Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, February 10, 1973 GOPHERS AT OSU: GOODBYE COLUMBUS? Spartans challenge crippled Blue By CLARKE COGSDILL Big Ten games this week feature significant confrontations of na- tional interest. Unfortunately, the sellout at Crisler Arena this aft- ernoon between the Wolverines and Michigan State is not among them. Incredibly, Michigan has been doing worse off the court than dur- ing the games themselves. The lat- est casualties are forward John Lockard and guard Greg Buss. Lockard had been scheduled to start today until he injured his knee in practice Monday. He is lost for the season. Buss will defi- nicely not play today, but may be ready to come back sometime t k before the season is over. Coach John Orr plans one chahge in the starting lineup with fresh- man guard Wayman Britt replacing Joe Johnson. "Joe's had a lot of pressure on him," Orr explained. "Wayman's been playing well, the starting lineup hasn't done well lately and we thought it was a good time to make a change." Orr categorically denied rumors that Henry Wilmore would be switched to forward, and Campy Russell to guard, for today's game. "Definitely untrue," was his only' reaction. Orr "doubts very seriously" that the Spartans will have anything new up their sleeves. He plans to challenge the Spartans with a "ready to play anything" defense. "The game will dictate what we'll do," Orr said mysteriously. "I won't be any more definite than that." Michigan's injury streak has forced Orr to search for added bench strength. Freshmen Chuck Rogers, Lloyd Schinnerer and Tim Kuzma rejoined the varsity follow- ing the demise of the varsity re- serve team. "I expect a close game," Orr conjectured. "Most of ours are. Ev- ery game except one has been close, and there's no reason to be- lieve this one will be any different. "We've had excellent practices this week, and I think the team is in good shape to make a turn- about." Orr has reason to be optimistic. While MSU's Mike Robinson is the The Lineups Michigan Michigan State (20) (30) (15) (42) (25) Campy Russell (6-7, 18.1) Ernie Johnson (6-8, 11.5) Ken Brady (6-10, 13.4) Wayman Britt (6-2, 1.0) Henry Wilmore (6-3%, 21.5) F F C G G (45) (44) (22) (11) (31) Lindsay Hairston (6-8, 13.7) Allen Smith (6-7, 12.0) Bill Kilgore (6-7, 15.3) Gary Ganakas (5-5, 4.1) Mike Robinson (5-11, 24.8) third leading scorer in the Big Ten, with a 26.8 average, and has strong support in Bill Kilgore, Lindsay Hairston and Allen Smith, all av- eraging in double figures, the Spar- tans' record this year has been disappointing. Today, Coach Gus Ganakas' menj will be trying to recover from their worst game of the season, an embarrassing 85-72 loss to Notre Dame. MSU certainly will have to do a better job defending againstG Henry Wilmore than they did in Jenison Fieldhouse, and will have to penetrate Michigan's defenses more if they want a good chances of perpetrating the Blue's tailspin. Last week, Illinois' Harv Schmidt remarked, "I pity the team Michi- gan plays next week." Today, we'll find out whether he was right. A national audience, looking in on a special 150-station hookup, isr already drooling in anticipation of the Minnesota-Ohio State clash in notorious St. John's Arena. Ohio Governor John Gilligan and Minnesota Governor Wendell An- derson will be there, as will Minnesota's Ron Behagan and the Buckeye's Luke Witte, whose fight last year proved that both players may have chosen the wrong sport when they took up basketball. Both coaches are nervously as- suring the press that they expect only one sport to be presented to4 the howling Columbus mob. "We're treating it no different than any other game. I have no special in- structions for our players," plati- tudinized OSU coach Fred Taylor. Minnesota's Bill Musselman called it "just another game against a tough opponent." Ohio officials hope that their tra- ditionally bloodthirsty rooters will not interfere with what could be a most interesting game. Minnesota is the clear favorite. Its front line, with Big Ten MVP Jim Brewer at center apad a vastly improved Be- hagan at forward, has been better than ever since 6'8" Clyde Tur- ner