Last year, one couldn't fault Big Ten volleyball teams for taking the Northwestern Wildcats lightly. Northwestern's best player, middle blocker Sharon Fisk, was red-shirted due to a broken hand.
The Wildcats finished a humbling 0-20 in conference play and extended their Big Ten losing streak to an embarrassing 30 games. Not only was Northwestern thought lightly of, many of its players were in high school when the school had last pulled out a conference victory.
'M' spikers to meet surging Wildcats at Cliff Keen
With an influx of talented freshman, and a returning core of experienced rowers, the Michigan crew team will see how these two forces combine when they hit the water Saturday. The team will compete in the Head of the Ohio meet, which will be staged on the Ohio River in Pittsburgh.
Rowers off to Pittsburgh for Head of Ohio
It's official. The Big Ten season gets underway this weekend with five conference games slated for Saturday.
Iowa, Wisconsin, Purdue, Northwestern, Indiana and Illinois have each played one Big Ten game apiece, but this weekend, the other five get to see their first action. Purdue will be the only idle team this weekend in what just might be the best conference in the nation.
The eyes have it: Bucks will be Hawks' first test
Two Michigan runners have been named the men's and women's Big Ten cross country athletes of the month for September. Junior All-American John Mortimer and junior Kate McGregor took the honors.
The defending Big Ten and NCAA District IV champion, Mortimer began the 1997 season with a win at the prestigious Jayhawk Invitational in Lawrence, Kan., on Sept. 13.
Pair of runners named Athletes of the Month
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The way things are going, UCLA might not have enough players to field a team when the basketball season begins in two months.
And, this was a team hoping to contend for a national championship. 
Recent player suspensions cripple UCLA basketball team
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