Thursday March 25, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Rage aline Thursday, March 25, 1 97b THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine OUT OF _ _ _ BOUNDS by Rich Lerner Look u America.. . ...see what- we've got "THE FACT THAT THE Big Ten alone-and for the first time -has two teams in the final should convince the people} around the country that we play pretty good basketball in this league," said Indiana coach Bobby Knight. Maybe, just maybe the rest of the country will finally catch on to the fact that the Atlantic Coast Conference is not the nation's only basketball league. "The Big Ten is a hell of a league," said Michigan assistant coach Bill Frieder. "From top to bottom it's a great conference. The ACC is overrated. Virginia wins their tournament, and shoots into the Top Ten, even though they've lost 12 games. Wake Forest got hot and won two or three straight and they move into the top five," said Frieder, who told Fordham yesterday that; if offered the head coaching job there, he would not accept the bid. While Michigan and Indiana have both reachedthe final; four, the ACC representatives in the NCAA tourney, Virginia and North Carolina, both lost in first-round action. The poll- : sters may now finally face up to the fact that the Big Ten is as good if not better than the ACC. "The pollsters mistake competitiveness for quality," said Johnny Orr.! This year, the Big Ten's strength was hardly limited to semi- finalists Michigan and Indiana. Minnesota handed Marquette its only regular season loss. Illinois and Iowa both beat Western regional finalist Arizona. Northwestern bested both Oregon State and NIT champion Kentucky. Big Ten teams have consistently fared well in the NCAA tournament. With a current won-loss percentage of 68.1 per cent Daily Photo by PAULINEL (77-36) the Big Ten ranks just behind the Pac-8's 69.2 per cent, WOLVERINE GUARD Rickey Green drives over I despite UCLA's 40 wins in its last 41 games. Big Ten teams Scott May in a game played at Crisler Arena Janu have placed among the top three in the tournament more than Indiana won that game 80-74. Both were unanimous any other conference. 10 picks and received All-American honors. This ist Of the top seven teams in tournament action (with at time that two teams from the same conference h least 10 wins) through the years, three are from the Big Ten. vanced to the NCAA semifinals. UCLA with a 50-10 record leads the pack, followed by In- diana, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Ohio State, Duke and Michi- gan.O PROGRESS REPORTED: The strength of Big Ten basketball is not a new phenome-I non. If the pollsters and television networks don't realize the strength of Big Ten basketball, the pro scouts certainly do. Every Big Ten school is represented on a professional roster. No other conference can make that claim. The list of NBA greats that Phil the By JOHN SCHWARTZ This Saturday, the Michigan Wol- verines will face yet another of the fantastic forwards which have graced college basketball this year. But the Wolverines won't be up against the high scoring machine type player they battled in Adrian Dantley. Nor will they face Wayman Britt's hot- handed neuesis Terry Furlow of MSU, or everybody's All-America Scott May of Indiana. BRITT WILL NOT have to battle Ernie Grunfeld of Tennessee, Eddie Owens of Nevada-Las Vegas, Dale Koehler of Wisconsin, South Carolina's Alex English, and Vanderbilt's Jeff Fosnes, all formidable regular season opponents. However, this time the Wol- verines and Britt will meet Phil Sellers -Rutgers' All-American. "Phil The Thrill," as Rutgers fans have affectionately named him, has been the main cog in Rutgers' 31-0 season. The 6-5 senior is the team leader and the Scarlet Knight's perfect record attests to his leadership ability. The key to Sellers' success lies in his Thrill consistency. This season he averaged just under 20 points per game while hauling down an average of 10 rebounds per contest. Only three times in his four year career has he failed to score in double figures, giving him 2365 points during the span. SELLERS CAME to Rutgers from Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, New York. There he was a consensus prep All-American and Most Valuable Pplayer in the Dapper Dan Classic before moving into the college ranks. Developing patiently with the Rutgers program, Sellers has again achieved national recognition for his basketball ability. Rutgers coach Tom Youngs said of Sellers' development, "Phil was really undisciplined. He would have tested anyone back then. Now he is a well disciplined ball player-the key to our team." MICHIGWN COACH Johnny Orr is likewise aware of Sellers' talent. He has predicted Sellers will be a first round NBA draft pick. I ills bill Sellers' all around play warrants such praise. He has an excellent out- side shot which compliments his ex- tremely physical play under the boards to create a scoring threat from any area on the court. "He works hard," noted Orr, "al- ways moving to get the ball. If he doesn't get open on one cut he tries another. "He's had poor shooting nights, but he's still been playing good basketball," Orr added. "His defense has been sharp, and he's been rebounding well." SELLERS, HOWEVER has had a relatively poor tournament, averaging only 12 points per game in Rutgers' three stepping stones to the semi-finals. Against Connecticut he was almost completely neutralized, only being able to muster eight points and five re- bounds- But Rutgers fans are hoping "The Thrill" can break out of the three-game cold