January 16, 2007
(vol. 117, iss. 76)
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… its season on Saturday night, and the scene was a far cry from the team's final meet of last year. On the night of last season's team qualifiers at NCAAs in Oklahoma, the Wolverines sat dejected and…
… injubilant clusters rather than asin- gle-file line, arms over each other's shoulders, shouting, "It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine!" No. 8 Michigan outperformed the meet's five other squads with…
…'t believe it." Though Michigan finished first in every event but vault, no single apparatus went without a hitch. The Wolverines began the night on parallel bars, where two of the first three gymnasts did…
….25. "I think one thing that's really dif- ferent this year is that a missed set doesn't mean ascore in the fives - it means a score in the low eights." There was at least one Wolverine in the top three on…
… provides a huge confidence boost to the young Michigan team. But the Wolverines will not lose the intense focus that has marked them ever since their disappointment in Okla- homa. "Obviously we're real…