0 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com November 29, 2010 -- 3B GAME STATISTICS Hall's kickoff return sinks B e Team ,Stats Fist owns 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. 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O swered "Tha Tressel 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 72 THE UNITED STATES & GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: POLITICS, POLICY, & PRIORITIES A 2010 CITiGROUP FOUNDATION LECTURE WANT SPORTS * NEWS NOW? FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @MICHDAILYSPORTS