Scoreboard: Michigan Soccer upsets #12 MSU 3-2, brings back Big Bear Trophy
An outstanding day for Michigan Athletics!
The headliner is obviously Michigan Men's Soccer (6-7-3, 3-2-2 B1G) going on the road, to East Lansing, a place where Michigan has only won once in its program history that began in 2000. By the way, today was the largest crowd in the history of DeMartin Stadium at 3,003.
Tyler Arnone gave Michigan a 1-0 lead in the first half before #12 MSU pulled ahead at half with a pair of goals to go up 2-1. At 54', William Mellors-Blair connected with highly-touted freshman Ahinga Selemani to knot the game at 2-2.
Four minutes later, Colin McAtee, who has come up BIG in many games this season against good competition gave Michigan a 3-2 lead and that would be the final tally as the Big Bear Trophy returns home.
Michigan is now 6-12-1 against MSU all-time and 4-10-1 against them for the Big Bear Trophy. Big Bear was introduced as the trophy for this series the year Michigan Soccer began in 2000.
Despite MSU having the more established program with a long history, Michigan has taken Big Bear home 2 of the last 3 years.
Michigan will close out the regular season on Wednesday at 7:30pm LIVE on BTN against Ohio State, a team Michigan has beaten each of the last two years.
#14 Michigan Field Hockey (12-6, 6-2 B1G) finished the regular season today with a 2-1 victory over last place Ohio State today at Ocker Field. Michigan's goal scorer's were the usual suspects: Leslie Smith and Ainsley McCallister.
Michigan finished in a 2nd place tie in the B1G standings and will be the 2 seed in the B1G Tournament which will be held this coming week at Ocker Field.
Michigan will take on Rutgers in the B1G Tournament First Round, a team they beat 2-1 in the Ocker Field Dedication Game earlier this season. Michigan will definitely make the NCAA Tournament.
#25 Michigan Women's Soccer (12-4-3, 8-2-3 B1G) tied Purdue in West Lafayette on Saturday night, 1-1 to close out the regular season. Michigan has now tied in 3 of their last 4 games. A disappointing finish to the regular season for a team that at one point controlled their own destiny for the B1G Championship.
As a result, Michigan is given the 3 seed in the B1G Tournament. They will return to West Lafayette on Wednesday night at 7:30pm to take on 6 seed Minnesota, whom they beat 2-1 on a last second goal two months ago.
A disappointing end to the regular season given where they were, but for losing two All-Americans.....amazing season thus far. 12-4-3 is NOT what I thought they'd do after hearing head coach Greg Ryan talking about rebuilding on the season preview show. Michigan will obviously get an NCAA Tournament bid with that record.
#4 Michigan Women's Cross Country finished with 93 points and a disappointing 3rd place spot at the B1G Championships today in Iowa City. The only reason that this happened is due to all-world sophomore Erin Finn being out with a foot injury. No doubt in my mind that Michigan would have won the championship or would've come damn close with her. Hopefully she's back for NCAA Regionals and the Championships.
#12 Michigan Men's Cross Country finished with a respectable 77 points in Men's B1G Championships held after the Women's meet: good for second place under first year head coach Kevin Sullivan. Their early success in the season obviously was no fluke. This is a talented team that will hopefully do well in the big dance later on.
Michigan Volleyball (10-12, 5-7 B1G) had an extremely rough weekend. The unforgiving conference schedule that is the B1G has been brutal and will continue to be. Michigan dropped a 3-1 decision to a mediocre Northwestern team at home. That is a crushing loss. You HAVE to win those kinds of matches against those kinds of teams at home if you want to get into the NCAAs. The next night, it was looking like Michigan would pull off another upset at Keen. They had #10 Illinois on the ropes, with the Wolverines up 2-0 heading into intermission. But the Illini came back and won the final 3 sets to take the match 3-2. Looking ahead at the rankings and who Michigan has yet to play, they need to start winning NOW if they want to go to the NCAA Tournament. They will need to beat some teams they aren't supposed to beat.
Every remaining opponent looks tough, and the one that Michigan should get the win against (Indiana), is a team they lost to earlier on in the B1G season.
Michigan Women's Basketball easily demolished NAIA Davenport in their lone exhibition today, 74-39 at Crisler Center. The Women will open their season the day before the Men, on November 14 against Detroit at 7pm.
This next week is championship week for multiple sports. Incredibly important to do well for all teams. Those in the championship tournaments, and those about to close their regular seasons out:
Wednesday, November 5
3 W Soccer: 6 Minnesota (B1G Tournament 1st Rd.) 7:30pm/BTN Plus
M Soccer: vs Ohio State (7:30pm/BTN)
Thursday, November 6
2 Field Hockey: vs 7 Rutgers (3pm/BTN Plus)
Friday, November 7
2 Field Hockey: B1G Tournament Semifinals (if applies; TBD/BTN)
3 W Soccer: B1G Tournament Semifinals (if applies; 2pm/BTN)
#1 M Swimming: at Penn State, Virginia (6pm)
#17 W Swimming: at Penn State, Virginia (6pm)
Volleyball: vs Wisconsin (7pm/BTN Plus)
Saturday, November 8
#1 M Swimming: at Penn State, Virginia (11am)
#17 W Swimming: at Penn State, Virginia (11am)
M Soccer: Opponent TBD (B1G Tournament First Round)
Volleyball: vs Minnesota (7pm/BTN Plus)
Sunday, November 9
2 Field Hockey: B1G Tournament Championship (if applies; TBD/BTN)
3 W Soccer: B1G Tournament Championship (if applies; 3pm/BTN)
November 2nd, 2014 at 4:48 PM ^
Success for non-revenue sports?? Chaka Dailey was a great hire for men's soccer.
