Tuesday, February 3, 1976
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Green takes charge
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By TOM CAMERON,
OVER THE FIELD of mediocrity at Crisler Arena yesterday
blew a soft, easy breeze.
The mediocrity was the game being played on the court.
Michigan's rout of cellar-dweller Wisconsin was one of the dull-
est of the year. The breeze was a result of the easy Wolverine
victory and the superb play of speedster Rickey Green as he
swooshed past the Badger defense enroute to a 32-point night.
It was no surprise that Michigan routed Wisconsin the way
they did. Wisconsin, which had lost its last seven games, had
just played top-ranked Indiana and was ending its Bloomington-
Ann Arbor road trip with the conference's second best team.
The remainder of Michigan's 106-81 victory in Madison didn't
boost their hopes.
So the Badgers played the role of a very gracious guest,
Cagers crush Badgers, 0-86
By KATHY HENNEGHAN
Michigan scored a season-
high 107 points and insured itself
of a winning year by routing
the Wisconsin Badgers, 107-86,
at Crisler Arena last night.
The win, the Wolverines 14th,
raises Michigan's Big Ten rec-
ord to 8-2. The Badgers, mean-
while, dropped their eighth con-
secuive game in a skid that be-
gan with a 106-81 shellacking by
Michigan at Madison nearly a
month ago.
Rickey Green led Michigan
with 32 points while Wisconsin's
Dale Koehler was the game's
high scorer with 36, 28 in the
second half.
MICHIGAN took the lead on
Phil Hubbard's layup in the
game's opening seconds, and ; and point-blank," said Badger
the Badgers never caught up. coach John P o w I e s s. "We
"I was happy to see us main- weren't quite able to do that."
tain the big lead," said Mich- KOEHLER provided a bright
igan coach Johnny Orr. "So of- spot in an otherwise lackluster
ten it's difficult to hold the performance. The starting for-
discipline once you get it. ward switched to center in the
"In comparing Michigan and
Indiana, I'd look at three ingre-
dients-quickness, finesse, and
physical strength," said the
Badger coach. "Indiana has all
three. Michigan has the quick-
ness and the finesse.
"You saw (Kent) Benson at
"I think Wisconsin's defense
broke down," Orr continued.
"That's the first thing to gol
when you start losing. I don't
think they gave up-they work
ed as hard as they could right
to the end."
Wisconsin shot 50.7 per cent,I
its best average since the lastl
Michigan game, but the
Badgers' performance proved
disappointing on the whole.
"We wanted to eliminate
cheap baskets-easy ones insideI
second half, replacing 6-10 Al
Rudd. Crisler," said Powless of the
Although Rudd had 10 points formidable Hoosier center. "It's
in the first half, Orr maintain-! hard for anyone to match the
ed that, "He gave us at least I abilities he has. I doubt if there
eight baskets, so I wouldn't say will be any empty seats in
he hurt us." Bloomington Saturday., I doubt
THE WOLVERINES, face a if there are many left now."
harder task this weekend, as "Indiana's blitzing 'em now,"
they travel to Bloomington to said Orr. "They got by the
take on still undefeated Indiana. rough snots and got the vic-
The Badgers have already gone tories They're really toned up.
that route, losing 114-61 to the "It's going to be hard enough
Hoosiers Saturday. going to Bloomington-it's who
------- jyou play once you get there
that really hurts."
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MICHIGAN
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laying down in the first half so Michigan could outscore i V UTIOt Lfl BR
them, 53-34, and go on to its highest offensive output of this
season.
From Wire Service Reports a 91-71 Big Ten basketball vic- quick lead and never trailed in
It wasn't exactly the type of game that Coach Johnny Orr WEST LAFAYETTE-All five tory over a flu-ridden North- the game, though the home-
wanted before the big Indiana game this Saturday. Yes, he did Purdue starters hit double fig- western team last night. team Illini tied it three times
appreciate the win. But it wasn't really a test to indicate ures last night as the Boiler- Michigan State stretched its in the first half.
whether his team was going to peak for Saturday. makers scored a 91-76 Big Ten third place conference record to Minnesota's win was only its
basketball victory over Iowa. 6-4 and 10-9 on the year, while fo'irth in the Big Ten this sea-
"I wanted to beat them," Orr said after the game, 'that's Iowa was unable to maintain Northwestern sank to 4-6 in the son against six losses. The
my job. But I wanted them to play well . . . we were able to a 44-36 halftime advantage and Big Ten and 9-10 overall. The Gophers are 12-6 over-all.
