The Mkhinan
McGE E PACES 61-53 WIN
Cagers tomahawk
BY GEOFF LARCOM
Special to The Daily
IOWA CITY - Relegated to a
spoiler's role, in the dwindling Big Ten
season, tle Michigan basketball team
played its role to the hilt last night,
grabbing a pulsating 61-53 upset over
Iowa in the jammed-packed bedlam of
Iowa Fieldhouse.
The loss was a heartbreaker for the
Hawkeyes, dropping them into a second
place tie at 12-5 with just one game to go
in the Big Ten season. For the 8-9
Wolverines, it was a massive confiden-
ce builder, sweetly avenging the early
loss to the Hawkeyes in Crisler Arena.
The victory obviously pleased
Michigan Coach Johnny Orr. "This win,
tonight insures us of a winning season.
I'm just disappointed in myself and our
team. I wish we could have done better
this season," said Orr. "We had great
poise tonight and we didn't lose it when
they caught up with us."
Big 10 Standings
Up by two with just a minute to go,
the Wolverines took command, scoring
eight points while holding the
Hawkeyes to just one basket in the
closing seconds.
After a Tom Norman jumper lifted
the Hawkeyes to within two points, 53-
51, at the one-minute mark, Keith Smith
missed a one-and-one attempt from the
free throw line. Blue center Phil Hub-
bard went up for the rebound with
Hawkeye forward Kevin Boyle, and
Hubbard came down with the ball.
Hubbard then went right back up with
it and was fouled by William Mayfield,
who drew a goaltending call as well to
give the Wolverines a four-point lead.
Norman hit again, this time on a
short drive, to close the gap back to
two.
Following an Iowa timeout, Marty
Bodnar inbounded the ball to Mark
Lozier, who winged it cross-court to
Smith. The freshman guard spotted
Mike McGee all alone down court and
fed the Omaha speedster for an easy
basket, putting Michigan four up with
25 seconds to go.
The Hawkeyes tried to regain
possession, fouling both Hubbard and
McGee, but the two each sank both ends
of the free throws to close out the
scoring.
From the opening tipoff, it looked as
if the Wolverines would make it a
runaway, as they buzzbombed to a 22-6
lead in the game's first 11 minutes, as
McGee tallied 10 points.
The key to the contest lay in the
Wolverines' suffocation of Ronnie
Lester, the Hawkeyes' All-American
guard. Lester managed only 10 points
against the Wolverines' 2-3 zone, and
was kept from doing his usual inside
damage.
"A lot of credit should be given to
Michigan for being able to do the one
thing that really hurt us," said Iowa
coach Lute Olson. "If anybody can stop
Ronnie from penetrating and setting up
the offense, then we are in trouble."
Orr agreed that Bodnar's and Mark
Lozier's role in stopping Lester was the
key. "We were thinking that we had to
stop Lester from going inside. We were
hoping the rest of them would not beat
us'
McGee and Hubbard led the upset
happy Wolverines as McGee pumped in
a garde high 21 points, while Hubbard,
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Iowa
scored 16 and grabbed 15 rebounds,
seven more than anyone else on the
floor.
The Hawkeyes were led by the out-
side gunning of reserve guard Norman
who scored 15 in keeping the Hawkeyes
within second half striking range.
Mayfield and guard Dick Peth added
eight points each to the Hawkeye cause.
After leading 27-21 at the half, the
Wolverines then let the Hawkeyes out of
the bag as Iowa stormed back finally
knotting the score 43-43 at 7:35 of the
second half on a Norman jumper from
the corner.
Yet the Hawkeyes could not take the
lead, trading baskets with the
Wolverines to make the score 51-49 with
four minutes to play. Iowa then hit _a
cold streak and with 2:30 lelft, Lester
fell to the floor, losing the ball out-of-
bounds in his own end. The result was a
Michigan basket as Lozier tallied from
the top of the key to make it 53-49.
Ar Phioto
MSU on top
Greg Kelser of Michigan State pulls down a rebound against Minnesota in last
,pight's contest. The Spartans won the game, 76-63, to move into sole possession
!of first place in the Big Ten.
qyfull court
*PRESS
Hubbard return subpar...
Season disappointing
By DAVE RENBARGER
IOWA CITY
HIS IS UNREAL. It can't really be happening. The more I think about{
this Big Ten basketball season, the more impossible it seems to me.
According to the schedule, this is Michigan's last basketball road trip of
the season. But, according to my own master plan developed last October,
this wasn't supposed to be my last basketball road trip of the year. I was
planning on joining the team on the NCAA tournament trail this month,
perhaps all the way to the finals in Salt Lake City.
According to the master plan, I figured this trip would be like an NCAA
tune-up, or maybe Michigan would clinch the Big Ten championship here in
Iowa City. That would be great, I thought, to cover a clinching game like
that. The players would all be happy, the coaches would all be happy, and I'd
get to write a happy column.
But now that job is up to some basketball writer on the Daily Iowan,
whoever he or she is.
