JOHNSON, KELSER & CO. PACE 80-57 ROMP The Michigan Daily-Sunday, February 18, 1979-Page 9 Smokin' Spartans slaughter Wolverines "" a ~ .~ ~.By DAVE RENBARGER moved all year," said MSU coach Jud In all, Michigan treated the region t,\ 4. N e pspecial toTheDaily Heathcote. "When you move (like TV audience to 32 miscues, and MS al U EAST LANSING-Don't blame NBC for featuring yesterday's Michigan- 'Michigan State game as its Big Ten Game of the Week. The network had no way of knowing that the Spartans were going to turn it into the Big Ten Blowout of the Year. MSU, a team hungry for its second straight conference championship, wasn't about to take any chances in the battle with its intra-state arch-rival. The rejuvenated Spartans dominated the game from the opening minutes, cruising to an incredibly one-sided 80-57 stomping of the Wolverines. THE TRIUMPH kept the onrushing 10-4 Spartans just one game behind Big U Ten co-leaders Iowa and Ohio State with four games left. MSU has now won its last six games after suffering back- to-back losses to Michigan and North- western last month. As for the Wolverines, the loss strengthened their grip on the middle of the pack. Michigan is now 7-7 and tied for fifth place. The eventual outcome was never ,.,really in doubt. The Spartans raced out IDY FREEBERGto a 22-6 lead less than 12 minutes into orched the the ballgame, much to the delight of the ated yester- 10,004 frenzied Jenison Fieldhouse par- tisans. . From there MSU, led by stars Gregory Kelser and Earvin Johnson, ngs continued its systematic destruction of Michigan, taking an insurmountable 38- Overall 16 lead at halftime. Wver. THERE WAS a time not long ago 18W 5 when Mike McGee alone would score 16 16 7 points in a half. But yesterday -the 18 5 Wolverines could do nothing but turn 20 6 the ball over. And, when they 19 7 managed to hold onto it long enough for 13 9 a shot, they would invariably miss it. 15 11 Incredibly enough, the halftime stat 9 14 sheet revealed that Michigan's tur- 8 15 novers outnumbered their field goals 5 18 attempted in the first half-20 to 19. The Wolverines' offense looked like it was stuck in one of the snowdrifts in the v 57 parking lot. Working against the Spar- tans' 2-1-2 zone, Michigan could do nothing but spin its wheels, never get- ting anywhere. "Our zone was moving the best it's that), you knock the ball loose and stop penetration." Michigan coach Johnny Orr was im- pressed with more than just MSU's zone. "I think they were just tremen- dous," said Orr. "I don't think there is anybody in the country who could have beaten them today." THE WOLVERINES set the tone for the entire afternoon by failing to get a shot offon any of their first five possessions. It took the Spartans a few minutes to start clicking, however, and Michigan actually held a 6-5 lead with five minutes gone. But Michigan State turned the one- point deficit into a 16-point edge by reeling off 17 unanswered points in a .7:31 span. The Wolverines missed nine shots in a row and committed almost every type of turnover in the rulebook. During the stretch, MSU's Kelser hit on a jumper to become the all-time Spartan scoring leader. Kelser, who scored 20 points on the day, eclipsed Terry Furlow's old mark of 1777 points. Kelser's teammate Johnson scored 21 points, including 15 in the decisive first half. He added nine assists on the game. Phil Hubbard was the lone Wolverine, to operate effectively against the zone. He hit on seven of ten shots from both inside and out to tally 17 points. THE ENTIRE Wolverine team found the ball hard to handle. McGee led the turnover parade with eight, and Hub- bard, Tom Staton and Keith Smith checked in with five apiece. added 23 of their own. "I would say that the pace, the emotions--those kinds of things-'contributed to the turnovers," said Heathcote. "Bothteams played out of control at times." Maybe so, but the Spartans controlled Michigan enough to walk off with the most lopsided MSU victory in the long series since 1960, when Michigan State won an 89-58 affair. The second half began the same way the first half ended. Guard Terry Don-, nelly hit four straight baskets to give MSU its first of three 30-point leads, 46- 16. With about seven minutes left, Michigan pulled to within 19, a gap that looked about as wide as the Grand Canyon to the jubilant fans. IN THE WINNER'S dressing room, Johnson explained his team's tur- nabout. "Earlier in the year we were. just showing up and figuring our talent would win it for us," he said. "Now we're scrapping and really playing." Across the way a downcast Staton ob- served, "If you let State sit back in their zone, they're going to do the things they do best-rebound, get the ball down- court and score. It was hard to penetrate, but there's no excuse for the turnovers.". And Smith, the freshman who managed only two points in his first visit to Jenison, said he doesn't know if the Spartans will win the Big Ten title, and he doesn't really care. "All I know is that we're not going to win it," he said. Dai ry PhotoDy AN