Sunday, March 10, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven Sunday, March 10, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY ..geEeven Wolverine Cagers Michigan Staves Off Last-Half Surge After Rudy Sprains Ankle Stun Iowa 71-70, Force Playoff Hayes Stars As Houston Triumphs 94-76 By ROBIN WRIGHT Special To The Daily IOWA CITY - Michigan's late season basketball miracle men toyed with a 16 point lead half way through the second half, saw it diminish to a hair thin 67- 66, then hung on for an upset 71-70 victory here last night. Iowa s stunning loss, coming on the 'eve of coach -Ralph Miller's 49th birthday, left the Hawkeyes with only a tie for the Big Ten championship. They will face co- champ Ohio State Tuesday night for the title and the right to represent the Big Ten in the NCAA regional tournament. The rabid Iowa fans gave superstar dam Williams a stand- ing ovation before the game start- ed, but it was perhaps the high point of the contest for the Hawk- eyes. 9-1 Lead At "the end of two minutes, Michigan was ahead 9-1, main- taining at least that much of a lead for most of the game It was an unusual first half for Williams and his good friend from Detroit, Michigan Captain Jimmy Pitts. Within the first ten minutes Williams scored thefirst 11 points *for his team, seven of them on free throws, but Iowa trailed 27- 11. At one point the score was 15-2. Pitts, meanwhile though spark- ing the early Wolverine attack with 'sharp passing drew four fouls :trying. to guard Williams and had to go the bench.- MSU Closes, With Win Foy Tle Associated Press EAST LANSING - Michigan State overcame a cold second half scoring percentage to defeat Illi- nois 62-59 in the final Big Ten conference basketball game for both teams. S The 'Spartans hit on only 10 of 42 shots in the second half. Edwards led MSU with 18 points, while Illinois was paced by center Dave Scholz who had 17 points. * EVANSTON-Northwestern ral- lied in the second half to defeat Wisconsin 77-75 in a Big Ten basketball finale yesterday which enable :. the Wildcats =to finish fourth in the conference. The triumph gave Northwestern an 8-6 conference record to 7-7 for Wisconsin and the Wildcats closed the season with a 13-10 mark to. 13-11 for Wisconsin. * * * BLOOMINGTON, IndPurdue whipped- old rival Indiana in basketball yesterday ,68-64, the, second victory .of the season for the Boilermakers over the Hoos- 4ers, as Purdue sophomore whiz Rick Mount scored 29 points. Mount's two free throws In the final seconds put the game out of the Hoosiers' reach. University Charter Caledonian Airways FLY TO LON DON from DETROIT $230 Rundtrip May 20 to Aug. 19 Also, Wait Lists For: May 9 to June 19 June 27 to Aug. 22 CALL: 761-2348 5-7 P.M Big Ten Standings W Iowa 10 Ohio State 10 Purdue 9 Northwestern 8 Wisconsin 7 MICHIGAN 6 Illinois 6 Michigan State 6 Indiana 4 Minnesota 4 L 4 4 5 6 7 8 8 10 10 Pet. .714 .714 .643 .571 .500 .429 .429 .429 .286 .286 to the Dave Michigan joined together to fill the rebounding deficit Tomjan- ovich had left. Dennis Stewart took over on the offensive boards as well as maintaining his high scoring position, finishing with 21 points. After Tomjanovich was injured the game seemed to go slower as the visibly tired teams committed several mistakes. With 14 minutes left in the game Michigan went into a tem- porary stall, which ended when Ken Maxey threw the ball away. Then Iowa began on what ByThe Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY - Magnifi- cent Elvin Hayes poured in 49 points and dominated the back- boards as top-ranked and unde- feated Houston easily swept aside shorted Chicago Loyola 94-76 last night in a first-round game of the NCAA basketball tourna- ment. The Wolverines came on1 court hot as the palms of Strack's vivacious hands. They looked to hit their first seven shots while Calabria h Iowa missed their first five. Dick Jense abria and Halftime ended after a slight down to 6 Iowa surge with the score 40-32, dhoweetime6 Bob Sullivan and Dennis Stewart three time leading the team with 11 points Miller b and Rudy Tomjanovich dominat- lack of hu ing the boards with six rebounds. Michigan Stewart and Sullivan finished boards. "W as high scorers for the Wolver- club. We ines with 21 and 17 points res- first half." pectively. T Break Poise o, "Our basic game plan is to play equally with the opposition ! 