The Michigan Daily-Sunday, January 21, 1978-Page 7 -CAGE CONTEST RESET FOR TOMORROW: Blue b By RICK MADDOCK Usually the Michigan cagers only have nine thigs to worry about throughout a Big Ten :season, but now a new member has been added :to the list - the weather. And to make matters amore complicated, the Wolverines are wishing ;for good weather - not at home but in Columbus. "We're just hoping we can play the game on ,Monday," said assistant coach Bill Frieder of ;Yesterday's rescheduled Ohio State-Michigan basketball contest. "There's a chance they may ,et more snow. If we don't play it on Monday or I'uesday, then we'll have to play it after a aturday game." IF THE GAME is not played tomorrow or ;'uesday, then Michigan and Ohio State will be pt a definite disadvantage. In the Wolverines' Fase, the toughest part of their schedule comes in 4he next three weeks, so if they have to add another game the chances of fatigue would be ore-likely. But if the game is played tomorrow night (7:35) as planned, Michigan will be facing a team that is tough at home. The Buckeyes have gnly lost once inl St. John's Arena this year, 87-75, to Iowa. Ohio State coach Eldon Miller commented on home court advantage. "I don't think it's very important. It will be as important as you want to make it," Miller said. THE BUCKEYE MENTOR is more concerned with his team's resiliency after its 77-63 loss to ittles OsU, snow Indiana on Thursday dropping OSU to 2-3 in the Big Ten. "It's just like you have to do every day. When you get knocked down, you have to get back up and get going," Miller said. Ohio State's man who gets things going is freshman center Herb Williams. Williams aver- ages 18.4 points and 12.3 rebounds (Note: all Ohio State statistics are from before the Indiana game). "He's been scoring," Frieder said. "He posts well inside and is an excellent rebounder. They look to go to him quite a bit." The other inside man on the Buckeye's 1-2-2 offense is sophomore Jim Ellinghausen, the former Plymouth Salem standout. He scores 6.5 points a game and nets 6.5 boards a game. Freshman Jim Smith substitutes for Elling- hausen. Smith averages 5.8 points and 4.6 rebounds. THE REST OF THE offense rotates with one point man and two wingmen. Usually sophomore Kelvin Ransey is at the top. He hits for 15.4 a game. The two wingers are senior Mike Cline and freshman Ken Page. They average 8.5 and 10 points, respectively. Junior Fred Poole, 3.4 point average, and freshman Carter Scott, 8.5 average, are used often as substitutes for the wingmen. The offense operates with the top three men weaving back and forth trying to create an open lane to the basket. The inside men meanwhile are either posting inan attempt to get someone free, or they are moving to get open on the inside for an easy layup. The Buckeyes also use the four corner offense when they want to mix things up. Then, they will quickly go back into the 1-2-2 with the hopes of shaking someone free. "OUR BIGGEST concern," Frieder said, "is how we defense them. They've'got the shooters outside and the big men posting inside." He added that Michigan's defensive goal is 65 points. "We've been at that or under it all year," he added. On defense, the Buckeyes use the 2-3 and 1-3-1 zones plus man-to-man defense. "They'll mix them up. And they will press you. We'll just have to adjust to what they do," Frieder said. Some of the other areas which Michigan must perform well are rebounding and controlling the game's tempo. "I think when we let Wisconsin set the tempo it wasn't good for us. But every game is different, so it just depends on the situa- tion," Frieder said. One of the keys to the Wolverine attack will be the bench, which has been the case most of the year. "This is the type of team that we have con- fidence in all 12 players in our program," he said. Frieder went on to explain the substitution strategy. "Like Ohio State, they've got a three guard offense. So, we might come with a smaller guy say for (Tom) Staton's replacement. Where against Wisconsin we came with the bigger man," Frieder added. THE LINEUPS GAN OHIO STATE )............ G...........Kelvin Ransey (6-1) ......... ...G ................ Ken Page (6-3) 8).......... C .......... Herb Williams (6-11) ............ . F ........ Jim Ellinghausen (6-7) . ............. F . ...........Mike Cline (6-4) Sports ofThe Daily Bruins wallop Red Wings By The Associated Press BOSTON - Boston's line of Peter McNab, Wayne Cashman and John Wensink clicked for three goals yesterday to spark the Bruins to a 7-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings before the smallest Boston Garden crowd in nine years. With Boston's Logan Airport closed by snow, the Red Wings arrived an hour and a half before the game after flying from Detroit to Manchester, N.H. and riding a bus for an hour to Boston. The crowd of 8,463 was the smallest for an NHL game in Boston since Feb. 9, 1969. The Bruins spotted Detroit a goal by Paul Woods early in the first period but came back on a power play score by Terry O'Reilly and Bobby Sch- mautz' 23rd goal of the season for a 2-1 lead at the end of one period. Cashman and Wensink made it 4-1 in the second period on similar scores as,Peter McNab got the puck to them from pileups in front of the net with Detroit goalie Jim Rutherford down. * * * * * * Holtz tabbed top coach KLAHOMA CITY - In the closest race in the 21-year history of the award, Arkansas' Lou Holtz has been named Coach of the Year in voting by * members of the Football Writers Association of America. Holtz, whose Razorbacks finished 11-1 and ambushed Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, won by a 16-vote margin over Fred Akers, whose Texas Longhorns pinned the