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Women’s rights rally promotes solidarity Gathering initially created in response to Return of Kings meet-up ALLISON FARRAND/Daily

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes pictures with churchgoers after speaking at the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church in Flint on Sunday.

Clinton visits state to attend Flint community meeting Presidential hopeful discusses water crisis By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visited Flint on Sunday to attend a community meeting with Flint Mayor

Karen Weaver. During remarks at the meeting, Clinton discussed her support for the Flint community amid the city’s water crisis and federal states of emergency. The Flint water crisis began in April 2014 when the city switched from Detroit city water to Flint River water. In the weeks and months following the switch, citizens began reporting adverse health effects, but the city didb’t return to Detroit water until Oct.

2015. Clinton’s visit follows her mention of the Flint water crisis in the last two Democratic debates and on the campaign trail. Additionally, the visit came just two days before the New Hampshire primary, where Clinton trails Bernie Sanders by 20 points, according to a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Clinton’s appearance was preceded by a sermon by Pastor

Kenneth L. Stewart in the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church where the meeting was held, in which he encouraged patrons to wait for God’s assistance in the crisis. Clinton discussed the need for both immediate action in the form of infrastructure improvements and long-term monitoring and care for the affected children. Lead exposure in young See CLINTON, Page 3A

Nearly 100 protesters gathered in the Diag Saturday night to attend a rally for women’s rights awareness in response to a proposed meet-up of selfproclaimed men’s rights group Return of Kings in downtown Ann Arbor. The protest carried on despite the event’s cancellation late last week. LSA sophomore Susanna Wang created the rally’s Facebook event protesting ROK’s meet-ups, which turned into a community effort to address women’s rights and issues including reproductive health, sexism on campus and discrimination against sexuality. Both city organizers and students said their aim was to frame the

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CDC advice on drinking faces heavy backlash Agency says sexually active women not on birth control should avoid alcohol By KATIE PENROD Daily News Editor

On Tuesday, the Center for Disease Control released a statement recommending that sexually active women who are not on birth control should refrain from drinking alcohol. Since the statement’s release, the CDC has received harsh backlash from women citing the recommendation as antiquated and extreme. During pregnancy, if women consume alcohol, they are at risk of giving their newborns fetal alcohol syndrome. This syndrome can encompass symptoms such as learning disabilities and heart defects. Women’s Studies Prof. Joanne Motino Bailey, director of the Nurse Midwifery Service at the University, said she

thought that while there is some merit to the CDC’s recommendation, the way it was released assumed a lot about sexually active women. “I have no idea what their tactic is in this very broad, farreaching justification,” she said. “I think it would be totally appropriate for women who are planning a pregnancy to avoid alcohol; that makes complete sense. But this broad-arching idea, assuming women are having sex with men, is making men’s responsibility not even considered.” LSA senior Stephanie Mecham, director of circle engagement for Lean In at the University, echoed Bailey’s sentiments, saying that the CDC’s statement leaves out certain subsets of women and leads to questionable assumptions about who is sexually active and in what way. “I think it’s really problematic because it definitely excludes a lot of people. It excludes a lot of people who identify as queer or lesbian and people who are See CDC, Page 3A

rally positively — as a show of feminism and solidarity — rather than an angry reaction to the proposed meet-up. One of the event’s organizers, Lauren Ashley, a Hazel Park resident, said the interest the event garnered on Facebook moved her to alter its message. “When we found out over 600 people were interested in coming … we wanted to turn this into something good and focus on the positive,” Ashley said. “Instead of focusing all of our energy and resources on these awful men, we wanted to celebrate women instead.” ROK gained national attention on social media last week after announcing “international tribal meetups” for members. The group, led by founder Roosh Valizadeh, is infamous for advocating agendas such as the legalization of rape on private property and genderbased subjugation. The University’s Department of Public Safety and Security and the Ann Arbor Police Department said See RALLY, Page 3A

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Justin Idleburg of St. Louis unloads donations of water at a “water tailgate” outside Flint City Hall on Saturday. The “water tailgate” was part of the effort manifested in the tri-campus summit to resolve the Flint water crisis.

Tri-campus summit aims to foster student organizing Over 50 from Flint, Dearborn and Ann Arbor discuss implementing change By LARA MOEHLMAN Daily Staff Reporter

Members of the University community gathered at the University’s Flint campus Saturday morning for the inaugural TriCampus Community Engagement

Summit, where students from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint communities came together to explore issues including rights of campus workers, community organizing, body image and refugee support. The event, which drew roughly 50 students, was centered around the theme of social justice and the University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. symposium: #WhoWillBeNext. The day’s workshops and activities were entirely studentrun, a product of planning and preparation from a cross-campus

committee of student leaders. In her opening address to students, Susan Borrego, chancellor of the University’s Flint campus, said though the meeting was held in Flint due to a scheduling conflict, the relocation was ultimately a valuable opportunity for students to engage in community networking within the context of the city’s current water contamination crisis. “It couldn’t be a more important moment in the life of this community,” Borrego said, addSee FLINT, Page 3A

As part of the 40th Annual Alfred L. Edwards Conference and Celebration, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, scholar, social activist, author and reverend, gave the keynote address to a crowd in the Ross School of Business Friday evening. Lecture attendees included current Business students, potential students, alumni and guests. Dyson’s talk covered a wide range — he jumped from sharing an anecdote about receiving a call from O.J. Simpson to discussing the significance of race in professional athletes’ reputations, dropping names like Cam Newton and Serena Williams, to political responsibility in Flint, Michigan. His stories were often punctuated with bits of humor and song — from belting a line from Adele’s “Hello” See CONFERENCE, Page 3A

State Supremacy Michigan State routed Michigan at Crisler Center on Saturday

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Plane banner targets Snyder A national activist group called Ultraviolet sponsored a plane banner protesting Governor Rick Snyder’s (R) potential involvement in the Flint water crisis. The banner read “SNYDER POISONED KIDS IN FLINT” and flew over the Crisler Center during the rivalry basketball game against Michigan State University. “It is time that all Michigan residents – Spartans and Wolverines alike – stand up and demand that Governor Snyder resign immediately,” Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet, said in a press release. Ultraviolet intended for

the banner to draw attention to their petition for Governor Snyder’s resignation for mishandling Flint’s toxic water. Ultraviolet is an online advocacy group that advocates against sexism. The group has over 700,000 members, and almost 32,000 of those members have signed the petition for the Governor’s resignation. After Flint’s emergency manager decided to change the city’s water supply to the Flint river in 2014, residents began voicing concerns over the discoloration and off taste of the water. Despite multiple reports proving there to be lead in the city’s water,

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Startup panel WHAT: A panel of female investors will share how they invest, as well as their careers and financial ventures. WHO: Women Who Launch WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Innovatrium, 615 East University Ave. Avenue

Elevator pitch workshop WHAT: The English Language Institute will conduct a winter workshop series for creating and presenting your elevator pitch in a concise and effective way. WHO: English Language Institute WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Mason

Lecture on European refugee crisis WHAT: Author Maurizio Albahari will give a lecture on refugees on the Mediterranean coast. WHO: Center for European Studies WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building, room 1636

Clarinet class WHAT: Corrado Guiffredi, a renowned musician who has performed with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and premiered in the Penderecki’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, will host a guest master class. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 4:45 p.m. WHERE: Earl V. Moore Building

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Faculty bell tower recital WHAT: A carillon on the bell tower’s bells will be performed by Tiffany Ng and Kathleen Beck. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 12 p.m. WHERE: Burton Memorial Tower, 10th floor

Lecture on ancient Athens WHAT: Jessica Lamont from Johns Hopkins University and The Walters Art Museum will deliver a lecture. WHO: History of Art WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Lecture Hall

WHAT: Anthropology Prof. Elizabeth Rogers will give a lecture that ties in soda, public health, NAFTA and love in Mexico City. WHO: Science, Technology & Society WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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Snyder only called a state of emergency in December 2015, 18 months after the initial switch. Thomas said Snyder was aware of the lead in Flint’s water for at least a year but neglected to take action, alleging that the governor sent bottled water to state employees last year, which they have used as evidence for his knowledge of the lead in Flint’s water. The petition also emphasizes the poor and Black community of Flint the water crisis affected, as well as the permanent health damages to children and pregnant women.

