Wednesdoy,. March 1 1972
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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IT'S SOMETIMES hard to tell Michigan tennis coach Brian
Eisner from his players since he is not long out of college
himself. But his youthful look and easy going style doesn't
hide his intense desire to make a good Michigan tennis program
a great one.
Eisner took over the reigns of the tennis program three
years ago determined to put his teams on top. Michigan was
going td have the best program in the nation; being lig Ten
champs nearly every year was just not enough for Eisner.
Well, Eisner has made some major inroads towards
achieving his goal, and the reason is that Eisner is a com-
plete coach. He knows how to recruit; he knows how to
administer the tennis budget, and he knows how to get
the most out of his players on the courts.
To produce a good tennis team each year a coach must
do two things. He must get the talent, and he must de-
velope that talent to its fullest potential. Eisner has done both.
The former Toledo coach and Michigan State star has
acruited for this season two solid players in Jeff Miller and
Jerry Karzen. Miller could ends up the top singles man for
Michigan by the time the dual meet season starts. Karzen is
also expected to make the top six.
Next year Eisner has the upper hand in grabbing some
of the best of the crop of junior players in the country.
One of them, Fred de Jesus, a product of San Juan, is ap-
parently leaning strongly to Michigan. If de Jesus comes to
Michigan; Eisner will have copped the top prospect in the
nation.
De Jesup is expected to win the 18-under bracket this year,
and if he does he will be the first player to win all the junior
divisions in the last year in each bracket.
So Eisner is getting'the talent. But talent just doesn't come
to you from heaven. Ypu have to go out and compete for it with
the Stanford's, UCLA's, and Trinity's.
Eisner goes to sever.l tournaments each year to view the
best players, and these tourneys are a must for a coach. Eisner
says:
"You have to know the players and know and under-
stand their games. So you must be at these tournaments.
Then, when you follow up with letters, you've made some
contacts before and the boy knows you."
Eisner watches players from early in their development
and discusses their games with them and their parents. "It's
more of a friendship kind of thing," says Eisner.
Perhaps too close of a friendship could hurt the coach-
athlete relation when the boy gets to Michigan, but Eisner
disagrees:
"The more understanding you have, of the player, and
that he has of you, the better. Conflict situations almost
never occur."
That point could be argued in general, but this plan has
worked so far for Eisner.4
Tennis is the kind of game where early physical develop-
ment, training, and potential are most important to a coach
when he has to decide which players he wants. Of two evenly
matched 16 year olds, one may have had better early training
or may have developed faster physically, and has reached his
peak.
By JOHN PAPANEK'
Special To The Daily
BLOOMINGTON - Johnny Orr
has never been known as any bas-
ketball official's best friend. And
everyone knows that beefing about
the referees is as old as the game
itself.
It's true, it is. A couple of calls
could have made it a different ball
game, but Indiana's 79-75 victory
that knocked Michigan right back
into the Big. Ten championship
race was not a gift of the officials.
Instead the victory hinged on
the domination of 6-8 Joby
Wright, who scored 26 points and
6-8. Steve Downing, who grabbed
21 rebounds in a battle of the
'front lines that clearly left the
Wolverines on the short end.
Michigan got only 20 points out
of its big men, John Lockard (10),
Ernie Johnson (eight), and Ken
Brady (two), while the Hoosier
giants :poured in 63. In addition
to Wright, Downing tossed in 19,
John Ritter rang up 14 and sub
Jerry Memering had four.
Henry Wilmore and Wayne Gra-
biec each put together one of his
better shooting games, Wilmore
hitting for 12 of 20 for 27 points
SandGrabiec connecting on 10 of
S19 for 24.
But it was Wright who hit on
a pair of 10-foot jumpers with
8:52 left in the game that put
Indiana up 66-63 and wrestled the
lead away from Michigan for good.
daily
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NIGHT EDITOR:
BOB McGINN
The Wolverines got it in the first
half from Indiana's front line,
out scored 36-12, while they turn-
ed the ball over 15 times to In-
diana's eight. Michigan shot only
38 percent in the half, and only
Wilmore's 15 points and solid
floor game checked them in the
contest.
Downing and Wright consistent-
ly opened inside against John-
son and Lockard, combined for
24 points while Brady sat on the
bench with three personals.
