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By JOHN KAHLERTH
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Special To The Daily
grew up and learned his basketball MICHIGAN
on the streets of New York. Per-
haps the city air affected his (20) Campy Russell (6
mind, as he developed into a to- (32) Wayman Britt (6-
tally frank personality who pro- (41) C. J. Kupec (6-8)
jects an air of craziness each time (24) Joe Johnson (5-10
he speaks.(36) Steve Grote (6-3)
His team reflects his personal-
ity. The Marquette starting five all
came from tough neighborhoods in
the inner city, and they play as This is not to say they
though they expect the opposition good. Any team that goes Z
to draw knives on them. to have something going for
Johnny Orr, as he has repeated for the Warriors that somel
endlessly this week, is just a poor an excellent bunch of shoo
country boy tickled to death to According to McGuire, t
be here. Named Big Ten Coach of player on the squad is
the Year yesterday by overwhelm- Maurice Lucas, who "could
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Today's Mid - East Regional
Championship g a m e between
Michigan and Marquette begins
at 4:00 p.m. The action will be
telecast live from Tuscaloosa
over Channel 4. Radio broad-
casts will be handled by WAAM
(1600 AM), WUOM (91.7 FM),I
and WPAG (107 FM).
tune to be coaching a team that
plays with insane determination
and is just beginning to see an im-
possible dream come within reach.
A 4:00 p.m. today these twoI
great minds meet for the NCAA'
Mid-East Regional champion-
ship. For the Wolverines to win
it, they must come up with some
good efforts against soaime fine
Marquette players.
McGuire has rounded up a col-
lection of tall, skinny players to
man his starting line up. They will
remind Ann Arbor fans watching
on television of Michigan State
in their style of play. They run,
shoot, and pay little attention to
the niceties of patterned offense.
would remember to keep his head
up." The honesty is admirable, but
Lucas is still a ferocious boader
who reduced SEC Player-of-the-
year Jan vanBredaKolff to a pile
of shaking jelly in their match-up
Thursday.
Earl Tatum holds down one for-
ward. "If we'd give him the ball,
he'd be an all-American," says
McGuire.
The other forward is Bo Ellis,
a skinny 6-9 dude with a taste
for fashion that, in street clothes,
makes him look like a cross be-
tween a clothes hanger and a
south side pimp. Some consid-
er him to be the best freshman
in the country.
Tatum and Ellis both hit 7-of-10
from the floor against Vanderbilt,
so their shooting ability is well
known to the Michigan coaches. El-
lis also contributed a controver-
sial play at the end of the game
when it appeared to all but the
officials that he dunked the ball.
Leading the backcourt is Marcus
Washington, of whom McGuire
says, "He must be one of the
eight top players in this region."
INEUPS:Joe Johnson, and Wayman Britt
[NEUPSwere all subjects of interviews by
high-powered reporters and even
MARQUETTE the deep reserves are getting at-
F '31)BoEs(6-9)tention.
( Bo Ellis (,"We're playing four games in
F (43) Earl Tatum (6-4) eight days, and all of them on
C (20) Maurice Lucas (6-10) the road," moaned Orr during
G (22) Lloyd Walton (6-0) the press conference yesterday.
G (55) Marcus Washington But the prolonged road trip ap-
pears to be having little effect
(6-1) on the Michigan cagers. If they
lose today, it will not be because
He can score, but spends most of they weren't up for the game.
his time concentrating on defense. And they will not be playing on
The other guard is Lloyd Wal- a hostile court, either. The large
ton, a strange, intense individual Vanderbilt contingent is extremely
who acts as the floor leader and upset at the treatment they re-
defender of Warrior rights against ceived at the hands of Marquette
officiating calls. He shows a good and the officials Thursday, and
move to the basket, which he ex- will be hoping that Michigan
ploited well against Vandy. avenges them. And in the noise
Dave Delsman and Ed Daniels department, Don C a n h a m has
spell the guards, and Rick Camp- worked out an agreement with the
bell is quick off the bench when- Alabama pep band to represent
ever a forward gets in trouble. Michigan in the stands today.
Aside from that, the Warrior bench The key to the game should be
is of negligible quality. the ability of the Michigan for-
i For all his craziness, McGuire wards to shut down their Mar-
is under no illusion as to the quette counterparts. Britt draws
fate his club will face. "There Tatum, and Campy will take Ellis.
is no way to defend against C. J. Kupec will handle Lucas, and
Campy Russell once he gets the Johnson and Grote will face off
ball. All you can do is hope he against Walton and Washington,
doesn't get it. respectively.
