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On March 11, Japan was hit by the infamous earthquake, rated at 9.0 on the Richter Scale, that dev-astated the nation. As of March 28, the death toll stands at 10,901 with another 17,649 unaccounted for. The human toll of the natural disaster was great, and the quake and resulting tsunami hit several nuclear reactors, creating a disas-ter ranking a five out of seven on a severity scale of instituted by the International Atomic Energy Agency, where each increase rep-resents a tenfold increase in seri-ousness.

The aftermaths of the quake produced three partial meltdowns and forced Tokyo Electric Power Company to pour seawater into some reactors; four of their six re-actors are now unusable because of the resultant corrosion damage and will need to be decommis-sioned. Current indications point to a partial meltdown in at least three reactors, with breaches to the containment systems.

Even with safety precautions taken, some of the Tokyo Electric Power Company reactors were still thrown into partial meltdown in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. The reactors were shut down as soon as the earth-quake hit, but the chain reaction

in the reactors continued. The re-actors were cooled properly and would have been safe until the tsu-nami caused the backup generators powering the coolant system to go down. Ultimately, the company had to resort to using seawater and boric acid, pumped through fire-hoses and dropped from helicop-ters, to cool the reactor cores.

Despite the containment and measures taken, a considerable amount of radiation escaped, much of it from the water used to cool the cores which has seeped into groundwater and is suspected of making way to the ocean, where levels of radioactive iodine atoms is at 1,250 times normal levels, raising concerns of contamina-tion in seafood. Japanese officials have ordered progressively farther evacuations from the site, the last order for citizens within 20 to 30 km of the reactors to voluntarily evacuate, but noted that the radia-tion levels in that zone were not yet of a level necessitating immedi-ate evacuation. Contamination has spread to some areas of agricul-ture, including nearby farmland, which has been forbidden from selling its produce, and radiation has been detected in 99 products, including milk and vegetables. Japanese officials also had to warn

Michigan Tech will be hosting the American Institute of Chem-ical Engineers (AIChE) North Central Regional Conference on Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9. Schools from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Il-linois, Ohio and Canada will be traveling up here to participate in the events.

The largest event is the Chem-

E Car Competition. In this event students build shoebox-sized cars that must travel a specific distance while carrying water weight to test the car’s reliability. The cars are powered by chemi-cal reactions and the students must calculate how much of a reaction is needed to make the car run and stop within their as-signed distance.

Teams must work together on the spot to come up with solu-tions for any problems that may arise during competition. For

many teams, getting their car to run at all could be an issue. To ensure total safety during the Chem-E Car Competition, all students participating must at-tend a safety brief before the competition.

There is also a Poster Compe-tition as part of the Chem-E Car event where teams present post-ers that describe how their car is powered, unique features of the car, and environmental and safe-

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Undergraduate work: This year Michigan Tech will be hosting the Chemi-Car regional competition for Chemical Engineers. Above is a rendered image of the Chemi-car the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will be using to compete. The event is aimed towards Chemical Engineers, but stands open for everyone on campus to attend. Photo courtesy of the Michigan Tech AIChE Team

Breanna Cornell is currently a freshman here at Michigan Technological University. She is an avid runner and has quite the run planned for next semester. Before the fall semester, Cornell is planning on running all the way from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Michigan Tech. This is a total of 517 miles she will have to travel. Cornell is planning on running 50 miles a day so she can be back up at Michigan Tech before classes start. This isn’t a run she just de-cided to do on a whim though. Cornell has been thinking about doing this run ever since a friend told her to “run up to Tech” back

Trouble in Tokyo continuesHow Japan is coping

The Houghton County Democratic Party and labor unions of the Upper Peninsula will rally together at the Bridge for Unity Walk in downtown Houghton on Saturday, April

2. Common citizens will unite in protest against Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan to starve rural communities, close schools, cancel labor contracts, and sell out Michigan’s government to the highest corporate bidder.

Demonstrators will march in support of seniors, working families, union members and

students. Specifically, Demo-crats object to provisions of Gov. Snyder’s proposed bud-get that would eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit for Michigan’s working poor, tax seniors’ pensions and elimi-nate tax breaks on charitable donations to public universi-ties, while extending $1.8 bil-

lion in tax breaks to cor-porations.

According to Michigan D e p a r t m e n t of the Trea-sury data, taxpayers in Baraga, On-tonagon, Ke-weenaw and H o u g h t o n counties saved a combined $ 1 , 7 1 6 , 3 6 6 with the EITC in the 2009 tax year; an e s t i m a t e d 3,975 filers qualified for the credit.

“ S n y d e r ’ s budget plac-es an unfair burden on M i c h i g a n ’ s

most vulnerable groups, many of whom live in the Copper Country. I think it’s important to tell State Rep. Matt Huuki and State Sen. Tom Casperson that they need to represent their constituents, not Repub-lican bosses in Lansing,” said protest organizer Elise Matz.

Additionally, the HCDP, teachers and public employ-ees are angry about the new Michigan law that allows Gov. Snyder to appoint a financial manager to cash-strapped school districts, cities and municipalities. The financial manager has unilateral power to dismiss elected officials, break union contracts and sell public assets without oversight or voter approval. The law is particularly unfair given that the governor wants to drasti-cally slash education spending and state contributions to mu-nicipal budgets.

Participants are encouraged to gather at the boat launch on W. Lakeshore Drive in Hough-ton, across from the Power-house at the foot of the Por-tage Lift Bridge at 12:00 p.m. At roughly 2:30 p.m. the rally will adjourn to the Keweenaw Brewing Company on Shelden Ave. for more rallying, cama-raderie and warmth.

Where to meet: For those who want to participate in the Houghton protest on April 2, meet with the Houghton County Democratic Party at the Boat Launch near the foot of the lift bridge on W. Lakeshore Drive by noon, Saturday. Photo courtesy of the Houghton County Democratic Party

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Michigan governor, Rick Snyder, is projecting a 15% cut in education budgets. This means that each public school district will lose about $470 per student, causing an increase in class sizes and, probably, a decrease of teach-ers.

Many university students gathered in Lansing this past week to protest the budget cuts to the state universities. There were students from Michigan State University, Grand Valley State Univer-sity, University of Michigan, Western Michigan University, and many others, including our own Alma Mater, to try to

tell Lansing officials that an increase in tuition will not be appreciated.

