The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - January 14, 2002 - 3B

Michigan

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Penn State

RAPHAEL

THE DOWN-LOW
GUEVA-RANT:
"I talked about going to basics 101
and pass and catch, but maybe I
just need to get a shrink and just
have three days of shrink-o."
THE STREAK:
Michigan has now lost three
games in a row and five of its first
Big Ten games.
KEY STATS:
Turnovers: Michigan 19, Penn
State 12
Leading Scorer and Rebounder
LeeAnn Bies: Seven points, seven
rebounds
TURNING POINT:
Kelly Mazzante's layup, her 1,001
career point, with 13:16 remaining
to take a 47-40 lead and start a
10-2 run.
YoU KNEW IT WAS OVER WHEN:
LeeAnn Bies picked up her fourth
foul with 8:02 remaining and the
wolverines trailing 57-44.
THE DAILY'S MVP:
Penn State's Kelly Mazzante:
Five 3-pointers and 22 points
BOx SCORE

GOODSTEIN

Karma catches up with

I

Michigan Sta
With the football season over
and the basketball team,
once again, having no
chance of contending for the Big Ten
title, an NCAA berth or even an NIT
berth, my school spirit, well, once
again, has been turned to cheering
for whoever is playing Michigan
State in basketball.
Ahh, the benefits of attending a
school with great sports teams.
With this in

-finally

AP PHOTO
Jennifer Smith was one of the few bright spots yesterday. She tied a game-high with 22 points on 8-for-11 shooting.
Smith swipes Bies' lead role

floor, much to their chagrin, and
logic and reason were restored, once
again, much to their chagrin.
The loss was especially tough for
Michigan State, as it snapped the
Spartans' 53-game home winning
streak, a stretch which started in
March of 1998.
More importantly, the loss means
Michigan State finds itself in peril of
not even making the NCAA Tourna-
ment.

By Charles Paradis
Daily Sports Writer

MICHIGAN (65)
FG
MIN M-A
Pool 29 3-7
Smith 38 8-11
Bies 33 2-5
Jara 15 0-0
Ingram 39 5-16
Hauser-Price 7 0-0
Oesterle 6 1-3
Gandy 30 2-4
Mason 3 0-1

FT
M-A
3-4
6-8
3-3
0-0
6-6
0-0
0-0
0-0
1-2

REB
0-T
2-3
1-5
3-7
0.0
0-3
2-2
1-1
2-3
0-0

A
1
0
5
0
3
1
1
0
0

F1
2
0
4
1
4
3
0
4
0

PTS
9
22
7
0
20
0
2
4
1

STATE COLLEGE - As LeeAnn
Bies goes, so goes Michigan. Bies is
the Wolverines' leading scorer and
rebounder this season. With seven
double-doubles
on the year, she BASKETBALL
leads the team Notebook
and is ranked
second in the
Big Ten in that category. Michigan is
6-1 when Bies records double-digit
points and rebounds this season, with
the one loss coming at Wisconsin. In
the past, teams that could not stop Bies
had no hope of stopping Michigan.
But Bies has struggled considerably
over the last two games. The junior
center - who has been leading the
team with a .558 shooting percentage
from the floor - connected on a com-
bined 3-of-12 shots in the Wolverines'
two most recent losses. This includes a
dismal 1-for-7 shooting performance
from the field against Ohio State, a
performance marked by multiple
missed layups. According to Michigan
coach Sue Guevara, teams are still

unable to stop Bies.
"I think the person that is stopping
her, is her," Guevara said.
Until Bies is able to recover from
her recent shooting slump, the Wolver-
ines will count on Jennifer Smith for
point production. Stepping up her
game, Smith produced one of her bet-
ter offensive performances to date.
"I told (Smith) I thought this might
be her day, because Bies had been so
successful against Penn State, but I
think (Smith) worked pretty hard
today," Guevara said. "She did a nice
job of attacking the basket."
Smith tied Penn State's Kelly Maz-
zante, the nation's leading scorer, with
a game-high 22 points, nine more than
her season average. She also pulled
down five rebounds and recorded two
blocks, one against Mazzante.
"I knew they were probably going to
double on Bies so I had to get open
and create shots for myself and put
them in," Smith said.
Even with Bies struggling recently,
Smith has not felt pressured to score
more. Instead she has relied on the
guidance of her coach.
"I don't really put that much pres-

