4sunday, January 17, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven agers um~a mmmmmmmm mutammmgesgmisemassmem ti.s -: the cripple By ELLIOT LEGOW Michigan's basketball team put all its talents together yesterday and dumped Indiana, the pre-season favorite to take the Big Ten crown, 92-81. The Wolverines never trailed as they raced to their eighth victory in their last nine games and second win in two in the conference. Sterling performances by all starters made Mich- igan's task easy, as they outran and outshot Indiana and held their own on the boards against the much taller and more physical Hoosiers. Michigan's balanced attack in the first half pulled them into a big lead which the Hoosiers were never able to narrow to less than four points. The Wolverines took a seven point, Indiana, 92-81 upper deck ...!.,_c..-.....+ ......... :...:................. r... r. n h......... r..........'.. r... rv: r.VrrdY.9rrr.': r:."."."b".}'."1."rr,.l'r24:.:zc 1: 1.^rr.'.? ............................ .. .. - ....................... ... . .. -a{r "."r{riy r . r'rt:i"r . {:f ' By MORT NOVECK "WE PLAYED the game the way we should," commented Mich- igan coach Johnny Orr yesterday after his team defeated highly rated Indiana. "This was the most satisfying win since I've been here." Orr probably would have been happy to beat Indiana any way possible, but he was especially pleased because his squad won the game as a team, by playing together. All five starters had fine games as individuals, but in the lockerroom all they could talk about was how they had worked together. "We came together today and just played our game," said senior forward Rod Ford. "We took it to them." As Henry Wilmore, his fellow cornerman put it, "we had to find out how good we were as a team and we did." Captain Dan Fife was even more verbose. "Everyone did the job the way they can do it. It was great, just great. I'm really proud of the way we played. We took it to them. This game was no upset. We beat Indiana." Sophomore center Ken Brady played the best game of his career against the Hoosiers and gives much of the credit to his teammates. "I felt good before the game, he noted. "I was V' sure of myself and sure that we could win because the whole team was confident." The Wolverine's confidence was evident from the opening tipoff. Indiana got the first shot but Michigan got the first basket and from then on the Wolverines played the game the way they wanted to. "They couldn't even challenge us," beamed Orr. "Every time they came back we took it away from them." Indiana tried to stop Michigan with a zone in the first half, largely because the Hoosiers thought that they could contain Wilmore with it. But it didn't work as Wilmore was effective from the outside and was assisted by Ford and Wayne Grabiec who helped destroy the zone by swishing from the corners. In the second half the Hoosiers came out in a man to man, which was tantamount to admitting defeat,. at least as far as stopping Wilmore. This allowed Wilmore to work one on one and as Orr noted, "no one can handle Henry in a man to man." Indiana coach Lou Watson was so impressed by the show that Wilmore put on that he compared him to Notre Dame's Austin Carr and rated the two even. Orr had nothing but praise for Wilmore, but he was equally unstinting about the rest of the starters. Brady drew special attention as he played "by far his best game ever. Brady made some great tip ins," Orr continued. "If he plays like that it makes us look awful good. His play was a big factor in the victory." Ford was singled out for the defensive job he did against the Hoosiers' star sophomore, G e o r g e McGinnis. "Rod did a super job on McGinnis," Orr stated. "He's guarded the great ones while he's played here. In fact, he doesn't play as well when he guards an average guy." Ford was personally satisfied with the job he did on McGinnis and is looking forward to working on him again. "McGinnis told me before a tipoff that they'll be waiting for us down at Indiana," Ford recalled, "and I told him that we'd be ready." irf Both guards also drew Orr's praise, especially for their defensive efforts. "We shut off their guards almost completely," Orr bubbled. "Grabiec is surprising to those guys. He's tall and he's got those long arms." Only two Michigan substitutes were used in yesterday's