Tuesday, March 2, 1 976
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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by Rich Lerner
NCAA tourney bid...
... Coming anyway,
"IT'S HARD TO play when there's nothing to play for," said
Michigan coach Johnny Orr after the Wolverines' 81-79 loss
to Minnesota last night.
A win for the Wolverines would have been as meaningless
as a final exam two days after you've received notice of your ac-
ceptance to graduate school.
Michigan's victory over Iowa, Saturday, clinched second
place in the Big Ten. And the Wolverines are merely biding
their time until Thursday, when they expect to gain an at-
large berth in the NCAA tournament.
"Saturday we played like hell and it put us in second place.
Today we win and we're in second or we lose and we're in sec-
ond. It was the first game in three years that it hasn't been a
necessity for us to win," Orr said.
Last night's loss should not effect Michigan's chances of an
NCAA berth. "I'm sure it won't, but you never know," said as-
sistant coach Bill Frieder. "We've had a great season."
Should the NCAA not choose Michigan for a spot in the 32-
team tourney, it would surpass the irrationality of the Big Ten
athletic directors' decision to send Ohio State to the Rose Bowl
in 1973. The Wolverines have racked up twenty victories, have
been ranked in the top twenty nearly all season long, and have
a reasonable shot at winning the tournament. Throughout the
season Orr's squad has proved itself capable of playing on a par
with any team in the country.
While last night's game was simply a warm-up to the
NCAA's for Michigan, Minnesota had a double incentive to
win. Beside the prospect of an upset over a ranked-team, to
go with their 77-73 conquest of Marquette in December, the
Gophers were seeking revenge.
In January, former Wolverine assistant and now Minnesota
head coach Jim Dutcher brought the Gophers into Ann Arbor
with an 8-1 record and a national ranking. However, Minnesota
left with a humiliating 95-72 loss.
Michigan thoroughly dominated Minnesota in the two teams'
first match-up, outrebounding the Gophers 45-28, and outshooting
them 56.9 per cent to 45.3 per cent.
"They were the only team that embarrassed us," said
Ray Williams who drilled in 25 points last night, 21 in the
second half.
"We won this because it was Dutcher's old team," said
Micheal Thompson. "We let him down so badly in Ann Ar-
bor."
This time around, the extra incentive was enough to turn the
tables in favor of Minnesota. In the second half, Michigan made
little attempt to break the Gophers' 2-3 zone defense. The Wol-
verines were content with an attack consisting of long range
jumpers. For a time, John Robinson's and Rickey Greene's out-
side shots were dropping, and the attack clicked. But in the final
two minutes, Michigan suddenly turned cold. When the Wolver-
ines did try to work the ball in, their passes were not crisp and
several of them were picked off.
Meanwhile on the other end of the floor, Minnesota's inside-
outside attack of Williams and Thompson was working to per-
fection. The All-Big Ten Thompson poured in 32 points, hitting
on 13 of 17 field goal attempts and dropping in six clutch free
throws.
Michigan has one regular season game remaining before
starting tournament play. The Wolverines host Northwestern Sat-
urday, in what will be Wayman Britt's final appearance at Cris-
ler Arena. By then, the Wolverines should know where they will
be playing in the national tournament.
GOODLOW TOPS AT 126
THOMPSON LEADS 81-79 UPSET
Gophers stun Michigan!
By BILL STIEG man Britt fouled Gus Johnson
Special To The Daily after missing a jumper andj
MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota's Johnson hit another free throw.
big Mike Thompson topped off a Next time down court, Britt
powerfull performance with four threw a pass right to Thompson,
free throws inthe last minute who was fouled on a baseline'
and a half to repel second-place drive at 1:23. Thompson made
Michigan 81-79 in noisy Williams both free throws to put the
Arena last night. Gophers ahead 79-75.
