Sunday, February 21, 1971
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Nine
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Mighty
Michigan
manhandles
By ELLIOT LEGOW
Michigan's basketball team
,'de winning look easy yes-
terday as it stormed.over Min-
nesota 108-90 f or its eighth
straight Big Ten victory.
The Wolverines had little
difficulty in dumping the Go-
SUNDAY SPORTS
NIGHT EDITORS: Randy Phillips and Bill Alterman
phers for the second time in
#nference play a n d kept'
themselves in first place with man-on-man defense most of the
important battles against In- way.
Especially deadly for the Wol-
diana and Ohio State coming:;verines were guards Dan Fife and
up this week. Wayne Grabiec who chipped in
Henry Wilmore had a personal 17 and 24 respectively and shot
e meback from two below-par nearly 70 per cent as a unit from
Mirformances to lead the Michi- the field. Grabiec pulverized the
gan scoring attack with 33 points. Minnesota defense for the second
Once again all five starters hit in time this season with long jumpers
double figures for the Wolverines and achieved his career scoring
who shot an amazing 57.5 per cent high.
from the field in amassing their It was Fife and Wilmore who
highest point total of the season. led Michigan into the lead after
Michigan was particularly sharp the Wolverines' traditional slow
in the first half as it hit 61 per start left Minnesota ahead 24-19
cent and raced to ,a 55-43 half- after the first six minutes.
time advantage. The Gophers Fife canned three field shots
stayed close for ten minutes but and Wilmore hit one free throw
Michigan then broke away from a to even the count at 26 all, before
28-28 tie to gain a 39-30 lead and Ollie Shannon notched two free
never led by less than nine the throws to put the Gophers up for
rest of the way. the last time, 28-26. Wilmore hit
a bth Michigan's coach Johnny aseline jumper to knot t h e
'~Bth ichgans cachJoh flsor'e, and then Fife, w i t h his
Orr a n d Minnesota's mentor characteristic aggressiveness, al-
George Hanson were impressed by though tagged with three early
Michigan's offensive performance, fouls, stole the ball at midcourt
"They shot fantastically," Henso and raced in for a go-ahead layup'
said. "They hit shots we thought adrcdi o oaedlyp
they couldn't make." Wilmore then notched three
Orr, rejoicing in victory, admit- more two-pointers to build up the
, "we got a lot of easy shots to- lead, one on a rebound of his own
day. Minnesota looked better here missed layup, one on a goaltend-
though but so did we." ing call on Jim Brewer, and the
The Gophers did present Michi- last on a jumper from beyond the
gan with numerous easy scoring free throw circle.
opportunities as they couldn't Instead of concentrating solely
keep up with Michigan's running on his inside shots, Wilmore gun-
game, and played a rather loose ned them from all angles and all
distances in registering his 33
point total, and lifting his confer-
Fres h m e n ence scoring average back up near
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causing the Wolverines problems
and Hanson went to a three guard
lineup in the second half to "get
a little more scoring punch." How-
ever, this maneuver left the weak
Gopher defense less able to cope
with Michigan and the Wolverines
quickly built their margin to 21
points, 77-56 after seven minutes
of the half.
From then on the only r e a 1
question was whether or not Mich-A
igan would crash the 100 point
barrier, and that mark was ach-
ieved by Fife on a free throw with
4:10 to play.
Brady and Ford were close be-
hind the Michigan scoring lead-.
ers with 16 and 12 points respect-
ively. Besides his offensive show-
ing, Brady again was high man in~
rebounds with 12 and blocked -
three Gopher shots in the early
going.
Brewer led Minnesota's attack
with 28 points and 15 rebounds
a n d blocked five shots himself.
Although at times overeager, he
was called twice for goaltending,
Brewer looked the part of the su-
perstar he is supposed to be. How-
ever, the rest of the Gopher line-Jai
up caused the Wolverines much
less trouble, connecting on only ,
38 per cent of its shots.
Guards Ollie Shannon meshed 'HI
28 points, to tie Brewer for scor-
ing honors, but relied on f r e e enemy (Minnesota) can't keep hi
throws for 12 of his points. ines trampled the Gophers 108-90
ILLINIC
Buckeyes s ty,
By The Associated Press eight minutes of the first half, as
COLUMBUS - Ohio State's de- the Bucks charged into a 37-20
fense demoralized Northwestern lead. Northwestern also made only
in the first half last night, holding one basket in the first 71/2 minutes.
the Wildcats to 20 points en route Allan Hornyak led the Buckeyes,
to an 84-72 Big Ten basketball tri- 14-5 over-all, with 23 points and
umph. reserve Bob Siekmann added 20.
