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September 09, 1971 • Page Image 44

…Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, September 9 1971 Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, September 9, 1971 I II hitless, but. foes do worse . Yet the Wolverines still had a good team…

… 68%. Almost lost in the shuffle was basketball captain Dan Fife, whobwas regarded good enough to be drafted in the second round by the Detroit Tigers. The Wolverines entered Big Ten play hopeful, with…

… more than Burton against Wisconsin, the first no-hitter by any Wolverine since records started being kept and only the eighth ever in the Big Ten. Michigan also took the night- cap, and then won one with…

…. Had the game gone on and Michigan won, second place would have been won all alone. The Wolverines still could have had the runnerup spot all' to themselves, but they split the next day with Purdue when…

… place- Ann Arbor. It has almost become taken for granted that Michigan will splash home each year in the Hoosier's wake. The past eleven years tell the story. Each time the Wolverines could not muster the…

September 09, 1976 (vol. 87, iss. 1) • Page Image 34

…Page Two, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, September 9, 1976 Baskc;tball.- Shooting for the top spot Fast Wolverines return four starters By KATHY HENNEGHAN The 1976-77 Michigan basketball team…

…, voted Coach of the Year by his colleagues, knows what he has to work with for a change. Prior to last season the Wolverines were an un- known quantity. First and foremost was the problem of replacing '75…

…-pleaser virtually indispensable on the Wolverine fast break. If there was one star on last year's team, it was Green. He seemed reck- less on defense in the early going and sometimes tried to do too much, but he…

…. At season's start, a national championship seemed be- yond their wildest dreams. Nevertheless, come the end of March, the Wolverines were playing in the na- tional finals versus nemesis Indiana. But…

…-4 in the Big Ten, good for second place in the conference behind the Hoosiers, h a d earned the Wolverines a spot in the first round of the tourney against Wich- ita State. Behind by as much as 13 points…

… to spark a come-from-behind 95-88 victory over Missouri in the Regional final. T h e Tigers' Willie Smith was phenomenal with 43 points, but the more team- oriented Wolverines von the right to the…

… national semis in Philadelphia. From the opening 90-63 rout of a veteran Vanderbilt club, the Wolverines proved themselves a force to be reck- oned with. What might have been a re- building year began to…

… his tenure at Michigan. The Wolverines came of age in a hard-fought 82-81 loss at Tennessee. They stormed past their next five non- conference foes before losing at Ne- vada-Las Vegas in an unevenly…

… at Bloomington a month later was perhaps the finest ef- fort of the season. Before a national television audience, the Wolverines droped a thriller that they appeared to have won and many thought they…

… extra period, 72-67. Michigan was clearly a team cap- able of rising to a challenge. But it was also a team guilty of mental lapses. In general, the Wolverines were at their best when fighting for their…

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