game. Fife, Grabiec, and Brady went all the way, but both Wil- more and Ford came out for short rests in the first half. Harry Hayward took Wilmore's place and according to Orr, "did a fine job." Hayward got only four points, but both his baskets came from the outside, which helped force the Hoosiers out of their zone. 47-40, lead into the locker- room at halftime, and came back out even hotter to pull to a 60-46 margin after four minutes of the second stanza. The Hoosiers closed the gap to 66-61, but Michigan turned on its guns to waltz away with its biggest victory of the season. "Overall I'd say this was our best game of the season," said an elated Michigan Coach Johnny Orr, whose team has now won eight of its last nine games and is . i E i I i _ daily sports NIGHT EDITOR: MORT NOVECK tied for the Big Ten 2-0 mark. "We were to play this one, andE a great job." Both teams got performances fromt sophomores-George1 Indiana and Henrv lead with a really ready everyone did outstanding their super- McGinnis of Wilmore of I the Wolverines-but Michigan's advantage came from the great team balance. Wilmore, in his second out- standing Big Ten appearance, netted 35 points, including a Crisler Arena record 15 free throws, and put on a dazzling dibbling display as the Wolver- ines stalled away the final minutes of play. However, the best statistics for the day were McGinnis'. The 6-7 sophomore forward outscored Wil- more with 37 points and led all rebounders with a phenomenal 23 grabs. But besides McGinnis and jun- ior Joby Wright, who had 25 points, the Indiana attack was listless and Michigan's s t r o n g quintet was able to surge to a quick lead° and play the Hoos- iers off the rest of the way. The Wolverines held the lead from the start and pulled out to an 8-2 margin with Ken Brady establishing control of the boards, MICHIGAN both offensively and defensively. The big 6-9 center, who fin- ished with 18 points and 20 re- bounds, set up the first of many effective Michigan fast breaks by grabbing a rebound of the Hoos- <,-- - iers' second shot, passing off long' downcourtto Wayne Grabiec who in turn fed Rod Ford for the two pointer, in a play to be duplicated by different : combinations many times that afternoon. Michigan made great advantage of the fast break, especially in the first half, and showed that lack By] of speed is one of the Hoosiers' most serious problems. Poor Al The quicker Wolverines, led by wait at1 Dan Fife, stole the ball a num- garner his ber of times from their bigger op- verne coa ponents, helping to offset the Icers could Hoosiers' 60-49 advantage on the went down boards. to North I Wilmore scored seven points in For the a four minute period to help Mich- penaltiesv igan to a 26-16 lead. Later, with but one we Wilmore on the bench getting a ines. Bern rest, the Wolverines continued to game misc outscore the Hoosiers, as Wayne 22 seconds Grabiec, who finished with 13 iod. he any points, flipped in three goals, one got into a as the trail man on a fast break unable to and two more on open shots from game with beyond the key. Michigan Indiana, which spent the first the game half in a 2-3 zone, switched to a Gary Con man-to-man defense, but it didn't a perfect help much, as the Wolverines net- Sioux net ted 11 points in the first two and knocked it a half minutes to boost their lead Nelson. to 58-44. Nelsonv The Hoosiers, led by McGinnis, Dave Murl rallied in the next five minutes to having tr outscore the Wolverines 17-6 and lenses. cut Michigan's margin to five Michiga points. But Michigan came right NoDak ter back-to outscore Indiana, 15-6, game and in the next six minutes, upping was to be its lead to 81-67 with just six min- son turned utes left to play. North I Everything was easy from then pathetic b on. The Wolverines hit for nine less. Wilso charity tosses in the last four min- toward BE utes and Fife, Grabiec and Wil- left which morerbamboozled the Hoosier de- his feet fenders with their ballhandling to period. ice the victory. Then w Rod Ford, who was given the period, No task of guarding McGinnis, was Michigan's fourth man in double figures with 13. while Fife finished T with nine points and had a game- high seven assists. McGinnis and Wright were the FREE only two Hoosiers to finish in AN[ double figures. BERNIE BOUNCED VoDaks gain series split, 3-1 )an Fife (24), Ken