Tuesday, February 15, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven G T' I * cagers By GEORGE HASTINGS l lance of that form that made him After half the Big Ten schedule such a devastating rebounder last had passed, there iwere still quite year, and whether Michigan as a A few doubts among sports fpllow- team was ever going to find its ers about, the Michigan baskeetball shooting touch. team, even though it was only a The answers came Saturday at half game out of the conference Crisler Arena where the Wolver- lead. ines ran Illinois off the court, 105- The most discussed topics in- 83. Wilmore had an incredible cluded whether Henry Wilmore game at guard, Brady dominated was ever going to play a good game the backboards, and the whole at guard, whether Ken Brady was team shot the eye out of the bas- ever going to return to a semb- ket. busted fan fire in Wilmore came up with his best Big Ten effort of the year, pump- ing in 31 points while playingy he played a real guard rather than an out - of - place forward, play- s making and controlling the of- fense. He and fellow guard Wayne Grabiec put on a passing display NIGHT EDITOR: as the Wolverines moved the ball' as well as they have all year. FRANK LONGO Brady's strong performance came at an especially crucial time for verines have a team which will at Michigan, the week after it had least make a run at the Big Ten been completely dominated on the crown. To Orr, it was unquestion- inside in a loss to Purdue. But the ably his team's finest hour. "We Big Fella came up with his peak looked capable of beating any- performance of the year, pulling one," he. crowed, "I'll tell you, we down 17 rebounds, to lead the Wol- could win it." verines in a big 55-42 rebound edge However, the Wolverines' two over the Ilini. biggest rivals also had fine per- The 6-9 center also got help formances on Saturday, as Ohio from John Lockard, who contrib- State barely nosed out Purdue in uted 13 boards as well as scoring a thriller 64-62, and Minnesota 22 from the inside. When Brady's blew Northwestern out of the gym; 14 points and Ernie Johnson's 11 784-55.- are added in, the game represented The Ohio State-Purdue match a sterling effort by the Michigan could have gone the other way. leagu( shot and cost them the game. "It was the first time I ever forgot my chalk," he muttered. Actually, it was the outside shooting of Ohio State which was more decisive than the lack of chalk. In the face of a tenacious 3-2 zone defense which prevented the ball from getting inside too often, the Buckeyes clamly sat outside and took long shots, mak- ing enough of them to stay with the Boilermakers until the final action. Alan Hornyak did the main long range damage, scoring 18, but Dan Gerhard and Mark Minor also added 10 apiece Meanwhile, Minnesota stayed tied with Ohio State at 7-2 (Mich- igan is third at 6-2) by coming up Dear John? Hey sports fans! Are you sick and tired of what you read in the Daily sports pages? Do you have any wild ideas? Do you want to see your name in print? Do you like to write obscene letters?.......... Well, write it down and send it to Ffats Strops, c/o Sports Editor, 420 Maynard, in the city of trees. Read FFATS ST R O P S MAILBAG, beginning n e x t week on the sports page. race) FACE BROWNS: Suspensions. ... what a waste al shackelford L LMOST A MONTH ago Michigan coach Johnny Orr kicked sophomore guards Terry Tyler and John Bridges off the basketbafl team. He later confided to a group of sportswriters that, had rnam Brady and Mike Weaver been academically elig- ible, they would have been included in the purge. The suspensions surprised the rest of the team, who hadn't been included in Orr's lofty decision-making process, but have now become a pretty dead issue in light of Michigan's im- proving play. Whether the Wolverines need the four banned sophomores on the court or not, it is still the plain truth that they've gotten a raw deal in a number of ways. First of all, all four have at various times during the year acquired the "bum" tag, something that happens to a lot of black athletes who get into academic or social diffi- eulty (social difficulty can be loosely defined as speaking out). Orr subconsciously maligned Tyler following the North- western game when he mentioned to writers that Terry had, as a freshman, been suspended for a couple games by frosh coch Dick Honig: The implication of this comment is that Tyler is suffering from long-term attitudinal problems and Orr isn't the only one who's had trouble handling him. Ditto with Brady, Bridges and Weaver: I've had the feeling ever since basketball practice opened last fall that these four sophomores have been lumped together as the team's prob- lem children. Often one or two of the four were absent from prctice, and Michigan's coaching staff (Orr and assistant coach Fred Snowden) offered various explanations. One was in the infirmary, another had a sick' father, another was having grade trouble . . . an infinitum. Orr once offered that sophomores