But Michigan came out in the
second half as hot as Blooming-
ton's 74 degree temperature. Gra-
biec found his hottest hand of
the season hitting six 15-foot plus
jumpers in a row, and scoring 18
points in the first ten minutes of
the second half.
Orr ca
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Indiana got up by as many as
seven, 74-67, until Wilmore hit
on a pair of 18-foot base line.
jump shots to tighten the score
at 74-71 with 2:46 left in the
game.
Playing ferocious defense and
trying to regain the, ball, Grabiec
tied up Hoosier guard Pemberton
in the backcourt, and the pair
faced off for a jump ball at mid-
court.
The smaller Pemberton (6-311a to.
Grabiec's 6-6) controlled the tap;
knocking it deep into Michigan's
back court, with Wright there to
bring the ball back up.
But Wright, bewildered by the.
lack of Michigan defenders,
turned and glided toward the
wrong hoop, thinking he had an
easy lay up. He eased the ball into
the basket and the 12,057 Hoosier
fans went crazy.
Indiana got the ball after
Wright's boner and jacked up
their lead to 76-73 on a tip in by
Downing.
Then the officiating turned
from bad to worse. Indiana
brought the ball up and Grabiec
went for it, realizing that a foul
call would not be too bad, since
Indiana would get only one shot.
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INDIANA
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But the official called Gra-
biec's lunge an intentional foul,
awarding Pemberton two shots and
Orr erupted. He ripped off his
jacket, kicked his chair and look-
ed like a crazed jaguar, while the
fans ate it up.
Pemberton made the first free
throw,,but missed the second and
Johnson ripped'it off the rim. He
pitched out to Wilmore, who
sped full court and directed a
15-foot bomb into the hoop, to
keep Michigan alive, 77-75.
Pemberton missed another free
throw after a legitimate foul by
Grabiec, and Wilmore again drib-
bled the ball down court, this time
with a chance to tie the game as
the clockticked down to 0:27.
But Wright got to Wilmore be-
fore he could put his moves in
motion, grabbing his arm for what
looked more like an intentional
foul than Grabiec's.
The official held up one finger
and Orr's blood pressure reached
the boiling point. An equally en-
raged Wilmore duffed the free
throw (he shot only three of six
for the night), and a fast break
layup by Wright made it 79-75 and
finished off the Wolverines.
1"That foul on Wilmore was in-
tentional, damn it," said Orr,
tight-lipped after the game. "That
was a gutless call. They call a
two shot foul on Grabiec for try-
ing to steal the ball, then he
(Wright) grabs Wilmore and they
give him one shot.
"We got used to that (bad.of-
ficiating) early in the game. We
made a tremendous comeback. I
hate to lose on something like
that. It's disgusting. I won't for-
get who those three guys are."
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-Associated Press
MICHIGAN'S ERNIE JOHNSON scrambles after a loose ball,
knocking over Indiana's John Ritter in the process, in last night's
disappointing 79-75 loss to the Hoosiers.
Johnson
Lockard
Brady
Wilmore
Grabiec
Hart
Team
TOTALS
3-10
5-9
1-1
12-20
10-19
1-3
2-6
0-1
0-0
3-6
4-4
2-2
An " Q
BUCKS GET REVENGE
'1 04 Wright
7 2 10 rgt
10 3 2 Ritter
6 3 27 Downing
8 4 24 Wilson
0 0 4
4' White
45 16 75 Memering
Pemberton
35 40-75 Team
12-24
5-8
9-28
5-6
2-4
2-3
0-0
2-4
4-5
1-4
1-1
0-1
0-0
1-3
9
2
21
2
3
0
1
5
4
3
1
4
2
T
2
26
14!
19
11
4
4
1
32-65 11-19
Gophers stumble to
win
SCORE BY PERIOD
MICHIGAN
Indiana
46
33-79 TOTALS 35-73 9-18 43 17 79
By The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS-The Minnesota
Gophers, plowing back from a 16-
point deficit, held Purdue without
a field goal the last seven and one
h4lf minutes and edged the Boiler-
makers 48-43 last night to move
back on top of the Big Ten basket-
ball race.
Bob Nix led the Gophers with
15 points, including eight in the
final five minutes that pulled the
t
a
Gophers into the first-place tie
with Ohio State.
Nix sank two free throws to tie
the score 39-39 and his field goal
with 1:48 to play sent Minnesota
ahead to stay 43-42.
