9f WOLVERINES SEEK R EVENGE agers set for OTs The Michigan Daily-Saturday, February 2, 1980-Pa . $+L".r ,ys,,,'t.; Y :$;i" t:+;:v;'x ' .4":;~.v :,}; ., ,. : .1 -:3M . .,: .u:' ,t" THE LINEUPS MICHIGAN NORTHWESTERN By SCOTT M. LEWIS 4dvice to persons attending today's Big Ten basketball clash between Michigan and Northwestern: DO NOT make any early dinner reservations. And for all you dilettantes who come to Crisler Arena with a backpack full of books, don't expect to make your pilgrimage to the library at precisely 4 p.m. THE OVERTIME Gang, a.k.a. the chigan Wolverines, will put their four-game overtime streak on the line this afternoon when they host the lash - place Wildcats at 2:05 p.m. The game marks Phase II of the unpredictable 18- game Big Ten season. The NCAA does not keep records of consecutive overtime games, but it's probable the current Michigan string is unprecedented in college history. Western Kentucky established the @cord for most overtime games in a season - eight - in 1978. The'' Wolverines have been involved in five to date. No doubt exhausted from their ner- ve-wracking escapades of the past tyo weeks, the Blue cagers would rather launch a streak of a different nature - namely, a winning streak. Michigan, 11-7 overall and 4-5 in the conference af- ter Thursday's 73-69 overtime victory at Wisconsin, is lodged in a four-way tie for fifth place, only two games behind the leaders. THE WILDCATS, (2-7 in the Big Ten) normally would seem easy prey for Michigan, especially when they're not playing in dreary 'McGaw Hall. However, Wolverine fans remember dolefully Northwestern's last triumnph - an 85-82 triple overtime decision over Michigan last Saturday in Evanston. In that contest, th'e Wildcats shot a sizzling 61 pe cent from the field, many of their efforts of the low-percentage variety. At times it seemed everything Northwestern tossed up found the basket. Michigan coach Johnny Orr, who has come to expect almost anything during his 12 seasons in the Big Ten, praised the Wildcats' effort last Saturday. "We didn't play badly against North- western; we just madegsome crucial errors down thestretch," he said."'If they played against everybody else the way they did against us, they sure wouldn't be 2-6. If we would have made our free throws, we would have won." ONE THING Northwestern does very well is shoot free throws. In fact, its 76 BULLETIN The Michigan icers trailed the Denver Pioneers,, 3-1, after two periods of play last night at Denver University Arena. Denver's Ed Beers opened the scoring on a power, play goal at 2:46. Michigan's Dan Lerg notted the score a 1-1 on an unassisted goal at 4:55. Den- ver closed out the first period scoring at 7:00 with a goal by Vince Magnan. The Pioneers increased their lead to two at 16:58 of the second stanza on Bill Stewart's goal. practice. We also thought a bigger, lineup would help us against Wisconsin. There were a few anxious times out there, but he did alright." Earlier this week, Orr predicted that Ohio State would not win the Big Ten title. After Michigan State's 74-54 shellacking of the Buckeyes, Orr's wor- ds are beginning to sound prophetic. Ohio State has yet to visit Indiana, Pur- due and Minnesota, while other conten- ders - most notably the Hoosiers - have more favorable road schedules., Michigan's road slate includes trips to Columbus (next Thursday), East Lansing, Iowa City and Minneapolis. But today, the Wolverines aren't looking any further than Crisler Arena and Northwestern. 'WOLVERINE TALES: Mike McGee scored his 1,461st career point Thur- sday, passing Phil Hubbard into fifth place on the all-time Michigan scoring list . . . An observer situated near the Badger bench reported Wisconsin coach Bill Cofield shoutingsat and shoving burly center Larry Petty. The trouble occurred when Petty was replaced late in the first half after being called for travelling . . . Prior to last Saturday's loss in Evanston, Michigan had won 18 of its previous 19 games against the Wildcats. (40) (45) (15) (24) (42) Mike McGee ..... (6-5)... Thad Garner.....(6-7).. Paul Heuerman .. (6-8). Marty Bodnar .... (6-3).. Joe James ..... (6-4%).. F F C G G . .(6-7).........Jim Stack (6-10) Mike Campbell . .(7-0)........Brian Jung . .(6-3) .... Rod Roberson . .(6-4) ...:. Brian Gibson (25) (50) (55) (21) (42)' :."f". :, : nv. ..:!"" .":"4i?}:{: : 8:a:":"}:a~i:":t~a:.v: :.::.:s: .:?,v~hv:? :t:i'"; ;}; :v' A COFIELD UNDER PRESSURE Badger coach toface axe?. By AL FANGER Special to the Daily MADISON-Bill Cofield is likely to lose his job as Wisconsin basketball coach unless the Badgers dramatically improve on their 3-6 Big Ten record, a source in the Wisconsin athletic department said Thursday night. The source, who asked not to be identified said Cofield, 39, will probably be fired or forced to resign, "unless they (the Badgers) win six or seven of their last nine games." Wisconsin, which was beate by Michigan, 73-69, in overtime Thursday, is holding down ninth place in the Big Ten. The Badgers have defeated Northwestern, Indiana, and Ohio State in conference play. Cofield has reportedly ha4 some personal difference withseveral of his players, most notably center Larry Petty. During the Michigan game, Cofield was seen pushing Petty after he had removed the 6'9" pivot man from the game. Cofield came to Wisconsin