After a magnitude-6.4 earthquake in Taiwan, rescuers are scrambling to find survivors. At least 334 people have been killed, BBC reported. The quake struck as many prepared to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

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Proposed bills would increase federal funding for water crisis U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee introduces two pieces of legislation to provide aid to Flint By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter

U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee (D–Flint) has introduced two bills aimed toward helping the community of Flint and preventing similar health effects in the future. The Flint water crisis began in April 2014 when the city switched from Detroit city water to Flint River water. The water from the Flint River had a much higher corrosive quality than the Detroit water which allowed lead from the pipes to contaminate the water. Following the switch, citizens began reporting adverse health effects, but the city didn’t

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Ideology of higher education

re you happy with your college education? Do you feel you’re paying a fair price for it? I’ve graduated with degrees in both the humanities (Arts & Ideas in the Humanities) and the sciences (cognitive science) and I, for one, feel majorly ripped off. Don’t get me wrong: I loved many of my courses, especially the ones in the ZAK Residential College with WITUS Cindy Sowers and all my great English classes. But reflecting on my experience — the work I did, the work my teachers and fellow students did, the other services provided by the University, etc. — I don’t see how one justifies the outrageous cost of tuition. How can the University and the state, understanding the immense societal benefits of education, limit people’s access to it and enslave them with huge debt if they seek it? Upon reflection, I see that if we want to reform higher education so it serves us best as a state and society, then we must start by examining and reforming the ways many of us are currently thinking about higher education. In our day-to-day lives, we students tend not to experience studying as real work; that is, not like the work we do when we serve tables at a restaurant, or shelve books in a library. Even though everyone involved in higher education would agree (if explicitly asked) that education is real work, we behave as if it’s not. The ideology of higher education today functions primarily through our actions, not our thinking about our actions. We act as if reading books, listening to lecturers and participating in classroom discussions are luxuries (non-essentials) that we buy for ourselves, like seeing a movie or staying at a hotel. We pay $100,000-plus for these academic activities. And yet, when we think about it, many of us don’t recognize student life as truly worth personally paying exorbitant amounts of money. Even though much of the real work of learning is collaborative, and hence necessarily communal, economically speaking, we behave as if it’s individualistic — as if we were buying a really expensive service for ourselves instead of working for the benefit of the community. We’ve been conditioned to experience studying as fundamentally different from other kinds of work — both physical and intellectual — and thus we’ve become psychologically alienated from our labor. Other workers receive compensation in exchange for their work. It’s presumed that the products they make or the services they provide aren’t for themselves, but for others. And so we think the formula of exchange makes sense. The only way we wouldn’t apply this same formula to higher education is if we conceived of higher ed as a service we receive, or else as work we do mostly for selfish benefit. But the services of our university — specifically the teaching faculty — demand we recipro-

cate their work with our own. Unfortunately, education can’t be so easily commodified, and so it doesn’t work well for our predominantly commercial economy. I think those of us involved in higher education would do well to revisit some of the essays written by some of the early advocates of public education. For example, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an early European advocate of public childhood education, argued based on the principle that higher education ought serve the common good. Since in Rousseau’s philosophy, the socialist-democratic state enacted the will of the people, he thought the state, and not the individual family, ought be in charge of the children’s education. As Rousseau saw it, “Families dissolve but the State remains.” Rousseau argued this in the face of a bourgeois society that generally preferred to educate its children privately, for the benefit of their individual families. Ironically, one arguing for public higher education today faces a similar dilemma. Today, the country’s upper class sends its children to college primarily for private familial benefits (ensuring a high socioeconomic position for the family moving forward, etc.). Consequently, people of the lower classes also conceive of higher education in this bourgeois, egotistic way. By mistaking the ruling class’s selfish use of higher education as the only use of higher education, we prevent ourselves from conceiving of higher education in all its great pro-social (ahem, socialist) potential — that is, higher education as serving not just the individual student but also his/ her community, city, state, society — the common good. When you’re uneducated (i.e., ignorant), you’re often a liability to those around you (much like the GOP’s denial of climate change makes them a hazard to the rest of the planet —literally). But, when you’re educated, you’re not only not a liability, you’re also positively helpful. It doubly benefits those forced to interact with you for you to know things, like how to form an intelligent opinion about something, or that our country was founded on slave labor, and so on. Really, if higher education is for all, then all ought to be sponsoring you — the individual — and your individual education as a way of saying: “Thank you for learning things! Keep up the good work! We appreciate you!” The working class, if it were to understand itself as such, would realize that the work of studying is basically the same as the other work it does, and thus it would not tolerate paying to do the work of higher education. We should recognize how our current ideology of education enables us to pay such exuberant amounts of money for work that we really do for one another. If we’re unwilling to revolt against our economic system in general — as perhaps we ought to — then we might instead reasonably demand free intellectual training prior to entering into wage slavery (i.e. professional life). It seems that should be among our minimum demands from our own government.

Really, if higher education is for all, then all ought to be sponsoring you.

Zak Witus can be reached at zakwitus@umich.edu.

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Not Black, but mixed

here’s a difference between being Black and being mixed. Even when you’re mixed, people see your skin as a shade of brown, which is associated with being Black. It’s nearly impossible to make a distinction that you’re CHRIS part white, and CROWDER there’s nothing wrong with that. But even when people do know you’re mixed, the Black half can trump the white one in how often it is mentioned and used to explain stereotypes. Barack Obama wasn’t the first Black president. He was the first mixed president. Yes, he was the first president of African-American descent (his father was from Kenya), but his mother is a white woman. He has had to deal with blatant racism all of his life. As for me, I am fortunate to not have dealt with the systematic racism that many Black and mixed people have faced in the past and face in the present. I haven’t been kept out of places because of my race and haven’t faced hate speech or lived in fear every day like some have and still do. But the subtle racism and racist jokes that have been directed toward me have made me realize that my racial identity has been defined by others in terms of my Black half or my “Blackness.” One of my nicknames in high school was “Two Percent.” It didn’t have to do with my preference for 2-percent milk, but for the percentage of Black I seemed to act like. I’ve been told that I’m not Black enough and that I “talk white,” and I’ve been called both degrading and meant-tobe-endearing — yet in-poor-taste — versions of the n-word. The weird part of it is that, depending on the situation, I either went along with it, shrugged it off or got visibly angry. I went along with “Two Percent,” just taking it as a joke. But it made me ponder what that really meant. What

does being Black mean? I think in that sense, my speech, politeness and intelligence were taken into account. Those who called me “Two Percent,” albeit not maliciously, referenced being Black as uneducated, impolite and less sophisticated. And what does “not being Black enough” mean? Yes, I know I’m only halfway there as far as ancestry, but not every Black person has to act the same. In times when “not being Black enough” was said, Black was used as a stand-in for words like thug, criminal or rebel. I was not that, and a majority of Black people aren’t. With media perception and stereotypes, Black people are often viewed in that light and discriminated against by way of racist projections. When I was told I talked white, it

Categorizing me as Black doesn’t take into account a whole other part of me.

was implied that Black people have a less sophisticated vocabulary with a vernacular that is similar to that of the slave, Jim, in Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” How a person speaks should not be analyzed in relation to his or her race. Speech, like other aspects of the individual, cannot be used as an overarching comparison to a race or any other identity as a whole. It’s similar to how everyone doesn’t respond the same way to different types of humor. Yes, my friends, I know you think this Black joke is funny. I myself have made some in my past. But for now, it rubs me the wrong way, and I’d rather you not say it. Don’t say, “Oh, it’s just words” or “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Drake, who is mixed like me, describes in a few bars some of what it can be like to have your personal-

ity compared to that of a stereotypical Black person in another’s eyes in his song, “You & The 6.” “I used to get teased for being Black And now I’m here and I’m not Black enough ‘Cause I’m not acting tough Or making stories up ‘bout where I’m actually from.” Someone who is white and Black (and in Drake’s case, Jewish) is both discriminated against for his or her perceived Blackness and for also not being what he or she was expected to be like as a Black person. People who are mixed are not only criticized for acting Black and for being mixed, but also for not acting Black or not acting mixed. My racial identity has always been something confusing to me. I am Black. I am white. Neither race is monolithic or has certain values or rules to abide by. Each person is an individual, following the direction of how our parents, other people important to our lives and society raised us. A friend asked me last summer what the differences between my two cultures of white and Black are like. I couldn’t pin down an answer because I can’t pin down my culture. There are certain things I take from each of my parents — some fit stereotypes and some do not. It’s not that I am ashamed to be seen as just Black because of my skin color. Like I said, it’s hard to tell unless I mention that I have a Black father and a white mother. It’s just that categorizing me as Black doesn’t take into account a whole other part of me. This kind of covert racism may be what Black people face every day. But I don’t know for sure because I’m not just Black. I can’t speak for what the Black experience may be like from my individual perspective because I’m not a Black man. It’s like the Old El Paso commercial in which a little girl is given the decision of hard or soft taco shells after her family is arguing over which one is better to use for the meal. I’m Black. I’m white. Why not both? Chris Crowder can be reached at ccrowd@umich.edu.

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Bernie, Hillary and spirituality

ednesday night, CNN hosted a town hall for Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. At this point, I’ve watched both Sanders and Clinton speak so many times — both on TV and in person — that DEREK I pretty much have their stump WOLFE speeches memorized. Here’s a radical idea: We’re going to create an economy that works for all of us, not just for the millionaires and billionaires. That said, there were a couple of moments last Wednesday that I found truly compelling, and both were related to faith. To no end, the Republican candidates boast about their religious beliefs, but on the Democratic side, we’ve only seen glimpses into how faith affects the candidates’ motivations and values. That changed Wednesday. In one form or another, both Sanders and Clinton were asked about their religion and spirituality. And based on what I heard, their answers should end the conversation that religious observance and belief in God are necessary to be a leader of this country. In fact, as a Jew who wrestles with the existence of a higher power, I find their views on religion inspiring and necessary. Anderson Cooper, the moderator of the town hall, asked, “What do you say to a voter out there who sees faith as a guiding principle in their lives and wants it to be a guiding principle for this country?” Sanders went first. “It’s a guiding principle in my life,” he responded. “Absolutely it is. You know, everybody practices religion in a different way. To me, I

would not be here tonight, I would not be running for president of the United States, if I did not have very strong religious and spiritual feelings. I believe that as a human being, the pain that one person feels … if we have children who are hungry in America, if we have elderly people who can’t afford their prescription drugs, you know what, that impacts you, that impacts me. “And I worry very much about a society where some people spiritually say, ‘That doesn’t matter to me, I got it. I don’t care about other people.’ So my spirituality is that we are all in this together.” If you didn’t catch it, there was no mention of God or Jesus or scripture. And this isn’t to say there is anything wrong with discussing those things (Clinton did), but whether you agree with Sanders’ views or not, is there anything we should want more than a president who strongly values the community and its power? Isn’t that what America should be about? I found that Clinton’s religious views resonated with me, too. Toward the end of answering a question from a rabbi about how she finds the ego to run for president and have humility, she spoke of gratitude. “Everybody knows I have lived a very public life for the last 25 or so years, and so, I’ve had to be in public dealing with some very difficult issues — personal issues, political, public issues,” she said. “And I read a treatment of the prodigal son parable by the Jesuit Henri Nouwen, who I think is a magnificent writer of spiritual and theological concerns. And I read that parable, and there was a line in it that became just a lifeline for me. And it basically is practice the discipline of gratitude. “So regardless of how hard the days are, how difficult the decisions are, be grateful. Be grateful for being a human being, being part of the

