Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, February Z, 19'75 Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, February 2, 19~'5 Purdue survives full court ... fail miserably By AL HRAPSKY WEST LAFAYETTE N BASKETBALL, as in war, battle plans often look better on the drawing board than when translated into practice. Johnny Orr, the well known basketball theorist, invaded the state of Indiana with two strategems in his arsenal that would have been better off left at home. For the first time this year, his Michigan Wolverines opened with a zone defense. The Wolverines also unleashed a three-guard lineup con- sisting of Steve Grote, Dave Baxter and Joe Johnson at the end of yesterday's first half. The Wolverines, who have had to overcome a height dis- advantage all year, went right to a zone in the first minutes of play, trying to bottle up the taller Boilermakers. The plan backfired, however, as Purdue pierced the zone with hot outside shooting, and out-rebounded Michigan 21-10 in the first twenty minutes. Fred Schaus, coach of the fired-up Purdue quintet, surprised by Orr's new defensive strategy, said he was pleased by the way his team handled the zone. "We didn't work against a zone defense all week. In fact, George Faerber (assistant coach and scout) was really im- pressed with their man to man." When Wayman Britt picked up his third foul, with about six minutes left in the first period, Orr inserted Baxter in the lineup, hoping to catalyze the Michigan fast break. "Grote is a good rebounder, and we needed more quickness to get us running," said Orr. "We figured they could bring the ball up the floor better." But this innovation didn't work. Freshman Wayne Walls, 6-6, sophomore Gerald Thomas, 6-7, and senior John Garrett, 6-1, continued to dominate the boards. Schaus didn't analyze Michigan's strategy in the way Orr had intended. "It just gave them another shooter in the lineup, but we have enough quickness in the corners, so it didn't bother us," he said. "I kinda liked it In a way because it helped our re- bounding a lot." Orr rationalized the 1-2-2 zone defense as an attempt to pre- pare for the even taller Indiana squad Michigan must face to- morrow. But the quickness of Jordan and Walls completely undid Michigan's zone. Time and again, Purdue's forwards broke loose under the hoop to score uncontested layups, and Michigan failed to recover. Even when Michigan's defense stiffened, the slow-down tactics of guards Bruce Parkinson and Eugene Parker forced Johnson and Grote to come out of the zone. At one point, at the end of the first half, the referee warned Johnson that he had to come out and check Parker, or he'd be hit with a technical. Purdue also used the oldest and most effective strategy for breaking a zone defense - hot shooting. Parkinson, who usually hits about 38 per cent from the floor, blistered the Wolverine defenses with excellent perimeter bombing. The junior guard, subpar in the last few games, explained' the drastic' changes he's made to crack his slump. "I've tried a lot of things to correct what's wrong with my shot," Parkinson said. "I've been concentrating on pulling up and shooting instead of taking it all the way in." "When you hit your first few shots," Parkinson added, "it's easier to put the ball up there." In fact, his shooting forced Mich- igan to switch back to its man-to-man defense in the last few minutes of the opening period. Although Orr's attempts to jazz up his game plan failed badly, another Michigan weakness stood out just as clearly-I atrocious offense from the forward positions. Britt managed only six points, barely half his season's aver- age, while John Robinson went scoreless. Substitutes Rick White and Joel Thompson couldn't do much better, adding three and two points, respectively. In comparison, Purdue's cornermen produced 33 points while outrebounding their counterparts 33-16. Lack of height and rebounding strength has plagued the Wolverines all season, proving fatal against Indiana, Minne- sota, and now Purdue. If