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Woodson & Co. eye By STAN BRADBURY top recruits in the nation, Isi Alongside Thomas, thex As Tennessee interim coach Cliff Wettig put it in 1976 before in.thebackroun is sophon the Kentucky Wildcats rolled to the 1977 NCAA Championship, in the background is sophom "Kentucky is first in the Southeastern Conference, first in the directed the Hoosier attack NCAA, and third in the NBA." while setting an all-time Ind Well, if ol' Cliff were around coaching today, he'd probably say Joining Bouchie (6-8) a the same thing about the Indiana Hoosiers of Bobby Knight. superstar Mike Woodson, re Perhaps the greatest expert on amateur basketball, John at 6-5, averaged 21 points a g Wooden, the wily Wizard of Westwood, agrees. He made up his own If Indiana does have a position filled by junior Ray ting experience during whic only weakness is the fact tha 'We have a great learn this of the shortest centers in the year, but we have to work. I But what Indiana lacks i think i f te go out and doo the depth. Serving as the sixth things (oach (Bobby Knight) Butch Carter. The 6-5 Carter the outstanding play of Tho asks its, then things will tarni man in the conference. ./; out all right.' Also discovering the b -tike Woodson sophomore Landon Turner.l Glen Grunwald, who missedl of 6-8 juniors, Steve Risley an At the Big Ten Baske "All-World" rating, with Indiana and the USSR National team Knight was his usual unhel tying for first. That was before Indiana totally destroyed the bferent. Soviets in an exhibition two weeks ago. It's more than obvious why. Indiana, ranked first by both AP "We have a great team t and UPI preseason polls, has ten lettermen returning from last to work. I think if we go out year's NIT champions. The only loss was 6-9 seventh man Scott things will turn out all right. Ellis; all five starters are back. Even more incredible is that two of the returning starters have "When I first came to c lost spots in the top five. They have been beaten out by two of the Championship, and I have f Big iah Thomas and Steve B nation's top high school nore catalyst Randy Wi last year, scoring seve iana record for minutes at the forward position turning for his senior sF game last year. weak spot, it would b Tolbert. Tolbert has tv h he has averaged 11 po at he stands "only ;'6-9, Big Ten. n height they more than man is senior and thr was relegated to the b mas and has to rate a: ench after starting l And the bench goes on, last year with a knee in nd Phil Isenbarger. tball Conference in C pful self-saying as li no predictions. Woodson his year," said Woodsoi and do the things Coac college, my goal was tc failed three years now Ten NCAA titles 3ouchie. biggest goal this year is to try to reach the tourney and win the guard last year, championship," said Woodson. ttman. Wittman One of the biggest roadblocks to the title for Indiana will be n points a game Ohio State, the team they beat in the semi-finals of the NIT last played. year en route to a 22-12 record. The Hoosiers beat Purdue for the nis All-Big Ten championship game 53-52 on a Carter last-second jumper. eason. Woodson, After playing the The Big Ten: e at the center part of the hero, Carter wo years of star- is looking forward to the B ints a game. His challenge of being the making him one sixth man for the Hoosiers. "There was Battleground an initial disappoin- n make up for in tment," Carter said, but ee year starter no longer. "It shows the coaches' confidence in me. I consider ench because of myself more valuable now; this team needs a sixth man. Some s the best sixth teams have won championships with their sixth men who can do the job. ast year is 6-9 "Mentally I had to develop myself because I came back with with 6-9 senior the intention of wanting to be a starter. The game is different, men- jury, and a pair tally, between sitting on the bench and starting because I have to adjust and analyze what is going on and what I have to do to change hicago Sunday things or continue things as they are," Carter said. ttle as possible Knight said, "My guess is that through our first ten games But- was a little dif- ch will replace everybody on our squad at one time or another. But- ch has got to be able to do a whole lot of things." Carter can do a lot of things, as can the rest of the Hoosiers, and n, "but we have they will this season. h asks us, then This is the seconid in a series of profiles of Miehigan"s ie f,ig Te opponents. whichhare been critten hiY staff irriters Stm Iradhary, Ala o win an NCAA Fanger, and Mark Mihanorie. . I can say my Toorr,: loa SCORES NBA Milwaukee 87, Indiana 79 Philadelphia 120, Washington 102 Atlanta 106, Portland 99 New Jersey 98. Detroit 89 Boston 119, Denver 97 NHL Minnesota 4, New York Rangers 4 Pittsburgh 7, Quebec 2 Toronto 4. Washington 2 MICHIGAN R OWING GROWS Rowers enthused despite troubles By BILLY NEFF Consider this plight: you wake up at six in the morning, every morning, and run down to your practice site, regar- dless of the weather. The weather usually is not conducive to peak per- formances. And sometimes you are without a coach. The equipment you .normally work with cannot be used anywhere but in practice. For races, you borrow someone else's equipment. Some of the equipment you practice with was used in the 1952 Pan American Games. FURTHERMORE, some part of your equipment is snapping all the time. Thus, you spend much of practice men- ding equipment. If that isn't enough to dampen your spirits, a windstorm blew all of your equipment over and smashed it last spring. What in the world makes you con- tinue to persevere under such con- ditions? Michigan rowing club member Alex Johnson, who has endured all the aforementioned horrors, remains stoic about his sport. "The whole reason the people in the club put so much work into it is because they want to row," said Johnson, a former president of the club. THEA THLES SHOP Full line of Adidas Soccer wear in stock. 