Tuesday, February 3, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven I .......... 0- f u l/lcourt Green takes charge . ..Grote slows dtown 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." -m~k a-W- -H-M floilermakers bounce Iowa, 7i-z-z-z-z-z ! MICHIGAN FG FT 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. WHY WAIK FARTHER! LEVI'S BRAND Available at Wild's Varsity Shop 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." FEATURING: " Corduroys * Denim Bells " Brush Denims * Panatella 0 Work Shirts Knit Slaks " Flannel Shirts * Boot Jeans " Pre-.Wash Slaks 0 Denim Jackets Wild's Varsity Silo 311 S. STATE S7 REET -- 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 Look into the Air Force ROTC. And. there are 4-year, 3-year, or 2-year programs to choose from. 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