The budget cuts are meant to cause universities to cut useless spending and fund-ing and create incentives on where to put funding. How-ever, the first place universi-ties will increase funding is in tuition, when tuition is al-ready so hard for the average student to afford.

Most of Michigan’s tuition is much higher than compa-rable schools in other states with Tech taking the lead in the state. The increased tu-ition will cause an increase in student employees, causing a never-ending cycle of spend-

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in the fall. One of the reasons why this was said to her was because Breanna already runs up to twenty miles in a day. She eventually decided to take her friend’s advice, and is now running up to Michigan Tech to help support the Michigan Tech Rowing Team.

However, Breanna isn’t do-ing this just for fun. Not only is she using this run to help support the Rowing Team, but she is also using this run to help her train for a much larger run she is planning to

in her future. Cornell is plan-ning on running from “pole to pole” to help raise support and funds for people who do not have safe drinking water, and to help educate people on how a healthy mind and body go hand in hand.

If you wish to support Cor-nell in her run you can either donate money at her web-site at (www.run2live.webs.com), or you can contact her through her website offering a place to stay and rest during her run.

citizens that infants in Tokyo were not to drink city tap water as radia-tion levels detected were above the legal limit for infants, who are par-ticularly susceptible to radiation. This warning was issued on March 23, and declared to have returned to a safe level the next day, though on March 27 the levels of radiation in tap water were declared unsafe for infants in four prefectures, which are Japan’s sub-national ju-risdictions of which the country is divided into 47.

In light of the dangers, company and government officials have pro-posed numerous ideas to contain the radioactive particles, including using a sticky resin to absorb and trap particles that they are plan-ning to test, a tarp over the facili-ties and coating the reactors with special materials. Despite efforts so far, there have been discoveries of highly radioactive water in main-tenance tunnels and reactor base-ments. Said Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesperson Mr. Edano, “We are not in a situation where we can say we will have this under control by a certain period.” The United States has also become involved in containment efforts, including production and operator-training of radiation-resistant robots to

survey and make repairs in un-safe areas as well as developing a drug, titled Ex-Rad, that prevents and repairs damage to human cells caused by radiation (reminiscent of Rad-X in the popular video game series, Fallout). United States officials believe that the leakage and resulting contamination was an inevitable consequence of Ja-pan’s “Feed and Bleed” approach to cooling the reactors.

Though the meltdowns are very serious, they are not likely to pose a major health risk out of their lo-cal area and almost entirely unlike-ly to be dangerous outside of Japan unless a full meltdown should oc-cur. As a precaution, many United States citizens residing in Japan have voluntarily evacuated and certain exports are being halted from Japan until concerns subside. President Obama has stated that the United States has a responsi-bility to learn from the Japanese nuclear crisis, and has ordered a review of all 104 nuclear reactors spread over 65 plants, and Sena-tor Sam Blakeslee of California has requested that Pacific Gas and Electric Company withdraw appli-cation for the upcoming renewal of their license until a geological survey is complete.

ty features in the design. Other events that will be tak-

ing place during the Conference are a Paper Competition, Chem-E Jeopardy, workshops, KBC tour and other social activities. The Jeopardy Competition is a rela-tively new event where students are put in a classic Jeopardy set-

ting and asked questions in vari-ous areas of Chemical Engineer-ing.

Monetary prizes are handed out to the first, second and third place winners in both the Chem-E Car Competition and the Pa-per Competition. The top five winners from the Chem-E Car

and the winner from the Paper Competition will also go on to compete at the National level in Minneapolis this fall.

Even though mostly Chemical Engineering majors are targeted by this program, all of campus is welcome to attend the event if they register online first.

Tokyo Continued from front

Rowing Continued from frontAIChE Continued from front

Michigan in protest over budget cutsCommunity plans to be heard

Lode WriterREBEKAH PRICE

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What sort of activities would you like to see in the Lode? Let us know by e-mailing lodecom-ment@mtu.edu. This week’s puzzle will be an easy puzzle. The week has been hard enough on the majority of students, so it doesn’t seem fair to continue taxing everyone’s minds. Take a break and have some fun with this puzzle! The answer to last week’s puzzle is to the right. Enjoy!

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ing and funding. However, this is Snyder’s effort to make institutions more efficient in their spending. “The governor has said his proposed 15 per-cent cut to higher education funding is part of the shared sacrifice to balance the bud-get. Also as part of Governor

Snyder’s higher education cuts, colleges and universities that can’t keep tuition hikes under seven percent would face state funding cuts above the 15 per-cent level.”

Second-year student in the biomedical department, Col-lin Tether, said, “I am unhappy

to hear about the budget cuts, but I suppose that a bad thing like increased tuition is go-ing to have to happen before any efficient university spend-ing occurs.” Tether will be af-fected for years to come, as he is considering receiving his masters here at Tech. Ashwin

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It’s not fair: Michigan Senate Democratic Leader, Gretchen Whitmer, leads one of the many rallies being held against Michigan’s Govenor, Rick Snyder. The crowds stood in protest to many of the polices Snyder is pushing forward, such as offering corporations tax breaks within Michigan. During the protest, the crowd could be heard chanting, “It’s not fair!” Photo courtesy of Michael Moore’s YouTube feed

Vekaria, third-year student in the materials science depart-ment feels that “It is a bad idea to cut the budget as education is the backbone for recovery in the country. I don’t know how he [Snyder] expects the state to bounce back once the educa-tion is being cut.”

Hopefully, Snyder’s vision of efficient university spend-ing will come to fruition, but for now, there will be a price to pay for students. In the 1999-2000 school year, under-

graduate students were paying approximately $122.00/credit hour; in 2005-2006, students were paying $252.00/credit hour. In the 2009-2010 school year, students were spending $350/credit hour. Obviously, tuition here at Tech has in-creased about two-fold in the last two years. With Snyder’s budget cuts, we can easily see the same trend but in a much smaller time interval. Tell us your opinion by commenting on this story at mtulode.com

EA Games’ sequel to the origi-nal “American McGee’s Alice” is no commonplace, fuzzy-hearted fairy tale. Wonderland is not the same place we remembered, presenting more butchery and warped Alice characters and twisted tales of death and deso-lation.

