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January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 10

… we just chose him to let it go.” Just moments earlier, a much-needed victory over the Fighting Illini was within the Wolverines’ reach. But, after missing five consecutive free throws, the…

… junior forward Isaiah Livers leaving the game with another injury. Spurred on by the return of Livers, who had missed six straight games with a groin injury, the Wolverines got off to a hot start…

… awkwardly, seemingly re-injuring his groin. After hitting both free-throws, he limped back to the bench and a hush fell over the Wolverine faithful. “Unfortunately for Isaiah, he went out with his injury…

… crafty player and does a really good job getting to his left hand and finishing in traffic. He’s also really good at getting to his pull-up jumper.” And, as was the case all afternoon, the Wolverines

…:35 remaining. For every basket Dosunmu added to his final total of 27 points, the Wolverines collectively responded. Sophomore guard David DeJulius even gave Michigan a slender, two-point advantage after…

… hitting a contested three from 30-feet. From there, though, things unraveled for the Wolverines. Despite holding Cockburn to just five points and three rebounds, containing Trent Frazier in the second…

January 27, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 16) • Page Image 17

… basketball. They wanted to have a season.” In a best-case scenario, the Wolverines will return for their scheduled Feb. 11 contest with Illinois. Should that occur, 20 days will have passed since…

… Michigan last played a game. The earliest the team could even return to the court for practice is Feb. 7. The Wolverines previously endured a 12-day scheduling break between games in…

January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 8

… team. It’s the motto the team has come to live by. Chip Hills was the dad of former Michigan gymnast Cailee Hills. In 2015, the Wolverines began the Flip for Chip meet. A way to honor Chip and his…

… our struggles in perspective and get through the hard things even when it doesn’t seem like it. “ While there were mutliple positives resulting from the Wolverines’ Friday night meet against…

January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 9

…, came out alongside the regular coaching lineup. It was the first time all year he had coached from behind the bench. Normally, Wolverine coaches Kris Mayotte, Bill Muckalt and Mel Pearson…

…-year skater who captained the team his senior year. And he was 16 years removed from being a USNTDP player — a drafted prospect excited to face the Wolverines. While he had never coached formally, former…

… the years growing up, just a couple feet behind where I used to sit.” Wolverines fall, 4-1, to USNTDP in exhibition Staying focused in a competition that has no stakes is often difficult. It…

… contest counted for points in the USHL — the league the NTDP plays in — while it meant nothing to the Wolverines. For Michigan, that turned out to be a recipe for disaster. That disparity in motivation…

… much scale and speed, and how hard they played.” The NTDP got called for interference less than three minutes into the game, giving the Wolverines’ power play an opportunity to display the growth…

… the Wolverines. “They were ready to play and we weren’t,” senior forward Nick Pastujov said. “I think that was apparent from the start. Giving up a shorthanded goal and then just the flow of the…

… moved it around quickly. The effort did damage to the Wolverines. “Their team’s good,” Michigan coach Mel Pearson said. “Credit to them, they worked hard, they played hard. I saw them Monday, they…

… itself down two goals early. For the second frame, senior goaltender Hayden Lavigne entered the game in place of Mann. Just like in the first period, the Wolverines got another power play in the…

…, you could tell — you have a feel in practice of the intensity, the attention to detail, the focus, the work ethic, the compete, the execution, we were sloppy.” One of the Wolverines’ key scoring…

… past Lavigne. And in the final few minutes of the game, the Wolverines deficit widened when forward Smilanic found the back of the net one final time for his side. In the last sixty seconds…

January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 7

… in the second half, the Michigan men’s basketball team knew who it needed on the floor. The Wolverines were down by two points to Illinois with half a second and one chance, maybe, to pry a…

… initially suffering a groin injury on Dec. 21 against Presbyterian, Livers missed six games and the re- maining Wolverines lost four of those. Simply put, they were in freefall, and Livers was to be the…

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