sure on myself, because coach always
stresses 'have confidence in, yourself,'
and I do," Smith said. "I think I can
score like that when I get the ball."
THE PRICE IS RIGHT: Freshman guard
Sierra Hauser-Price was one of the
bright spots on the afternoon for the
Wolverines. Playing seven minutes, all
in the second half, Hauser-Price
helped pressure Penn State's freshman
point guard Jess Strom, who leads the
Big Ten with just over seven assists per
game. Against Price and the Michigan
trap in the second half, Strom commit-
ted five turnovers.
"I think I've been working really
hard, especially on my defense, trying
to stop the best players out there,"
Hauser-Price said. "I think the coaches
saw that and put me out there and gave
me a shot today."
Guevara has stressed defense and
defensive intensity all year, and Hauser-
Price has been the model of that inten-
sity. She credits her desire to play good
defense as the key to her success.
"It is the intensity that I bring,"
Hauser-Price said. "I think I'm a good
defensive player and I work my butt
off."

mind, I couldn't
help but laugh
when I saw Sports-
Center show
replays of Michi-
gan State's home
loss to Wisconsin
this weekend.

Kelvin Torbert caught the
ball off of an Inbounds pass
and then flipped the ball In, all
before the .2 seconds went off.
In fact - believe it or not -
the clock didn't even start
when he caught the ball.

Totals

200 21-4719-23 15-29 1118 65

After a few years
of success, the nou-
veau riche Spartans
boasted about their
program, and
declared that it would
return to the NCAA
Tournament and con-

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FG%: .447 FT%: ..826 3-point FG: 4-12, .333
(Ingram 4-10, Oesterle 0-1, Gandy 0-1). Blocks: 2
(Smith 2) Steals: 7 (Gandy 2, Oesterle, Hauser-
Price, Ingram, Bies, Pool) Turnovers: 19 (Smith 4,
Pool 3, Gandy 3, Ingram 3, Bies 3, Hauser-Price,
Jara, Oesterle). Technical Fouls: none.

Actually it was the jokes ESPN
made about Michigan State being a
party school that made me laugh.
But watching Sparty lose the way it
did certainly was cathartic.
Maybe even a bit amusing.
In case you missed it, Michigan
State (now 0-3 in the Big Ten, 9-7
overall) found itself down by one
point with two hundredths of a sec-
ond left. By rule, only a tip-in is
allowed if there are three hundredths
seconds or less left on the clock.
Michigan State's freshman guard
Kelvin Torbert caught the ball off of
an inbounds pass and then flipped
the ball in, all before the .2 seconds
went off. In fact - believe it or not
- the clock didn't even start when
he caught the ball.
Since things like rules or laws
don't prevent Michigan State from
celebrating, Michigan State's student
section - cleverly named the
"Izzone," after coach Tom Izzo -
rushed the floor to celebrate its big
win.
Some things never change. Like
Arnold Schwarzenegger making
lousy movies, NYPD overcharging
for pizza and Michigan State trying
to use shoddy timekeeping to steal a
win.
Fortunately for Wisconsin, this is
basketball and not football.
Coach Bo Ryan injected a little
reason into the situation, and, lucky
for him, he got what he, shall we
say, deserved.
The students were herded off the

tend for its fifth straight Big Ten
title.
But with its record, and its
remaining schedule - Michigan
State still has to play its hardest
games; at Illinois, at Iowa, Indiana
- the Spartans are not guaranteed
of even finishing conference play
with a winning record.
Who would have ever thought four
games into conference play, Michi-
gan would be .500 and Michigan
State would be in last place?
Certainly not Michigan State
fans, who assumed that their basket-
ball team would make it to the
Sweet Sixteen, even though their
team didn't have Sweet Sixteen tal-
ent. In fact, it remains to be seen if
this team has Sweet Sixty-five tal-
ent. Regardless, with Tom Izzo as
the coach, Sparty fans assumed
Michigan State was a shoe-in for
the Tournament. Michigan State is
one of basketball's premier pro-
grams, right?
Well, probably not, and anyways
every program has an off-year or
four every once in a while -just
look at North Carolina.
Now most of you Michigan State
fans out there are probably thinking,
"Why's this kid trying to spoil our
party?" I'm not. I'm just rooting for
Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and everyone
else when they play Michigan State.
Go team! Go!

