Page 1-2-Tuesday, March 14, 1978-The Michigan Daily
Women tankers top
AWARDS GIVEN AFTER BLUE SPLITS TWO
regional C
By BOB WARD
In a typical win, Michigan's women
swimmers left nearly 30 schools in
their victorious wake of 847-and one-
half points at the Midwest regionals,
held in Ann Arbor March 2-4.
"The team did very well," said
Michigan Coach Stu Isaac. "They
weren't that emotionally high for the
meet, except those that needed to
qualify (for national competition)."
Joyce Johnson was one of those
who qualified. Herstime of 31.93
seconds in the 50 yard breaststroke
earned her a slot in the nationals.
She also made the cutoffs in the 100
yard breaststroke with a time of
1:09.79 minutes.
Kim Groleau and Kim Olson each
ompetition
claimed a space for the 50 yard
freestyle. Their times were 24.54 and
24.74, respectively, while Monica
Scheff qualified in the 100 yard but-
terfly with a 58.40.
The relay teams performed well,
too. The 200 yard freestyle relay
clinched their best score ever with
138.33. The 200 yard medley relay
also had their top score; boasting a
151.42.
The divers also performed well.
"Diving dominated the entire
meet," said Isaac.
Second place was taken by
Eastern Michigan with 361 points,
and third was nabbed by Bowling
Green with 238 points. Michigan
State was fourth with 194 points.
Bust marks end of
cage season
By HENRY ENGELHARDT
The basketball team took the floor at
Crisler Arena for the final time last
night. The players all wore street
clothes and there was a packed house of
750. Johnny Orr smiled a lot.
The basketball bust marked the final
hurrah for the squad that played to a 16-
11 record, 11-7 in the Big Ten, ending in
a tie for fourth place with Purdue.
JOEL THOMPSON, a sure bet to be
drafted into the NBA, was named the
team's Most Valuable Player. Thom-
pson shifted to center this year and
averaged 15.7 points and 8.7 rebounds a
game. He hit over 54 per cent of his
shots from the floor and led the team in
dunks with 30.
In Michigan's last two games, a 99-88
win over Northwestern and a 96-70 loss
to UCLA, the Flint native had 4.4 points,
16 rebounds and five steals.
At 6-8, Thompson, who underwent
knee surgery last summer also won the
Rudy Tomjanovich Most Imporved
Player Award.
TOMMY STATON won the Wayman
Britt Defensive Player Award while
Marty Bodnar snared the Steve Grote
Hustler Award. Next year's co-captains
will be Phil Hubbard and Tom Staton.
"I thought this year we did a super
job," said Johnny Orr, "under the cir-
cumstances. We had a vicious schedule
and were outmanned in several instan-
ces. We were better than I an-
ticipated."
The last , two games were pretty
typical of Michigan this season. Against
inferior opposition the Wolverines hit
almost 55 per cent of their field goals in
rolling up 99 points at Northwestern's
McGraw Hall.
MIKE MCGEE hit 16 of 24 shots and
added six free throws for 38 points, high
mark in the conference this season.
Departing senior Dave Baxter hit 11 of
19 from the field and finished with 26
points.
Michigan left immediately after the
game for Los Angeles where a national
TV audience would see UCLA paste the
-Wolverines in Pauley Pavilion.
The Bruins, now involved in post-
season activity, hit 68 per cent from the
floor in the second half, scoring 56 poin-
ts. They wound up hitting 64 per cent
and totaling 96 points against a travel
weary (five days, three cities, three
games) Wolverine squad,
McGee was held to seven points while
Thompson and Baxter carried the
scoringsburden. Thompson had 27 and
Baxter f18, along with a team high six
rebounds and eight assists.
Baxter's 178 assists this year is a
Michigan record. McGee set a scoring
record for Wolverine freshmen with 531
points. He finished second to Min-
nesota's Mychal Thompson in the Big
Ten scoring race, only 17 points behind.
Michigan's Final 27-Game Basketball Statistics
Player
G-S FG/FGA
Pct. FT/FTA
Pct. Rbs Avg. Pts. Avg. Hi
McGee ............ 27-27
Thompson........27-27
Baxter.............27-26
Hardy .............. 27-27
staton.............. 27-27
Johnson ........... 20-0
Lozier............ 24-1
Bodnar, Marty ..... 21-0
Bergen ............. 22-0
Heuerman ......... 25-0
Robinson..........14-0
Bodnar, Mark..20-0
Team & others.........