Thompson ended a 32 point A basket by Robinson and
display with a free throw at 0:03 then a Minnesota turnover gave
to provide the winning margin. Michigan a chance to tie it at
He missed a second shot, but a 79, but Robinson was called for
long desperation shot by Michi- an offensive foul with 26 seconds
gan's.Dave Baxter fell short at left. Thompson made another
the buzzer and the Gophers had free throw.
their upset. B t
The hot shooting Gophers, A Tom Bergen tip-inpulled
sparked by Thompson and Ray the Wolverines within one,
Williams (25 points), led most 80-79. Michigan called time-
of the second half, and used out with 5 seconds left and
six free throws in the last 2 fouled Thompson as soon as
minutes. play resumed. Thompson made'
With the game tied at 75,1 one and Baxter missed his
Thompson hit the first of a 1- hopeful heave to end the
and-1 to put Minnesota up by a ! game.
point at 2:02. Michigan's Way- Michigan, already assured of
an NCAA playoff berth, dropped
to 13-4 in the Big Ten and 20-6
overall. The also-ran, but fired
up Gophers, moved to 8-9 and.
16-9.
"If we had come in here need-
ing to win, we would have play-
ed better," said Michigan coach'
Johnny Orr. "We just weren't'
mentally awake."
"I thought we played hard,"
said Gopher coach Jim Dutcher,
Orr's former assistant. "I don't
know if we played well, but we
played hard."
The stats say Minnesota play-
ed Well, hitting 56.5 per cent of
its shots. Thompson canned 13
of 17, and Williams made 11-20.
Williams scored 21 in the second
half.
Michigan led briefly twice
in the game, buthmostly was
shooting at a three to six
point deficit.
The Gophers pumped up a 69-:
61 lead at 6:32, but MichiganI
deflated that with three straight
baskets, two coming off a full
court press.
"The only place that they
really hurt us was the press,"
said Dutcher.
Thompson's layups and ma-
chine-like turn-arounds repeated-
ly turned back the Wolverines,
and he broke Minnesota's sea-
son scoring record in the pro-
cess.
Michigan's big guns against
Minnesota's zone defense were
all Big Ten guards Ricky
Green with 25, and Hubbard
with 20. Robinson, playing
better and better, as the tourn-
ament approaches, scored 18.
Gophered !
MICHIGAN
Britt
Robinson
Hubbard
Green
Baxter
Grote
Harby
Thompson.
Bergen
TEAM
TOTALS
Williams
Winey
Thompson
Lockhart
Saunders
Johnson
TEAM
4-12
9-13
8-12
11-22
2-6
1-2
0.0
0-0
1-1
0-0
0-0
4-9
3-4
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
36-68 7-13
MINNESOTA
FG FT
11-20 3-3
6-12 1-1
13-17 6.10
2-6 0-1
1-2 0-0
2-5 1-4
4 4 8
4 3 18
13 5 20
4 2 25
1 1 4
2 2 2
3 1 2
11
35 18 79
R F Pts
3 4 25
13 3 13
10 3 32
1 2 4
1 0 2
5
34 14 81
Green unanimous
:t All-Big Ten pick
By The Associated Press
All-American Scott May of Indiana, two-time scoring
champion Terry Furlow of Michigan State, Kent Benson of
Indiana and speedy Rickey Green of Michigan were unani-
mous selections on the 1976 Associated Press All-Big Ten
basketball team.
Joining the select group was Minnesota's Mike Thomp-
son, a high-scoring 6-10 sonhomore from the Bahamas.
Michigan's captain Wayman Britt, Steve Grote and
Phil Hubbard all received honorable mention.
May, Furlow and Benson were repeaters from last
year's team while Indiana's Quisn Buckner, a 1975 selection,
not only failed to make the team but didn't even receive
honorable mention.
FIRST TEAM
TERRY FURLOW, F, Michigan State, 6-5, senior.
SCOTT MAY, F, Indiana, 6-7, senior.
KENT BENSON, C, Indiana, 6-11, junior.
RICKEY GREEN, G, Michigan, 6-2, junior.
MIKE THOMPSON, C, Minnesota, 6-10, sophomore.
SECOND TEAM
SCOTT THOMPSON, G, Iowa, 6-3, senior.