universe. Be grateful for your limitations. Know that you have to reach out to have more people be with you, to support you, to advise you. Listen to your critics. Answer the questions. But at the end, be grateful. Practice the discipline of gratitude and that has helped me enormously.” This answer is incredibly important because, again, it did not invoke God. Yes, Clinton has been open about her belief in God in the past, but it’s telling that when she was talking about what her “lifeline” is, she chose to talk about the very human act of practicing gratitude — not prayer or other religious acts. I find that commendable. I thought maybe I was preaching to the choir on this issue (pun intended). But according a recent Pew survey, 51 percent of Americans would be less likely to support a candidate who is an atheist. For context, that is a greater percentage than people less likely to support a candidate who has used marijuana, or is Muslim, or is gay or lesbian, or has had an extramarital affair. This may be an obvious thing to say, but as far as we’ve come in regard to LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, civil rights, there is still a large amount of religious (or nonreligious) intolerance in this country. To be fair, that 51 percent number is 12-percent less than it was in 2007. But I still don’t get why a definite belief in God should be mandatory to receive someone’s vote. Gratitude, humility and commitment to community: These are the values that should be of importance when picking our next president, at least in my opinion. It shouldn’t matter whether Sanders or Clinton believe in God or not, because it shouldn’t matter how they’ve arrived at those values. What matters is they have them. Derek Wolfe can be reached at dewolfe@umich.edu.

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Monday, February 8, 2016 — 5A

FILM REVIEW

Where ANTI fails Coen’s ‘Hail, Caesar!’

he day after Rihanna’s ANTI dropped, I was annoyed with myself. I was so hype to listen to the record, downloaded it as soon as I saw it had been released and got left feeling empty after a couple of listens, because I had bought into the year-long hype and had started to believe that ADAM Rihanna’s THEISEN eighth record really would be a classic. But why would I think that? Rihanna has a collection of singles that rivals any artist ever, but she has never made a great album, so it shouldn’t be surprising that ANTI fell short of high expectations. Even with some interesting tracks and charismatic performances, it’s mostly a directionless record devoid of big highs or intriguing moves. And I don’t think I was alone in my disappointment. It’s hard to gauge exactly how excited people were by ANTI — by traditional metrics, the album is a relative flop, only because Tidal decided to give it away for free to everyone — but regardless it doesn’t feel like it really captured massive enthusiasm. Lead single “Work” has performed solidly but remains far from ubiquitous, and nothing else on the album feels like it has hit potential. Given the massive build-up, it’s hard to truly call ANTI a success. So now I’m wondering, how exactly did we get here? What made Rihanna one of the biggest stars in the world, and how can she keep it up? ANTI won’t drop Rihanna from the A-List, and I’m sure tons of people will still enjoy the album, but Rihanna might have to step it up next time if she wants to continue dominating the world. Let’s take a look back through Rihanna’s career to see if we can predict her future. Phase One: Turn the music up Rihanna’s first two albums are almost entirely nonessential. You can literally stop both of them after track one and barely miss a thing. Both Music of the Sun and A Girl Like Me lead off with enormous singles and then drag on through filler song after filler song, as if Rihanna only had enough budget and industry clout to score one big hit for each record. (We can talk about “Unfaithful” as also being an important part of A Girl Like Me, but strip away the nostalgia and it’s little more than a cheesy young singer’s heartbreak ballad that’s way too Rob Thomas to be good Rihanna.) But two very strong songs is an OK showing for the beginning of a career for unknown artist from Barbados. “Pon de Replay” is a fast-paced dancehall track that does exactly what it’s focused on doing (making people dance), while “S.O.S.” takes a catchy “Tainted Love” sample and makes it prettier with Rihanna’s voice, her lilting hook sticking in your head pretty much forever. Sure, both of these songs would likely be entirely forgotten by now if not for the rest of Rihanna’s career, but they remain catchy and fun today and they’ll easily make the cut when Rihanna’s Greatest Hits finally comes out (no small feat.) Phase Two: That Rihanna rain just won’t let up 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad was the start of my personal favorite Rihanna phase, one she perfected two years later on Rated R: the “You should be terrified of me, because I will slit your throat if you even look at me wrong.” persona. Plenty of people will mark “Umbrella” as the turning point where Rihanna became more than just a generic radio presence, and that song is obviously a huge career highlight, but give me the Jay-Z-less “Disturbia,” an irresistibly produced track that gels perfectly with Rihanna’s newfound swag. Here, she haunts the sticky synths and relentless bass drum, suffocating the track by inserting her voice in every crack she can find and disorienting the whole dancefloor by layering hooks on top of hooks until every microsecond is catchy as fuck. With its lack of features and darker, more unique production, it’s the first track of Rihanna’s career that a lesser star wouldn’t have been able to pull off. Rated R is still one of the most badass Rihanna albums. While it’s another Rihanna record mostly notable for its singles, those singles just keep getting better, and her run of

hits just keeps getting more impressive. “Hard” is a radio song that, despite its near-meaninglessness, is still awesome for taking Young Jeezy and barely smoothing over his jagged edges (compare with Juicy J on “Dark Horse” or Kendrick on “Bad Blood.”) And “Rude Boy” … well, I love “Rude Boy” and I can barely explain why. It’s just a great hook overflowing with attitude — what more do you want from a Rihanna song? Throughout the next few years, Rihanna sang hooks on festival-ready rap tracks like “Run This Town” and “All of the Lights” while also releasing Loud, which for my money is front-to-back her best record. Loud is the most blatantly radio-ready album in Rihanna’s catalog, but it came at a point when she had completely perfected the art of the single. The big songs here are the relaxed “What’s My Name,” where Rihanna and Drake get drinks and smile at each other over a mid-tempo snare and synth beat, and “Only Girl in the World” — still probably the heaviest shout-a-long chorus of Rihanna’s whole career. At this point, Rihanna is a huge star — someone with the guts and power to pull a hit out of something as ridiculous as “S&M” and make listenable otherwise awful tracks like “California King Bed.” But she gets even bigger from here. Phase Three: One perfect song I want to talk about the phrase “lightning in a bottle” for a moment. It’s a phrase used so much that it’s basically meaningless, but let’s actually imagine what I’d get if I actually captured the power of lightning. I’d have a blast of nearly unfathomable energy, a pure destructive force of nature contained within a tiny space, ready to level any room, any area it gets released in. Basically, I’d have “We Found Love,” a song that transcends all cultures with its easily translatable refrain, synths that hit directly to your pleasure centers and a build-up and release that is physiologically impossible to resist. It is one of the greatest moments of the decade, simply two professional escapists (Calvin Harris and Rihanna) creating the most blissful release and chaotic fun that could possibly be made and packing it within a three-minute mp3, giving all of us all a tool that could bring an entire room to a frenzy. Phase Four: ANTI I could never understand the success of 2012’s Unapologetic. Released a year after Beyoncé’s 4, it was a similarly confused, toothless move toward adulthood, filled with boring ballads and terrible decisions. “Diamonds” is easily one of Rihanna’s weakest singles, devoid of either fun or innovation, “Pour It Up” never hits a payoff and the filler feels like a 50-year-old ad exec’s idea of trap. And also, there’s a Chris Brown duet on here? But somehow from that we all decided that ANTI was poised to be a classic. That’s slightly understandable, though, since the supposed previews we got were “FourFiveSeconds,” which blew all our minds because there hasn’t been more star power on one song since the first “We Are the World,” and “Bitch Better Have My Money,” a single/video combination that set the record for least fucks ever given, ever. But neither of those songs even ended up on the album. ANTI is a banger-free work with a focus on vibes and grooves over choruses, and that style doesn’t play to Rihanna’s strengths. It’s entirely possible that the record is a grower, or even a cult curiosity, but after “Work” fades away there won’t be anything from ANTI left in the national consciousness. Phase Five … There’s a line from “Work” that I’ve been rolling around in my head the past week: “Nobody texts me in a crisis.” Is it too much to call that one line the perfect encapsulation of Rihanna’s entire career in the spotlight? We’ve seen Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj hang out and eat hamburgers, we’ve seen Kanye with the Kardashians on E!, but nobody can imagine what it would actually be like to hang out with Rihanna. She’s the Kobe Bryant of pop music — an immensely talented machine whose closest thing to a public persona is “winner with no time for human concerns.” Of course, that’s not always a great place to be, and when you’re off your game, fans will be less forgiving if they don’t feel personally invested in what you do. While Taylor Swift has built an entire brand out of being

close and open with her fans and Kanye has seemingly taken us along on every personal crisis he’s ever had, with Rihanna, we only really see her final product — polished hits or mediocre filler. If that hit well dries up, there’s little for her to fall back on. Going back through Rihanna’s work, there’s a very obvious common thread: a few huge songs on every album and almost nothing else. Can an artist build a legacy off that? Do tremendous flashes of greatness make up for a lack of consistency? If the only Rihanna album I’d advise anyone to buy is her future Greatest Hits compilation, what does that say about her as an artist? So I have an honest proposal for the future: Rihanna should stop releasing albums. One of the few things I can say for certain about Rihanna’s personality is that she doesn’t give a shit about the expectations of others. So why should she tie herself to the out-ofdate traditional album cycle? We all saw what just happened with Beyoncé’s “Formation” video —everyone I know is talking about it, and it’s the only few minutes of work she’s put out in many months. If Rihanna can pull off a new singles-only strategy, she can be the subject of these national conversations multiple times each year while only giving us what’s she always been singularly interested in — the best possible hit songs. With just a few killer tracks divorced from any mediocrity Rihanna can break the Internet every six months, have the song of the summer annually and leave us constantly wanting more. Nobody e-mails Theisen in a crisis. To be the first, send a note to ajtheis@umich.edu.

