ACROSS
1 Inaugural ball,
e.g.
5 Calcium source
9 Open, as
toothpaste
14 Very dry
15 Down to
business
16 Former
Cleveland oil
company
acquired by BP
17 San __, Italy
18 “Of course”
19 Match with
bishops
20 Access to 54-
Across
23 Catalina, e.g.
24 Houston-based
scandal subject
25 Wood-shaping
tools
27 Phone button trio
30 Badminton
barrier
31 Short-legged dog
32 Emotionally out
of control
34 “Mad” social in
54-Across
37 Spud
38 Benefit
39 Butte relative
40 Like 2016
41 Antacid choice
42 Deteriorate
43 34-Across
napper in 54-
Across
45 Remove pieces
from?
46 Fencing defense
47 Keep out
48 Mao __-tung
49 Shortening brand
51 Divided country
53 Wild West
weapon
54 Setting for a
novel originally
published
11/11/1865
59 Loafs
61 Some
intersections
62 Slushy treat
63 Approaches
64 Bond girl
Kurylenko
65 Facial area under
a soul patch
66 Prickly shrub
67 Corset stiffener
68 Fish caught in
pots

DOWN
1 Teri of “Tootsie”
2 Neck of the
woods
3 Common perch
4 Acrobat creator
5 Restaurant host
6 Soup server’s
caution
7 Use, as a chaise
8 “As seen on TV”
record co.
9 Pac-12
powerhouse
10 Baseball rarities
11 Critter who kept
disappearing in
54-Across
12 It may be graded
in an auditorium
13 Plays to the
camera
21 Deep-seated
22 Online money
source
26 Alsatian dadaist
27 Took steps
28 “Top Chef”
network
29 Hookah smoker
in 54-Across
31 Bus. brass
33 Highly respected
Buddhists
34 Improvised
booster seat for a
tot, maybe

35 Romanov royals
36 Self-
congratulatory
cheer
38 Active
41 “The Burden of
Proof” author
42 Restaurant visitor
44 Hobbit enemy
45 Venture to
express
47 Barrio food store
49 Keeping in the
loop, briefly

50 Wild West show
51 Lowered
oneself?
52 Visitor to 54-
Across
55 Plains people
56 Overexertion
aftermath
57 Diamond of
music
58 Man caves,
maybe
60 Nottingham-to-
London dir.

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Ristovski readies 
to play her sisters

Detroit matchup 

personal for 

Wolverine senior 

guard 

By TED JANES 

Daily Sports Writer

The 
trash 
talking 
has 

already begun in the Ristovski 
household.

Three sisters — Madison, 

Haleigh and Lola Ristovski — 
have been playing basketball 
together for as long as they can 
remember. Madison, a senior 
guard at Michigan, will go 
head-to-head with her younger 
siblings this weekend when 
the Wolverines face off against 
Detroit on Sunday.

Haleigh, 
a 
junior 
guard/

forward, and Lola, a freshman 
guard, are now together for the 
first time since they played high 
school at University Liggett in 
Sterling Heights. Now that Lola 
has moved into the collegiate 
ranks, the younger pair has 
the chance to team up and go 
against their older sister when 
the two teams meet on Sunday.

“I’m really excited to play 

against 
them,” 
Madison 

Ristovski said. “We’ve been 
playing together since we were 
little. I’m really looking forward 
to the game, and I know a lot of 
people from my hometown are 
going to be there, which is going 
to be really special.”

The middle child, Haleigh, 

is likely to start for the Titans, 
and while Lola might not be in 
the starting five, she managed 
to play 15 minutes and nail a 
3-pointer in the team’s season 
opener against Lawrence Tech, 

so it’s likely that at some point, 
all three of them will take the 
court.

Back in high school, for 

Madison’s senior year, all three 
started for University Liggett, 
and the Ristovski trio came 
together for a monster campaign 
in Madison’s last go.

Even though they all play 

different styles now in college — 
Lola being more of a transition 
player and Haleigh developing 
more 
inside 
with 
a 
post 

presence — when they linked up 
in high school, with Madison at 
the point, and Haleigh and Lola 
playing the ‘2’ and ‘3’, the guard-
heavy lineup was lights-out all 
season.

“That year, we lost two games, 

and we played the toughest non-
conference schedule,” Madison 
Ristovski said. “We made it to 
the state championship.”

University Liggett lost, 61-57, 

in the closely contested 2012 
Class C championship game, 
a shootout in which Madison 
went for 42 points. The team 
fell to Morley Stanwood, but 
Madison, the newly crowned 
Michigan Miss Basketball, had 
the performance of a lifetime, 
supported by the aid of her 
younger siblings.