EUGENE PARKER, G, Purdue, 6-1, sophomore.
BILLY McKINNEY, G, Northwestern, 6-0, junior.
RAY WILLIAMS, G, Minnesota, 6-2, junior.
BOB WILKERSON. F, Indiana, 6-7, senior.
HONORABLE MENTION
Illinois-Rich Adnms.
Indiana-Tom Abernathy.
Towa-Dan Frost, Bruce King, Cal Wulfsberg.
Michigan-Wsyman Britt, Steve Grote, Phil Hubbard.
Ohio State-Craig Taylor.
Purdue-Walter Jordan, Kyle Macy.
Wisconsin-Dale Koehler.
TOTALS 35-62 11-19
Attendance: 11,052
HT Minn 34, Mich 31
AP Photo
MICHIGAN'S RICKY GREEN (24) knocks' away Ray Wil-
liams' (10) shot in last night's 81-79 loss.
HOOSIERS HUMBLE 'CATS
By The Associated Press . Iowa fell to 8-8 in the confer- All - American forward Scott led in the game, trailed 45-29 a
Edgar Wilson scored six ence. May and center Kent Benson the half and midway througi
clutch points in the final three Bruce King led Iowa with 29 combined for 42 points last the second half fell behind by
mnutes last nght to help rally points, Dan Frost added 25 and night to pace top-ranked Indi- 20 points at 63-43. Even though
Michigan State past Iowa, 93- Thompson 17. ana to an easy 76-63 victory Indiana Coach Bobby Knigh
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the Spartans, who erased a '
nine - point Iowa lead in the}
final six 'iinutes.
Furlow led all scorers with
32 points and Chapman added a
career-high 27 as Michigan
State moved into undisputed
control of third place in the
Big Ten with a 10-7 record.
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Hoosiers hoe The Wildcats, who never utes remained to play.
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MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Minnesota 81, MICHIGAN 79
Mich. State 93, Iowa 88
Indiana 76, 'western 63
Wisconsin 91, Ohio St. 79
Notre Dame 95, W. Mich. 88 OT
Kentucky 85, LSU 70
Tennessee 78, Miss. St. 56
Rutgers 85, St. Bonaventure 80
W. Virginia 91, New Hampshire 67
Mississippi 81, Vanderbilt 72
NHL
Toronto 4, Minn. 2
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By RICK BONINO Kevin Puebla, the speedy
Special To The Daily Goodlow turned dangerous sit.
IOWA CITY - Amos Goodlow nation after dangerous situa-
entered the, Big Ten wrestling tion ito poits to maintain a
championships sporting a warm- slim lead.
up T-shirt that read, "Top Dog." The third-seeded Illinois fresh-
'wo days and three impressive- man cut Goodlow's margin to
lv-wrestled matches later, the 9-7 with a late takedown, but
Flint freshman had earned the Michigan's fourth seed hung on
right to wear it. through the final 30 seconds to
Goodlow captured the confer- become the Wolverine's first
ence crown at 126 while class- freshman champ since Jeff Guy-
mate Mark Churella (150) and ton in 1973.
junior captain Mark Johnson Fellow freshman Churella en-
(177) took runnerup spots to countered less luck in his re-
lead Michigan to its second con- venge matchup with Iowa's de-
secutive fourth-place Big Ten fending national 150 - pound
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Hawkeyes handily nabbed the
team title with 97 points to
surprising bridesmaid Minne-
sota's 57%. Wisconsin edged
the Wolveries for third, 54-49 .
"We wrestled superbly after'
the first round." said Michigan
coach Bill Johannesen. "We
wrestled well enough to take
third except for Minnesota, who
finished over their heads."
Remaining team standings in-:
cluided Michigan State, 33 ;
Purdue, 27%: Northwestern,
184; Ohio State, 16 ; Illinois,
15% and Indiana, 5.
In addition to, Goodlow, Chur-I
ella and Johnson, Michigan also
qualified sophomore B r a d Hol-
man and junior Ed Neiswender
for the March 13-14 NCAA'
championships at Tucson, Ari-
zona.
