Tvusrui H I W'Y.E i uesday,Junet$,lWI - OUTT OF Bm~OUNDS by Rich I.erner w r Sectional politics . . . blocks Green's selection HE UNITED States Olympic Basketball' Team was announced, over the weekend. and conscicnous by his absence from the 15-man roster was Mi-higan's guard Rickey Green. Making the team were the Wolverines' Phil Hubbard, two players from Bobby Knight's NCAA champion Indiana Hoosiers (Scott May and Quinn B"kner, two Arizona State players (Scott Lloyd and Mark Landsberger, Otis Birdsong of Houston, Notre Dame's Adrian Dantlev, Ernie Gronfeld of Tennessee and seven players from the Atlantic Cost Conference. Included among the ACC clster were four players from Dean Smith's North Carolina Tar Heels. Perhaps coincidentally, but most likely not, Smith is coach of the Olympic Team. The seven players from the ACC are: Tate Armstrong, Duke; Steve Shenp'rd, Maryland; Kenny Carr, North Caro- lina State; and Tom LaGarde. Phil Ford, Mitch Kupchak, and Walter Davis all of North (Carolina. The announcement of those selected for the Montreal extrava- gaza caught many people off-guard. Many observers had Green pegged as a shou-in for the squad and at least as having a great chance by the remainder. Many Mid-westerners, familiar with Green, looked forward to the prospect of the mercurial guard dribbling circles around slower-footed Eastern Europeans. "I know he was personally heartbroken that he did not make the team," said Michigan coach Johnny Orr. Discussing the make-up of the sqoad Orr had this to say: "I've never heard of Tate Armstrong, all I know about him is that he is from the Atlantic Coast Conference. You see they got a Maryland guy, a Duke guy, a North Carolina State guy and four North Carolina plavers. Next time one of the Big Ten coaches has got to be the Olvmpic coach," Orr continued. "I think that for the Olympics they'd have a much better team if they had taken Indiana's first five or six players and fill it in with great players as reserves. I think you'll have a much stronger team than you have now. "And I think Bobby Knight should he the coach, because he won the national championships. I think that's one way to take the politics out of it. "It seems ridiculous to me that we have North Carolina hav- ing four players picked on the squad to go to the Olympics, when I saw them humiliated on television by Alabama. And Alabama doesn't have a player on the team. North Carolina could not get into the final 16 teams in the country with its team and now they have four players on the Olympic Team. Either their fifth player was awfully terrible, or they had a lousy coach." "It sure smacks of something, with four players from the same school, plus two from another member of the selection commit- tee's (Ned Wulk of Arizona State) school and one of those, Lands- berger, didn't even play this past year," said Arizona's head basketball coach Fred Snowden. "Let's just say that I'm a little confused," said Snowden. "Bob Elliot (Snowden's 6-11 center from Ann Arbor Pioneer) came back with a very bad taste in his mouth. When they were picking centers, he felt there was a certain trend set early on, that made him think no matter how well he played he would not make the team, "Complaining that my own player did not make the team might sound like sour grapes," Snowden said. "But Green not making the team confuses me a wee bit. I thought at the end of the year the two best guards in the country were Green and Buckner. I think Rickey Green was most certainly the finest small guard in the nation." "I was surprised and disappointed Green and Bob Wilkerson did not make the team," said Northwestern coach Tex Winter, the only Big Ten coach present at last week's trials in Raleigh- the capital of North Carolina, nonetheless. "He is as talented a guard as there is in the country. By the same token, I can under- stand, with only two weeks to prepare for the Olympic Games, if you are the coach you'll be inclined to go with people you're familiar with. He (Smith) wanted to exert influence. "I thought Green played well, I coached the team he was with on the last night, and he scored 32 points. I thought he played awfully well," Winter said. Washington coach Marv Harshman, a member of the selec- tion committee, felt that Green's last night performance may have cost him a berth on the squad. "I think maybe that what chance Rickey had maybe was