As the lone tuba played "The Victors" at Alumni Field on Saturday evening, history repeated itself. For the fourth straight year, the Michigan softball team took the Big Ten Tournament crown.
The Wolverines (52-5) took a unique path to the championship this time, becoming the first team to come out of the loser's bracket to win the championship. Michigan completed its comeback with 5-1 and 6-1 victories over No. 19 Iowa (37-18).
Take that!: Softball stuns Iowa twice to take Big Ten
The Alumni Field stands will be filled with flat vowels and fans drinking 'pop' this weekend. Michigan will host three other teams from the midwest in the NCAA Regional tournament.
The Wolverines (52-5) will host DePaul, Illinois-Chicago and Ball State in the double-elimination tournament. The tentative schedule has the first game Friday at 1 p.m. Illinois-Chicago and DePaul will play in the first game, followed by the Michigan-Ball State game at 3.Cardinals on 'M' dance card: Michigan to host Ball State, DePaul and Illinois-Chicago
Cellars are cold, dark places that most sane people try to avoid.
Michigan first baseman Bryan Besco isn't a big fan of cellars. He found his team stuck in a deep one entering this weekend, the final series of the season at Indiana.
'M' downs Hoosiers' hopes
The Michigan men's golf team overcame Michigan State's hard course and unfriendly weather for a fifth-place finish at the Big Ten Tournament on Sunday.
Michigan was one of only five teams to finish with less than 1,200 strokes, scoring an 1,194, only six strokes from a three-way-tie with Minnesota and Northwestern. 
Golf takes fifth at Big Tens
For the balance of the season, the fortunes of the Michigan softball team depended on the G's. With the combination of pitcher Sara Griffin's 31-1 record and catcher Melissa Gentile's 12 home runs, the second-ranked Wolverines have compiled a 52-5 record.Gillies near-perfect to stop Iowa
When you're the No.2 team in the country, adversity is something that doesn't come into play very often.
The Michigan softball team, in compiling a 48-4 record coming into this weekend's Big Ten Tournament, faced very little adversity. In fact, the Wolverines won the regular season conference title by a whopping 7 1/2 games.'M' endures role reversal to win
You can bet Michigan third baseman Mike Cervenak is wearing his lucky socks today.
In the final game of the season, a 1 p.m. match at Indiana, the New Boston native is trying to etch his name into the Michigan record book. Cervenak is trying to become the 11th player in Michigan baseball history to bat .400 over the course of a season.Cervenak chasing Ted Williams
The Michigan tennis teams' seasons will continue for at least another week.
The NCAA men's tennis regionals, which take place May 15-17 at Notre Dame, will give Michigan and seven other teams the opportunity to advance to the NCAA Tournament. The tournament consists of 16 teams, including the top eight in the nation.- who don't have to compete in the regionals.
Regionals approach for tennis
In its first home meet of the outdoor season, the Michigan men's track team garnered some impressive victories at the Phil Diamond Invitational this past weekend. With strong showings from teams such as Ohio State, Toledo, Eastern Michigan and Siena Heights, the two-day invitational was well contested.
Men's track comes home
Katie McGregor hates to lose. But when she wins, she says she feels like she's done what she was supposed to do.
Hand the good conduct ribbon her way. The 1998 indoor national champion in the 3,000 meters just might have a chance to do it outdoors, too. Her 9:28.46 finish in the 3,000 at the Cardinal Twilight in Palo Alto, Calif., provisionally qualified her to race in the 3,000 at the NCAA Championships from June 3-6 in Buffalo, N.Women strive to qualify
To say that the Michigan women's golf team's season was disappointing would be putting it nicely. Saying that Michigan just didn't play well would be realistic. Stating that they did play well would be an outright lie.
The season went well beyond disappointment and mediocrity, straight to rock bottom. The Wolverines just didn't play up to par. Women's golf staggers to new lows this spring
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