peak for director duo By MADELEINE GAUDIN Daily Arts Writer

The Coen brothers (“Inside Llewyn Davis”) return to Hollywood with their latest film “Hail, Caesar!” The film follows Astudio fixer Eddie Mannix Hail, (Josh Brolin, Caesar! “Sicario”) through a Rave & day in the life Quality 16 in which he chases down Universal Pictures a kidnapped lead, negotiates the marriage of a pregnant starlet and keeps the cameras rolling at Capital Pictures (the same studio from the brothers’ 1991 film “Barton Fink”). With the humor of “The Big Lebowski” and the anticlimatic aimlessness of “Inside Llewyn Davis,” this is Joel and Ethan operating at peak Coen. No clear plot emerges until the studio’s mega star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, “The Descendants”), is kidnapped and held for ransom by a group of communist screenwriters. Spinning around this central plot are a series of overlapping, interwoven side stories used to illustrate the constant action of Hollywood and to cast Mannix as a point of sanity in the midst of pure chaos. These side stories include a hilarious scene in which cowboy character actor Hobie Doyle (played charmingly by Alden

Ehrenreich of “Blue Jasmine”) has been unfittingly cast as an urban socialite and is coached by his director, Laurence Laurenz (Ralph Fiennes, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”), through the lines “would that it were so simple.” It’s one of the funniest scenes of the movie and proves the staying power of a more developed joke over a slew of one-liners. Likewise, while trying to make sure his depiction of Jesus in the studio’s latest big budget epic “Hail, Caesar!” is respectful, Mannix sparks some hilarious banter between an Orthodox priest who is concerned about the realism of the chariots, a disinterested rabbi and a pastor who wants to discuss the metaphorical tangibility of Christ. The humor is varied in “Hail, Caesar!” from pure goofiness (Tilda Swinton of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” plays twin rival tabloid journalists) to absurdist commentary on faith (Mannix’s priest tells him he confesses too much and sends him away). With an overwhelming pace and sometimes overdone humor, every moment of the film is an opportunity to make fun of a new part of the Hollywood machine. At the heart of much of that humor is, surprisingly, Channing Tatum (“22 Jump Street”). All grown up from the days of “Dear John,” Tatum shines as a tap-dancing communist who finishes a homoerotic dance number and

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Greenwell in A By ALLIE TAYLOR For the Daily

On Monday, author Garth Greenwell will read a section of his debut novel, “What Belongs to You,” at Literati Bookstore. The novel draws Garth from Green- Greenwell well’s four years living in Sofia, February Bulgaria, where 8, 7 p.m. he taught EngLiterati lish at a Bulgarian high school. Free The main narrative of the book describes a relationship between an American man living in Belgium and a young Bulgarian man

whom he meets and pays for sex, and how the relationship between the two men develops over the course of a few years. Broken up into three parts, “Mitka,” “A Grave” and “Pox,” the book also explores the narrator’s childhood growing up in Kentucky, where, in the early 1990’s, people felt as though their lives had no dignity if they admitted to being queer. “The structure of the book came from thinking about what it means to be a queer person in places like these,” Greenwell said in an interview with The Michigan Daily. All of the information that the reader learns about the narrator of the novel, who is never named,

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lines up with Greenwell’s personal autobiography. “That’s the kind of game the book is playing,” Greenwell said. “It wants to explore the blurred space between fiction and autobiography.” Greenwell wrote this book over three years while in Bulgaria, waking up at 4:30 a.m. (two hours before he was to teach) and writing by hand in a notebook. “It was the most private experience of my life,” he said. “To have this very private thing become public has been bizarre. It’s not quite like a journal, because I was thinking of it as art, but a very private kind of art. But, it is similar in the sense that I really did feel like I was writing entirely without an audience, and therefore able to say and explore anything I wanted.” Greenwell said that it was moving to see his book placed in a category of books and writers — such as James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” and Edmund White’s “A Boy’s Own Story” — that saved his life when he was a 16-year-old boy in Kentucky struggling with being queer. “Those books told me my life had dignity,” he said. “And in Bulgaria, that is still the case, that gay people are told one thing about their life: their lives have no dignity and no value. I wanted to write a book that gave those lives dignity and that recognized the value that those lives and communities have.” “What Belongs to You” has been incredibly well received, with The New York Times regarding it as “an instant classic,” and Publishers Weekly claiming that “it’s the first great novel of 2016.” “It’s a surreal experience. The response is beyond anything I could have imagined or hoped for,” Greenwell said. “Shocked and bewildered is kind of what I feel.” Read more michigandaily.com

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FOX succeeds with superb ‘Grease: Live’ By ALEX INTNER Daily Arts Writer

I wasn’t expecting much from “Grease: Live.” NBC, who brought back the format of the live musical a couple years ago with “The Sound of B+ Music,” was coming off a Grease: production Live of “The Wiz” which Live Musibrought in big cal Event numbers and FOX earned critical acclaim. I questioned whether FOX could do something to even come close to that production, especially given that “Grease” is a fun musical without much substance and the dialogue scenes drag like nobody’s business. “Grease: Live” isn’t able to overcome all of the musical’s problems, but it is able to put the production quality of the NBC musicals to shame with pure energy and ambition. This live production of “Grease” brings in elements from both the original stage production and the better-known movie adaptation. It opens with “Grease is the Word” and replaces “It’s Raining on Prom Night” and “Alone at the Drive-In” with “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and “Sandy,” respectively. It also includes “Those Magic Changes” from the musical, which is only an instrumental in the film. The book is reworked by Robert Cary and Jonathan Tolins (who worked on the latest Broadway revival of “On the Town”). However, the live broadcast didn’t work through all of the musical’s problems, mainly its

tedious book sequences. Especially in the first hour, the dialogue doesn’t have any energy or sense of direction. Scenes happen, but moments like Sandy (Julianne Hough, “Dancing with the Stars”) and Patty’s (Elle McLemore, “Army Wives”) cheerleading competition are slowly paced and way too long. (When you’re looking at 15 minutes between musical numbers, you can’t afford to have anything not work.) FOX upped the game from NBC’s musicals in the sheer scale of the event. Director Thomas Kail (coming off directing the “littleknown” new musical “Hamilton”) was clearly given support to tell this story in a bold, audacious way. In the first number (“Grease is the Word”), the camera follows Jessie J around the show’s backstage areas before opening up into a massive outside set. The scale of the live action is much higher than anything NBC has done. In the dance scenes in the gym, the camera swoops around the room, capturing the gorgeous dance moves in a creative and ingenious manner. The production even makes the smaller numbers big, with usually forgotten songs like “Freddy My Love” (sung by Keke Palmer, “Scream Queens”) and “Those Magic Changes” (performed by Jordan Fisher, “Teen Beach Movie”) getting the full production number treatment. The musical’s cast is filled with a wide range of names and talent. Aaron Tveit (“Graceland”) and Hough play Danny and Sandy respectively, and neither bring much to their parts. They’re charming and sing well, but I was hoping for a little more depth to their performances. Ana Gasteyer (“Saturday Night Live”) and Wendell Pierce (“The Wire”)

have fun in the show’s thankless adult roles. The group that shines the most, though, are the Pink Ladies: Frenchy (Carly Rae Jepsen, who played Cinderella on Broadway), Marty (Palmer) and Jan (Kether Donohue, “You’re the Worst”). Each of them brings a sense of warmth and fun to their performances and have their own standout moments. The MVP of the broadcast, though, is Vanessa Hudgens (“High School Musical 3: Senior Year”), who gives a careerdefining performance as Rizzo. Hudgens’s dad passed away from cancer the night before the show, but she’s still able to bring snark and sharpness to her character. Rizzo is the emotional core of the show, getting the only song where powerful thoughts and feelings are shared in “There are Worse Things I Could Do.” Just thinking about her delivery of “But to cry in front of you / That’s the worst thing I could do,” the closing line of the song, still sends chills down my spine and brings tears to my eyes. Just watch the performance; this is what live TV is all about. By the end of “Grease: Live,” I’d forgotten about all my nitpicks and bought into the energy of the show. By the time the show was telling me that it was the one that I wanted and that we go together, I had a huge smile on my face, mostly because of what it was able to pull off in a live setting. The boldness of the big musical numbers and Hudgens’s performance more than made up for some of the earlier dragging. NBC is planning to perform “Hairspray” in December, but they’ll be facing a new high standard. The game has just been changed. It’s your move, NBC.

