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9 Impressionist’s
métier
14 Mount between
Pelion and
Olympus
15 Bat mitzvah
dance
16 “__ Theme”:
“Doctor Zhivago”
song
17 Done in a
comprehensive
plan?
20 Primed
21 Duffers’ dreams
22 Gamer’s game
face
23 Criticize harshly
24 Emailed a dupe
to
25 Darth, before he
turned to the
Dark Side
28 Postgrad
challenge
32 Quarrel
33 Pit-__: heart
sound
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shots
35 Tied up in a
government
program?
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tile
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playing computer
45 To a greater
degree
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or sugar
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Stripes, e.g.
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sports car?
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“in”
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hurdle
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connected PCs
5 Lockup, in slang
6 Carved symbol
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tradition
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style
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Famer Al
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24 Have a jones for
25 Like football
passes
26 “Scrubs” extra
27 Herbal flavor
similar to licorice
28 __ citato: in the
work cited
29 Case for Scully
30 Leafy healers
31 Canadian Alice
with a Nobel Prize
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38 Run out of gas
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going
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48 Young newts
49 Cross off
50 Alternative to de
Gaulle
51 Tech news site
52 Desperate
53 Sugar craving,
say
54 Wrinkled-nose
cause
56 Co. with brown
trucks
57 Place to plant
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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