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Tracking 'M' U.S. presidents
Former Michigan football captain and U.S. President
Gerald Ford will spend 45 minutes watching practice
and addressing the football team today, a spokesman
for Ford told The Michigan Daily.
Wednesday
November 18, 1998

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Wouldn't it be nice i£fcolle e
football went by the num ers?

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WARREN ZINN/Daily
Mandy Stowe and the rest of the Michigan women's basketball team look for their first win of the season as they welcome
Detroit Mercy into Crisler Arena for tonight's game.
Ti tans come to Crisler for
ore than an in-state nvalry

F ootball and sports in general
are not very conducive to theo-
ries. That is to say that sports is
not a clear-cut science.
You can't conclude that if Team A
plays up to 75 percent of its potential
and Team B plays 89 percent of its
potential, then Team B will win.
It just doesn't work that way. There is
no super equation in which record, rank-
ing, opponents' performance, weather,
coach's age and athletic apparel affilia-
tion can be mixed together in order to
churn out the
result.
That's too bad.
One theory I per-
sonally enjoy sub-
scribing to is the
Transitive
Property of Final
Scores. Rarely has SHARAT
the theory RJ
worked, but it's R J
fun to play. Sharat
Here it is: If in the Dark
Team A beats
Team B by 10 points, and Team C beats
Team A by 30 points, then Team C
should beat Team B by 40 points.
OK, so that sounds complicated, but it
really isn't. Michigan was faced with the
situation earlier this year.
After the Wolverines lost to Notre
Dame in the season opener by 16 and
Michigan State whipped the Fighting
Irish by 22, the Spartans were poised for
a 38-point thrashing of the Wolverines.
Of course, Michigan State had to
prove the theory wrong by blowing the
game and losing by 12. Leave it to a
Spartan to not understand simple mathe-
matics.
But this weekend, two teams have a
chance to prove the theory correct -
Wisconsin and Penn State. Each team
has lost to the Wolverines and both play
each other on Saturday.
Hmmm, let's see. The Nittany Lions
lost by 27 to Michigan and the Badgers
lost by 17. That means Wisconsin
should win by 10-- no question about
it.
"Michigan didn't only play a great
game against us, they also played a great
game against Wisconsin," Penn State
coach Joe Paterno said.
Sure, that might be his theory -
playing well wins games. But it has to
be the numbers, right? It's all in the
numbers.

WARREN ZINN/Daly,
Anthony Thomas and the Michigan football team know that pregame numbers
mean nothing in this weekend's battle against Ohio State.

By Stephanie Offen
Daily Sports Writer
Detroit Mercy has a lot more in
common with the Michigan women's
basketball team than simply hailing
from the same state.
Nikita Lowry, the Titans' head
coach, was an assistant for Michigan
0 il 1993, and she's not the only one
hold positions at both schools.
Michigan assistant coaches Yvette
Harris and Yulanda Wimbash both
*hold ties to the competition.
Harris graduated from Detroit
Mercy before coming to the
Wolverines' staff, and Wimbash held
an assistant coaching job for the
Titans. Former Michigan four-year
letterwinner Leah Wooldridge
bitched places with Wimbash, and
now works for the Titans.
But the familiarity between the
two schools has not changed prepara-
tion for tomorrow's 7:30 p.m. game.
"I don't even think anyone's men-
tioned it," Michigan coach Sue
Guevara said.
And after Michigan's 57-45 loss to
Vanderbilt on Friday, the Wolverines
have many other things on their minds.
Once again, Michigan will be
thout key players in Ann Lemire
and Kenisha Walker. Lemire will sit
out the last game of her three-game
suspension, and Walker is out with a
leg injury.
Lemire definitely will be back for
Saturday's game against Colorado, but
Walker is still questionable. Both will
be sorely missed this evening.
"We will miss Ann's leadership
d 3-point shooting" Guevara said.
nd Kenisha brings aggressive
defensive play to the team. She also
has great hands and great rebounding
ability. We will be a much stronger
'M' cross
Country
wa verng
By Ryan C. Moloney
Daily Sports Writer

