetts 79, Stanford 74 Arkansas 65, Marquette 56 Georgetown 73, New Mexico 62 Texas Tech 92, North Carolina 73 wcic viiy iu *lable at-large berths, so quite a few teams held their breath waiting to see if their program would get a seed in the East or West bracket. The eight automatic bids were ex- tended to teams who finished the regu- lar season first in their conference or won their conference tournament. Michigan (30-7-2 overall) secured itself a spot in the field after capturing its second CCHA tournament crown in past three years with a 4-3 victory rLake Superior State Saturday night. Inside Schembechler Hall, the Wolver- ines received the No. 2 seed in the West behind the top-seeded and top-ranked team in the country, Colorado College (31-4-4). "Last year, we were considered one of the favorites, but this year we are like anyone else," Michigan coach Red Berenson said. "The hockey we have Awed as of late is preparing us for the NCAAs. Our team is as ready as we'll be. I think we can play with anyone." Michigan received a bye in the first See SEEDING, Page 4B Icers take £CHA title over Lake State By Nicholas J. Cotsonika Daily Sports Editor *DETROIT - Grahame crackers have never been so sweet for Michi- gan. And perhaps no goal has been greater for the Wolverines this sea- son than the one scored Saturday night by Bobby Hayes - the greatest Grahame cracker of all. Hayes' fluttering wrist shot at 13:24 of the third period eluded Lake Superior goaltender John Grahame, ing Michigan the 4-3 lead it would e to the CCHA playoff champion- ship in front of 13,710 at Joe Louis Arena. The Wolverines advanced to the final by mauling Michigan State, 6- 2, in Friday's semifinals. Hayes, normally a fourth-line checking center, stepped up to fill the void on the first line left by the loss of senior Kevin Hilton, who had ,*leave the game at 8:22 of the first period with a deep bruise in his right thigh. "It's great any time you get a game- winner, but getting it in a big game like this one makes it look bigger," Hayes said. Georgia 76, Purdue 69 Syracuse 69, Drexel 58 Arizona 87, Iowa 73 Kansas 76, Santa Clara 51 Mississippi State 63, Princeton 41 Connecticut 95, Eastern Michigan 81 Cincinnati 78, Temple 65 Georgia Tech 103, Boston College 89 Kentucky 84, Virginia Tech 60 Utah 73, Iowa State 67 Wake Forest 65, Texas 62 Louisville 68, Villanova 64 MARK FRIEDMAN/Daiy Michigan's Travis Conlan looks for help in the lane during the Wolverines' 80-76 loss to Texas in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday. Lon ghns outg Mh By Brent McIntosh Daily Sports Editor MILWAUKEE - It started with a bang. It ended with a whimper. It started with four Michigan dunks. It ended with the Wolverines dazedly searching for shelter somewhere in the glaring lights of the Brad- ley Center. They could only watch as Texas Brandy Perryman knocked down two free throws to ice the Long- horns' 80-76 win-send- ing the Wolverines home in the first round of the Baston NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year. Between the opening bang and the closing whimper, the Wolverines (20-12) played hard, if not smart, against a much quicker Texas squad (21-9). That was probably most true of Maceo Baston. The sophomore center was magnificent: 23 points on 9-of-12 shooting and 15 rebounds despite picking up his fourth foul with 12:49 left on the clock. "He had an outstanding game," senior cap- tain Dugan Fife said. "He got in a little foul trouble early, but when he was in there, he dominated. "He was a man among boys out there. He got his hands on every rebound. He has noth- ing to be ashamed of." You couldn't tell that from looking at Baston after the game. After calling an unavailable timeout with 3.2 seconds left and the Wolverines down two - drawing a technical foul and pain- fully evoking memories of Chris Webber in the NCAA final three years back- Baston could do nothing but forlornly hold his head in his hands. "We called timeout the past two times down," he said. "I thought I heard someone calling for it. Ijust called it- it was my fault." Regardless, the Wolverines probably wouldn't have won. That much was assured late in the first half and early in the second, when the quicker Texas guards victimized Michigan sophomore Travis Conlan. "I had quite a few costly turnovers that hurt the team," Conlan said. "I'm the point guard and I have the ball - I feel bad because I let the team down." Conlan had five turnovers, including a cru- cial one with the Wolverines down 62-60. Texas' Reggie Freeman swiped the ball from Conlan and collided with him on the ensuing. layup. The referee judged the crash to be a blocking foul on Conlan, the shot dropped, and Freeman's free throw put the Longhorns up five. That play was a microcosm of the game for Conlan. He played with passion, but the choices he made were often poor. "Travis is a fierce competitor, and he fought hard," Fisher said. "But he'll probably tell See LONGHORNS, Page 5B Fife to play football for By Brent McIntosh Daily Sports Editor MILWAUKEE-Dreisbach's back to pass-ev covered - he's scrambling - he's got an open m fires deep to the corner of the endzone -touchdov Fife. Touchdown ... Dugan Fife? "He has the athletic ability," said Michigan foot Lloyd Carr in a spring football press conference W "He was an outstanding high school football player the ability to play at this level." Rumors continue to fly that Fife, senior capt Michigan basketball team, will join the football tea season. Fife could conceivably play a year of foot attending graduate school at the University, as N( allow a player who has competed four years in c single extra year of eligibility for another sport. Carr would not confirm that the senior will or w the football team, and Fife was unavailable for cor 7:7 - 1