* * *
Big Ten Standings ,
Minnesota
Ohio State
MICHIGAN
Indiana
Purdue
Wisconsin
Michigan State
Illinois
Iowa
W
9
9
8
6
5
5
4
4
L
3
3
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
Illini BUCKed
COLUMBUS-Ohio State surged
back into at least a share of the
Big Ten basketball lead last night,
hitting a season offensive high in
crushing Illinois 103-70.
The 14th-ranked Buckeyes, up-
set at Illinois 64-62 just 10 days
ago, jumped their cpnference rec-
D ord to 9-3 and 17-5 overall. Illinois
} is 4-7 and 13-8.
7 Allan Hornyak drilled in 27
5 points, sophomore Wardell Jack-
I son, a career-high 23 points and
1 7-foot Luke Witte 21 for Ohio State,
I which hit 57 per cent of its shots.
S* * *
I Spartans destroyed
* MADISON - Wisconsin, led by
Leon Howard and Lee Oler, jump-
ed off to a 12-point halftime ad-
vantage to a 101-74 Big Ten bas-
ketball victory over Michigan
State last night.
Howard and Oler scored 20
points each as the Badgers upped
their Big Ten mark to 5-6 and
remained in contention for a first
division finish.
SCORES
NBA
Los Angeles 114, New York 111
Atlanta 99, Buffalo 89
Seattle 118, Baltimore 117 ot
Milwaukee 131, Detroit 113
NHL
Detroit 8, Vancouver 2
COLLEGE
Penn 77, St. Joseph's 54
Hope 107, Kalamazoo 86
SMU 76, Rice 69
Louisville 90, North Texas State 85
Texas 80, Texas A&M 73
Marshall 76, North Caroline-
Charlotte 59E
Penn State 61, Kent State 51
Dartmouth 69, New Hampshire 68
Eisner has to choose the players who are on top now,
but still have the potential to improve and stay up there,
And Michigan's coach has shown he can bring that type of
player in and get him to improve.
One method for improving a player's performances that
Eisner has utilized is the taking of films of a player. Eisner
sits down with the player and goes over the films to plan out
a program for improving the individual's weaknesses. Supposed-
ly, no one else uses that kind of program of instruction.
Competition is also extremely important in a program of
improvement, and Eisner has installed a system of challenge
matches in practice to determine the starting line up.
But iritrasquad competition often shows only illusory
improvement. Outside tournaments are needed for a "meas-
uring stick" of your team's abilities relative to other teams.
Eisner has just begun to get Michigan into tournaments
around the country. This year Michigan nearly dominated the
Western Indoor Championships, and made a reasonably good
showing against the nation's best in the National Amateur
Indoor Championships earlier in the year.
The problem with these tournaments though, is money.
But despite no increase in the budget for the last three years,
Eisner has managed to shuffle things around to at least par-
tially pay for these ventures. The rest of the cash comes from
the players.
Tennis has been traditionally weak in the Midwest. And
the Big Ten is no powerhouse in tennis by any means. Mich-
igan has been the class of the conference, winning 13 of the
last 17 titles, including the last four. But for national re-
cognition, the Wolverines have to find tougher team oppo-
sition.
The spring trips provide the only chance for scheduling
this kind of top flight competition.
"Some teams you have to schedule, and the spring trip is
the only real schedule decision. You want to go where there's
the best competition, but also include teams close to you in
ability," Eisner remarked.
But Eisner is striving for the day when the top com-
petition will be here at Michigan, and he wants to be ready
for that day. Michigan's mentor doesn't think that tennis
can get very far in this part of the country without more
and better indoor facilities.
Plans for enclosing the varsity courts are being kicked
around in the athletic department, but Eisner is not just wait-
ing around. He's moving his team steadily up the national
ladder -- indoor courts or not.
"We've worked so hard and have come so far," Eisner says.
"In my opinion we've moved up a full level, and we're going to
make the top ten this year if it kills me. And it may, it may."
TRANSCENDENTAL
MEDITATION
as taught by
Maharishi
Mahesh
Yogi r A:
Northwestern 2 9 .18'
Yesterday's Results
Indiana 79, MICHIGAN 75
Wisconsin 101, Michigan State 74
Ohio State 103, Illinois 70
Minnesota 48, Purdue 43
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