Michigan is to have any chance for a strong finish in the Big Ten, and a possible berth in the NIT as an at-large team, Johnny Orr's ouija board will have to start giving some better answers. Blue By BILL CRANE Special To The Daily WEST LAFAYETTE - Bruce Parkinson broke a season-long scoring slump and sophomore forward Gerald Thomas came off the bench to dominate the boards, as the Purdue Boiler- makers sped past the Michigan Wolverines 75-67 yesterday. Parkinson, averaging 12 points per game and shooting 38 per cent from the floor going into yesterday's game, broke loose for 22 points, hitting nine of 14 shots. Thomas, who had been laid low by mononucleosis, grab- bed a game high nine rebounds and chipped in 12 points. Hoping to contain their tall- er foes, the Wolverines opened the game in a 1-2-2 zone de- fense. But in the early go- ing, the caroms went the wrong w a y s, and Purdue scored three times off offen- sive rebounds. And Parkinson, who is better known as a playmaking guard, rally, decided to try his hand zonebreaker. 75-67 as a1 Boiled over MICHIGAN jBritt Robinson Kupec Grote Johnson SWhite Baxter Thompson Schinnerer Team Totals Jordan Walls Garrett Parker Parkinson Thomas Scheffler Steele Satterfield Team Totals FG FT R 3-9 0-0 7 0-2 0-1 2 9-17 3-4 5 5-9 3-3 3 6-15 6-7 2 1-2 1-4 4 2-6 0-0 1 0-3 2-2 3 0-0 0-0 1 12 26-63 15-21 40 PURDUE F TPj 4 61 2 0 4 21 4 13 3 18j 0 3 1 4 1 2 0 O 19 67 F TP 3 7 3 14 4 7 1 71 4 221 2 121 2 2 0 0 0 4 19 75 margin to seven, and there it stayed until 4:27 remained. Back in the game, Rick White fought for an offensive rebound and finally poked, the ball in, making the score 67-61. But Pur- W, Y due responded on an offensive rebound by Walls. NIGHT EDITORS: The Boilermakers regained FRED UPTON LEBA HERTZ the ball, but Johnson stole it back and laid it in, bringing the score to 69-63. With the momentum flowing to Mich- With five mnutes gone, the strategy would enable the Boil- igan, Purdue wisely called Wolverines held a 14-11 lead, ers to blow Michigan out of time out. but in the next four minutes Mackey Arena, however, Mich- C.J. Kupec played another Parkinson scored four times and igan pulled off a desperation fine game for Michigan, pacing teammate Eugene Parker tal- rally. Joel Thompson entered the attack with 21 points. More lied once. the ballgame, and began snar- importantly, he held Purdue When the deluge ended, Pur- ing rebounds for the Wolver- center John Garrett to seven due was up 22-16. The Boiler- ines. points, 14 under the Boilermak- makers never trailed thereafter. With 14 minutes to go and er ace's average. Michigan coach Johnny Orr the score 51-36 Purdue, C.J. Both coaches seemed dissat- praised Parkinson's play but Kupec hit two long jumpers, isfied by the way their teams admitted, "We didn't expect and guard Joe Johnson con- had played. Fred Schaus said him to hit like that." The 14 verted a sateal. The Riveters re- he was "concerned" that his unpleasantly surprising points sponded twice, but Kupec hit team hadn't taken better con- contributed by Parkinson did again, and Johnson cashed in trol of the game when it had a much to stake Purdue to a off the fast break. chance to put it away. 39-32 halftime lead. Purdue missed a shot, Mich- And Orr said, "I thought we The Wolverines could not igan rebounded, and on the re- played better in the second half match Purdue's 50 per cent first turn Johnson again drove the except for the first five min- half shooting accuracy, hitting lane. He drew a foul and con- utes, but we missed too many but 38 per cent from the floor. verted both tosses. That cut the easy shots." To make matters worse, the Boilermakers out-rebounded M .