Holman placed third at 158
(the top three finishers qual-
ify automatically.) Neiswend-
er (1677) was one of six fourth-
place finishers chosen for the
nationals by conference coach-I
es.
In order to advance to thef
final round, Goodlow had to get
past Wisconsin's top-seeded
Jack 1teinwand. The defending:
fourth-place NCAA finisher de-
feated Goodlow, 12-11, in a daz-
zling dual meet match two
weeks ago.
Goodlow completely dominat-
ed the blond Badger this time
around, smashing him to the
i .t i~ , u u i i .
Churella, who handed Yagla Iii,-
his only defeat of the year in ste
three previous tries, never -
really got going as Yagla cop- ch
ped the crown, 7-1, to the de- fin
light of 9,447 frenzied Hawk- 1
eye fans. ip
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In the 177-pound final, John- cal
son wrestled another superla- Pl
tive match with arch-rival e
Hawkeye Chris Campbell. to
Following a feeling-out first (q
period and a trade of escapes, 0:4
the muscular Campbell muster- M
ed his energy for the match's
big shot and threw Johnson to ne
the mat for a takedown midway (qu
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through the final period.-los
Johnson escaped half a min- °t
ute later but couldn't get off
a shot while the clock r a n I
down and wound up thrown on
his back as time expired.
After losing a preliminary,
bout to eventual champion Lar-
rv Zilverberg of Minnesota,U
Neiswender came back with
three straight wrestle-back wins
before dropping the consolation
final to Wisconsin's Pat Christ-
enson.
Other 1976 Big Ten champ- '
ions included Minnesota's Mike
McArthur at 118: MST's Pat
Milkovich at 134; Purdue's Alan
Housner at 142; Wisconsin's Lee
Kemp at 158: Iowa's Bud Pal-
mer at 190 and Badger heavy-
weig'it Gary Sommer.
mar, Ind, 2-1 (cons. semi).
ace: None.
:2:- RICH VALLEY - lost to
ady DiSabito, OSU, 3-2 (rat);
bf. Bruce Harrington, MSU,
8 (cons. rat ); dec. Dan Cy-
wski, Ind, 6-1 (cons. quart.);
t to Brad Smith, Iowa, 8-2
:ns. semi.) Place: None.
50 - MARK CHURELLA -
p. dec. Andy Watt, Pur, 14-4
uart.); dec. Bob Schandle,
nn, 8-3 (semi); lost to Chuck
agla, Iowa, 7-1 (final,) Place:
scond.
158 - BRAD HOLMAN - dec.
m Andre, Min, 10-3 (quart.);
st toMike McGivern, Iowa,
4(semi); sup. dec. Ron John,
r, 13-2 (cons. semi); dec.
ke Sustersic, OSU, cons. final.
lace: Third.
167 - ED NEISWENDER -
nned by Larry Zilverberg, Min,
9 (rat); dec Rick Johnson,
6-1 (cons. rat); sup. dec.
eve Dum, Ind, 8-0 (cons.
cart.): dec. Bernie Barrile, Pur,
0 (cons. semi); lost to P a t
ristenson, Wisc, 7-5 (cons.
al.) Place: Fourth
177 - MARK JOHNSON -
p. dec. Terry Flannery, NW,
2 (quart.); dec. Ron Jeidy,
is, 5-2 (semi); lost to Chris
ampbeli, Iowa, 3-2 (final.)
ace: Second.
190 - HAROLD KING - dec.
ri Mason, Pur. 10-5 (rat); lost
Evan Johnson, Min, 11-0
uart ); wbf. Willie Kay, 11,
46 (cons. quart.); lost to Al
arzano, NW, 3-1 (cons. semi).
[ce: None.
HWT. - JOHN RYAN - pin-
ci by Gary Sommer, Wis, 7:04
wart.); won by forfeit over
an Evans, MSU (cons quart.);
t to Kevin Pancrantz, I1, 1-
(cons. semi.) Place: None.
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