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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Jordan
Poole sat with a towel over his
head, eyes red with tears. Duncan
Robinson stood next to him, his
voice barely audible. Isaiah Livers
was down a ways, isolated from the
rest of his team. Charles Matthews
and Zavier Simpson sat deep in their
lockers.
All
of
the
Michigan
men’s
basketball
players
answered
questions about the 79-62 drubbing
they’d just taken from Villanova in
the NCAA Championship game. The
Wolverines’ answers varied from
regret to pride for the tournament
run to love for their teammates.
But one thing that was consistent
was the struggle for an explanation of
what just happened. Villanova made
all the right plays all night long, and
Michigan was rendered completely
helpless.
“We lost to a team that was better
than us tonight,” said Wolverines
coach John Beilein. “And we were
telling our kids, ‘We’ve just gotta be
better than them one night.’ Because
they are talented and have incredible
experience. But we didn’t have it, and
they did.”
Every time Michigan did start a
semblance of a run, it was answered
immediately.
With just under seven minutes
left and the Wolverines trailing by 14,
Poole forced a turnover and sprinted
into the frontcourt. He slipped into
the lane and rose up through traffic
but missed the contested layup
wildly off the backboard.
Moments later, the Wildcats’
Mikal Bridges came the other way
and drilled a three with a hand in his
face.
It was a play that made Beilein
shake his head in disbelief when he
talked about it after the game. And
the play started a run that crushed
Michigan’s hope once and for all.
“We talk big about chopping the
tree down,” Livers said, referencing
the metaphor the Wolverines use
to talk about making a comeback.
“You can’t chop a tree down when
you chop it one time and then on
the next time down they hit a big
shot. Especially, I think there was a
spurt when (Villanova guard Donte
DiVincenzo) hit two or three of
them in a row, and one was a lay-up
or something like that. And when a
guy’s going like that, it’s just tough on
a team.”
Livers was right. DiVincenzo
hit everything he looked at for the
Wildcats. He hit and-one layups
and pull-up threes and two-handed
dunks en route to an 18-point first
half and a 31-point game.
“(It’s) frustrating as heck, because
you play good defense on the guy,”
Livers said. “… So you’ve gotta do
your best to alter his shot and get in
his way, but every time we tried to do
that he just adjusted.”
Entering the game, it seemed
like Michigan would need a perfect
storm to win anyway. Villanova had
to have an off night shooting, Jalen
Brunson would have to have an off
night all around, and the Wolverines
would need to be clicking offensively.
In the beginning of the first half,
that seemed to be taking shape. After
making his first two shots of the
game, Brunson missed his next four.
The Wildcats missed their first four
threes. Wagner had 11 points and
Michigan sprung out to a seven-point
lead with just under 11 minutes left.
That’s when DiVincenzo, the Big
East Sixth Man of the Year, went off.
After leading for most of the first
half, the Wolverines were caught
in a whirlwind. They missed 14
of their 18 shots after taking that
seven-point lead. That, combined
with DiVincenzo’s explosion, erased
Michigan’s promising start. The
Wildcats led, 37-28, at the break.
The run to end the half was a
precursor of what was to come.
“They’re
really
talented
top
to bottom and experienced, and
they’ve played on this stage before,”
Robinson said. “Not that that’s any
sort of excuse, because we feel like
we could have played better, but
tonight they were just a lot better
than us clearly.”
The Wolverines exited the court
at the Alamodome with confetti
cascading around them, like they
had in Los Angeles and New York.
But it wasn’t for them this time. The
Big Ten Tournament Championship
and the NCAA West Regional
Championship didn’t mean anything
in that moment.
Because
on
Monday
night,
Michigan ran into a buzzsaw that
it had no hope of stopping. The
Wolverines were outgunned and
outmanned in the final game of the
season, and now it was all over.
Villanova won its second NCAA
Championship in three years, and
Michigan was helpless in stopping it.
MIKE PERSAK
Managing Sports Editor
The
U.S.
Commerce
Department
announced
on
March 26 the 2020 census
will include a question asking
respondents whether they are
U.S. citizens. Made during
a heated national debate on
immigration policy, the decision
has raised significant questions
about potential effects of the
change at the University of
Michigan.
According to a statement
released by the department, the
decision will help gain more
accurate
information
about
eligible
voter
demographics
and will assist the Department
of Justice and the judiciary
with enforcing Section 2 of
the Voting Rights Act, which
protects minority rights.