*.. ... .. ...:............... Michigan 21-10, with Thomas, center John Garrett, and for- i wards W a l t e r Jordan and 1 der IWayne Walls decisively out- m ling their Wolverine coun- terparts. n 'lwol1verinles 3-4 At 8:57 in the first half, Dave Baxter replaced foul - plagued Uspecial to TeDatdy Wayman Britt. Orr had gone DULUTH-The Michigan hockey team achieved yet an too he thlree-g addffen e. ne other split this weekend as Minnesota-Duluth defeated tor d ae three-guard fese. Coach Dan Farrell's dekers last night 3-2. The Wolverines Orr said he made the move to add quickness, since the best won Friday nght 9-2. hope for the smaller Wolverines Tom Milani scored the winning goal for the Bulldogs would be to run their taller foes midway through the third period. Duluth kept the pressure into the hardwood. on the Wolverines the rest of the game. The beginning of the second Michigan jumped out to an early lead, when Doug half was a Wolverine night- Lindskog connected at 1:13 of the first period on a mare. Through the first five pass from Pat Hughes. However, Duluth came back minutes, P u r d u eboutscored to tie the score at the 11:24 mark of the same stanza Michigan 12-4 and boosted its on a goal by Rodney Jones. Jdto 15e pitws kigk In the second period, the game turned into a tight de- Just when it was looking ke fensive struggle and it seemed both teams would enter Purdue coach Fred Schaus' the second intermission tied. The Bulldogs disspelled that notion, however, when Jones scored his second goal with a mere second left. First Period ;: SCORING: 1. M - D. Lindskog (Hughes) 1:17; 2. UMD - R. E osu Wn some, lose some Jones (Nelson) 11:24. PENALTIES: 1. M - D. Lindskog (tripping) 4:40; 2. M - Hoene (interference) 12:35; 3. M - Natale (interference), 13:56; 4. UMD- 27 points yesterday to lead Nelson (roughing) 16:57; 5. M - T. Lindskog (highstick) 16:17. Michigan State to a 75-60 vic- Second Period ' MichganStae toa 7-60vic SCORING: 3. UMD - R. Jones (O'Brian, Arvidson), 19:59. tory over Illinois in a region- PENALTIES: 6. UMD - Miani (tripping) 2:05; 7 M - Hughes ally televised basketball game. (interference) 4:13; 8. M - Morrison (roughing) 9:09; 9. UMD -- Milani (elbowing) 15:37. Furlow scored 13 of Michigan Third Period State's first 15 points en route SCORING: 4 M - Werner (Debol, Manery) 1:11; 5. UMD -M- to an early 15-6 lead as the Tani (M. Jones, Spoden) 9:31. SpartansGOALIES' SAVES Spartans picked up their first G-MooA s 15 16 16' E47 Big Ten victory on the road UMD-Heinz 12 10 7 9--2 this season. >:.::::.:::;<;.::;:: WILLIAMS PACES WIN: "M' thincicids triumph FG 2-8 6-14 3-5 3-12 9-14 3-4 1-5 0-0 2-3 FT 3-4 2-2 1-2 1-2 4-4 6-9 0-0 0-0 0-0 R 6 10 8 0 6 9 2 0 0 4 45 29-65 17-23 AP Photo MSU CENTER Lindsay Hairston, never known for reticence, airs a complaint about coach Gus Ganakas' technical foul in the Illinois game yesterday. Hairston did, however, remain for the duration of the contest, which the Spartans won, 75-60. Officials: Charles Fouty and lando Palesse Crowd: 14,123 SCORE BY PERIODS MICHIGAN 32 35 Purdue 39 36 Or- 67 75 BADGERS END DROUGHT Hoosiers By The Associated Press the points in the COLUMBUS - Junior Scott streak. May poured in 25 points last* night to lead top-ranked Indiana to a 72-66 Big Ten basketball 171 (W kyes b victory over Ohio State. MADISON - D The' t r i u m p h was the scored a career-r Hoosiers' 23rd in a row, 20 of yesterday, leadin them coming this season. In- to an 86-85 ove diana, the nation'sslone un- over Iowa in Big beaten major team, pushed T rball. its conference lead to The triumph s Ohio State, led by Craig Tay- game Wisconsin lor's 24 points, fell to11-8 over- -the longest for all and 5-4 in the Big Ten. in three decades. Indiana wheeled awayfrom Koehler, sidelin Ohio State with seven straight season with a se points for a 64-58 lead with a !Jury, turned in' little over seven minutes to pressivecollegiate play. in helping the. E Quinn Buckner had five of from behind. conquer Hoosiers' hot ounced a 1 e Koehler -high 38 points: ng Wiscsonsin rtime victory g Ten basket- napped a 10- losing streak the Badgers ed earlier this vere ankle in- his most im- e performance Badgers come ge reshman Mike. 28 points yes- terday to lead Minnesota to a 70-57 victory over Northwestern in a Big Ten basketball game. Thompson scored four points early in the game to give the Gophers a 6-2 lead which they never