Hardly following the aged children’s legend, Alice’s sinis-ter tale began when she watched her family parish in a fire, send-ing her into downward spirals of decreasing sanity. Eventually is-sued to an insane asylum, Alice

dipped deeper into her imagi-nary world of Wonderland while locked up, accompanied by sick dreams, visions and shattered memories.

After ten years in the asylum, Alice is released and dubbed healthy enough to reenter the world, though her psyche still itches uneasily with the infesta-tion of the horrid memories. She falls back into her same ways, thanks to the memories, visions and the poignant fear. She re-turns to Wonderland to find that the place she once knew has re-ceived an appalling makeover.

The new game will include innovative, gory characters sent from the Hells of your night-

mares carefully crafted to petri-fy and slaughter. The game actu-ally begins in Victorian London before you find yourself in the actual Wonderland. It is a tri-fling story twisted with the sor-row and dismay of a misdirected fairy tale, lost in the depths of obscurity.

“Alice: Madness Returns” plays on the darkness and qualms that lurk within the imagination, an obscure place unsettled by disturbed emotions. The atmo-sphere of Wonderland is chill-ing and gray, except for the oc-casional splatter of vibrant red blood. It is a world secluded in

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Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with “true grit,” Reuben J. “Rooster” Cog-burn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her “grit” tested.

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The Michigan Tech Concert Choir will perform the annual spring concert this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Rozsa Center for Performing Arts Theater. The theme for this year is entitled “Whimsy!” and will feature a se-lection of seven different compo-sitions that give a bright and agile touch for the start of the new sea-son.

Each of the seven pieces was written by well-known artists ranging from Johannes Brahms to more contemporary artists like Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. Compositions such as Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard by Benjamin Britten and Comedy Tonight by Stephen Sondheim will give off lightness for all members of the community to enjoy.

“We have been doing this sort of thing for many years and we always get a good turnout,” says a member of the MTCC. “Many times we try to use extra props to make the theme more realistic.”

Many of the pieces performed will be centered on the love affairs and the affections felt between

a man and a woman. O Schöne Nacht (“Oh Lovely Night”) by Johannes Brahms tells the story of a young adult with his lover under the moonlight.

Other songs will be based on the simplicity and gleefulness of light comedy. Nonsense by Bennett is split up into three movements which all take a surrealist approach to humor.

“When picking a theme, we try not to choose one that will keep us from being eclectic,” says a MTCC member. “We want to cover a wide range of composers and art-ists that still adhere to our choice of theme, however different they may be from each other.”

The event will be conducted by Dr. Jared Anderson, who has re-cently been involved in directing the many enactments carried out by the Michigan Tech Concert Choir.

Tickets can be purchased at the Rozsa box office or online. Prices will be 10 dollars for the general public and five dollars for students who are 18 years of age and under. The show will be free to Michigan Tech students. find out more about the event, visit the Rozsa website under events at, http://www.vpa.mtu.edu/events.htm#whimsy.

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Michigan Technological University’s McArdle Theater will be hosting the seventh annu-al Northern Lights Film Festival. From March 31 to April 2, sev-eral independent films will be screened in McArdle, including both short films and features.

The first two films, Gasland and Zenith will be shown Thursday night. Gasland, screen-ing at 7:00 p.m., is the result of filmmaker Josh Fox being asked to lease his land for natural gas drilling. Gasland is a documen-tary of Fox’s investigation, asking communities how this natural gas drilling procedure, “fracking,” affected them. Michigan Tech se-nior Wes Kolbe will provide an introduction to the film and dis-cussion following.

The second Thursday film, Zenith, screens at 9:30 p.m., im-mediately following Gasland. Directed and written by Vladan Nikolic, Zenith is a science-fic-tion exploration of a future where everyone is “happy” – possibly at the cost of what makes them hu-man.

The festival will continue Friday with three more feature films and a short film. The events begin at 5:00 p.m. with a screening of Joanna Rudnick’s In The Family. The film focuses on the docu-mentary filmmaker’s discovery that she possesses the gene for breast cancer, and the subsequent decision she must make: whether to surgically remove her breasts and ovaries, or risk cancer.

At 7:30, the festival will pres-ent the UK documentary Erasing David. In a country with four million closed-circuit TV cam-eras, filmmaker David Bond tries to disappear without a trace. The film examines data collection and

use as Bond tries to evade cap-ture by two security experts.

After that a short horror film by recent Tech graduate Daena Makela, “Snowblowing Over the Dead of Winter,” the Art House horror film Heartless will screen at 9:30 p.m. Heartless, a psycho-logical thriller, follows a young man with a heart-shaped birth-mark through a version the trou-bled East End of London where the violence comes not only from gangs but from demons as well.

Saturday afternoon’s events focus on the work of new film-makers. From 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., the festival will show short films from the 2010 Student Academy Awards, including winners in animation, documentary, alter-native, narrative, and foreign film. At 3:00 p.m., the festival will screen more short films and documentaries produced by Michigan Tech students.

Saturday’s first feature film is at 4:00 with Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol, the SXSW Best Documentary-winning picture about Mark Hogencamp’s expe-rience being severely beaten and building a 1/6 scale World War II-era town to help recover from the trauma.

The final film of the festival is the Academy Award-nominated Waste Land, the story of collabo-ration between Brooklyn artist Vik Muniz and an eclectic group of workers at the world’s largest garbage dump in Muniz’s native Brazil.

The festival is sponsored by the departments of Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts, as well as Cin/Optic Communication and Media Enterprise team. Entry is free. More information on the films and festival can be found at http://director.hu.mtu.edu/northernlights or by contact-ing Erin Smith at smitherin@mtu.edu or 906-487-3263.

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Snyder Revisited: Should voters have asked more questions?

As the third month of the gov-ernorship of Rick Snyder (R-MI) comes to a close, he can look back on a lot of accomplishments dur-ing this time. With the aid of a relatively friendly state legislature, as well as wind in his sails from a resounding 2010 victory, he has been very successful in pressing his agenda on Michigan. However, in spite of these accomplishments, polling data suggests that the pub-lic seems less than enthusiastic about the changes being made in Michigan.