The victory was the eighth in~
nine league games for the Buck- Hoosier heroic
eyes and kept them a half game
behind leading Michigan in the CHAMPAIGN - S o p h o in o r'e
league conference. race. George McGinnis scored 32 points
Northwestern fell to 1-7 in the yesterday to lead Indiana to an
Big Ten. 88-86 victory over Illinois and keep
Ohio State's aggressive man-to- alive Hoosier hopes in the Big Ten
man defense held the Wildcats basketball race.
without a field goal in the last The victory boosted Indiana's re-
Minnesota
the
Running away
with the game
By MORT NOVECK
FANS ALMOST saw a ghost yesterday at Crisler Arena.
The Michigan basketball team that tarnished the Golden Go-
phers of Minnesota bore a striking resemblance to the Wolverine
squad of a year ago. But there was one major difference. Just like
last year they ran all over the court, passed a lot, dumped in a bunch
of points and in the process let their opposition score quite a few too.
But unlike last year, they did it all much better. When they
ran in the past the Michigan squad would get so worked up that
they couldn't control the flow of a game. Yesterday they had no
such problem. It was their game almost all the way as they forced
the Gophers to try and run with them. Minnesota made an at-
tempt, but couldn't stand the pace. As coach George Hanson
said, "Michigan Is just an outstanding ball club. Once they open
it up, they're a tough team to keep up with."
Passing was also better than it used to be. Michigan players
chalked up 23 assists in yesterday's contest for the season. The team
has been averaging 14, while its opponents can usually manage only 11.
According to Michigan coach John Orr, "We passed the ball well and
hit the open man." As usual Dan Fife led in the category, with seven,
followed by Henry Wilmore and Wayne Grablec with five apiece.
It used to be that Michigan would score a lot, but the other team
would always score more. As the record shows that hasn't been hap-
pening this year, but the Wolverine point totals have been lower. Last
year the squad was consistently among the national leaders in team
scoring. They haven't made the list yet this time.
The fewer points are partly due to the fact that the team
hasn't been running as much this season. But they ran yester-
day and their score reflected the fact. The 108 points set a new
season scoring mark, surpassing the 103 against Villanova. In
> the process the tem sank 46 buckets, which also set a new season
mark. Many of the points came on shots from in close. As Orr
admitted, "We did get a lot of easy shots."
Henry Wilmore made sort of a personal comeback with 33 points
after two subpar performances. But he didn't seem to care. "I just
want to see us win," he commented, "I try to be a team ballplayer
and my total isn't that important if the team wins."
Minnesota has been averaging only 79.2 points per game this
year, but in keeping with the running spirit of yesterday's contest
they came up with 90. But Michigan still won by a comfortable 18
points and as Orr commented, "it doesn't seem like it since they got
90 but we were playing good defense."
Jim Brewer sank 28 for the Gophers, bettering his average by
11, but Orr still felt that Rod Ford did a good job defending him.
"Ford did an excellent job. We told him to keep Brewer outside
and he did. We just didn't know that Brewer could shoot that well
from outside."
Ford wasn't as happy with his performance. "I just couldn't
do anything with Brewer. It's hard to play defense when you're
up by that much, but I've got to give Brewer his propers."
Rebounding was the one area in which Minnesota, led by Brewer,
wasn't dominated by the Wolverines. Brewer grabbed 15, Tom Mas-
terson 11 and Gerry Pyle 7. As a team the Gophers snagged five more
than the Wolverines. Brady got 12 and Wilmore 11 but they nevet
came close to achieving dominance. The- first half was especially bad
for caroms. It did however, bring out some of the humor that Orr
used to be noted for before his team begin to win. "I told Brady at
half time that it wasn't nice if someone came in to our gym and con-
trolled the boards. So he went out and did better in the second half."
Rebounding aside, Michigan had an easier time against Minne-
sota than against its previous few opponents. "We thought we were
going to have a lot of trouble with them," Orr recalled. But instead
it turned out to be relatively easy, even though Orr didn't bring in
the reserves until the last few minutes. The sub didn't add much to
the margin, but it did remind people that Harry Hayward and Dave
Hart aren't Michigan's only reserves.
