Sunday, January 19, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pace Eleven, S u n d a yi , , J a n u a r y 1 9 , 6 9T E C I A N D A L sPW n{ [. . f4 #, Buckeyes boffo in cM cage collision By BILL CUSUMANO Ohio State's Buckeyes gave Michigan a lesson in fundamental basketball yesterday as they com- pletely dominated the Wolverines and sailed to an easy 98-85 vic- tory. The Buckeyes halted the potent Michigan offense by throwing up a tight 1-2-2 zone that forced the Wolverines into one of their worst shooting games of the campaign. daily sports,' NIGHT EDITOR: FRED LaBOUR Ohio State was no less effective on the other end of the court as they shot a scorching 58.2 per cent from the field and constantlyi revealed the glaring deficiencies in the Michigan defense. The Wolverines started out as if they intended to make up for I a s t year's two defeats by the Ohio team. Dennis Stewart bang- ed in a quick five points at the outset as Michigan jumped into an early 1e a d. The Wolverines were pressing on defense and uti- lized the fast break to jump intoE a 13-6 lead with only five minutes gone. However, at this point Buckeye coach Fred Taylor put his club in- to their zone and the Wolverines were suddenly bottled up. Center Dave Sorenson a n d sophomore forward Jim Cleamons led a Buck- eye surge that gave them a 20-19 lead at'the 11:40 mtark and they were never headed from there. Sorenson began to drag Rudy Tomjanovich outside and consis- tently hit on his jump shot. Mean- while Cleamons was taking ad- vantage of numerous picks and screens to either get off the out- side shot or drive to the basket. Michigan proved unable to stop either and left the court at half- time trailing by a 53-39 s c o r e which they were never able to ov- ercome. The Ohio State success was not based on exciting offense or flashy play but just plain solid basket- ball. The crowd of 13,451 were not very pleased but they were being given an exhibition of how the g a I e should be played. Guard Denny Meadors held down t h e point on the zone and stopped the Wolverines from penetrating while the entire Buckeye team ran a fluid offense. Sorenson forced Tomjanovich to overplay after he hit several shots and as a result was able to back- door the Wolverine center. He al- so had success in dragging Tom- janovich down low and then rol- ling to the basket. Ohio State was i 3 T 7 C i 4 4 MICHIGAN Stewart Carter Tomjanovich Fife Maxey Sullivan Bloodworth Henry Edwards Ford r Tot1als FG FT 10 4-6 3~ 0-0 8 2-4 2 0-3 5 0-1 5 3-4 4 0-0 1 0-1 0 0-0 0 0-0 38 9-19 TP 24 6 is 4 10 13 8 2 0 0 85I TP 0 31 26 12 7 12 Howell Cleamons Sorenson Finney Meadors Andreas OHIO STATE FG 4 11 12 6 2 4 FT 0-0 .9-10 2-2 0-0 3-5 4-6 -Daily-Andy Sacks BOB SULLIVAN (90), the Wolverine's "sixth man," crashes into Ohio State's Denny Meadors in an attempt to snatch a rebound from the Buckeye floor general. "Sully," though, was not this unfortunate the entire afternoon as he snared seven caroms. Barclay 3 2-5 8 3Smith 0 0-2 0 Schnabel 0 0-0 0 Barnard 1 0-0 2 Miller 0 0-0 0 Spies 0 0-0 0 Totals 39 20-30 98 also doing a fine job of setting al double screen on the side of the lane and cutting off it for lay-ups and short jump shots. Of course, the Buckeyes were helped by the fact that they were amazingly hot, as their shooting percentage s h o w e d. Michigan coach Johnny Orr commented, "They've got great shooters. We would miss the shots and they would make them. They beat us, there's no question about it." What made the Ohio State vic- tory even more impressive was the fact that starting Buckeye for- ward Steve Howell only played. about five minutes and was held scoreless. Stewart had worked on Howell for his early' points and Taylor decided that adefensive switch was needed. Dan Andreas was sent into the game and, Howell never returned. "Andreas was doing a good job," ITaylor said, "I couldn't take him out." And Andreas was instrumen- tal for the Buckeyes. He hit for 112 points but many of them came on rebound shots. For the game he finished with 13 retrieves, one less than Sorenson. Michigan was hurt badly on the boards as they couldn't seem to hit the follow shots while Ohio State did. Orr complained after the game, "We'd shoot and miss and then we'd foul them." The foul situation was really in Michigan's favor, though, as Sor- enson, Meadors and Jody Finney all had four with a good part of the second half to play. The Wol- verines did manage to cut t h e margin to five at one point dur- ing this period and without Mea- dors in the game were beginning to bother 0 h i o State with the press. But Cleamons constantly came up with a bucket or pass (he leads the Buckeyes in assists) to keep the men from Columbus safely ahead. The other Buck that Michigan could not stop was Sorenson. He popped in 26 points and snared 14 rebounds in a strong performance. While Sorenson was doing the job in the middle for Ohio State, Michigan's high scorer Tomjano- vich was held to 18 points and Stewart's 24 could not make up