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DAILY SPORTS BREAKS DOWN THE WEEKEND THAT WAS
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The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
SAID AND HEARD
"I told you all along. I thought our team
was pretty good. We should get better,
but games like this are a great experience
for these young players to play in."
-Michigan coach Red Berenson on his team's
performance in 4-3 loss to Minnesota
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
TYLER CLARY
The freshman swimmer
won all three races he
entered in his collegiate
debut Friday against East-
ern Michigan. He won the
1,000-yard freestyle, 200-
yard IM and 200-yard
backstroke.
Whom to fear down the stretch
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Michigan was college
football's laughing
stock after week one.
Now people are talking abouta
return trip to Pasadena. Where
should
expectations
rest? Prob-
ably some- F
where in the
middle. With
five games"
left, Michi-
gan could SCOTT
do anything BELL
from run the ____ ____
table and
win a Big
Ten title, to falter against its rival
and in some other tough road
games. Who should you fear the
most? Here's my guess.
ILLINOIS
(3-1 BIG TEN, 5-2 OVERALL)
- SATURDAY
The Fighting Illini haven't won
more than five games since 2001.
They lost to an Iowa team riding
an eight-game conference losing
streak last weekend. And they're
coached by Ron Zook.
Should you be scared? Abso-
lutely.
This weekend's matchup is
scarier than anything not involv-
ing Ohio State. It's a road game.
Against a team with a mobile
quarterback. At night.
Michigan may be getting bet-
ter against spread teams, but Illi-
nois quarterback Juice Williams
is more Dennis Dixon than Curtis
Painter.
You-should-be-scared rating:
8 out of 10.
MINNESOTA (0-4,1-6)
-OCT. 27
Michigan-Minnesota. The
battle for the Brown Jug. A true
rivalry game.
Um, what?
Minnesota is awful. Some-
times in journalism, we havea
tendency to overstate things to
get our point across easier. This
isn't one of those cases. In actu-
ality, saying Minnesota is awful
is a gross understatement. The
Golden Gophers would lose to my
high school (Fremont High is 5-3
this year, by the way).
Scared? Ha. The only real fear
students should have is if they
spill their drink on their shirt
before the game, or if they forget
to TiVo actual meaningful games
during the Minnesota matchup.
You-should-be-scared rating:
-2 out of 10.
MICHIGAN STATE (1-2, 5-2)
- NOV. 3
Michigan State is like the little
brother that's waaaay too obsessed
with you. When you start shaving,
Michigan State wants to stand next
to you on a stool and do it along
with you. When you go out to the
movies with your friends, Michi-
gan State wants to come. When
you're good at football, Michigan
State wants to be good, too.
Well, the last one might actually
be coming true. Mark Dantonio
has taken over the reins in East
Lansing, and along with having a
Michigan-centric focus - he's put
up a giant clock counting down
to the Michigan-Michigan State
game - he's also put together a
pretty decent team, too. .
But hey, it's still Michigan State.
I wouldn't lose much sleep over it.
You-should-be-scared rating: 6
of out 10.
WISCONSIN (2-2, 5-2)
- NOV.10
Entering the season, nearly
all the so-called experts had this
circled as the game that could
and should determine the Big Ten
Championship. Well, that's why
the term "so-called" is thrown in
front of experts, because the only
thing this game will determine is
which team underuses its talent
the least.
Your only real fear should be
that you'd go to Madison, see how
awesome of a college town it is
and not want to come back to Ann
Arbor.
But as for the game itself?
Hakuna Matata, my friends.
You-should-be-scared rating: 5
out of 10.
OHIO STATE (7-0)
- NOV.17
(Gulp.)
You-should-be-scared rating: 39
out of 10.
- Bell can be reached at
scotteb@umich.edu.
FIELD HOCKEY
From page 1B
the first half suddenlycame to
life.
Indiana registered four sec-
ond-half corner opportuni-
ties, one of which set up what
looked to be the go-ahead goal
with just more than 12 minutes
left in the half before being
disallowed by the referees.
Cox attributed the sudden
change in Indiana's aggres-
siveness in part to Michi-
gan's preoccupation with the
search for its offensive spark.
"We started moving some of
our midfielders up to the for-
ward line to see if we could
generate some attack, and we
learned very quickly that it
wasn't being very effective for
us," Cox said. "So we pulled
those kids back into the mid-
field."
"I was glad we got to the over-
time period because Indiana,
they were dominating the last
12 minutes of the second half."
Michigan has now won eight of
its last nine meetings with Indi-
ana (0-4 Big Ten, 6-7~overall)
and will travel to Mount Pleas-
ant to take on Central Michi-
gan today at 3 p.m., a team the
Wolverines have defeated nine
straight times.
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