The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com e , Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 3B MICHIGAN ATHLETICS SCOREBOARD L A S T W E E K SU NDAY (JA N. 13) Wrestling Wisconsin19, Michigan 16 Men's Basketball: Ohio State 56, Michigan 53 Women's Basketball: Michigan 54, Wisconsin 43 T HU RS DAY (JAN. 17) " Men's Basketball: Michigan83, Minnesota 75 Women's Basketball: Michigan 67, Northwestern 53 .F R IDAY (JA N. 18) Women's Swimming: Michigan 163, Ohio State 137 Women's Tennis: Michigan Invitational Wrestling lowa33, Michigan 10 Men's Swimming: SMU Classic: First Place after Day UOne e Hokey: Michigan 6, Lake Superior State 4 SATURDAY (JAN. 19) Women'sWaterPolo:Michigan15,ColoradoState9 Women' Gymnastcs: Michigan197.350, Iinois 195,100 Me's Tennis Michigane4, CU 3 Woren's Water PoUCLA 12 Michigan 3 Ice Hockey:Lake Superior State3, Michigan 2 Men's Swimming'SMU Classic:Second Place Men's Gymnastics: Windy City Invitational: First Place Women's Wate Polo: San Jose State 9, Michi- gan 6 Women's Water Polo: San Diego State 11, Michi- gan i0 SU N DAY (N OV. 11) Women'sBasketball: Pennstates9, Michigan 49 N E X T W E E K THURSDAY (JAN. 24) Men's Basketball: Michigan vs. Purdue 7 pm (*) Women's Basketball: Michigan at Indiana 7 pm (Bloomington) FRIDAY (JAN. US) Mens ennis: Michigan at Santa Clara1 pm PT (Berkeley) Women's Water Polo: Michigan at Stanford 3 pm PT (Palo Alto) Women's Swimming: Michigan at Michigan State 6 pm (East Lansing) Men's Ice Hockey: Michigan at Western Michigan 7ptn (Kalamnazoo) SAT URDAY (JA N. 26) Women's Tennis: Michiganvs. Brown10am() Women's Water Polo: Michigan at San Jose State 11 am PT (San Jose) Women's Tack: Mihigan vs. Michigan State 6 pm (Allendale) Men's Track: Michigan vs. Michigan State 6 pm (Allendale) Women's WaterPolo: MichiganatCalifornia6 pm PT (Berkeley) Women's Gymnastics: Michigan vs. Minnesota, Central Michigan, Iowa State 6 pm CT (Min- neapolis) Men'sGymnastics:Michiganvs. Stanford7pm Men's Ice Hockey: Michigan at Westen Michigan 7:35 pm (Kalamazoo) Men's Tennis: Michigan vs. Boise State or Cali- A fornia am or pm(erkeley)lWomen's Golf: Alumni Mach TBA(Naples) SUNDAY (JAN. 27) Women's Basketball: Michigan vs. lowa 2 pm () Wrestling- Michigan vs. Northwestern 2 pm () Men's Basketball: Michigan at Illinois 5 pm CT (Champaign) Women's Tennis: Michigan vs. South Carolina or Missouri TBA(') - (*) All home events are eligible to earn points for the Athletic Department's HAI.L program. BIG TEN MEN'S BASKETBALL STANDINGS Bie Ten Overall Michigan State 5 1 16 3 Michigan 4 1 17 1 Indiana 4 1 16 2 Wisconsin 4 1 135 Minnesota 3 2 15 3 Ohio State 3 2 13 4 Purdue 3 2 10 8 Iowa 2 3 13 5 Northwestern 2 4 11 8 Illinois 1 4 14 5 Nebraska 0 5 10 9 Penn State 0 6 8 10 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @theblockm @blockm bball @blockmhockey @blockmfootball AND'LIKE' US ON FACEBOOK, TOO MICHIGAN From Page lB said Penn State coach Coquese Washington. "We just didn't want to give them open shots." While Ryan strived to pres- sure Lucas throughout the game, Lucas had her way on the floor with 12 points in the first half. Sheffer dominated the paint for the Wolverines with 10 points in the first half, though senior forward Nikki Greene controlled the glass with seven rebounds. Thompson started off hot, nailing two three-pointers to start the game, though she fin- ished the half shooting 2-for- 7 due to Bentley's limiting defense. "We were trying to spy, especially Kate Thompson," Lucas said. "She' s a great shooter so we were trying to spy her." Sheffer led an 8-2 run mid- way through the first half to put Michigan within one point. After nailing a 3-pointer and two layups, Sheffer then took a charge to ignite the Wolverine defense. Penn State recovered with an 8-1run of its own going into the break, leading the Wolverines 32-24. "I thought Rachel did a tre- mendous job inside and showed a great toughness about her tonight," Barnes Arico said. "She wasn't getting her shots to fall, but she really did a great job. Greene has weight, height, everything on her and Rachel really held her own and got her into foul trouble." Michigan opened the second half with eight straight points, but Lucas would respond with her team in foul trouble. Green picked up a flagrant foul to open the second period, her third personal of the game, forcing herto the bench early. The Wolverines were able to slow down the clock as it found itself in the bonus more than midway through the second period. Freshman guard Madi- son Ristovski's free throws were valuable in cutting the difference and bringing Michi- gan within a point of the lead. After a back-and-forth bat- tle, the Lady Lions pulled away on an 8-3 run that gave them a nine-point lead. The Wolver- ines struggled to recover and shot poorly down the stretch despite