1. Field Hockey Fowards: Mayer and Saydjari
In the Wolverines’ regular season finale at Indiana on Saturday, Alicia Mayer and Zara Saydjari carried No. 12 Michigan to a 5-2 victory and a share of the Big Ten regular season title. The senior duo combined for all five Michigan goals, as Mayer netted two and added two assists while Saydjari saved her first career hat trick for her final regular season game. The offensive outburst gave both Mayer and Saydjari career highs for goals in a season.

2. Lexi Zimmerman, Setter (Volleyball)
After winning 16 out of 17 matches from early September to mid-October, the volleyball team has cooled off with two straight weekend splits. Zimmerman clearly hasn’t cooled off though, as her level of play has risen since the start of conference play. She had 101 assists in the last two matches, a five-set loss at No. 6 Illinois and Michigan’s first-ever win at Wisconsin. With the NCAA Tournament about a month away, Michigan’s rank has dropped in each of the past two weeks. But there is good news: the fifteenth-ranked Wolverines have yet to lose at home this season, and they return to Ann Arbor for four of their next six matches.

3. Denard Robinson, Quarterback (Football)
As the Big Ten losses start piling up, the postgame discussions have inevitably begun revolving around an entire unit rather than a single player. Saturday’s contest at Penn State was the first time a tremendous performance by Denard couldn’t compensate for Michigan’s defense (excuse me if you’ve stopped referring to it as a defense.) Football is the ultimate team sport, but what else is Denard supposed to do? He scored four touchdowns and put up 381 yards while the defense surrendered points on seven of the Nittany Lions’ nine drives. By no means should he still be the Heisman frontrunner. But to those who think Saturday’s result could have been different by replacing Denard with a Cameron Newton or a LaMichael James, please come forward.

4. Alex Hunt, Outside Hitter (Volleyball)
In the past few weeks, Hunt has received considerable help in the kills department, most notably from freshman Jennifer Cross and sophomore Claire McElheny. Hunt has still produced, posting 20 kills in both the loss against the Fighting Illini and the win against the Badgers. Even though the team has had a couple of hiccups lately, the star power and emerging freshmen and sophomores will make Michigan a team to reckon with in the postseason.

5. Justin Meram, Forward (Men’s Soccer)
On Monday, Meram was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts against Bowling Green and No. 23 Michigan State. He tallied two goals against the Falcons on Wednesday and another against the Spartans on Saturday. The Michigan football team hasn’t touched the Paul Bunyan Trophy since the Lloyd Carr era. But if it’s any consolation, the soccer team reclaimed the Big Bear Trophy for the first time since 2003 with its win over the Spartans. I know it’s a stretch, but this type of consolation is exactly what Michigan fans look for once the football team enters the meat of its Big Ten schedule.

6. Scooter Vaughan, Forward (Ice Hockey)
Carl Hagelin and Louie Caporusso lead the team in points, which should come as no surprise. But Vaughan in a tie for the team lead in goals? Perhaps it isn’t as shocking as Shawn Hunwick’s heroics between the pipes last postseason. It’s just that the frequency with which he is finding the score sheet is not something the Children of Yost were accustomed to in Vaughan’s first three seasons. And it’s easy to label this early season scoring surge as a fluke or a right-place, right-time situation. But the bottom line is that Vaughan has netted at least a goal in three straight weekends, which has helped the Wolverines avoid the loss column in all but one of their games.

7. David Wohlberg, Forward (Ice Hockey)
Wohlberg’s five goals are tied with Vaughan for the team lead, and consequently they both regain a spot in the rankings. Less than a week removed from setting a Michigan record for the program’s fastest goal to start a game, Wohlberg tied Friday’s game against Ferris State with 12.7 seconds remaining in regulation. And despite ultimately losing the game in a shootout, the score allowed No.