' Sunday, February 20, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Sunday, February 20, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine - busted: I Victory, yes bt. al shackelford EVANSTON AS ENTERTAINMENT, Michigan's 81-75 win over Northwest- ern last night ranked about midway between the Radio City Rockettes and test patterns. As basketball, well . . . it was strictly from hunger With- the exception of Ernie Johnson, and sometimes John Lockard, every Wolverine played like he was on downers, a stark turnabout from last Saturday's explosive performance against Illinois Henry Wilmore, 14 of 23 from the floor against the Illini last week and seemingly back in All-American form, had a horrible night against the aggressive Wildcats. He hit on only four of 13 from outcourt, made ten turnovers and misfired on a series of aborted passes into the middle in the first half. On one particularly frustrating occasion Wilmore drove haltingly to the key, had his shot stuffed and then, regaining the ball, had his dribble punched out of bounds. Wilmore's poor play might have been partly attribu- table to Friday's shocking signing of Marquette's Jim Chones by the ABA's New York Nets. Not only are Wilmore and Chones friends from last summer's Pan American games, but Michigan Coach Johnny Orr said after last night's game that, "Agents have been contacting Henry." "I'm sure Henry was thinking about that coming up here," added Orr. Michigan looked as if they were going to blow a golden opportunity last night. With Ohio State scorched by Illinois and the chance to bump off conference leading Minnesota this Saturday at home, the Wolverines needed only a win over North- western to climb into the Big Ten driver's seat: And a win over Northwestern, a band of basketball nonentities harvested from the midwestern flatlands, shouldn't have been such a task. When hardworking Barry Hentz converted a three-point play to tie the score at 63 with 6:38 to go, and fouled out Lock- ard in the process, things looked queasy for the Wolverines. Hentz and Greg Wells, who combined for 50 points mostly from Inside, were threatening to take the play away from Michigan. But in the end, Northwestern's impotence and jittery floor game kept them from pulling off the upset. In all, the Wildcats turned the ball over 20 times. Mark Sibley, an aggressive but usually dependable floor man, was whistled for eight errors, mostly on bullet passes which sailed into Wolverine hands. Michigan actually outbumbled the Wild- cats, garnering an atrocious 21 miscues. The Wolverines barely won the battle of the boards, as Wells continually outfought Michigan's huge front line and finally wound up with twenty caroms. Michigan's board strength was diminished when Ken Brady hit the bench with first half foul trouble and Lockard had to play it close to the belt with three. Orr shifted Wilmore to forward and stuck Dave Hart in the backcourt. The Wolverines' lackluster performance on the boards and from the floor resllted more from a general disorganization than any other one thing. Michigan stood around in the lane while the shorter Wildcats played volleyball around the basket, and didn't have any success running their nebulous patterns on offense. Much of Michigan's first half scoring came either from Wilmore's foul shooting or Johnson's flailing shots. The Wol- verines often found gold in unexpected hills last night, as even Brady tossed in a soft jumper from the key at one point in the first half. Michigan's erratic rags to riches play continues to puzzle; -it seems the Wolverines still haven't found the right offensive combination. With Wilmore and Wayne Grabiec in the back- court, Michigan hasn't been able to move the ball consistently for the good shot. Last night Wilmore again proved that his studies at guard are not yet complete. When Orr moves