WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN Cager By GRETCHEN TWIETMEYER To a sonambulent spectator wedged in a segment of resilient gray board atathe Bowling Green game last year, it was intensely unpatriotic to echo the lustiest croakers. Because Falcon support- ers descended in clumps on Yost Field, House, their din amassed in a cheering section that could have been mistaken for half the enroll- Game on Radio Tonight's Michigan-Bowling Green basketball game will be broadcast over radio stations '1 WAAM (1600 AM) and WUOM (91.7 FM). The game will start at 8:00. ment at the Ohio state-supported school. Traditionally, they're even loud- er in the diminuitive Falcon field # house, the Bowling Greeners having a fanatical exuberance for basketball. But the game which will begin tonight at 8:00, though it will not duplicate the Russell-Clawson 108- 70 dessication of last year, should fortify Michigan's claim for con- tention in the Big Ten race.. Michigan's amazing rout of Houston Monday night trans- formed most any Falcon specula- tion of victory to pure bluff, for the Wolverines will have advant- ages unbequeathed by the Cagey Cougars. The Falcons rely on a fast-break team that. head coach Dave Strack tags "a tight man-to-man and running team. Whether they'll use the one-to-one defense on us, though," he added, "I don't know." Go-Go This Will be countered with Michigan's increased momentum, provided by Dennis Bankey, Den- nis Stewart and, of course, Ken Maxey. Maxey, still slated sixth on Strack's pyramid, prompts the coach's evaluation; "We can play' him whenever we need him. And you know we have to be fast be- cause when both he and Dennis Bankey are in it's a pretty shrimpy looking team." No one turns their nose up at the Mid-American Conference favorites, however. A strengthened starting five comes from three re- turning starters-Walt Piatkowski, Al Dixon, Rich Hendrix (all soph- Ride Crest to BG forced to take allI Cougars were the time." 'M' VICTIM FIFTH: Bruins Run Away In Basketball Poll By The Associated Press ber two spot after winning its first UCLA, the preseason leader in two games. the Associated Press' weekly major Louisville beat Georgetown in college basketball poll, collected 32 its opener and advanced one place of 34 first-place votes from among to fourth, while New Mexico, 2-0, the selectors comprising the na- held sixth place. The fifth starting junior, Joe Henderson, was recruited from Al- lan Hancock Junior College in Santa Maria, California. The most promising sub, sophomore Dick Tickhets Tickets for Saturday after- noon's basketball game against Davidson will go on sale today' at the athletic building. Student tickets are $1.00 apiece. An. ID must be presented for each ticket, with a limit of two pur- chases per person. Rudgers, scored eight points against Wittenberg. Michigan's zone defense put the whammy on Bowling Green last year, and the Wolverines are hoping that it works again. If not, they'll have to find another potion to bewitch their opponents. Strack cautioned that in spite of Maize and Blue magic, Bowling Green could give the squad alot of trouble, although it was apparent that the aura of Monday's rain- bow pervaded his office. Even the walls seemed to be smiling. Scores NBA Boston 130, Detroit 111 Philadelphia 129, Chicago 119 San Francisco 126, New York 116 NHL No games scheduled COLLEGE BASKETBALL Davidson 84, Furman 71 Princeton 48, Villanova Dayton 80, Miami (O) 71 Wake Forest 78, Virginia Tech 75 (ovt) Xavier 78, Union (Ky) 70 Louisville 107, Southwest La. 68 Minnesota 71, Drake 68 (ovt) Texas Western 61, East Texas State 30 Billboard There will be an 'M' club meeting tonight in the Michigan Union at 8:30. Movies will be shown. Have you been putting off your cycle REPAIRS? Put your cycle bock into GOOD RUNNING ORDER FOR THE WINTER Now at NICHOLSON MOTORS Corner of Ashley & Liberty 662-7407 tional panel of sports writers and broadcasters. In points, the Bruins accumulated 337 on a basis of 10 for a first-place vote, nine for sec- ond, eight for third, etc. UCLA, led by Lew Alcindor's 56# points, defeated Southern Califor- nia 105-90 in its opening game. Houston, which was upset Mon- day night by the Wolverines, 86- 75, advanced two places to fifth after opening with two victories. However, the voting in the latest poll' was based only on games through Saturday, and the Cou- gars are likely to drop several places in the ratings next week. Kentucky, last year's leader in the final Associated Press poll, and number three in the pre-sea- son balloting this year, is not like- ly to hold a lofty position next week. The Wildcats, 104-84 win- ners over Virginia in their season opener last week, were upset by Illinois 98-97 in overtime. Texas Western, last season's NCAA titleholder, held the num- The Top Ten with first place votes in parentheses, season records and total points: 1. UCLA (32) 1-0 337 2. Texas Western (1) 2-0 288 3. Kentucky 1-0 250 4. Louisville (1) 1-0 170 5. Houston 2-0 135 6. New Mexico 2-0 108 7. Duke 1-1 72 8. North Carolina 2-0 71 9. Brigham Young 1-0 65 10. Cincinnati 2-0 63 Others receiving votes, listed alphabetically: Boston College, Bradley, Chicago Loyola, Colo- rado State Univ., Creighton, Davidson, Dayton, Drake, Illi- nois, Kansas, LaSalle, Mar- quette, M a r s h a 11, Michigan State, Mississippi State, Nebras- ka, Princeton, Providence, Pur- due, St. oJhn's, N.Y., Seattle, South Carolina, Syracuse, Utah, Utah State, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Western Kentucky, Wichita State, Yale. WORRIED ? N Daily Classifieds Get Results Leslie A. Fiedler is -Daily-Thomas R.Copi ELVIN HAYES (45) is doing what comes naturally. The 6'8" Houston star blocks one of Craig Dill's shots in Monday night's game. Unfortunately for Elvin, the referee termed the block goal- tending-one of six on the giant during the contest. The Wolver- ines take on slightly smaller Bowling Green tonight. ICONOCLASTIC I omores last year)-and two junior college imports. *Pitatkowski, enthusiastically de- scribed by freshman basketball coach Dick Honig as "their best player and an all-around shooter, good at all shots," was also suffi- ciently adulated by both Strack and Sports Illustrated. Last year the clean-cut Mid-American scor- ing champ (with a 19 point aver- age) squeezed 24 out of the Michi- gan defense. Honig, while praising him, pointed out that his Michigan mirror image, Stewart, might not score as many points but is a bet- ter all-around player. His feeder, center Al Dixon, re- portedly appears as though he can't see the ball, even with horn rims. Strack remembers him as a "great rebounder," probably for the 11 he snatched from Michigan. Honig got the impression that even thick lenses couldn't help him in his miserable performance in the Falcon's last game with Witten- berg, where he was extremely cold. Piatkowski, along with Hendrix and Al Hairton, a transfer from Port Huron Junior College, covet 95 per cent of the shooting and 95 per cent of the scoring. All three are good ball handlers and fairiy speedy. Scoring at Bowling Green is uni- fied only in its disorganization. Their "technique" is approaching the basket and shooting, with no formal inspiration. "It's different from Houston," mused Strack. "There we just kept them outside where they couldn't hit. 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