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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, Februry 6, 1977
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Michigan runs:..
...Buckeyes watch
By DON MacLACHLAN
Michigan lived up to its reputation yesterday. The Wol-
verines excited the fans, running the fast break whenever
possible, in thrashing Ohio State, 93-72.
The Wolverines' running game didn't allow Ohio State to
set up on defense. As a result the Buckeyes did not have a
chance to get their own fast break in gear.
In the two teams' first confrontation 13 days ago in Colum-
bus, Ohio State coach Eldon Miller had his Buckeyes running
all the time. The, Buckeyes' tallest starter is 6-7 and they, sel-
dom win the battle of the boards. Thus, running on their op-
ponent is the only way the Buckeyes can c'ompete with taller
foes.
Blue spe
Robinson stars
In 93-72 rout
By TOM CAMERON
Well prepared and raring to go, the Wolver-
ines were ready to run.
They toppled Ohio State .93-72 by running and
applying defensive pressure - everything a
quick Michigan basketball team is supposed to
do, yesterday afternoon in Crisler Arena.
It was nothing like what happened in Colum-
bus earlier this season, when the Wolverines, in
the midst of playing seven games in 15 days,
affles
Buckeyes
But, yesterday it was a dif-
ferent story.
"We never ran ,because we
never really got our defense
set up," Miller said. "We run
off of our' defense, but we
weren't playing defense much
of the time today."
"You know, Michigan had 18
points off of uncontested lay ups
in the first half and probably
40 points off the running game
total," Miller added.
,. ;., ..r. 'memmgammm survived a comeback attempt in
. the last few minutes of the ball-
Illinois stunned Purdue at the game by a running Ohio State
buzzer yesterday, droppiig t h e team.
Yesterday, Michigan ran by
Boilermakers a notch in the Big themselves, as a trapping de-
Ten race. Meanwhile, Minnesota fense forced the Buckeyes to
commit 24 turnovers and got the
whitewashed the upset-minded fast break in gear.
Wildcats. For details see p a g e "hursday we were looking at
films of the first game (against
seven. -Ohio State), and Coach Fife,
Frieder and I, we noticed that
a 16 point lead with 13 and a half minutes re-
maining.
But instead of sitting tightly with their lead
as they have been doing lately, the Wolverines
got the killer instinct and built their lead to 23
with 7:36 left to put the game onrice.
"After the first couple minutes of the second
half, I really thought we played very, very
well," Orr said. "We really made few mistakes
and our quickness - (Tom) Staton, (Rickey)
Green and (Steve) Grote really came on strng."
"IN THE SECOND half, we really moved the
ball like we did last year," Orr'continued. "We
really moved the ball on the fast break. We
hitthe guy cutting and . . . that's 'xciting."
And tthe Wolverine who was doing mdst of, the
"cutting" was Robinson, who enjoyed his best
game of the season.
. "I was really just filling my lane," Robinson
explained. "Wayman (Britt) did that effectively
last year and I was doing the same thing. It
was just a matter of me beating my man down
there."
"Frieder really got on us to work on our cut-
ting on the fast break,"' he continued, "and I
was just beating them (Ohio State) and getting
back. I don't think they really expected me to
do that."
ROB'S 22 POINTS were backed up by Green's
21, Grote with 16, and Staton, starting his sec-
ond straight game, with 11. Grote also collected
six steals in the ball-hawking defensive set up.
"John Rob had a good game," Orr said. "He's
had some problems here and it's nice to see
him come back and play so well. He did an ex-
cellent job tonight."
"You got to win the games you're expected
to," Orr summed. "When you get emotionally
up for a game like Indiana . . . and then we
got Minnesota on Monday, it's difficult to get
'up for the game in the middle."
Michigan co-captain John Rob-
inson benefited from the Blue running game to the tune of a
season high 22 points
"I think John Robinson is the most underrated player
in the Big Ten," Miller said. "If you don't think he is a
Big Ten player, you've made a mistake. I think he is one
of the most underrated forwards that I've ever seen."