relinquished.j Minnesota climbed to a 35-22 advantage at the half with Thompson getting 16 of his points before the intermission. The Gophers stayed on top the rest of the way although with some 11 minutes to play, CNorthwestern -cut the lead to 45-37before the Gophers put on another spurt led by Thompson to take a comfortable 58-41 lead. Spairtans roll CHAMPAIGN - Terry Furlow opened with a hot hand and finished with a game high of Big Ten Standings Conference Games GOphers surg EVANSTON-Fr Thompson scored W Indiana 9 Purdue 6 Minnesota 6 MICHIGAN 5 Ohio State 5 Michigan State 5 Illinois 4 Iowa 3 Northwestern 1 Wisconsin 1 L 0 3 3 4 4 4 S 6 8 8 Pct. 1.000 .667 .667 .556 .556 .556 .444 .333 .111 .111 Miclugan grapplers grind Gophers, 29-2' By JON CHAVEZ Yesterday's Results Purdue 75, MICHIGAN 67 Michigan State 75, Illinois 60 Minnesota 70, Northwestern 57 Wisconsin 86, Iowa, 85, OT Indiana 72, Ohio State 66 Blue tumble osy By SCOTT LEWIS Freshman Harley Danner's superb per- formance in the all-around competition led the Michigan gymnastics squad to a re- sounding defeat of injury-plagued Ohio State yesterday, 207.50 to 191.80. Danner outperformed the Buckeyes' su- perb all-around competitor, Chuck Ewing, amassing 51.90 points to Ewing's 51.45. Wolverine Bruce Medd edged Bruce Kee- shin, also of Michigan, to take third place in the all-around. M I C H I G A N 'S P O I N T total, however, wasn't as impressive as Loken would like it to be. "There tends to be a letdown when the competitors aren't as keen as we expect, due to the loss of some of their key men," the Wolverine coach lamented. The meet started with Michigan executing a sweep of the first three places in the floor exeurcises. Sncialist Randvu Sakamoto fin- Smallenbarger tied for third place. DANNER PLACED first in vaulting, ahead of Ewing and Gary Maulding of OSU, who tied for second. On the parallel bars, Danner again topped the field, finishing ahead of Buckeye Gary Peters. Keeshin and Bob Johnson of Michi- gan tied for third. The parallel bars provided the only dis- appointment of the day for the Wolverine gymnasts, however, as they had fewer team points than OSU in this event. "Our parallel bar routines need much improvement," said Loken after the match. THE WOLVERINES polished off the Buck- eyes with another sweep, on the high bar. Bob Darden, Keeshin, and Medd finished in that order. The icitorv over Ohi;Mat Lrtivrethe Bluei With five seconds remaining in his 126 lb. match, Michigan wrestler Rich Lubell was penal- ized a point for stalling enabling Mike MacArthur of Minnesota to gain a 2-2 draw. Unlike Friday's Iowa meet, the match wasn't crucial. In fact, it prevented a Michigan shutout as all the other Wol- verines went on to win, and the Gophers were exterminated 29-2 at Crisler Arena yesterday. The Maize and Blue matmen came back from Friday's loss to Iowa in fine style against a Minnesota team that Michigan Coach Bill Johannesen best described as "s o m e w h a t dow n." Injuries in practice and a shifting of personnel forced many Gophers to wrestle "out of their weight class," explained Michigan Assistant Coach Cal Jenkins. Noticeably absent was Min- nesota's 150 lb. NCAA runnerup, Larry Zilverberg. Wrestling in place of the Gopher's injured Crunch crunch 118-Jim Brown (M) dec. Craig Johnson (Mn), 12-3 126-Rich Lubell (M) drew Mike MacArthur (Mn), 2-2 134-Brad McCrory (M) dec. John Hughes (Mn), 10-2 142 Bill Schuck (M) dec. Steve Big Ten champ was Jim Menne who succombed to Michigan's John King, 10-7. Wolverine Bill Schuck, losing to Iowa's Brad Smith by a point on Friday, made sure there was no repeat yesterday. Schuck literally attacked his man, Steve Egesdal and took a 6-1 decision. "Yeah," admitted Schuck afterward, "I was fired up. I'd rather have beat Iowa. I just want to get my condition- ing back." The wrestling Wolverines may need all the conditioning they can muster when Michigan State comes to town next Saturday. Out to avengeah19-16 early season loss, Michigan should have its strongest lineup ever