in 1976 from the University of Virginia, where he served as an assistant for two years. His won-lost redord at Wisconsin is 42-59. full court PRES Battered and bruised ..:. . Michigan finesse prevails BY AL FANGER MADISON - Take heart, romantic types. This is your kind of town. There is a certain charm, a certain liveliness which makes this such a special place. Madison represents more than just the memories of bombings and demonstrations. It's the beauty of Lakes Mendota and Monona. It's the breath-taking view of the State Capitol and the Wisconsin campus from high atop Baspom Hill. It's the sleek compact NICKELODEON mini-buses which, for a five-cent fare, transport passengers through downtown streets. It thus seems fitting that the Michigan basketball 'team chose this neo- romantic setting to extract a 7-69 victory from the throes of a third straight overtime defeat. And ironically enough, it came at the expense of Wisconsin, a team which gave the Wolverines a splitting headache in both of their 1979 encounters. This one> was a nip-and-tuck battle from start to finish. Though the Badgers hej a slight advantage throughout most of the contest, all Michigan needed was an occasional steal or some other Wisconsin turnover, anld one or two good shots, to quickly close the gap.. Actually, Michigan was the beneficiary of a single-faceted Badger at- tack which, when inoperative, lulled into an inferior on-court position. Wisconsin Coach Bill Cofield relied on strength, particularly in the area of rebounding, of forwards Claude Gregory and Joe Chrnelich and center Larry Petty. If his big men failed to grab a key rebound or find the hoop on an inside shot, they were doomed., Wolverines badgered At certain times, notably when the Wolverines had rallied to erase a Badger lead, those front-liners in red would start to abuse their muscle power. Taking advantage of a favorable 25-pound per man weight differen- tial, Wisconsin employed its elbows, arms, and knees as weapons in a battle to regain the lead. That tactic seemed to disturb Johnny Orr, but he voiced his post-game concerns with restraint. "Man, they're strong," said a mentally and emotionally exhausted Orr. "It sure was physical out there. "(Joe) Chrnelich's roughing up on (Mike) McGee had an effect on him, but not on his shooting," he continued. "I give a lot of credit to Chrnelich. He's a good, st'rong player." Was McGee's poor shooting night (7 of 18) completely independent of the bodily abuse that he took from the Badger co-captain? Possibly not. As Orr said earlier in the season, "Mike isn't an extrovert." Since McGee tends to "bottle" up much of his emotion, the wealth of physical abuse may have af- fected his mental approach to shot-taking. On one occasion, the 6-5 junior briefly emerged from his shell, but not in the most desirable way. Afer a session of heavy bumping with Chrnelich under the Michigan basket, McGee rammed an elbow into the hqfty forward as the Badgers inbounded the'ball. He was immediately slapped with a technical foul, one which confused both McGee and the sparse turnout of 7,850 fans. But McGee wasn't the sole victim of the exceptional physical contact. Thad Garner "was knocked woozy something like six times," according to Orr, and "one time he was so woozy we had to take him out of there." "I'm not accusing Wisconsin of playing dirty. The Badgers are just a team that, by virtue of their relative weight advantage to other teams, can play a tremendous physical game and escape an official's whistle most of the time." Unflortunately for Cofield and his.team, it takes more than just brute strength to win basketball games, particularly in the Big Ten. Regardless of the punishment that the Wolverines incurred near the bucket, Orr and his cagers were simply happy to emergefrom an overtime game with a win, and on the road no less. "If we had lost tonight," said Orr, "I don't know what I could have done with us." per cent average from the foul line is seventh among the nation's Division I schools. The Wildcats, who lost 75-64 Thur- sday to Minnesota, are paced by junior guard Rod Roberson, and forwards Mike Campbell and Jim Stack. Rober- son, who has averaged 10.9 points per game, popped in 23 against Michigan last week. Campbell, a 6-10 senior, was deadly from long range, hitting nine of ten field goal attempts en route to -20 points. Stack, sidelined last season with a knee injury, is leading the team in scoring at 14 ppg. MICHIGAN H AS no strategy changes in store for today's game, said assistant coach Bill Frieder. "We would like to play a little stronger defensively," he said, "but they (the Wildcats) are a great shooting team. Campbell has made eight or nine of ten shots a few times this season, and Roberson shot better than he usually does." The Wolverines will again start 6-4,2 freshman Joe James at guard. "There are a number of reasons why we started Joe," Frieder explained. "For one, that guard position hasn't really produced much. And he's been playing well in C CAA L ES, MURRA Y QUA"LIFY FOR NC AA: 4 Swimmers throttle N By LISA T. KAPLAN A difference in strategy accounted for yesterday's. performance of Michigan's men swimmers in scoring a convincing 77-36 win over 'North Carolina State, and last weekenid's disappointing loss at Indiana. "Today we didn't back down-we worked