“We lost, but I think me, 

Haleigh and Lola had 53 of the 
57 points,” Ristovski said.

Four years later, Lola is again 

a freshman and Ristovski again a 
senior, but in completely different 
realms. Michigan and Detroit 
have met each of the last two 
years, and the Wolverines hold a 
2-0 advantage over the Titans.

Sunday afternoon, Madison 

will try to bump that number 
up to three, proving that she’s 
still the alpha in the loaded 
basketball family.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

‘M’ defensive line 
aims to play mean 

Hurst, Wormley 

focused on 

toughness as home 
stretch approaches

By JAKE LOURIM

Managing Sports Editor

To open a chat with reporters 

Tuesday 
night, 
redshirt 

sophomore 
defensive 
tackle 

Maurice Hurst credited his 
breakout season to his coaches, 
defensive 
line 
coach 
Greg 

Mattison and student assistant 
Will Carr.

Then, Hurst expounded on 

his praise of Carr, referencing 
his All-American career as a 
nose tackle at Michigan in the 
1990s:

“He was a bad dude.”
Carr, an All-American in 1996 

with 180 tackles, 38 tackles for 
loss and 11 sacks in his career, 
isn’t the only one in the locker 
room who could be described 
that way.

“We try to see ourselves 

as that,” Hurst said of the 
Wolverines’ 
defensive 
line. 

“There’s certainly times when 
we’re 
like 

that.”

Michigan’s 

defensive 
line has been 
tenacious 
this 
season, 

accounting for 
19.5 sacks and 
40.5 
tackles 

for loss. The 
front is a big 
reason 
that 

the Wolverines 
rank first in the nation in scoring 
defense.

Just as jarring, though, have 

been the individual highlights. 
On Oct. 31, Hurst crushed 
Minnesota 
running 
back 

Shannon Brooks for a loss of 
three on 3rd-and-goal from the 

two-yard line, forcing a field-
goal try. In the previous game 
against Michigan State, redshirt 
junior Chris Wormley stormed 
the 
backfield 
and 
sacked 

Spartans quarterback Connor 
Cook on third down, forcing a 
punt.

“Especially 
when 
you’re 

winning games and you have 
that confidence, that just makes 
you play a little harder, a little 
faster, a little tougher, a little 
more mean,” Wormley said. 
“You have that arrogance to 
come in and say, ‘You’re not 
going to push us around, and 
we’re going to win this game no 
matter what it takes.’ ”

Wormley leads the team with 

10 tackles for loss, and he and 
Hurst have both at least doubled 
their output in that category 
from last year. Hurst, who made 
just one such stop in 2014, has 
already made 5.5 this season.

“Although he plays nose, he’s 

the fastest guy off the ball,” 
Wormley said of Hurst. “He’s 
very quick. He’s very sneaky, 
and he makes plays, which is 
what we need on the defensive 
line.”

Though 
quiet 
and 

unassuming off the field, Hurst 

has 
ramped 

up 
the 

intensity 
at 

various points 
this 
year, 

providing 
highlight 
plays for the 
Michigan 
defense 
that 

carry 
over 

until the next 
time the unit 
takes 
the 

field.

“I definitely think you have to 

turn it up on the field,” Wormley 
said. “You can be the quietest, 
calmest guy walking down the 
street, but when it’s Saturday 
and you turn it up, you have to 
have that mentality, (different) 

than you would if you were 
watching TV with your mom or 
dad.”

Hurst and Wormley could 

be critical Saturday if redshirt 
junior 
Ryan 
Glasgow, 
who 

injured his shoulder in the 
first quarter last week against 
Rutgers, can’t play. In that case, 
presumably, Hurst would make 
his first career start.

But the shuffling along the 

line won’t be anything new 
for Michigan, which also lost 
sophomore nose tackle Bryan 
Mone to a season-ending injury 
in August. Rotation has been 
one of the hallmarks of the 
defensive line, and it will be a 
key Saturday against Indiana’s 
up-tempo offense. Hurst noted 
that while constant changes 
on the offensive line can bring 
chemistry issues, the practice is 
common on defense.

It helps that the Wolverines 

are also feeling better physically 
than they were at this time last 
year. 
Strength 
coach 
Kevin 

Tolbert, whom head coach Jim 
Harbaugh brought from the 
NFL’s 
San 
Francisco 
49ers, 

has focused more on recovery 
in weekday workouts, making 
sure the players are freshest on 
Saturday.

That 
ensures 
that 
Hurst, 

Wormley and Co. can wreak 
havoc in the opposing backfield 
as they have all season.

