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Sports
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, March 9, 2017 — 5A

Wolverines trying 
to keep perspective 
about postseason 
future coming up

The 
Michigan 
women’s 

basketball team accomplished 
a number of notable feats this 
season. The Wolverines have 
tied their record for wins in 
a single season with 22 and 
finished third in the Big Ten 
for just the fourth time in 
school history. They should 
also earn their seventh NCAA 
Tournament bid and second 
under 
coach 
Kim 
Barnes 

Arico. On paper, this year has 
been a major success for the 
Wolverines. 

But 
the 

way 
the 

regular 
season 

progressed also 
left 
Michigan 

disappointed. 
Three 
weeks 

ago, 
the 

Wolverines 
were No. 20 in 
the AP poll and 
projected 
to 

be a No. 6 seed in the NCAA 
Tournament. 
After 
losing 

four of its final five games — 
including two to rival Michigan 
State — Michigan has fallen to 
a No. 10 seed in most bracket 
projections.

Despite the poor finish, the 

Wolverines insist that they 
are capable of appreciating the 
larger picture of the season.

“You’re 
starting 
to 
see 

teams with the big names, 
and you start seeing 20 wins, 
21 wins, and then you realize, 
‘Hey, Michigan has 22,’ ” said 
Michigan 
assistant 
coach 

Megan Duffy on WTKA radio. 
“It’s hard in the day-to-day 
grind of it to take a step back 
and see the big picture of what 
you’ve done this year. One 
thing Coach (Barnes) Arico 
has been great about this year 
is trying to seize the moment, 
appreciate the win and don’t 
get too high or too low.”

Perspective 
and 
patience 

are two qualities Michigan 
will 
need 
abundantly 
over 

the next several days. Since 
the Wolverines lost 74-64 to 
the Spartans in the Big Ten 
quarterfinals, they do not have 
any more scheduled games. 
Michigan has to wait until 
the selection show Monday to 
learn its postseason fate.

Yet, plans have already been 

made for that day, regardless of 
what happens.

“We’ll get the team together 

and just kind of celebrate,” 
Duffy said. “It’s a neat evening 
for women’s basketball.”

The Wolverines have proven 

during the season that they 
are capable of responding to 
adversity. Following each of 
its first five defeats, Michigan 
retaliated with a victory in 
the next contest. All but one of 
those wins came by at least 20 
points.

This 
time, 
though, 

responding positively will take 
more work. After not losing 
back-to-back games prior to 
Feb. 17, the Wolverines have 
now 
suffered 
consecutive 

setbacks 
twice. 
Should 

Michigan earn a tournament 
bid as expected, it will have 
to go for a bounce-back win 
as an underdog in the NCAA 
Tournament.

To help with the process 

of 
turning 
things 
around, 

Michigan brought in help from 
a fellow basketball coach.

“(Men’s 
basketball 
coach 

John) Beilein came into our 
office,” Duffy said. “He said, 
‘You can’t let something like 
this dictate your season. And 
even going forward with your 
kids into the tournament, it’s 

a clean slate.’ They look to us 
and how we’re going to react in 
a lot of ways. And we’ve talked 
about not getting too upset or 
disappointed, just using it in 
a positive way. Let’s fix some 
things. Let’s get back to the 
basics.”

Another challenge for this 

team in seeing the bigger 
picture is the fact that none 
of 
the 
current 
Wolverines 

have ever participated in an 
NCAA Tournament game, as 
Michigan’s 
last 
appearance 

came in 2013. Barnes Arico’s 
staff, though, has plenty of 

experience 
in 

the Big Dance.

“I told them, 

even as simple 
as, 
when 
you 

watch games on 
TV, watch how 
teams 
show 

emotion,” Duffy 
said. 
“Watch 

how they’re so 
fired up for each 
other. 
Watch 

Derrick Walton right now as 
a senior. Those are the type 
of things that if you just seep 
some of that in, you’re going to 
see some positive results.”

One Wolverine who has a 

series of positive results has 
been junior guard Katelynn 
Flaherty, who scored 618 points 
this year and was a consensus 
selection to the All-Big Ten 
First 
Team. 
Still, 
Flaherty 

admitted that sometimes it’s 
hard to take a step back and see 
the larger picture.

“Sometimes I get so caught 

up in the little things,” Flaherty 
said. “Coming here, I used to 
be stressed out by everything 
you could imagine. (Barnes 
Arico and Duffy) have helped 
me enjoy being here and enjoy 
playing for this university.”

Duffy 
echoed 
Flaherty’s 

sentiments, 
and 
offered 
a 

reason for Flaherty’s anxiety.

