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, oaily-Friday, March 2, 1979-Page 11 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 Michigan St...... Iowa ............ Ohio St.... ....... Purdue ............. Indiana ............ Michigan ......... Illinois ............. Minnesota....... Wisconsin........ Northwestern...... w 13 12 12 12 9 8 7 5 5 2 1 4 5 5 5 8 9 10 12 12 15 w 21 19 17 18 17 1 14 1 19 1 10 1 11 1 6 2 I 5 7 9 8 2 1: Hawke yesHung t- IOWA 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 0 0 0 a 0 2 D R A PF Pts. 8 0 2 8 McGee ........ 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 2 0/0 0/0 2, 3 28/49 5/8 33 A 1 2 4 0 6 0 2 0 0 0 PF 4 3 3 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 Pts. 21 2 16 14 6 0 2 0 0 0 61 15 14 SPORTS OF THE DAILY Spartans sit alone atop Big Ten TRAVEL SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL Vocational Training for Travel Careers *TRAVEL AGENT -AIRLINE AGENT *CRUISE LINE REPRESENTATIVE *TOUR OPERATORS - A 12 Week Course - Taught in EUROPE for travel jobs in the U.S.A. THE CLASSES SPEND 3 WEEKS IN EACH OF FOUR CITIES: Stratford-upon-A von, Gothenburg Heidelberg, Florence, YOUR TRAVEL TRAINING WILL QUALIFY YOU FOR EMPLOYMENT ANYWHERE IN THE U.S.A. SST Travel Schools International 18601 Pac. Hy. So. Seattle, WA 98188 Call toll free for brochure (800) 426-5200 By The Associated Press 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. -DAILY SPORTS ... / t'rr .F. 7 .. .y ,. FRIDAY SPECIAL .1,. S4 OTDOGS 2 - 5 p" m . TUESDAY Half price on Beer 7-11 p.m. aF 21." 6 IHc Ir WEDNESDAY 7-10 p.m. Half price on J{A Beer and Liquor 310 Maynard Nt OURS: 1 pm-2 am, Fri. 11:30 am-2 am, Sat. 11 rm-2 am SCORES "WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" 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 I . ... .. . . . Texas Tech 63, Texas A&M 62 (OT) NBA Atlanta 104, Golden State 86 Used Cross-County Ski Sale "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?" i i i I