Lucas on the bench. In the end, Penn State's tena- cious defense and rapid scoring was too much for Michigan to handle in the final minutes of the game as the Wolverines conceded their first conference loss. "The thing about Penn State is that they score in bunches," Ryan said. "I think it was just one of those games where their runs just came at a bad time for us." Michigan was outrebound- ed in the game, 41-34, yet the teams finished even on turn- overs with 15 a piece. "I mean we average about 15 (turnovers a game) and you're playing a team like Penn State that presses you the entire game and forces teams to 25 turnovers a game," Barnes Arico said. "So if we can keep it to under 15, we think we put ourselves in a really good posi- tion in the game." The season is far from over for the Wolverines, who still have the opportunity to record one of the best seasons in pro- gram history. Michigan has been resilient through its first five conference games, but will need to continue to improve if they hope to remain in the national spotlight. "Our league is incredibly strong, and tonight we faced the top of our league. But there is no bottom, so if you don't bring your game night in and night out you can lose to any opponent in our league," Barnes Arico said. "We have a short turn around, but this was a great Penn State (team) we faced tonight." FELDMAN From Page 1B house team of the Big Ten in No. 8 Penn State. It was a chance to show the nation and the Big Ten that the Wolverines were not a young newlywed couple looking ,for attention. They were here to make a long lasting impression. Something old "This senior class is coming off of three years of things that hadn't been done in a longtime," said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico at Michigan media day in October. "We owe it to them to make it the bestyear we can make it." And all season longthe Wol- verines have done that. The five-member senior class of guard Jenny Ryan and forwards Rachel Sheffer, Kate Thompson, Nya Jordan and Sam Arnold have carried the scoring burden due to the team's lack of depth. The quintet has accounted for 80 percent of the team's scor- ing, with the trio of Thompson, Sheffer and Ryan averaging 15.8, 12.4 and 11.4 points per game, respectively. Scoring has not been the only area thatthe senior class has kept steady for Michigan, as the group has averaged over 23 rebounds per game, including 6.1 for Jor- dan and 5.8 for Sheffer. Butthe most outstanding statistic for any senior and any player on the team has been Thompson's shooting from beyond the arc. Through 17 games, she has averaged 3.88 triples per game and is on the path to break the school record for 3-pointers in a season. Com- ing off a game in which she made a school-record seven 3-pointers, she would be as important as ever in Michigan's game against Penn State. Something new For a team coming off its first NCAA Tournament in 11 years, winning is not something routinely associated with the Wolverines. It is associated with Barnes Arico. Fresh off of a Sweet Sixteen appearance with St. John's last season, and three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, Barnes Arico came to Michigan with an idea in mind - building a championship program. Without a doubt, Barnes Arico has done just that, leading the Wolverines to their best start in program history while tyingthe program's mark for consecutive games won. With her 15-2 start, Barnes Arico is already tied for the second-most wins by a first-year head coach in Michigan history and in the process, became the first Michigan coach to win her first two conference games, let alone her first four. Under her up-tempo coach- ing style, the Wolverines were thriving. They were finding the open person on the offensive end and shooting the nation's 10th- best percentage from the field. Despite their lack of height and depth, they were still managing to outrebound opponents by six rebounds a game. Barnes Arico was finding ways for her team to succeed. Somethingborrowed Despite its hot start, Michi- gan still wasn't drawing a large crowd appropriate for ateam with 15-2 record, but with a matchup of Top-25 teams, the Wolverines finally gottheir wish on Monday night. "You're always going to have those loyal fans, but if you start winning, you'll get more and morepeople," Barnes Arico said. "It always makes a big difference to have that crowd." Even with the black curtains in the upper sections in use to limit the seating capacity, a three-fourths full Maize Rage was loud and proud to cheer on its home team in a game widely promoted by the Athletic Depart- ment. With an autograph session with star football players at five o'clock, free pizza for all students in attendance and the event being designated as a five-point activity on the H.A.LL application, the 