7oe for 36 of the 40 minutes. We'll try to break their poise, tire them out so that we can play to our Stewart, f potential those last four min- Pitts, g utes," said Miller prior to the Maxey, g Michigan game. Henry, g Edwards, f But Miller's boys never lead al- McCellan, though coming within one point Totals in the last two and a half min- utes. The second half was a hap- Vidnovic, pening. The referees went wild Jensen, c on their calls, neglecting to call Norman, g goal-tending on a block by Tom- Crleabria j anovich. McGrath,'g Then the Michigan morale suf- Philips, g fered a blow with 6:13 gone in Total's the half when Rudy Tomjano- FG Pct:. vich was forced to leave the game with a badly twisted ankle. MICHI With Willie n Iowa Wit Wlle Edwards now in, Attendaw be a comeback. Chad it on two in a row with n adding a third. Cal- Williams sliced the lead! 7-66, obtaing the ball. s from interceptions. lamed the loss on a stling and leaving the club too free at the, Ve were just a bad ball were just cold in the The Vicmo s The Spoil Loyola seldom got more than one shot as Hayes and 6-9 team- mate Ken Spain cleared the de- / fensive boards, sweeping Houston to its 30th consecutive vitcory, 29 this season. In the first half alone, Hayes scored 27 points and pulled down DENNIS STEWART 17 rebounds in leading Houston to a 53-34 lead. Houston con- nected on 55 per cent of its shots Gymnasts in the first half. Loyola trailed by 20 points at one time, 63-43. iM uistFindIt was then, however, that the Loyola press began to work, and. the lead was cut to 12. Houston pulled away again as Hayes scored eight straight points j to make it 77-56. In reaction to a three-way tie Hayes connected on 20 of 28 for the Big. Ten gymnastics shots from the field and nine of championship, the NCAA ruled 15 from the free throw line. He this week that the conference added a total of 27 rebounds. would only be allowed one en- Corky Bell scored 18 points to trant in the NCAA championships. lead Loyola. lied to defeat St. John's of New York 79-70 yesterday in the open- ing round of the NCAA EasternI Regional Basketball Tournament.1 Columbia's Ivy League cham-, pions romped over La Salle of the Middle Atlantic Conference 83-69r in the opener of the'doubleheader as sophomore Howard Dotson. scored 32 points and will play Davidson in the Eastern semi- finals at Raleigh, N.C., Friday. St. John's seemed to fall apart as Dave Moser stole the ball twice for Davidson in the next minute. The Wildcats muffed their first opportunity, but Dave Malov, who had 23 points, tapped in a re- bound following the second steal for a 71-69 lead. Wayne Huckle missed two free throws for the Wildcats, who have a 23-4 record, but Jerry Krol again swiped the ball and Mike O'Neill sank two free throws for Davidson. S E NI C FIND I FOR 1 Off on ALL PIPES STATE DRUGS State and Packard KINGSTON, RI. -- St. Bona- The Bonnies led 54-46 at the venture beat the Eagles of Boston half but the Eagles ripped off College in the first round of the East Coast Regionals of the NCAA seven straight points to close the Basketball Tournament 102-93 last gap. night, and will travel to Raleigh The winners then scored a quick next Friday to meet North Caro- ten points in a row and BC never Tina. caught up. RS lch, f 420 f 'r 412 GAN f 1G FT R 4-12 0-2 8 8-25 5-7 12 6-9 1-3 5 3-7 1-2 5 1-1 1-1 1 0-3 2-2 1 0-0 0-0 0 29-69 13-24 37 F 1 5 4 3 1 0 0 16 4 4 5 1 3 0 1 0 19' T 8 21 13 7 3 2 0 71 20 12 6 2 14 2 0 4 0 70 IOWA 10-20 10-141 5-13 2-3 3-6 0-0 1-5 0-0 7-15 -0-0 0-1 2-2 0-1 0-0 2-6 0-0 0-1 0-0 28-68 14-19 14 5 s 0 3 3 2 2 33 'i j f !' 1' As a result, the conference has decided to conduct a playoff to d e t e r m i n e the representative team. The coaches from the three teams, Michigan, Michigan State, and Iowa, will be polled to deter- mine the site and the date of the playoff. Originally, all three coaches had been pleased with the tie be- cause of the NCAA rule passed last summer. The rule eliminated a regional tournament and sub- stituted the conference winners as entrants into the national cham- pionships. If a team had won the title outright, the other two would have been ineligible for the na- tionals. Walter Byers, NCAA executive secretary and person responsible for the recent ruling necessitating a playoff, was not available for comment. Bill Reed, Big Ten Commission- er, felt that the rule and recent decision "works a real hardship on those conferences with great gymnastic strength, as the Big Ten does." The coaches from the three schools involved in the tie could not be reached. t The victory sends Houston in- to the Midwest Regional next week. * * * CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Top- seeded North Carolina blew a close game wide open with 27 points in the first 10 minutes of the second half Saturday night to outclass North Carolina State 87- 50 in the finals of the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tour- nament. The Tar Heels' 25th victory in 28 games qualified the nation's fourth-ranked team for NCAA Eastern Regional ournament play against St. Bonaventure next Friday night at Raleigh, N.C. Rusty Clark, 6-foot-10 center, played a key role in the Tar Heels' winning surge before he was ordered out of the game by the referee after he crashed into State's sophomore Vann Williford and sent him sprawling to the floor. The dazed Williford spent the rest of the game on theE bench. North Carolina led 31-26 at halftime. 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