Tuesday, December 3, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pace Eleven Tuesday, December 3, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pn~-u' FI~v,5n fI Second- half By JOEL BLOCK 77 loss he suffered last year to a Michigan's basketball legions similar Michigan squad. fought off openipg game jitters, a "We played a four-man z o n e revenge-minded ex-coach, and with one man, Don Russell, on Cazzie Russell's brother to record Rudy Tomjanovich. But when you a 93-85 win over Northern Illinois play that silly little defense, it last night at the Events Building, opens up the middle for 20-foot- The butterflies were flying in ers by their guards." the stomachs of sophomores Dan The first ten minutes of the Fife and Rod Ford and probably second half went like a ping pong the rest of the Wolverines as they match, as both teams seemingly fell 11 points behind the Huskies scored at will against each other. with 15 minutes gone in the first The lead changed hands seven half. times in that span and the score But then Coach John Orr threw was tied seven times. in Bob Sullivan, a starter on last Finally, three foul shots, two by year's team, and the Manitowac, Ford and one by Fife, put the Wol- Wisc. senior promptly scored five verines out to stay with nine min- points in 21 seconds. utes left and Michigan ahead 67- Sullivan and another sub, Mark 64. Henry, continued to spark the Jorgensen's "box-in-one" de- Wolverine surge to bring Michigan fense did not, do what it was sup- within one point at the half. posed to do. Tomjanovich topped What most hampered the Wol- all scorers with 21 points and verines in the first stanza was the snapped off 18 rebounds. "box-in-one" zone defense em- Its biggest defect was that it ployed by Northern Illinois H e a d opened up the center lane for Coach Tom Jorgensen. Michigan's backcourt men-Fife, Jorgensen, who was freshman Sullivan, Henry, and Richard' *coach here at Michigan under Carter. Dave Strack, remembered the 84- Not only did they get easy 15- One for Orr MICHIGAN NORTHERN ILLINOIS Naves, f 8-22 2-5 5 11 18 FG FT PF R TP Rohlman, f 8-12 0-1 2 1 16 Stewart, f 7-11 0-0 2 3 14 Smith, c 8-18 4-8 2 19 20 Ford,! 6-12 4-6 1 9 16 Mason, g 4-10 3-5 3 3 11 Tomjanovich, c 8-17 5-5 3 18 21 Russell, g 7-18 3-3 2 5 17 Carter, g 5-9 2-2 4 3 12 Janus,f 1-2 1-1 2 1 3 Fife, g 4-8 1-1 0 2 9,Benson, g 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Henry, g 3-7 1-2 5 2 7 Totals 36-82 13-23 16 47 85 Sullivan, f 6-12 2-2 2 3 14 FG percentage: 43.9; FT percentage: 56.5 Totals 39-76 15-18 17 48 93 MICHIGAN 45-48--93 FG percentage: 51.3; FT percentage: 83.3 N. ILLINOIS 46-39-85 WOODY'S WINDOW Sully sparks Wolverine win By KEITH R. WOOD Bob Sullivan did not even start last night. It came as a surprise to most of the seven thousand fans to see sophomore Rodney Ford start at the forward position beside Dennis Stewart. Ford, turned in an excellent performance, but it was still Sullivan who sparked the nervous Wolverines to their first win for Johnny Orr. Sully came in with just under six minutes left to go in the first half and the Blue down 38-28. Within thirty seconds he brought Michigan back into the game with a jump-shot followed 4 by a three-point play. He seemed to add the spirit that was so noticeably lacking in the jittery team. He put in an all-out performance in those six minutes. His passes were quick and accurate. His sure-handed ball hawking enabled him to hit the open man, mainly Rudy Tomjanovich, who scored nine points in the last four and one-half minutes. Sullivan started the second-half and quickly tallied four more points on his own particular brand of layups to put Michigan ahead. The team never let down after that as they seemed to gain the spirit and confidence that was lacking in the first half. Sullivan played heads-up ball throughout the half, constantly hassling the potent Huskie offense forcing many costly mistakes. And it was Bob Sulivan who grabbed two very important rebounds near the end of the game to stave off a desperate Northern rally. There is still a lot that can be said for Rodney Ford. He replaced Dennis Stewart early in the second half to try to put the Michigan offense more on the inside. He succeeded brilliantly scoring -a game total of 16 points and carrying away nine re- bounds. He was the Wolverines second-high man in both cate- gories. Another Wolverine newcomer, Richard "Bird" Carter also played an excellent game. Carter scored twelve points and grabbed three rebounds. "Bird" is indeed a fitting name for the small 6'1" guard as he leaps with an agility that is reminiscent of Sam Williams. Carter is a smooth basketball player who can more than hold his own against the big men in "blood alley." Coaches Orr and Snow- den had high praises for the junior-college transfer and expect him to improve as the season goes on. Coach Snowden expects him to, develop into a very strong backcourt man. There is not much that can be predicted from a first-game per- formance, but it appears that the Wolverines will cause some con- cern among the so-called top contenders this season. Michigan's de- fense ,was weak and would surely prove disastrous against a bigger team, but if the Blue can gain some of the poise and finesse that was lacking last night, we can look for a successful season. First-game nervousness is the usual thing. It will probably and hopefully disappear. Coach Orr and Coach Snowden are con- fident, and if they can instill this confidence to the team the Big Ten had better make room for one more contender. DANISH LAMP Imported from Denmark STENT (Offer Expires Dec. 31,1968 ) spurt salvages season opener, 93-85 foot jump shots but they also took having the hottest hand with sev- advantage of the open" lane to en buckets