I find myself to be amongst this crowd. In November, my vote was cast for Snyder because he seemed to be a fresh new face. He looked and acted like a governor, espe-cially compared to his opponent, and he seemed to have the moxie necessary to take hold of this state and restore it to previous glory.

Even considering this, though, the main thing that concerned me about Snyder was his lack of depth on policy. He simply didn’t reveal much about himself during the campaign, and in spite of this, Michigan voters coalesced in large amounts behind his campaign for cosmetic reasons. After all, he was

a tough nerd who liked Star Trek; how bad could he possibly be?

Well, the curtain has risen on Snyder, and according to a poll re-leased by Public Policy Polling on March 22nd, Snyder’s approval rat-ing has dropped to 33 percent. In comparison, his predecessor, Jen-nifer Granholm, was at 34 percent upon her departure from office. In addition, his poll numbers are ac-tually lower than fellow newcomer GOP governors Scott Walker (R-WI) and John Kasich (R-OH), who have received much more negative publicity for their actions in their respective states.

The question I have to ask is, how did we get here, and does the public have a clear grasp of the actions that the Snyder adminis-tration has taken during his few months in office?

The first sign of trouble for the Snyder was the release of his bud-get proposal in February. The doc-ument, while cosmetically show-ing some level of balance, showed a bias for placing the burden of the deficit on seniors and the middle class. In particular, the budget con-tained levied tax on retirement in-come, as well as 15 percent reduc-tion in aid for public higher educa-tion in the state of Michigan. Also included in the proposal was a $1.5 billion dollar tax cut on businesses in the state, which one could see as overboard during a time of fiscal crisis.

In addition to his budget propos-al, the other main action that the Snyder administration has taken that is the proposing and passage of the much maligned Emergency Financial Manager Bill, which re-ceived national attention during a segment of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC at the begin-ning of March. The most often highlighted parts of this legislation include the right for the governor to appoint an Emergency Financial Manager (EFM) to help in stabi-lizing local municipalities in the state, but takes this a bit further than the current role that Emer-gency Financial Managers have in the state.

This bill, in essence, will allow an appointed EFM the authority to “reject, modify, or terminate terms of an existing contract (entered in-to by the local entity).” This power, further explained in the legislation, extends this authority to collective bargaining agreements. In addi-tion, the bill also allows the EFM to dismiss local elected officials.

I was hoping this was just par-tisan analysis. But, unfortunately, upon reading the bill, a lot of what Maddow said in this piece can be confirmed. In the short term, per-haps there may be positive effects that come from legislation like this. Unfortunately, if the ends involve circumventing the democratic process, they just don’t justify the means.

So, as Michiganders, where does that leave us? The 2010 elec-tion should be a mute reminder of what happens when you don’t demand answers from candidates. It appears to me that a large por-tion of the public is currently dis-satisfied, but could have been bet-ter informed if they wouldn’t have bought into the hype prior to the election. Unfortunately, though skeptical, I’m one of the people who bought into the hype.

Here’s hoping for a better future for Michigan. One just wonders, with the latest actions of the Sny-der administration, if he’ll be the one to deliver that better future.

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most in the nice weather that’s coming?

Evan Schaefer, Materials Science and Engineering, Third year

Snowboarding because the snow that’s left isn’t so icy. Riding slush is almost as good as powder!

Go outside. I haven’t seen sunshine in a while and I don’t want to be ghostly

for my mum’s wedding

Ethan Bowen, Forestry and Wildlife, First year

Steelhead fishing because I love fishing and have never caught a steelhead!

Hilary Drake, Clinical Lab Science, Second year

I am excited for the warm weather so the snow will melt. I’m ready for a clean car to

stay clean!

Sean Branner, Software Engineering, First year

Going to the beach because I don’t get to go swimming much and there are a lot of hot girls!

Andrew Scipioni, Civil Engineering, Second year

Going kayaking on the lakes in Min-nesota because they are so beautiful!

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After twice making it to the NCAA Elite Eight, replacing all five starters and the head coach, and losing to then-No. 12 Notre Dame 102-30 in their exhibition game, this season appeared, for all intents and purposes, to be a rebuilding year for the women’s basketball Huskies. Instead, the Huskies

lost just twice more until the national championship game, shattering records along the way and racking up an incredi-ble 18-game winning streak on their way to that title game, the first in school history by either basketball program.

“It was an awesome sea-son,” said Huskies head coach Kim Cameron. “We knew how much talent we had returning. I think we played as an un-

derrated team for awhile. About mid-way through the season, we changed our attitude into a confident, deserve-to-win kind of team.”

The loss to the Fight-ing Irish was a humbling one for the Huskies. The Huskies (31-3 overall) responded by winning their next three games. Their fourth game of the season was their first of-ficial loss, and

it would prove important on many levels. The Huskies fell, 78-70, to Concordia St. Paul, and they shot 9-of-18 from the free throw line. Cameron’s first real challenge as a head coach was to correct that problem before it could be allowed to become a bigger threat.

Getting the message from their coach that 50.0 percent free throw percentage wouldn’t cut it, the Huskies recovered by winning their next 10 games, never surrendering more than 66 points over that span. The key victory over that span was a Dec. 19 matchup with then-No. 9 Grand Valley State. The Huskies got 19 points from sophomore guard Sam Hoyt and 15 from senior guard An-gela Guisfredi to down the Lakers, 60-55.

“Sam will be one of the best players Michigan Tech has ever seen,” said Cameron. “She just won’t lose. Her ability to han-dle the ball and make decisions is a lot of why we’re good.”

On Jan. 20 at Ferris State, the Huskies led by 12, 58-46, with 5:25 remaining and appeared on their way to an 11th con-secutive victory. Instead, they scored just two points over the

Congratulations to our Huskies who had an excellent season! The Cinderella story of this year could be Butler, but VCU making it all the way from the play-in game to the final four is an incredible feat. I think they have the size and playmaking ability to take down Butler. Kentucky knocked off overall #1 Ohio State, but Kemba Walker and UConn look like a team on a mission. UConn will beat Kentucky in a close game. The Stars take on the Kings with huge playoff implications, Dallas has a history with Tech hockey, and I think they dethrone the Kings.