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Michigan State 89, Michigan 73

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Normally, it’s redshirt sophomore guard Duncan Robinson who puts on a 3-point-shooting clinic at Crisler Center. But Saturday, that role belonged to a different 3-point specialist: Michigan State guard Bryn Forbes. Forbes connected on his first five attempts from downtown and finished the game with eight 3s on his way to a team-high 29 points, and the 10th-ranked Spartans in total shot a blistering 14-for22 from beyond the arc in the game to capture the 89-73 victory. The one-sided loss was the Wolverines’ second this week, coming just five days after they allowed a 28-0 run and fell to Indiana. “It’s very frustrating no matter who we’re playing,” said junior forward Zak Irvin. “But especially Michigan State, we really wanted to win this game ... especially when we’ve got them laughing at us on our home court. These past two games, teams have just punked us. We can’t let that happen.” National Player of the Year candidate Denzel Valentine was his usual do-it-all self for Michigan State, flirting with a triple-double with 21 points, eight assists and nine rebounds. Valentine proved difficult to stop even when doubleteamed, as he knocked down an improbable rainbow jumper early in the first half with four Michigan hands in his face. The Wolverines, meanwhile, struggled to find a shooting rhythm, missing their next eight 3-point attempts after junior guard Derrick Walton Jr. knocked down a triple for their first points of the game. They finished 4-for-16 from

beyond the arc in the first half. Michigan (7-4 Big Ten, 17-7 overall) found itself down 32-15 after Forbes’ fifth 3-pointer, but the Wolverines made a late push to cut the lead to 11 following a stretch in which the Spartans lost three turnovers in under two minutes and Forbes missed his first two shots of the game. The half closed on a 3-point shooting battle between Walton and Forbes, with each player hitting two triples in a 50-second span before Walton missed a shot at the buzzer and sent the Wolverines into the locker room trailing by 16 points. They weren’t able to recover in the second. Thanks to their two-big man set of freshman Deyonta Davis and senior Matt Costello, the Spartans (7-4, 20-4) also had a significant advantage down low, which they finally exploited in the second frame to put their in-state rival away. Costello took it to Michigan junior forward Mark Donnal early in the half, scoring the Spartans’ first six points after being limited to just one in the first. Donnal, clearly overmatched, wound up picking up his third foul and sat on the bench for the remainder of the half. “We have to get to the point where enough is enough,” Irvin said. “We have to have the mentality that we have to play defense in order to win games, especially against these past two opponents that we’ve played. We’re not just gonna

beat people by shooting 3s and making jump shots.” Behind Irvin — who scored 12 points in the second half and a team-high 19 in the game — the Wolverines made a small effort to stay in the game, but a 3-pointer from freshman Matt McQuaid and a stealturned-fast-break dunk from Costello brought the Spartans’ lead to 69-42 with just over 10 minutes to play. Costello made a face at the CBS television camera below the basket, knowing the game was effectively over. He was right. The Spartans hardly let up from there, only allowing a futile 14-2 Michigan run in garbage time to cut the deficit to 16 — the Wolverines’ second straight double-digit home loss. Michigan was without star senior guard Caris LeVert for the 10th straight game due to injury, but coach John Beilein refused to make any excuses, branding Indiana and Michigan State as elite teams. The Wolverines have shown glimpses of being able to play with elite teams — it has only been a month since they beat then-No. 3 Maryland at home without LeVert — but they are now left trying to find a way to fix things after getting overwhelmed this week. “We really just need to do some soul-searching,” Irvin said. “We’ve gotta get back on track. It’s been a tough week for us, and no one’s gonna feel sorry for us. We’re just gonna learn from this experience and move on.”

“These past two games, teams have just punked us.”

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fter two embarrassing home defeats — Tuesday against Indiana, 80-67, Saturday against Michigan State, 89-73, neither of them even half as close as the score indicated — the Michigan JAKE men’s LOURIM basketball team shouldn’t be worried about losing. It shouldn’t even be worried about being in a suddenly precarious NCAA Tournament position. The bigger concern is that Michigan was run out of its own building twice in one week. Two issues are in play here. One is that the Wolverines aren’t nearly good enough. Their coach, John Beilein, admitted that to begin his postgame press conference Saturday. Michigan has played without senior guard Caris LeVert for 10 games, and it survived for a while — escaping Minnesota by five, Rutgers by 11 and Penn State by seven, and even upset then-No. 3 Maryland — but now the injury is starting to take its toll. Without their most prolific scorer, best individual defender and captain, the Wolverines had no answer for either Indiana or Michigan State. In 14 games played this season, LeVert was the team-leading scorer in eight, the team-leading assist man in eight and the teamleading rebounder in four. The Wolverines started 6-2 in his absence, but any notion that they are the same team with him that they are without him has been disproven. This issue of not being good enough is the one Beilein blames for the past two losses. He shot down any notion of his team lacking leadership, mental toughness or any other intangible

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Michigan State forward Matt Costello punctuated the Spartans’ 89-73 win with a steal and an uncontested dunk in the second half Saturday.

quality related to success. “Our kids are trying everything that they got,” Beilein said. “Everything they got. Those are typical excuses. I told them the same thing at Indiana. They’re so much better than us. … We gotta get better. We just gotta get better.” Moreover, Beilein thinks this problem is fixable. “It’s not about leadership right now,” he said. “It’s about everybody just (continuing to work) and persistence. Time is a friend of truth. Just persistence at doing the right things. Just trying to get better.” Beilein will help his team get better, as he has shown he can. Michigan has had more ground to make up with less time remaining, and has done it. That ability shouldn’t be questioned.

Michigan’s bigger problem right now, while Beilein may deny it, is that it didn’t just lose its past two games on its home court. It got embarrassed. With 11 minutes to go in the second half Saturday — still a quarter of the game remained — Michigan State’s Matt McQuaid drilled an open 3-pointer from the corner. On the next possession, the Spartans’ big man, Matt Costello, jumped in front of a pass and took it the distance for a dunk, laughing deliriously into the TV camera on his way down. “You’ve got them laughing at us on our home court,” said sophomore forward Zak Irvin. “In these past two games, teams have just punked us, and we can’t let that happen. We gotta learn from that.” Michigan called timeout, and

when it did, Costello ran toward Denzel Valentine and locked arms with him. Michigan fans started to file out of Crisler Center, a thousand or so every few minutes until the game ended. Beilein can turn losses into wins, but he can’t keep things respectable when they’re about to get ugly. Saturday’s game was 69-42 at that point, and the Spartans kept the gas pedal down until a hard-earned “Go Green, Go White!” chant echoed from the rafters. At one point in the second half, Irvin had finally seen enough. During a timeout, he lit into his team on the bench, with another double-digit blowout loss looming. “Just upset,” Irvin said later. “Just frustrated with these past two games we’ve had. Just trying

to fire up the guys and blowing off some steam. Obviously the game wasn’t going our way, but I didn’t want anyone to just lay down and let them walk all over us.” Michigan State did. And that might be Michigan’s bigger problem. Because in a hundred matchups in East Lansing, no matter what happened, no matter who was on either team, the Spartans would never, ever, ever let the Wolverines do the same thing. So Michigan has to fix that, too. And there, Zak Irvin is going to need some help. With 14:02 left in the game and the score already out of hand, Irvin drove to the hoop, drew a foul on Michigan State’s Gavin Schilling and scored the basket. He pumped his fists and roared, begging his team

to follow his lead and make it a game again. “We were getting our butt kicked the whole game, and I just didn’t want anyone to give up, because this is Michigan State,” Irvin said. “They were laughing at us. (Indiana) was laughing at us. We’re at home. We gotta be able to protect home court. For us not to care, that’s something that can’t happen. We’re Michigan. We gotta take pride in that.” Instead, the Spartans scored 13 of the next 15, culminating in Costello’s dunk. Irvin made a similar play at the 6:48 mark, driving around a defender, eluding another and floating a hook shot into the hoop. Again, he tried to fire up his team. Instead, the Spartans scored six straight points, inching toward their largest lead of the game. Irvin cannot win games like Saturday’s by himself, but he did everything he could to at least make it respectable. He needs some help, though. Maybe from LeVert, when he comes back. Maybe from Walton, who carried the team for a couple of games in January but struggled last week. Maybe from another player. From someone. “We really just need to do some soul-searching,” Irvin said. “We gotta get back on track. It’s been a tough week for us, like I’ve said, and no one’s going to feel sorry for us.” The Wolverines themselves refuse to make excuses such as LeVert’s injury. Beilein blames the talent gap. Irvin blames the lack of toughness. In reality, a little of both probably went into the two losses this week. Michigan can fix the first problem, little by little. But the second, as Irvin knows, needs some attention. Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu and on Twitter @jakelourim.