in eleven tries. drive in for lay-ups. Don Russell, Cazzie's brother, drive infor la-u. . caused a lot of havoc for the The fact that the Wolverines Wolverines with his 17 points, but often got the open shot was evi- not as much as Huskie captainf dent in the box score. As a team 'and center, Jim Smith. they shot 51.3 per cent from the Smith, 6'-7" and 225 pounds,' field; forward Dennis Stewart battered in 20 points and grabbed Jacobs world champ agai; Midwest Open disordered With all the tramp men on the sphere, The World's Best Bouncer bounces here. B. Shave By MARION GORDON Much to the delight of gymnas- tics connoisseurs, Dave Jacobs came through again to uphold a Michigan tradition established four years ago. Since that time no one ut a. Michigan man has had "WorlId Trampoline Champion" after his; name. Jacobs successfully defend- '." , ed his title to become the first to hold it two yer naro While Dave was reinforcing his already great reputation in Amersfoorst, Netherlands, the' other 'M' gymnasts were combat ing mass confusion at the Midwest Open. Unfortunately, the poor organi- zation of the meet made it nearly impossible for the 280 gymnasts _ to achieve their accustomed qual- 'happiest guy ity performance.i The preliminaries were quite an n the woi id' experience for those of use who are accustomed to the tense si- 'Sandier, 'inthe finals .Huntzieker lence of normal meets. In the Max also made the finals in floor exer- Sennet tradition, complete dis- cise. order reigned and between the {The evening meet pitted the chatter of the crowd and the fact holders of the top six scores in that all seven events were run each event against each other. It simultaneously, the meet was more was handled in a much more a test of presence of mind than of orderly fashion. ability as a gymnast. George Huntzicker earned a{ In spite of tdtaly adverse con- 9.55 in trampoline, matching his ditions, some fine performances high score for last season. This were turned in by the many grad- gave Michigan a first place and uate students and highly experi- a fourth place in the event. He enced gymnasts competing. then tied for third in floor exer- The Michigan team encountered cise scoring 9.25 in competition some real problems and, with a which say Toby Towson of MSU few exceptions, has a disappoint- get a 9.9 from one judge and a ing day. The side horse squad was final score of 9.7. completely shaken and produced Two major threats -facing Mich- no score above 8.0. igan in the Big Ten also showed Sid Jensen was unable to com- their skill Saturday. Rich Scorza, plete in all-around due to illness a junior at Iowa, took second in and while Rick McCurdy and Jim all-round with a performance Scully, a freshman, placed in the which indicates the Hawkeyes top twenty in all-around, they did won't beb badly hurt by the loss of not do as well as had been hoped. Neil Schmidt. In short, very few really his their Don Hatch, Iowa's senior ring routines. specialist. took his event with a The exceptions were, as usual, strong 9.65 routine. These gym-, in trampoline. In spite of D a v e nasts make it very clear that, af- Jacob's absence, Michigan dom- ter all the glowing optimist, Mich- inated the event, placing NCAA igan cannot hope to take the Big trampoline champion George Ten title this year without a real Huntzicker, and freshman Lee battle. - a game-leading total of 19 re- bounds. He hasn't the grace of a gazelle but didn't need it to man- eover around Tomjanovich and plop in several easy five-footers.. The Michigan center is s till suffering from a back ailment in- curred last summer and gave away the baseline time after time. Orr commented after the game, "I was terribly disappointed with our defense, especially our defense under the basket. We had worked a lot on it in practice and I had hoped we would show improve- ment over last year." - "But our guard defense was very good." he added. "I was real happy with our new kids up there, Dan Fife and Richard Carter." "In the second half we forced their play a lot more," continued' Orr. "In the first half our for- wards didn't push them and it hurt us." Jorgensen blamed his teams' troubles on Tomjanovich. "We couldn't handle Rudy under the boards, especially in the s e c o n d half. Our whole team ran out of gas, including Smith who worked against Tomjanovich. He col- lapsed before he could get to the lockerroom after the game and we had to carry him in. "I think Rudy's one of the bust offensive rebounders in the coun- try," Jorgensen stated. Jorgensen also had high praise for the team as a whole, "They can really blow the ball out of there on a fast break when they want to. "They've got a lot of kids com- ing off the bench that can really hurt you. They're going to be a good basketball team this year." S CO1 RES COLLEGE BASKETBALL North Carolina 89, Oregon 78 Duke 86, Alabama 48 Illinois 105, Butler 66 Houston 80, Pepperdine 60 West Virginia 89, William & Mary 74 Texas 67, Mississippi 63 Louisiana State 109, New Orleans 82 Tulane 103, Northern Michigan 89 North Carolina State 82, Atlantic Christian 75 Kent State 83, Oshkosh 52 Florida St. 120, Valdoit, Ga., St. 75 Marquette 68, St. John's (Minn.) 45 Vanderbilt 97, SMU 94 Penn 88, Lehigh 69 Temple 93, Hofstra 64 Cincinnati 86, Kansas St. 67 Kentucky 86, Miami (O.) 77 Missouri 97, Utah St. 87 ABA Miami 109, Indiana 104 Dallas 112, Oakland 111 i I With all his complaints about the Wolverine defense, Orr con- soled himself with the fact that, "At least we pulled away from them at the end, and that's the sign of a winner. Last year we couldn't putt away from any- body." MICHIGAN'S RUDY TOMJANOVICH stretches attempting to block a shot by Northern Illinois center, Jim Smith. 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