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Scoreboard NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Philadelphia 127, BOSTON 125
No. 1 KANSAS 89, Texas A&M 60 SACRAMENTO 97, Detroit 92
No. 3 KENTUCKY 58, Vanderbilt 46
No. 14 IOWA ST. 54, Kansas St. 48 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
FLORIDA ST, 84, No. 19 UNC 71 DETROIT 2, Philadelphia 2
No. 23 TEXAS 76, Oklahoma 66 HARTFORD 2, Florida 1
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Thursday
January 23, 1997
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Flu-stricken tankers
face Purdue, Indiana
By John Friedberg
Daily Sports Writer
There is something in the water at Canham
Natatorium. They don't think anybody peed in the
pool, but a significant part of the Michigan men's
swimming and diving team has been sick - with
the flu.
That is not the best news as the Wolverines head
to Purdue and Indiana tomorrow and Saturday.
Many of Michigan's top swimmers, including
sophomore star Tom Malchow, will spend their
weekends in Ann Arbor recovering from the flu.
Sophomores Andy Potts, John Reich and Joe
Palmer and senior Toby Booker are also recuperat-
ing and will miss the two meets.
"We had two houses out with the flu this week,
Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek said. "Most of
them are back, but we will still be taking a skele-
ton crew on the road this weekend."
The news is much more serious for Palmer. The
reigning Big Ten 1,650-yard freestyle champion is
suffering from pericarditis. The ailments have led
to a swelling of the pericardium, which is the
membranous sac that encloses the heart. Palmer
will have to miss the remainder of the season.
"Its a tough break for Joe," Urbanchek said.
"He was so strong for us last year. We will defi-
nitely miss him."
Junior Derya Buyukuncu is also suffering from
the flu, but he is expected to swim both days. He
is one of the Wolverines' only available sprinters.
"(Buyukuncu) might have to go dead or alive
this weekend," Urbanchek said. "He is the best
short-distance swimmer we've got."
Malchow and Buyukuncu and senior capta
John Piersma both had stellar performances in tW-
Dallas Morning News Classic. While Malchow is
unable to build on his momentum, Piersma'and
Buyukuncu should continue to keep the
Wolverines afloat.
The Boilermakers should not give the Wolverines
much of a problem, despite the recent illness set-
backs. The Boilermakers return two swimmers who
were named All-Big Ten last year, senior Matthew
Brown and sophomore Vilmos Kovacs.
Brown won the 400 individual medley andf
ished second to Michigan's Jason Lancaster intt
200 IM. He and Lancaster would have a very
competitive race, but Lancaster has been out -all
year with a shoulder injury.
Kovacs was named conference freshman of the
year at the championships. He won the 200 brea'5t-
stroke and was second in the 100 breast.
"Purdue has a couple of real tough swimmers,
but Indiana should be,a tougher meet," Michigan
senior Tom Almeida said. "Indiana may be-our
toughest conference road meet this year."
The Indiana meet is expected to be the chig
lenge of the weekend. Despite the Hoosiers'
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Olympic silver medalist Tom Malchow won't travel with the men's swimming team to Purdue and Indiana this weekend due to a case of the flu. The
Wolverines will be shorthanded as they travel to Indiana, the sight of coach Jon Urbanchek's only Big Ten losses.
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Legg up for an ESPY
By Mark Snyder
Daily Sports Writer
His teammates call him "Legger"
but it was what he did with his hands
that has earned him worldwide recog-
nition.
Michigan center Mike Legg's
lacrosse-style goal in last season's
NCAA regional
final has earned
]Jim a spot in the
coveted ESPY
award balloting.
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also vote by phone at (900) 976-3779
for the award. Each call costs $. 95 with
a portion of the proceeds benefitting
the Jimmy V Foundation.
Repercussions from the goal have
continued almost over the entire year
since Legg scored from behind the net.
He traveled to Sweden in August to
receive the Goal of the Year award from
a Swedish hockey magazine. And a
Canadian television station, The Sports
Network, proclaimed the shot as its
Play of the Year.