MSU’s Forbes outduels Walton Michigan falls at Forbes scores 29 on 8-for-10 North Carolina 3-point shooting in MEN’S LACROSSE

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Lacrosse is a game of possession, and success starts with the basics. Fundamentals beat flash. The Michigan men’s lacrosse team was reminded of the importance of fundamentals Saturday after traveling to Chapel Hill, N.C., for the second time in program history. Heading home with a 20-10 loss against No. 6 North Carolina left the Wolverines looking at one specific area in need of improvement. “Ground balls,” said Michigan coach John Paul. “If I were to pick out one thing that we need to work on this week, that’s it. We really dominated the draw, we just couldn’t pick up ground balls. That was true all over the field today.” Though Michigan played the majority of the game in its defensive end, co-captain and senior attackman Kyle Jackson led the offense with four goals. His offensive surge began within minutes of the game’s start. With the Wolverines down, 7-3, at the start of the second period, Jackson turned up the heat with two goals within the first three minutes to cut the Tar Heels’ lead in half. But Michigan was unable to keep the margin close, as the Tar Heels answered with three consecutive goals. Jackson scored again with 5:52 left in the second period, but once again, North Carolina responded with a goal to make it 10-6 with three minutes left in the half. Jackson was a force on the field and played a major role in keeping Michigan’s momentum up throughout the first half, and the Wolverines trailed by just four at the halftime break. Another offensive leader was Ian King, who racked up 2 goals and 3 assists throughout the game. While Michigan kept it close for most of the first half, North Carolina started to pull away in

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With the the Michigan State basketball team up by 11 on Michigan, junior guard Derrick Walton Jr. ran a full-out, strideby-stride sprint with guard Bryn Forbes after a ball that broke lose on the block ‘M’ at centercourt rolled toward the baseline. Walton dived onto the hardwood, getting to the ball before Forbes, but knocked it out of bounds. Ball to Michigan State. He rested on his back and looked up at Crisler Center’s rafters as “Eye of the Tiger” pumped out of the speakers. This would be the Wolverines’ biggest chance at swinging the game in their favor and getting within 10 points of the Spartans. After allowing Michigan State (7-4 Big Ten, 20-4 overall) to get to an 18-point lead in the first 13 minutes, mostly due to Forbes’ 8-for-10 half that included seven makes from beyond the arc for 23 points, it looked like this could be Michigan’s chance at getting a solid footing. It wasn’t, and the game continued to escalate in the Spartans’ favor. By halftime, Michigan State was up big, 44-28. By the end of the game, Michigan (7-4, 17-7) was barely breathing, with the Spartans working their lead up to 28 points before ultimately winning, 89-73. Walton, the only active member on Michigan’s roster from the state of Michigan, mentioned that missing last year’s game against Michigan State was painful and that this season, he was going to make sure his presence was felt. And it was, at times, but his highs and lows were always highlighted by his matchup with Forbes. The game started out with a Forbes 3-pointer — just a small

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Michigan’s Derrick Walton Jr. and Michigan State’s Bryn Forbes matched up all afternoon Saturday at Crisler Center.

hint of the onslaught to come — but Walton responded on the next play with a triple of his own. It happened again later, with a little over a minute until halftime, but this time, Walton struck first. He sunk a 3-pointer, and 20 seconds later, Forbes responded. Then Forbes, a Lansing native, attacked again, hitting another 3-pointer to close out the half on back-toback scoring possessions. That was Michigan’s biggest problem: For every basket it made, the Spartans had more than just a counter-attack ready. “Once (Forbes) got real hot, they moved Walton, who’s a phenomenal defender, on him, and we didn’t get as many (shots) the second half,” Izzo said. “Trying to get those three perimeter guys to guard is very

important, and Walton can’t guard all three. I thought he shut him down pretty good the second half.” Junior forward Zak Irvin, who led the Wolverines with 19 points, thinks that the Wolverines had a bigger problem, one involving mental toughness and a lack of a personal stake in the game. “I was just fed up with the way we’ve been playing the past two games,” Irvin said. “I feel like we need to take it more personally, especially this game against Michigan State, I mean this is a huge game against the best team in the state, and I just feel like we weren’t there today.” Though his some of his teammates may not have “taken it personally,” it was obvious who had.

“(Walton) fought hard. Some of those, he just had to tip his hat.”

Walton played a physical game up against Forbes, who led the Spartans on 10-for-13 shooting for 29 points, but Forbes still made nearly every shot he took, whether it was an open look or a contested layup. Walton didn’t fare as well, shooting 3-for-10 for 11 points, but helped slow down Forbes in the second half. “As a kid out of Michigan, you definitely want to beat Michigan State,” Irvin said of Walton. “I felt the same way when we played Indiana. Out of Indiana, you really wanna beat that team and you want to play well. “(Walton) fought hard. Some of those, he just had to tip his hat. (Forbes) made some tough shots, but other ones, he had wide-open looks.” Saturday’s rivalry game wasn’t anywhere near being a close contest — from tip-off until the final buzzer — and it was obvious that the Wolverines needed a boost, or at least to feel a stronger connection to what was supposed to be the biggest contest of the year.

the third period. The Tar Heels dominated ground balls, 13-1, added three goals and shut out the Wolverines in the period. “A lot of the third quarter, we really didn’t have the ball, so we weren’t getting as much of a flow offensively,” Jackson said. In the fourth period, North Carolina continued its offensive surge with four more unanswered goals. Freshman midfielder Decker Curran ended North Carolina’s run with his first career goal, assisted by junior midfielder Mikie Schlosser. With 9:14 left in the game, the two teams traded goals until the game ended with a final score of 20-10. Even though the outcome was not ideal, the team is using Saturday’s loss as a way to gauge which aspects of the game they need to work on. “There were some things that we need to take a hard look at that were apparent in this game,” Paul said. “Hopefully, we can use this as a tool to continue to get better.” Mental toughness is one thing Paul believes his team needs to develop more as they head into rest of the season. On the technical side, the Wolverines will go back to the basics with ground ball practice as they prepare to meet Colgate next Sunday. “Ground balls are a pretty good measure of toughness,” Paul said. “I think all our guys would agree that was something we had to be better at.” Playing an elite program, such as North Carolina, was an opportunity for the Wolverines to test their abilities, and though the loss wasn’t pretty, the team is still looking positively at its prospects this season. “I know that everyone worked as hard as they could, but obviously we can improve in a couple aspects of the game. The guys worked hard, and we can only move on from here,” Jackson said.

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Wolverines trounce Big Ten foes ‘M’ rolls to pair of SWIMMING & DIVING

rivalry meet wins Men’s and women’s teams cruise to wins over Spartans By MAGGIE KOLCON For the Daily

Normally, when Michigan and Michigan State face off, an intense showdown from the in-state rivalry is to be expected. But the Michigan’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams were all smiles during Saturday’s dual meet at Canham Natatorium. The Wolverine women swept every event to win, 180-81, and the men finished first in every event except diving to win in convincing fashion, 173-93. Despite it being Senior Day, sophomore Clara Smiddy and freshman Becca Postoll claimed two individual events each, making their mark on the meet as underclassmen for the women’s team. Freshman Katie Duggan also won the 500-yard freestyle event to claim her first career individual win. On the men’s side, nine Wolverines won individual events. Junior Jason Chen placed first in the 50-yard backstroke and the 100-yard individual medley, making him the lone male Wolverine to win two individual events. Senior Matt McNamara had an outstanding 50-yard breaststroke, in which he edged out Michigan State’s Alec Kandt by less than a tenth of a second. Because of Michigan’s dominance in the meet, it was a bit of a surprise to see Michigan trailing the Spartans in the last event, the 200-yard freestyle relay. But Michigan senior Anders Lie Nielsen came from

behind to win, ending the day on a high note. “We had an all-senior relay in the end there, and we were trailing a little bit,” Nielsen said. “I just got really excited because I love winning. I love winning for the team, you know, so I didn’t really have a choice. I had to get my hand on the wall so I did it.” The Wolverines used the dual meet as an opportunity to experiment, placing athletes out of their comfort zones and into different events than they normally swim. Senior Dylan Bosch, an Olympic hopeful, tried out the 500-yard freestyle event, which was a departure from his normal butterfly events. He won by a significant margin of more than 15 seconds. “Today’s theme was just to celebrate each other and to have fun,” said Bosch. “We always try to swim as hard as we can in everything we do. I think it’s actually kind of good to not always put a huge emphasis on your event and the three that you’re going to be swimming at championships.” For the men, this win closed out their fifth undefeated season, and for the women, it gave them an opportunity to prepare for the Big Ten Tournament, which they will be hosting in two weeks. “It’s super exciting that we’re hosting Big Tens,” said senior Sarah Kamstra. “Today, we were all focusing on thinking of this as a rehearsal almost of the next meet, really just working on consistency.” The men’s team will be resting up for their own Big Ten Championships, which start Feb. 24. With the help of their experienced seniors, both teams have a positive outlook for what is sure to be an exciting postseason.

‘Murderer’s Row’ continues to shine in wins over Maryland, Rutgers By MATTHEW KENNEDY Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan wrestling team traveled east this weekend, hoping to clinch a third-place finish in the Big Ten. With dominating wins at Maryland and Rutgers, the eighth-ranked Wolverines are guaranteed at least that finish. The wins come a week after Michigan (7-1 Big Ten, 12-2 overall) suffered a blowout loss to No. 1 Penn State. “Everybody knew what needed to be done and how we needed to bounce back,” said junior captain Adam Coon. “The team is really great in that it can bounce back and continue to fight. It doesn’t need someone to fire them up. Everybody is self-motivated and able to get himself up and get the job done.” The Wolverines’ first East Coast test was Friday at Maryland. The first four weight classes traded decisions to tie the match at 6-6. After those, however, it was all Michigan. Junior Brian Murphy and sophomore Garrett Sutton, the 157- and 165-pound wrestlers, respectively, each won decisions to make the match score 12-6. From there, things only got worse for the Terrapins as the Wolverines’ so-called “Murderer’s Row” took the floor. Redshirt sophomore Aaron Calderon pinned the Maryland

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Alec Pantaleo and the Michigan wrestling team bounced back from a loss to Penn State for a strong weekend showing.

wrestler in the 177-pound round to garner six points for Michigan. After a major decision by junior Domenic Abounader, the No. 4 184-pound wrestler in the country, and a technical fall forced by sixth-year senior Max Huntley, the No. 6 197pound wrestler in the country, the scoreboard read 27-6 and victory was all but assured for the Wolverines. Still in store, though, was heavyweight Adam Coon, who registered Michigan’s second pin of the day to cap a 33-6 victory. Two days later, the Wolverines moved from College

“That’s what it’s like at the Big Tens and the NCAAs.”

