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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