2,842 people on hand made up- the biggest home attendance of the season. And as the game progressed with ups and downs, the crowd got loud. When Thompson made a 3-pointer in the opening min- utes, the crowd went wild. When a call didn't go their way, the fans let the referees know their opin- ion. For the first time this season, a team other than the men's bas- ketball team had a lively Crisler Center crowd on its feet. Something blue It seemed that the Wolverines had it all locked down. The fami- lies were present. The rings were ready to be exchanged. It seemed that if Michigan had anything for certain, it would be something blue.,But just as quickly as love can come, it can easily slip away too. And on Monday night, the. team inblue postponed Michi- gan's wedding. With fans in white supporting Penn State and upstagingthe bride-to-be, Michi- gan shot a season-low 28 percent from the field. Meanwhile, the Lady Lions' two preseason Big Ten first-team players, Alex Bent- ley and Maggie Lucas, combined for 35 points while toying with the Wolverines' hearts from start to finish in their 59-49 victory. But not all is lost for Michigan; a team that was just a few made jumpers from going on its honey- moon. The season is still young and as in any break-up, you have to move on to bigger and better things. For the Wolverines, the bigger and better things start with Indi- ana on Thursday. ROAD WIN From Page 1B through the rest of the stanza - they effortlessly killed off its first penalty a couple of minutes later. But as the period started to wind down, the -Lakers regained their confidence, and started peppering junior goal- tender Adam Janecyk with shots. It seemed to be a matter of time before Lake Superior State (8-9-1, 13-12-1) found the back of the net - and they did, with an effortless back- hand from the slot with a little more than one minute left in the frame. When the whistle blew at the end of the first period, a skirmish broke out between junior defenseman Jon Mer- rill and a Laker, resulting in a Michigan pen'alty kill to kick off the second frame. Once again, the penalty- kill unit killed off the penalty without batting an eye, and Michigan dominated posses- sion in the second period with countless grade-A scoring opportunities, though they just couldn't bury the chances. That is, until senior for- ward A.J. Treais' one timer off a beautiful feed from soph- omore forward Alex Guptill's turnover in the neutral zone found twine to simultaneous- ly put the Wolverines up 2-1 and end the captain's scoring drought that had lasted since Dec.1. But once again, Michi- gan's lead was short lived as the Lakers knotted up the game minutes later on the man advantage to finally end the Wolverines' perfect pen- alty kill, which-had thwarted three Lake Superior State penalties up to that point. Where Michigan's defense had appeared strong before, it started to collapse upon itself in the final period. Though Janecyk was on the receiving end of some puck luck, that didn't excuse the miscues that brought the puck dan- gerously close to crossing the line, including a turnover in the neutral zone that lead to a Lake Superior State break- away. But Janecyk's luck couldn't last forever, and the Lakers slammed in a rebound goal to put them up 3-2, a score that would stand, with 13 minutes remaining in the game. After that, the Wolverine offense started to pick itself up, but was unable to create the same quality looks at net that they had earlier on in the game. "We just needed one shot to get by them and that never happened," Bereason said. "We got some good shots and some good looks and the puck never went in. We got (some) good chances (but) it's tough to buy a goal. Tonight, we were lucky to get two." And the Wolverines, who had been on cloud nine the night before, could barely find the words to explain how the game slipped out of their grasp. "I thought we deserved to win this game," Treais said. "(We) just didn't bury our chances and they got lucky on a few rebounds. That's the way it goes sometimes." BURKE From Page 1B been around the show since they have been playing college basketball. This allows the pro- ducers of the show to track cer- tain players, like Burke, before they even begin college. This is the third time Burke has been featured on "The Journey," but it's the first time this season. Generally, each individual seg- ment runs about six minutes, so it's a telling sign of Burke's young career that he has already been featured three times in less than two full seasons. In this week's episode, foot- age from Burke's senior season of high school was shown as part of the show. Even though Burke wasn't highly recruited before he became a Wolverine, the pro- ducers of "The Journey" filmed Burke in high school and held onto that footage for three years. In the