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right wins, four losses and a tie.
What's the Michigan hockey team's conference
Vord as it heads into the second half of the CCHA
'son and it's good enough for fifth place in the 11-
,&n league.
15UT AS NOTRE Dame coach Lefty Smith said at
e Great Lakes Invitational tournament last week,
hIe team that's goin' to take the crown is the one
t gets hot and plays well in "The Season, Act II."
The schedule definitely favors Michigan as eight of
,next nine games will be played in the friendly con-
nes of Yost Ice Arena, that is, after this weekend's
Z-game tussle with Ferris State. Please, hold back
e chuckles, the Bulldogs from Big Rapids take their
ckey serious and the Wolverines should as well
$ause Ferris State is currently tied for third in the
BHA with Bowling Green and posts a 9-4-1 record.
And Michigan coach John Giordano is certainly one
at doesn't have to be convinced. "They're a really
aod team and we will have to play our'best to beat
Lm," he said.
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like we do. We will have to play real aggressive
hockey, play the systems and comeback and play
with a lot enthusiasm to win this weekend."
The Bulldogs are strong defensively with freshman
goalie Rob Hughston, who holds a 2.51 gaa. Only
Michigan goalie Peter Mason has a better gaa in the
league.
Ferris State's offense is well balanced with five
players scoring 20 points or more. Captain Jim Baker
is the team's leading scorer with 12 goals and 17 poin-
ts. The 5-9 senior has been the team's leading point-
getter for the last three years and holds the single
season scoring record for the Bulldogs when he not-
ched 60 points in the '79-80 season.
RIGHT WING Randy Strong is second in scoring
with 24 points followed by Paul Cook (21), Jim File
(20) and Bob Poirier (20).
The Bulldogs have not played a game since a
December 18-19 series at North Dakota in which they
lost both games by scores of 5-2 and 6-2 respectively.
However, Ferris State coach Rick Duffett feels the
rest will benefit his team. "The break was a chance

for our players to rest and let some injuries heal," he
said.
"The break should do us good, so we can come back
refreshed and ready to play a demanding schedule.
We have a lot of confidence in our team's ability and
think we have a good shot at winning the league title.
"MICHIGAN, LIKE us, has a physical team that
plays the body well. We'll also be seeing two of the
league's top goaltenders," Duffett said.
Giordano feels he "more or less" got everything
accomplished he wanted to this week in practice and
has totally revamped his forward lines in hope of in-
creasing his team's offensive production.
One new combination he hopes that will contribute
significantly is that of seniors Paul Brandrup, Dennis
May and junior Joe Milburn, who returns to the
lineup tonight after a shoulder injury suffered earlier
in the season.
During the holiday the Wolverines lost freshman
Bob Zuchetto becauseof academic problems, but last
year's top freshman Kelly McCrimmon started prac-
ticing with the team again after missing the first half
of the season.

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Special to the Daily
PONTIAC- In a game of giants, Kyle
Macy, the littlest man on the court, did
much of the damage. His 24 points and
nine rebounds led the Phoenix Suns to a
110-94 victory over the Detroit Pistons
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The Pistons started out hot ac rookie
Isiah Thomas hit five of his firt six shots
as Detroit went to a 20-9 lead. But the
Suns slowed up the pace and battled
back as they trailed by only 27-25 at the
end of the first period.
Phoenix then outscored the Pistons 16
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ter and it never looked back. Macy
scored 10 points in the second quarter
as Phoenix took 58-46 halftime lead.
"Kyle Macy is a fine ball player,"
Robertson said. "And he showed why
Kentucky was so successful for all
those years."
MACY WAS not too impressed with
his performance. "I had my shots and
they were falling, that's all," said the
guard.
The Pistons closed the gap to 10 poin-
ts midway through the fourth quarter
behind the. scoring of John Long, who
led Detroit with 24 poiints, but the Suns
extended the lead to 95-79 behind the in-
side power of Robinson.
Thomas had 18 points for the game
and a game-high 13 assists but was a
terrible 4-for-8 from the foul line. The
rest of the Pistons could fair no better
as they shot a miserable 56 percent
from the line. The Suns meanwhile hit
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The Pistons host the Los Angeles
Lakers Saturday at the Silverdome.

