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… its first collegiate final examination. But the Wolverines had a test in a tough Nebraska squad last night at Crisler Arena. The proctors took the form of the Cornhuskers, who taught the young Michigan…

… team that it still has a long way to go before it reaches honor roll. One of the Wolverines' first lessons was Nebraska's stifling, trapping 1-2- 2 halfcourt press. Freshman Molly Murray, who is playing…

… season-high 99 points. Nebraska shot .672 percent - .002 off the all-time high for a Michigan opponent. Wolverine defenders looked more like matadors, conceding easy baskets to the bullish Nebraska offense…

…. If the Wolverines had won last night, not only would they have had more wins than in each of the past two seasons, they would be better-prepared for future exams. Michigan coach Trish Roberts said that…

… the win would have would have turned the team around and given the Wolverines a much-needed lift. All they can do is study and prepare for the next one. Women fall to Nebraska, 99-81 By RAVI GOPAL…

… Daily Basketball Writer The Michigan women's basket- ball team played 30 minutes of solid basketball last night. Unfortunately for the Wolverines, the Nebraska Cornhuskers played all 40. As a result…

…, Michigan was swamped by the Huskers (6-2), 99- 81, at Crisler Arena. After falling behind by as many as 12, the Wolverines (3-4) found them- selves trailing by just three. The Husk- ers' lead was 66-63 with…

… 10:38 to go. Then Michigan stopped playing, and Nebraska's Anna DeForge started. The 5-11 freshman guard poured in 11 of her 20 points to key a Husker harvest. Coupled with a sputtering Wolverine…

… said. The intellectual stimulation that the Wolverines seek won't be found in Harvard's libraries, however. It will be found in the pool as they take on the Crimson, Boston Uni- Oversity and No. 13…

… Florida in the Harvard Invitational. Yet, only half of the Wolverines will be heading east. Michigan is also swimming at the Eastern Michi- gan Invitational tomorrow and Sat- urday. The contingent going to…

… their mass exodus home for the holiday season. Not the women's swimming and diving team. The No. 4 Wolverines head to the Aloha State Dec. 17 for two weeks of fun, practicing and competition in the r…

… blazing sun. The closest Michigan will come to a white Christmas this year is the sun glistening off the white sand. Butnot to worry; many of the Wolverines' par- ents will be joining their daughters in…

… overtime. The Wolverines lost the game but gained the respect and admiration of the college basketball world. Revenge against Duke. That instantly became a battle cry for a group of players that expected to…

… possibility that the teams will meet in the NCAA tournament. r Ironically, the closest King, Jackson, and former Wolverines Chris Webber, Juwan Howard and Jalen Rose would ever get to defeating the Devils was…

…nd on the all- time Michigan scoring list. He sur- passed Rickey Green, who scored 1,184 points as a Wolverine in the mid-1970s. Next on the list for King is former teammate Chris Webber at 1,218. King…

… winning six of the meetings, but the Wolverines were able to take two games at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The series resumed in 1989 with the Wolverines winning in a 113- 108 overtime thriller at Crisler…

… been something clearly wrong with the play of the Michigan basketball team this season. Maybe the Wolverines missed the flair of Jalen Rose or the heady leadership of Juwan Howard. Maybe LL Jimmy King…

… step up and lead the team. Saturday, against Tennessee-Chatta- nooga, they did. The twosome scored eight of the Wolverines' final l1 points, combin- ing for 42 overall, as No. 17 Michigan (3-2) pulled…

… arguing the call. The Moccasins made all four free throws to shave an I I- point Wolverine lead down to just seven. Fisher removed King after the technical and Jackson took over. "When (the technical…

… Notre Dame coach Ric Schafer. After all, he had to endure the chorus of the famous song every time the No. 5 Wolverines (7-2 CCHA, 10-4 overall) scored Saturday night at Yost Ice Arena. Michigan's runaway…

… 11-2 romp over the Irish (1-9, 3-11) certainly kept the band busy and Schafer frustrated. "I love the spirit here, I really do," said Schafer of the Wolverine follow- ing. "I just wish that, on some…

… night, we could silence (the band) for a while." While the fight song was loud Saturday night, the Michigan offen- sive firepower was deafening to Notre Dame. Eight Wolverines scored in Michigan's most…

…10 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, December 12, 1994 Wolverines claw past Panthers, 81-67 'M' tops last season's win total with victory over Wisconsin-Milwaukee !" A By DAVID…

… than its opponents, the Wolverines nearly suffered an upset. The Panthers (0-5) hung in the game for 34 minutes before Michigan (4-4) dispatched them, 81-67. Wolverine coach Trish Roberts was happy to…

…-Milwau- kee surged to within two, 25-23. DiGiacinto responded with a slic- ing drive to the basket, and a 10-foot jumper from Amy Johnson put the Wolverines up by five. But then Michigan's problems began just…