often have problems, thus bolstering the "sopho- more slump" theory which has floated around college campuses for years. But the bad publicity which has hovered over the four sophs is more a matter of what hasn't been said. Many people look at the absence of one or all of the sophs from action and. infer -that Orr has been beset with troublemakers. But the banned sophomores have legitimate grievances, mostly centering around Orr's unwillingness to use' them when Michigan was in the throes of a barely .500 season, and some experimentation seemed called for. They won- dered aloud why they weren't getting a chance on the floor and their questions weren't adequately answered by the goschft staff. Whether the sophs should have been playing or not is not particularly relevant, since it is a question which calls for a purely subjective opinion. But it does seem reasonable that players like Tyler and Brady, who were recruited after highly- successful schoolboy careers, get a chance to show their stuff and even, in Tyler's case, to start. Especially back in 1971 when the Michigan backcourt was about as productive as a spayed hound-dog. Unhappy with the lack of playing time, one of the sopho- mores would occasionally show up late for practice, or cut it en- tirely, or maybe play healf-heartedly when he did come. A cotple of the suspended sophs even recall that the coaches were concerned with their failure to smile in practice. Orr explains why it was necessary for him to suspend the sophomores as follows: "Our team was getting in the same attitude problem as those guys Were. That kind' of attitude is infectious. We waited as long as we could wait." Orr has commented many times that the decision was an agonizing one, and considering what a nice guy Johnny Orr is, I'm sure this is true. The manner in which Orr booted off the sophs is up for question. One of them maintains that he wouldn't be so riled up over his suspension if Orr had told him, "Either improve your attitude or I'll kick you off the team." At least Orr should have talked the matter over with the rest of the team; if this had been done, perhaps the sus- pensions could have been avoided. Who knows if any of the four sophs will play at Michigan again? Brady r and Weaver are now academically ineligible. Tyler and Bridges are trying to work something out with Orr, and may be back in Wolverine uniform any day now. Regard- less of who returns, the suspensions were handled with a very W heavy hand, and some good basketball players have every right to be unhappy about it. with an excellent effort against Northwestern, in their finest of- fensive showing of the year in the Big Ten. The Gophers, who have relied mainly on defense in their title bid, got 25 points from Clyde Turner to lead the rout. In other action, two teams which started out poorly in the confer- ence climbed towards respecta- bilitywith winsdSaturday. Michi- gan State evened its record at 4-4 by downing Iowa 100-91, while In- diana 'won its third straight after four losses by stopping Wisconsin in overtime, 84-76. The Spartans at one point blew a 21 - point lead, allowing the Hawkeyes to rip off 16 straight points in the process, but came back on the strength of Mike Rob- inson's 38 points to take the win. Michigan State was aided when Iowa's two top scorers, Rick Wil- liams and Kevin Kunnert, both fouled out in the final minute. The script for the Indiana win was similar as the Hoosiers also squandered a big lead, this one of 13 points, and were forced into overtime before they finally tri- umphed by hitting on eight of ten foul shots in the extra period. In- diana's big front line of John Rit- ter, Steve Downing, and Joby Wright was the difference, scoring 17, 16, and 13 points, respectively. front line. Shooting-wise, it was also Mich- igan's best day of the Big Ten season. The Wolverines shot at a sizzling 61 per cent clip in the first half, then went on to shoot 55 per cent for the game. Leading the way here was Wilmore, who made 14 of 23. For Johnny Orr, Michigan's be-' leagered coach, the game was a welcome tonic, as it finally con- vinced .everybody that the Wol- t :Sg". .. ;.jtorf"w }"..rr.; r+1r ";" "r,. . but for a pair of rebounds in the final minute which went to Luke Witte of the Buckeyes instead of Purdue's Bill Franklin. 