The stick used to
score the historic
goal resides in the
Hockey Hall of
Fame in Toronto
where it is part of a
"Hockey in 1996"
ter Mike Legg is display.
utrageous Play of As for Legg, all
d for his lacrosse- the attention sur-
ason's NCAA rounding the goal
;t Minnesota. has put the normal-
at 6:30 p.m. and ly reserved college
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weird how they
took it in the newspaper as one of the
greatest goals ever."
Legg's goal, in addition to its unique-
ness, was vital to Michigan's national
championship run.
The score tied the game with
Minnesota at two and soon after, the
Wolverines advanced to the NCAA
national semifinals in Cincinnati
where they captured their eighth
national title.
'M' tries to put
brawl in past.
By Chad Kujala
Daily Sports Writer
Royal Rumble II?
The Michigan men's track team will travel to the Michigan
Intercollegiate meet tomorrow in Ypsilanti less than one
week after the brawl between the Wolverines and Eastern
Michigan at the Track and Tennis Building last Saturday.'''
The brawl occurred after the 4x400 relay race in which'the
Eagles were ultimately disqualified.
This week, there may be a question as to whether or n6Y
incident of this magnitude will happen for the second strai t
time. According to senior Damon Devasher, the Wolverines
will not participate in a second brawl.
"We're not going to take it personally," Devasher sard.
"We're not even worried about it. They're.going to be mad at
us, they may want to fight us, but who cares? We'll show
more class than them."
Michigan coach Jack Harvey, who spoke with the team
immediately after last week's meet, told his team not tOi"gt
involved in any scuffles during or after races. ."
"We have officials that will disqualify people if they'i*
illegally, and it's not up to us to be the enforcer," Harvey sAid.
The Michigan intercollegiate meet will also showiase
Western Michigan, Central Michigan and Michigan Stafe
This meet should provide some healthy competition. for the
Wolverines. They are traveling for the first time this season.
Even though the journey is not far, the bigger field and-the
teams that the Wolverines haven't faced this year might be
intimidating.
"I think that it will be a good, competitive meet," Hail'ey
said. "We haven't seen Central or Western. I'm not sure what
they've got, but with Michigan State, Eastern and u :
should be a good meet."
For the Wolverines to be successful, they will need some
repeat performances from last week's winners.
Sophomore John Mortimer has improved in the past two
weeks and picked up two victories last weekend. Mortiner
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Jeff Beuche (left), Scott MacDonald and the Michigan track team will try to beat Eastern Michigan with
speed rather than fists tomorrow at the Michigan intercollegiate.
1 Women's track hopes to keep momentum
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By Chris Farah
Daily Sports Writer
This is a test.
No, this is not the Emergency
Broadcast System interrupting another
peaceful afternoon with an annoying
buzzing sound and hollow warnings of
impending Armageddon
Instead, this is a test for the
Michigan women's track team at
Saturday's Michigan Intercollegiate
meet, its first multi-team invitational
of the indoor season. What's more,
it's also the Wolverines' first compe-
tition away from home, in the not-so-
friendly atmosphere of East Lansing.
This is a test to see if the
Wolverines can capitalize on their
impressive opening-meet success -
a victory which Michigan coach
James Henry called the Wolverines'
most dominant season-opener in four
years - or whether they will become
complacent and over-confident in the
wake of such a powerful start.
This is also a test to see whether or
not the Wolverines have the talent to
wrestle away statewide bragging
rights from a field that will include
Michigan State, Eastern Michigan
and other colleges from across
Michigan. Sound intimidating?
Henry isn't worried.
"The easy part (of keeping the
team focused) is that we'll be away
from home," Henry said. "And so
just being in a different environment
will make it much easier to motivate
the athletes. Going down to
Michigan State, which is our school
rival, will make it easy for us to get
unified.
"It's going to be more impott Mt
that we're close and we're suppor4tirig
each other, because we won't have
the home base and the home famly."
Henry said he is impressed by the
immediate impact freshmen, like
mid-distance runner Lisa Ouelle- and
sprinters Maria Brown and Kenje
Bocage, have had on the team. The
Wolverines rely on a few freshmen-:
contribute to the team effort. He ,
doesn't feel this will be a probleni-at
the Intercollegiate, which will be the
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