was converted to guard in a successful experiment. Ohio State features super guard Allan Hornyak, but he is surround- ed with an erratic supporting cast. The most significant game this week will be in West Lafayette, In- diana, where the dangerous Pur- due Boilermakers will entertain the league-leading Indiana Hoosiers. Indiana, stunned Monday night by Ohio State, should be more than ready for combat, while Purdue will be going all out to change the Big Ten race from a chase to a scramble. The Boilermakers haven't lost at friendly Mackey Arena since Alley Oop graduated from Kindergar- ten. Sophomore center John Gar- rett and junior forward Frank Ken- drick have lived up to their press- book superlatives, giving Coach Fred Schaus the strong inside at- tack and rebounding he was look- ing for when the season began. Indiana's very young team faces its most tension-packed game of the season. Purdue-Indiana games are traditionally hard-fought even when the only thing at stake is the difference between ninth and tenth place. Illinois needs the win it is ex- pected to get at Wisconsin in or- der to stay in running. The Illini were underrated in preseason spe- culation; nobody noticed when they they gave UCLA one of the tough- est games the Bruins have play- d so far, and very few realized "I Starter Wayman Britt Two other Big Ten teams will avoid sinking deeper in the stand- ings by taking on non-conference opponents in a nighttime double- header at the Chicago Stadium. Northwestern should do no better against Loyola of Chicago than it has done against anyone else, while the Iowa Hawkeyes will try to en- hance the Big Ten's nresti e when spoon is. The Badgers have a terrible re- cord (2-6) and even managed to lose to Northwestern, but they have played an interesting spoil- er's role, upsetting Ohio State and MSU. MAY 3 to JUNE 5 Detroit - Brussels - Detroit 180 seats pro-rata $17.0 $I9O admin. charge $20 total round-trip air fare r Scoring wizard Mike Robinson Many other flights to the continent available during May, June, July and August. CONTACT: UAC-second floor, Student Union 763-2147 OR VACATIONERS INTERNATIONAL AGENCY 621 Church St.-761-7260 also: Vacation Programs to NASSAU, SPAIN & ACAPULCO write or call for details ALSO: Britrail & Eurail passes connecting flights to Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Athens; insurance: air, health, baggage; international student identity cards; free American Express money kits. 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If the Buckeyes can reach a con- Barnes trolled emotional peak, an upset is rirs star indicted certainly possible, but if Gophers play at the same level they have By The Associated Press' demonstrated recently, Ohio State's 0 LAKE CHARLES, La. Dwight Lamar, college basketball's lead- :ingering Big Ten hopes should be ing scorer last season, and star center Roy Ebron were named yester- dispatched into the ashcan of his- day among players allegedly paid to play for 13th-ranked Southwestern tory. Louisiana. __-___ t Revelations of dozens of specific charges against the Louisiana school-in its second year of major college basketball competition- id Announces . .. came in a written court brief filed by the NCAA. Such details rarely become public knowledge because schools ac- or Aid W ill Be cused by the NCAA of violating its regulations seldom take the matters to court. As Follows: But Southwestern Louisiana has gone into court in an attempt to postpone having to reply to the NCAA charges until after the current bruary 12, 1973 basketball season. Specifically, the NCAA said Lamar, an All-American guard last sea- ruary 12, 1973 son, was given $100 by a Southwestern Louisiana booster last season have aid now)-March 1, 1973 after a particularly good game. -74-February 12, 1973 The legal brief said Ebron, a 6-foot-9 center who is the second leading scorer on the Rajin Cagun team this season, was paid $450 JO LATER THAN: monthly for his services. -March 1, 1973 Last year, Southwestern investigated the basketball program and -May 1, 1973 pplaced Head Coach Beryl Shipley, Athletic Director A. G. 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