6 - Tuesday, March 13, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4 Michigan earns first NCAA Tournament bid since 2001 By COLLEEN THOMAS Daily Sports Writer Finally, the Michigan women's' basketball team is going dancing. In the past 11 years, the Wol- verines have had three coaches and multiple disappointing sea-. sons, but more importantly, no NCAA Tournament appearances. But on Monday, that all changed, as Michigan earned an at-large berth after going 20-11 this season. The Wolverines are the11-seed inthe Fresno region and will play six-seed Oklahoma in Norman, - Okla. in the first round. The game tips at 7:30 on Sunday night. Michigan hasn't made an appearance in the NCAA Tour- nament since 2001 under coach Sue Guevara, and the team has made the tournament just four other times in program history. As part of Michigan coach' Kevin Borseth's first recruiting class, senior guards Courtney Boylan and Carmen Reynolds have experienced all the growing pains associated with rebuilding a program.. Just last season, the Wolver- AUSTEN HUFFORD/Daily st finsethirn the Bg Ter Senior guard Courney Boylan and the Wolverines are headed tothe Big Dance. ines finished third in the Big Ten before losing to the worst team But Boylan was confident in the try to get into the tournament in the league, Illinois, in the first body of work the team put in this and make some things happen. round of the conference tourna- season, and believed the 20-win "Every day in practice, these ment. They weren't invited to the mark would help their case. kids lace up and play just as hard NCAA Tournament, despite a Borseth was also confident in as anybody I've ever had play for strong resume. his team, but was wary to get too me. I'm really proud of them, and This year, Boylan and Reyn- excited or disappointed before (happy) for them to get an oppor- olds got the opportunity to leave Monday - he understands the tunity to finally - I don't want their mark. pressure the selection committee to say get rewarded, but get an "It means a lot to us (to make faces each year. opportunity to play in the NCAA the tournament)," Reynolds said. "The committee has tough Tournament." "The room exploded, I mean, we decisions to make, and the last Borseth took over the program started crying. It's just so excit- couple of years we weren't on the in 2007, turning around a pro- ing to us. To take that step in positive end of that choice, and gram that dwelled at the bottom the program our senior year, it this year we were," he said. "For of the Big Ten for the previous means so much." whatever reason, I don't know, four years and making it a com- Boylan added: "Our program but I'm glad we were." petitor in the conference. After has changed so much since Bors- When Michigan's name just his fifth season, his team is eth came here. We were a part of appeared on the screen shortly going dancing. his first recruiting class, and to after 7 p.m. on Monday, Borseth NOTE: The NCAA Tourna- l2 able toleave our footprTr on t halnathing 70F7psitives to sarii2Wt field features seven BigR the program means so much to about his team's season, reas- Ten teams, a conference record. us." sured by the committee's deci- They include: four-seed Purdue, . The Wolverines rode the bub- sion. four-seed Penn State, six-seed ble for the majority of the season, "It's a great feeling, obviously," Nebraska, eight-seed Ohio State, and many experts didn't think he said. "You go through all those nine-seed Iowa, 10-seed Michi- they would make it this year. trials together and your goal isto gan State and 11-seed Michigan. Burke set for first Big Dance ByBEN ESTES DailySports Editor There isn't much that fresh- man point guard Trey Burke hasn't done in his inaugural season for the Michigan bas- NOTEBOOK ketball team. Burke's looked like a veteran floor general in his short time in Ann Arbor. He leads the team in scoring with 14.8 points per game, he's taken over games when the Wolverines needed him to, and he's been named Big Ten Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week multiple times en route to sharing the conference's Freshman of the Year award with Indiana's Cody Zeller. But for all Burke's already accomplished in his young career, the Columbus native is obviously still in his first year and hasn't played in the NCAA Tournament yet. That will change on Friday against Ohio, and Burke - who took an unof- ficial visit to Ohio as a recruit - couldn't be more excited. "Growing up, that's every- one's dream, especially if you're playing in college," Burke said. "Growing up, I always watched March Madness and watched Selection Sunday and things like that. Just to be able to have the opportunity to participate in it and to actually play in it is just a blessing." The good thing for Burke, and Michigan by extension, is the point guard won't have to adjust to playing multiple games in multiple days. He picked up that experience back in November when the Wolverines played on three straight days in the Maui Invitational, and added to it last weekend in the Big Ten Tourna- ment. If anything, despite the added pressure in the Big Dance, it will be more of a breather than thosetwo events. There's a day between games and a week in between the ini- tial rounds, the Sweet 16 and the Final Four. That rest could be huge for Burke. He adamantly denied being tired in Michigan's ugly loss on Saturday to Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals, even though he had his worst performance of the season a night after playing all 45 minutes of the overtime win against Minnesota. Some may still worry about the proverbial freshman wall, but Michigan coach John Beilein has countered questions about his limited rotation in the past by pointing to how many teams besides his own ride their tenure. The Wolverines were an eight-seed last season, a dis- tinction that comes with low expectations considering the matchup looming with a one- seed in the next round. Michi- gan was seeded even lower three years ago, when it made the field as a 10-seed. Indeed, the chalk held true after Beilein's two teams won their initial games, falling to Duke and Oklahoma, respec- tively. 4 starter And minute all sea Wolver tire in but wil sion. "J CO tc2 Forr just ha the te Tourna carries nament is moi ing sur from i Buckey "The gry to Burkes expose Like I year,u ,timesr mindse my mi coming HUN' igan en ment t positio or even other t made t 's hard. But it's a different situation Burke has led the team in this season - with the Wol- es without breaking down verines seeded third, the base- son, which must give the line expectation is to make the rines hope that he won't Sweet 16 since they'll be favored the NCAA Tournament in their first two matchups. 11 instead rise to the occa- That could mean added pressure for a group of play- ers that have never advanced that far in their careers. But the team wasn't worried about 1St tobe able the change from giant-killer to actually "We had a target on our back .'V .1 -S. all year I think," said redshirt Sl i isjust sophomore forward Jordan be g Morgan. ss ng"We've been ranked. We've been kind of at the top of the conference all year, so we've been in that situation. We were his part, Burke said he's in that situation (Friday against ppy that the referees let Minnesota), so I think we're ams play in the Big Ten ready for anything." ament and hopes that CUE THE JOKES: The first over to the NCAA Tour- thought on everyone's mind on t. The freshman, too, Selection Sunday when Ohio re worried about mak- was announced as Michigan's 'e his team bounces back first opponent was what the its blowout loss to the team would be calling its adver- 'es. sary. e whole team's hun- Thanks to Michigan football get back on the court," coach Brady Hoke, Beilein has said. "We felt like we got taken to referring to rival Ohio d (Saturday), and we did. State as, simply, "Ohio." said, after each loss this But now the Wolverines actu- we bounced back three ally do have to play Ohio - how harder. We have a new could this dilemma ever be :t, and I have no doubt in resolved? nd that it'll be the same Quite easily, it appears. 9up." Senior guard Zack Novak said ITER TO HUNTED: Mich- they're playing "Ohio Univer- nters the NCAA Tourna- sity" or the "Bobcats." Beilein, his season in a different with a hint of a grin on his face, n than it did last year added: than it did in 2009, the "We're playing Ohio Univer- wo times the team has sity now. 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