However, opponents of the
decision argue the question will
disincentivize
undocumented
immigrants from filing census
data. According to the Pew
Research Center, there were
11
million
undocumented
immigrants
in
the
United
States in 2015, making up 3.4
percent of the total population.
If a significant portion of these
people choose not to respond
to the census, the survey
would deliver an inaccurate
population count and distort
the demographic makeup of the
U.S.
Numerous
government
agencies and outside groups rely
on the information gathered
in the census, which is carried
out every 10 years, for accurate
population data. Changes that
could impact its accuracy are
subject to scrutiny. In this case,
immigration advocacy groups
are concerned the addition
of the question will lead to
inadequate attention to ethnic
minorities and immigrants in
government work.
New York Attorney General
Eric T. Schneiderman, one
of President Donald Trump’s
most active opponents among
state attorneys general, plans
to file a multi-state lawsuit
challenging
the
decision.
California
Attorney
General
Xavier Becerra filed a separate
lawsuit on March 26.
William
Lopez,
a
postdoctoral
fellow
in
the
School of Social Work working
with
immigration
research,
said he believes the question
will have a significant impact
on the results of the census
and the nature of government
immigration
policy
could
contribute to this effect.
“Having
a
citizenship
question on the census is going
to disincentivize anyone from
taking the census who is not
a citizen,” Lopez said. “The
reason for this largely is we take
the census — we are counted
by our government — in order
to receive the resources which
should be equitably directed to
us. The issue for undocumented
folks is that they are well aware
of the government resources
that are directed to them.
And that is Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, border
patrol
and
targeting
their
removal. So there’s no incentive
to categorize yourself in a group
the government is currently
pursuing.”
The
question
does
not
inquire
about
the
legality
of a respondent’s residence,
and many legal residents are
not U.S. citizens. However,
Lopez claims the presence
of the question would likely
impact responses. Lopez also
said
Trump’s
generalized
immigration
rhetoric
could
discourage even legal residents
from
responding,
including
immigrants protected under the
Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program, which grants
legal status to minors brought
into the country illegally.
“On a larger political scale,
Trump is not differentiating
people who are undocumented
versus DACA versus permanent
resident versus in the process
of getting documented,” Lopez
said.
“He’s
just
throwing
all immigrants in the same
category, legally or otherwise
… If you’re not identifying
yourself as a citizen, you’re
identifying yourself as someone
Talking on their experiences
as queer, practicing members of
their respective religions, a panel
of speakers Monday night covered
discussions about what it means
to be an LGBTQ+ person and a
person of faith, and considered
the harm or ignorance people
may face in either community.
Though the speakers at the
event — hosted by the Spectrum
Center at the University of
Michigan — came from an array
of
religious
backgrounds,
a
shared sentiment many of them
expressed was the reconciliation
of
their
different
identities.
Reverend Matthew Lukens, a
chaplain at Canterbury House,
recalled being raised in a fairly
conservative environment as a
Southern Baptist in Alabama.
He talked of the difficulty he
had in bringing together his
appreciation of the church and
his gay identity.
“I was really involved in my
church and I loved it,” Lukens
said. “It was a great community
for me. It was just a way that
really defined how I moved
through the world. Realizing that
I was gay completely pulled the
rug out from me as a person. I had
to spend a lot of time putting back
together how I fit myself into the
world.”
Merton Spencer, a member
of the Lord of Light Lutheran
ministry
on
campus,
echoed
Lukens’s
sentiment,
saying
sometimes one identity would
take precedence over the other.
“At times, my gay identity
would be more evident in the
way I was living my life, and my
thoughts, and my feelings and
how I handle that as a person
of integrity also,” Spencer said.
“And sometimes my identity as
a Christian would become more
prominent and impactful on my
life. Those would sometimes go
Religious LGBTQ+
figures, students talk
dual identity struggles
Intersectional identities, difficulties outlined in
panel of queer leaders, students of various faiths
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE
Daily Staff Reporter
New census question draws controversy
from University immigrant community
2020 Census will include question asking respondents if they are U.S. citizens
RILEY LANGEFELD
Daily Staff Reporter
See LGBTQ+, Page 3
See CENSUS, Page 2
Not enough
KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily
Michigan outgunned by Villanova in title game, finishes as runner-up