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Blue punches ticket to Second-half dominance on
I first-ever College Cup display in Wolverines' win
Lucky break saves Michigan split
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Douglass's surge
tops the Crimson
By STEPHEN J. NESBITT
Daily Sports Writer
COLUMBUS - Two bounces
and 10.4 seconds were the differ-
ence between a series split and
a sweep for the No. 11 Michigan
hockey
team's MICHIGAN 2
series OHIO STATE 3
with Ohio -- ----
State. MICHIGAN 2
After OHIO STATE 1
leading
by a goal in the final minute of play
on Friday night, the Wolverines
allowed a game-tying tally and
fell, 3-2, in overtime. On Saturday,
it looked like the Wolverines were
headed for a rerun performance at
Value City Arena.
But a heavy dose of puck luck
produced an alternative ending -
a 2-1 Michigan victory.
The Wolverine offense had a
furious pace for the entirety of
Saturday's game, peppering Buck-
eye goaltender Cal Heeter with a
season-high 48 shots. But it wasn't
until the third period when Michi-
gan (8-3-1-0 CCHA, 9-5-4 overall),
trailing 1-0, finally scored.
And the equalizing goal came in
the most unlikely of ways.
Just over six minutes into the
third period, junior forward Luke
Glendening carried the puck along
the right-side boards and into the
Buckeye zone. He dumped the
puck toward the net, looking to
give senior forward Carl Hagelin a
rebound opportunity.
Rather than a rebound, Glen-
dening picked up his second goal
of the season, as the rolling puck
hopped over Heeter's right pad to
tie the game.
"I just tried to throw it to the
middle because I saw Carl going
up," Glendening said after the
game. "I don't know, I guess you
get lucky every once in a while."
Michigan coach Red Berenson
said it was "a good sign to get a lit-
tle puck luck," adding that it was
See BUCKEYES, Page 3B
By CHANTEL JENNINGS
Daily Sports Editor
At some point during the sec-
ond half of the Michigan men's
basketball team's 65-62 win over
Harvard_
on Satur- HARVARD 62
day, the MICHIGAN 65
"Let's
go blue" chants started to sound
more like, "Let's go Stu."
For one of the first times all
season, the fans at Crisler Arena
seemed to really get behind the
Wolverines (5-2) and after Michi-
gan headed into the half down
seven, the arena was waiting for
a second-half charge to give the
season-high 9,559 fans something
to cheer about,
That's when Douglass caught
fire.
After scoring just three points
in the first half, Douglass had a
monster second stanza, scoring
16 of the Wolverines' 40 points.
On the game, he shot 5-for-7 from
behind the arc, hitting half of the
Michigan's 3-pointers.
"It's kind of just another game,
because I've had games like this
before and then I'll come out the
next day and not hita single shot,"
Douglass said after the game. "But
now I know, in my junior year, I
just have to provide whatever I
can whether it's defense, shoot-
ing, whatever the team needs at
that time."
Douglass's surge - he tallied
a season-high 19 points - proved
indispensable for the Wolver-
ines against Harvard (5-2) as
they fought through seven lead
See DOUGLASS, Page 3B
SALAMRIDA/Daily
Junior David Wohlberg scored the game-winning goal Saturday against Ohio State.
LATER GATOR
Michigan's Gator Bowl bid will give a close
look into the trainwreck that Michigan's
coaching situation has become, writes Daily
Sports Editor Ryan Kartje. Page 2B
A CYCLONE THRASHIN
Senior Veronica Hicks led Michigan in
scoring and rebounding but couldn't lead the
team to a victory over No.17 Iowa State
yesterday. Page 2B