r Ransacked: The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, January 6,1982-Page 9 James, Washington off basketball roster "*.l. By MARK FISCHER It seems like everything's turning up- side down for coach Bill Frieder and the Michigan basketball team this season. Seven is supposedly a lucky number, but it currently represents just the op- posite for the Wolverine cagers. The team not only has seven losses in its fir- st eight games, but has now lost a total of seven players from its various 1981- 82 rosters. Consequently, only eight scholarship players are left to suit up for action tomorrow night when Michigan hosts Wisconsin in Big Ten opener. JUNIOR JOE JAMES became the latest player to leave the Wolverine hoopsters when he quit the team last weekend due to a lack of playingJime. Greg Washington, a 6-3 freshman football player who joined the team briefly after the gridders' regular season ended, has recently left the team as well, because of an injured back. Frieder has since tried to add some depth to his squad, however, by recalling Gerard Rudy, a 6-5 freshman walk on, last weekend. Rudy stopped practicing with the cagers midway through their preseason sessions because of academic conflicts, but he has a more compatible schedule this term and will now play. JAMES, A talented 6-5 swingman who was expected to be a major con- tributor this season, started in Michigan's first four games and averaged ten points, but has played sparingly since. In Michigan's last game against Alabama-Birmingham, James was the only Wolverine who didn't see action. "I felt I wasn't getting enough playing. time," said the Youngstown, Ohio native. "And that I wasn't getting enough playing time through the years At the beginning of this season James said, "I thought I would, be playing a lot more...and I felt that at this stage of my career I should be playing more." JAMES MADE his final decision to quit after a phone call with Frieder, in which the coach told him he wasn't playing up to my potential." "I just told him maybe I wasn't playing quite up to my potential but I thought I wasn't playing so terribly that I had to be benched so severely," James continued. "But he said that if I wasn't going to play up to my potential he wasn't going to use me. So I had no other choice but to sit out-if I wasn't going to play, or just be used as ninth man, I was wasting my time." It was after Michigan's 71-60 loss to Western Michigan, which dropped the team's recoid to 1-3, that James was first demoted to a bench role. The for- mer Ohio Class AA Player of the Year has averaged only six minutes and 3.5 points in the Wolverines' four games since then. "IT STARTED after the Western game," said James. "Everybody played terriblly, I felt, but Frieder chose me and (freshman guard Leslie) Rockymore to sit down - the next game, we didn't start. After that I didn't play." When James literally "didn't play" in the Alabama-Birmingham game, it was, he said, "the last straw." James noted that the team's losing streak had "very little" to do with his decision. "If anything. our losing should have been a reason for him (Frieder) to use me more." AS THE ONLY married member of the team, James said that his marriage "didn't have as great an impact on his decision to quit as people have been saying.. If anything, it helps a lot. It was mainly pressures from the ball and other regsons - my studies haven't been going that well." Frieder has given James the option to go out for the team again next fall, but James said he hasn't decided yet whether or not he will stay at Michigan. "It's something I'm thinking a lot about right now," said James. "I'm at a very important stage of my life right now." Michigan spiked in AIA W national tourney By BOB WOJNOWSKI The storybook season for the Michigan women's volleyball team ended in disappointment over the holidays, as the Wolverines managed an eighth-place finish in the 12-team AIAW National Championships in Tallahassee. . Nevertheless, the spikers finished with the best record in Michigan volleyball history at 40-17. THE WOLVERINES opened tournament play against top- ranked and eventual champion Texas and were routed 11-15, 2-15, 7-15. Michigan came back later in the day, however, to defeat Pittsburgh 15-8, 15-10, 14-16, 17-15 and advanced to the eight-team double-elimination finals. There, they dropped the key match of the tournament, a tough 5-15, 15-13, 7-15, 15-13, 9-15 loss to Southwest Missouri., And when the Wolverines fell to Texas-Arlington, 12-15, 9-15, their fate was sealed. "It was a tough loss (to SW Missouri)," saidhead co4 Sandy Vong after the tournament. "The team played tee hard, and after losing in five games we were just too tired to' face Arlington." A 10-15, 8-15 loss to Minnesota later in the day droppe Michigan to eighth in the tournament. Although they lost four of five in the Nationals, tht Wolverines can still look back on a season which includ their first Big Ten championship, an MAIAW regional titl and the Wolverine Invitational Championship. In additiei they chalked up winning streaks of 10 and 12 games in ruo ning up their 40 victories. Individual achievements included All-Big Ten and "All,, Regional honors to freshman Diane Ratnik and All-Regional honors to sophomore Alison Noble. Graduating seniors are Julie Stotesbury, Linda Cunningham, and captain Janice Margulies. Pistons pummel Sixers, 124-101, By JIM DWORMAN Special to the Daily PONTIAC- For sure, there was only one Kelly Tripucka ,on the basketball court last night at the Pontiac .Silver- dome. But to the Philadelphia 76'ers, it must have seemed like there were five. The rookie forward was all over the court. He scored a career-high 38 poin- ts,- grabbed 11 rebounds, and assisted on four of his teammates baskets to lead the Detroit Pistons to a 1247101 vic- tory oyer Philadelphia. "THE GUY is a pro;" said the 76'ers all-star forward Julius Erving, as he spent most of the night trying to keep up with the ever-hustling Tripucka. "As hard as he works he could be all-star . caliber." Tripucka was pleased about playing so well against a player of Erving's stature. "I have so much respect for Doctor J. He's been In the league since I was in junior high. It feels good to do well against him." Not only did Tripucka shine, but the Pistons as a whole played well. They took the lead midway through the first period and never relinquished it. In fact, Detroit outscored Philadelphia in every quarter. "I THINK they (the 76'ers) were a lit- tle tired," said Piston coach Scotty Robertson, noting that Philadelphia was playing the last of a seven-game road trip. Robertson's Pistons took advantage of their opponents' fatigue as Detroit ran the fast break whenever possible against the taller 76'ers. In the second half the Pistons' excess energy was especially apparent. Detroit prevented a. Philadelphia comeback by scoring 72 second-half points, compared to Philadelphia's 59. The first half was largely a defensive struggle with both teams playing an aggressive, physical brand of basket- ball. The'Sixers, however, got a little too rough. They committed 13 fouls and the Pistons took advantage of their op- portunities from the free throw line. 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