Wil- more to forward, his customary position, the 6-3/2 New Yorker often threatens to foul out the whole opposing team, but Michi- gan loses rebounding power with Brady on the bench. A happy note to last night's blah affair was Wilmore's hurtling of the 1,000 point barrier. With his 22 point perform- ante against the Wildcats, Henry has now scored 1,008 points as a Michigan Wolverine. Erratic By JIM EPSTEINr Special To The Dailyj EVANSTON - Michigan mov- ed a step closer to the Big Ten championshiplast night with an 81-75 win ovei Northwestern but lost ground in its year-long struggle for consistency on the court. The Wolverines were fortunate that their epidemic of ineptitude struck while playing the Wild- cats, a team with pathetic play as a trademark. The teams stum- t bled, tripped, and flailed theiri way through the first twentyE minutes; with Michigan finishingf on top 35-34 when the dust clear- ed. H ekes b y d~aily sports NIGHT EDITOR: DAN BORUS John Lockard also picked up three quick fouls and followed big Brady to the pines. Greg Wells, a 6-7 sophomore, played a good first half finishing with 12 points and 13 rebounds. After a quick 7-2 Michigan lead at the outset the game settled in- to an even, if sloppy, contest for the remainder of the half. Wayne Grabiec, playing before a pseudo-hometown crowd, failed to connect on any of his seven shots in the first half. For his ef- Wildcats clawed MICHIGAN fort the Downers Grove native re- ceived a placque at halftime from a local Chamber of Commerce. The Wolverines found the range on only one field goal in the last six and one-half minutes of the half with only Wilmore's free-throw shooting keeping the game even. To open the second half Brady hacked Wells to pick up his fourth personal and retired to the bench for twelve minutes of meditation. A minute and a half later Lock- ard picked up his fourth with a well-placed elbow. Hentz reeled off twelve of the next 14 Wildcat points as Michi- gan relied on the good grace of the referees to offset some hot- shooting by Lockard. Wilmore, Johnson, and Grabiec hit for quick baskets and Lockard's jumper with 9:02 remaining in the game gave Michigan its biggest lead of the night at 61-52. The Wildcats then tallied eight straight points before Lockard tipped in his own shot to give Michigan a 63-60 lead with 6:52 remaining. Sixteen seconds later Lockard bumped Hentz and fouled out of the game. Hentz' la'up and ensu- ing foul shots tied the game at 63. But Brady put the Wolverines ahead to stay at 64-63 with a foul shot. With 2:48 left and the Wol- verines leading only 68-67 Wilnore laid one in from underneath to run his1 career scoring total to 1001 points. After a Mark Sibley jumper, Michigan reeled off six straight points to put the game, on ice. Wilmore's 22 points led the tean with Johnson and Lockard tallying 18, and Brady 10 in only 18 min- utes of play. For Northwestern Hentz' 31 points led with Wells finishing with 19 and Rick Sund 11. Michigan shot a poor 40.8 'er\ cent from the field to 41.7 per cent for the Wildcats. The Wolverines shot a Cavalier- like, 29.7 percent from the floor in the first half, just below the hot-shooting Cats' 31.6 percent. Henry Wilmore, who finally seem- ed to be adjusted at guard against the Illini last week, suffered through an erratic floor game as well as a poor shooting night. The former All-American can- didate hit only one of seven shots from the field in the first half and took a cue from teammate Dave Hart by turning the ball ov- er ten times during the. course of the game. Wilmore finished the game with 22 points, primarily in the strength of 14 of 16 free throws from the free throw line. For the Wildcats, center Barry Hentz tallied 31 points and garn- ered nine rebounds. Hentz played oppositeErnie Johnson for much of the game as Michigan center Ken Brady was in