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MARCH ON KEVIN SANTO
Managing Sports Editor
INDIANAPOLIS — John Beilein was grinning, peeking around the corner of the door. Then he jumped into the locker room, Super Soaker in tow, and the water started flying. Michigan was going to the Sweet 16 in Kansas City, Mo. The only thing that could have made it sweeter was if it was legal to use champagne. “Coach told us that he bought a Super Soaker last night,” said redshirt sophomore forward DJ Wilson. “Because he knew that we were going to come out with a win.” And right he was, as the Wolverines defeated Louisville, 73-69, to solidify a place in the Sweet 16 and simultaneously give Beilein a second victory against Rick Pitino that had eluded him since 2005. “I went into this game with a lot of confidence that I was gonna be using it at the end of that game,” Beilein said. “At the end of the first half, I wasn’t so sure the Super Soaker — it was ever gonna be known I had it. But we withstood everything they had and won the game.” More than anyone else, Beilein has Moritz Wagner to thank for that. Michigan’s sophomore big man scored a game-high 26 points on 11-for-14 shooting, willing the Wolverines forward in a game that — for the majority of the contest — looked like it was Louisville’s for the taking. Michigan (10-8 Big Ten, 26-11 overall) entered the matchup as the No. 4 team in the nation in adjusted offensive efficiency according to Ken Pomeroy. The Cardinals (12-6 ACC, 25-9 overall), on the other hand, took the floor as seventh-
ranked team in adjusted defensive efficiency. In a battle of offensive juggernaut and defensive powerhouse, something had to give. In the first half, it was Michigan’s offense that lost out. Senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. — the man who has been carrying Michigan through March— didn’t score until the 4:56 mark, when he knocked down a pair from the charity stripe. Until his 3-pointer with 2:33 remaining, Walton was 0-for-6 from the field. Still, even at that point, the Wolverines trailed by just three. In reality, Michigan was lucky that was so. The Wolverines shot 37 percent from the floor and were 3-for-11 from behind the arc. Louisville didn’t fair much better — shooting 42 percent from the floor — but dominated Michigan on the boards, grabbing 24 rebounds to the Wolverines’ 16. Ten of those came on the offensive glass, and the Cardinals made Michigan pay, scoring 11 secondchance points in the first half. The Wolverines’ offensive struggles culminated in a fiveminute scoring drought that was only broken at the 7:57 mark by a Wagner layup. Michigan was fortunate that Louisville went on a scoring drought of its own — failing to hit from the field for nearly four minutes. But forward Deng Adel ended that drought with authority, coasting down the floor on a fast break before putting Wilson on a poster to give Louisville a five-point lead. Shortly thereafter, it looked like
Michigan’s luck had finally run out, that the story of the team that went through a plane crash and made a tournament run was coming to a close. It looked like — once again — Rick Pitino was going to get the better of John Beilein. There was just over a minute left in the frame when Louisville guard Donovan Mitchell hit the triple — marking just his third field goal of the frame. Adel followed Mitchell’s lead, converting from beyond the arc on the Cardinals’ next offensive possession. And then he nailed a pair from the free-throw line. One minute and 10 seconds, an eight-point swing, and the Wolverines went from tied at 28 to trailing by eight at the half. But Wagner came out firing. He scored eight of Michigan’s first 10 points in the second half, starting what would eventually become a 17-point second-half total for the sophomore. The Cardinals still proved too much, opening 4-for-6 from the floor to counteract Wagner’s individual effort. Eventually, though, senior wing Zak Irvin joined the party — scoring six straight points with 13:25 remaining to cut Michigan’s deficit to three. Just over four minutes later, junior guard MuhammadAli Abdur-Rahkman finally put the Wolverines within striking distance, knocking down two free throws to tie the game at 53. From there, it became a slugfest, with each team vying back and forth for the lead that could send them to the Sweet 16. Wagner finally gave See SWEET 16, Page 3A EVAN AARON/Daily
Annual Vagina Monologues examine Bystander Legislators program to diverse array of women’s experiences oppose cuts
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collaborate with CSG
More than 100 gather at Rackham for fifth annual student-led performance
Partnership aims to help spread awareness of campus sexual assault
Beginning as a collection of anecdotal interviews with more than 200 women in 1996, The Vagina Monologues has since evolved over time to include more diverse storylines, actors and sexualities in order to be representative of the full spectrum of the female experience. More than 100 students gathered Friday and Saturday night inside Rackham Auditorium to watch the University’s fifth-annual production of the play directed by LSA junior Clare Fairbanks, also a Daily copy editor, and produced by Business senior Edith Zhang. The show was held by Students for Choice, a leading abortion-rights group on campus. Originally written by playwright Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues consists of a series of monologues read by various women — each dealing with a different subject, such as masturbation and the female orgasm as well as heavier topics such as female genital mutilation and sexual assault. In the “Producer’s Note,” Zhang wrote on the importance of understanding the show to be more than just talking about vaginas, as it
RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter
This article is the third part of an ongoing series of articles outlining specific initiatives of Central Student Government on campus. The Bystander Intervention and Community Engagement program is designed to engage students by informing them about sexual misconduct and providing them with tools and strategies to address the issue. LSA sophomore Samantha Kennedy, co-coordinator at the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, stressed the importance of this program in highlighting the prevalence of sexual assault on campus, as well as providing students with tools to address these situations. “Bystander Intervention is a form of preventative work that focuses on secondary prevention — that means we are acknowledging that sexual misconduct unfortunately still exists on campus and still occurs in the majority of spaces,” she said. “We want to See PROGRAM, Page 3A
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KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter
also provides an opportunity to listen to people’s personal stories and empathize with their experiences — though possibly different than the viewer’s own. “It’s scary, but these actresses push through the fear,” she wrote. “Because we need to hear these experiences that have long been hidden. To me, that’s what the The Vagina Monologues is about.
Not about vaginas or periods or assault or sex or love or moaning or rape or race or masturbating or even just being a woman. Though each topic is covered in a monologue and each monologue is a real experience, the show overall is more than its lady parts. It’s a chance to speak up. It’s a chance to learn about people. It’s a chance to listen. So please, listen.”
For the second year, a pre-show consisting of eight University-student-written monologues was performed before the commencement of the Eve Ensler show. Because of the personal nature of the monologues, content was not recorded, though themes included being fetishized because of one’s race, poor sex education in schools and the See MONOLOGUES, Page 3A
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School of Information senior Sarah Barnitt performs at the Vagina Monologues at Rackham Ampitheatre on Saturday night.
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to federal spending
Proposed budget aims to reduce funding for Great Lakes restoration plan JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter
President Donald Trump’s preliminary budget proposal — released on Thursday — could sever the $300 million dollars per year Great Lakes Restoration Initiative effort to clean the Great Lakes basin, according to The Detroit News. It would cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by almost one-third overall. The GLRI began in 2010 to protect and restore the Great Lakes. In addition to the clean-up effort, the initiative also aims to control invasive species, reduce nutrient runoff and restore habitats in the region. It operates as a collaboration among states, tribes, municipalities, universities and other organizations, according to its website. In a statement, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D–Mich.) expressed concern that the Trump administration’s new budget distorts national values. “The budget is a statement of our values as a nation, and See GREAT LAKES, Page 3A
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