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3times the women’s basketball Huskies lost in the state of Michigan since Jan. 1, 2010: Northern Michigan (3/2/10), Hillsdale (2/20/10), and Ferris State (1/20/11).

6singles matches won by junior Douglas Yossida this season. That’s almost one-fifth of all the singles’ victories by the Huskies this year (26).

3 points (2.7) per game averaged by junior

guard Matt Gaedke, down from the 8.3

points per game he averaged as a

sophomore.

121assists racked up this season by sophomore guard Sam Hoyt for the women’s basketball Huskies. She also averaged 11.9 points per game.

The Editor’s Shootout is a competition of knowledge, luck and wits between sports editor Daver Karnosky, editor in chief Stephen Anderson, business manager Jacob Veh-ring and you, the reader, via online poll. Stephen Anderson won last year and has won two of the last three years (former opinion editor Rob Devaun with the other win). This will be a weekly feature where each editor picks his winners of the three biggest games/series of the week and backs up his decisions with a short rant.

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Last week’s picks:BuckeyesStarsSpurs

I cannot say enough about how proud I am to be a Husky. Congrats again to coach Cameron and the ladies! I have finally broken the 30-win plateau in my picks and it feels good. Is it too late to gloat that I am going to win the Lode Bracket Challenge? Haha! Anyway, I can’t go against Butler. They’ve been there before, and the Rams just don’t have the experience to move on. I picked Kentucky to win the whole tournament and so far they haven’t let me down. Dallas will make short work of an underpowered Kings squad in a game that could determine whether or not the Stars make the playoffs.

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The school year is winding down and I have to lock up this victory! It’s hard to pick against Shaka Smart and VCU with their magical run, but Butler’s experience from last year and a big game from Howard will lift the Bulldogs to their second straight championship game. The other side of the Final Four has two legendary college basketball teams, and, while I never would have picked Kentucky initially, their win over Ohio State has me con-vinced that they’ll defeat Kemba and crew. Finally, I think the Stars will go into L.A. and shock the red-hot Kings to edge their way into the playoffs.

Bulldogs, 70-62Wildcats, 78-73Stars, 3-2

Women’s Tennis (10-9 overall)Mar. 8 vs S. Indiana, W, 8-1Mar. 8 vs W. Vir. Wes., W, 9-0Mar. 9 vs. St. Leo, L, 5-4Apr. 9 vs St. Norbert, 3 p.m.

Men’s Tennis (4-7, 0-3 GLIAC)

16points

(16.1) per game averaged by sophomore Ali Haidar this

season for the men’s basketball Huskies.

That’s almost a seven-point increase over his first

year (9.9).

Men’s Basketball rebounds with solid campaign

Feb. 24 at SVSU, W, 71-67Feb. 26 at Northwood, W, 88-77Mar. 2 at Grand Valley, W, 74-72Mar. 5 at Ferris State, L, 73-64

Mar. 14 vs Wis.-Park., W, 69-57Mar. 22 vs Ark. Tech, W, 69-58Mar. 23 vs NW Miss. St, W, 89-78Mar. 25 vs. Clayton State, L, 69-50

Mar. 17 at Ferris State, L, 9-0Mar. 25 vs Wayne State, L, 6-3Apr. 1 at Tiffin, 1 p.m.Apr. 2 at Findlay, 3 p.m.

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After finishing the 2009-10 season with five wins in their last eight games, the men’s bas-ketball Huskies came into 2010-11 with high hopes as they were ready to build off the late suc-cess. The Huskies did just that, jumping out to a 4-0 start, and they rode that success all the way to the GLIAC Semifinals against Ferris State before a tough loss ended their season.

“We’re on the right track,” said Huskies head coach Kevin Luke. “I feel like our kids are understanding…we’re getting it. We can’t forget from now until then how and what we did. I feel really good about the way [this season] ended.”

The Huskies wowed their home crowd in their season opener against Bemidji State on Nov. 16, as they downed the Beavers, 101-88. Freshman guard Austin Armga had a night for the record books, notching 29 points in only 22 minutes of

play. To makes matters even

more impressive, he did it was one 3-pointer to his credit.

The Huskies carried that momentum into the Hillyard Classic, where they rolled over Rockhurst and Missouri West-ern State. Junior forward Mike Hojnacki posted 34 points over the two games and sophomore forward Ali Haidar was right be-hind him with 31.

After a win over local rival Finlandia, the Huskies suffered their first loss of the season, and only loss in their first 10 games, to Minnesota State. The Huskies held a one-point lead, 61-60, with 1:28 remaining, but that was enough time for the Maver-icks to score a jumper and a free throw to earn the 63-61 win.

The Huskies recovered from the loss to win their next five games including a huge 109-84 victory at Northern Michigan. The Huskies went 13-of-22 from behind the arc, including 8-of-12 from freshman guard Alex Culy, in the victory. The last victory in the run was over Ferris State at home. The Bulldogs outshot the Huskies, but the Huskies made key free throws down the

stretch to seal the 74-71 victory.Following the big victory

over the Bulldogs, the Huskies dropped a pair of games, first to then-No. 11 Grand Valley State at home and then to St. Joseph’s on the road. Despite the losses, the Huskies finished 2010 with a record of 9-3, and that meant there was plenty to be excited about.

The Huskies started 2011 off with a bang, defeating Northern Michigan for a second time. Af-ter the game, however, the Hus-kies lost Armga to a lower-body injury for a couple of weeks, and that injury proved costly as the Huskies dropped five straight games and seven of eight. Four of those losses came to the top two teams in each division of the GLIAC.

“We had to find out who we were and we wanted to become,” said Luke. “Sometimes you have to go through that adversity to find out who you are and where you are.”

The lone victory over that stretch came in exciting fashion as the Huskies needed overtime to defeat the visiting Hillsdale

Chargers. Freshman forward Jordan Reetz hit the game-tying 3-pointer with one second re-maining to lift the Huskies into the extra session and the Hus-kies dominated from there for the 93-82 win.

Recovering from the tough schedule and the disappointing losses, the Huskies managed to take five straight to finish the season and clinch a spot in the GLIAC Tournament. A third game against Grand Valley State, who had beaten the Hus-kies twice already, was on tap for the Huskies in their quarter-final matchup.