C --Daily-Terry McCarthy
E (25) has his sights set on the basket and even three members of the
m from finding the range. Wilmore went on to score 33 as the Wolver-
-.
queak by'
AlIpena
Although not as smooth as the
varsity, the Baby Blue hoopsters1
r~yed consistently enough yes-
terday to drop Alpena 82-77. Led
by Kevin Casey's 25 points, the
frosh broke out of a 75-75 tie with
1:20 left to win going away.
Despite the superficial tightness
of the outcome, Coach Dick Honig
was beaming after the game, call-
i~ it "the best team perform-r
ance of the year."
Michigan dominated the g a m e
from the start, running up a nine
point lead before Alpena was able
to get their first points on the
board. However, the Baby Blue
were never able to blow Alpena
oi, despite being ahead by as
much as 12, and led by only one
at the half.
With Jim Hickman doing most
of the damage, Alpena kept with-
in three for most of the final half
but three free throws by Casey
and a nifty backhand layup by
m Taormina in the last minute
iced it for the Wolverines.
Michigan's John Bridges, play-
ing only the second half, dumped
in 15 points. Taormina added 11
points while John Bernard hit for
nine points while pulling down
12 rebounds.
First half statistics showed that
Michigan's 12 point margin was
due not only to the 61 per cent
shooting but also to the Wolver-
ines ability to match Minnesota
on the boards. Brewer, the Go-
phers' sophomore forward led his
team in both rebounds and points
in the half as he showed marked
improvement over his earlier per-
formance against Michigan when
he scored only six points before
fouling out early in the second
half.
But Brewer was alone in
TRIPPED
mie
Wildca ts
Looking
MICHIGAN
Wilmore
Ford
Brady
Fife
Grabiec
Hayward
Lockard
Johnson
Hart
Nicksic
BUss
Team
TOTALS
MINNESOTA
Hill
Shannon
Masterson
Pyle
Brewer
Murphy
Hortgen
Arnold
Troland
Rickert
Kiedroski
Team
TOTALS
FG
12-27
6-12
7-10
7-9
11-17
1-1
0-0
1-2
0-1
1-1
0-0
46-80
FG
6-15
8-18
2-5
1-7
13-26
5-8
0-2
1--1
0-3
0-0
0-1
36-86
good
FT R
9-11 11
0-0 7
2-4 12
3-5 1
2-2 6
0-0 1
0-0 2
0-0 1
0-0 0
0-0 (0
0-0 0
6
16-22 47
TP
33
12
16
17
24
2
2
0
2
0
108
TP
14
28
4
4
28
10
2
0
0
0
0
90
FT
2-4
12-13
0-1
2-4
2-5
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
18-27
R
4
1
11
7
15
4
2
1
1
i
1
4
52
cord to 6-2, two games behind1
front - running Michigan while illi-
nois' record faded to 4-4.j
It was a tight battle from the
start with neither team able to take
command.
* * *.
Iowa edged. .
IOWA CITY - Purdue's Dennis
Gamauf scored two free throws
with four seconds to play yester-
day to climax an uphill rally and
give the Boilermakers an 87-85 Big
Ten basketball victory over Iowa.
Purdue led only twice in the
game, pulling its record to 6-3 in
the conference. The winners also
offset a brilliant 37-point perform-
ance by Iowa's Fred Brown.
Iowa jumped to a 26-7 lead in
the first nine minutes and still led
46-37 at halftime. Purdue finally!
tied the score with 1:38 to play on
Larry Weatherford's free throw at
83-all.
* * *
Cows win.
EAST LANSING - Michigan
State stormed to a 43-34 halftime
lead over Wisconsin and coasted
the rest of the way for a 97-78 win
over its Big Ten rival last night.
Junior forward Ron Gutkowski
led the Spartans' scoring with 22:
points. 16 of them coming in the
second half. The Spartans outgun-
ned the Badgers during that sec- ;
ond half and with 3:43 remaining
held a 91-61 lead, thei: biggest
margin of the night.
* *' *
Marquette mauls
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.-
Dean Meminger poured in 26'
points to lead Marquette to a 77-
62 victory over the Air Force Aca-'
demy and its 33rd consecutive tri-
umph in college basketball-the
longest winling streak of any col-
lege team in the country.
