88 - The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - November 20, 2000
MICHIGAN (90)
MIN MA MA O A F PTS
J~neso 21 1-3 1-2 1-4 1 4 3
4t0redson 200 100
roninger 15 20 003 5
Asselin 19 14 -2 3 1 4 4
S24 7-8 1-1 2-3 1 4 15
Queen 28 3-11 0-3 2-5 6 1 7
aright 13 7-7 0-1 4-6 2 2 14
Gibon 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Robinson Jr 34 6-14 6-7 3-6 0 4 19
Blanchard 34 618 5-5 6-13 5 4 19
Moore 7 23 0-0 0-0 0 5 4
Totals 200 35-73 15-2123-46 17 31 90
IG%, 479 FT%: .714 3-point FG: 5-17 .294 (Blanchard
2-4 Groninger 1-2, obinson2Jr. 1-3, vueen 1 '7 Jones
01S, locks: 2 (Asselin, dnes). Steals: 4 (Queen e,
Rotbnson,Jr..Searight).Turnovers: 16 (Robinson, Ir. 4,
Yng 4 Moore 2 Seanght 2, Asselin, Blanchard,
Gront.haJones).rechnical fouls:none.
OARLAND (97)
Mi MA M-A O-T A F PTS
Covn ton 33 1-2 2-2 0- 3 8 4 5
K it tams 36 4-9 7-8 2.7 1 1 18
Rozcki 36 7-14 12-13 -5 8 3 32
D ampa ne30 4-7 2-6 2-4 0 4 10
Budder'bor ~ 23 8-9 2-3 0-2 4 3 22
F~over 0+ 0-8 0-8Q8:880 88 0
Frakik 1 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 3
R Wiliamns 3 0-0 1-1 0-0 0 0 1
Hlms 11 1-6 2-2 1-1 0 2 4
Ml~er 0+ 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0, 0
Sabourin 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
J Champagne 13 0-0 2-2 00 0 5 2
Iqtals 200 26-49 0-37 5-,4 13 26 97
0'o- 531 FT%; 811 3-poin t3G 15-29,.517 (Rozycki
6.3 ud~ 4-4, K. Williams 3-7 Covingqton 1-1,
Faikt-2, . hampacrne 0-1, Helms 0-1) BIocks: 2
(K Ch mmsn 2 n eals4 uddenbor% 0D mpagne.
(. Wilams ) ne als- i) turnovers: (Fkzyki 5,
Budden r , J. Champ gne 2, Covngton 2,
D. Champa~ne, Helms). ehnical fouls: none.
Michigan ---....-...-34 56 - 90
Oakland--------..........44 53 - 97
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field. Blanchard saw 34 minutes of
action and tallied 13 rebounds after
having missed 10 days of practice
with an ankle injury.
Young was Michigan's highest
scoring post player with 15 points.
But much of his success came late in
the second half as Oakland tried to
hold on to a double-digit-lead.
In the waning moments of, the
loss, the dejected faces of
Michigan's freshmen illustrated an
unpleasant college basketball initia-
tion.
"The one seal issue that our young
guys have to understand, and I don't
think they do, is that when we walk
in the door, we are everyone's
biggest game," Ellerbe said.
With a daunting stretch of games
against highly ranked ACC teams
looming just over a week away,
Michigan appears in dire need of
resurgent performances against
Western Michigan tomorrow and
Wagner Sunday.
Tighter officiating
catches M' off guard
By Michael Kern
Daily Sports Writer
ROCHESTER - When, the NCAA
Men's Basketball Rules Committee
passed down a mandate to the referees
before this season to eliminate rough
play, few were sure exactly what effect it
would have on the game.
Ohio State coach Jim O'Brien said
that every team would have to play a
zone defense if the referees actually
called it that tightly. Purdue coach Gene
Keady thought it would bring the finesse
game back to college basketball.
Despite bringing officials to practice
to help his young players prepare for the
new style of officiating, Michigan coach
Brian Ellerbe took an "I'll believe it
when I see it" attitude at media day.
But after Friday night's 97-90 loss to
Oakland, in which the Wolverines were
called for 31 fouls, Ellerbe may be
singing a different tune.
"Guys have to mike an adjustment,"
he said. "That's why we had officials
come into practice a lot. Kids have got to
adjust. They adjust to other things and
they'll adjust to this."
Neither team appeared to be prepared
at the start for how tightly the officials
would call the game. Both were in the
bonus with 11 minutes still to play in the
first half.
Oakland guard Brad Buddenborg
scored 16 of his 22 points in the second
half after sitting out the last 17 minutes
of the first half because he picked up
three fouls less than three minutes.
Chris Young, who started at center for
the Wolverines, drew his fourth foul with
nine minutes still to play in the first half.