streak that has plagued him in time for Saturday's game. At any rate, Wayman Britt will again face the incredible task of checking another fantastic forward-Phil Sellers. Ali cuts Young down to size !i. E LUBENS ndiana's wary 12. All-Big the first ave ad- Get Styled LANDOVER, Md. (P)-Jimmy Young may be the third-ranked heavyweight contender, but he still has a lot to learn from the champ about how to promote a s resume came out of the Big Ten include Fred Brown, Rudy Tomjano-I vich, Ron Behagen, Jim Brewer, John Havlicek and George Mc- Ginnis. The Big Ten supplies more players to the professionalI ranks than any other league. OURNAMENT TRIVIA-Gene Bartow's record in NCAA tour- nament play is better than his predecessor John Wooden's. Bartow's 6-1 slate is good for an .857 rate, while Wooden won 47 and lostl0 , an .825 percentage. i Three of the four semi-finalists start freshmen in the center position: Phil Hubbard for Michigan, James Bailey for Rutgers and David Greenwood of UCLA. * This is the first time that two unbeaten teams (Indiana and Rutgers) have reached the final four. " UCLA has a chance to be the first school to win both the1 Rose Bowl and the NCAA championship in the same year. In 1965, Michigan beat Oregon State in the Rose Bowl 34-7 but lost to UCLA In the basketball final, 91-80. " Michigan is the second team to reach the final four andj play in the Orange Bowl in the same year. Oklahoma lost to Tennessee 17-0 in the 1939 Orange Bowl and bowed out to cham- pion Oregon in the semi-finals of the first NCAA basketball tour- nament. * The best team Michigan has played in the tournament thus far? Orr says it's Wichita State. " The approximate $140,000 Michigan and Indiana bring home from the tournament gets split 50-50 between the partici- pating teams and the Big Ten conference. By The Associated Press : that time, the union's executive owners offered free agent status board neither accepted nor re- to all major leaguers in the NEW YORK-Representatives{. ofteW Major LeaestayIes jected the owners' offer of next two seasons, but tied cer- Association and the owners March 15, instead calling for tain limitations to the proposal, A s elation s omiee more talks and the opening of including an eight-club draft of met or five hours yetmitt e spring training. the players involved. an attempt to settle their com- The camps were opened the When the union's executive plicated problems, but no pre- same day by order of Commis- board did not act on the mat- gress was reported. sioner Bowie Kuhn and yester- ter, the owners withdrew it. '*L. fight. "We can fight together, but we can't talk together," Young muttered, obviously over-match- ed by the constantly interrupt- ing Muhammad Ali at a news conference yesterday. '"We can talk together," Ali quickly corrected. "That's what makes a fight." ALI THEN launched into a non-stop monologue - with no rest between sentences-to pro- mote his April 30 title defense against Young in the Capital Centre on the outskirts of Wash- ington, D.C. Young, the 27-year-old chal- lenger from Philadelphia, got in the first needle only because he was introduced first, saying he wanted to "thank the tramp for giving me a chance to take his crown." "I'M TOO old to dance and jump around," said the 34-year- old champion. "But I'm going to talk to you ,and ask you to show me something. "I'm so fast, I'll hit you be-. fore God gets the news. I'll hit you so hard, I'll jar your kin- folk in Africa. Look at him, he's scared to death already." Asked how Y o un g fared against him in the exhibition, Ali said: "He did good. He hit me twice." BY I''t B Pro U-Ni Stylists at the Union PATHS TO SELF-AWARENESS a series of lectures-discussions and demonstra- tions on spiritual awakening. KARMA YOGA, NATURAL LAW, AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE with DICK AHERN THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 25 at 8:00 p.m. at CANTERBURY HOUSE 3 . 1 Afterward, it was announced' that Marvin Miller, executive director of the players union, and John Gaherin, the chief ne- gotiator for management, would confer today and set up another: meeting date, the 33rd in the series. Wednesday's session, con- ducted at Gaherin's office, dealt with a review and dis- cussion of all the issues under negotiations. No new ideas4 were proposed. It was the first meeting be- tween the two sides in 10 days and the first session of any kind since March 17, when the Executive Board of the Players Association met in Florida. At day's meeting was the tirst ne- gotiating s e s s i o n since the camps opened after a 17-day shutdown. At the last confrontation be- tween the two parties, the management committee had presented what it called its "best and final" offer to the players' group. Miller and counsel Dick Moss: represented the Players Asso- ciation at the latest session. Present for management were Gaherin, A me ric an League President Lee MacPhail and National League President Chub Feeney. George Burns, 1973 Canadian amateur golf champion, is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and playing on the PGA golf tour. He turned professional last July. II .I 'WI! ri That proposal recognized free-agent rights won by pleyers in arbitration last cember and subsequently held in two federal courts. the the De- up- The LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR THE University Housing Council Election being held March 29-April 2 There is at least one seat available in every district. REGISTER in M.S.A. Offices 3rd Floor, Mich. 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