t SPORTS The Michigan Daily 4 full court PRES Tuesday; January 27, 1981 Lack of consistency ... ..i . . mark of Big Ten \ A UPI Top 1. Oregon St. (31) 15-0.............680 2. Virginia (7) 16-0 ................557 3. DePaul 16-1 ....................497 4. LSU (2) 17-1 ....... .........489 5. Kentucky 13-3 ..................351 6. Wake Forest 15-1 ...............336 7. Arizona St. 14-2.................324 8. Utah 17-1.......................258 9. Notre Dame 12-3 ................246 10. UCLA 11-3 ......................177 I.~-~l - Page 9 Twenty 11. N. Carolina 14-4......... 171 12. Iowa 12-3 ......................141' 13. Maryland 13-4 .......... ...100 14. S. Alabama 16-2 ................94 15. Tennessee 13-3....... ..........93 16. Brigham Young 15-3 ............71 17. Indiana 11-7 ..................63 18. Kansas 14-2......................62 19. Connecticut 13-2 ...............48 20. MICHIGAN 12-3 ................45 By GREG DeGULIS Sitting on a nondescript table in a rather bare room in one corner of anitquated St. John Arena, All-Big Ten center Herb Williams met with the press in a casual atmosphere following the Buckeyes' 69-63 defeat of Michigan Saturday night. Sensing Williams' jovial mood and aware of the giant center's easy-going nature, the mid- western.scribes conducted a court-side chit-chat with the OSU center which revealed a lot about the current Big Ten season. What got Ohio State going in the second half? Did the crowd help. at all? Was this your best game? Are you as surprised as we (media) are over the Big Ten upsets? Do the team members follow the conference race closely? THE QUESTIONS asked, as well as the incon- sistent play of the Buckeyes, symbolize. what has been the norm over the first third of the Big Ten season - we have come to expect the unexpected. Atcording to Wolverine mentor Bill Frieder, the Buckeyes possess "the finest front line in college basketball," yet Ohio State has floundered for much of the season with a 9-6 record. With a 4-2 record in the Big Ten, though, the Buckeyes find themselves tied for the conference lead with Iowa, Purdue and Indiana. Why? There exist a few explanations, including the numerous home losses in the conference so far, the balance among the top seven league squads, and the intense team defense played in the Big Ten. Home sweet home? The home court advantage received a lot of at- tention before the Big Ten season as one of the main ingredients for victory in the conference. Last year, the Big Ten champion Indiana Hoosiers captured only four road wins but took all nine home games to finish 13-5. This season, every Big Ten team has lost at home, shattering the myth that the champion must not falter in friendly surroundings. Michigan, winner of two overtime contests at home, succumbed to the Iowa Hawkeyes at Crisler Arena on January 17 for the Wolverines' only loss in Ann Arbor. IN AN EPIDEMIC of the home-court blues last weekend, Iowa, Purdue, and Illinois all lost on their own hardwood to continue to buck the trend. "If the home team goes out there unprepared, they're going to lose," explained Frieder. "The kids are mentally tougher, and being on the road doesn't seem to bother them as much." At Ohio State, however, the St. John Arena crowd's exuberance about the Buckeyes' awesome shot-blocking transformed into OSU's "sixth man," to steal an Al McGuire term, and the Scarlet and Gray completely dominated the un- dersized Wolverines for a five-minute stretch. Shot after shot had "Rejection' written all over it, and the shouts of coach Frieder became exercises in futility. Even the unemotional Williams let fly with a jubilant fist amidst the roars of the Buckeye faithful as a reminder that there's still no place like home. Another explanation for the squeeze-box con- ference bottleneck lies in the balance that exists among the top seven Big Ten teams. Thus far, no team has displayed any consistency or dominance over any other. The NFL cliche of "on any given Sunday" now applies to "on any given Thursday or Saturday" for the Big Ten. Up for grabs "THE BALANCE IN the league is a real credit to the conference," Williams related. The roller- coaster play of conference leaders Ohio State and Iowa must give gray hairs to Eldon Miller and Lute Olsen (although the latter has quite a head start). The Hawkeyes, after handily disposing of Michigan and Indiana on the road, suddenly got lost in the cornfields of Iowa City and were beaten by Minnesota, 60-48. Yet another reason for the topsy-turvy Big Ten start is the excellent team defense played by most, of the clubs. In the nationally-televised Indiana- Ohio State contest, the entertaining announcing team of Dick Enberg, Billy Packer and McGuire frequently commented on the ferocious team defense displayed by the two Big Ten squads. It was refreshing to see good defense, Packer en- thused. As any Michigan fan will attest, the respective defenses of Iowa and Ohio State thwarted Michigan's attack. With Kevin Boyle setting the example, the Hawkeyes scrambled all over the floor to force Michigan out of its offense. In Columbus, the shot-blocking of Williams and Clark Kellogg turned away any semblance of an inside game for Michigan. The result: Two con- ference losses and a 3-3 mark in Big Ten play. So, after one third of the Big Ten season, the recipe for the conference title appears to be game preparation and intense team defense. Sounds like it comes out of an Indiana cookbook. 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Bahr described Rob Rechsteiner, Pat McKay, and Eric Klasson as "the most consistent wrestlers on the team, along with Joe McFarland. Those guys are our back- bone." The three biggest grapplers recorded two wins, one by pin, in the two dual matches. Rechsteiner raised his record to 15-5 with a decision against Purdue and a pin against Illinois. One-hundred ninety-pounder McKay and heavyweight Klasson both scored pins against their Purdue opponents and decisions over the Illini grapplers. Klasson raised his per, sonal record to 20-3, which ties him with McFarland for most victories on the squad. McFarland scored decisions in both his weekend matches, as did Nemir Nadhir, while 167-pounder Steve Pierce won his match against Purdue. PINNING IT DOWN: Michigan lost two wrestlers per- manently last week. According to Bahr, Bob Siar has drop- ped out of Michigan for academic reasons, while co-captain Bill Konovsky was dismissed from the team. Siar and Konov- sky both wrestled effectively for the Wolverines last year prior to suffering knee injuries . . . Bahr expects Larry Haughn to finally challenge Bill Goodill at 134 pounds this week. Haughn has been kept out of action this year for a number of reasons, the latest of which is a bout with the flu ... Mike DerGarabedian had 'his arm taken out of a cast on Friday and could wrestle as, early as next week. DerGarabedian suffered a cracked bone in his elbow a month ago . . . Pierce will take over for Konovsky at 167 pounds. Pierce has wrestled at 158, but Bahr recently moved Nadhir to 158, where he ways the latter wrestles better. Pierce is considered somewhat small for 167 pounds, but his perfor- mance against Illinois proved to Bahr that he can do the job. .. The Indiana match, which was supposed to be held last Thursday at Indiana, was cancelled. Most of the Indiana wrestlers were sick, so the team will try to reschedule the match ... The Wolverines square off against Michigan State this Frid1ay at Crisler Arena. The Spartans edged the Wolverines earlier this year by an 18-16 score. 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