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EVANSTON, Ill. -- No matter how many wins Michigan piles up, Trey Burke insisted one thing will not change. The Wolverines will keep seeing themselves as underdogs, even after nights like this. Burke scored 23 points, Tim Hardaway Jr. added 21 and No. 2 M
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EVANSTON, Ill. -- No matter how many wins Michigan piles up, Trey Burke insisted one thing will not change. The Wolverines will keep seeing themselves as underdogs, even after nights like this. Burke scored 23 points, Tim Hardaway Jr. added 21 and No. 2 Michigan pounded Northwestern 94-66 on Thursday to remain unbeaten. Off to their best start since they opened the 1985-86 season with 16 wins, the Wolverines (14-0, 1-0) had no trouble in the Big Ten opener after breezing through the non-conference portion of their schedule. They built a 21-point halftime lead with Burke and Hardaway Jr. leading the way and were never challenged by Northwestern (9-5, 0-1). "14-0 thats a great start -- and 1-0 in the Big Ten -- but weve got to keep the attitude where guys are still doubting us," Burke said. Hell get no argument from his coach. "Were always working that way, like were hunting all the time and we dont ever want to lose that," John Beilein said. "Its not a negative to always be working." Michigan shot 59.6 per cent overall and made 13 of 22 3-point attempts with the two guards doing most of the damage. Burke shot 9 of 16 overall and hit 4 of 6 3-pointers. Hardaway was 6 of 8 from the field and 4 of 5 from long range, and the ankle injury that kept him out of the previous game didnt seem to be an issue. "Just to see him back out there after his injury," Burke said. "Back in action. Back in the groove. It was great." Jordan Morgan added 12 points and 13 rebounds for the Wolverines, while Glenn Robinson III and Nik Stauskas scored 10 points apiece. Jared Swopshire and Kale Abrahamson each scored 11 points for Northwestern, but the Wildcats gave up the most points they have allowed this season while being outclassed by one of the nations best teams. "Eventually, weve got to start doing things that the coaches get on us about," guard Dave Sobolewski said. "We keep messing up the same things in the 1-3-1. We keep missing assignments. We keep falling asleep on defence. A lot of it will come down to heart and how bad we want it on defence mainly, too." It was a sharp contrast from their two meetings last season, when Michigan needed overtime to win both games. Then again, the Wildcats were short-handed. Besides suspending guard JerShon Cobb for the season for violating team policy, they also shut down one of their best players, Drew Crawford, for the remainder of the season last month because of a shoulder injury. Leading scorer Reggie Hearn sat out his second straight game because of a sprained ankle. Even so, Michigan wasnt showing any mercy. Instead, the Wolverines ended the suspense early. Burke, averaging a team-leading 17.8 points coming in, scored 15 in the first half. Hardaway added 12 points, hitting all four 3s, and Michigan barely broke a sweat before taking a 51-30 halftime lead. "I guess thats what happens when youre running the fastbreaks and getting easy baskets. It all comes off of defensive stops," Hardaway said. Burke did his best to bury Northwestern almost as soon as the game started. The sophomore guard scored 13 straight points for Michigan to help the Wolverines grab a 20-4 lead. "Hes got a presence out there," Beilein said. "Hes got a great ability to know when he can score and when he can find other people." Hardaway got going midway through the half, making consecutive 3-pointers that made it 33-13 and drew an "M Go Blue! M Go Blue!" chant from the maize-and-blue contingent in the stands. He struck again from the outside on consecutive possessions later in the half. And Burke wowed the crowd in the closing minutes when he laid the ball in after a nasty crossover. For Northwestern fans, there was little to cheer in the early going other than when football coach Pat Fitzgerald addressed the crowd on the heels of his teams Gator Bowl victory. "Coach told us to be aggressive," Burke said. "Dont be timid against the zone. Attack it so you can get good shots." China Jerseys Wholesale . 