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Page Nine

Friday, January 28, 1977

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

full court
Big Ten toughens...
no rest in sight
By DON MacLACHLAN
MADISON
EVERYBODY IS UP for Michigan.
When the second-ranked Wolverines take their show on
the road, opposing coaches have no problem getting their teams
mentally ready to play.
Take last night's 69-64 victory for instance.
The Wolverines, riding high atop the Big Ten stand-
ings, faced the cellar-dwellers of the conference, the Wis-
consin Badgers. And Wisconsin coach Bill Cofield had his
team motivated.
"Hey, I don't have to get my players fired up to play
the top dog, like Michigan. I think when our school is play-
ing the best team, our squad plays the best ball we are cap-
able of," said Cofield.
Michigan coach Johnny Orr is surprised at how sharp
weaker teams are when they face the Wolverines.
"I can't believe that teams play so good against us,"
said Orr. "We are 8-0 and Wisconsin is 1-7 and in our two
games we only beat them by a total of eight points. That's
amazing, isn't it?"
"Woo,sthe Big Ten is a tough league," Orr added, "When
the top team beats the lpst place team by five, you know
its a good conference."
Cofield was in full agreement with Orr - the Big Ten
is a tough conference.
"Michigan beat Michigan State by 13, then MSU wins at
Indiana by one. Minnesota beat Indiana 79-60 tonight, now they'll
turn around and probably win by only four or five points. That's
indicative of the type of play in this league, Cofield added.
After three close calls, Michigan certainly knows it can-
not look past the Wisconsins, Northwesterns and Ohio States
on its schedule.
"Everybody is up to get you and it's hard to keep
motivated all the time," said Rickey Green. "We've gotta
take each game one at a time. We sure can't look too far
ahead."
Last year the Wolverines pulled off a few surprises play-
ing as underdogs on their way to a second place finish in
the Big Ten and the NCAA tournament.
This year, Michigan is the team to beat in the Big Ten.
"Last year we got the jump on Indiana at their place
when they were number one," said Robinson. "We prepared
a lot more for them and confused them with our tactics. That's
the way teams look at us now."
With all the travelling the cagers have done recently,
it has been tough to prepare for road games.
"We only have so many minutes to practice on the road,"
remarked Robinson. "We practice for around 45 minutes and
then we are out of them. Opposing teams prepare for us much
more than that."
Michigan has another date with a dveaker team tomorrow
at Northwestern.
Perhaps, assistant coach Bill Frieder says it best. Fred
Taylor, the old Ohio State mentor, told him something recent-
ly that Frieder will always remember.
"He told me when his teams were number one, every-
one was fired up to play them and tried to knock them off,"
Frieder said. "And when he coached his weaker teams, he had
no problem getting his players fired up to play the best team."
Everybody is up for Michigan.