Park to Piscataway to take on No. 12 Rutgers. The match against the Scarlet Knights proved to be a lot tougher than Friday’s bout, with Rutgers taking a 16-10 lead with just three weight classes remaining. Those three weight classes, though, were all Michigan needed. Abounader started the comeback for Michigan with a five-point technical fall in the 184-pound match. His big performance was followed by Huntley, who had an even bigger six-point pin in the 197-pound bout. With one match remaining, Michigan had suddenly jumped out to a 21-16 lead. Still, though, the match was not over, as Rutgers could potentially tie or take the lead. Coon, an All-American, made sure that didn’t happen, pinning

the Rutgers heavyweight wrestler to guarantee a 27-16 victory for the Wolverines. “I got to my attacks right away and there’s always improvement to make,” Coon said. “But overall, I had a couple solid matches and was happy with this weekend.” The weekend sweep was especially impressive given the proximity of the two matches and the fact that they were both on the road. “(Two weekend road meets) definitely prepares them,” said Michigan assistant coach Sean Bormet. “Rutgers has a good arena for wrestling, they have a good crowd — it’s a loud crowd, it’s a real excitable crowd. It was great for our guys to compete in that kind of environment again. That’s what it’s like at the Big Tens and the NCAAs.”

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Wolverines go 2-1 in weekend series Loss to Georgia spoils otherwise strong weekend for Michigan By MIKE PERSAK Daily Sports Writer

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Michigan men’s tennis coach Adam Steinberg has guided his team to a 32-1 mark in its last five matches, including a 7-0 win over Duke on Sunday.

Michigan sweeps Blue Devils Wolverines rout No. 25 Duke, continue five-match winning streak By JARED BERSON For the Daily

The Michigan men’s tennis team’s hot start Sunday should’ve served as a warning for No. 25 0 DUKE Duke that 7 MICHIGAN the ranking didn’t intimidate the Wolverines. After earning the doubles point with a 2-0 sweep, Michigan didn’t let up, sweeping Duke 7-0 to extend a stretch in which the Wolverines are 32-1 over their last five matches. Michigan juniors Jathan Malik and Tyler Gardiner opened doubles play by taking a 5-0 lead and cruising to a 6-2

win. Sophomore Runhao Hua and redshirt sophomore Alex Knight then completed a rally from being down, 4-2, to take the No. 1 doubles game 6-4 and secure the doubles point for Michigan. The doubles momentum that Michigan built paid off immediately, as Hua jumped all over Blue Devil TJ Pura, establishing a 5-0 lead in the first set of his singles match before closing it 6-3. Michigan won all six opening sets of singles action, continuing its strong run of play. The No. 1 singles match, which featured Duke sophomore Nicolas Alvarez, a 2015 All-American and Malik, a British international student in his first year with the Michigan program, did not disappoint. Malik dominated the first set, 6-2, but Alvarez came back with an early break in the second set. Malik got the break back for 4-4 in the second, displaying superior net skills to win break

point. Alvarez started showing frustration after being broken in the second set and really appeared flustered when Malik clipped an alley-line from beyond the baseline to gain a 5-4 advantage. A beautiful lob at 5-4, 15-15, sparked the break that clinched the match for Malik. At match point, the crowd clapped for Malik, who kept Alvarez deep beyond the baseline and finished the match with a clinical volley to claim a 6-2, 6-4, victory for Michigan. “When I play my best, I don’t think there’s very many players in college tennis who can beat me,” Malik said following his impressive performance. Michigan junior Kevin Wong finished off his Blue Devil opponent quickly, breezing past Ryan Dickerson, 6-2, 6-2. Just minutes after Malik closed out his win over Alvarez, Knight polished off Catalin Mateas, 6-4, 6-2, and the Wolverines went up, 4-0, to clinch the match. The

Wolverines clinched the match in only one hour and 52 minutes, sweeping all eight matches that were finished and improving the team’s record to 5-1 overall. But Michigan did not let up. Hua, a sophomore from Shanghai, ended his strong performance on the day with a commanding 6-4, 6-3 win over Pura, and Michigan sophomore Carter Lin pulled out a tough 3-set match over Duke senior Josh Levine, winning 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. “We have no seniors, and that’s really unusual, to have the same team returning,” said Michigan coach Adam Steinberg. “My goal was to get these guys together by this year… and I feel like we can go from a good team and become great.” Regardless of a lack of experience, the Wolverines believe they can succeed. “We can be the best team in the country,” Knight said. “We know we have a chance to win every spot.”

The Michigan women’s tennis team has been steadily climbing the rankings this year, and the ITA National Indoor Championship in Madison gave the team another opportunity to impress against some of its toughest competition of the year. A loss to No. 2 Georgia (5-1) marred what was an otherwise successful weekend for the Wolverines (4-2), who beat No. 11 Miami (4-2) and No. 18 Louisiana State (6-2). “It’s definitely a tough weekend with three in a row,” said Michigan coach Ronni Bernstein. “Each team is tough. There’s no easy match when you come (to the ITA National Indoor Championship).” Michigan’s biggest test came Saturday against the Bulldogs, but it was unable to pull off the upset. The bottom of the Wolverines’ lineup struggled to get anything going in a match that they lost, 4-1. Back-end struggles have been a theme so far this year for Michigan, something the team will need to improve in the future. “It’s just kind of the top of the lineup coming through right now,” Bernstein said. “So we just have to work on that, get everybody getting it done.” Despite this loss, the

Wolverines felt good about its weekend overall, successfully fulfilling the expectations they set for themselves in every match. “As far as how we competed all weekend, I’m really happy with the girls,” Bernstein said. “I feel like coming away, we competed really hard, and we talk about that a lot.” Michigan was led in its matches by freshman Brienne Minor, who was the only Wolverine to go undefeated in singles matches over the threeday tournament. While the firstyear player is new to the scene, she has been impressive the entire season, and it should be no surprise to see her as one of the top performers on the team. “Her level has really exploded,” Bernstein said. “She’s coming and volleying and not just relying on her ground strokes, which are amazing. But she’s just playing at a high level. She’s playing loose and she’s playing confident.” It was this kind of play that led Michigan to its two wins on the weekend, and the kind of play that has gained the team some national recognition this year. But the team tries not to focus on rankings or what others say about their team. “It’s still early, so I don’t know how accurate (the rankings) are,” Bernstein said. “You just have to keep winning, and the rankings will come.” Next weekend the Wolverines will host Notre Dame in hopes of continuing the winning ways of their young season. If they do, whether the team wants to acknowledge it or not, there’s no doubt they will continue to rise in national prominence.

“You just have to keep winning and the rankings will come.”

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Wolverines salvage split Racine stars vs. ICE HOCKEY

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EAST LANSING — The Michigan hockey team had everything to lose. And entering Saturday’s matchup, the Wolverines were already hurting. After sweeping then-No. 15 Penn State, Michigan faltered in a rivalry loss to Michigan State in Joe Louis Arena — its first loss since Dec. 12 — and the circumstances surrounding the defeat made it hurt even more. The Wolverines gave the Spartans the first taste of lifting the ‘Iron D’ trophy. They fell at the hands of an opponent that boasted just two wins in the Big Ten, on a night when senior goaltender Steve Racine had arguably his best performance of the season. And as if that weren’t enough, the Wolverines allowed Michigan State to send them plummeting in the PairWise Rankings. But Saturday in East Lansing, No. 5 Michigan (8-2-2-1 Big Ten, 17-4-4 overall) set the tone from the opening whistle, ensuring lightning wouldn’t strike twice and capturing a 4-1 victory. “I think (Friday’s) loss really sunk in with us,” said senior forward Justin Selman. “We hadn’t really faced much adversity in a while. As much as it stinks to lose, it was a good little wake-up call for us late in the season. It kind of gave us a second gear today.” With 14 minutes gone in the second period, though, the Spartans weren’t making it easy for Michigan. The Wolverines were holding onto their advantage, but after Michigan State (3-9-0-0, 7-19-2) rattled the post twice and started forcing Racine to work, their one-goal lead seemed destined to be erased. Then Michigan found an answer from the place people have grown to expect — its first line.

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Senior forward Justin Selman scored twice in Saturday’s win after Michigan lost to Michigan State on Friday.

Junior forward JT Compher picked up the puck and fed it to junior forward Tyler Motte in the slot. The puck wasn’t on Motte’s stick for long, though, as he threaded the needle between two defenders back to Compher down low. The Wolverine captain coasted across the crease and coolly finished the chance before pounding the glass in celebration. The horn sounded. Michigan, 2-0. “We knew the things we did wrong last night,” said junior forward Tyler Motte. “We didn’t really capitalize on chances. It wasn’t a matter of effort or attitude. We knew coming into this building we had to have another good start, and that’s where our mindset was.” The Wolverines were the first to find twine — the only time

they have scored first in four games against the Spartans this year. Just over eight minutes into the first period, Selman picked up a loose puck and fired from the slot, beating Michigan State goaltender Jake Hildebrand and giving Michigan the lead. Though the Wolverines outshot the Spartans, 20-3, in the first period, Michigan couldn’t generate many quality chances, and Selman’s finish was the only one of the frame. After Compher lit the lamp, though, the goals seemed to come in bunches for the Wolverines. Just under two minutes into the third period, Selman notched his second of the night on a finish in front. The goal wouldn’t have been possible if not for the effort of freshman forward Brendan Warren, who

“I think (Friday’s) loss really sunk in with us.”

