THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, February 24, 1974
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By MARC FELDMAN anced and well-coordinated attack
"That was the greatest per- all year to vault to their lofty
formance by a Michigan team second place standing in the Big
y Ten but in no game has the bal-
in a long time," beamed ,a ance been more obvious or sensa-
happily stunned Coach Jolyn tional.
Orr after he and 11,732 Crisler The five Michigan starters,
Arena partisans had witnessed shooting a combined 62 per cent
the Wolverines' total. execu- from the field, decimated the
Riviters with a collective total of
tion of the supposedly potent 101 points as each member of
Purdue Boilermakers, 111-84, the quintet had between 18 and
yesterday afternoon. 22 tallies.
Th Wotvri nes winning! Wayman Britt and Campy Rus-
J. 1L V L 'V J, W * 1
for the eleventh straight time sell, who "brought up the rear"
with 18 markers apiece could have
at home, burned the hoops cracked the 20 point barrier along
with uncanny accuracy at the with Steve Grote (22), Joe Johnson
outset to bury the Boiler- (22), and C. J. Kupec (21), but they
makers quickly and perman- were removed for substitutes with
over four minutes to play.
ently. It is highly doubtful that more
Michigan hit its first nine shots, than a handful of major collegeI
19 of its first 21; and 26 of 39 in the basketball teams have ever had
first half to take an insurmount- all five starters score twenty or
able 55-30 lead by intermission and more points, and had the Wolver-
the Boilers never got any closer ines been more statistically orient-
the rest of the way. ed, it could have happened yester-
But it wasn't only ,shooting that day.
enabled the Wolverine juggernaut Orr singled out the 5-10 Johnson
to post its 17th victory in 21 games. for praise. "This was the best game
Michigan ran well, crashed the he's ever played. I put him back
boards at both ends with vim and in the game for a minute or so at
vigor, and passed for an incredible the end just so he could get the
total of 32 assists. recognition from the crowd when
The Wolverines have used a bal- I took him out again," Orr bubbled.
Although Johnson was disap- sure bid to a post-season tourna-
pointed in his personal total of ment.
three assists, he more than made 0 Johnny Orr's name being ut-
up for it with nine of 11 shooting tered in the same sentence with
from the field and the career high Big Ten Coach of the Year.
of 22 points. But all these things are true and
The diminutive Detroiter brought gradually as the season progressed
the crowd to its feet midway the improbable has become reality]
through the first period with a for the Michigan cagers. Yester-c
stunning succession of fast break day, another convert was added inI
layups and medium range jumpers. Purdue mentor Fred Schaus. Rath-
In one four minute stretch, John- er than making excuses for hisi
son hit four straight shots to pace Boilermakers, the former Los An-
the Wolverines on a 16-4 spurt geles Laker general manager
that opened up an incredible,39-15 praised the Wolverines.
lead with less than 12 minutes
gone.
Those "perennial prophets of B-Orring b
gloom," as Richard Nixon would
have termed them, who predicted MICHIGAN
FG FT R F TP
nothing but losses for this Michigan Russell 7-15 4-5 8 2 18
basketball team, must have really Britt 9-17 0- 11 4 18
been shaking their heads in dis- Kupec 9-13 3-3 12 5' 21
3!Johnson 9.11 4-5 1 4 22
belief yesterday afternoon. Just .r2te 10- -3 5 3 22
add up the improbables of yester- Worrell 1-3 0-0 1 - 0 2
day's game and the season: Rogers 0-2 0-0 0 2 01
* Michigan scoring 111 points white 1-2 0-0 1 1 214
and beating anybody by 27 points. Schinerer -2 0-0 0 0 4
gWhit ten 0-i 0.0 020
* Three players finishing with Johnston 1-2 0-1 3, 0 2
over 20 points and none of them is Ayler 0-2 0-0 0 0 0
named Campy Russell. Team totals 49-85 13-18 52 23 111
i A 17-4 overall record, a 9-2 FG FT R F TP
mark in the Big Ten and an almost Kendrick 4-11 2-3 6 2 101
"We've played worse," Schaus
admitted. "I just don't think
we're capable of beating the
Michigan team that played here
today. In fact, I don't know too
many clubs that could have."