'With 57 seconds to go, OSU's Mark Minor missed a .foul shot with the score tied at 62-62, but the 7 - foot Witte outjumped Franklin for the rebound and put the ball back in to give the Bucks a two-point margin. Then, with less than ten sec- onds to go, Purdue's Frank Kend- rick missed a jumpshot, and. Franklin fouled Witte in an at- tempt to take the rebound away from him, thus sealing the Boiler- tmakers' fate. 9 Purdue's coach George King ad- mitted that "Witte's rebounding at the end killed us," but he blam- ed the loss on a missing piece of chalk. King said that the absence of a piece of chalk with which to diagram a play for Purdue's final. shot resulted in a poor-percentage Stadium hosts Lions again Professional football returns to chance to see two NFL teams in the 101,000- seat University of person," added Thomas. "It drew, Michigan Stadium at Ann Arbor from all over the state, especially on Sunday afternoon, August 20. from the w e s t e r n areas. The That is when the Detroit Lions Browns have many followers in meet the Cleveland Browns, de- southern Michigan and northern fending champions of the Central Olio. This ganme will provide those Division in the American Football fans an opportunity to see them Conference,. who will be making play the Lions in a renewal of a their first appearance in Michigan long rivalry." since 1967 and their only one in 1972. Announcement was made today by Don Canham, U-M athletic di- rector, and Russ Thomas, Lion general manager, following agree- ment of contract terms with Pres- ident Art Modell of the Browns. "The initial NFL game played at Ann Arbor last year was a fan- tastic success from all angles," said Canham. "We feel the game this year will be another great one." The Lions defeated the Balti- more Colts, 23-20, last August in the first pro football game ever played at U-M, with a touchdown in the final 18 seconds before 91,-. 745 fans in an upset of the de- fending Super Bowl champions. "The game last year gave thou- sands of out-state fans their first I SC ORES COLLEGE SCORES Marquette 90, Butler 76 Virginia Tech 76, Tulane 55 Notre Dame 92, Bowling Green 65 Vanderbilt 90, Florida 74 Kentucky 63, Miss St. 55 Navy 70, Georgetown 66 Oral Roberts 103, Trinity 82 NBA SCORE Houston 130, Philadelphia 116 #Professional League Standings Cleveland, led by their great running back Leroy Kelly, fash ioned a 9-5 record last season to win their divisional title for the third time in four years before losing to Baltimore in the chami. pionship playoffs. Detroit wound up with a 7-6-1 second place fin- ish in the NFC Central Division. M handball takes second Steve Smith swept past defend-. ing intercollegiate ,national .handA ball champion Wes Yee 21-17 end 21-16 to capture first in the Mid- west Intercollegiate Divisional class A singles and lead Michigan to a second place finish behind. Lake Forest College (Ill.). The Foresters, defending na- tional champs in ,intercollegiate play, grabbed 16 points to take the team trophy. Michigan fol- lowed with 10, nine of them on, Smith's strong performance. Da- vid Lieberman added a point in class B singles, while the doubles team of Jim Best and Joe Walsh clicked for the consolation trophy after falling in their first round match in regular play. "i .ti Big T Ohio State Minnesota MICHIGAN Mich. State Purdue Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Northwestern en Standings . Conference'All-Games W L Pct 7 2 .718 7 2 .778 6 2 .750 4 4 .500 3 3 .500 3 4 .429 2 4 .333 2 4 .333 2 6 .250 2 7 .222 w 14 13 11 9 11 11 9 8: 4: L 4 5 7 7 6 5 7 10 13 NHL East Division WL T Pts Boston 39 9 87 New York 35 11 9 79 Montreal 31 13 11 73 Detroit 24 23 9 57 Toronto 23 24 11 57 Buffalo 11 32 14 36 Vancouver 15 34 5 35 West Division Chicago 37 13 6 80 Minnesota 30 18 9 69 California 18 23 11 47 St. Louis 19 30 8 46 Philadelphia 17 28 10 44 Pittsburgh 16 31 9 41 Los Angeles 15 47 7 47. Monday's Games No games scheduled Tuesday's Games. New York at Vancouver California at Boston Chicago at St. Louis onlyagames scheduled NBA GF 228 238 211 181 182 151 136 187 153 155 156 135 139 .145 GA 123 127 147 176 179 214 192 113 128 260 188 144 185 228 GB 5 19 25 3 (6 9 12 27 14% 15 28 37% Monday's Game Houston at Philadelphia Only game scheduled Tuesday's Games Houston at Baltimore Atlanta at Detroit Cincinnati at Los Angeles Boston at Portland Only games scheduled ABA East Division W L Pct Kentucky 46 12 .793 Virginia 37 24 .607 New York 28 32 .467 Floridians 23 36 .390 Carolina 23 37 .383 Pittsburgh 21 37 .362 West Division ,Utah 40 20 .667 Indiana 35 25 .583 Dallas 29 34 .460 Denver 24 36 .400 Memphis 23 36 .390 Monday's Games Floridians at Utah Oily game scheduled GB 102 19 231 24 25 5 122 15% 16 Former Judge who resigned from the bench because of FLAGRANT UN- EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 43 19 .654 New York 37 23 .617 Philadelphia 23 37 .383 Buffalo 17 43 .283 Central Division Baltimore 24 .34 .414 Atlanta 22 38 .367 Cincinnati 18 41 .305 Cleveland 17 45 .274 WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division Milwaukee 50 13 .794 Chicago 44 18 .710 Phoenix 38 25 .603 Detroit 22 39 .361 Pacific Division Los Angeles 50 8 .S0 Golden State 37 24 .607 Seattle 37 25 .597 Houston ' 23 37 .353 Portland 15 48 .238 TV & Stereo Rentals $10.00 per month 14O DEPOSIT FREE DELIVERY, PICK UP AND SERVICE CALL: NEJAC TV RENTALS 662-5671 FAIRNESS AND INJUSTICES THE COURT SYSTEM OF <" ". , WEDNESDAY-4:15 p.m. Lawyer's Club Lounge i i U~ 16I 1I -Daily-Terry McCarthy OF COURSE dunking's illegal, but you could have fooled someone with this picture which seems to have caught our own John Lockard in the aftermath of a satisfying stuff. 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