Michigan downs Illini By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Writer

After taking a proverbial punch in the gut by losing to No. 17 Michigan State Wednesday, the Michigan women’s 83 ILLINOIS MICHIGAN 96 basketball team had to pick itself up in time for a matchup against Illinois. Sunday, the Wolverines dealt the punches, downing the Big Ten’s last-place team, 96-83. “Going into MSU, we didn’t play how we wanted to,” said freshman center Hallie Thome. “So coming out today, we knew we had to pick it up. As you saw from the start, we had ourselves together, and knew we needed to get this W.” Michigan (5-7 Big Ten, 13-10 overall) began the game with a four-guard lineup to match up with the Fighting Illini’s similar starting five. This allowed freshman guard Boogie Brozoski to make the first start of her career. With quicker feet on the floor, the Wolverines turned up the defensive intensity early, forcing Illinois (1-11, 8-15) to commit four turnovers in the first four minutes. With the swipes and corralled loose balls, Michigan turned the Illini’s errors into a nine-point lead. Illinois added insult to injury with sloppy ball handling, turning the ball over five more times in the first quarter to fall behind, 27-17. “I think having a four-guard lineup makes it easy for us to press and pressure the ball,” said sophomore guard Katelynn Flaherty. “We have a motor and energy and emotion. In the beginning of games, we’ve gotten off to bad starts and we were all over the floor, and our guard lineup was quick today.” Meanwhile, Flaherty — who has been getting off to slow starts in recent games — was almost perfect from the floor. She racked up 14 points in the first stanza alone on 6-for-7 shooting. Flaherty scored her 16th point with 3:56 left in the second quarter. With that basket, she became the 26th player in program history to score 1,000

points. She is just the second player to reach the mark by her sophomore season. She would go on to earn a career-high 36 points. While Flaherty and the rest of the Wolverines were lighting up the scoreboard, the Illini struggled, knocking down just nine field goals in the first half. They frequently missed shots down low and killed any momentum with 11 first-half turnovers. Illinois shot 39 percent in the first half, but was down 48-36 at halftime after shooting 14-for-14 from the free throw line. In comparison, Michigan shot 59 percent, bolstered by 21 points off of turnovers — most of them layups in transition. “We picked up, pressed and were super aggressive from the start,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “In the first half, that transition off of those forced turnovers and easy buckets really helped us to establish a presence and gain a lead pretty early.” The 12-point lead seemed much larger, as the Wolverines

seemed to control nearly every facet of the game, outshooting and outhustling their opponent. Illinois cut the deficit to single digits three minutes into the third quarter and added onto it with a 3-pointer. But Flaherty halted the run on her own, nailing back-toback 3s to put Michigan back up by 12. Along with Flaherty, the Wolverines’ post players were integral in building on the lead. Senior forward Kelsey Mitchell started 4-for-6 in the paint, and Thome started a perfect 5-for-5, missing only one of her eight shots from the charity stripe. “When I go to the free throw line, I can’t think much,” Thome said. “I just gotta do it, take my time, and make sure I’m all good.” The Illini cut the lead inside 10 again with a minute left in the third, trailing, 71-64, going into the fourth quarter. But thanks to a combined 61 points from Thome and Flaherty, the lead never dipped below seven, as Michigan maintained a comfortable lead until the final buzzer.

battled for a puck behind the net before feeding Selman for the easy opportunity. Michigan’s fourth tally came from Motte, good for his 25th goal of the season. “It’s something we talked about in the intermission,” Motte said. “He saw that their two forwards were shadowing on both sides, so I tried to get some speed up the middle. I didn’t think I was going to be in on a clear breakaway… but it was something that (Werenski) called out in the locker room and we went with it.” The Wolverines’ blueliners looked much-improved throughout the matchup, as the Spartans’ only goal came on the power play off the stick of Villiam Haag. Racine built on his strong Friday night outing, ending with 32 saves on the night. The weekend was in no way perfect for Michigan. But with their backs against the wall, the Wolverines had the option of crumbling under pressure or rising in the wake of adversity. And they chose the latter.

EAST LANSING — As the Michigan hockey team stood in line to shake hands with Michigan State following its 4-1 victory over its in-state rival, senior goaltender Steve Racine stood at the end of the line. He shook every Spartan hand before he reached Michigan State goaltender Jake Hildebrand, his counterpart on the other side of the ice. Racine gave him a tap on the stomach, acknowledging the pair’s play over the weekend, which featured 149 saves between the two goaltenders. After Hildebrand was victorious Friday night following the Spartans’ 3-2 overtime win at Joe Louis Arena, Racine got the better of the matchup in the second game. But the two netminders weren’t particularly to blame for either outcome. Neither team scored what seemed like a “bad” goal for the goaltender. This was especially true for Racine, who gave up three goals Friday and one Saturday. Friday, Michigan State’s goals came from a penalty shot, a Spartan left all alone in front of the net and a power-play goal. While Saturday, Racine gave up only one goal on the power play. Racine’s performance in East Lansing marked just the second time all season that the Wolverines have held an opponent to one goal or fewer, with the first back in November against Dartmouth. “I think my game has been on track the last couple weeks,” Racine said. “The guys have been playing really well in front of me.” More importantly, Racine bailed out Michigan when it needed him to.

As has been a trend all season, the Wolverines gave the puck away multiple times in the defensive zone, resulting in open shots from dangerous areas. But Racine was up to the task, stoning the Spartan skaters both nights. “They actually have a couple good forwards, and they generate chances,” Racine said. “I think I got lucky a couple times, and the puck hit the post, but other than that, (the defense) did a good job of limiting their chances, and you saw that on the scoreboard.” While Racine’s record since the Great Lakes Invitational, where he returned from an injury sustained in November, has been 9-1-1, he believes his confidence has been level throughout. “I think my confidence has been pretty good all year,” Racine said. “(Michigan assistant coach Steve Shields) helps a lot with that. It’s just about working hard in practice and getting better every day, and I think that’s where it comes from. When I’m practicing well, it seems to be that the weekends go pretty well as well.” And with the offense playing the way it has been, averaging 4.79 goals per game, Racine and the defensive play are key to Michigan’s play down the stretch. “(Team defense) is still a work in progress,” Racine said. “But we’re getting better every week, and we know we can score goals. It’s about limiting the other team’s chances, and we’ll be unbeatable.” Last season, Michigan was unable to find consistency between Racine and junior goaltender Zach Nagelvoort, with the duo switching off throughout the season. But with Racine playing the way he has the last two months, those days of inconsistent goaltending may be over.

Flaherty reaches 1,000 points By BRAD WHIPPLE Daily Sports Writer

Just when Katelynn Flaherty started to heat up and come closer to a career milestone, she had to wait just a little longer. For a seven-and-a-half-minute stretch that began in the first quarter, the sophomore guard went cold and couldn’t get a good look at the basket to make her mile shot. Even though she knew she was close to breaking 1,000 career points — only one basket to be exact — Flaherty was just focused on ensuring a win for the Michigan women’s basketball team, which had just endured its worst loss of the season to Michigan State four days prior. Between the two shots she let off during her scoreless span, one was an air ball and the other hit the front of the rim before falling into the hands of Illinois’ defense. But 39 seconds later, they left Flaherty alone in the corner, and she returned to form. Flaherty grabbed the bounce

pass, bent her right knee in, flung the ball up and watched the net swoosh as she became the 26th player in program history to reach 1,000 career points. As the second sophomore ever and second-fastest player in program history to reach the landmark, Flaherty’s performance didn’t sway thereafter. In fact, she didn’t miss a shot for the next 20 minutes, as she scored a careerhigh 36-points to cap off the Wolverines’ 96-83 win Sunday. “Katelynn Flaherty, holy cow,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “She’s something special. I’m just getting so accustomed to her doing this night in and night out, I didn’t even realize that she scored 36 points until the end of the game.” Added Flaherty: “It feels great (to reach 1,000). Everyone kinda made a big deal out of it. I’m not trying to think about it when I go out there, but I’m happy I achieved the goal.” Though Illinois was the first team on the board, it never held a lead once Flaherty’s first basket

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Sophomore guard Katelynn Flaherty became the second-fastest Michigan player to surpass the 1,000-point mark and finished with a career-high 36 on Sunday.

fell just two minutes into the game. On 5-of-6 shooting in the first quarter, she helped Michigan jump to a 10-point lead by the end of the first quarter. The Fighting Illini were frazzled against a high-tempo, four-guard Wolverine starting lineup that included Flaherty, senior guard Madison Ristovski, junior guard Siera Thompson and freshman guard Boogie Brozoski. Illinois committed 18 turnovers total, one of which ended with Flaherty scoring on a fast-break layup. Soon after, Michigan created a 3-on-1 opportunity that nearly fell apart when Brozoski missed the midrange jumper in transition. Luckily for Michigan, Brozoski collected her rebound, kicked it out to the 3-point line, where Flaherty had no trouble finishing it off. It wasn’t until later that Brozoski had the assist on Flaherty’s 1,000th career point. In the third quarter, the Wolverines’ hard-pressing defense continued to show huge strides with Illinois narrowing the scoring deficit to six points. Earlier in the season, Michigan may have let this one slip, but the Wolverines locked in instead. If not for the motivating loss in East Lansing last week, Flaherty may not have had the same performance Sunday against Illinois. According to Barnes Arico, though, much of Flaherty’s success has hinged upon the sacrifices that Michigan’s leading scorer has made throughout her lifetime. Last week, the coaching staff had the team read an article about how athletes struggling with adversity can lead to success. The main takeaway was that “you have to struggle to be rewarded,” something applicable to Flaherty’s path — including a 499-point freshman season. “People really work hard for things,” Barnes Arico said, “but people don’t understand the amount of time Katelynn Flaherty has shot the basketball and worked on her game to get to the level that she’s at. “The sacrifices and the struggle that she has gone through to get to this point, it’s so nice to see her having the success that she is.”