Brady (15) and Henry Wilmore -Daily-Terry McCarthy (25) hit for six BILL ALTERMAN Renfrew will have to least another week to 200th victory as a Wol- ach because the erratic d never get it going and to defeat 3-1 last night Dakota at the Coliseum. second game in a row were kept to a minimum as costly for the Wolver- nie Gagnon, received a onduct when, with only sleft in the second per- d NoDaker Dick Wilson scrap. Gagnon will be ' play in next Friday's' Denver. cn broke out on top in when with 18:37 gone, nelly gave Bucky Straub pass from behind the and the junior center around the helpless Jim was starting in place of phy who apparently was ouble with his contact n kept the puck deep in rritory formost of the got off 45 shots but that their only score as Nel- d in a fine job in goal. Dakota's first goal was but it counted nonethe- on sent a lazy slow shot ugnell from the goalies just squiggled between at 1:01 of the second 'ith 12:43 gone in the rth Dakota's Brian De- /RENTALS Piero knocked in a slap shot from 20 feet out which sailed in over the left shoulder of the partially ' screened Bagnell. Michigan argued loudly, along with their supporters in the stands, that North Dakota was offsides on the play, but their plea fell on deaf ears. The NoDaks third goal was scored by rightwing Doug Camer- on on a clean breakaway down the right side. The slap shot from 30 feet out came at 12:44 of the final stanza. In addition to the lack of an offside call on the NoDaks' second goal, Michigan was also miffed at the referees when they refused to pin a penalty on Wilson after the " altercation with Gagnon. After the game, however, Renfrew said, "The referees were okay, they can only call what they see." He add- ed though he thought "their guy (Wilson) should have been xicked out." Oddly enough, the refs last night did admit to a mistake, one of the few times you'll see that hap- pen. The boo boo came at the be- ginning of the game when the men in the striped shirts charged Michigan with icing, then, after play had stopped they acknowl- edged their error and so brought the puck out to center ice for a face-off. Unfortunately for Mich- igan that was to be their only acknowledged miscue of the eve- ning. In the first period alone the Wolverines had three breakaways among their 21 shots but were un- able to connect. 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Scores College Basketball Wake Forest 96, North Carolina 84 Bradley 78, Louisville 74 Tennessee 75, Kentucky 71 LaSalle 91, Western Kentucky 76 New Mexico 65, Texas-El Paso 53 The Citadel 66, Virginia Military 64 Detroit 78, Xavier, Ohio 76 * * * * NBA Detroit 121, Boston 118 Cincinnati 114, Buffalo 113 Milwaukee 110, Chicago 90 Atlanta 127, Los Angeles 123 Philadelphia 116, Cleveland 96 Baltimore at Phoenix, inc. N.Y. vs. San Francisco at Oakland,. inc. Indiana 115, Pittsburgh 107 Virginia 141, Denver 131 Kentucky 117, New York 116 ** *7 * St. Louis 3, Chicago 2 Montreal 4, Boston 2 Toronto 4, Los Angeles 1 Philadelphia 4, Detroit 2 Pittsburgh 4, Vancouver 3 - Buffalo 4, Minnesota 3 The change has come about due to the loss of high scorer Mike Weaver (29 points per game) be- cause of academic ineligibility. Weaver also averaged nearly one third of all the shots taken by the team, and his absence was notice- ,able in the style of ball the team played. The attack against the Tartars was about as balanced as a besket- ball offense can be. with the seven scorers all taking between 10 and 16 shots. The leading scorer was center Jake Whitten who dropped in 21 points. Whitten was one of the main benefactors of the newly balanced attack, prior to yesterday's battle he had averaged only eight points a contest. Whitten also controlled the boards while he played, lead- ing everyone with 15 rebounds. John Bernara added further heroics for the Blue against the Tartar invaders from the east, Bernard pulled down 11 caroms, second only to Whitten and pump- ed in 10 points from the floor. Where Bernard really shone, how- ever, was in his floorwork. He ran all over the floor forcing turn- overs, stealing the ball and hustl- ing in general. Coach Dick Honig called Bern- ard's effort "a super job." Honig did not appear surprised at t h e performance by the 6-1 forward, which was easily his best of the year. 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