… win. The triumph evened Michigan's record and gave it one more victory this season than the Wolverines had all of last year. Brzezinski is pleased with the team's progress this season. "We're really…

… helped the Wolverines to their fourth win of the season with eight points. BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK Four wins not enough for Roberts, Wolverines $2 PITCHERS OF KILLANS ARTIC ICE By RODERICK BEARD Daily…

… Basketball Writer With Saturday's 81-67 victory over Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Michi- gan improved its record to 4-4. This marks the first time since 1991-92 that the Wolverines have won four games in a season…

…. Michigan was 7-21 that year, the last year in the tenure of former coach Bud VanDeWege. Since then, the Wolverines have gone 2- 25 and 3-24, respectively, with only one conference win. Though Michigan has…

… 6-2 instead of 4-4." The Wolverines lost a close four- point game at South Carolina and surrendered a commanding 14-point lead to Weber State earlier in the season. Michigan has won three of its last…

… re- maining players had to play the last 4:17 of the game. The Panthers had two other players with four fouls, but Michigan could not foul either one out. If the Wolverines could have drawn another…

… down 10.8 per contest. Fresh- man Pollyanna Johns has paced the Wolverines the past three games, though. Johns snagged 12 against Eastern Michigan, nine versus Ne- ANY OTHER S$2FFPITCHER 9 - CLOSE…

…6 - The Michigan Daily -- SPORTSMonday - Monday, December 5, 1994 Wolverines excite UTC r 'M' game biggest event ever in Chattanooga By RYAN WHITE Daily Basketball Writer CHATTANOOGA, Tenn…

…- Chattanooga a major event? It's hard for anyone from Ann Arbor who sees the Wolverines against Duke every year, and has seen Michigan in the Final Four two of the last three seasons to be excited about the…

… 7:30 at Crisler Arena. Itwill be anotheryear before Michi- gan fans can see former Wolverine Leon Derricks play in a Titan uniform, Nonetheless, Detroit features a num- ber of high-profile players…

…'s team return - center Alan Renner- Thomas (5.3 ppg) and forward Herman Jenkins (4.4). The Titans are still trying to find a. way to replace departed star forward Tony Tolbert. The former Wolverine led the…

… Midwestern Collegiate Con- ference last season in scoring (23.6). Last year the Wolverines defeated the Titans, 78-60, at Crisler Arena. TENNESSEE-CHATTANOOGA (71) FG Fr REB #IN WiA hi-A O-T A F PTS Hanson…

… idle beat Rice, 67-50 idle idle lost to No. 9 Duke, 69-59 idle idle 0 0 OVERTIME Continued from page 1 off with a6-3 victory at 118 pounds, the next four Wolverines lost - two by major decision. The…

… the Wolverines. Ranked No. 8 na- tionallyGray ranks four spots ahead of Biggert in their weight class. Trailing 4-2 in the final period, Biggert executed a takedown in the last two seconds to tie the…

…. With under 15 seconds remaining in the third period, a scramble ensued between Biggert and Gary in front of the Wolverine bench. Biggert tried to bring his foe back into the ring, but failed. Gary…

…. He took advantage of Gary's obvi- ous fatigue and threw him to the mat for a two-point takedown with under one minute remaining. The points provided a needed win for both himself and the Wolverines at…

… haunt the Wolverines, as Airron Richardson lost in overtime, 2-1, giving Illinois the victory. Athle-te of t"he W. m WHO: Mike Knuble TEAM: Hockey HOMETOwN: Caledonia, Mich. YEAR: Senior ELIGIBILITY…

…. His efforts helped the Wolverines to victories over Western Michigan, 4-3, and the Buckeyes, 7-2. BACKGROUND: In his 11 games this season, Knuble has tallied 14 goals, leading the team. The senior right…

… a wing was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the 199? NHL Draft. SLeasing Now For Fall 1995! May-to-May Leases Too! Trivia Answer In 1990, the Wolverines won 20 games while finishing tied for…

…-guard set. Advantage: Even Centers Duke's Cherokee Parks is the first go-to center the Wolverines havefaced. How Michigan' slow-post play- ers react to the challenge could determine the fate of the game…

…. Neither Makhtar Ndiaye nor Maurice Taylor can defensively do the job alone, so the rest of the Wolverines are going to have to be quick in helping down low. Advantage: DOUGLAS KANTER/Daily Ray Jackson…

… qualifications for the above her are held by former Olympi- NCAA championships in March. ans Lea Loveless and Whitney The Wolverines beat their closest Hedgepeth. competition by over 300 points. South "I wasn…

…- Florida with 792. The Wolverines place at the Harvard Invitational this were next, tallying 783. weekend, because their early flight However, Michigan led the meet forced them to leave before competi- after…