The Wolverines' next stop is the
not so friendly confines of Wis-
consin Fieldhouse in Madison,
where the fallen Badgers will try to
atone for their shoddy season by
upsetting Michigan. But if the Wol-
verines play half as well tomorrow
as they did yesterday, it should be
no sweat.
asketball
Nichols
Garrett
Parkinson
Luke
Satterfield
Rose
EScheffler
Steele
Manahan
Thonmas
McCarter
Team totals
5.11
5-10
8-12
0-2
5-10
2-10
1-4
2-4
1-3
0-0
1-1
34.78
0-0
6-8
2-2
0-0
2-3
1-2
0-1
1-2
2-2
0-0
0-0
16-23
4
8
3
0
3
4
2
2
1
1
0
40
2
4
4
0
2
4
0
2
1
0
22
10
16
18
0
12
5
2
5
4
0
2
84
SCORE BY PERIODS
MICHIGAN
PURDUE
Attendance-11,732
55 56-111
30 54 84
PLAYOFFS IN SIGHT:
BY G
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George Hastings
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Irish
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By ANDY GLAZER can't reckon with everything-at dig, faked past Paul Clarke and
Special To The Daily 0:50 of the third, Michigan's Don JIwristed a shot that Kronholm could
SOUTH BEND -With a WCHA Dufek almost put it into his own only partially stop.
playoff berth nearly clinched, the net in an attempt to clear the, Next, Randy Neal tried to con-
Michigan Wolverines came out and puck. ter the puck from behind the
turned in one of their best efforts At 7:21, Doug Lindskog got called Notre Dame net. It hit the back of
of the season last night as they for tripping during an offensive Kronholm's s k a t e, and trlzkled
used three third-period goals to up- thrust. But before play stopped, home.
end Notre Dame's Fighting Irish,, Notre Dame aot a bench penalty-
Joe Johnson . .
best game ever
Joe Johnson stood alone and dejected in the hall outside the
visitors' locker room in Mackey Arena. It was the night of
January 21, 1974, and Michigan had just dropped it first Big Ten
game of the year to Purdue in the most galling fashion, 85-84, in
overtime. Johnson crumpled the stats sheet he had just been
handed and hurled it to the floor, and decided right then and
there that it would not happen again.
Well, yesterday it did not happen again. The Wolverines
went out and completely demolished a Purdue team which had
come into Crisler with a 9-2 Big Ten mark and the seemingly
best chance of any Big Ten contender of replacing Indiana as
conference champion this year, The Boilermakers left a thorough-
ly beaten crew.
AND IT WAS poetic justice that the chief tormentor of the
Boilers was Joe Johnson. Joe had not had a good, game at
Purdue, making twelve turnovers, several in the fatal last three
minutes. Yet after the contest, Purdue coach Fred Schaus had
singled him out for praise as the man who made the Michigan
offense go.
Unfortunately for him, Schaus' praises of Jehson proved to
be more than accurate yesterday afternoon. The little Michigan
guard had the best scoring day of his college career and played
a truly superb all-around game in leading the Wolverines to their
greatest performance of their fine season.
His shooting statistics bordered on the incredible, as he hit
nine of eleven field goal attempts and four of five from the
line. His coach John Orr declared that "Joe Johnson was bril-
liant out there today. That was the finest game I've ever seen
him play."
JOHNSON himself was not sure he agreed. "People say
when you score a lot of points that you played your best game,"
he said, "That's not always true. But I did feel really good out
there today, better than I ever have."
Of course, Johnson had a point. He has played some excellent
games this season without scoring a lot of points. The best part
of his game has been his defense, as he has usually defended the
opposition's better guard and has held some of the best scorers
in the midwest well below their averages.
But Joe has also come into his own as the master ball-
handler and the man who runs the Michigan offense. He has
provided the quarterback the Wolverines lacked last year. On
top of that, Johnson has been superb as the middle man of the
Michigan fast break, forcing the defenders to commit and then
doling out the assists.
YESTERDAY he added high scoring to his repertoire. His
jump shot, which served him so well in his freshman year, was
on, and time and again he would pull up off the fast break, go
straight up and ripple the cords.
