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GAME STATISTICS
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Team ,Stats
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Rsh/Yds
PssigYards
Offesive Pays
Tot1 alfe
Kiketrs/ Yds
Punt rturs,/ Yds
Comp/Att/InSt
Punts/Avg
Fble/Lost
Penalt1is/Yards
Timeof Poss
MICH
41/182
169
74
351
7/125
1/2
16/33/1
4/34.5
3/2
4/35
25:44
M I C H I G A N
C-A Yds
8-18 87
8-5 82
PASSING
Player
Robinson, D.
RUSHING
inson D.
Shaw
Smith
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Totals
RECVING
NStam N
Roundtree
JaTksTn
Koger
Totals
KICKING
Player
Totals
PUNTING
Player
roekhuien
PoHcr
KICKOFF RETURNS
Player
Dileo
Shaw
Totals
PUNT RETURNS
Player
DNSS5
Totals
TACKLES
Player
Martin
Van Bergen
Gordon
Avery
ohnson
Black
Rodgers
Heininger
PNNNS
*HITNN
Moundros
Vinopal
PASSING
Player
Lryor
Toal
RUSHING
Player
Heron
Samne
Team
RECEVING
Player
Sanzenbacher
Stoneburner
Toal
PNTING
Buchanan
Totals
KICKING
Player
Bardlay
Totals
KICKOFF RETURNS
Player
Totals
TAKLES
Chekwa
Homyn
Rolle
Hines
ITorrence
Heyward
S n
Hankins
Sweat
Klein
Goebe
Wood
Basil
Brewster
Bellamy
Totals
oSu
19
45/258
220
72
478
2/111
0/0
18/27/1
4/445
1/A
7/81
34:16
TD Int
0 0
L 1
g TD
39 1
11 0
8 0
39 1
Lg TD
18 0
19 0
22 0
3 0
22 0
XP Pts
Att
18
8
8
4
3
41
No.
7
5
2
1
1
16
52
17
16
182
Avg
4.5
1.5
-60
4.7
Avg
116
8.5
9.0
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By TIM ROHAN by the kicker's approach where
Daily Sports Editor he was going with the ball. And
our front line people did a won-
UMBUS - It was Terrelle derful job of adjusting."
high school teammate, Ohio State benefited from the
former Michigan recruit, absence of Michigan freshman
hanged the course of The punter and kickoff specialist
in the Will Hagerup, who did not make
quarter NOTEBOOK the trip to Columbus because
Pryor. he violated team rules. After
Wolverines had just run the game, Michigan coach Rich
No. 8 Ohio State's throat Rodriguez declined to elaborate
11-play, 80 yard touch- on the suspension.
rive. Michigan was with- Redshirt freshman kicker
rm's reach, 10-7. Seth Broekhuizen handled the
'hio State coach Jim Tres- punting and kickoff duties in
at into the huddle with his place of Hagerup, who aver-
return unit and told his ages 44 yards per punt. And it
eturner, Jordan Hall, he wasn't just the kickoff returned
to take this kickoff back for a touchdown that haunted
uchdown. Broekhuizen.
as if it was all according His punt during the second
Hall received the kickoff quarter from Michigan's own
15-yard line and sprinted 17-yard line traveled just 18
left through a neat and yards and gave Ohio State great
Ae with every Michigan field position. The Buckeyes held
accounted for. Then he a 3-0 lead at the time and scored
past the sidelines and their first touchdown five plays
ver the middle of the field later.
inted to the endzone. BOOM GOES THE DYNA-
like that it was a 10-point MITE: Ohio State running back
gain. Whatever momen- Dan "Boom" Herron didn't make
[ichigan had before was much noise during the first half
'hio State scored 20 unan- for the Buckeyes, but exploded
points to end the game. in the second to ice the game.
t was a critical point," Ohio State's leading rusher was
said. "Our guys could tell held to -1 yards on five carries at
Yds
81
43
9
169
FG Pct. Lg
0-0 0.0 o0
No. Yds Avg Lg
3 86 28.7 44
4 138 45 5
No. Yds
6 118
1 7
7 125
Avg
19.7
70
179
Lg TD
25 0
No. Yds Avg Lg TD
1 -2 -2.0 0
1 -2 -2.0 0 0
Soto Asst Tot
9 8 17
4 5 9
6 2 8
2 4 6
5 0 5
1 4 5
3 1 4
1 2 3
2 0 2
2 0 2
0 2 2
1 0 1
1 0 1
1 0 1
0 1 1
0 1 1
0 1 1
0 1 1
38 32 70
0 H 1 0 S T A T E
C-A Yds
18-27 220
182 220
back Terrelle Pryor's 220 pass-
OSU ing yards.