… with five 3-pointers. Michigan's lead was cut to 13, 69-@ 56, with 7:30 remaining. Three-point- ers by Wolverine guards Fife and Jimmy King were answered by Detroit's Michael Jackson and Porter. Porter…

… Ypsilanti when the Michigan women's basketball team plays neigh- borhood rival Eastern Michigan. The Eagles and the Wolverines posted miserable records last season but have high hopes for this year's campaign…

… Eagles doubled last year's win total. The Wolverines have also recov- ered from a catastrophic '93-94 season. Already, Michigan is one win away from matching last year's victory total. Despite early season…

… coach Perry Watson left Michigan after the 1992-93 season, but he says he still had a hand in the Wolverines' latest recruiting class. "I actually started recruiting the group," Watson said after Monday…

… LOOKS COULD KILL: Wolverine senior Jimmy King was slapped with a technical foul in last Saturday's game against Tennessee-Chattanooga. After Ray Jackson was fouled in the second half, King verbally…

…?: Wolverine coach Steve Fisher is changing starting lineups like socks these days. Fisher used his fifth different starting five on Monday against Detroit. Thus far the only regulars have been Dugan Fife…

…, beer mugs were awarded for each first-place finish. As a result, the Michigan men's swimming team worked a little harder than usual to end up on top, Wolverine coach Jon Urbanchek said. "Everybody was…

… pretty excited to win," Urbanchek said. "That's why we won so many races, because everybody wanted to get a beer mug." MUG wiNiERS: Michigan won nine out of the 14 races it appeared in and six Wolverines…

… accustomed -to playing out of the spotlight - Ray Jackson and Jimmy King. At the same time, there were five freshmen and a handful of inexperienced leftovers to *work into his system. However, the Wolverines…

…- ing to get on track, its schedule may provide the perfect opponent at the perfect time - it plays Tennessee- Chattanooga (1-1) tomorrow at 2p.m. The Wolverines defeated the Mocca- sins, 97-89, last year…

… Women's Basketball vs. South Carolina Tonight, 7:30 p.m. Columbia, S.C. S Hockey vs. Notre Dame Saturday, 7 p.m. Yost Ice Arena Wildcats turn Wolverines into kitty litter Offensive woes…

… Basketball Festival, mostly a partisan Michigan crowd, saw the Wolverines continue to struggle to put the ball in the net. It must seem like a broken record for the Wolverines. In three out of the four games…

…. Quickly this game turned into a laugher sending many of the 18,885 toward the exits with a round of boos with over nine minutes to go. It seemed as if there were a lid on the Wolverine basket. The long…

… Fife five and a half minutes into the game and tried Jimmy King and Jerod Ward at the guard spots. Later, Bobby Crawford ran the point for the Wolverines. The result remained the same. Right now Michigan…

… be just what the Wolverines needed. It's much better that they have found out there inadequacies at this point in the season than further down the line. Arizona runs all over 0 Blue, 78-57, By…

… minutes of the second half, and turned the ball over on six of its first seven possessions. As a result, the Wolverines managed only 26 second-half points and watched a 32-31 halftime deficit ex- plode into…

… offensive attack without Mike Knuble is about as effective as a rifle without a firing pin. With the preseason Hobey Baker candidate on the ice, however, the No. 4 Wolverines are tougher to beat than Ronald…

… Wolverines reached the league's penthouse. "For us to be sitting in first place right now after the start we had is a real positive," Michigan coach Red Berenson said. Here's one vote that says the Wol…

… stems from the re- sultof the lasttime the Wolverines took the ice. In their last game, Michigan lost to Minnesota, 4-3, after leading 3-1 in the third period. Tomorrow's game will also be tough for the…

… Irish because it's the Wolverines' only home game in the month of December, and it's the only game for both teams this weekend - thus making it the focal point for the Wolverines' aggression. "We have…

… the holiday break, the Michigan wrestling team will have to cut its festivities a little short in order to get back to business. After a week off for the holidays, the Wolverines will be back in Ann…

… best non- collegiate wrestlers as well, will be a change of pace for the Wolverines who are used to an extended holiday break. "It will probably be the toughest tournament we will be in all year…

… pressure is on (heavyweight Airron Richardson)." Richardson lost 2-1 in sudden- death overtime to let the Illini take the match 17-16 and the momentum the Wolverine upper-weights had gar- nered. "He told me…

…, 'I made the classic mistake that all athletes make,"' Bahr said of Richardson, "'I wrestled not to lose instead of to win." Richardson, and the rest of the Wolverines, however, will have three weeks to…

… freshmen stole the spotlight. Wolverine forwards Maurice Tay- lor and Willie Mitchell were the key elements in Michigan's astonishing 24-0 first-half run. Mitchell's 3- pointer with 8:20 remaining in the…