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Penn State (78)
FG
MIN M-A
Mazzante 36 6-17
Barnes 34 6-9
Shook 7 0-1
Strom 35 3-5
Wright 34 7-9
Brenden 6 0-2
Carr 6 1-3
Joseph 3 0-0
Brungo 21 5-7
Upshaw 18 0-2
Totals 200 28-55

FT
M-A
5-6
3-5
0-0
4-4
3-4
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0

REB
0-T
0-0
3-0
2-2
0-2
3-7
0-1
0-0
0-0
2-4
2-4

A
2
4
1
7
6
0
0
1
0
1

FI
1.
4
3
0
3
0
0
0
2
4

PTS
22
15
0
11
17
0
2
0
11
0

The Aftermath

After starting the season 10-1 and ranked No. 12 in the country, the
Michigan women's basketball team has lost five of its first six Big Ten
games. Here's a look at what went wrong.

So far ...
Opponent Score
at Louisiana Tech 66-81
at Detroit 67-52
at New Hampshire8l-61
at Syracuse 84-76
Marquette 65-49
vs. Notre Dame 78-63
vs. Washington State 81-59

15-19 15-2822 17 78

FG%: ..509 FT%: ..789 3-point FG: 7-15, .467 (Maz-
zante 5, Strom, Brungo). Blocks: 4 (Barnes 2, Brun-
go 2). Steals: 11 (Wright 5, Barnes 3, Mazzante 2,
Strom) . Turnovers: 12 (Strom 5, Wright 2, Maz-
zante, Barnes, Upshaw, Team 2). Technical fouls:
none.
Micigan..........................29 36 65
Penn State....... ...36 42 78
At: Bryce Jordan Center, State College
Attendance: 7,448
BIG TEN STANDINGS
Conference Overall
Team W L W L
Wisconsin 6 0 15 1
Illinois 3 1 9 4
Purdue 4 2 13 3
Iowa 4 2 11 5
Ohio State 4 2 9 8
Penn State 3 2 11 7
Minnesota 2 2 12 3
Indiana 2 3 8 8
Michigan 1 5 11 6
Michigan State 0 4 9 4
Northwestern 0 6 4 13
Yesterday's results:
No. 9 Wisconsin 70, Northwestem 65
No. 14 Purdue 80, Ohio State 43
Penn State 78, No. 20 Michigan 78
Iowa 73, Indiana 65
Illinois 72, Michigan State 66
S.STATS
Through Jan. 13

FIL" PUU DANNY MOLOSI
First 11 Games Last 6 games
10-1 1-5

at Washington
at Toledo
at Louisiana State
Oakland
Illinois
at Purdue
Michigan State
at Wisconsin
Ohio State
at Penn State

71-70
74-46
86-81
71-42
81-85
47-69
58-45
74-89
66-77
65-78

Record
0-1
1-1
2-1
3-1
4-1
5-1
6-1
7-1
8-1
9-1
10-1
10-2
10-3
11-3
11-4
11-5
11-6

Record
Michigan's
points-per-game
Opponents
points-per-game
Opponents
3-point percentage
LeeAnn Bies
Guevara looking
for ...

HOW THE TOP 25 FARED

75
62
26.4
16.7 points-per-game,
9.0 rebounds-per-game
A Big Ten Title

65
74
35.2
13.6 points-per-game,
8.5 rebounds-per-game
A psychologist

What's left ...

Opponent
at Minnesota
Indiana
at Illinois
Iowa
Northwestern
at Ohio State
at Iowa
Purdue
at Northwestern
Penn State

Date
Jan. 17
Jan. 20
Jan. 27
Jan. 31
Feb. 3
Feb. 10
Feb. 14
Feb. 17
Feb. 21
Feb. 24

Team:
1. Connecticut
2. Tennessee
3. Oklahoma
4. Iowa St
5. Stanford
6. Vanderbilt
7. Baylor
8. Georgia
9. Texas Tech
10. Purdue
11. Duke
12. Wisconsin
13. Louisiana Tech
14. South Carolina
15. Florida
16. Colorado
17. Auburn
1.8. Michigan
19. North Carolina
20. Colorado St
21. Texas
22. Tulane
23. Louisiana St
24. Old Dominion
25. Cincinnati