But while Oakland seemed to adjust at
the half, Michigan continued to be whis-
tIed for illegal screens and ticky-tack
fouls in the post, putting the Grizzlies in
the bonus with 14 minutes still to play in
the game.
Six different Michigan players fin-
ished the game with at least four fouls,
including freshman Josh Moore, who
fouled out with 18:53 still left in the
game.
"We didn't set a screen in the second
half," Oakland coach Greg Kampe said.
"We didn't want any physical contact
because we fet the only way we could
lose was if the referees took the ball
away from us. We didn't want to set ille-
gal screens, and we didn't want to foul.
JL FF "H"VITZDaily
Michigan coach Brian Ellerbe said his team failed to 'make an adjustment' to the
new tighter officiating the NCAA forewarned heading into the 2000-01 campaign.
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"And we didn't get our fifth or sixth
foul until late in the half because of it."
While Michigan regularly rotated
Young, Moore and senior Josh Asselin
- who all stand at 6-foot- IlI or taller -
the Grizzlies had just one player taller
than 6-foot-7 on the floor for just two
minutes. But Oakland made the
Wolverines' size advantage a disadvan-
tage by attacking the post and picking up
easy fouls.
"ihe first five minutes of the second
half, our plan was to throw it to Dan
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and 3-pointers consistently in the sec-
ond half. An offense that shot 55 per-
cent in the first 20 minutes came back
in the second half to hit only 27 percent
and a mere eight field goals.
"It's one thing not to hit shots, but it's
another to let opposing teams hit
shots" gardI ifii iRobinson said.
None of Michigan's defensive
adjustments proved to be eflective.
This was disappointing, since the
Wolverines' ability to adjust was key to
its win against the Lady Techsters.
"The little things that we did so well
Friday night - boxing out, rebounding
the ball and playing transition defense
did not show up today," Thorius said.
(Champagne) on the blocks," Kampe
said. "We went foul, foul, foul, and the
game was really int our favor from then
o."
Tomorrow, Michigan hosts another
undersized perimeter team in Western
Michigan. To come out with a win, the
Wolverines will need a big post pres-
ence, which means Moore, Young and
Asselin must stay out of foul trouble.
"They've got to adjust," associate
head coach Scott Trost said. "Our kids
didn't adjust, and they've got to learn'
In Friday's victory, the Wolverines
struggled, but a balanced offensive
attack made up for all their problems.
"Normally we hit the open jumpers
and the open three s," Thorius said after
the Louisiana Tech game. "We weren't
hitting them today but we still got the
rebounds.
Michigan was also helped out by an
official's call. With 15 seconds left and
the game knotted at 56, Michigan's
Raina Goodlow was fouled. Louisiana
Tech coach Leon Barmore argued the
call.and was assessed a technical foul.
"I really apologize to the team,"
Barmore said. "I hate that I got a tech-
nical. Maybe we fouled, who knows?
But I take responsibility."
Women's basketball box scores:
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BRANDON SEDLOFF/,
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and her teammates yesterday.
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Up-and-
down play
hurts Blue
By David Horn
Daily Sports \Vritr
"As much as i love roller coasters at
Cedar Point, I hate them in coaching;t7
Michigan coach Sue Guevara said yes-
terday, following a 73-60 loss to
unranked Washington
The Wolverines were not unlike a
typical Michigan college student this
weekend - - living it up Friday night,
but not getting their homework done on
Sunday afternoon. In Friday's season
opener against No. 8 Louisiana Tech;
Michigan came from behind for a dra-
matic 69-66 win. It was their first-ever
win against a team ranked in the top 10.:
But Sunday was an entirely different
story. Michigan was out-hustled and
out-shot by a Washington team coming
oft an overtime loss to Indiana on
Friday night. Michigan, which wor
Friday's game by going to the fr&C
throw line 32 times in the second half
(and shooting 81.3 percent) managed
only 18-25 from the charity stripe yes-
terday.
Defensively, Michigan faced two
teams as different as night and day this
past weekend.
The Huskics posed a constant threat
from the perimeter (7-21 on three-point
shots), whereas Louisiana Tech forced
Michigan to play physically underneath
the basket. Washington was a signifi-
cantly quicker team than the Lady
Techsters, and Michigan was caught
off-guard immediately.
"Those things that we did well the
other night -- play defense, rebound,
shoot free throws, hustle after the loose
balls -- all those things we didn't d(
well today," Guevara said.
The tone of Friday night, unlike yes-
terday, was one of jubilance and self-
congratulations
"I feel pretty damn good," senior co-'
captain Anne Thorius said after Friday's
win over the Lady Techsters. "What a
way to start the season. We believed in
this one, from the moment we started
practice this vear.
In both games, Michigan's offensivx
threat was junior forward Raina
Goodlow. Her 17 points on Friday and
her 17 points on Sunday (where shot 78
percent from the field) were both team-
highs. But her support was not there in
the second game, as Michigan's back-