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The Michigan Daily I michigandaily.com I January 27, 2014

MEN'S BASKETBALL
MICHIGAN HAS WON
FIVE OF SEVEN AGAINST
MICHIGAN STATE
THREE STRAIGHT
WINS AGAINST TOP - 10
OPPONENTS
I GUE SS I'M FEELING
WELL..SOME TYPE OF
WAY!
- JORDAN MORGAN
on Twitter
97-76 ALL-TIME RECORD
AGAINST MICHIGAN STATE
FIRST PLACE IN THE BIG
TEN
I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE A
FRESHMAN, BUT I KNOW
IHAD TO PLAY LIKE A
VERERAN.
-DERRICK WALTON JR.

WREESTLING
23 WINS FOR ADAM COON
BEFORE LOSING HIS FIRST
MATCH ON FRIDAY
SIX STRAIGHT DUAL MEET
VICTORIES
BEST BIG TEN START IN
DUAL MEETS
SINCE 200 .-06
HOCKEY
147-126-19 IN THE ALL-
TIME SERIES AGAINST THE
SPARTANS, HAVING WON
FIVE OF THE LAST SIX
GAMES AGAINST MSU
FIRST WIN IN EAST
LANSING SINCE THE 2009-
2010 SEASON
WEVEHADALLTHIS
OUR LAST FOUR GAMES,
WHICH WERE ALL LOSSES.
ALL THE PRACTICE TIME,
ALL THE MEETINGS, WHAT
WE'RE GOING TO DO,
WHAT WE HAVE TO DO,
AND SO ON. AND TO GO
OUT AND DO IT, THAT'S
ANOTHER THING.
- RED BERENSON

PAUL SHERMAN/Daily
Freshman point guard Derrick Walton Jr.'s and-1 in the final minutes helped the Michigan men's basketball team escape the Breslin Center with a statement victory over No. 3 Michigan State.
AST LANSING - what went lighting was installed. Or maybe Morgan had just helped the know him in a different light,
Jordan Morgan stood wrong. it's just a matter of perception, Michigan men's basketball too.
outside the visitor's The hallway because after rolling off three to an 80-75 win. It was the The hallway seemed gloomier
locker room in the bowels appeared straight wins over top-10 Spartans' second home loss to when Morgan was there last
of the Breslin Center on brighter this opponents - the first team to the Wolverines in four years, year. The Spartans had scored
Saturday night, brimming time around. do so in almost three decades an anomaly for a team that's a the first two baskets of the game
with unspoken smugness. -!The underbelly - everything around the team near-unbeatable 320-47 at the and the Wolverines rolled over.
It'wasjust a year ago, DANIEL of the Breslin seems to be glowing. Breslin Center. Afterward, the Facing the media followingthe
after a crushing loss in WASSERMAN Center has Win or lose, it was the fifth-year senior who never 75-52 loss - and it wasn't even
the same building, that he undergone same hallway. It was the same received a hint of recruiting that close - the veteran spoke of
positioned himself just a few some changes Michigan team, too, just on a attention from Michigan State a team without toughness.
feet away as he tried to explain since then, and perhaps new different timeline. basked in victory. But the walls See BASKETBALL, Page 3B
Wrestling prevails
despite Coon loss

By JUSTIN MEYER
Daily Sports Writer
Adam Coon put the
Michigan wrestling team on
his back time and again this
season, but on Friday it was
his teammates' turn to do the
carrying.
During the Michigan
wrestling team's dismantling
of in-state rival Michigan State
23-6, freshman phenom and

previously undefeated Coon
watched as the ref raised his
opponent's arm in triumph for
the first time.
Coon, the top-ranked NCAA
heavyweight, headed directly
to the locker room without
picking up his head as the
Spartans' ninth-ranked senior
Mike McClure celebrated in a
front of a stunned crowd.
"The first emotion is shock,"
Coon said. "You start to dwell

on 'What did I do wrong?' Now
that I've gotten my head back
together, it's figuring out 'OK,
what did he do to stop this and
what can I do to fix it."'
Four years of collegiate
wrestling separating McClure
and Coon were apparent in
the size difference between
the two wrestlers. Coon's
quickness and technical skill
were no match for the chiseled
See WRESTLING, Page 3B

ALLISOd ARRANep/aily
Freshman Adam Coon picked up his first loss, hut Michigan routed the Spartans.

UR , Wolverines take series

in Detroit, East Lansing

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By ALEJANDRO ZUNIGA
DailySportsEditor
EAST LANSING - After
the No. 14 Michigan hockey
team earned a chippy win over
Michigan State in Detroit on
Thursday night, Spartan coach
TomAnastos told reporters the
rivalry was "a man's game" and
that the "intensity was tough."
The problem with the

physical nature of the contest?
The Wolverines (4-2 Big Ten,
12-6-2 overall) aren't built for
what happens after the gloves
are dropped. Fighting isn't
allowed in college hockey,
and as sophomore forward
Andrew Copp explained
during practice earlier in the
week, Michigan doesn't have a
true enforcer anyway.
But Copp and the Wolverines

spent those practices tussling
with each other, or at least
pretending to. They drove each
other into the boards and to the
ground, feigning haymakers
to prepare for the weekend's
anticipated physicality.
In its series against the
Spartans (2-4-2-2, 8-11-3),
Michigan accepted the role
of the aggressor, and the style
See HOCKEY, Page 3B

JAMES COLLIER/Daily
The Michigan hockey team snapped its five-game winless streak by sweeping MSU.


"WIN THE GAME"
The Michigan basketball team heeded
sophomore Mitch McGary's advice
and upset the third-ranked Spartans on
Saturday. Page 2B

MOTOWN MAGIC
Junior forward Phil Di Giuseppe's goal
in Detroit gave the Michigan hockey team (et.,I/
momentum in its sweep of the Spartans. . - o"*"
Page 2B