Tuesday, March 2, 1 976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Sever - e ......,..._.... ._. .. .... 3 OF BOUNDS 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 88. *n T~o left most of his starters in the t ;2 y h, it to Terry Furlow and Bob Chap- man combined for 59 points for 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. * -over Northwestern. L game until less than two min- Hoosiers hoe The Wildcats, who never utes remained to play. 60 -rm m m m a ms m .n- im - m - a .. .. . xnmear .sa..aw.aiw . re...: DooLey's r I_ I SCORES_! I 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 HALF-PRICE -TONIGHT- HAPPY HOUR on ..........:::::.-: r...:.,". II Matmen 4th in Big 10 WHY WALK FURTHER! 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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 finish here last weekend. chm.huck Vnoln Ko Pla 142 An wb 5:1 Sev lost (c 11 su (q Mi Yak Sec Jin 1051 3-1 Pu Mil PIS pir 4:5 The heavily-favored h o s t 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 'wi 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 Dar 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. I I I- - . .. ' f is t { ' >. r ,. : w .ri: r, y <; :T w; [ ; A Lecture by JORGE LUIS BORGES "The Writer and His Destiny" Tuesday, March 2 4 p.m. Auditorium 3 . 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