The Marquette Warriors ran up:
a 13-1 lead after two and one-half '
minutes of play.
* * 3
MICHIGAN
Ohio State
Indiana
Purdue
Illinois
Iowa
MSU
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Northwestern
W
8
8
6
6
4
3
3
1
1
1
L
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
7
7
Score by Periods:
MICHIGAN
Minnesota
Attendance: 13,459
Big Ten
Standings
Pct.
1.004
.889
.750
.667
.500
.375
.333
.125
.125
.125
55 53 108
43 47 90
Matnei, MSU draw;
freslman trio stars,
By PETER BLACK
"What can I say" were the words of Coach Bay after the grapplers
managed to pull out an 18-18 tie against Michigan State yesterday at
Crisler Arena.
Michigan received a number of bad breaks which they were unable
to over-come. The worst break of the match occurred when Mark King
vec pinned with 2 seconds left in the match; 3 seconds before that he
had just gotten an escape.
The high points of the meet took place when Michigan's three fresh-
men performed. They were Rich Neff 134 lbs., Jerry Hubbard 150 lbs.
and Bob Huizenga at 167 lbs. Each individual did a remarkable job.
At 134 lbs., Rich Neff faced Lindsey Bates. Neff gained momentum'
as the match went on by means of numerous takedowns, reversal and
pr dicaments; before Neff pinned his opponent the score of his bout was
14-1.
At 150 lbs. Jerry Hubbard tore up Randy Johnson, Hubbard used'
the same technique as Nef did in defeating his opponent. Hubbard was
unable to gain a pin, but you can't say he didn't try; the final score of
his bout was 16-2.
Bob Huizenga. at 167 lbs.. registered the most noteworthy win of
th meet, he soundly decisioned Gerald Malecek 7-2. Malecek placed
2n in the Big Ten's and 3rd in the NCAA's last year, his record up
till this meet was 2-1. Huizenga started the bout off with a takedown
and was able to maintain his lead throughout the whole bout.
At 118 Captain Jerry Hoddy lost a close bout to 1970 NCAA Champ,',
Greg Johnson, Hoddy was winning till the third period, at which time
he lost the lead and was unable to come back.
At 190 lbs. Therlon Harris was in a position to sustain a tie with 30
stnds left but attempted to turn his bout into a win and lost his posi-
tion in the process and lost. 6-2.
At heavyweight Rich Bolhouse did an excellent job by retaining a
tie for Michigan Going into his bout the meet scorn wa tied un at 16-16
Dame to a 107-98 college basketball
victory over erratic West Virginia
University before 13.652 fans, the
largest basketball crowd in the
state's history.
Carr, a 6-3 senior, and 6-1 stal-
wart Collis Jones, who added 34
points to the Irish cause, put
through six straight points after
the Mountaineers had closed the
gap to 92-90 with six minutes left.
* * ,
Penn pounces.
PHILADELPHIA - F o u r t h-
ranked Penn ran its overall re-
cord to 22-0 and its Ivy League
mark to 10-0 yesterday, trouncing
Dartmouth 102-75 in the opener of
a college basketball doubleheader
at the University of Pennsylvania
Palestra.
Penn broke the game open in the
first 10 minutes, racing to a 28-17
lead as Bob Morse scored 14 quick
points. By halftime the Quakers
were ahead 51-38 and Coach Dick
Harter had four of his starters on
the bench.
Tar Heels trumped
COLUMBIA, S.C. - John Roche
scored 32 points and helped stave
off a late North Carolina surge as
seventh - ranked South Carolina
downed eight - ranked North Caro-
lina 72-66 in an Atlantic Coast Con-
ference basketball game yesterday.
Dennis Wuycik led the North
Carolina comeback that closed the
gap to four points several times in
the last five minutes.
HEAR THE THREE CANDIDATES
FOR MAYOR OF ANN ARBOR
DOUG CORNELL-Radical Independent Party
JACK GARRIS-Republican Party
ROBERT HARRIS-Democratic Party
Natural Science Auditorium
Tues., Feb. 23
1:30pnm.
Carr crucifies
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. - All-I
American Austin Carr poured in 47
points yesterday to lead Notre:
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MARQUETTE'S MIKE MILLS (35) and Air Force's Bill Cole
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