Blue
for
By KATHY HENNEGHAN
MADISON - Michigan co-cap-
tain John Robinson hit the first
end of a one and one foul situ-
ation with 0:05 remaining to ice
a 69-64 win over the Wisconsin
Badgers here last night.
The victory was the Wolver-
ines' ninth straight. Michigan's
conference leading record is
now 8-0. The Wolverines, at
15-1 overall, are off to their
best start ever since Cazzie
Russell's sophomore season in
1963-64.
MICHIGAN'S largest lead was
ten points in the tug-of-war con-
test.
In a near-replay of Monday
night's finish at Ohio State,
Johnny Orr called a time-out
with 1:24 remaining and put
Steve Grote in at forward. The
Wolverines then protected their
65-60 lead by stalling.
Wisconsins' Bob Falk fouled
David Baxter, whose free throw
made it 66-60.
The Badgers raced down the
court where Joe Chrnelich's
short jumper cut the lead to
66-62 with 0:53 remaining.
ON THE ENSUING in-bounds
play, Grote uncorked a half-
court pass to Rickey Green.
The senior speedster from Chi-
cago laid the ball in to clinch
the game at 68-62.
All that was left was Badger
Jim Smith's jumper, 68-64, and
Falk's foul which sent Robin-
.son to the line.
"We never had to use a de-
lay until three games ago," said
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Wisconsin coach Bill Cofield'
credited his team with contain-
ing the explosive Wolverines
throughout the contest.
"WE LOST SOME GAMES,"i
said Cofield, "but only when the
other team beat us. We don't:
give anything away. Michigan ,
had no major spurts, just three-
or four-point spurts. I think wej
did a very good job controlling,
the tempo of the game."
Two Badger starters were in-,
jured during the course of the
game. Forward Jim "Stretch"
Gregory re-sprained an ankle
and sat out the last nine min-
utes of the game. Center Ray
Sydnor pulled ligaments inhis
left instep, slowing him down
in the second half.
Chrnelich led a balanced Bad-
ger attack with 16, while Gre-
gory and Sydnor added 15 points
apiece.
Phil Hubbard led all scorers
with 20, connecting on eight of
11 shots from the floor, four of
five free throws, and hauling
down eight rebounds.
"HUBBARD PLAYS so hard,"
said Orr, "and he helps us out
so much on defense. He's a good
kid to have in there."j
Green had 19 for Michigan.

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Robinson and Baxter had ninef
each and Grote had six.
"This was our sixth game in
12 days, four of those on the
road," said Orr. "It's a miracle
that we're winning all thesel
games.
"As long as my team plays
hard, I have no complaints,"
Orr explained, "but today I got
on them worse than I have all
year.. We seldom get outhustled,
but I felt Wisconsin outhustled!
us in the first half."
For you trivia buffs, Wiscon-
sin's Pete Brey scored his first
two points of the season last

night. That would not be
usual except that Brey is

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.Badger's captain.
"We've beaten Wisconsin twice
by a total of eight points," Orr
said. "How do you explain that?
I'll tell you how. This is a bal-
anced league. When the top
team beats the bottom team by
five points, that's balance."
The Wolverines travel to
Evanston today to prepare for
tomorrow's game with North-
western. Tipoff is 5:05 Ann Ar-
bor time. The game can be
heard of WUOM-FM 91.7.

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6-9 3-3 13 2 15
1-9 0-0 5 5 2
3-11 0-1 0 3 61
3-7 0-0 2 4 6
1-1 0-0 3 2 2
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Halftime: Michigan 33, Wisconsin 3i
Attendance: 7,042

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scored 35 points last night to
lead 13th-ranked Minnesota to
a 79-60 Big Ten basketball vic-
tory over Indiana.
The 6-foot-10 junior center
scored three straight baskets
midway through the first half
to give Minnesota a 19-14 lead
and the Gophers led the rest of
the wty.eA 10-point Minnesota
burst late in the second half
killed Indiana's chances for
good.
The victory was the Gophers'
13 h in 14 starts and fourth in
five league outings. Indiana,
which has won the league title
four straight years, dropped to
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Thompson, hitting inside and
out, scored 18 points in the first
half, then added 11 points in the
first five minutes of the second
half as Minnesota solidified its
lead. The Hoosiers never got
closer than seven points in the
second half.
IN OTHER Big Ten action last
night, Billy McKinney hit fc- 22
points and Northwestern went
24 for 24 from the free-throw
line as the Wildcats defeated
Michigan State. 66-58.
McKinney was pulled from
t he game after he picked up a
fourth personal foul with 17:15
left. With Northwestern trailing
51-42 with 10:29 to go, McKin-
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swiftly outscored the Spartans
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the 11 points as NU put on its
final period drive while holding
Michigan State to only two field
goals in the last 10 minutes of
the match and only three points
j" the final 4:47.

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Iowa 84. Ohio State 66
Arkansas 77, Southern Methodist 59
Maryland 75, N. Carolina state 73
NBA
Houston 114, DETROIT 107
Cleveland 113, N.Y. Knicks 11
Phoenix 111, Philadelphia 94
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