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author
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valence
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Michigan’s quiet superstar

Freshman Connor 
responds to World 
Juniors snub, earns 
GLI MVP honors

By JUSTIN MEYER 

Daily Sports Writer

Through the smears on fogged 

glass, it is possible to just make 
out the Michigan hockey team’s 
star freshman forward crouched 
low in net.

Fishing out pucks after a 

grueling midweek practice, Kyle 
Connor is the last player to leave 
the ice. Connor doesn’t seem to 
mind; he’s only worried it might 
make him late to conditioning.

But that’s the 18-year-old’s 

demeanor in a nutshell — the 
attention never mattered to him 
anyway.

December was Connor’s best 

month of his fledgling collegiate 
career. The 17th overall pick by 
the Winnipeg Jets in the 2015 
NHL Draft led the nation in 
college goals (seven) and points 
(13). He had two game-winning 

goals 
during 
the 
stretch, 

including a third-period tally on 
Dec. 29 that sent Michigan to the 
Great Lakes Invitational final.

The accolades came, too, as 

Connor earned GLI MVP honors 
and was named the Hockey 
Commissioners’ 
Association 

National Rookie of the Month for 
December.

But it was a snub, delivered 

by e-mail no less, that grabbed 
the 
headlines. 
When 
Team 

USA announced the roster for 
the 2015 IIHF World Juniors 
Tournament 
in 
Finland, 

Connor’s name wasn’t on the list. 
He hadn’t even been invited to 
the selection camp.

Connor, who has a career .81 

points per game with USA teams 
and starred in 2014’s U18 World 
Junior 
Championship, 
was 

shocked.

“Any time you don’t make 

a team — yeah, sure it hurts,” 
Connor said. “But you know, 
they 
did 
a 
good 
job 
over 

there. Congrats to (Michigan 
sophomore 
defender) 
Zach 

Werenski and the rest of the 
team.”

Team USA finished as bronze 

medalists.

Some think the tryout snub 

may date back to Connor’s USHL 
days 
with 
the 
Youngstown 

Phantoms. After a tremendous 
rookie year, Connor returned 
to Youngstown despite interest 
from 
the 
National 
Talent 

Development Program in Ann 
Arbor. In his sophomore season, 
Connor set a record for career 
points (74) with the Phantoms.

Sleights of this sort can be 

hard for Team USA to forgive.

“There is a loyalty towards 

players who have gone through 
the program in the past,” Dan 
Marr, chief scout for NHL 
Central 
Scouting, 
told 
The 

National Post. “It’s a little harder 
for someone who hasn’t been 
part of the process to break in.”

So was that chip on his 

shoulder the catalyst for another 
breakout performance at the 
GLI?

“I don’t think so, I just played 

my game,” Connor said.

Even Michigan coach Red 

Berenson seems to be incredulous 
at his star’s unflappability.

“I was worried how he would 

take the weekend he had against 

Minnesota and put that on the ice 
after Christmas, but there was no 
question when he came back for 
practice,” Berenson said. “That 
was good, because I was worried 
he might start worrying about the 
World Juniors and everything. 
He maxed out his weekend.”

Connor 
always 
seems 
to 

be doing exactly what he is 
supposed to do. He brings it in 
practice, wants to be a better 
defender and always gives the 
credit to his teammates.

Asked about his favorite goal 

this season, the left-winger said 
he doesn’t have one, offering 
only, “When you score, they 
don’t ask you how.”

The 
routine 
borders 
on 

monotony.

But the strategy is paying 

dividends. Opposing teams can’t 
ignore the freshman when he is 
scoring at this clip, and Connor 
is quickly becoming the most 
dangerous offensive weapon in 
Michigan’s deep arsenal.

He has found the most boring 

possible path to stardom, but 
that doesn’t seem to bother 
Connor at all — he never did 
care about the attention.

Sports
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, January 7, 2016 — 5A

JAMES COLLER/Daily

Freshman forward Kyle Connor didn’t earn a spot on Team USA’s roster for the World Junior Championships, but he kept up his stellar play nonetheless.

Michigan hosts 
Big Ten leaders

By CHRIS CROWDER

Daily Sports Writer

The 
Michigan 
women’s 

basketball team is on a rough 
two-game skid to start the Big 
Ten season, and the schedule 
will only get 
tougher 
from 

here 
as 
the 

Wolverines 
(0-2 Big Ten, 
8-5 
overall) 

host Big Ten-
leading 
Iowa 

and No. 5 Ohio 
State for two 
out of the next 
three 
games. 

Thursday 
night, 
they 

will play the 
Hawkeyes (3-0 
Big Ten, 12-3 overall), looking to 
right the ship.