Haidar scored 25 points, Hojnacki netted 16, and Reetz added 10 as the Huskies out-played the Lakers and came away with the 74-72 victory, stunning the hosts’ crowd of 484.

The Huskies played well in their final game of the season against the Bulldogs, but just couldn’t quite overcome the hosts’ eight-point halftime lead in the final 20 minutes of play.

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On Saturday, less than 24 hours after their heartbreaking loss in the National Championship game to the Clayton State Lakers, the women’s basketball Huskies re-turned to the SDC Gym as larger-than-life heroes to nearly 1,000 fans who congratulated them on their season. It may not have been the celebration they were hoping for, but that didn’t seem to bother the Huskies’ faithful.

“For us to come home, after your emotions go on a roller-coaster in the last few days…it was awesome,” said head coach Kim Cameron. “These kids just want to win. You can tell by their grade-point average, you can tell by the way they run their lives, they want to do everything right. They want to do everything perfectly.”

The players were greeted at the airport by a police escort, who led them through downtown Han-cock and Houghton, and followed the escort to the gym. The Huskies entered the gym serenaded by the Pep Band playing the Michigan Tech Fight Song, and smiles and tears welled up on the players and the coaches.

“Words cannot describe what this community has meant to this program,” said Athletic Director Suzanne Sanregret. “I think that’s

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After a weekend of great hockey matchups across the country, four teams remain standing. Of those four teams left standing, two are from the Western Collegiate Hockey As-sociation and two are from the Central Collegiate Hockey As-sociation. North Dakota and Minnesota Duluth won the Midwest and East Regionals, respectively while Notre Dame and Michigan won the North-east and the West, respectively.

Minnesota Duluth reached the promised land by first de-feating Union, 2-0, on the strength of two power play goals and then beating Yale, 5-3, with three power play markers.

Union finished 0-for-9 on the power play in their semifi-nal game while Kyle Schmidt and Justin Fontaine each scored the man advantage for the Bull-dogs. Schmidt scored at 14:38 of the second period and Fon-taine struck at 6:24 of the third. Kenny Reiter made 32 stops for the victors.

Yale needed a goal from Chad Ziegler 3:16 into an extra period to sneak past Air Force. Brian O’Neill gave Yale the 1-0 lead 7:28 into the middle frame, and they held that lead until Sean Bertsch tied the game at 18:34 of the same period. Ryan Ron-deau made 22 stops for Yale.

In the Regional Title game, the Minnesota Duluth jumped out to a 3-1 lead on goals from Mike Connolly in the first pe-riod followed by goals from Wade Bergman and Jack Con-nolly, who scored on the power play. Yale’s goal-scorer, O’Neill was whistled for a five-minute major for contact to the head, and Minnesota Duluth struck twice on that advantage to take a 5-1 lead into the third period. Reiter surrendered two power play goals in the final frame, but still finished with 30 stops on the night.

The Sioux needed just 5:25 to score that would stand as the game-winning goal in their semifinal matchup with RPI. Brad Malone scored twice, and Danny Kristo, Jason Gregoire, Corban Knight, and Matt Frat-tin each scored once in a 6-0

route. Aaron Dell stopped 21 pucks in the victory.

In the other Midwest semifi-nal, Denver would need 31:14 of extra time to down the West-ern Michigan Broncos, 3-2. The Broncos jumped out to a 2-0 just 3:32 into the third and held that lead for 12 minutes before Kyle Ostrow and Matt Donovan evened the game in a span of just under two minutes. Jason Zucker scored the winner 11:14 into the second overtime. Sam Brittain made 30 saves in the win.

In a rematch of the WCHA Final Five title game, the Sioux and Pioneers skated to a 1-1 tie after one period. From there, the Sioux would strike five times, including twice on the man ad-vantage, to skate away with a 6-1 victory. Evan Trupp, Brett Hextall, Brock Nelson, Malone, and Jake Marto all scored dur-ing that five-goal barrage.

The Wolverines needed 2:35 of extra time to beat WCHA newcomer Nebraska-Omaha in their West Regional semifinal with a controversial goal. The Mavericks took a 2-0 lead after one period, but couldn’t hang

on to the lead for long as the Wolverines struck just 1:17 into the second period with a goal from Louie Caporusso. Kevin Lynch tied the game 7:16 later.

In the overtime, Greg Pateryn took a shot that kicked out and off of Lynch towards the goal. The puck kicked back out so fast that no call was made, how-ever play was stopped with the Wolverines in control in the of-fensive zone shortly after. Upon revue, the puck was determined to have crossed the line, giv-ing the Wolverines the victory. Shawn Hunwick made 27 saves to get the win.

In the other West semifinal, Colorado College rolled to an 8-4 victory over Boston College. The game was a showcase for the Schwartz brothers as Jaden scored a pair of goals and a pair of assists and Rylan scored once and added three assists. Joe Howe made 39 stops in the vic-tory.

In the finale, the Wolverines jumped out to a 2-0 lead af-ter one on goals from Scooter Vaughan at 2:23 and Lee Moffie at 17:33. The game remained 2-0 until the 16:25 mark of the

third period as Rylan Schwartz cut the lead in half. The Tigers couldn’t get any closer, as Hun-wick shut the door by making 21 saves on the night.

The Fighting Irish needed overtime to get to the Northeast Regional championship. Fac-ing Merrimack, the Irish trailed 2-1 after one and 3-2 after two. Billy Maday tied the game 5:32 into the third period setting up the extra session. Anders Lee, one of the top freshmen in the country, won it for the Irish 5:18 into overtime.

In the other semifinal, New Hampshire defeated Miami 3-1 on a pair of goals from Kevin Goumas and one from Mike Sislo. Matt DiGirolamo made 21 saves to get the win.

The Irish took a 1-0 lead over the Wildcats on a goal from Ste-phen Johns 7:26 into the game. The scored remained that way until Maday gave the Irish a two-goal cushion with five sec-onds remaining in the middle frame. Sislo pulled the Wildcats within one in the third, but it wasn’t enough as Mike John-son shut the door for the Irish, making 37 stops.