Joe, however, was not that excited about all the points.
In fact, he was disappointed that he only had three assists. "All
I'm trying to do this year is beat out Campy for the assist
leadership," he revealed. "For me the assists total is a big part
of the game. That's the statistic I want to lead in."
But of course, yesterday's game was a true Michigan team
effort, as any game in which the five starters score 22-22-21-18-18
must be. Every one of the Wolverine starting group had one of his
better games.
* C. J. KUPEC also had perhaps his best all-around game
in the Big Ten. Coming off a disappointing performance at
Indiana last week, Kupec completely dominated Purdue's highly-
publicized 6-11 John Garrett. He led both teams in rebounding
and assists, held Garrett to three points in the first half, and hit
a tidy nine-of-thirteen from the field himself.
* STEVE GROTE, fighting illness which kept him out of prac-
tice part of the week, wen out and played his usual hustling
game, scoring 22 points and even ripping down several offensive
rebounds.
* CAMPY RUSSELL played tremendous defense, holding
Purdue ace Frank Kendrick, who had burned him down at Purdue,
to four first-half points, prompting Schaus to term him "the best
player I've seen in the Big Ten in two years.
0 WAYMAN BRITT turned in a balanced effort, pulling
down 11 rebounds against a big Boilermaker team, scoring 18
4-2.t
The Wolverines came out flying!
in the first period. In direct con-
trast to their style in Friday night's
game, they checked both hard and
often, and shot the same way. I
THE AGGRESSIVE Maize ind
Blue kept the pressure on in close
against I r i s h goaltender Mark
Kronholm, and Angie Moretto whip-3
ped home the only goal of the
stanza at 5:34.
In the second period, Notre Dame
started issuing body checks left and
right. The dam broke at the five-
minute mark; after Notre Dame's
Steve Curry charged Tom Linds-
kog, a scuffle broke out, with Tom'sc
brother Doug coming to his aid,'
and Ray DeLorenzi jumping in on
Curry's behalf.
ANY HOPE THE Wolverines hadt
of carrying their 1-0 lead througa-'
out the game vanished at 8:33,
whentEddie Bumbacco s-.red his
third goal of the series. Bumbacco
broke down left wing and fired a
25-foot slapshot just past Robbie
Moore on the wide side.
Wolverine coach Dan Farrell said
afterward that "our defensive pen-'
alty killing was the best that it's.
been all year." But, a good defenseI
tomany men on the ice. TECCYMor oseda:r ' ...''.:~:.. ""' ' ;~ '~.'
Farrell was still worried. "All thE game: hose guys ould h teIf
year we've had problems in 4-i)n 4 needed an exorcist to get rid of
siutos a uthpn edus tonight." Daily Photo by ROLFE TESSEM
situations. I was just hoping we'd."s tmhet.IT'S GOOD VERSUS EVIL as Lionel "Main Train" Worrell, one of Crisler Arena's favorites, drives
virtually clinched a WCHA playoff; past Purdue's Bruce Rose. It was Rose's aggressive and foul-prone play that marked him the villain of
THE LUCK OF the Irish turned rspot. As for Notre Dame, well, the yesterday's contest. The "Train" did not have his best game, but that did little to subdue the enthusiasm
sickly green. Twenty seconds after Gipper plays football, not hockey. of his extremely vocal Section 26 fan club.
the double penalty, Kardos slam-
med hometa rebound of a Kris MSU NIPS WILDCA TS
Manery shot.M ISWLC T
Seventy seconds later Pat Hughes
took a crisp pass from Don Far-
Notre Damned! Indiana bounces Minnesota
SCORE BY PERIODS By The Associated Press E'Arena.
! MICHIGAN 1 2 3 4 MINNEAPOLIS -Torrid second- ! Wisconsin, now 5-5 in. the con-
Notre Dame 0 1 1 2 half shooting by Scott May and the -ference and 1 -7 overall, won the
Magaaed at -t2eIou -_line..,'n naug
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(M) Moore
(ND) Kronholm
LIE SAVES
11 7 10
13 10 5
TOT.