for it. "We did try to keep Tom- janovich outside on offense," Tay- lor commented, and his zone did DUCATS Tickets for Michigan's Feb- ruary 1 game against Loyola at Chicago Stadium may be or- dered from Jim Podell, 625 N. Milwaukee St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The seats cost $6.00 and are located directly behind the Michigan bench. Deadline for ordering tickets is Wednesday, Jan. 22. that quite well. Without the big junior's scoring and particularly his offensive board work the Mich- igan offense could not function as it normally does. Yesterday made two bad games in a row for the Wolverines and tough Northwestern lies ahead. Unless they improve over their performance against the Buck- eyes, the dreams of a Big Ten title can be stored away until next season. CAGE STATS Comp uter fails to scan 'Al' loss By JOEL BLOCKI If you gave a computer the sta- tistics of yesterday's Michigan - Ohio State basketball game it would probably flash a "tilt" sign. If you asked it to determine the winner on this 'data alone, it. would probably blow up. For statistics can be deceiving., And contradictory. Michigan probably had its best game of the year mistake-wise. They suffered only four turnovers in the whole game, only one in the second half. But they managed to force the Buckeyers to cough the 'ball up 17 times, with a shameful 10 turnovers in the second stan- za. The Wolverines also got their chapces to score, throwing up 95 shots to the basket while t h e Buckeyes had to settle with 67 shots from the field. Even the attendance figure was decidedly a plus for the Wol- verine cagers, as 13,451 revenge- minded fans packed the Events Building with unpleasant memo- ries of another Ohio State - Michigan contest earlier this year. Frosh notch premier wil over Toledo Michigan's freshmen cagers trailed most of the way but fi- nally took charge with two min- utes left tograba 77-70 opening victory over Toledo yesterday at the Events Building. Lamont King, a 6'1" guard from Detroit, took the game's scoring honors with 29 points. Guard Eric Ford added 13 while Wayne Gra- biec and Gene Lanthorn scored 10 points each to lead the Wolverine attack. Top -scorers for the freshman Rockets were Tim Harman with 25 points and Steve Rettig with 423. The Wolverines out shot the Rockets from the floor, hitting 32 for 69 and a 46.4 percentage while Toledo fired a cold 36.6 per cent. But then program this data into your thinking machine. Michigan's 28 extra shots on the basket still left them one short of the Buckeyes in the field goal category. Their 38 baskets com- pute out to a 40 per cent aver- age while Ohio State's 39 buckets reflect a back-breaking 58.2 per cent pace. The Wolverines were worse at the foul line. They could only manage one free throw out of the six tries they were given in the first half. They improved in the second half to hit eight out of 13 but still ended up with a catas- trophic average of 47.4 for the game. The Buckeyes weren't as phe- nomenal from the charity stripe as they were from the field, but did hit 20 of their 30 shots to out: point the Wolverines by 11 from the foul line. But poor shooting wasn't t h e only factor in the Wolverine de- feat. If they ever kept a statistic on defensive coverage, the Wolver- ines would have had trouble hit- ting 33 per cent. They were con- stantly lax on defense, giving the Buckeyes unobstructed shots from all over the court, including un- der the basket. The Bucks used every maneuver }= in the book - picks and screens, back doors, and even the play- ground head fake and they all DENNIS worked. If their 58-plus per centd from the field indicates the Buck down a r eves were hot, it also shows that nine rebc they were open for the good shot, points, b What the Wolverines failed to tidal wav do most of all was to capture0-- - some long-lasting momentum. Twice in the second half they started what seemed to be come- back drives, bringing the Buck- eye lead down to'seven with s ix minutes gone and down to five with 13/2 minutes gone in the half. But Ohio State coach F r e d Taylor kept control of the gamea by calling a couple of key timeBU outs to calm his players before B -Daily-Andy Sacks BIG RUDY TOMJANOVICH leaps high into the air over several Ohio State players including Dave Sorenson (15) and an un- identified Buckeye. Rudy had an off game with only 18 points and 10 rebounds. The two teams meet again in Columbus to wind uO" the Big Ten season in March. FrF--, r-- I fir r-- r'M UNION-LEAGUE WANT TO LEARN BRIDGE? FIRST LESSON IS FREE! BOWLING 1 P.M. to 12P.M. -t I'I Michigan Union Tuesday, Jan. 21 Beginner Class at 7:00 Intermediate Class at 9:00 Room 3-K, Michigan Union SNACKS Michigan Union M. U. G. ( -Daily-Andy Sacks STEWART, senior forward for the Wolverines, hauls ebound in yesterday's loss to Ohio State. Stewart snared ounds and led the Michigan squad in scoring with 24 ut his efforts were not enough to divert the Buckeye e. 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