"In fact," the Buckeye mentor confessed, "I think John
Robinson is a great player."
Robinson hit on 11 of 15 field goal attempts and hauled
down six rebounds. Most of Robinson's points came on lay ups
and tip-ins, but the senior from Chicago was hot from the
outside also.
"Johnny Rob was the Rob of old," said Michigan assistant
coach Bill Frieder.
Fellow co-captain Steve Grote had himself a good day
too, netting 16 points. But Grote's biggest contribution, his
steals, helped trigger the fast break.
"As soon as one guard turned his back and couldn't see
me I went in and trapped him," Grote explained.
"Ohio State's guard was turning his back when the other
guard was at the low post," said Rickey Green. "Our other
guard was to cut him off and trap, him. Then we could get
the break going and have everybody moving."
Mighty Minnesota looms ahead
With yesterday's game in the victory column, Michigan
can turn its attention toward the Minnesota Gophers tomor-
row night.
"We'll be high against Minnesota, it is a very big game,"
said Michigan coach Johnny Orr. "We'll have to play super
good."
"Their size and how good they are concerns me," Orr
added, "Mike Thompson and Ray Williams are great play-
ers. And Osborne Lockhart is the most underrated player
in our league."
Michigan will nd a super effort tomorrow night - win-
ning in Williams Arena is not an easy task. In fact, the Wol-
verines have lost their last two encounters in Minneapolis.
"We will have to go with our quickness against them,"
Frieder said.
"From what I've heard, Minnesota is pretty good," Green
said. "But if we get the ball off the board and run those
fellas - by the second half they should be out of breath."
Guard Dave Baxter who sat out yesterday's contest
with a sore back will be ready for action tomorrow night
-and the Wolverines will need him especially if Orr calls
on his three-guard offense for added quickness.
"My back is just real sore," Baxter said. "Now I shoot
my jump shot and try to use my arms more than my legs."
"I could have played today but I wasn't needed," Baxter
added. "My back is coming around though and I will be ready,
for Minnesota-I know that."
they were turning their backs and thought we
could double them," Coach John Orr said. "So,
we decided to do that and it paid off for us."
"I DON'T KNOW how many times we stole it
on that, but we stole it a lot, and I thought that
was an imporant thing," Orr explained.
Michigan's blind side trapping surprised Ohio
State and before nine minutes had elapsed the
Buckeyes turned the ball over eight times,
which the Wolverines used to build an 11-point
lead.
The stubborn young Ohio State team fought
back though, and closed that gap to five before
heading into the locker room at halftime.
"We made some mental mistakes in the first
half," Orr felt. "It was just carelessness."
JOHN ROBINSON collected 14 of his 22 game-
high points in the first half, hitting four of these
on lay-ups. In the first half, Michigan scored 30
Daily Photo by ALAN BILINSKY
MICHIGAN'S JOEL THOMPSON executes a flying full-gainer stuff-shot in, yesterday's 93-
72 victory over Ohio State. A technical foul
attempt at a chin-up.
Ohio State stormed out of the locker roo
though, and made it a one-point ball game b
fore 46 seconds had elapsed. .
With 18:32 left, Phil Hubbard collected h
fourth foul with Michigan ahead 41-40 and
he headed for the bench, it looked like Oh
State was ready to give Michigan another scar
lwa s
called on the play because of Thompson's
BUT THE Wolverines did get up for the game
in the middle, and in winning, two Michigan
m, bard)," Orr said, "the other guys push them- milestones were reached. The victory was Mich-
be- selves a little harder. They know they can't rely igan's eighteenth straight win at Crisler, an
on him any longer." arena record.
his
as SO'ONCE AGAIN the trapping defense set the Secondly, Green's fourth point of the game, a
io fast break in motion. The Wolverines reeled off free throw late in the second half, gave him
'e. 15 unanswered points in five minutes and 19 1 000 points while playing for Michigan, the
b- seconds and the Wolverines sat comfortably with 16th Wolverine to clear that mark.
of its 41 points on lay-ups.