only loss of the season on Arkansas and were top- ranked in the nation until they lost to Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl. A total of 31.coaches received votes, but it was strictly a two-man race. Dan Devine of Notre Dame was a distant third. Holtz was in his first season at Arkansas after coaching the New York Jets one year. He took the pro job after successful stints at William and Mary and North Carolina State. - His Razorbacks lost to Texas, 13-9,'but finished third nationally after axing Oklahoma, 31-6. Unknown heads Crosby field PEBBLE BEACH - Tommy McGinnis, an off-the-board and almost off the tour longshot in a field of the game's greatest players, fought his way to a 2-under-par 70 that lifted him into a 3-way tie for the lead yesterday in the second round of the rain-delayed Bing Crosby National Pro-Am Golf Tourna- ment. The skinny, graying McGinnis, still competing only because he was granted an extension of his playing rights, finished 36 holes with a 139 total and tied for the lead with Ray Floyd and Hale Irwin. Irwin shot a 70 and Floyd a 69 in the celebrity field at Spyglass Hill, probably the toughest of the three soggy Monterey Peninsula courses used for this unique event. Tom Watson, the 1977 Player of the Year and defending title- holder here, had he lead alone until he double-bogeyed the final hole at Spyglass and dropped back into a group at 140, one shot off the pace halfway through the event. Johnny Miller disqualified himself for signing an incorrect scorecard after Friday's first round. He signed for a 76, actually shot 77 and didn't realize the error until he saw the scores in the newspaper. Jack Nicklaus took a 74 and, with a 151 total, appears likely to miss the cut when the field is trimmed to the low 60 scorers after Sunday's third round. Arnold Palmer, with a 77, is still higher - 152. He and amateur partner Gerald Ford are very much in the race in the pro-am competition, however. Bulldogs scare top-ranked 'Cats STARKVILLE, Miss. - Jack Givens shot top-ranked Kentucky out of a slow first-half start yesterday afternoon and the unbeaten Wildcats withstood a late Mississippi State rally for a 75-65 Southeastern Conference basketball victory. Down 23 points at one time in the second half, Mississippi State closed to 69-63 with 1:08 left in the game, mostly on the long-range baskets, of freshman Greg Grim. Grim scored 15 points in the last nine minutes of the game. But Kentucky put the game away with six straight free throws with six straight free throws by Kyle Macy, Jay Shidler and Truman Claytor, and increased its record to 14-0 overall and 6-0 in the SEC. Givens wound up with 21 points, 13 of them in an eight-minute span in the first half, when Kentucky broke a 12-12 tie and surged to a 36-22 halftime lead. MICHI( David Baxter (6-3 Tom Staton (6-3). Joel Thompson (6- Alan Hardy (6-6). Mike McGee (6-5) Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG KATTLING FOR a loose ball in last year's Michigan-OSU cage clash are Phil Hubbard (right) and Buckeye sparkplug Kelvin Ransey. Ransey will be back to lead the OSU attack when the Blue cagers travel to Columbus tomorrow. Ilub- bard however, still languishes on the bench recuperating from knee surgery: Monday's tip-off time is 7:35 p.m. UNDISPUTED CHAMP WINS IN 12th Duran By The Associated Press LAS VEGAS - Panama's Roberto Duran dramatically ended a close fight with a 12th-round technical knockout yesterday of Esteban De - Jesus of Puerto Rico to win the undis- 'puted lightweight boxing champion- ship of the world. The fight was virtually even until Duran connected with a short right hand, putting DeJesus down. The 'Puerto Rican got up, only to run into a barrage of blows and was helpless when co-trainer Manny Sciaca en- tered the ring and called for referee Buddy Basilico to stop the bout. DURAN, NOTED as a street fighter before he turned pro, recov- ered from a DeJesus left hook in the 12th to score the knockdown blow that meant the ending of their third bout. DeJesus had outpointed Duran when they first met in 1972 but was knocked out in the 11th round of a rematch two years later. The ending this time came after two minutes, 32 seconds of the 12th in a bout scheduled for 15 rounds. Duran, a 2-1 favorite, won his 61st victory in 62 fights and scored his 51st knockout. TKO's Dejesus THE TITLE FIGHT was a bruising battle from its start to the sudden finish, although all three judges had Duran ahead after 11 rounds, by margins of threee to five points. Duran opened faster than usual to score with both lefts and rights in close battling before DeJesus went to a long-range strategy. Duran was warned for a low blow in the fourth round and scored well in the 10th when he physically spun DeJesus into the ropes and blasted him with punches to both the body and head. The previous round, the Panamanian appeared to be taking command of the close fighting. THE LOSS WAS only the fourth in 54 fights for DeJesus, who had won the WBC title in 1976 and defended successfully three times with knock- 0 The first 5 0 * people geta e F FREE game e * of PINBALL. . Every Monday " at " . Union Lanes . outs. Duran's -purse reportedly was $250,000, with DeJesus getting $150,- 000 for this bout to determine one world champion in the 135-pound class. Duran showed a swelling under his right eye in the fifth round and at the end of that stanza DeJesus was spitting blood. Other than that, there were no visible marks and neither boxer went down until Duran scored with the right in the 12th. "I wasn't surprised that DeJesus went down, because that's why they call me 'Stone Hands,' " Duran said through his interpreter. 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