hurt by the last night," said Harshman, the coach of the U.S. Pan-Am champions last year. "That's probably the poorest showing he had, although he scored 32 points, he went one-on-one completely. He didn't play very well within the team concept. Wilkerson was another one that was hurt by not playing well within the team concept." To Big Ten basketball fans and coaches, the characteri- ration of Wilkerson and Green as something other than team players is startling. Indiana and Michigan employed their distinctive styles of team play to carry them into the NCAA finals and Wilkerson and Green were integral components of their respective teams. Harshman admitted that regional bias may have played some See DID, Page 7 NORTH CAROLINA center Mitch Kupchak stop s Rickey Green's lay-up attempt in a scrimmage at the Olympic trials last Friday. Despite scoring 32 points in the game, Green failed to make the squad. Kupchak did, along with three North Carolina teammates. The 15-man roster an- nounced Saturday includes Michigan's Phil Hubbard and seven players from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Three additional cuts will be made later. BUSBY WHITEWASHES, 70-0: Royals crownT igers By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY-Slump-ridden Frank White drove in five runs with a single and a bases-loaded triple and Steve Busby, whose sore arm remains a question mark, hurled six innings of two- hit ball in leading the Kansas City Royals to a 10-0 trouncing of the Detroit Tigers last night. The Royals scored three runs in the second and two in the sixth off Vern Ruhle, 4-2, then turned it into a runaway with five in the seventh. Busby, 2-1, was relieved in the seventh by Mark Littell. Zisk zonks PITTSBURGH - Richie Zisk slammed a pinch-hit, solo home run in the eighth inning to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds last night in a regionally-tele- vised power display that saw both sides clout a total of seven solo homers. Neither team had a hit through the first four innings, and Pirates' starting pitcher Bruce Kison led 1-0 on a no- hitter through six after the Pi- rates scored an unearned run off Reds' starter Jack Billing- ham. But by game's end, the two teams had matched the major league record for most solo homers by two teams in a single nine-inning game. The total of seven was last equal- led by the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians in 1974. In the seventh inning alone, the Pirates assaulted Billingham with three solo homers. Al Oliver and Willie Stargell hit back-to-back homers to al- most the same spot in the right field seats to open the inning, and one out later, Bill Robinson drove another home run over the left field wall. Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE East East w L Pet. GB W L Pet. GB New York 2 19 .596 - Philadelphia 33 14 .702 - Baltimore 24 25 .490 5 Pittsburgh 29 no 5 % Bostan 20 04 .4785'SiS New Yark 06 21 .081 t10a Cleveland 02 26 .458 61 St. Louis 23 29 .442 12 Detroit 21 27 .435 8 7 Chicago 22 29 .431 13 Milwaukee 10 26 .409 81'. Montreal 17 28 .378 15 west west Kansas City 31 18 .633 - Cincinnati 32 20 .615 - Texas 00 20 .583 0.. Los Angeles 31 22 .585 1' Chicago 25 21 .543 41'u San Diego 26 23 .531 4'5, Minnesota 25 24 .510 6 Houston 27 29 .412 7 Oakland 24 08 .402 81' Atlanta 20 30 .400 11 California 22 30 .407 11'- San Francisco 01 3353912 Yesterday's Results Late games not included Texas 0, Baltimore 4 Yesterday's Results Minnesota 7,Cleveland2Pittshurgh 5, Cincinnati 4 Mintesoa2,lrseattSt. Louis7, Houston 6 Kansas City 10, Detroit 0 New York at San Diego, n Only games scheduled Philadelphia at Los Angeles, n Today's Gamnes otnly games scheduled Today'Gae Oakland (Mitchell 1-3) at Boston Atlanta (Nier 34s G at Cicago (Tiant 7-3), - (R. Reuschel 5-4). Texas (Peterson 0-3) at Baltimore Cincinnati (Alcala 5-1) at Pitts- (Alexander 3-2), n. burgh (Rooker 6-2), n. Minnesota (Hughes 2-6) at Cleve- St. Louis (R. Forsch 1-1) at Hous- land (Eckersley 3-4), n. ton (Dierker 5-5), a, California (Ross 3-6) at New York New York (Loich 2-7) at San (Ellis 4-4), n. Deo(F reisieben 3-1), n 62 (Ells 4-), aPhiladelphia (Christenson 64-t or Chicago (Johnson 3-5) at Milwau- Reed 4-1) at Los Angeles (Rhoden her (Trasers 6-2), n. 4-0), n. Detroit (Roberts 4-4) at Kansas Montreal (Fryman 6-3) at San City (Leonard 5-1), n. Francisco (Dressler 1-3), n.