"Sometimes when you lose a guy like {Httl
BLUE THRASHED, 11-8:
They was
MICHIGAN
FG/A FT/A R A TP
111 0I 6 12
Robbed!
-----
OHIO STATE
"aj agileI sCoah arrll
By ERROL SHIFMAN ..Coach Dan Farrell.
"I was pleased that we
Wisconsin scored all over the * V showed so much character,"
place. said Farrell, "down 9-3, they
So di Michigan. I could have packed it up."
I Ipo r"At least we showed we
The difference was the Badg- could score again," Farrell
er's ability to connect with a NIGHT EDITORS: noted, Debol and Manery
regulation number of men on HENRY ENGELHARD'i got back on tract. Greg Na-
the ice. They wound up out- SCOTT LEWIS tale played super."
scoring the Wolverines, 11-8. =:':;....".....:. "Our forechecking was ter-
Wiscnsincapializd ona irible," lamented Farrell, "our
Wisconsin capitalized on a the third period to cut the defense never played so poor-I
whopping five of seven power- Badger lead -to 9-6 but Meek- ly."
won the trophy last year.
The loss evens Michigan's
record at 12 wins and 12 losses,
good for sixth place in the
WCHA.
Wisconsin remains on top in;
the WCHA, with a sparkling
20-4 mark.
The Wolverines will try to'
snap their losing streak nextj
weekend at home against Den-
ver.
Robinson
Staton
Hubbard
Green
Grote
Lozier
Hardy
Thompson
Bergen
Lillard
Jones
Team
TOTALS
3-6
4-13
7-12
7-1i2
1-1
3-5
2-2
1-1
0-0
0-1
5-6
0-0
7-9
2-3
0-0
1-1
0-0
0-1Z
0-0
0-2
5
12
3
4
1
1
2
3
2
0
2
46
1 22
0 11 Burris
4 8 Hall
5 21 ElI'g'h's'n
6 16 Bolden
1 2 Ransey
1 Poole
o 4 Daugherty
1 2 Smith
0 0 Cline
0 0 Wood
Hammond
19 93 Netz
FG/A
4-7
2-6
2-9
6-15-
6-17.
2-4
2-5
3-4
3-6
0-4
0-2
0-1
FT/A
0-0
1-1
1-2
7-T
3-3
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-1.
0-0
8
S
5
7
1
3
2
0
2
.2
2
2
0
A
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
0
0
0
0
TP
8
5
5
19
15
4
4
6
6
0
0
0
39-68 15-22
Score by Periods
MICHIGAN
Ohio State
ttfdAance- 13609
41 52-93 Team
36 36-42
3
40 au--4ti
TOTALS 30-80 12-14 42'
5 72
play chances ana at times
its offense was devastating.
Led by Mike Me9ker's hat
trick and Mark Johnson's two
goals and three assists, the
Badgers never trailed, and led
at one point, 9-3.
Michigan fought back re-
peatedly but when you needr12
goals to win it's tough.
Down five tallies heading into
the third stanza, Michigan gave
the fans a glimmer of hope for
a come from behind victory.
But that's all it was. Every
time the Blue got close Wis-
consin came .right back.
Dave Debol and Mike Coff-
man each scored early in
er got one back for the Bad- Wisconsin Coach Bob Johnson'
gers. was elated with his team's
Manery scored twice to make 'sween of the weekend series.
the score 10-8 with over seven "When you sweep on the
minutes left but that's all Mich- road you're very fortunate.
igan had left. Michigan's very explosive," re-
The Wolverines had trouble marked Johnson.
scoring when both teams were "This gives us the Big Ten'
at full strength. championship and that means
Three of Michigan's eight a lot to us," said Johnson.
goals were power plays and two "The biggest trophy I have
others while each team was a in my office is the Big Tens
man short. Michigan Captain trophy, it's bigger than thej
Kris Manery scored the hat NCAA tronhy.". t
trick, his 21, 22 and 23rd goals The Big Ten Championship is
of the year. based on the records of the Big
The loss, Michigan's seventh Ten teams against each other1
straight was bittersweet for in the WCHA. Michigan State
Awesome offense
e. Attenane : ,ou
HAWKS CLAW BA DGERS
oosiers 11 artans
I i.