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The other local winners were Gilles Simon and Benoit Paire. Simon beat 2006 Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 7-5, 6-1, and Paire defeated Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-3, 6-4.KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- While Bo Van Pelt was flirting with a rare 59 in a third round that was close to impeccable until the last hole, Tiger Woods was getting increasingly frustrated with his mistakes at the CIMB Classic. Van Pelt had four birdies in the first six holes, then five in a row from the eighth. He had two more birdies on the par-71 Mines Resort and Golf Club course on Saturday, and only needed another one to join an elite club to go under 60. Only five players have ever done it a PGA Tour sanctioned event. But he hit his approach into the greenside bunker and needed three putts, finishing with a double bogey for a 9-under 62 and a share of the third-round lead with Robert Garrigus at 16 under. "Obviously disappointed to finish with a double bogey," Van Pelt said, "but Im really proud of the 17 1/2 holes I played and hopefully thatll carry over into tomorrow, and not the last half." Van Pelt was seven strokes behind overnight leader Garrigus coming into the third round but got his CIMB title defence back on track with a superb round. "I dont think I missed a fairway on the front nine," he said. "My irons were pretty sharp, and the putter, I had been close all week, and today they were going in. They werent burning the edge." Garrigus, who had a two-stroke lead after the second round, opened with a pair of bogeys but finished with three birdies for 69 and a 54-hole total of 197. Fellow American Chris Kirk had a 63 to move to 15 under, one clear of Zimbabwes Brendon de Jonge (66) and South Africas Jbe Kruger (69) at. "I must have been tired or something," Garrigus said of his first two holes. "Didnt really have my golf swing that much today. I hit some bad shots, hit some bad putts, but sucked it up coming down there in the last." Woods round was the opposite. He started with five birdies in the first eight holes but had three bogeys and a double-bogey on the back nine and finished at 69 to be in a group of five players tied at 11 under. Thousands of people followed Woods and 2010 champion Ben Crane around the course, with the whir of camera shutters forcing Woods to stop his backswing on the fourth hole and noise or movement in the crowd causing him to pause at other times. Hed promised to attack the course on the weekend, and he started with a birdie at the par-4 first hole. He got down to 14-under with four more birdies on the front nine to turn in 30, but then had a bogey at the 12th, a double bogey at the 14th where he had to drop a shot after hitting his tee shot in a water hazard beside the green and another bogey at 17 after missing a birdie putt. He got progressively more frustrated on the back nine and was clearly unimpresssed with his round.dddddddddddd "Im going to have to shoot a low one tomorrow, something similar to what Bo did today," he said. "The problem with being this far back is Im going to need help. A great round tomorrow might not win it, thats the only problem, but Im going to put up a great round anyways." After turning in 30 on the front side, equaling his low for nine holes this season, Woods said he just made too many mistakes on the back nine. "I was right there. I had plenty of easy holes to go, but I didnt capitalize on that at all," he said. "I made a couple of bad decisions, bad swings on top of that. "On a golf course thats playing this benign, you just cant afford to do that. It can be had out there -- I had it after eight holes, just didnt keep it going." The 37-year-old Van Pelt didnt seem to have that trouble until the very end, when he watched his chance for a 59 vanish in the bunker. "From there, I pretty much had nothing," he said, claiming that it wasnt nerves that got to him. "Surprisingly, I wasnt really nervous at all. Ive never had that good a chance to shoot a 59 before and, to be honest, Ill probably look back on it and think about the third hole. "I had a 5-iron from the middle of the fairway and didnt make birdie. Ill look back at 15, Im 30 yards from the green with an easy pitch and dont make it. Those are the holes that cost me more than 18." Japans Ryo Ishikawa has the lowest round on a major tour, shooting a 12-under 58 to win the 2010 Crowns in the Japan Tour. Only five players have shot 59 in official PGA Tour events -- the latest being Australian Stuart Appleby at the 2010 Greenbrier Classic. Tommy Gainey missed a putt for a 59 at the McGladrey Classic and finished with a 60 in the last round to win the title last weekend, when Van Pelt was in Australia winning the Perth International. Getting a 59 here wouldnt have counted on Van Pelts official statistics anyway because the CIMB Classic, which is co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour, doesnt become a full-fledged PGA Tour event until next year. It wouldnt have counted on the Asian Tour, either, because preferred lies were allowed for the second consecutive round, where players could pick up, clean and place their balls due to the soggy conditions caused by heavy overnight rain. Van Pelt has four career victories, including one on the PGA Tour. He has led entering the final round four previous times on the PGA Tour, but has never converted those leads into a victory. Johnson Wagner matched Van Pelt on the front nine when he went out in a career-best 29. He had seven birdies in the first 11 holes but then had bogeys at the 12th, 16th and 18th holes to finish with a 67. ' ' '
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