for the meet. Johannesen, wearing his "win"r button yesterday, although for- getting it was on against Iowa, made a flat prediction. By TOM DURANCEAU Versatile Dave Williams re- turned to action for the Mich- igan track team yesterday, and, led it to a victory in a triangu- lar meet at the Multi-Sports Building. The Wolverine thinclads grab- bed eight first places in run- ning away from Bowling Green and Notre Dame. Michigan fin- ished with 85 points to 49%/ for Bowling Green and 27 for Notre Dame. WILLIAMS, coming off a leg Ms magic T h e Michigan women's swim team finished their dual meet season yesterday by drowning Oakland Uni- versity, 83-37. The victory put the women's season standings at 3 and 1. Swimmers Debby Brevitz and Kathy Knox, as well as the women's freestyle relay team, qualified at the meet to compete in the March NCAA championships. injury, went out in his first race of the day and won thel 440 in a Fieldhouse record time of 48.7. Later, Williams blazed to victory in the 300 edging Tim LoDico of Bowling Green in a time of 31.4. LoDico finished in 31.9. which also included Bob Mills, Dave Furst, and Jeff McLeod. Their winning time was 3:20.3. Abe Butler of Michigan was another multi-winner for the Wolverines as he swept the long jump with a jump of 22'11/2", and the triple jump with a leap of 46'8 ". The Maize and Blue took a clean sweep of the triple jump as Mark Bohlke finished second and Mark Lonner third. The Michigan high jumpers mastered the field as Jeff Swanson, a freshman, cleared 6'10" as did Doug Gibbs to make it a 1-2 finish for the Wolver- ines. Swanson finished first with less misses. Jesse Myers tied for third with Steve Edwards of Bowling Green. THE WOLVERINES also got a great effort in the pole vault as Jim Stokes, Ed Kukla, and Terry Hart all cleared 15'6" to grab the top three spots in that event. The Wolverines' final first place came in the 600 as Jeff McLeod streaked to victory in 1:12.6. Bob Mills and Dave Furst finished 2-3 to gain an- other sweep for the successful Michigan thinclads. Coach Jack H a r v e y was pleased with the performance of his team, stating, "We weren't really too worried about losing but this is a good early season meet and we performed pretty well." "Williams had -a good work- out today," Harvey continued, "and our high jumpers and pole vaulters gave us a super effort. Really, we were mixing people in different events to see how they work." The Wolverines' next meet is next Saturday at the Michigan State Relays at East Lansing. Wolverine swimmers thunder past Toronto By ED LANGE The Michigan swim team pulverized a scrappy but out- classed squad from the University of Toronto 74-40 yesterday afternoon at Matt Mann pool. The Wolverines, bouncing back from Friday night's loss to Indiana, upped their dual meet record to 6-2. Michigan coach Gus Stager used the meet to shift some of his swimmers around, giving them the opportunity to swim in some different strokes and have some fun," Stager said. "I thought we had good, steady, decent swims." The Toronto "Blues" jumped out to a quick lead by win- ning the 400-yard medley relay but after that it was all down- hill for the visitors. Michigan freshmen Jim Black and Curt Wilson finished one-two on the one meter board with Black racking up 268.8 points. Dave Eddy of Michigan took first on the three-meter with 306.8, followed by teammate Dave Walterhouse. In the 200-yard freestyle, closest race of the meet, Toronto's "We're going to take Michigan Finally, Williams led off the State this time." victorious m i l e relay team SOE r I i .i College Basketball Maryland 98. N.C. State 97 Clemson 80, North Carolina 72 Notre Dame 96.Xavier, Ohio 58 Dayton 76, Chicago Loyola 63 Florida 101, Vanderbilt 90 Tennessee 105, Georgia 69 Holy Cross 73, Seton Hall 71 Oklahoma St. 74, Oklahoma 65 Evansville 109, DePauw 88 UTEP 53, New Mexico 52 Kansas St. 66, Kansas 56 Cincinnati 85, N. Illinois 69 Alabama 77, Auburn 53 Arizona St. 83, Arizona 81 College Hockey Michigan Tech 5, Michigan State 4, OT I