"I am very impressed with this The players have definitely en-
Michigan team. They are a run- joyed their stay in the sun, lying
ning club, but they know when to around the Holiday Inn pool in the
slow it down when the opportun- Alabama sun. They enjoy it so
ity is not there." much, in fact, that they are plan-
For the Michigan players, yes- ning for another week of vaca-
terday meant strange and won- tion. The weather in Greensboro is
derful sensations of being recogniz- reputed to be fine this time of
ed by the national media. Russell, 1 year.
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By CLARKE COGSDILL !
Special To The Daily
AMES-When Michigan's wrest-
lers showed up at 7:00 last night
for the NCAA wrestling champion-
ship semifinals at Mussolini-Mod-
ern Hilton Coliseum, they knewi
they had to place five of their re-
maining six wrestlers in the top
five spots of their weights to re-
tain much hope of capturing the
national title.
They didn't do it. When Jim
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NIGHT EDITORS:
BILL STIEG
and
FRED UPTON
Refreshing Al McGuire
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... quick with the wit
TUSCALOOSA
E WERE TAKING a shortcut across the Indian Hills Golf
Course here yesterday on our way back to the hotel after a
hard game of tennis. Ahead of us was what looked like some
skinny kid dressed in red slacks and a yellow sports shirt. Long
black curly hair snuck out from underneath his golf hat, and
he was poking around in the rough with his golf club, looking
for a lost ball.
Caught up in this Southern atmosphere in which everybody
seems to talk to everyone else, I ventured to ask the guy, who
still hadn't turned around, how the golf game was coming.
Out from under the hat came not the long Southern drawl
I had expected, but one of the thickest New York accents you
will ever want to hear. "Ah, it's not going so good," he pre-
tended grouse. "These other guys here, I think they're cheating."
Then he turned around, and it was none other than Marquette
coach Al McGuire, smiling one of his widest grins.
It was a startling way to meet McGuire, who has be-
come somewhat of a minor legend in college basketball.
But that's the way things have been around Tuscaloosa
these last several days, and that's just the kind of first
impression that really captures the kind of character Al
McGuire is.
Of course, it has been Johnny Orr who has. really stolen
the show around here. His drawling humor and storytelling
ability, along with the Cinderella role his team has played so
far, have caught the imagination of the press and basketball
fans gathered here for the NCAA regional.
But McGuire, a veteran of NCAA competition has also
emerged as one of the dominant personalities of. the tourna-
ment. His quick wit, his constant looseness and kidding and his
honesty in saying exactly what he thinks, make him a unique
and colorful character.
He first surprised everybody Wednesday night at a press
dinner when he conceded this year's national title to UCLA.
"Hell, if Big Red decides to play, there is nobody who can stop
them," he said, referring, naturally, to Bill Walton. "Of course,
whoever wins this regional will be a great team, but the games
here will take so much out of them that I don't think they can
knock off UCLA this year."
McGuire was candid too, about his own team. "We
really don't have any leadership on this team, and that's a
problem. We have several problems with this team. Right
now we're merely a defensive team. Our offense is garbage."
The Wire wit really turned on when he discussed the kind
of players he recruits and his impressions in general of college
basketball players today. "Sure, I recruit a different type of
player. How am I supposed to bring a 6-8 red-headed freckle-
faced kid from 'North Carolina to Marquette? It's too far away,
and too cold. The kid thinks his eyeballs are going to freeze
in Milwaukee.
"With the kids I have at Marquette, I run a loose ship. Can
I tell these guys to be in bed at 11:30 every night? Hell, they
don't even order their submarine sandwiches until 1:00 a.m.
Then there're these guys who tell you they don't know how
many points they score out there," he continued. "I never met
any player anywhere who doesn't know exactly how many he
has at any time. That's the way people are; there's nothing
wrong with it."
McGuire expects a physical game this afternoon and
pooh-poohs those who claim his team is too physical. "No
wav Vnn cn mot ten Americans in anv hx with line nrannd
Brown lost, 9-3, in the wrestliebacka
at 118 to Pittsburgh's George Bry- Iat heavyweight when he pulled a
at 18 o Pttsurg's eore By-reversal with a half minute left
ant, the odds for a W olverine tri- r e s t rith a h eiodeofhi
umph dropped from respectable the last overtime period of his
to slight. bout with Oklahoma State's Doug
"I guess mathematicallywe' Hazell and stalled till the buzzer
stil in t," oncded olveineto gain a spot in the finals..