scene, Burke is dribbling the ball in his Northland High School jersey at the top of the key. The camera unfocuses for a couple seconds, revealing Beilein sitting behind him, intently watching his future floor general. "We had kind of known about Trey a year earlier, because we had gone to do a story about Jared Sullinger, whose dad just hap- pened to be Burke's coach," said Bill Friedman, a senior producer at the Big Ten Network. "We shot the game and saw this kid was really good. At the time, he had been a Michigan commit, so we kind of sat on that footage. It worked out." The show wouldn't function without the amount of access it is granted. "The Journey" shoots around 15-25 hours a week, even thoughthe showisjust ahalfhour - closer to 22 minutes with com- mercials. Friedman and the other pro- ducers of the show have wit- nessed Michigan's ascension over the last three seasons, from Big Ten also-ran to national contend- er, and he had good things to say about the progress of the Michi- gan program over the last three seasons. "It's been really neat for us to see how the program has grown," Friedman said. "Beilein is very embracing of what we try to do, his assistants are great people, and the players are well-spoken, engaging people. That's what's fun to be around. You don't have to worry about his team, because they all have their heads on straight. "That's one of the things that comes across to us loud and clear when we visit Michigan. They are really fun to be around." If you missed it, the episode re-airs Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., and at11 p.m. WOMEN'S SWIMMING Michigan upsetsBuckeyes By ERIN LENNON battle in the 1,000-yard freestyle Daily Sports Editor from sophomore Adrienne Bicek, one of her two individual victo- On aFridayeveninginCanham ries on the night. Natatorium, when the maize and And while the Buckeyes blue of the Michigan pep band swept the 200-yard freestyle stood side by side with parents and snagged first-place finishes sporting scarlet and gray, it was in a majority of the individual clear that the Buckeyes were in events, several second- and third- town. place finishes by the Wolverines The Michigan women's swim- secured the win. Michigan took ming and diving team entered both second and third in the 200- the meet boasting a 20-3 all-time yard fly, 50-yard freestyle, 100- record against its arch-rival.No. yard freestyle and the 200-yard 15 Ohio State came into its first backstroke. Big Ten meet with just one loss on Senior Deirdre Jones, who the season. The Wolverines were placed second in both her free- 2-4 overall and had lost to each style events, was a catalyst in Fri- ranked opponent they had faced day'svictory. this season. " "(Swimming against Ohio But whether it be football, bas- State) gets us really competitive ketball or track, when these long- and makes us almost desperate time rivals meet, numbers are all to win," Jones said. "Even the but void. So was the case on Fri- people who aren't big stars on the day night, when No. 25 Michigan team are trying to make the effort outswam the Buckeyes, 150-133. to get those few points." "Whenever we beat Ohio State, Added Bottom: "This speaks to it's a big win," said Michigan the future. Most of those (placing coach Mike Bottom. "You can talk finishes) come from young swim- to any (Michigan) team here, any mers. We're a first-year program, player. When you beat Ohio State, if you look at it that way. Some of it's a big win." the things that we're doing right, The Wolverines opened up the their starts, their finishes, their meet with a win in the 200-yard turns - those are all improving medley relay and after a 40-lap as we go." A first-place finish from break- out freshman Marni Oldershaw in the 200-'yard individual putthe Wolverines up by just 17 points headed into the final heat of the meet. Between the band, the cowbell and the booming crowd, it wasn't so hard to imagine Canham Nata- torium as the Big House on a crisp Saturday afternoon. "It was an absolutely incred- ible feeling," Jones said. "We like to say that the last relay is both where the meet starts and the meet ends, because it usu- ally comes down right to that. We knew that OSU would be compet- itive withus downtotheveryend, and it literally came down to that last leg of the relay." Three swimmers into the 400- yard relay, lanes four and five were in a dead heat. Off the block, freshman Ali DeLoof sprang out within a millisecond of the Buck- eye to her right and the anchors began their glides beneath the surface. And 50.75 seconds later, DeLoof touched the wall, two- tenths of a second ahead of her rival. "I think you can see it in this team," Bottom said. "We don't have a top end, we have ateam." JOIN THE DAILY! COME TO OUR NEXT MASS MEETING Thurs., Jan. 24 at 7:30 p.m. 420 MAYNARD ST. f