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28
FIRST PERIOD
SCORING: 1. M-Moretto (Fox) 5:34.
SECOND PERIOD
SCORING: 2. ND-Bumbacco (Nyrop,
Kronholm) 8:33.
THIRD PERIOD
SCORING: 3. M-Kardos (Manery,
Palmer) 7:42; 4. M-Hughes (Fardig, T.
Lindskog) 8:52; 5. M-Neal (Moretto,
Palmer) 10:47; 6. ND-DeLorenzi (Is.-
raelson, Nyrop) ppg. 14:43.
Attendance: 4,200
inside work of freshman Kent Ben-
son powered the Indiana Hoosiers
to a 73-55 victory over the Minne-
sota Gophers last night and pro-
tected their Big Ten basketball
~lead.
j May hit his first six shots of
the second half and wound up with
a game high of 20 points, 14 of
them in the second 20 minutes.
Benson added 18 points and led
all rebounders with 15. Steve
Green contributed 16 points for the
Hoosiers, now 18-3 for the season
and 10-1 in the Big Ten with a one-
Toledo,
SUNDAY SPORTS
NIGHT EDITOR' BRIAN DEMING
game at the foul line. The Badg-
ers hit 18-20 while the Buckeyes,
losing their eighth straight game,
hit only six of 15.
Bill Andreas came off the bench
to score 18 points for Ohio State,
now 1-10 in the Big Ten and 6-15
overall.
game lead over Michigan.
Phil Filer and Rick McCutcheon
each had 12 points for the Gophers,
but both fouled out midway
through the second half as the
34-3,
's
is
Hoosiers romped to their tenth Hawks corned
straight Big Ten victory and broke CHAMPAIGN, - Rick Schmidt
a five-game losing streak at Wil- hammered in 27 points yesterday
lams Arena dating back to 1967. to lead Illinois to a 91-84 victory
*a* * over Iowa as the Illini snapped an
11-game losing streak, longest in
Wildcats forlorn school history.
EAST LANSING - Guard Mike The loss was the 11th on the road
Robinson grabbed a rebound and for the Hawkeyes who have yet to
turned it into athree-point play 'win awayfrom home.
with four seconds left to give Iowa held only one lead at 2-0
Michigan State an uphill 73-70 Big before the Illini took charge and
Ten basketball victory over North- rolled to a 10-2 advantage. Iowa
Ma(men defuse
to clinch best~
By CLARKE COGSDILL held to a low score simply be
Special To The Daily cause his opponent stalled on hi
TOLEDO - It wasn't suspense feet: the referee was quite len
that brought close to 1,000 wrestl- ient with those who didn't g
ing enthusiasts to the Toledo Field for takedowns.
House yesterday afternoon to But when Rich Valley put 1
watch the number-one Michigan gether four near-falls and coppe
Wolverines destroy the young and a 16-0 superior decision at 126 ov
winless Rockets, 34-3. Toledo's Mark McGuire, it w
For some, it was a chance to clear that even cautious tactics 1
watch home-town boy Bill Schuck the foe weren't going to be enoug
show his stuff, and the Toledo na- to gum up the Michigan mat m
tive obliged with a 13-8 decision chine. Bill Davids followed wi
over John Fast. But most of those a devastating crunch at 1:09 of h
who came out probably did so out tango with Phil Kehn.
of curiosity to see just how good After Schuck's triumph, capta
a team has to be to reach the top. Jerry Hubbard got the first tak
Michigan's Jim Brown was down at four seconds and knock
Jual season
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ed
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as
by
gh
na-
ith
his
ain
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off a pretty good man, John Zy-
chowicz, 7-1. Hubbard's win re-
wrote his personal record: Most
consecutive dual meet victoriesc
(30), most dual meet wins in one(
season (14), and most team points]
scored by an individual wrestlere
(58).