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November 2nd, 2014 at 9:47 PM ^
I think that is one thing he did pretty well (and I'm sure his facility upgrade proposals really helped draw the coaches). Daley, KBA and Bakich were all very good hires.
November 2nd, 2014 at 4:50 PM ^
Our mens swimming team is ranked # 1?
November 2nd, 2014 at 4:54 PM ^
We usually are. Biggest swimming powerhouse in the country.
November 2nd, 2014 at 6:01 PM ^
Easy there, cobra - U-M is very, very good, and a powerhouse, but not the biggest one in the country. Cal has been dominant over the past few years.
November 2nd, 2014 at 4:59 PM ^
Yes, the first CSCAA poll of the season had them at #1.
Michigan has demolished every team they've faced so far. As usual.
My Swimming SuperGuide has a breakdown of the program history, just look at these all-time numbers. Staggering.
- All-time record- 657-120-7 (.842)
- B1G record- 427-54-4(.879)
- 19 NCAA National Championships
- 165 NCAA Individual National Champions
- 37 B1G Championships
- 463 B1G Individual Champions
- 588 NCAA All-Americans(!)
- 74 Olympic Medalists
- One of my favorites.....that seems.....impossible to comprehend.....57-0 all-time against Purdue. 57-0!
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November 2nd, 2014 at 7:26 PM ^
Thanks for putting it in perspective, I had no idea Men's Swimming was that dominant. Man, 588 All-Americans...talk about developing your talent!
November 2nd, 2014 at 9:31 PM ^
I had a buddy in school who swam. Not a world-beater or anything, but he swam in the Olympic trials a few times. Something like half of his housemates had gold medals in their sock drawers.
November 2nd, 2014 at 9:32 PM ^
Yes, my cousin follows them closely, they are a powerhouse. He says they are a dynasty
November 2nd, 2014 at 4:53 PM ^
Kevin Sullivan was another good hire. Unfortunately, when you're a duchebag asshole and made one of the worst Michigan football coach hiring decisions ever, it's going to be difficult for you to survive.
November 2nd, 2014 at 8:29 PM ^
Hoke being a notable exception. Its a shame he was a dick and treated us all like stacks of cash to be gathered because he did actually do some things quite well
November 2nd, 2014 at 4:57 PM ^
Pretty good showing -- rough for women's VB, but other than that looks like the M squads acquitted themselves pretty well.
November 2nd, 2014 at 5:14 PM ^
hmm... I wonder if UM mens swimming is the best college athletic program in the country of all sports. Those are video game numbers.
November 2nd, 2014 at 5:16 PM ^
November 2nd, 2014 at 6:54 PM ^
Beasts
November 3rd, 2014 at 8:50 AM ^
Bling!!!!
November 2nd, 2014 at 5:23 PM ^
It's November, can I get some Men's BB on the weekly schedule please?
November 2nd, 2014 at 5:33 PM ^
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November 2nd, 2014 at 6:32 PM ^
But...but...I can't wait that long!
November 2nd, 2014 at 9:34 PM ^
Thats always a great time! I just bough some for 5$. Go blue
November 2nd, 2014 at 5:43 PM ^
Anybody know what happened to TJ VanSlooten? He is on the athletics ad for soccer but i don't think he has played a game this year.
November 2nd, 2014 at 5:48 PM ^
November 2nd, 2014 at 5:54 PM ^
The season starts next Monday against Wayne State in an exhibition. Hillsdale is a regular season game.
November 2nd, 2014 at 6:33 PM ^
November 2nd, 2014 at 6:55 PM ^
After looking up dominant NCAA programs I'd give the best overall program of any sport to Oklahoma State wrestling. They have 34 national championships.
November 2nd, 2014 at 9:04 PM ^
WD thanks for the update. I love your enthusiasm, but you are a bit too enthusiastic about the women's cross country team performance. Even if Erin Finn weren't injured and she took first place, Michigan still would have finished a distant 3rd. Here are the race results:
November 2nd, 2014 at 9:31 PM ^
Best overall weekend for Michigan? I think so, only let down was hockey. Great weekend!
November 2nd, 2014 at 10:11 PM ^
Now, if only we could beat them in football, you know, a sport that matters.
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November 3rd, 2014 at 3:32 PM ^
What are the tiebreakers in B1G Soccer? Is head-to-head first? If so, what happens with a tie? For example, would we want Sparty to beat Indiana -- ugghh!!!! -- since we beat Sparty, but lost to Indiana?
November 4th, 2014 at 4:26 PM ^
Hell of a game, some really nice goals on both sides. Chippy, physical, everything you expect players from the two schools to be no matter what sport's being played. (Maybe not rhythmic gymnastics, I guess. But I'm sure there's trash talking there.)
We almost had the highlight goal of the season, when MSU's keeper Zach Bennett made a terribly boneheaded decision to come way out on a long ball and Colin McAtee swiped it from him and almost scored a 90-foot or so quasi-bicycle kick empty-net goal -- it went maybe four feet wide.
(And for all the guff the students take over showing up or not showing up for football, credit to the Michigan Ultras for making the bus trip to support their team. There were a lot more Red Cedar Rowdies (MSU's soccer supporters) there, but the Michigan contingent held their own.)