mentor Rick Ray, "but honestly I Rob Huizenga, victimzed by a
just don't see any way it's going dead wrong referee's call which
to happen. We have to win every set up his 10-2 loss to Brigham
single one and Oklahoma and Ok- Young's Mike Hansen, knocked off
lahoma State have got to lose just two more seeded wrestlers in the
about all of theirs " wrestle-backs and is very much
i in the picture for third place at
DESPITE THE gloomy team his weight.
prospectus, two Michigan men will It became clear during quarter-
be favored to clinch individual final action yesterday afternoon
titles. Jerry Hubbard at 150 out- that the Wolverines were up
muscled, out-hustled and over- against the wall when Brown, who
whelmed Iowa's Chuck Yagla and was the favorite in his match with
Gary Ernst took the inside track Iowa State's D a n Mallinger,
couldn't cope with his opponent's given his charges "a strong chance
figure fours and took a decisive 5-1 ;-a real strong chance" to sweep
setback. the field, this was a definite sur-
John Ryan (167) and Dave Cur- prise.
by (190) were both eliminated' Going into today's wrestling Ok-
j when the men who beat them in lahoma has three men in the fin-
preliminary - round matches lost als, one in consolations; Oklahoma
subsequent bouts. In Curby's case, State has two in finals, four in con-
it didn't matter - he strained a: soaltions: Michigan has two in
knee in his overtime loss to Neal finals, two in consolations: and
Brendel of Yale, was hobbling Iowa State has one in finals and
along the sideline on crutches this four in consolations. Victory is
afternoon and evening and ob- possible, but so is a World Cham-
viously could not have continued. pionship for the Detroit Tigers.
BILL SCHUCK joined them on Touch luck!
the sidelines after dropping an 8-2, QUARTERFINALS
quarterfinal match to Rich La- 118-Dan Mallinger (Ia. St.) dec. Jim
winger of Wisconsin and his wres- Brown (M), 5-1
tback to Gordo as f O e 134-Bill Davids (M) dec. Steve Bar-
tle-ack o GodonIiam of re-rett (Okla. St.), 8-5
gon State, 5-1. 142-Rich Lawinger (wis.) dee. Bill
Navy's Dan Muthler (142) and Schuck (M), 8-2
Iowa State's Rich Binek (177) 150-Jerry Hubbard (M) sup. dec.
DalIe Porter (Cornell), 13-2
were two national champions who 177-Mike Hansen (BYU) dec. Rob
were completely eliminated in yes- Huizenga (M), 10-2
terdaV's action. Hvy.-Gary Ernst (M) dec. Don
SEVERAL TEAMS which enter- MayorgaE(H MIFINA Ls
original works of graphic art-etchings, lithographs,-
by leading 20th century artists:
Pablo Picasso Johnny Friedlaender Marc Chagall
Salvador Dali, Alexander Calder- Joan Miro
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Georges Rouault Victor Vasarely
First Show of New Year! All New Art!
THIS SUNDAY, MARCH 17th at 3:00 P.M.
MARRIOTT INN
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and others.
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ed the tournament with high hopes,
will go home shattered. Iowa, the
Big Ten champ, placed no men
in the finals and will have trou-
ble catching up to Slippery Rock,
let alone anyone else. Since Hawk-!
eye mentor Gary Kurdelmeier had:
DIA MONDMEN RETURN
134-Tom Scully (Lehigh) dec. Bill
Davids (M), 2-0
150-Jerry Hubbard (M) dec. Chuck
Yagla (Ia.), 9-1
Hvy.-Gary Ernst (M) dec. Doug
Hazell (Okla St.), ot( 6.6, 2-1
CONSOLATIONS
118-Jim Brown (M) dec. Ed Knecht
(N. Ariz.), 3-2
118-George Bryant (Pitt) dec. Jim
Brown (M1). 9-3
142-GordonIiams (Ore. St.) dec. Bill
Schuck (M), 5-1
177-Rob Huizenga (M) dec. Terry
DeStito (Lehigh), 6-4
177-Rob Huizenga (M) dec. Rick,
Jones (Okla. St.), 5-0
TEAM STANDINGS
1. Oklahoma State 64
2. Oklahoma 61
3. MICHIGAN 52
4. Iowa State 46
5. Washington 33
6. Slippery Rock 314
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Florida
By BILL CRANE
The Maize and Blue baseball
team travelled to sunny Florida
over spring break, started the
summer game for the 1974 dia-
mond season, and now has the
task of priming itself for Big
Ten competition.
Michigan won three and lost
four against college teams. The
Wolverines also played three
games with Detroit Tiger minor
league teams, dropping two and
tying a third.
