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No. 2 Michigan sets new program mark in blowout win over Penn State
Ann Arbor — The first time Michigan and Penn State crossed paths this season, the Wolverines survived a last-second scare.
The rematch between teams at opposite ends of the Big Ten standings ended up being no match.
No. 2 Michigan dominated from start to finish and swept the regular-season series with a 110-69 smackdown of undermanned Penn State on Thursday at Crisler Center.
The victory didn’t just extend the Wolverines’ win streak to seven and keep them in a tie for first place in the conference with Illinois at 11-1. It set a new mark for the best 22-game record in program history at 21-1.
Michigan’s 2012-13 national runner-up team and the 2018-19 Sweet 16 squad both started 20-1 before suffering their second loss. Nimari Burnett scored a career-high 31 points to ensure this year’s group avoided a similar fate.
Last month, Michigan had to hold off a late push by Penn State to escape with a two-point road win. It never got anywhere close to that point in Round 2.
The Nittany Lions, who dressed only eight players, were down four rotation pieces in starters Ivan Juric and Eli Rice and reserves Tibor Mirtic and Sasa Ciani. The Wolverines offered little sympathy.
Michigan raced out to a double-digit lead less than five minutes into the contest, led by 32 at halftime and didn’t let up, as Burnett kept firing away to set several personal career-high marks.
Burnett, who tied his season high with 15 points in the first half alone, capped a 7-0 burst with a corner 3-pointer. He topped his previous career best of 21 points with his fifth 3-pointer to make it a 38-point game with 17:09 to go.
Less than two minutes later, Burnett set another career high with his sixth 3-pointer, topping his previous best of five. His seventh deep ball gave Michigan an overwhelming 76-34 advantage at the 14:40 mark.
The Wolverines took their largest lead, 93-47, when Oscar Goodman threw down a thunderous baseline jam and capped an 8-1 spurt with a driving layup with 7:40 remaining. They topped 100 points for the eighth time this season when Will Tschetter canned back-to-back 3-pointers with 2:45 left. From there, they coasted to their seventh win by at least 40 points.
Morez Johnson Jr. had 12 points and eight rebounds, Trey McKenney and L.J. Cason scored 12 apiece, and Aday Mara added 11 points, six rebounds and a career-high six blocked shots for Michigan. The Wolverines outrebounded Penn State by a 44-21 margin, scored 22 second-chance points off 11 offensive boards, shot 60.6% from the field and made 15 3-pointers.
Freddie Dilione V scored 19, Josh Reed 15, and star freshman Kayden Mingo, who missed the first meeting due to injury, finished with seven points for Penn State (10-13, 1-11). The Nittany Lions shot 37.1% from the field and finished 2-for-20 from 3-point range.
With Juric, Mirtic and Ciani – all forwards – sidelined, Penn State had to go small and started four guards. Michigan took advantage of the size disparity from the jump. An offensive rebound by Mara led to a 3-pointer by Burnett. Another second-chance opportunity ended with Johnson scoring an and-1 layup.
Mara grabbed Michigan’s third offensive rebound in the first five minutes for an easy putback. Penn State did record a single rebound in the opening six minutes. A 15-0 burst that gave the Wolverines a 15-2 lead with 12:41 left in the first half.
Michigan’s length also gave Penn State problems on the defensive end. The Nittany Lions fired up one deep ball after another and missed nine of their first 10 shots, including two airballed 3-pointers. That led to a seven-minute scoring drought and an even longer field goal drought that Dilione ended with a fast-break layup off a turnover at the 11:56 mark.
That offered a brief reprieve as Penn State hit another stretch with just one made shot in six minutes and Michigan extended the margin with a flurry of dunks. Elliot Cadeau had a dribble drive and dish to Yaxel Lendeborg for a dunk. Lendeborg threw a pass to a cutting Tschetter, who made an extra pass to Burnett for an open dunk. On two other possessions, Burnett blew past his defender on a baseline drive and got to the rim for a two-handed jam. Michigan’s lead swelled to 41-16 with 4:21 left in the half.
By the time the dust settled on Michigan’s most dominant half in quite some time with an offense that was humming and a defense that was stifling, the Wolverines entered the break with a commanding 56-24 cushion.
This is a developing story. Come back soon to detroitnews.com for more on this game.
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The UCLA men’s basketball team’s quest for a second top-five win this season fell short on Saturday, by a long shot.
The Bruins went into Ann Arbor to face the No. 2-ranked Michigan Wolverines and got run out of the building, losing by 30 points. UCLA knew it was going to be a tough game, and the Bruins are far from the only team to suffer that kind of loss against Michigan this season. Still, head coach Mick Cronin was bothered by the way his team responded.
“I’m searching and begging for guys who will play for the team and not for stats,” Cronin told the media postgame. “I thought we took some horrendous, horrendous shots today, and the whole game plan was, ‘Do not take a bad shot, but do not turn the ball over.’”
Stalling Offense
The Bruins did not execute very well on that game plan. They shot just 38% from the field overall and were six-for-21 on three-point attempts. Those stats alone should tell you that they weren’t taking good shots, and while there certainly could’ve been more than 13 UCLA turnovers, that number is still too high, especially for facing this particular opponent.
