Wednesdoy,. March 1 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Wednesday, March 1, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Mine I ..1 1 Cagers whipped by Hoosiers, lose lead -me-mmmm..f W at it3 2/lorlh I Eisner's netters. . .. g o for glory Randy Phillips ----. 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 sports 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 MICHIGANI g ft r pf pts 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. ls foul INDIANA fg ft r pf pts 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." / I -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 CUT YOUR NTL L/V/NG EXPENSES chOtex HOWELL No En trance Fee " Low Lot Rental Rates Model Clearance Sale " Easy Finance Terms Michigan's Largest Network of Mobile Home Communities 5466400 PARK 5466601 SALES 1-96 & PINCKNEY RD. EXIT ; sGC ELECTION i I Tomorrow is the last day to file as a candidate in the SGC election. Candi- dates should file a statement of can- I d idacy before 5:00 p.m. March 1 (Wed.) by coming to Rm. 3X Mich- igan Union or calling 763-3241. a, Al , a. Fl in WHY IS THIS MAN HAPPY? 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