Blue harriers improve, but
j - A
First Period
Scoring - w - Taft (Alley) 3:55;
W - Johnson (Grauer, Meeker) 9:13;
MVI - nah ~ I UI1Jrl "d2-M - NVI
Penalties - W - Taft (tripping)
4:42; M - Blanzy (tripping) 13:49.
jThird Period
MSU s
Lindsay wins mile
By ERNIE DUNBAR
Special to The Daily
KALAMAZOO - Michigan
State's Herb Lindsay captured
the feature race of the Western
Michigan relays last night, in
which no team scores were
kept, winning the mile run in
a record fieldhouse time of
4:01.99.
Throughout the race, Lindsay,
Western's Tom Duits, and the
Wolverine pair of Greg Meyer
and Jack Sinclair ran a tacti-
cal race by staying in a tight
group.
However on the final.lap, Lind-
say jumped in front of Duits
on the last turn and held on
to win by one-tenth of a sec-
ond.
FOR SINCLAIR, his clocking
of 4:05.7 was his best mile time
as a Wolverine. Meyer's time
of 4:05.3 ranked as one of the
best open miles in his four-year
varsity career. Both times qual-
ified the runners for the NCAA
meet in March.,
Michigan received fine per-
sity record.
THE HURDLES, one of Mich-
igan's strongest indoor threats,
had been struggling in the
team's first three meets. But
last night all four runners com-
bined to run their best meet
of the season.
"I think it was mostly a team
effort," said Chisholm of the
hurdlers' performance. "Every-
body was together this week,
We decided we were going to
do it together and started by
working hard in practice all
this week."
Michigan Coach Jack Harvey
felt their performance set the
tone for the meet. "I think the
hurdlers' set us off," said Har-
vey. "While the times weren't
their best, it got us rolling."
Harvey was equally impressed
with Sinclair's mile time. "He
ran a smart and tough race,"
commented Harvey. "It was
great to see him out there push-
ing Meyer."
THE WOLVERINES distance
medley team (880, 440, %, mile)
tory in the two-mile relay. Mey-
er handed the team an early
lead and from there it was no
contest as the Wolverines ran
away with the event in 7:36.72.
"We're working hard and it's
starting to pay off," remarked
Harvey. "But I still didn't think
we are anywhere near what
we're capable of.
"We just had a little more
momentum'and enthusiasm than
we've had in the past."
M -- Deb01 (Turner) 9:43;M - Na- Sorn
tale (unassisted) 10:23W-Nor- Scoring- M - Debol (unassist-
wich (Taft, Eaves) 13:46; W - John- ed) :36; M1 - Coffman (Wheeler)
son (unassisted) 18:42. 1:40; W - Meeker (Taft, Norwich)
7:03; M - Manery (Lerg, Natale)
Penalties - W - Suter (holding) 11:20; M - Manery (Debol) 12:33;
6:02; M - wheeler (boarding) 8:17; W - Eaves (Alley) 13:47.
w - Herbst (high-sticking) 9:26;
M - Coffman (high-sticking) 9:26; Penalties - W - Meeker (rough-
M1 - Turner (high sticking) 12:17; Ing) 2:04; M-Lerg (roughing) 2:04;
M - Morrison (tripping) 18:10. W - Suter (high sticking). 2:04; W
-Bench (too many men) 4:15; M
Second Period - Turner (high sticking) 5:26; W
-- R. Suter (tripping) 9:48; W - J.
Scoring - M - Thayer (Natale, Suter (interference) 11:11; M - Ka-
Debol) 5:34; W - Grauer (Johnson, wa (tripping) 17:34.