“For sure, I think we’re 

playing a lot more physical,” 
Hurst said. “Even if you turn on 
the Michigan State game from 
last year and you turn it on from 
this year, I think we’re playing 
a lot more physical up front. I 
think that was a big game where 
you could see that.

“I definitely think that’s 

something we really improved 
on. 
(We) 
kind 
of 
stopped 

ourselves from getting knocked 
around, and really trying to be 
the hammer, not get pushed 
back 
and 
push 
everyone 

forward.”

FOOTBALL

“For sure, I 
think we’re 
playing a lot 

more physical.”

Walk-on Hibbitts picked 
Michigan over scholarship

By KELLY HALL

Daily Sports Writer

For 
most 
high 
school 

basketball players with Division I 
aspirations, college decisions are 
made long before May of senior 
year. Brent Hibbitts, however, had 
to wait until he was admitted to 
Michigan before making his. 

Hibbitts had already received a 

handful of scholarship offers from 
mid-major schools such as Central 
Michigan, 
Western 
Michigan 

and Appalachian State when 
Michigan coach John Beilein and 
the Wolverines entered the mix 
during his senior season.

But playing for Michigan came 

with a catch: Hibbitts would have 
to be a walk-on and pay his way 
through college.

Days after hearing of his 

acceptance, the 6-foot-8 forward 
decided to become a preferred 
walk-on for the Wolverines, and 
just a few weeks after that, he 
arrived in Ann Arbor for summer 
training. 

“I had several offers that I was 

considering,” Hibbitts said. “But 
then Michigan came up, and that 
was obviously a different option 
because I’d be a walk-on and have 
to pay, but it also had its benefits: 
the academics, the level of play, 
just being a part of Michigan. 

“I’m a Michigan guy, so I 

guess that’s kind of always been a 
dream.”

The role of a walk-on is 

less glamorous than that of a 
scholarship 
athlete, 
but 
the 

benefits that come with playing 
against Big Ten talent and earning 
a Michigan degree were too hard 
to ignore.

“I’m undecided on my major 

right now,” Hibbitts said. “But 
obviously, it’s Michigan, it has 
very high academics. When I do 
decide, I know I’ll be getting a 
great education no matter what I 
major in.”

Hibbitts averaged 17.5 points, 

11.3 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per 
game as a senior at Hudsonville 
High 
School, 
garnering 
an 

Associated Press Class A All-State 
honorable mention and an offer 
from Central Michigan, where his 

older brother, Blake, is a two-sport 
athlete, was particularly enticing. 

Though his brother initially 

wanted him to be a Chippewa so 
they could play together again, the 
elder Hibbitts backed off as time 
went by and more offers rolled in. 

“As (recruitment) went on, he 

was just like, ‘Do what’s best for 
you,’ ” Hibbitts said. “I waited 
it out and decided that this was 
best for me, and he was really 
supportive as well, just like 
everyone else in my family.”

During 
Michigan’s 
2014-15 

season, the importance of the 
walk-on role was apparent. After 
then-junior guard Caris LeVert 
and 
then-sophomore 
guard 

Derrick Walton were sidelined 
with 
season-ending 
injuries, 

then-sophomore walk-ons Sean 
Lonergan and Andrew Dakich 
appeared in 17 and 13 games, 
respectively, playing over 120 
combined minutes. They were 
more than just garbage-time 
players. 

Though the Wolverines are 

healthy and experienced for 
the time being, Hibbitts knows 
from history that if he puts in 
the work, he’ll get meaningful 
minutes down the road. As 
one of just two freshmen on a 

seasoned squad, it’s expected 
that Hibbitts will redshirt this 
season. 

The other freshman — German 

forward Moritz Wagner — is 
Hibbitts’ roommate.

“He’s a really goofy dude,” 

Hibbitts said of Wagner. “It’s 
been good. (The team) really 
accepted us with everything, on 
the court, off the court. Moe is my 
roommate, so we got to know each 
other really well, and then we got 
to know the team together. It’s 
been a good relationship.”

For now, Hibbitts and Wagner 

are just learning the ropes in 
practice, side by side with future 
NBA talent, while simultaneously 
adjusting to college life. 

“I was a little bit overwhelmed 

when I first started playing with 
(LeVert),” Hibbits said. “I was 
just like ‘Wow, he’s a really good 
player.’ A lot of other guys are like 
that too. Now I’m kind of used to 
it, but I’m still impressed by how 
good of a player he is. He works 
really, really hard too, so it’s no 
surprise that he’s that good.”

After giving up full rides 

to other schools just for the 
opportunity to contribute to the 
Wolverines, Hibbitts plans on 
working hard, too.

JAMES COLLER/Daily

Brent Hibbitts is expected to redshirt in 2015-16.