… opening stanza cut the Duke lead to 11 and provided the spark for the Wolverine explosion. Taylor led Michigan in scoring with 15 points but had only one re- bound. The Wolverines were never the same after…

… with 23. Down the stretch Krzyzewski al- lowed his freshmen to guard Michigan's top players, including Wolverine senior Jimmy King. Wojciechowski was a constant pest, forcing King into many difficult…

… basketball coach pN The Wolverines took an early 5-2 lead in the game but quickly fell be- hind. Duke reeled off nine straight to take a seven-point lead. A 10-0 run increased the Blue h Devils' lead to 28…

… team's return to the ice after the semester break for exams, but not all of the Wolverines will be returning at once. Michigan's top three scorers are all expected to be out of the lineup while they…

… morning to try out for the Canadian team. Their absence will push a couple of defensemen up to forward slots, but the depth of the Wolverine blueliners should prevent this from becoming a problem. "We don…

… you walk into the building. It's got that popcorn, hot dogs and spilled beer stench to it. It's a great hockey atmosphere." For some Wolverines, the tourna- ment will be the first taste of the venue…

…-30. The Wolverines take on Michigan State, Michigan Tech, and Cornell at Joe Louis Arena. Michigan is going for its seventh-straight GLI championship. GOOD. I THOUGHT SO, TOO. KNOW ANY SPANISH? 1 470…

… what lineup the Michigan men's volleyball team used. The Wolverines won even whenthey were out of their positions. Saturday night in Burton, Mich., a scrambling Michigan team defeated Michigan State in a…

… tight, emotional five setter, 9-15, 15-11, 9-15, 15-13, 15-13. The win was Michigan's second over the Spartans this season. Previ- ously, the Wolverines beat their cross- state rivals in another tough…

… boxes that should have had signs posted on the front that read "Standing Room Only". Wolverines Blake Sloan, Peter Bourke, Mike Knuble, Jason Botterill and Brendan Morrison all found themselves in the sin…

… Michigan's most notorious checker, Rick Willis. The Wolverine captain sat out the game due to a case of the flu that he came down with Saturday morning. Several players were slowed during the week leading up…

… the Wolverines. Bourke skated in his first real game this season - his only previous experience came in a fill-in role late in the Wolverines 6-1 defeat of Ferris State Oct. 29. Fox, on the other hand…

… said. "We need to keep them in place so when we need them, they're ready to play." The score of the game also allowed goaltender Al Loges to see some time between the pipes for the Wolverines. He entered…

… & Skate Sharpening MARK FRIEDMAN/Daily Michigan's dominance over Notre Dame Saturday was indicative of how this series has gone the last few seasons. The Wolverines' 11-2 victory Saturday night was their…

… Writer Saturday's matchup between Michigan and Notre Dame pitted one team against an opponent it has defeated more than any other in school history. While one could assume that the Wolverines have…

… ever since and Michigan now leads the series 38-33-2. Notre Dame's last year of league play was 1982-3, a season in which it went 1-2 against the Wolverines. Since then, Michigan has continued a…

…) and Schafer's squad re- entered the league like a box of Leggos waiting to be assembled. Michigan coach Red Berenson said the Wolverines had all the advantages of better competition, better scheduling…

… Wolverines did score seven goals in front of roughly 1,000 fans from both schools, four of them came in the first period. This tally included a natural hat trick by Mike Knuble. "We expected to win and we knew…

… one or two goals." After a sloppy 20 minutes of play by Michigan, the third *eriod showed why going into this weekend, the Wolverines were a disappointing No. 3 in the conference. In Michigan's 10…

… faced only seven Wolverine shots in the third. Friday, Ohio State scored only one goal in the third, but the possibility of more had been looming. Having played the puck far more in the first 40 minutes…

…, Michigan dropped back in the third and the Buckeyes stepped it up a notch to invade Wolverine territory. "Michigan had backed off their intensity in the third period and that allowed us to get a few more…

…-ice pass to Gordon who actually netted the score. These three were part of a steady Wolverine lineup, but the defense was yet again an interesting mix of talent. "We don't know down the road who is going to…

… count on Urzua to add more scor- ing punch and play 30-35 minutes per game. seniors, one junior (Jennifer Brzezinski), five sophomores and eight freshmen. If the Wolverines find team chemistry during the…

… automatic bid to the NCAA Championship. Although March Madness is a long way away, the Wolverines hope that Cinderella's glass slipper will fit them come tournament time. This year, Michigan looks to have its…

… nothing but time. The Wolverine roster has no * - At Iowa State Cyclone Classic Home games in ALL CAPS * All times local to site WOMEN Continued from page 1 solid defense helped the Wolverines start the…

… Duke The Michigan men's basketball team has not beaten Duke since the 1989-90 season. The Wolverines play the Blue Devils tomorrow. See Sports, Page 13. RHA votes to ban grapes in dorm cafeterias…