From Page 1B The insurmountable combi-
nation of turnovers, penalties
a formality. and timely drops - the team's
The Wolverines offense was leading receiving Roy Roundtree
held to its lowest point total of had four himself just in the first
the season, and the defense gave half - boiled down to mental
up 478 yards to the Buckeyes, mistakes, players said after the
who were led by junior quarter- game. Junior nose tackle Mike
Miners' man-to-man defense p
ATLANTIC CITY stiffened up and suffocated s
From Page 1B Michigan's shooters. The Wol-p
verines made 17 percent of t
couldn't capitalize. their 3-pointers - their worst c
It was hard for Michigan to all season so far.
execute anything offensively "I think we got tired, N
in the second half because of because they wore us out how c
the halftime adjustments that good they were defensively," -
the orange made in their zone Beilein said after the loss to g
defense. The Wolverines net- Syracuse. "They just got up and t
ted just two 3-pointers in the really denied, denied, denied, e
second half, opposed to six in denied. And although we got t
the first. Likewise, they shot a few back doors, we couldn't it
just 29 percent from the field in drive on them a lot. They did D
the second stanza. just a great job at keeping us tE
"They are long as hell," uncomfortable with what we
sophomore Matt Vogrich said were doing." w
on Friday night. "That's why Many of Michigan's top s
(Syracuse coach Jim) Boeheim shooters began to shoot so h
uses the zone. I don't know poorly that the Miners stopped g
how he does it, but they play covering them - redshirt d
the best 2-3 zone ever, maybe." freshmen Blake McLimans li
After the disheartening loss and Jordan Morgan often went w
to the Orange, Michigan had uncovered outside of the key. tl
less than 24 hours to prepare McLimans didn't make a single
for UTEP. And there was a dif- 3-pointer and finished 1-for-5 u
ferent vibe in Michigan's game from the field. n
against the Miners. The Wol- "It was their gameplan," tc
verines struggled to shoot, to junior guard Zack Novak said. w
say the least. "They were trying to take away it
Michigan made 19 free the back door and pressure B
throws but only 16 field goals everyone out. Our big guys can
during the game - just seven shoot it. Sometimes you're too w
of those in the second half. open. And we all know our big se
That's an average of only one men are going to make those s
field goal every two and a half shots the rest of the year." w
minutes. It didn't help Michigan B
Freshman forward Evan that UTEP could essentially o
Smotrycz opened the game's score at will. The second half i
scoring by draining a 3-point- became more of a slam-dunk b
er. But after that, nothing came contest than a basketball game, g.
easily for the Wolverines. The as UTEP guard Randy Cul- C
the break.
Michigan's defense stacked
the box to start the game and
swarmed to the football -
repeatedly hitting the ballcar-
rier before he broke through
the line of scrimmage. So the
Buckeyes let it fly, backed up on
their own 13-yard line - Pryor
split Michigan's secondary for a
39-yard strike to wide receiver
Dane Sanzenbacher.
Pryor passed for nearly 200
yards and picked apart Michi-
gan's defense as the Buckeyes
built a 24-7 halftime lead.
"We led with the pass in the
first half and all of a sudden
we got a couple of turnovers
and we're looking more lead-
ing with the run in the second
half," Tressel said. "I don't even
know if we threw the ball in the
second half. It wasn't like all of
a sudden a snow storm came in
or something. It's (just) not what
we needed to do."
Two of Boom Herron's runs
moved Michigan's comeback
chances from "highly unlikely"
to "cooked." Herron ran over
a few Wolverine defenders on
his way to a 32-yard touchdown
run on Ohio State's first pos-
session of the second half. And
on his next carry, he tied the
longest play from scrimmage in
Martin said those are execution
problems, and some of the fault
lies in the youth on the roster.
Ohio State took advantage
of Michigan's mistakes, just
as it has throughout its decade
of dominance. Saturday's win
is the Buckeyes' seventh in a
row over the Wolverines, and it
earned Ohio State a share of the
epper - standing less than -
ix feet tall and weighing 165
'ounds soaking wet - dunked F
wice, the second of which
ame in traffic. h
Even when the Miners
missed shots, they got second t
hances and scored in the paint t
- UTEP outrebounded Michi- 1
an, 40-31. Smotrycz, one of
he Wolverines' key rebound- t
rs, recorded zero boards for
he first time all season, and P
t was sophomore point guard t
)arius Morris who collected a a
eam-high seven rebounds. b
"That length and that speed a
e had not seen," Beilein h
aid of UTEP's defense. "We
aven't seen that in any other t
ame that we played. Syracuse t
oes not play the man-to-man d
ike that. It was the first time t
e saw that. We had to learn y
hrough that." g
After losing to UTEP on Sat- g
rday and Syracuse on Friday n
ight, the Wolverines prepare r
o play Clemson on Tuesday o
hen the Tigers and Wolver- g
nes meet in the annual ACC/ g
ig Ten Challenge. g
"I have a film watcher and
e will break this down and g
ay, 'What is the best way to a
pike this learning curve from a
'hat we saw this week,' " t
eilein said. "We may have 40
r 50 (clips) that we're watch- K
ig tomorrow. We'll rest a little m
it tomorrow and then we've a
ot one day to get ready for the ti
lemson game."
school history with an 89-yard
run, which would have been a
98-yard touchdown if not for a
penalty.
Pryor completed three passes
in the second half, and Herron
carried the ball 17 times for 176
yards to finish off the Ohio State
win.
THEY'LL BE BACK: Seven in
a row, nine of the last 10 times,
Ohio State has beaten Michigan.
