Ann Arbor — Something happened to the Michigan softball team in late February in a tight loss at LSU.
Michigan coach Carol Hutchins can’t pinpoint how things changed or who or what was the catalyst, but that loss, which dropped the Wolverines to 6-8, gave a team that had been searching for something, anything to turn things around, an enormous spark. Yes, that's right — they gained a season-changing boost from a loss.
Now, the 22nd-ranked Wolverines are 37-11 and 19-1 in the Big Ten with a final regular-season series this weekend at Maryland before the conference tournament next week at Indiana.