score at will." Ifell to 4-5 in league play. The win was the Spartans' fourth
The Wisconsin defense broke down in the first half, and from Hawkeyes are 13-6 overall. s t r a izg h t before a typically
then on, the Wolverines coasted to the victory, never threatened Purdue forward Walter Jor- sparse crowd of 3,700. SCO RES 11
by the Badgers. Wisconsin did not give the Wolverines a rough odan led all scorers with 21 * * *
game. It was an easy Michigan victory. ded20f w Io a.tt Thompson Gophers gallop COLLEGE BASKETBALL
CHAMPAIGN. - . , ** R Mutgers 75, Princeton 62
Britt
Robinson
Hubbard
Green
Grote
Bergen
Baxter
Hardy
Staton
Thompson
Schinnerer
Team
TOTALS
4-11
7-9
7-12
12-9
2-7
0-1
2-5
4-7
0-1
2-4
0-0
4-4
5-5
4-4
8-10
2-2
0-1
2-2
0-0
0-0
0-0
2-2
a
R F Pts
4 2 12
S 1 19
12 4 1s
1 4 32
12 0
1 0 6
21 8
0 10
2 14
1 02
6
38
40-76 27-30
WISCONSIN
21 107
FG FT R F Pts
Koehler 15-27 6-9 11 4 36
Pearsom 2-6 0-0 8 5 4
Rudd 4-7 2-2 1 0 10
IJ Smith 1-3 0-0 0 1 2
Colbert 7-9 2-2 2 5 16
B Sith 1-4 0-0 0. 3 2
Falk 0-2 0-0 0 0 0
Paterick 5-8 2-4 4 3 12
Johnson 0-1 0-1 ' 4 1 0
Brey 1-4 2-2 1 3 4
Team 11
TOTALS 36-71 14-20 42 25 84
SCORE BY4HALVES:
MICHIGAN :, 53 54-107
Wisconsin 34 52-- 86
Attendance: 7,163
As was the case in the last five victories, Michigan rode
to victory on the quick flying feet of Rickey Green. Green,
who leads the Wolverines in scoring at close to 20 points per
game, has paced the Michigan attack in four of the last
five games.
Coaches around the leazane have voiced nothing but praise
for the junior college transfer.
"There wasn't any question that quickness was the extreme
factor in the game," said Badger coach John Powless. "Green
has got to be the quickest guard in our league."
"Rickey Green was brilliant offensively," Orr said, "and
he played a good defensive game, too."
nrr hP h b Pn[ avin thi all ve bo.. Jti Green thnugh
r T Xifs117 ilkiN - 11nnes(
Wildcats wasted Gophers, paced by a 30-
$ performance by controve
EAST LANSING - Terry Fur-: sophomore center Mike Thi
low hit for 33 points and fresh- son, flailed Illinois 72-62
man Greg Keiser fired in 21 night in Big Ten basketbal:
more to lead Michigan State to{ The Gophers jumped out
Maryland 69, Notre Dame 63
Kentucky 85, LSU 71
Tennessee 75, Mississippi St. 66
Alabama 69, Georgia 67, OT
Vanderbilt 61, Mississippi 60
Northern Michigan 71,
Grand Valley St. 66
Georgia Tech 66, VMI 56
Doily Photo by KEN FINK
WISCONSIN'S TIM PATERICK (15) looks apprehensively for
the open man as Johnny Robinson (45) guards him closely.
Robinson was second high scorer for the Wolverines with 19
points in Michigan's 107-86 win over the Badgers last night.
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DEKERS FACE BOWLING GREEN
Falcon icers
invade
vrr nas veep saying ins an year auum"Ci L~ugi .;
And, it's true. Green has been consistently brilliant. His By ED LANG
quickness moves the Michigan fast break. His style of play It was split c
awes the crowd with its superb demonstrations of agility. He gan hockey tea
is an exciting player - one I could watch play basketball all as the icers v
day. night against N
dropped the fi
Green came to Michigan to play next to another guard with Sioux. The spli
plenty of Big Ten experience. Now, he is filling the gap as Steve verines into t
Grote seems to be suffering his annual mid-season lull. points behind f
"I'm going into my mid-year slump," admitted Grote. "It gan Tech andt
ond place Mmn
happened last year too. They took me out of the lineup for a n ghace
little while last year. I just start to feel tired. Tonight, the
- tamn Bowling G
"But I'm not going to worry too much about it. My shooting one team in tl
is off, so I'm not going to shoot much. I'll do what I can-like giate Hockey.
play defense. I also picked up seven assists today . . . as long HA), a squad p
as we are winning, I'm happy. a 16-3-1 record
sweep of Weste
Grote plans on getting some rest before this Saturday's In- versity.
diana game. Hopefully, he will spring out of his slump. He had ALTHOUGH
better do so. They play some mean basketball in Bloomington. series against
MEN, WOMEN EXCEL:
Gymnasts aweso
sE 4the Michigan dekers in the split at Grand Forks but was1
ity for the Michi- standings, they didn't play that concerned with the offense. i
am last weekend badly. The Sioux goalie tandem "On Saturday night, they did
won, 2-1, Friday of Bill Stankoven and Pete not outplay us by the tune of
4orth Dakota but Waselovich came up with a 6-2," Farrell said. "We carried
nale, 6-2, to the great performance, stopping 86 the play for the first two periods
t drops the Wol- shots in the two game set. and I felt if we could have got-1
third place, six Stankoven was worth his ten a couple of goals in the
irst place Michi- weight in wampum Friday night second period we would have
three behind sec- as he singlehandedly kept the blown them out of the rink.