The Wolverines' ineptness
since Michigan coach Rich
Rodriguez took over in 2008,
in particular, has drawn more
attention to the lack of parity.
Ohio State has outscored Michi-
gan 100-24 in the three losses
under Rodriguez. The Buckeyes
haven't dominated Michigan
over a three-game span to that
degree since the 1930s when the
Wolverines were shut out four
years in a row.
The sentiment in the Ohio
State press conference after the
30-point win was that Michi-
gan's always a tough game - and
that the Wolverines will bounce
back.
"Michigan is among the elite
programs, and will be," Tressel
said. "Their record will reflect
that, over the course of time. You
know, we all have our ups and
downs and periods and so forth.
Big Ten Championship - the
Buckeyes' sixth straight confer-
ence title.
"I'm ticked," Rodriguez
said. "What do you want me to
go jump out there and go hold
hands with all the Buckeye fans
and sing Kumbaya? I mean, I
wish we would've played better.
Our guys played hard and that's
Att
22
12
3
3
40
No.
S
4
3
3
2
1
18
Yds
182
63
17
8
270
Yd
82
11
71
33
10
13
220
... There's constantly changes.
But Michigan will be back. You
don't have to worry about that."
Tressel has yet to experience
the "downs." Saturday's win
clinched the Buckeyes' sixth
straight Big Ten championship.
He holds a 9-1 record over Mich-
igan.
MOVE OVER HART: Even
though sophomore quarter-
back Denard Robinson missed
time with dislocated fingers on
his non-throwing hand, he still
managed to run through the
Buckeyes' defense for 105 yards.
Not only was it the second
time that Ohio State allowed a
100-yard rusher all season, but
Robinson's 1,643 rushing yards
pushed him past Mike Hart for
the fifth-highest single-season
total in school history. Robin-
son is just 31 yards behind Chris
Perry at No. 4; 60 yards behind
James Morris at No. 3; and 90
yards behind Anthony Thomas
at No. 2.
Tshimanga Biakabutuka ran
for 1,818 yards in 1995, includ-
ing more than 300 yards against
Ohio State that season, and holds
the top spot in the record books
- Robinson is 175 yards away
from his mark. Robinson just
has the bowl game left to add to
his total.
to be expected, but I wish we
would've executed better. I'm
going to be mad for a while, then
we'll move on to the next one -
the next one's not going to be
for a month. This will sting for
a little bit, which it should. We'll
think about it a little bit, which
you should. But you can't replay
it, unfortunately."
Avg
57
Lg9
39
21
39
Lg
89
8
4
TD
1
SENIORS
From Page 1B
earn from it and
This year'ss
hose in the two
heirs, won't end
oss to Ohio State
Michigan still1
o prepare for.
For senior of;
'erry Dorrestein,
hat bowl game p
venue for the i
back after such
devastating
loss.
"The good
hing about
hat is, that's
ifferent from
he past two
years, is we
-ot a bowl
ame right
ow," Dor-
estein said
utside Ohio Sta
ame. "We don't
onna be agains
ot another mont
In fact, the
ame seems like i
great job of sof
stating blow the
his team.
Redshirt junio
elvin Grady did
nedia after theg
n hour and a ha
est he posted thi
"Ugly game..
tive note we still have the bowl
game."
But the bowl game isn't just
an opportunity for the seniors to
we're going to." make up for what is arguably one
seniors, unlike of the worst losses of Michigan
o classes before coach Rich Rodriguez's tenure
the season on a and go out on a winning note,
e. The practices preparing for the
has a bowl game game are also a good way to keep
the players' minds off what for
fensive lineman many may be the most crushing
, the thought of loss of their careers.
provides an easy Junior center David Molk said
team to bounce it's essential to get back to prac-
tice immedi-
ately.
"You just
"The good thing gotta go back
to work," Hulk
... Iwe got a said after the
game. "You just
bowl game gotta do what
.ihtyou're used to,
right now." you know?"
While it will
be therapeutic
for the Wolver-
idium after the ines to hit the ground running
know who's it once they arrive back in Ann
t but yeah, we Arbor, the emotions after a game
:h." like this one, like the expressions
looming bowl on the seniors' faces, remain
t's already done mostly the same.
tening the dev- Both Dorrestein and Molk,
Buckeyes dealt when asked if they can put the
loss into words, came up empty.
Ir wide receiver "I mean," Dorrestein paused
dn't speak with for a while. "Not really. It's one
game, but about of those when you look at the
if after the con- scoreboard, and it's like, there' s
.s on Twitter: a bunch of expletives that come
. on a posi- to mind."
TO
1
2
No. Yds Avg Lg
4 178 44.5 59
4 178 44.5 59
FG Pct. Lg Pts
3-3 100.0 36 9
3-3 100.0 36 9
No. Yd Lg TD
1 6 26 1
2 111 8s 1
Solo
8
4
4
4
4
2
2
3
3
2
1
0
t
7
0
0
0
1
1
1
42
Asst
0
4
4
4
2
4
4
2
0
1
2
3
i
1
2
2
2
0
0
0
Tot
8
8
8
8
6
6
6
5
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
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