It’s hard to beat a top-five team on the road at any time, but that lack of execution makes it even harder. UCLA executed well enough in the first half to only trail by two points at halftime, but it all fell apart in the second half.
“We were awful in the second half. We were God awful,” Cronin said. “We missed eight unguarded threes. UNGUARDED. If you’re going to come in here and win, you’ve got to score.”
Defensive Collapse
The Wolverines outscored the Bruins 46-18 after halftime to cruise to another easy win. Often, that’s a product of execution for both teams, and UCLA clearly didn’t deliver. The Bruins started missing shots, and Michigan took advantage of their moments of weakness to gain full control of the game, making 62% of its shots in the game overall and scoring 42 points inside the paint.
“It’s the worst second-half defensive shooting percentage of my career,” Cronin said. “Twenty-three years. They shot 78-percent, worst of my career, and I don’t need to look it up. And it’s not like I forgot how to coach defense now. They’re really good, but I would be really good, too, if I was shooting layups.”
No matter what shots Michigan was getting, it all came back to UCLA’s lack of executing the game plan. If they had better shot selection , they likely would’ve made more of them, limiting the easy chances Michigan had.
“When we went bad offensively, we weren’t tough enough to continue to defend or good enough defensively to stop them, to keep us in the game until we could make a shot.”
Instead, it’s another loss and a lesson for UCLA.
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Washington — Experts warn air quality will worsen because of the Trump administration’s repeal of the legal basis for federal climate rules, despite a top federal regulator saying the move “does not change regulations on traditional air pollutants and air toxics.”
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin made that statement Thursday in the Oval Office as he and President Donald Trump touted the major deregulatory action. They both suggested the change would boost the U.S. auto industry.
“This EPA is committed to providing clean air for all Americans,” Zeldin said. “Powering the great American comeback is based on the singular focus of providing clean air, land and water for all Americans, while harnessing the greatness of the American economy.”
It is true that repealing the Obama-era EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding” will leave intact federal rules meant to limit harmful emissions of criteria air pollutants identified more than 50 years ago in the Clean Air Act. Those pollutants include noxious gases like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide that cause asthma, lung issues and neurological damage.
The mass introduction of catalytic converters on new motor vehicles in the 1970s helped drastically curtail emissions of those gases over the next two decades, and the devices will surely remain on gas-powered cars and trucks to ensure they continue meeting federal standards. (Electric vehicles, notably, do not have converters because they have no tailpipe emissions.)
Experts disagreed, however, with Zeldin’s suggestion that there would not be “clean air” implications from the move to wipe out a generation of climate-focused regulations.
“Carbon dioxide pollution and other greenhouse gases are correlated with the production of other air pollutants like particulate matter and nitrogen oxides,” said Erik Nordman, director of the Institute for Public Utilities at Michigan State University.
“Measures that reduce carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases often reduce those other pollutants. That’s a co-benefit of these greenhouse gas regulations. So by removing or lowering standards for greenhouse gases, we would expect those other pollutants that are tightly correlated with greenhouse gases to increase,” he said in a phone interview.
Catalytic converters are one example of the link between what Zeldin called “traditional” pollutants and greenhouse gases.
The devices work by causing chemical reactions that transform highly toxic criteria pollutants into less harmful — or in some cases harmless — gases and substances. One byproduct is harmless water vapor. Another primary one is carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that causes climate change in the long term but is not instantly poisonous to humans at low ambient levels.
But even as converters have become more effective over time, academic research shows, they still do not block all of the most air-quality-harming pollutants. And because vehicles that use more fuel have higher emissions, the risk for worsened air quality is greater.
Nordman said the Trump administration’s endangerment finding repeal “kind of locks in a lower standard, so that will result in cars that are less fuel efficient than they might have been otherwise. That will result in greater pollution than we would have seen otherwise.”
The environmental policy expert added that those impacts will play out most over the longer term because “energy and transportation infrastructure that we’re building today will be more polluting than it otherwise could be, and we’re going to lock in that pollution for decades.”
He said other Trump administration actions — like the order to keep a coal plant open in Michigan — will have more immediate impacts on air quality.
Jeff Holmstead, who was an EPA official under former President George W. Bush, said Thursday he expected little near-term impact in air quality from the federal policy change, noting that automakers “have very long planning cycles.”
But Tom Luben, a senior research scientist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and former air pollution researcher at the EPA for almost 20 years, was blunt in condemning the Trump administration’s repeal of the endangerment finding.
The action, Luben wrote ahead of the announcement, “would threaten the health of millions of Americans.”
“An increase in ground-level ozone concentrations has been linked to respiratory health problems ranging from decreased lung function and asthma exacerbations to increased emergency department visits and hospital admissions,” he added, similarly raising air quality concerns.
Luben continued: “Certain parts of the population are especially vulnerable to these effects, including children, older adults, pregnant people, and individuals with pre-existing health conditions.”
Beyond air quality, the research scientist also lamented climate-related impacts of the policy change.
“In addition to increased air pollution, the proliferation of extremely hot days, floods, storms, droughts, and fires linked to a changing climate will impact the health of the American people.”
In announcing the repeal move, however, Trump dismissed climate-change concerns: “… this has nothing to do with public health. This was all a scam.”
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