basketball team when they are both
back."
In the team's first meeting since
the 1993-94 season, the Titans come
to Crisler Arena with two exhibition
wins under their belts. They beat
Windsor in their opening game of the
season and also defeated the Michigan
Free Agents, which included former
Michigan star Pollyanna Johns.
Unlike the Wolverines' starting
lineup, which will include three fresh-
men, the Titans have plenty of experi-
ence. Detroit has seven returning play-
ers from last year's team.
Leading the attack is Stephanie
Gray, who was picked to the preseason
all-Midwestern Collegiate Conference
first team. Gray also has two returning
forwards, Erica Lewis and Kelley
Brown, to help her in the frontcourt,
as the Titans try to post their second
straight.victory over the Wolverines.
With the seven returners, Detroit
has six freshmen to help improve last
season's 12-16 record. The Titans
were ranked fifth in the preseason, but
a win over the Wolverines could turn
some heads in their conference.
But Michigan has other things in
mind. Tomorrow will mark the first
home game for the Wolverines this
season. Not only does the team not
want to start off 0-2, but it wants to
start the home season on the right
foot.
"Everything will really start with
playing well at home,' Guevara said.
"We need to protect our own turf. We
need this home opener to show the
fans that we are worth coming back
for."
The Wolverines had a convincing
home victory over the Swiss National
Team earlier in the season, but even
after that win Guevara said she

expected improved play throughout
the season. And she repeated this
when referring to tomorrow's game.
After the game against the Swiss,
Guevara seemed worried about the
team's defense, which improved last
Friday when the Wolverines held
Vanderbilt to just 57 points at home.
Anne Thorius and Stacey Thomas,
two experienced members of the start-
ing lineup, will also contribute to the
backcourt's success.
Thomas pulled down a game-high
10 rebounds against the Commodores,
and the Wolverines want her to domi-
nate the boards once again.
With a home crowd behind them
and the fear of starting out the season
0-2, the crowd should see 100 percent
from these Wolverines.
VS.
There are Strong ties between
the Michigan and Detroit
Mercy women's basketball
programs. Some of the links:
Nikita Lowry -former 'M'
assistant, now Titan coach
Yvette Harris - graduated
from Detroit, now an 'M'
assistant coach
Yulonda Wimbash - former
Detroit assistant, now "M'
assistant coach
Leah Wooldridge -'M'
player turned Titan assis-
tant coach

The numbers game has plagued the
other Michigan whipping boy this year,
Wisconsin. With low Bowl
Championship Series rankings due to a
cheesecake schedule, the weak noncon-
ference slate is becoming an even more
sensitive issue in Madison.
"I think there's been too much said
about that," Wisconsin coach Barry
Alvarez said. "I think it may be exagger-
ated as to how important it is. I don't
think our nonconference schedule has
anything to do with how we're playing
or how we played last week"
He's right. It must have everything to
do with the numbers. The Badgers beat
Indiana by four points and Michigan
stuffed the Hoosiers by 12.
Therefore, the Wolverines were on
track to edge out the Badgers by eight.
The overachieving Wolverines, of
course, had to win by more than twice
that, again proving the theory not entire-
ly accurate.
So, this weekend the Badgers will
beat Penn State by 10 to close out the
season and gain some respect, perhaps

even a Rose Bowl berth.
And remember the reason: the num-
bers.
- Sharat Raju can be reached via.
e-mail at sraju@umich.edur
BCS Rankings
Week Four
1. Tennessee 3.77
2. UCLA 5.81
3. Kansas State 6.55
4. Florida State 10.03
5. Florida 11.56
6. Texas A&M 12.77
7. Ohio State 17.49
8. Arizona 18.62
9. Arkansas 23.36
10. Notre Dame 24.44
11. Oregon 28.14
12. Michigan 29.25
13. Wisconsin 31.09
14. Nebraska 33.23
15. Georgia 34.19



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"You're only as good as your last
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*ut in the case of the Michigan
women's cross country team, the
cliche goes a long way toward
explaining the importance the
Wolverines have placed on the
NCAA Championships next Monday
in Lawrence, Kan.
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