Despite winning two of the three doubles matches Friday in their home opener, the men’s tennis Huskies could not carry the momentum they estab-lished into the singles matches, falling to the Wayne State War-riors, 6-3. All three doubles matches were close, but only two singles matches went the distance. The Huskies have yet to win in Great Lakes Inter-collegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) play.

“We were up in doubles, but couldn’t quite pull through in the singles matches,” said Hus-kies’ head coach Mike Axford. “We played better, but we need to a do a better job with a cou-ple of areas of playing smarter, more patient tennis.”

The Huskies (4-7 overall, 0-3 GLIAC) struck first as fresh-man James Konarske and se-nior Chris Verhulst came away

with a 9-7 victory at number three singles over Matt Fisher and Oscar Gamarra. The pair improved to 5-6 on the season with the win.

The second Huskies’ point came at number one doubles, where juniors Luka Stupar and Douglas Yossida needed a tie-breaker to get past Aman Gill and Melvin Joseph, 9-8 (7-5). The Huskies’ top duo is now 6-5 (2-1 GLIAC) with the win.

The number two doubles team of sophomore Andrew Kremkow and junior Anders Sandholm tried valiantly to give the Huskies the clean sweep of the doubles matches, but fell in a tiebreaker to Thomas Ducret and Alec Attala, 8-9 (6-8).

In the singles matches, the lone Huskies point came at number three singles where Yossida defeated Gamarra in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4. The win was Yossida’s first in GLIAC play and sixth overall (6-4).

Kremkow and Verhulst lost

in straight sets at numbers five and six singles. Sandholm also lost in two sets at num-ber two singles, but he forced a tiebreaker in the second set against Gill, 4-6, 6-7 (6-8).

Stupar and Konarske both lost their matches in three sets at numbers one and four, re-spectively. Stupar lost the first set to Ducret, 6-2, won the second, 6-1, and dropped the third, 6-3. Konarske fell in the first set to Joseph, 6-3, won the second set, 6-4, and dropped the third 6-3.

The Huskies hit the road this weekend to face a pair of Ohio-based schools in Tiffin and Findlay on Friday and Sat-urday, respectively.

The Dragons (6-9 overall) come into Friday’s match hav-ing not tasted victory in four GLIAC matches.

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With the hockey Huskies’ sea-son over, we at the Lode wanted to update hockey fans about our former Huskies still competing in the National Hockey League (NHL) and the American Hockey League (AHL), the NHL’s top feeder league.

NHLChris ConnerThe 2006 Tech grad is now in his

second season for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Conner has played in 55 games this season for the Penguins and has seven goals and seven as-sists. Look for the former Husky in the playoffs this season, as his team has already clinched a playoff spot. As a member of the Huskies, Con-ner only missed one game during his junior year and had 69 career goals for the Huskies. Conner left, undrafted, after his senior year, and bounced around the Ameri-can Hockey League (AHL) and the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Dallas Stars before making his way to Pittsburgh.

Jarkko RuutuRuutu only played for the Hus-

kies for one year before returning to Finland to fulfill his military du-ties, but while wearing a Huskies jersey in the 1995-96 season, he had 12 goals and 10 assists. Ruutu debuted in the NHL with the Van-couver Canucks, but currently resides on the Anaheim Ducks’

roster after being traded part way through this season from the Ot-tawa Senators. Ruutu has played in 17 games so far for the Ducks and has one goal and one assist. The Ducks are currently sitting at sev-enth in the Western Conference and are on a two-game winning streak so make sure to watch for the Huskies’ alum making a run for the cup.

John ScottScott graduated in 2006 and

went on to sign as a free agent with the Minnesota Wild, where he moved bounced back and forth between the Wild and their AHL affiliate, the Houston Aeros. Need-ing help on their blue line, the Chi-cago Blackhawks signed him this off season. As a Blackhawk, Scott has played in 40 games so far this season, and with the Hawks sitting in eighth place, will be a close call on a playoff berth.

Andy SuttonSutton, an environmental engi-

neering major, currently plays for the Anaheim Ducks with Ruutu, after moving around the NHL the past few seasons. Sutton, known for his big hits, plays defenseman for the playoff-bound team and has four assists for the Ducks this season despite missing time with an injury.

Clay WilsonWilson left Houghton undraft-

ed when his college career ended in 2005 and spent some time in the United Hockey League and the AHL before making his NHL

debut in 2008 with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Wilson currently plays for the Florida Panthers where the defenseman has two goals and one assist in nine games since getting called up recently.

AHLGreg AmadioSince leaving in 2003 after four

seasons as a member of the Hus-kies, Amadio has been primarily playing in the AHL, currently play-ing for the Grand Rapids Griffins, the Detroit Red Wings’ affiliate. In his first season with the Grif-fins, the defenseman has played in 68 games and has two goals and four assists. The Griffins are fifth in their division, still hoping for a spot in the playoffs.

Chris DurnoDurno left Tech undrafted after

a four-year career with the Hus-kies. He started his professional career in the East Coast Hockey League. Durno currently plays for the Norfolk Admirals of the AHL where he has 18 goals and 17 assists. He could see a call-up to the Admirals’ NHL team, the Tampa Bay Lightning during the playoffs.

Geoff KinradeKinrade currently plays for

the Binghamton Senators of the AHL, where he is playing in his second full season. The defense-man has four goals and 18 assists on the year. Since leaving Tech in 2009, Kinrade has played in one NHL game for the Tampa Bay Lightning.

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When considering this sea-son’s women’s basketball Hus-kies and all that they have ac-complished this season, none of it would have been possible without the dedication of their rookie coach and three out-standing seniors. Kim Cam-eron, in her first season at the helm of the Huskies, along with Lisa Staehlin, Lucy Der-novsek, and Angela Guisfredi, has instilled a defense-first mentality that the entire team bought into almost from the first practice.

“Those seniors have led this team to exactly where they are right now,” said Cameron of

her veteran leaders. “Having the opportunity to host [the GLIAC Tournament and the NCAA Midwest Regional] is because of them.”

Simply put, the trio has done everything that could be asked of them, and more, and that effort shows in how they were honored by the Great Lakes In-tercollegiate Athletic Confer-ence (GLIAC) and the NCAA.