MICHIGAN COACH Moby Ben-
edict revealed that the journey
"was a good evaluation trip to
see who can play." Generally,
the Wolverine 'chances over the
series were hampered by many
infield errors.
Minor sports
action today
In local sports action today:
* The Michigan Rugby Foot-
ball Club opens their spring sea-
son with a doubleheader against
the University of Dayton at 2:00
p.m. on Palmer Field today.
Michigan is rated as a contender
for the Big Ten title and national
honors.
* A table tennis tournament
takes place today in the base-
! ment of Waterman gym. En-
trance fees range from SOc to
$2.00 for class A doubles. Events
start as early as 10 a.m. and are
open to all age groups. Trophies
will be awarded.
training
Michigan senior Chris Burak,
however however, is not one of
the pores in the Wolverine in-
field. A third-baseman by trade,
Burak played shortstop in Flor-
ida. Pete Ross, who also pitches,
held down first base. Thus, the
Wolverines are searching for
two infielders, at second base
and either short or third, de-
pending on where Burak plays.
In grand Michigan tradition, if
one thinks of the Bill Freehan
days, the Wolverines are again
blessed by a fine receiving corps.
Senior John Lonchar has com-
mitted only two errors in the last
two seasons but was backed last
week by freshman Ted Mahan
who turned in a sterling per-
formance.
Benedict described his outfield
as "pretty solid" and finds him-
self in the position of having to
cement his infield in order to
play that all-important defensive
ball.
THE WARM climes of theE
south bode well for Wolverine
hurlers. Freshman Larry Soren-
son began his collegiate career
on happy chords by winning two
games. Junior southpaw Tom
Joyce also did 'pretty well" in
Benedict's eyes. "Those two guys
were pleasant surprises," the
coach commented.
Chuck Rogers, possibly Michi-
gan's finest pitcher with an ERA
of 2.25 last year, is in Tuscaloosa,
playing basketball and trying to
ISC ES-
NBA
finished
help bring the Wolverines a
NCAA basketball championship.
Rogers will be warmly wel-
comed when he returns to the
mound.
Benedict was happy with the
hitting and figures the Maize
and Blue feature good speed.
With the experience gained by
underclassmen, he hopes the
team may be able to coalesce.
ALTHOUGH THE team could
not be expected to tear anyone
apart because the season has
just begun, the Florida practice
was helpful.
Benedict stated, "The main
reason we went down there was
to play-and we played a lot."
Baseball weather has not arrived
in Ann Arbor and the team can
hardly get moving in the cold.
"We tried the old Coliseum,"
reported Benedict, "but it was
colder in there than outdoors."
Benedict called off practices
earlier this week and can only
hope the temperature climbs.
"I don't know what we're go-
ing to do to get ready," Benedict
concedes. Luckily, the Wolverines
do not play any games until
April 5 and should have the time
to start polishing themselves be-
fore the season starts.
Semi-shocker
MICHIGAN
The University of Michigan
CENTER FOR SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES
ANNOUNCES
A SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASAN
MINI COURSE
THE EVOLUTION OF A MYTH:
The Ramayana in Southern Asia
(Division No. 495, Course No. 418) ;
MARCH 19-APRIL 4
The purpose of this course will be to explore what
happens as a classic story travels from region to re-
gion and from medium to medium. How do symbolic
forms evolve? How does a story keep its relevance
thrugh history? How does medium shape content?
Scholars from several fields-art, music, literature,
philosophy, linguistics, and history-have been ask-
ed to dicuss the great Sanskrit clasic, the Rama-
yana, giving special attention to these questions.
Each class will run from 3:00-5:30, Tuesdays and
Thursdays, at 306 Burton Memorial Tower.
- PARTICIPATING FACULTY -
ALTON L. BECKER - Linguistics
MADHAV DESHPANDE - Linguistics
LUIS GOMEZ - Buddhist Studies
SATENDRA KHANNA - English
CHANDRA AGRAWAL -Humanities
WALTER SPINK -Art History
NAZIR JAIRAZBHOY - Indian Music,
Univ. of Windsor
WILLIAM GEDNEY - Linguistics
HIRAM WOODWARD - History of Art
WILLIAM MALM - Musicologiy
JUDITH BECKER - Musicology
PETER HOOK - Linguistics
PATRICK PEEBLES - History
* Students may enroll for the course (1 credit)
(and may also obtain further information about the
course) at the Center for South and Southeast Asian
Studies, 130 Lane Halt, 764-0352.
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