This is my second year covering the Wolverines, and it was supposed to
be the year that last year wasn't. Tommy Staton told me that on the first day
of practice last October and I believed him. I fell into the same trap that
Michigan players, coaches and fans fell into. Everyone, including the
national pollsters figured that the Wolverines had to be better than they were
last year because they had a guy by the name of Phil Hubbard back on the
team.
McGeemjinxed
But what we all forgot was that Hub just might not turn out to be his
old self again. And we forgot about the job that a guy by the name of Joel
Thompson did in Hubbard's place last year. And we naturally assumed that
freshman sensation Mike McGee would continue to terrorize the conference
like he did as a rookie.
And so when Hubbard turned out to be nothing more than a shadow of his
former self, and McGee contracted the worst case of the sophomore jinx on
record, Michigan ends up in worse shape than they were last year.
For the record the Wolverines were 16-11 overall last year and 11-7 as
fourth place Big Ten finishers. Now the team is flirting with the .500 mark,
buried beneath five other teams in the standings. That's definitely unreal.
The teams of the past two years present as interesting study of contrast.
Last year all title aspirations went down with Hubbard on the very first day
of practice. When the Wolverines won a game it was like a bonus, and they
gutted their way to a respectable season.
Elevated hopes sink
This year, however, the expectations were sky high from day one, and
have been steadily declining ever since. Things hit rock bottom last week
when Michigan lost to a pathetic Wisconsin team at home. More unreality.
But even though all the preseason hoopla revolved around Hubbard and
McGee, it is wrong to lay all the blame on those two. An untimely injury to
Staton didn't help the Wolverines chances too much, and neither did Keith
Smith's grade point average last term.
And the Wolverines inability to rebound with the rest of the conference
was a team wide -malady. Michigan is currently dead last in rebounding in
the Big Ten, and accordingly have been unable to run its fast break offense
'effectively.
And so the Michigan players can go home for spring break again this
year. Or to Florida if they're lucky. Sixty-four teams will play in post-season
tournaments, but Michigan won't be one of them. And countless hundreds of
writers will be covering those tournament games, but I won't be one of them.
Those are the breaks, I guess.
Conference
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Ohio St.... .......
Purdue .............
Indiana ............
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Wisconsin........
Northwestern......
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Min. FG/A FT/A
Saturday's games
Indiana at Illinois
Michigan at Minnesota
Michigan st. at Wisconsin
Northwestern at Iowa
Ohio St. at Purdue
0 Mayfield....... 40 4/12 0/0
Boyle ......... 26 2/8 0/0
6 Waite ......... 33 3/7 0/0
5 Peth .......... 35 4/12 0/0
O Lester.........38 5/10 /0
Norman ....... 24 7/14 1/2
Brookins....... 4 1/1 0/0
Team .........
Totals..........26/64 1/2 30
' Halftime: Michigan 27, Iowa 21
Att: 13,365
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6 1 2 4 Heuerman.....
7 0 4 6 Hubbard ......
4 4 3 8 Bodnar, Marty
0 9 2 10 Lozier........
2 1 3 15 Hardy........
1 .0 0 2 Smith........
2 Staton........
15 16 53 Johnson .......
Garner ........
Team ........
Totals .........
MICHIGAN
Min. FG/A FT/A R
35 9/14 3/4 5
31 1/3 0/0 2
39 7/15 2/3 15
39 7/12 0/0 3
32 3/3 0/0 2
7 0/0 0/0 0
12 1/1 0/1 1
1 0/0 0/0 0
4 0/1 0/0 0
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MINNEAPOLIS - Jay Vincent
scored 25 points and Gregory Kelser
added 23 last night to lead No. 4-ranked
Michigan State to a 76-63 triumph over
Minnesota.
The victory moved Michigan State in-
to sole possession of first place in the
conference.
ALL-AMERICAN guard Earvin
Johnson contributed 21 for the Spar-
tans, who raised their record to 13-4 in
conference play, a game ahead of both
Iowa and Ohio State, both of whom lost
Thursday night.
Michigan State, 21-5 overall, led 37-28
at halftime and never let Minnesota get
closer than five points in the second
half.
Kevin McHale led the Gophers, 5-12 in
conference and 10-16 overall, with 13
points, while Leo Rautins And Trent
Tucker each had 12.
Purdue 55, Indiana 48
WEST LAFAYETTE - Joe Barry
Carroll fired in 21 points and Brian
Walher hit three clutch free throws as
Purdue fought off rallying Indiana, 55-
48, last night.
THE VICTORY lifted Purdue's
record to 22-7 overall and 12-5 in the Big
Ten, one game out of the league lead
going into Saturday's windup at home
against Ohio State. Indiana fell to 17-12
overall, 9-8 in the conference.
The Boilermakers, who are almost
certain of a bid to the National In-
vitation Tournament if they fail to
make the NCAA playoffs, jumped to a
13-point lead in the second half only/to
watch Indiana whittle it away with
Purdue in a jittery four-corner offense.