217-439
186-344
159-320
144-319
95-205
29-59
16-45
14-22
15-35
10-19
6-10
8-d9
.494 97-122
.795 132 4.9 531'
19.7 38#
.541
.497
.451
.463
.492
.356
.636
.429
.526
.600
.421
51-78
46-58
31-46
22-40
10-17
11-17
9-12
7-12
17-28
.3-7
2-3
.654
.793
.674
.550
.588
.647
.750
.583
.607
.429
.667
234
75
169
90
16
18
14
46
37
11
7
162
8.7
2.8
6.3
3.3
0.8
0.8
0.7
2.1
1.5
0.8
S0.4.
6.0
423
364
319
212
68
43
37
37
37
15
18
15.7
13.5
11.8
7.9
3.4
1.8.
1.7
1.5
1.1
0.9
29.
33
24
20
18
12
6
8
6
8
4
MICHIGAN..........27 899-1836 .490 306-440 .695 1011 37.4 2104 77.9 117
Opponents...........27 822-1677 .490 375-537 .698 1077 39.9 2019 74.8 96
* Michigan record # Michigan freshman record
Butch Lee voted top
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NEW YORK (AP) - Butch Lee, an
unassuming young man who believes
that the "power of the mind" can over-
come any handicap, was named winner
last night of the Rupp Trophy as the
Associated Press college basketball
player of the year.
"I guess dreams do come true," said
Lee, a landslide winner in the voting by
the nation's sports writers and broad-
casters.
"I set a very high standard for
myself," Lee said. "I wanted to be the
best.
"BACK WHEN IWAS IN
BASEBALL COACH TOLD ME
THERE'D BE A LESS FILLI
ALSO TOLD ME TO TRYOUT
SCHOOL, MY
THAT SOMEDAY
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cage star,
"Right now; people think I'm a good
basketball player, and I suppose I am,"
said Lee. "But I'm going to be working
at becoming a better one."
He doesn't consider his sire a
detriment, either. He's 6-foot-1, shorter
than most of the guards in the National
Basketball Association.
"I'll do all right . .. Calvin Murphy
did all right, didn't he?" said Lee,
referring to the shortest guard in the
NBA, listed at 5-8.
About'Lee's professional capabilities,
Marquette Coach Hank Raymonds
exudes the same quiet confidence.
"He's a strong young man, and has
the perfect temperament for
professional ball," noted Raymonds.
"He's going to be a superior pro
n1sa e y Tn
Lee's scoring average was down a
couple of points from last year, at 17.3,
but his overall game picked up. lie
wound up as Marquette's second
leading scorer in history.
The nationwide balloting gave Lee a
2-to-i margin over his nearest com-
~petitor, North Carolina's Phil Ford. Lee
received 121 votes to 62 for Ford.
Larry Bird of Indiana State was third
in the voting with 44 points and Min-
nesota center Mychal Thompson wound
up fourth with 33 ballots. Freeman
Williams of Portland State was accoded
fifth place with 13 votes.
SAP rep Twety,
1. Kentucky &29) ........ ...........26-2 828
2. UCLA (11).....................26-2 790
3. DePaul (1)..... ................ 6-2 597
4. Michigan State (1).....................519
5. Arkansas......................2 .3 488
6. NotreDame......................,21-6 421
7. Duke............................21-6 187
8. Marquette ............... .......4-4 354
9. Louisville ....................:...23-6 3131
10. Kansas .............................245 241
it. San Francisco ......... .23-5 214
12. New Mexico...................24-4 164
13. Indiana.......................21-7 97
14. Utah (1) ..........................23-5 94
I5. Florida State ....................... 3- 81
16. North Carolina....................3-8 7:3
17. Texas.....................r...... 23-.5 69
18. Detroit..................... ......25-3 44
19. Miami, Ohio..................... .18-9 32
20. Pennsylvania ....................20-7 20,
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Rec Spots
The Department of Recreational
Sports is sponsoring an All-Nighter -
"Starry, Starry Night" on March 18,"8
p.m.-8 a.m. There will be a variety of
activities which will include:
" Stanley Kubrick's "2001: a Space
Odyssey", which will be shown at 9
p.m., la.m., and 4 a.m.
* Sports Clubs Demonstrations
" Food
" Open Recreation
" Games
" Super Star Competition
* ... and much more.
This all happens on March 18, 8 p.m.-
8 a.m. at the CCRB. The admission is
only one dollar.
* * *
The Intramural Sports Program is
sponsoring the following activities:
FOUL SHOOTING
" Co-Rec .......entries due March 19
" Women's .... entries due March 20
" Independent. entries due March 16
" Graduate .... entries due March 15
" Res. Hall .... entries due March 13
" Fraternity ... entries due March 14
RELAYS
Independent, Graduate, Residence
Hall, Fraternity, and Women- entries
are due March 14.
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