nesota. youthful 5 rix in the game, "AS IT TURNED out, they
Blue icers enter- stopping 45 shots. Waselovich played well in the third period
reen the number w as not bad either as he re- and we gave up a couple of easy
he Central Colle- I corded 41 saves in Saturday goals," Farrell continued. "Our
Association (CC- night's 6-2 North Dakota win, offense was shut down over the'
presently sporting The offensive production, it weekend and we're going to
after a weekend should be noted, was the Wol- have to get things moving again
rn Michigan Uni- verines lowest output in over a offensively to get by this Bowl-'
year. ing Green club."
last weekend's Michigan coach Dan Farrell Doug Lindskog led the Michi-
the NoDaks hurt was not overly upset with the gan attack this weekend as the
junior forward picked up two
goals and one assist. Freshman
defenseman John Waymann
scored his first goal in a Michi-
gan uniform in Saturday night's
The Falcons of Bowling Green
are by no means a pushover,
even though they play in the
either job with his best routine ever on the high less prestigious CCHA. Falcon
over- bar," he added. head coach Ron Mason offered
otaled In the all-around, Wolverine co-captair an interesting comment, saying,
ent, a Pierre Leclerc topped the opposition with' "The style of play in both
t pos- a score of 48.7. leagues is about the same but,
The young women's team came up withlt's faceihe WCHAbis much
failed their best performance thus far this year, "But I think that our team
Yost
third line is composed of center'
Mark Wells and forwards Brucec
Newton and John Markell.
The fourth unit is centered by
Tom Newton with tri-captain
Rich Nagai and Tom Esper on
the wings.
BOWLING GREEN defensive
pairings are tri-captain Kevin
MacDonald and John Mavity,
Ken Marrow and Tom Thomas
and Steve Douglas as the spare.
Al Sarachman, boasting a
goals against average of under
three per game, will be in the
nets tonight for the Falcons.
Sarachman is backed up by the
other half of BG's superb goalie
duo, Mike Liut, who sports a
miniscule 2.29 average.
Hartman leads the Falcon
scoring parade with 44 points
(20 goals,, 24 assists) followed
by Mavity's 29 (11, 18) and
Markell's 28 (8, 20).
MASON HAD nothing but
praise for the Wolverine icers,
saying, "From the goal right
on out,"they've probablyrgot
more talent than any team we've
seen this season. They have tol
be considered as definite NCAA
contenders. All Michigan has to
do is put a string of four good
games together and they'll be
right in there."
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311 S. STATE S7 REET
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By SCOTT LEWIS
The men's and women's gymnastic
teams took to the road last weekend, and
both squads came through in flying colors.
The men swept a triple dual meet in
Milwaukee, while the women topped a field
of twelve at the Northwestern Invitational
in Evanston.
Breaking 200 points against all three
opponents, the men easily overcame any
threats from the opposition. Their only
real challenger was Wisconsin, which fin-
ished with 193.3 points. Wisconsin-Oshkosh
and St. Cloud closed with 188.3 and 172.1
points, respectively.
"Even though we were not entirely
pleased with the team score, we're happy
with the wins," said Michigan coach
Newt Loken. Michigan's highest total
was only 201.1, considerably lower than
their high mark of the season - 205
against Minnesota.
Both Wisconsin and Oshkosh had many
fine individual performances, but n
team could compare with Michigan's
all consistency. The Wolverines t
well over thirty points in each eve
quality any championship team mus
sess.
The other three teams, however,
to come up with four solid individua
f.)rmances in many events, and q
fell behind the more balanced Mi
squad.
Individual standouts for Michiga
cluded Chuck Stillerman, with a 9.1
in floor exercises, Jerry Poynton to
9.15 on the pommel horse and Joe N
wander with a 9.1 routine on the rin
The best Wolverine performance o
meet, however, came from Bob Da
Darden's routine on the high bar ea
him a 9.4, the night's top score.
"There were some real good indi
performances, especially that of Dar
exclaimed Loken. "Bob really did a
fl
al per-
uickly
chigan
an in-
score
allying
euens-
igs.
)f the
rden.
arned
vidual
rden,"
super
edging out Western Illinois and Eastern and St. Louis, if you put us in
Michigan at Northwestern. there, would finish in the top
"We're very ecstatic that we won," six," Mason said:
said coach Linda Morton. "That goes for THE KEY TO Bowling Green's
the coaching staff as well as the rest success this season has been a:
of the girls." combination of three things:
Individual standouts for the Wolverines good balance, good goaltending
included Ginger Robey, finishing second I and the fact that they have
in vaulting, fourth in uneven parallel bars played 16 of their 20 games at
and fourth in floor exercises. Laura Ross home.
placed fourth in vaulting and first on the The Falcons use four lines,
balance berm. the first line centeredbytDave
Lis Prkuat inshe sxthinvaulting, Easton with Byron Shutt and
Lisa Prokurat finished sixth in baltmg, Steve Murphy on the wings.
Linda Laatsch came in fourth on balance Mlike Hartman centers the sec-
beam and Dot Summers topped all other ond crew and is flanked by Paul
competitors in the floor exercises. Titanic and Jack Laine. The
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