N'western 71, Illinois 64
CHAMPAIGN - Bob Klass' game-
high 24 and Jerry Marifke's 15 points
led Northwestern to a 71-64 upset over
Illinois last night.
THE WIN for the Wildcats, now 2-15
in the conference and 6-20 overall,
probably ruined any chances of Illinois
being asked to the NIT tournament.
Illinois dropped to 19-10 overall'and 7-
10 in the conference with its tourth
straight conference loss.
Behind Klaas' 16 first-half points and
10-of-12 free-throw shooting, North-
western built a 37-32 lead at inter-
mission. Illinois stayed close
throughout the second half until a pair
of missed free throws by Derek
Holcomb with 6:07 left allowed the
Wildcats to build a six-point margin.
Wisconsin 76, Ohio St. 73,
MADISON, Wis. - Claude Gregory
scored 23 points and Wes Matthews ad-
ded 21, leading Wisconsin to a 76-73 vic-
tory over Ohio State last night to knock
the Buckeyes out of a share of the Big
Ten basketball laed.
The Badgers jumped to an 8-0 lead,
holding Ohio State without a shot for the
first three minutes and 12 seconds. The
closest the Buckeyes came the rest of
the way was the final three tloint
margin as Wisconsin, 5-12 in the Big
Ten and 11-15 overall, won its third
game in a row.
Women cagers lose
Special to The Daily
ROCHESTER-Michigan state's
women cagers held off a furious second-
half Michigan rally to eliminate the
Wolverines, 73-66, in the first round of
the SMAIAW basketball at Oakland
University yesterday.
The loss all but put to rest any hopes
the Blue cagers had of entering post-
season tournament play.
COACH GLORIA SOLUK'S squad,
down 40-28 at halftime to the defending
champion Spartans, came out with a
full-court press in the second stanza
and shutdown the MSU offense. The
Wolverines began to pour in the
buckets, and Diane Dietz hit a shot with
10:15 remaining to put the Wolverines
in front, 49-48.
That lead expanded to 58-51 before
MSU strung together 12 straight points
to climb back into a 63-58 advantage.
Michigan refused to give in, however,
as Dietz and Terry Schevers each can-
ned shots to pull the Wolverines within
one point, 63-62, with 2:43 left. With 1:15
left on the clock, Brenda Van Huizen
sank a pair of free throws, giving the
Blue cagers a 66-65 lead.
But that was as far as the feisty Spar-
tans would permit them to go. Itnyre hit
on yet another shot to put MSU on top,
and on the return trip Schevers was
nailed with a charging foul. State
capitalized on the turnover with an in-
surance bucket, leaving the Wolverines
with too big a gap and too little time in
which to catch up.
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Psalms 2:1 and Acts 4:25
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
MICHIGAN 61, Iowa 53
Wisconsin 76, Ohio St. 73
Purdue 55, Indiana 48
Michigan St. 76, Minnesota 63
Northwestern 71, Illinois 64
Duke 58, Wake Forest 56
N.C. State 82, Virginia 78
Indiana St. 79, S. Illinois 72
Kentucky 101, Alabama 100
Rutgers 55, West Virginia 52
St. John's 86, Wagner 82
Maryland 75, Clemson 67
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"TO TEACH A CHILD TO LOVE THE TRUTH, AND HATE
A LIE: TO LOVE PURITY, AND HATE VICE, IS GREATER
THAN INVENTING A FLYING MACHINE THAT WILL TAKE
YOU TO THE MOON BEFORE BREAKFAST. UN-
CONSCIOUSLY YOU SET IN MOTION INFLUENCES THAT
WILL DAMN OR BLESS THIS OLD UNIVERSE AND BRING
NEW WORLDS OUT OF CHAOS AND TRANSFORM THEM
FOR GOD."-The late William A. (Billy) Sunday. There is
some chaos in our world that we need deliverance from--is it
not so?
"TELL THE TRUTH, BOYS, IF YOU KNEW IT WOULD
CAUSE THE SUN TO FALL OUT OF THE HEAVENS ON
YOU! These words were spoken by a school teacher to his
class many years ago. Don't remember anything much about
the man except how he looked, and this quotation, and if it
had not been for these forcible words his memory would
However, time and again The Colonel told us if he caught a
boy in a deliberate lie he was done with him, did not want him
on the hill and in the barracks; he would be immediately ex-
pelled and sent home! One student he had was more or less
frightened all the time he was there for fear of getting caught
in a tight place and momentarily thinking "a lie a very present
help in time of trouble," call on the lie to help him, tell it, and
get sent home in disgrace! We have the idea that today a lie is
not genmily considered so disgraceful by old, middle age,
or young folks, unless it does not immediately "pay off."
School boys and girls, college boys and girls, do you ever
hear anything like the above these days: in your home, Sun-
day School, from the pulpit, or in day school? Parents,
preachers, teachers, have you neglected sowing such seeds
continually in the minds and hearts of those committed to
your care, or perhaps do you feel it "an exercise in futiltiv?"
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