MICHIGAN STATE'S Earvin Johnson made Thad Garner and his Blue teammates see green yesterday as he sc nets for 21 points and dished off nine assists. Johnson, with plenty of help from forward Gregory Kelser, domina day's contest as the Spartans embarrassed Michigan, 80-57, before a regional television audience. ( full court y wPRESS Rivalry readout.. . ..Blue gets punched By BRIAN MARTIN EAST LANSING IF THE MICHIGAN basketball team had been an IBM card, perhaps it's fate would have been better. At least it would not have been bent, folded, spindled and mutilated. After the opening 'tipoff was volleyed around in the air for a while, Michigan State grabbed possession and scored the first four points of the game - Michigan bent. The Wolverines enjoyed their only lead of the game when it was only four and a half minutes old, then spent the next 7:31 watching the Spartans add points to their side of the scoreboard while Michigan's lights remained dormant to fall behind 22-6 - Michigan folded. MSU guard Terry Donnelly broke out after halftime intermission to score the first eight points of the second stanza, ballooning the Spartans' lead to its widest margin, 46-16 -'Michigan spindled. Final score: Spartans 80, Wolverines 57 - Michigan mutilated. Never in the game The "game" was a complete wipeout. Even when Michigan had its short-lived lead while the game was in its embryonic stages, you could tell that it just wasn't going to be a red letter day for Johnny Orr's squad. The only reason that Michigan had a lead at all was due to the fact that MSU didn't grab a single rebound until the game was 5:13 old. That came when Earvi Johnson grabbed a badly-missed Tom Staton jump shot and fed Donnelly on a fast break layup for a 9-6 lead. It was the beginning of the Spartan feast and the Wolverine famine.. All five starters scored for State during that stretch of 17 unanswered points, with Johnson dishing out four assists. It was also during this Wolverine burial that Gregory Kelser became the all-time leading scorer for Michigan State when he tallied his 1,779th career point, passing Terry Furlow in the record books. Many things differed from the first meeting between these two teams last month. The first and foremost is the improved level of performance displayed by MSU. Its zone defense has never enveloped an opponent to such a devastating degree as it did yesterday afternoon by holding Michigan to a meager 16-point output in the first half. Of course, any defense looks effective when th'e opponent helps out by turning the ball over a total of 32 times. In fact, Michigan had more tur- novers (20) in the first half than it had shots from the field (19). None of the Wolverines were capable of holding onto the ball. In the opening stanza, Phil Hubbard lost it five times, Mike McGee four, Keith Smith and Staton three, and Hardy only one. Turnover cty' "Back home, we matched each other mistake for mistake," bemoaned assistant coach Bill Frieder, "but this time we made all the mistakes and they cashed in." In Michigan's earlier win at Crisler, each team had 14 tur- novers, a total that was doubled yesterday. The guards are responsible for getting the offense going and bringing the ball safely downcourt, but Michigan's backcourt men bear the responsibility of 15 turnovers. They came in a varied assortment of traveling violations, carrying the ball, bad passes and charging fouls. Smith even bobbled the ball when the manager bounced it to him to start the second half warmups McGee led both teams in miscues with eight, followed by (no, this is not a mistake) Magic Johnson. Can you believe it, the wizard of ballhandling assessed with seven turnovers? But at least when Earvin throws the ball away, he does it with authority. One of his bad passes whizzed by Donnelly's head and ripped the TVS SPORTS banner off the scorer's table. As usual, the crowd of crazies in Jenison Field House went berserk at each and every opportunity, as contrasted to Crisler's placid patrons. The first standing ovation came one and a half minutes before the game even started when MSU left the floor after opening warmups. r However, the crowd had little effect on the players on the floor, although one of the referees had to blow his whistle for 20seconds before anyone could hear it. e I'm used to the crowd here," Hardy said, who has heard the catcalls in Jenison four times. "I got used to that in high school." Staton agreed with his courtmate, again pointing to Michigan State's play as the main factor. "If you let State sit back in their zone, they're going to do the things that they do best - rebound, get the ball downcourt and score."~ The Spartans were able to do the things that they do best all day to em- barrass the Wolverines in front of a regional television audience. One of the banners that hung in Jonison yesterday read, "MSU is still Number 1, we play the Wolves just for fun." Michigan State had all the fun in East Lansing. ALL YOU CAN SAT! Big 10 Standi Conference Iowa ....... Ohio State .... Mich. State ... Purdue ....... Illinois ....... MICHIGAN.. Indiana ...... Minnesota .... Wisconsin .... Northwestern W L 11 3 11 3 10 4 10 4 7 7 7 7 7 7 4 10 2 12 1 13 That Old Green Magic MICHIGAN STATE Kelser........ Brkovich . Vincent ... Donnelly . Johnson ...... Charles ....... Gonzalez ...... Longaker ... Lloyd....... Kaye .......... Huffman .... Team ........ Totals ......... Min. FG/A FT/A 35 9/18 2/2 33 2/2 4/4 26 3/6 1/2 21 5/6 2/2 37 7/16 7/8 27 3/3 2/2 9 1/1 0/0 3 01/ 0/0 3 0/10 0/0 3 1/2 0/0 3 0/1 0/0 R 8 0 6 0 7 2 0 0 0 0 A d 3 2 3 9 1 U d 1 0 0 PF TP 0 1 20 McGee ....... 3 0 8 Hardy ........ 2 5 7 Hubbard.. 1 2 12 Staton........ 9 1 21 Smith....... 1 3 8 Bodnar, Marty ) 0 2 Heuerman..... 0 0 0 Johnson, J.. 1 0. 0 Garner . ) 0 2 Lozier....... ) 0 0 Bodnar, Mark . Garris......... 19 12 80 Team....... 16 Totals........ MICHIGAN Min. FG/A FT/A R 29 5/10 1/1 7 .27 5/11 0/0 3 38 7/10 3/4 6 27 2/8 2/3 4 19 1/2 0/0 0 21 0/3 1/2 0 7 ' 0/0 0/0 1 12 2/3 0/0 2 13 2/2 0/0 0 3 0/0 0/0 0 2 1/2 0/0 0 2 0/0 0/0 0 3 25/51 7/10 26 A PF 21 0 2 1 4 S1 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 1 1 3 1 21 0 0 0 0 9 19 TP ii 17 6 2 "1 0 4^ 0 0 57 Yesterday's Results Michigan State 80, MICHIGAN Indiana 68, Wisconsin 62 (OT) Iowa 67, Illinois 53 Purdue 80, Minnesota 56 Ohio State 88, Northwestern 73 4 31/56 18/20 27 Halftime: Michigan State 38, MICHIGAN Att.-10,004 BIG TEN ROUNDUP: Hawks roll By The Associated Press 62 overtimev CHAMPAIGN - Iowa scored the yesterday. game's first 10 points, with Dick Peth Steve Risley nailing .eight of them, and Ronnie Hoosiers, 7-7 in Lester finished with 19 yesterday to the season. Wis lead the 14th-ranked Hawkeyes to a 67- conference and 53 victory over Illinois. successive def The victory gave the Hawkeyes an 11- Indiana scor 3 conference record and enabled them the extra peric to retain a share of first place with Ohio Wittman and tm State, which defeated Northwestern, 88- Woodson and B 73. Gregory ledI Kevin Boyle opened the scoring for and Wes Matth the Hawkeyes and Peth than added Purdue eight quick points, including six on a pair of three-point plays. Illinois never LAFAYETTE caught up. scored 29 poin The Illini finally scored on a basket ranked Purdue by Levi Cobb with four minutes gone, points midway but the Hawkeyes maintained their ad- and 12 straig] vantage and held a commanding 37-24 smashed Minne lead at halftime. game out of fir Iowa boosted its overall record to 18- basketball race 5, while Illinois slipped to 7-7 in the Big Purdue, now Ten and 19-7 overall. and 20-6 over OS 8 'esenState Thursday 073 Drake Morri EVANSTON - Kelvin Ransey pum- and Arnette Ha ped in 25 points and scored six straight due. Minneso in the second half to put Ohio State McHale with ahead to stay yesterday as the- Jackson with 11 Buckeyes defeated Northwestern 88-73 The Gophersf to retain at least a share of first place in and 9-14 overall the Big Ten basketball race. Memphis Ransey had 14 points in the first half and then hit his six in a row to wipe out M senior forwar a 54-51 Northwestern lead as the 17th- eirfwrd ranked Buckeyes rolled to records of 11- and seven reb 3 in the conference and 16-7 overall. ranked Louisv Jerry Marifke kept the Wildcats in minutes yestei the running in the first half when he Conference-lew scored 16 of his total 19 points. But he The loss was1 couldn't keep Northwestern from suf- fering its'13th loss in 14 Big Ten games. The Wildcats are 5-18 overall. EasyQ Herb Williams had 19' points for Ohio State and Carter and Mike Cline had 12 it tod each. Mike Campbell had 14 for North- western and Rob Roberson 13. Ia Ind. 68, wisc. 62 MADISON - Mike Woodson, benched' early in the second half because of foul trouble, returned and scored six of hisO 20 points in the waning minutes of regulation time to spark Indiana to a 68- victory over Wisconsin Louisvile against lea The Cardinals, who'h added 11 points for the conference title, are 8 nthe Big Ten and 13-11 on and 22-5 overall. sconsin fell to 2-12 in the Senior forward Larr d 8-15 overall with its 10th Illini 6 7-53 ague opponents. ave clinched the 8-1 in the league ry Williams, with 15 points, led the Cardinals in scoring. Freshman Derrek Sniiith had 11 points. Darrell Griffith, who was averaging 19.5 pOints a game, was held to only 9 points. i eat. ed the first six points of od on a basket by Randy vo free throws apiece by utch Carter. Wisconsin with 20 points ews added 13. 80, Minn. 56 E - Joe Barry Carroll nts yesterday as 13th- , running off 14 straight through the first half It in the final period, esota 80-56 to remain one rst place in the Big Ten e. 10-4 in the conference all, plays at Michigan ._ s finished with 14 points allman added 12 for Pur- ta was led by Kevin 14 points and Trent 1. fell to 4-10 in the Big Ten 1. St. 60, L 'yule 53 -Memphis State, led by d Rodney Lee's 15 points bounds, outscored ninth- vile 8-0 in the final 31/2 rday and upset the Metro iding Cardinals 60-53. the first of the season for does yPOOL NION )pen 1 am AT YOUR S... 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