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Michigan outgunned by Villanova in title game, finishes as runner-up MIKE PERSAK
Managing Sports Editor
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Jordan Poole sat with a towel over his head, eyes red with tears. Duncan Robinson stood next to him, his voice barely audible. Isaiah Livers was down a ways, isolated from the rest of his team. Charles Matthews and Zavier Simpson sat deep in their lockers. All of the Michigan men’s basketball players answered questions about the 79-62 drubbing they’d just taken from Villanova in the NCAA Championship game. The Wolverines’ answers varied from regret to pride for the tournament run to love for their teammates. But one thing that was consistent was the struggle for an explanation of
what just happened. Villanova made all the right plays all night long, and Michigan was rendered completely helpless. “We lost to a team that was better than us tonight,” said Wolverines coach John Beilein. “And we were telling our kids, ‘We’ve just gotta be better than them one night.’ Because they are talented and have incredible experience. But we didn’t have it, and they did.” Every time Michigan did start a semblance of a run, it was answered immediately. With just under seven minutes left and the Wolverines trailing by 14, Poole forced a turnover and sprinted into the frontcourt. He slipped into the lane and rose up through traffic but missed the contested layup wildly off the backboard.
Moments later, the Wildcats’ Mikal Bridges came the other way and drilled a three with a hand in his face. It was a play that made Beilein shake his head in disbelief when he talked about it after the game. And the play started a run that crushed Michigan’s hope once and for all. “We talk big about chopping the tree down,” Livers said, referencing the metaphor the Wolverines use to talk about making a comeback. “You can’t chop a tree down when you chop it one time and then on the next time down they hit a big shot. Especially, I think there was a spurt when (Villanova guard Donte DiVincenzo) hit two or three of them in a row, and one was a lay-up or something like that. And when a guy’s going like that, it’s just tough on
a team.” Livers was right. DiVincenzo hit everything he looked at for the Wildcats. He hit and-one layups and pull-up threes and two-handed dunks en route to an 18-point first half and a 31-point game. “(It’s) frustrating as heck, because you play good defense on the guy,” Livers said. “… So you’ve gotta do your best to alter his shot and get in his way, but every time we tried to do that he just adjusted.” Entering the game, it seemed like Michigan would need a perfect storm to win anyway. Villanova had to have an off night shooting, Jalen Brunson would have to have an off night all around, and the Wolverines would need to be clicking offensively. In the beginning of the first half, that seemed to be taking shape. After
making his first two shots of the game, Brunson missed his next four. The Wildcats missed their first four threes. Wagner had 11 points and Michigan sprung out to a seven-point lead with just under 11 minutes left. That’s when DiVincenzo, the Big East Sixth Man of the Year, went off. After leading for most of the first half, the Wolverines were caught in a whirlwind. They missed 14 of their 18 shots after taking that seven-point lead. That, combined with DiVincenzo’s explosion, erased Michigan’s promising start. The Wildcats led, 37-28, at the break. The run to end the half was a precursor of what was to come. “They’re really talented top to bottom and experienced, and they’ve played on this stage before,” Robinson said. “Not that that’s any
sort of excuse, because we feel like we could have played better, but tonight they were just a lot better than us clearly.” The Wolverines exited the court at the Alamodome with confetti cascading around them, like they had in Los Angeles and New York. But it wasn’t for them this time. The Big Ten Tournament Championship and the NCAA West Regional Championship didn’t mean anything in that moment. Because on Monday night, Michigan ran into a buzzsaw that it had no hope of stopping. The Wolverines were outgunned and outmanned in the final game of the season, and now it was all over. Villanova won its second NCAA Championship in three years, and Michigan was helpless in stopping it.
New census question draws controversy Religious LGBTQ+ from University immigrant community figures, students talk 2020 Census will include question asking respondents if they are U.S. citizens RILEY LANGEFELD Daily Staff Reporter
The U.S. Commerce Department announced on March 26 the 2020 census will include a question asking respondents whether they are U.S. citizens. Made during a heated national debate on immigration policy, the decision has raised significant questions about potential effects of the change at the University of Michigan. According to a statement released by the department, the decision will help gain more accurate information about eligible voter demographics and will assist the Department of Justice and the judiciary with enforcing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority rights. However, opponents of the decision argue the question will disincentivize undocumented immigrants from filing census data. According to the Pew Research Center, there were
11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States in 2015, making up 3.4 percent of the total population. If a significant portion of these people choose not to respond to the census, the survey would deliver an inaccurate population count and distort the demographic makeup of the U.S. Numerous government agencies and outside groups rely on the information gathered in the census, which is carried out every 10 years, for accurate population data. Changes that could impact its accuracy are subject to scrutiny. In this case, immigration advocacy groups are concerned the addition of the question will lead to inadequate attention to ethnic minorities and immigrants in government work. New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, one of President Donald Trump’s most active opponents among state attorneys general, plans to file a multi-state lawsuit challenging the decision.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a separate lawsuit on March 26. William Lopez, a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Social Work working with immigration research, said he believes the question will have a significant impact on the results of the census and the nature of government immigration policy could contribute to this effect. “Having a citizenship question on the census is going to disincentivize anyone from taking the census who is not a citizen,” Lopez said. “The reason for this largely is we take the census — we are counted by our government — in order to receive the resources which should be equitably directed to us. The issue for undocumented folks is that they are well aware of the government resources that are directed to them. And that is Immigration and Customs Enforcement, border patrol and targeting their removal. So there’s no incentive to categorize yourself in a group
the government is currently pursuing.” The question does not inquire about the legality of a respondent’s residence, and many legal residents are not U.S. citizens. However, Lopez claims the presence of the question would likely impact responses. Lopez also said Trump’s generalized immigration rhetoric could discourage even legal residents from responding, including immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which grants legal status to minors brought into the country illegally. “On a larger political scale, Trump is not differentiating people who are undocumented versus DACA versus permanent resident versus in the process of getting documented,” Lopez said. “He’s just throwing all immigrants in the same category, legally or otherwise … If you’re not identifying yourself as a citizen, you’re identifying yourself as someone See CENSUS, Page 2
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dual identity struggles Intersectional identities, difficulties outlined in panel of queer leaders, students of various faiths ELIZABETH LAWRENCE Daily Staff Reporter
Talking on their experiences as queer, practicing members of their respective religions, a panel of speakers Monday night covered discussions about what it means to be an LGBTQ+ person and a person of faith, and considered the harm or ignorance people may face in either community. Though the speakers at the event — hosted by the Spectrum Center at the University of Michigan — came from an array of religious backgrounds, a shared sentiment many of them expressed was the reconciliation of their different identities. Reverend Matthew Lukens, a chaplain at Canterbury House, recalled being raised in a fairly conservative environment as a Southern Baptist in Alabama. He talked of the difficulty he had in bringing together his appreciation of the church and
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his gay identity. “I was really involved in my church and I loved it,” Lukens said. “It was a great community for me. It was just a way that really defined how I moved through the world. Realizing that I was gay completely pulled the rug out from me as a person. I had to spend a lot of time putting back together how I fit myself into the world.” Merton Spencer, a member of the Lord of Light Lutheran ministry on campus, echoed Lukens’s sentiment, saying sometimes one identity would take precedence over the other. “At times, my gay identity would be more evident in the way I was living my life, and my thoughts, and my feelings and how I handle that as a person of integrity also,” Spencer said. “And sometimes my identity as a Christian would become more prominent and impactful on my life. Those would sometimes go See LGBTQ+, Page 3
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