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PRO
BASKETBALL
Portland 88,
CHARLOTTE 87
INDIANA 104,
Dallas 80
MIAMI 102,
Sacramento 88
NEW JERSEY 123,
Philadephia 105
WASHINGTON 105,
Boston 92
NEW YORK 105,
Detroit 94
Minnesota 102,
Denver 100
Phoenix,
SEATTLE, inc.
Milwaukee,
L.A. Lakers, inc.
PRO
HOCKEY
N.Y. Islanders 3.
BUFFALO 2
DETROIT 6,
Colorado 5
MONTREAL 8,
Pittsburgh 2
CHICAGO 5,
Washington 3
VANCOUVER 4,
Anaheim 2
SAN JOSE
Toronto, inc.
PRO
BASEBALL
DETROIT 16,
Cleveland 2
Chicago Cubs 6.
SAN FRANCISCO 2
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March 27, M97
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1 p.m., ESPN2
7:30 p.m., ESPN2
It wasn't a cake walk last season, but Michigan waltzed out of Cincinnati with the 1996
national championship. This year, do the Wolverines have what it takes to be ...
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BU looks familiar
By:Andy Knudsen
Dafy Sports Writer
MILWAUKEE -They were different
teams, and it was a different year.
But Michigan's 4-0 upset of Boston
University last season will be very rele-
vant when the two teams meet in the
NCAA semifinals again tonight. The
puck drops at 7:30, and the game will be
televised on ESPN2.
'It's on our mind that we got beat 4-0'
Boston goalie Michel Larocque said.
"Obviously we want to prove that we're a
better team than that.'
And the Terriers wouldn't mind a little
revenge.
"We definitely owe them at least a
good game," Boston center Chris Drury
said.
Last year, Boston was favored to
repeat as national champion until
Michigan knocked the Terriers from their
throne. Now, the roles are reversed, as
Michigan tries to become the first team
to repeat as champion since Boston won
back-to-back titles in 1971 and '72.
The Terriers have played up their role
as underdogs all week.
"We'll have our hands full playing
Michigan," Boston coach Jack Parker
said. "They are the team to beat.
Watching Michigan play Minnesota was
like a firestorm flashback for our team."
Larocque said: "We need to keep it
really: close and hopefully it will be a
squeaker on our side.'
And Drury said all the pressure is on
Michigan.
But the Wolverines don't buy it.
"They might say they're the under-
dogs, but I think there's a lot of confi-
dence over in that lockerroom,"
Michigan defenseman Harold Schock
said. "They're going to be as good as any
team we've faced all year. I really don't
buy that underdog thing."
Brendan Morrison said that while
Parker's complimentary remarks are
nice, the Wolverines aren't going to fall
into the trap.
Parker is "the Lou Holtz of hockey,
trying to tell us how good we are,"
Morrison said.
This Boston team will look different
than the high-octane offensive team the
Wolverines blanked last year.
The Terriers have a 60-point scorer in
Hobey Baker finalist Drury (37 goals, 23
assists), but have switched to a philoso-
phy of defense this season.
See REMATCH, Page 13A
Michigan netmin-
der Marty Turco
was phenomenal
In last year's.
semifinal win'
over the TerrleP.
Turco stopped. .
Boston
University's tbp,
ranked offenseg
the way to a
shutout. Bubba
Berenzweig and
the rest of the
Wolverines'
defense was s
equally spectac*
lar, limiting the a:
offensive wizard,
to just 17 shots
on goal.
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Wolverines must guard against distraciions
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By Jim Rose
Daily Sports Writer
MILWAUKEE - The Wolverines
have arrived.
So have the Terriers. The Tigers and
the Fighting Sioux are here, too.
College hockey has invaded
Milwaukee. Michigan, Boston
University, Colorado College and North
Dakota have all sent representatives, and
the City of Cheese and Beer is welcom-
ing them with open arms.
Banners announcing the arrival of the
NCAA are draped above the city streets.
Bars and restaurants are bracing for an
infusion of road-tripping college stu-
dents. Everywhere you look downtown,
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some sign screams, "College Hockey at
the Bradley Center!"
But the
Michigan players
say they don't
care.
And they bet-
ter not.
It would be
easy, it seems, to
get swept away in
the atmosphere
surrounding this
weekend's festiv-
ities. These are college students -
they're not used to this kind of hype, not
like their professional cotnterparts are.
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It would be easy to put hockey on the
back-burnetfor a while, see the sights, hit
the streets, bask in the lights of the televi-
sion cameras.
It would be easy - but it would also
be costly. Michigan is The Team To Beat.
Everyone is gunning for the Wolverines.
Boston coach Jack Parker has already
said that it's "Michigan against the rest of
the field."
That's the attitude the other teams are
taking into this tournament: 'us against
The Mighty Wolverines.'
That wil be difficult enough to deal
with. It would be tough enough even if
there weren't any hype.
But there's plenty of hype.
So mush hype, in fact -- so much
media, so many interview requests, so
many tdlevision cameras - that
Michigan coach Red Berenson has taken
it upon himself to disobey the NCAA's
orders and refuse to open the Michigan
lockerroom to the media.
But Berenson is not a college student.
He has no trouble distancing himself
from the media frenzy and keeping his
focus on:the ice.
But can his players do the same?
They'd be able to. Because getting
swept up in the excitement will take the
focus away from where it needs to be -
on the ice. s
"The ardes patbot'hi whl
tournament is the tiOme between game
Michigan defensenian Harold Sch
said. "It sounds funry, but it really is true
- the hockey is they easy part."
After practice ended at 3:30 yesterday,
the Wolverines met the media and mid
they were ready to -play. They said:Sg
were excited about facing Boston'.Ai
playing for a spot in Saturday's final; -
Greg Crozier was, sitting by himseltiri
a chair, waiting for *Aarty Turco to fiist
a radio interview. CAzierwasstaring inti
space, biting his fingernails and tappo
his foot on the floor
"I'm ready to play, right now"he said.
"I just want to get it over with."
There were still 28 hours until faceoff.
What to do until then?
"I dunno" Crozir said."Not sleep."
One thing is for ;sure. There are plenty
of distractions around. Plenty of things to
do. Few of them hare anything to do with
hockey. None of them fall under t
:"preparation" category.
And the worst fiing Michigan could
do would be to get caught up in the car-
nival of attention Oat has pervaded the
Bradley Center and surrounding area.
The Wolverines say they know it.
"I don't think wt' came to Milwaukee
to do some sightsozing," Jason Botterill
said with a smile. "We came to win a
Scouple of hockey glmes.'
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