“She comes in sometimes and 

is like, ‘Coach, I did really bad!’ 
” Duffy said. “I’m like, ‘Girl, you 
had 20 points and six assists,’ or 
something. But they’re always 
looking at something that might 
not be what we’re looking at 
and striving for perfection. As 
a coaching staff, we have to say 
‘Maybe you had some moments 
where you weren’t that great. 
But other times, you were really 
good and you have to still build 
off of that.’ ”

Whether or not Michigan 

can 
follow 
Duffy’s 
advice, 

building on the positives of 
the season while keeping the 
recent 
struggles 
in 
proper 

perspective, will go a long 
way in determining if the 
Wolverines — should they earn 
a bid — can pull an upset in the 
NCAA Tournament and notch 
their program-record 23rd win 
this season.

‘M’ awaits NCAA Tournament fate in 
Monday’s selection show after falling 
last week in Big Ten quarterfinals

NATHANIEL CLARK

Daily Sports Writer

“We’ll get the 
team together 
and just kind of 

celebrate.”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Betsa reaches new heights as senior

It seems unlikely that a 

pitcher with over 546 career 
innings, 789 strikeouts and 
a career earned-run average 
below two entering her senior 
season 
could 
make 
a 
big 

improvement. 

But in the early season, 

Michigan right-hander Megan 
Betsa has done just that — 
looking to stamp her legacy 
as one of the greatest pitchers 
in Michigan history with an 
improbable 
breakout 
senior 

season.

With 19 games in the books — 

and notably having faced some 
of the strongest opposition 
she will face all year, with 
five 
starts 
against 
ranked 

opponents already — Betsa is 
heading toward career bests 
across the board. Her ERA, 
1.69, would be a career best, as 
would the 350-plus strikeouts 
she is on pace for.

The low ERA and high 

strikeout total, though, are 
nothing new for the pitcher, as 
she’s been productive in those 
areas her entire career.

Coming off a fall season in 

which she did not pitch due to 
lingering injuries, Michigan’s 
ace did not rest on her laurels, 
setting out to lower her walk 
total and pitch count in order to 
allow her to throw more innings. 
So far, the improvements have 
been evident.

Her 27 walks through 66 

innings put her on pace for 
the lowest output since her 
freshman year, when she threw 
just 130 innings total. Betsa’s 
strikeout-to-walk ratio now sits 
at 4.26, a number that would 
exceed her career-best by a full 
strikeout (3.20 in 2015).

“We talked a little bit this 

past trip about not trying to nit-
pick the corners so much, and 
just spin the ball over the plate,” 
Betsa said. “Because as long as 
it’s spinning it’s still gonna move 
and they’ll still have a tough 
time hitting it. So not trying to 
be so perfect on the corners.”

Perhaps the most notable 

development 
with 
Betsa, 

however, is the optimism about 
her durability going forward. 

Taking off time in the fall, 

she and Michigan coach Carol 
Hutchins believed, would be the 
best way to assure her health for 
the 
postseason. 

In a sport whose 
postseason 
can 

be 
controlled 

by one pitcher 
throwing 
virtually 
every 

game, 
Betsa 

will 
be 
the 

Wolverines’ 
most 
valuable 

weapon as they 
head deeper into 
the season. And by all accounts, 
that rest period has served its 
purpose.

“I don’t feel as fatigued as 

I did, per se, last year at this 
time,” Betsa said. “So I think 

that’s something positive to 
keep in mind. All those pitches 
I didn’t throw in the fall, I still 
have them to throw now.”

And 

Michigan 
will 

need 
every 

single 
one 
of 

those pitches.

With 

the 
offense 

struggling 
mightily 
in 

recent 
weeks, 

Betsa has been 
responsible 
for 

leading the team 

through some of its struggles. 
Against No. 20 Arizona State on 
March 2, Betsa had to nurse a 1-0 
lead for the majority of the game. 
The lack of run support didn’t faze 
her, as she carried the Wolverines 

to victory with a dominant 
16-strikeout complete game.

“Our pitching keeps us in the 

game,” Hutchins said. “That’s 
kinda their role.”

No one would have faulted 

Betsa for being content with 
the production that ranks her 
comfortably among the best 
pitchers in school history.

According to Hutchins, that’s 

just not who Megan Betsa is. 

“She 
is 
a 
perfectionist,” 

Hutchins said in her season-
opening press conference. “Her 
own worst enemy.”

But 
with 
a 
newfound 

combination 
of 
dominance 

and efficiency, it might be that 
perfectionism that has lifted 
an already-dominant pitcher to 
new heights early in her senior 
season.

MARINA ROSS/Daily

Senior right-hander Megan Betsa has found a way to become even more dominant after resting during the fall season.

MAX MARCOVITCH

Daily Sports Writer

“I don’t feel as 
fatigued as I 
did last year at 

this time.”

BY THE NUMBERS

Michigan Women’s Basketball

10

Michigan’s NCAA Tournament seed 
according to ESPN.com, which has the 

Wolverines as one of the last four in

8

Michigan’s seed according to 

College Sports Madness, which has 

the Wolverines in Baylor’s pod

10

Michigan’s seed according to 
RealTimeRPI, which has the 

Wolverines in Oregon State’s pod