Last week:
beat Miami (Fla.) 96-50
beat No. 23 Louisiana State 79-67
beat No. 7 Baylor 82-73
lost to Texas A&M 88-71
beat Oregon 91-76
beat Mississippi 62-42
lost to No.3 Oklahoma 82-73
lost to Mississippi St 84-82
lost to No. 21 Texas 87-83
beat Ohio St 80-43
beat North Carolina State 73-68
beat Northwestern 70-65
beat Hawaii 40-24
beat Arkansas 91-66
beat Alabama 83-77
beat Oklahoma St 79-57
beat Kentucky 70-66
lost to Penn St 7865
beat Clemson 89-85
beat Utah 87-77
beat No. 9 Texas Tech 87-83
lost to St Louis 57-56
lost to No. 2 Tennessee 79-67
beat George Mason 71-51
beat Charlotte 87-58

Big Ten Tournament Feb. 28 - Mar. 4

Huskies, Boilermakers win big

Player G
Bies 17
Ingram 16
Smith 17
Gandy 17
Pool 17
Mason 16
Oesterle 14
Jara 17
Hauser-Price 9
McPhilamy 3.3

Min
31.0
37.2
30.6
28.4
26.4
8.3
17.2
16.9
6.4
3.3

A
2.2
3.9
1.2
1.9
2
.2
1.1
1.9
.2
0

Reb
8.8
3.4
7.6
4.5
4.5
3.1
2.7
1.8
.7
.9

Pts.
15.6
13.8
13.5
9.6
9.0
3.4
3.1
1.9
.8
0

Field-goal percentage leader
Bies 89-161 .553
Free-throw percentage leader
Smith 54-66 .818
3-point percentage leader
Ingram 36-79 .456

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -
When Connecticut's offense sput-
tered early against Miami, the top-
ranked Huskies simply turned up
their defense.
Swin Cash had 17 points and 15
rebounds as the Huskies romped 96-
50 Saturday, extending their home
winning streak to 41 games.
"They are as good as it gets,"
Miami coach Ferne Labati said.
"You make one little mistake and
they are off in the transition
defense."
Connecticut (4-0 Big East, 18-0
overall) defeated Miami for the 15th
straight time, getting 35 points off
24 turnovers. Cash had three of Con-
necticut's six blocks. The Huskies
also had 15 steals.
Cash got most her baskets inside
off the transition game. She had 13
points and 10 rebounds while play-
ing just 15 minutes in the first half.
LADY LIONS
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the ball away while attempting to
run a fast break or set up a halfcourt
offense.
"What really bothers me with our

Connecticut never trailed, but
stumbled early with six turnovers in
the first seven minutes. The Huskies
held a 12-11 lead after a 6-0 Miami
run, a spurt capped by Sheila James'
layup off her own steal.
"We came out wanting to be real
aggressive and sometimes when you
force the issue, things don't work
out," Cash said. "Once we relaxed
and got into the flow we started
defending really well."
No. 13 PURDUE 80, OHIo STATE
43: The bags of ice on Erika Valek's
knees help ease the pain from off-
season surgery. Reaching double
figures in points and slicing her way
down the lane eased her mind that
she can still play aggressively.
Shereka Wright scored 16 points,
Kelly Komara added 15 and Valek
14 as No. 13 Purdue beat Ohio State
80-43 yesterday.
The Boilermakers (4-2 Big Ten,
got into foul trouble early in the sec-
ond half. That forced her to watch
from the bench as the team's post
advantage dissolved.
The loss drops Michigan to 1-5 in
the conference and puts the Wolver-
ines in serious ieopardv of receiving

13-3 overall) used a 25-7 run late in
the first half to take their 20th
straight game at Mackey Arena, one
shy of the school record. They also
have won 18 straight Big Ten home
games.
Ohio State (4-2, 9-8) had won four
straight and six of seven, with two
wins against ranked teams. The
Buckeyes trailed by four 11 minutes
into the game, but the Boilermakers
dominated from there.
Valek scored nine straight points,
while Wright and Kelly Komara
each hit 3-pointers in the run.
Wright, Komara and Valek all
reached double figures as Purdue
built a 45-21 halftime lead.
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