constant foul trouble. Brady picked up three fouls in the first ten minutes of the game and spent the remainder of the first period gathering splinters languishing on the Michigan bench. Johnson Lockard Brady Wilmore Grablec Hart Buss Bazelon Teaffi Totals FG- FGA 8-16 8-15 3-5 4-13 3-15 3-5 0-1 0-1 iFT- FTA REB 2-4 12 2-5 8 4-4 10 14-16 10 0-0 3 0-0 2 1-2 1 0-0 1 PF TP 4 18 5 18 4 10 2 22 2 6 06 0 1 1 0 3 18 81 I 29-71 23-31 47 NORTHWESTERN -Associated Press SPACED-OUT ERNIE JOHNSON watches benignly as North- western's Rick Sund drives the lane in an uncontested lay-up. Johnson and his teammates shook their lethargy in time to beat the Wildcats and remain in the thick of he Big Ten race. Sund Wells Hentz Kachan Sibley Ashbaugh Douglass Otis Berg Team Totals FG- FT- FGA FTA REB PF 4-10 3-3 3 4 8-14 3-6 20 5 11-19; 9-11 9 2 3-7 0-0 0 1 4-13 0-3 6 4 0-4 0-1 3 0 0-2 0-0 0 1 0-1 0-0 0 3 0-2 0-0 1 1 9 30-72 15-24 42 21 atje £1c1719an Dut Summer Sublet Supplement CAN CHANGE YOUR WHOLE OUTLOOK ON LIFE! TP 11 19 31 6 8 0 0 0 0 75 NEAL NETS TWO: ~T Ie r upset Wisconsin By FRANK LONGO In a complete reversal from the previous night, the Michigan icers, pucksters, hockey team (choose one) outskated and out- hustled Wisconsin for a 6-4 vic- tory at the Coliseum last night. Led by Randy Neal, who scored two goals, the Wolverines busied Badger goalie Jim Makey with 46, shots, while Karl Bagnell notched! 47 more saves in his belt at the Michigan end. "Bagnell was good in the third perioid when he had to be." prais- ed Badger mentor Bob Johnson. "Michigan hustled and did a very good job." "Everybody worked hard," com-t minted coach Al Renfrew. "It feels good to beat them." The win kept Michigan in a tie with Colorado College for seventh place in the WCHA. v ,. < W 1 ' + " ., r F , = , .may ./a jw r /f +' , / : 1 Michigan came out hitting in the first period, and although re- ferees Paul Duffy and Stan Du- bois called only three penalties, the fact that all were against the Wolverines was indicaive of which was the more aggressive team. The scrappiness which was missing Friday night appeared to the forms of Wolverines Bob Fal- coner and Michael Jarry, who weren't about to be pushed around by the bigger and heavier Badgers.I "Tonight they had to take a look whe rever they were." said Falconer, "or they were going to get ..." He didn't finish. After a penalty to Bernie Gag- non for roughing was successfully illed off, .thetWolverinese went two goals up. It was the first of two such situations and twice Wisconsin came back to tie the score. Neal opened the scoring at 11:34 with a screen shot from Paul-Andre Paris, whose open, long shots which went just wide shot was blocked by Makey. were all that kept the score from But "Punch" Cartier came bar- increasing. relling in to flip the puck over the "The whole team just felt bet- sprawling goalie and put Michi- ter tonight," a happy Bernie Gag- gan ahead, adding a little victory non remarked. And, as an after- jig on the side. thought, "But we should have Paris scored his twelfth goal of scored more goals." the season at 0:42 of the third period when Gagnon poked th Wisconsn agee puck out in front from a melee of FIRST PERIOD SCORING: 1. M-Neal players. Paris was all alone and (Cartier, Lefebvre) 11:34; 2. M-Gagnon wasn't to be denied.n (Jarry) 16:58; 3. W-Young (Winchest- er, Erickson) 17:17; 4. W - Arundel By the 13:07 mark Wisconsin (Rotsch, Talafous) 18:08; PENALTIES: had tied it up on goals bycPat 1. M-Gagnon( roughing) 8:11. 