straight through and did very well," said coach Dan Farley, in analyzing the turnabout in Michigan's top two dual meets of the season. "WE TRI ED TO rest for Indiana and we shouldn't have-we ended up being flat," Farley explained. "Today we got just good solid swimming all the way through, the way we should have been swimming last week (against In- diana)." Not only did the swimmers boost their season record to 7-1, but several indivdual marks were set at Matt Mann Pool. Two freestylers, Fernando Canales and Bob Murray, swam NCAA qualifying times in the 500 and 200 freestyle with times of 1:29.11 and 20.73 respectively. John Spaid, in setting a new varsity record in the 1000 freestyle, 'was F.C. State,-,. clocked at 9:19.30 while teammates Paul Griffin, Tom 'Ernsting, Scott Crowder, and Canales, teamed up for a new pool record in the 400 medley relay in 3:27.16. "The freestylers have worked real hard this week," Farley stated. OTHER KEY performers for the Wolverines were, as usual, the diving squad. Michigan swept the top three spots in the three-meter dive. Kevin Machemer led the way (326.775), with Ken Vigiletti (299.100), and Ron Meriott (287.350) following. Meriott also placed first in the one-meter dive (305.775) while Machemer took third (286.05). The Big Ten meeC~ in March is "without a doubt" the key meet accor- ding to coach Farley, as Michigan will have another chance to face Indiana. But first Michigan must face a strong Ohio State team next weekend-a team that has already beaten Indiana by over 40 points earlier in the season. KOOSER, BACHMAN SHINE IN DEFEAT: W lfpack flattens women tankers By KENT WALLEY Michigan's women's swim team was a "little flat" yesterday, according to coach Stu Isaac, as they lost to North Carolina State 90-50, at Matt Mann Pool. Isaac said the team might have had "a little trouble boun- cing back after its big emotional loss last week." Isaac also said that perhaps the team was tired from the hard week's practice preparing for the meet.- WHATEVER THE reason, Michigan was totally dominated by N. C. State. Michigan won only six events: the backstroke (both the 100 and 50 meters), the breaststroke (both the 100 and 50 meters), and the diving (both the one and three meter). These events were dominated by three Michigan swimmers. Kathy Kooser took first in both the 50 and 100 meter breaststroke with times of 31.51 and 1:08.84 respectively. And Barb Don Carlos won both the 50 and 100 meter backstroke with times of 28.05 and 1:00.13 respectively. N. C. State dominated all of the other events except diving. They took first, second, and third in the 100 meter freestyle and the 100 meter butterfly. IN DIVING, however, Michigan was "great as usual" (according to Isaac). The Wolverines' two big divers, Julie Bachman and Barb Weinstein, excelled in both the one and the three meter hiving events. Bachman took first in both and Weinstein took second in the one and third in the three meter. Despite the disappointing loss, coach Isaac said he is confident everyone will swim the best meet of their lives in the Big Ten championship onFeb. 21-.23. 4 SPORTS OF THE DAILY Tumblers travel to OSU tbj (3out a, pGE ii I If the Michigan gymnasts are having trouble getting ,"up" after last weekend's successes, the trip to Columbus today could be just the right medicine. Both the men's and women's team face Ohio State tonight, including its "spring floor". At home, the Wolverines tumble on a foam mat covered by carpet. But the Buckeyes' floor exercise area consists of four layers - springs, covered by plywood, then a foam mat and finally, a carpet - to help the gymnasts overcome gravity's effects. Women's coach Sheri Hyatt said the "spring floor" shouldn't provide any problems. In fact, she said her squad had their best score of the season using a similar floor mat at Kent State in January. The only drawback, said men's coach Newt Loken, is the tendency to over- rotate. "Although the guys get better bounce," said Loken, "it's possible to spin right past the proper landing." Both coaches see today's meet as essential in their bids to post-season meets. However, the computational methods for qualifying tend to relegate the season's won-loss record to a secondary role. But Loken stops short of saying winning doesn't matter. He said he'd have mixed feelings about losing, ex- cept with a high score. "The attempt is to emerge victorious," said Loken. -Lee Katterman McGinnis back home WASHINGTON - The Indiana Pacers reacquired forward George McGinnis from the Denver Nuggets Friday in exchange for forward Alex English and a first-round pick in the 1980 National. Basketball Association draft. McGinnis, 6-foot-8 and 236 pounds, starred for Indiana in the old American Basketball Association for four seasons. He moved to Philadelphia of the NBA in 1975 and spent three years with the 76ers before being traded to Denver. "I'm feeling great," said McGinnis. "I'm glad to get out of here and be coming home. Without question, that's the best place for me." - AP E, q SATURDAY 9 pm -lam NO COVER! the~ourj S Uiepato 1140 South University I Iarthe credentials that count as a L Hughes is news We make engineering and scientific history year after year. Like 1976, when fiveHughes-developed satellites went into orbit. 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