Meeker) 6:10; W - Alley (Ulseth,
Eaves) 7:44; W - Meeker (Norwich) Saves
9:04; W - Meeker (Johnson, Mc-
Intosh) 13:39; W - Herbst (John- C 1 2 3T
son, Norwich) 15:14;. M - Manery Palmer (Mich.).....13 7 5-25
(Debol, Natale) 19:31.1Dibble (Wisc.)....... 9 18 12-39
By The Associated Press
EAST LANSING - All-Ameri-
can center Kent Benson tied this
season's Big Ten scoring record
with 35 points, leading Indiana
to an 81-79 victory over Michi-
gan State yesterday.
With the score tied at 75-75,
Hoosier freshman Butch Carter;
drove in for a layup, was fouled
by Michigan State's Tanya Webb
and converted a three-point play
to put Indiana on top, 78-75.
After the Hoosiers' Wayne
Radford added another free
throw, Edgar Wilson scored on
a layup to bring the Spartans
within two points.
Then Indiana's -Jim Wisman
connected on two free throws to
make Bob Chapman's jumper
with two seconds remaining
meaningless.
Greg Keiser hit 22 points for
-Michigan State. Mike Woodson
scored 17 for Indiana and Rad-
ford added 16.
** *
Badgers bounced
IOWA CITY - Iowa's combin-
ation of Ronnie Lester and
Bruce King clicked again yester-
day as the Hawkeyet rolled to a
90-73 Big Ten victory over Wis-
consin.
Lester, who broke open a
close game by scoring seven
points with six minutes left,
led Iowa with 19. King scored
18 points and grabbed a like
number of rebounds.
Iowa opened its 44-37 halftime
margin to 13 points several
times in the second half, but the
Badgers cut it to six - 68-62 -
before Lester's outburst put the
game on ice.
James Gregory led Wisconsin
with 27 points, and guard Bob
Falk added 17.
Arkansas rolls on
HOUSTON The 14th-ranked
Arkansas Raizo backs, leq by
Marvin Delph's 24 points, ral-
lied in the second half to defeat
Houston 82-80 and virtually
clinch the Southwest Conference
championship yesterday.
The victory gave the Razor-
backs an 11-0 record in the
SWC and a three game lead
over the Cougars, who are now
7-3.
Houston led 65-60 with 10 min-
utes to go, but Arkansas chipped
away and with 6:09 to play, tied
the game 70-all.
Cecil Rose, who scored 21
points for the Cougars, then
traveled and Arkansas took the
lead for good at 5:19.
* * *
ouisville triumphs
LOUISVILLE - Ninth-ranked
Louisville exploded to a 31-8 lead
in the first 10 minutes behind
guard Rick Wilson and went on
to rout Memphis State 111-92 in
a Metro-7 Conference game yes-
terday.
Controlling the boards and
fast-breaking at every oppor-
tunity, Louisville put four play-
ers in double figures in the
first half-alone e4 route to its
13th consecutive victory. The
Cardinals are 16-2..........
Wilson finished ,:with 21 points
while Memphis s Dexter
Reed led all s e with 34
points.
* * *
Kentucky knifes
LEXINGTON - Mike Philips
and Larry Johnson sparked an
awesome Kentucky attack late
in the first half last night to send
the No. 3 ranked Wildcats to a
113473 Southeastern Conference
victory over Vanderbilt.
While' Kentucky scored 24
points in the last seven min-
utes before intermission, its
zone defense shut off the Corn-
modores, allowing only six
points, all of them on free
throws.
Phillips led Kentucky with 25
points, while Jack Givens added
21, Johnson 19, Rick Robey 18
and substitute Truman Claytor
16.
Tom Shultz led Vandy with 14
points, with Charles Davis add-
ing 13 and Greg Fuller 12.
Big 10 Standings
Conference All Gomes
SC ORES
W L
W
L
! Colleoe Bosketball
MICHIGAN 93, Ohio State 72
Indiana 81, Michigan State 79
Ilinois 71, Purdue 70
Minnesota 79. Northwestern 53
Central Michigan 96, Kent State 76
Detroit 85. Xavier 76
Grand valley 89, Ferris State 63
Missouri 97, Oklahoma state 75
W. Michigan 56, E. Michigan 53
MICHIGAN 10
Minnesota.....7
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