Staehlin, who was named the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament’s Most Oustand-ing Player, was just that, scor-ing 22 points against Lewis in the quarterfinal and adding another 17 in the final against Wisconsin-Parkside. Despite missing the majority of the first half against Arkansas Tech in the NCAA Elite Eight quarterfinal, When consider-ing this season’s women’s bas-ketball Huskies and all that they have accomplished this season, none of it would have been possible without the ded-ication of their rookie coach and three outstanding seniors. Kim Cameron, in her first sea-son at the helm of the Huskies, along with Lisa Staehlin, Lucy Dernovsek, and Angela Guis-fredi, has instilled a defense-first mentality that the entire team bought into almost from the first practice.

“Those seniors have led this team to exactly where they are right now,” said Cameron of her veteran leaders. “Having the opportunity to host [the GLIAC Tournament and the NCAA Midwest Regional] is because of them.”

Simply put, the trio has done everything that could be asked of them, and more, and that effort shows in how they were honored by the Great Lakes In-tercollegiate Athletic Confer-ence (GLIAC) and the NCAA.

Staehlin, who was named the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament’s Most Oustand-ing Player, was just that, scor-ing 22 points against Lewis in the quarterfinal and adding another 17 in the final against Wisconsin-Parkside. Despite missing the majority of the first half against Arkansas Tech in the NCAA Elite Eight quar-terfinal, Staehlin still managed to put up 15 points in just 25 minutes of play.

“Going into the [Wiscon-sin-Parkside] game, I knew it was going to be my last home game,” said Staehlin. “We just wanted to show everyone what we could do and we weren’t go-ing to stop until we did.”

Twenty times in 32 games this season, Staehlin has notched double figures in scoring. In addition to her 22 against Lewis, she also broke the school record for blocks in a single game with seven, fur-ther proving to her teammates how important defense would need to be to win.

The lone Huskies’ player to be named to the Daktron-ics All-Midwest Region First Team, Dernovsek proved to be a force to be reckoned with all season long. She averaged 12.2 points per game heading into the NCAA Elite Eight, which was far more than the 1.5 she averaged as a junior. Dernovsek also pulled down 8.5 rebounds per game, including 16 against Arkansas Tech Tuesday night.

“It helps when the first one goes in,” said Dernovsek, when asked about her shot choices against Lewis after she put up 16 points. “When I passed up an open shot early in the sea-son, my teammates and coach kept yelling me to shoot. I guess it was about time that I start.”

Dernovsek shot more than she thought she did, however, posting 10 double-doubles over the course of the season. Her best night may have been in the GLIAC Championship against Ashland, when she put up 18 points and 12 rebounds.

Part of one of the smallest back courts in the GLIAC, all Guisfredi has done as a se-nior is develop into one of the deadliest three-point shooters in school history while also ex-celling in the classroom, where she has earned the NCAA Elite 88 Award. Guisfredi has gone 59-of-119 (.496 percent) from behind the arc on the season. If the season ended today, she’d own the school record.

“I don’t care if she is 1-for-15, I want her to keep shoot-ing,” said Cameron of Guis-fredi after her 3-of-11 night against Ashland in the GLIAC Championship. “You give us a chance for an offensive re-bound when you shoot it. Fifty percent of the time, her threes go in. So she needs to continue to shoot.”

That message was appar-ently delivered to her shooting guard, as Guisfredi when 5-of-8 on three-pointers against Ar-kansas Tech as she put up 16 points. She also went 5-for-8 against Northwood at home earlier this season, when she managed a career-high 17 points.

“The seniors set a prec-edent,” said Cameron. “They have been on very successful teams the last few years, re-ally as long as they have been here…it’s good to know that they don’t know how to lose that game. We are very fortu-nate to have that mentality.”

This group has now been to four consecutive national tour-naments, three times making it to the Elite Eight. They also became the first group of Hus-kies to get past the first game of the of the tournament after beating Arkansas Tech.

Sports EditorDAVER KARNOSKY

Leading by example

Date Opponent Location/Result

Wed, Nov. 3 at Notre Dame (exh.) L, 30-102Fri, Nov. 19 Finlandia W, 83-36Sat, Nov. 20 Minnesota Duluth W, 67-46Fri, Nov. 26 Southwest Minn. St. W, 74-53Sat, Nov. 27 Concordia-St. Paul L, 70-78Sat, Dec. 4 at Northern Michigan* W, 77-65Thurs, Dec. 9 at Ohio Dominican* W, 72-58Sat, Dec. 11 at Tiffin* W, 64-61Sat, Dec. 18 Ferris State* W, 64-43Sun, Dec. 19 Grand Valley State* W, 60-55Thurs, Dec. 30 at Southern Indiana W, 56-47Thurs, Jan. 6 Northern Michigan* W, 58-48Sat, Jan. 8 Marygrove W, 71-35Thurs, Jan. 13 Lake Superior State* W, 69-66Sat, Jan. 15 Saginaw Valley State* W, 67-47Thurs, Jan. 20 at Ferris State* L, 60-63Sat, Jan. 22 at Grand Valley State* W, 84-64Thurs, Jan. 27 Northwood* W, 85-66Sat, Jan. 29 Hillsdale* W, 63-52Thurs, Feb. 3 at Findlay* W, 75-43Sat, Feb. 5 at Wayne State* W, 68-54Sat, Feb. 12 at Lake Superior State* W, 70-68, OTThurs, Feb. 17 Ashland* W, 68-50Sat, Feb. 19 Lake Erie* W, 89-49Thurs, Feb. 24 at Saginaw Valley St.* W, 64-54Sat, Feb. 26 at Northwood* W, 68-51

* GLIAC game

Schedule/ResultsRegular season

GLIAC Tournament

NCAA Midwest Regional

NCAA Elite Eight

Wed, Mar. 2 Tiffin W, 58-40Sat, Mar. 5 Hillsdale W, 69-58Sun, Mar. 6 Ashland W, 63-53

Fri, Mar. 11 Lewis W, 72-56Sat, Mar. 12 Drury W, 70-51Mon, Mar. 14 Wisconsin-Parkside W, 69-57

Tues, Mar. 22 Arkansas Tech W, 69-58Wed, Mar. 23 NW Missouri State W, 89-78 Fri, Mar. 25 NCAA Championship L, 69-50