Clemson superior ...
Big Ten inferior
HE CLEMSON TIGERS, in clinching their undisputed and indisputable
national championship one week ago, in an indirect yet alarming way,
reinforced an opinion which I've quietly cultivated for some time-the Big
Ten is an overrated football conference. A highly overrated football con-.
ference. And one that is on a gradual decline.
As I watched Clemson justify its national ranking with a pounding of.
Nebraska sufficient to stifle the most vehement critic of ACC football, I
began to marvel at the folly of those who rate teams and predict outcomes. ,
Twice in two years, gridiron outfits which were invisible before their
respective opening kickoffs in terms of Top Twenty rankings, took home the
game's most coveted prize-the national championship. Both teams went
through their schedules without any blemishes and won bowl games against
respected opponents, and still there were those who wailed that Georgia in
1980 and Clemson in 1981 were less than the best college football teams in the
United States.
The cries seem to be loudest in places like Ann Arbor. They stem from the
myth held dear by those in the Midwest that a football squad is not deserving
of the highest merit unless it has beaten the Midwest's own best, like
Michigan or Ohio State, or it has knocked off a team that always beats the
Midwest's best, like Southern Cal. Earlier in the season, Wolyerine coach Bo
Schembechler took a jab at Clemson's schedule, something about his team
never facing the likes of Wofford. Have you forgotten about Northwestern,
Bo? Would the Wildcats be heavy favorites versus Wofford? Hmm, doubtful,
Did you observe the Tigers' Orange Bowl showing, Bo, in which they
frustrated what had been the hottest team in the land? Would your team
have performed more impressively?. Hmm, doubtful.
Michigan's impressive Bluebonnet Bowl 33-14 rout of UCLA was a fine per-
formance by a talented group, but one which had been extremely overrated
prior to the season, in similar fashion to the number one consideration given
Ohio State one year prior.
Two straight years those who made Big Ten teams pre-season favorites to
win the whole thing have been stung because they overlooked the Georgia's
and Clemson's-talented, versatile outfits which could play with anybody.
Football followers in the South, as might be expected, think highly of the
football played in Georgia; in the Southeast, Clemson hail its believers all
year long. What might surprise Big Ten followers, however, is the fact SEC
and ACC people not only perceive their caliber of football as on a par with
that played in Columbus and West Lafayette and Ann Arbor, they see it as
superior. Michigan is' not on any gridiron pedestal in Athens, Ga. Not after
the Gator Bowl loss to North Carolina. Not after South Carolina came up
here and nipped the Wolverines in the fall of '80.
That is why it came as no surprise to me that one-shot teams like Iowa and
Wisconsin lost to Washington and Tennessee, respectively, in their post-
season encounters. Iowa coach Hayden Fry knocked off Michigan with
possibly the best team he ever had in Iowa City, one laden with seniors. Har-
dly reason to talk about balance, and therefore, improvement in the Big Ten.
Watch them fall off the hill in '2.
Why is it that one-shot Clemson didn't lose its big game the way Iowa and
Wisconsin did? It certainly is not because its opposition was stronger. Could
it have been that its regular season schedule prepared it better for the bowl
game, or at least as well? Big Ten fans, Big Ten mentality would reject that
notion out of hand, of course. And so would alot of pre-season
prognosticators, probably.
Maybe a Northwestern-Wofford matchup is in order.
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By JAMES THOMPSON
The year ended just right for the Mic-
higan women's swimming team as they
downed the Pittsburgh Panthers by a
score of 78-71. After combining with, the
men's team at the Canada Cup to take
first, the women were able to hold off
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