In its past three games, 

Michigan fell by two points 
or fewer to Eastern Michigan 
and Purdue, and suffered an 
overtime defeat to Indiana. Last 
year, aided by senior leadership, 
the Wolverines handled each of 
those teams with ease. Though 
the Big Ten season has just begun, 
it is evident that losing former 
seniors Cyesha Goree, Nicole 
Elmblad and Shannon Smith has 
created a tough transition period 
to begin the season.

This year’s Michigan team 

is certainly different than last 
year’s. 
The 
Wolverines 
are 

talented, 
and 
the 
freshman 

class of center Hallie Thome, 
guard Boogie Brozoski, guard 
Nicole Munger and forward Sam 
Trammel will bring Michigan 
success 
by 
the 
time 
their 

careers are over. But for now, 
inexperience has hurt this team, 
especially in the close losses. 
The clearest example is Thome, 
who has gotten into foul trouble 
early, unable to play late in games 
when the team needs her 6-foot-
5 frame for an inside presence on 
both offense and defense. 

“We started the season playing 

exceptionally well, and then we 
hit a little bit of a bump in the 
road,” said Michigan coach Kim 
Barnes Arico in an interview 
with WTKA. “For the most part, 
(we have) kids who have never 
been in that position before 
down the stretch of tough games. 
So they’re learning and their 
confidence is shaken a little bit, 
but it’s something we continue to 
work on in practice.”

Against Eastern Michigan, the 

Wolverines had a 12-point lead 
going into the fourth quarter. 
The Eagles kept pecking away at 
the lead, even though they were 
facing a more talented team. 
Talent didn’t beat effort, and 
Eastern Michigan clinched an 
upset win on its home floor.

In the last home game against 

Purdue, 
the 
Boilermakers 

scored the go-ahead basket in 
the waning seconds. When it 
was Michigan’s turn to step 
up, it wasn’t accustomed to the 
pressure. The Wolverines took 
the ball up the court, passed 
off for a worse shot and missed. 
After a foul, Brozoski — who is 
shooting 75 percent from the 
charity stripe this season — had 

an opportunity to tie the game 
by making three straight free 
throws, but missed the first.

Against 
Indiana, 
the 

Wolverines surged in the fourth 
quarter to cushion a lead going 
into the final minutes. The 
Hoosiers then went on a 12-3 
run to end the quarter, forcing 
the game into overtime, when 
Michigan eventually lost again.

Iowa lies just outside the 

top 25, but was ranked 23rd at 
the beginning of the season. 
The Hawkeyes also lost three 
seniors — the highest-scoring 
trio of all time in the Big Ten 
with 42.3 points per game — but 
are trending the opposite way 
as Michigan. Iowa is currently 
on a four-game winning streak, 
including kicking off Big Ten play 
2-0. Led by guard Ally Disterhoft, 
who is averaging 17.1 points, the 
Hawkeyes boast three players 
who average double figures.

In the two conference games 

Michigan has played thus far, 
it has allowed an average of 71 
points, while scoring an average 
of 66. Iowa has done nearly 
the reverse, on average scoring 
71.5 points and allowing 66.5. 
It would not be a surprise if the 
trend continued, especially since 
Iowa already has a challenging 
road win on its resume, in 
Lincoln on New Year’s Eve 
against Nebraska.

With the toughest games 

ahead of the Wolverines, a win 
against the Hawkeyes could 
change 
the 
momentum 
of 

their whole season. Iowa is the 
better team on paper, but the 
Wolverines are not guaranteed 
a loss. If the contest is close in 
its last minutes, Michigan will 
face another situation in which 
the game is down to the wire, 
needing not just one player on the 
floor to step up, but all five.

“The last couple weeks we 

watched a lot of film on areas 
where we need to improve 
and things we’re not doing 
exceptionally well,” Barnes Arico 
said. “We’re going to really watch 
some things and some times 
where we played exceptionally 
well. We had a 30-point win 
over Pittsburgh, a team that is 
doing pretty well right now, and 
(against) Xavier, a team that 
has only two losses, we had a 
30-point win.”

At the moment, Michigan 

does not look like a Big Ten 
contender. It is near the bottom 
of the standings and has lost 
three 
straight 
games 
that 

should have ended differently. 
If the Wolverines had closed 
out those games with a win, 
they would have just two hard-
fought losses to Princeton and 
No. 15 UCLA.

But instead, they started off 

with three Big Ten losses, and 
face another difficult obstacle in 
Iowa. Michigan is aware of its 
challenge ahead, though.

“I was coming over to Pizza 

House for the radio show, leaving 
the office at 6:45 (p.m.), and I had 
three freshmen walking into the 
gym to get some extra shots up,” 
Barnes Arico said. “It’s a great 
thing to see that they haven’t lost 
their determination and they’re 
still fighting.”

AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Boogie Brozoski is one of many young Wolverines getting playing time.

Iowa at 
Michigan

Matchup: 
Iowa 12-3; 
Michigan 8-5

When: 
Thursday 
7 P.M.

Where: Crisler 
Center

TV/Radio: 
BTN Plus