2. M- dt Straub (interference) 12:00; 3. M-Gag- Lannan and Tim Dool. Butth non (slashing) 17:24. Wolverines went ahead for good SECOND PERIOD SCORING: 5. M- on a Julian Nixon tally at 14:02. Cartier (Jarry, Paris); PENALTIES: 4. W-Folk (cross-checking) 3:26; 5. W- The game became even more ex- Cherrey (holding) 19:44. citing when, instead of waiting for THIRD PERIOD SCORING: 6. M-Paris the customary 5 04r 55 seconds (Gagnon) :42; 7. W-Lannan (Talafous, h s5Erickson) 5:37; 8. W-Dool (Lannon) remaining mark, Johnson pulled 13:17; 9. M-Nixon (Falconer) 14:02; 10. his goaltender with 1:24 left. M-Neal (Jarry) 19:01; PENALTIES: 6. Jarry tipped the puck ahead to' M-Werner (highstickng) 2:34. eal, whojscoredintotheh enSAVES n -Makey 5 20 15 - 40 net from just inside the Badger M-Bagnell 14 14 19 -- 47 Change from this . ., To Another Happy Advertiser FOR ONLY you can place a 1 col. x 4", ad GOPHERS GRAB LEAD Illini slip by faltering Bucks By The Associated Press CHAMPAIGN - Illinois, mak- ing, good on 34 of 46 free throws, upset Ohio State's Big Ten bas- ketball front-runners 64-62 yes- terday. The score was tied eight times 1 in the first half, including 25-25 at intermission, before Allan Hornyak hit 4 field goals and 2 free throws in a spurt that push- ed 0OSU ahead 44-33. Illinois went in front 53-52 on a pair of charities by Jim Krelle but the Bucks, with Hornyak, Jack Wolfe and Mark Wagar combining for six points, gained a 58-53 edge. In the final 48 seconds of the game, Nick Weatherspoon capped an Illinois rally with an 18-foot! jump shot for a 63-62 lead and the Illini protected it until the, buzzer. %Big Ten Sfn i~ Gophers bite badgers MINNEAPOLIS - The Minne- sota Gophers, knowing O h i o State's loss had given them the Big Ten basketball lead, squan- dered a 12 point lead but held on to defeat the Wisconsin Badgers 76-73 last night on Clyde Turn- er's 29 points and Dave Winfield's free throw shooting. Winfield, who scored 12 points. sank four important free throws in the last two minutes to slow a Badger rally, and Turner scored his most important basket of the night when he followed up a Win- -field-missed free throw and tip- ped it in to give the Gophers a 76-70 edge with 25 seconds to play in the game. Spartans smothered lii s 22 points and 19 by Dennis Gamauf paced Purdue to a 92-68 Big Ten collegiate basketball vic- tory over Michigan State yester- day. The Boilermakers took advan- tage of MSU's cold-shooting sec- ond half to pull away for their, 10th victory in 18 games and fourth in eight Big Ten contests. Hoosiers hustle BLOOMINGTON - Indiana converted timely free throws late in the game yesterday to beat Io- wa, 86-79, in a Big Ten college basketball game. The Hoosiers scored their last seven points from the free throw, line, all within the final two min- utes, enroute to their fourth straight conference victory, after losing their first four. Indiana is 12-6 overall. just outside the face-off circle to iiscon 202z-4 the right of Wisconsin's Makey, Wisconsin kept its goalie on the MICHIGAN 2 1 3 - 6 and five minutes later Gagnon bench after the face-off, and two Attendance: 3,500 put one in from almost the exact, same spot. Both goals were high in the left South Quad W est Quad hand corner of the net. Badger Jim Young poked theewberr Barbour puck past Bagnell after he had made one save for Wisconsin'sr dents first goal at 17:17 and Dave res. Arundel tied it up with a ,screen slap shot from the point 51 see- W E'D TO EE Y U onds later. Bernie Gagnon was in the penalty box for slashing dur- TUES., FEB. 22, 7 p.m. SOUTH QUAD ing that one. The prettiest play of the night DINING ROOM 1 set up the only goal of the second period at the 20 second mark. - Jarry crossed in front of thef two Wisconsin defensemen draw- ing them both towards him, and BUSINESS STAFF then backhanded a perfect pass to I I I FREE! BRITANNICA LIBRARY RESEARCH REPORT CATALOG that will- reach over 33,000 readers _. R M ! ! r " t ADDRESS__________' t I - PHONE -;: * Print or Type Copy Legibly'in Spore Provided as You Would * Like it to Appear. r U t, w ! r r I r I " t r I r r r ! ! 7 I U r t t ! t R t ,# t ! r ! Y f- . . 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