The remainder of the meet s
was mostly undistinguished. 177-
pounder Rob Huizenga used a -
dig this - orthodox cradle to
score his pin of John Trease at
1:09; John Ryan absorbed the
Maize and Blue's only loss when
he wrestled a bad middle four
minutes against Joe Berlman;t
and Dan Brink, Dave Curby and
western yesterday. battled bac
e vRobinson, a two-time Big Ten 16-14 on the
scoring leader, led the Spartan Prince, but
rally to overtake the Wildcats, who 12 straight
nst all grappled well held a 10-point advantage at 62-52 advantage 1
D deserve their wins. with 5:56 remaining. 32 half-time
lly achieved something Northwestern had possession of
today," smiled coach the ball with the score tied 70
referring to his squad's with one minute left, and stalled
neet record - the best in hopes of a final shot. But Benny
a Michigan wrestling 'White stole the ball with 14 sec-
e'll be in pretty good onds on the clock to set up the
o into the Big Tens." Spartan's final shot.
14-0 Trailing 36-34 at halftime, North-
Brown (M) dec. Myron Sha- western managed to jump to a 48- Indiana
-_. 40 lead with 12:20 left behind 6-foot- MICHIGAN
Valley (M) sup. dec. Mark 8 center Bryan Ashbaugh. Purdue
). 16-0.* * *
Davids (M) pinned Phil 1Mich. State
:09. OS U scorned Wisconsin
Schuck (M) dec. John Fast COLUMBUS - Gary Anderson Minnesota
scored 17 points and Kim Hughes
aT), 7-1.a. 16 to lead Wisconsin to a 68-56 Big Now s
Brink (M) dec. Charles Mil-1 Ten basketball victory over Ohio wa
State last night, the first time the Illinois
Beriman (T) dec. John Ry- Badgers have ever won in St. John Ohio State
Huizenga (M) pinned Joe
1:09.
Curby (M) dec. Mike ck-a
y Ernst (M) dec. Dave Hen-
6-0.
;k within two points at
shooting of Candy La-
the Illini then scored
points to take a 28-14
before opening up a 46-
lead.
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UNBEATEN PENN STATE:
Tumblers face toughest test
en lose
By MICHAEL WILSON
The Michigan gymnastics team will put their
unbeaten record on the line tomorrow night when
they host unbeaten Penn State in the Wolverines'
final duel meet of the season. The contest will
begin at 7:30 p.m. in Crisler Arena.
Penn State promises to be the toughest test
the Blue gymnasts will face to date. The Nittany
Lions were runners-up in last year's NCAA meet
and according to Michigan coach Newt Loken,
are even stronger this year.
Penn State has been consistently scoring 163-
164 points per meet this year. The combination
of superb specialists and all-around men give the
Nittany Lions a very balanced attack.
verly swollen thumb, has been hampered in re-
cent workouts and will see limited action against
Penn State.
The Wolverines will also be hurting in the
floor exercise due to the loss of J. P. Bouchard.
Bouchard injured a tendon in his left foot during
a workout this past week.
"The loss of J. P. is a serious blow, not only
to the team but to him personally because he
wanted so badly to compete against Penn State
and in the Big Ten," Loken commented.
'However, the floor exercise team has been
working extremely hard to do what is humanly
possible to perform their routines and push their
scores as close to J.P. as nossible." Loken added.
[S C O1RE SI
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
MICHIGAN 111, Purdue 84
Illinois 91, Iowa 84
Michigan St. 73, Northwestern 70
Wisconsin 68, Ohio State 56
Indiana 73, Minnesota 55
Marquette 61, Detroit 53
Penn state 66, Pittsburgh 64
Notre Dame 108, W. Virginia 80
Alabama 94, Kentucky 71
W. Michigan 85, Kent St. 59
Nebraska 71, Oklahoma St. 63
N. Carolina 94, virginia 61
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Special To The Dailyd ttid
DETROIT-Michigan's women's basketball team dropped its third
straight game, 39-32, in overtime to Wayne State University yesterday
Cmorning.
Plagued by turnovers and cold shooting, the Wolverines trailed by
at least two points throughout most of the game. Michigan managed
to tie the game at the end of regulation time, but hit only two free-
throws in overtime while allowing the Tartais seven points. The Wol-
verines missed nine of nine shots from the field in that overtime period.
"We lost it at the free-throw line," Michigan coach Vic Katch
stated. The Wolverines hit only 17 of 35 free throws, missing 12 of 20