309 S. STATE ST. FELLOW CLUB member Nancy Arkin, one of 20 women in the club, ad- ded, "I like the people, which isn't the only reason, but it has a lot to do with it. We used to practice at six in the mor- ning. To get up that early, you have to be crazy." But craziness is always somewhat in- volved concerning someone's passion. What happens, though, if his passion doesn't even exist when you enter school? "I saw a lot of problems. I didn't see any rowing program," Johnson obser- ved of Michigan's situation when he fir- st began rowing here in the winter of 1977. "THE FIRST semester I rowed we didn't have an eight (oared boat)," Johnson said, referring to the number of rowers and oars in the boat.. "Whenever we raced, we rowed with people we hadn't rowed with before," he added., Therefore, the club borrowed equip- ment, which it has been doing ever sin- ce, in order to race. Johnson believes the borrowing of equipment affects a boat's performance. "The equipment we borrow usually is not that good, and we're not used to it. It's like running in a strange pair of shoes," Johnson declared. IN PRACTICE, the Michigan rowers suffer with some very shoddy equip- ment, including the boat in the 1952 Pan American Games. Fortunately for the club, though, Al Arbury, a rowing en- thusiast in Detroit, donated a boat last year to the University. "It's the only boat that we have that is raceable, which is one of the problems we have. We don't have any equipment that is raceable," Johnson noted. "A new boat costs $6,000-$8,000. We don't have a boathouse right now. We store stuff in the Coliseum, and it has to go outside in winter. It (a new boat) would ruin in a couple of days," he con- tinued. DESPITE THE windstorm of last spring and present problems, Michigan's rowing club has turned the corner, according to Johnson. Member- ship has grown from 16 to 60 in two years. "We've come a long way. A lot of people come in who have rowed at other schools, and they don't stay because they don't like the,facilities. This year, the people who have rowed before (at other schools) have stayed. We've come to the point where we can put out an experienced boat first day so they stay," Johnson pointed out. Johnson has seen the turnaround fir- sthand. "It's a lot more competitive. Now you have to compete for seats in a boat. When I first came here, we used to beg people to show up so we could race," he continued. "THE FIRST time I came we could not beat Michigan State. Now it's not really worth our time to race them," Johnson concluded. (Michigan's rowers soundly whipped the Spartans this past season.) This metamorphosis is so complete that the rowing club sent 47 members to Boston's Head-of-the-Charles Regatta in October. Despite a perpetual lack of funds, the club scrounged up enough money by selling items such as donuts and coffee to send many members to Boston. A final shred of respectability came when the recreation department upped the club's annual "next to nothing" an- te by a considerable amount, according to Johnson. "THE FACT that you have 60 people spending 20 hours a week meant some money," noted Johnson. "It (the present aid) is okay, but inadequate, since we still don't have any equip- ment." Arkin, meanwhile, worries less about the lack of equipment than about the lack of coaching. The men have two coaches, Don Dossett and Phil Keston (the latter coached at MIT), while the women are without a coach. But she will continue to row since "they don't have a women's soccer club here. I rowed in the summer in Boston. I like it. When you've had two hours of sleep and you have to get up at six in the morning, you wonder," she adds. So do we. Lanier scores 29, but Pistons lose, 98-89 By the Associated Press PISCATAWAY, N.J.-Guard Mike Newlin rebounded from a cold shooting first half to score eight key points in the final quarter last night, leading the New Jersey Nets to a 98-89 victory over the Detrit Pistons in National Basket- ball Association action. The Nets, who led by as many as 17 points in the second half, saw their ad- vantage shrink to five as Detroit's Bob Lanier scored 23 of his game-high 29 points. The Pistons got off to a quick start, scoring 14 of 16 points at one stretch in PASTA NIGHT at 668-8411 the first quarter to take a 16-8 lead. Detroit led 22-17 at the end of one period. But Williamson and Robert Smith led New Jersey to a 39-point second quarter as the Nets hit 16 of 23 shots to take a 56- 39 lead at the half. Rookie Calvin Natt led New Jersey with 24 points. Boston 119, Den ter 97 BOSTON-Rookie Larry Bird scored 29 points and veteran Chris Ford tied a" National Basketball Association record by hitting on five three-point field goals last night as the Boston Celtics exten- ded their unbeaten home record to 10 games with a 119-97 victory over the Denver Nuggets. Bird scored 17 points as the Celtics opened up a 58-50 led'in the first half and Boston pulled away in the third period. The Denver offense sagged with the absence of superstar David Thom- pson, injured in the second quarter. After leading at the half, Boston out- scored Denver 32-21 in turning the game into a rout in the third quarter. Ford scored 15 points in the period as Boston led by as much as 29 points. 2FREE 12 COKES 1 With Purchase of Any 1 Item or More Pizza * (WITH THIS AD) - -7