SSPORTS_ The Michigan Daily Saturday, March 27, 1982 Page 7 UNC, HOUSTON SQUARE OFF, TOO U Georgetown set to battle Louisville NEW ORLEANS (AP) -Georgetown's basketball team went into exile to concentrate on winning the Final Four, not because of any fears of bright lights and all-night bars, Coach ohn Thompson said yesterday. Thompson kept his team at Biloxi Miss. - 60 miles east of New Orleans - for three days while they prepared for today's date with Louisville in the NCAA's basketball championship tour- nament. Louisville stayed at home until Thur- sday night, as did Houston, which plays North Carolina in the first game of today's semifinal round. North Carolina flew to New Orleans yesterday morning. At Biloxi, Georgetown's coaches and players were unavailable to reporters. "I didn't go to Biloxi for any advan- tage. I went there for peace of mind," Thompson said at a press conference yesterday. "I just felt it would be best to get into an atmosphere where we could concen- trate. "They can come to New Orleans any time to see Bourbon Street the center of French Quarter night life. This is a very important opportunity for us," he said. Eric "Sleepy" Floyd, Georgetown's All-America guard, said he approved of his coach's decision. "It's been great, so far," he said. "We've been taking it easy, relaxing THE FINAL FOUR North Carolina (30-2) vs. Houston (25-7); 3:38 p.m. EST. Louisville (23-9) vs. Georgetown (29-6); 6:08 p.m. EST. and getting ready to play Louisville. "There's enough to do. There are a couple of gyms to practice in to do what we have to do - play Louisville - and that's more important than any big vacation," Floyd said he felt the key to Satur- day's game was limiting Louisville to one shot per trip down the court. "We have to keep them off the offen- sive boards,"he said. In addition, he said, Georgetown will have to get back quickly on defense to handle Louisville. "We have to stop their transition game," he said. "They get a lot of baskets off their transition game, and we have to keep them from getting the easy baskets." Eric Smith, teamed with Floyd in Georgetown's back court, said he doesn't fear Louisville's pressing defense. "They have, a good press, but all season we've been coming against teams with good presses," he said. A record attendance of 61,000 is ex- pected for today's doubleheader. .C elts drop Pistons BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Celtics rolled to a club record 18th straight vic- tory as Kevin McHale's 21 points led a balanced attack that ripped the Detroit istons 125-104 in the National Basket- ball Association last night. The victory snapped the previous Celtic mark of 17 consecutive wins set in 1959-60. It also tied Boston with the y 1969-70 New York Knicks for the third f longest winning streak in NBA history. The longest is 33, established by Los Angeles in 1971-72. Milwaukee won 20 in a row in 1970-71. THE PISTONS, who won six of their previous seven games in their battle for a playoff berth, were in the game for only half of the opening period. After the score was tied for the seventh time 14-14, the Celtics unleashed a 20-2'spurt that put them on top 34-16 with 2:36 left in the period. Cedric Maxwell, who had 20 points, got seven in the outburst. The Celtics' lead never dipped below 3 *-nine.points the rest of the way and grew to as much as 31 on a basket by McHale that opened te fourth quarter and made the score 105-74. - Boston put together runs of 12 points in the second period and 15 in the third and never let the Pistons make a serious threat. r Detroit was led by Kelly Tripucka with 21 points, and Vinnie Johnson with x 13,. Boston got 18 points from Larry AP Photo Bird, 15 from Gerald Henderson and 14 BOSTON'S LARRY BIRD sneaks by Detroit's Bill Laimbeer during the first froth Robert Parish. quarter of last night's game between the Celtics and the Pistons. Bird snuck his way to 18 points to help his team to a 125-104 victory. Prep cagers invade Crisler today AP Photo ATLANTA HAWKS' FORWARD Dan Roundfield grabs a rebound as the In- diana Pacers' Herb Williams tries to avoid a foul. The Hawks won the game. 100-87 (see story, Page8). By JIM DWORMAN Flint Central and Okemos will be defending their championships when the Michigan High School Athletic Association invades Crisler Arena today for its state title games. Central, led by 5-11 senior guard Mark Harris, will try to hold off the sensational Antoine- Joubert and Detroit Southwestern and claim the Class A crown for the second straight year. In last year's title game, Harris pumped in a tournament record 44 poin- ts as he and current Michigan guard Eric Turner led Central to a victory over Detroit Murray-Wright. OKEMOS, A well-disciplined ball club, will gun for its second consecutive Semifinal results ('LASS A Detroit Southwestern 49, Harper Woods Bishop Gallagher 48 Flint Central 48, Southfield 47 CLASS B Detroit DeLasalie 60, Wyoming Rogers 52 Okemos 66. Menominee 51 C'LASSC, Reed City 65, Cassopolis 57 Orchard Lake St. Mary 66, Grand Rapids South Christian 63 CLASS I) Ewen-Trout Creek 77, Mesick 63 Covert 83, Detroit East Catholic 75 unti ou vist I The Tux So Ltd I Shop, .. 4 96 .. L*iM~_ o ,qr5 Class B title under the tutelage of coach Stan Stolz. But to again grab the crown, the Chieftains will have to down a scrappy Detroit DeLasalle team. In Class C, it will. be perennial powerhouse Orchard Lake St. Mary against Reed City. Orchard Lake, led by Hiram Harris and Chris Howze, will be gunning for its first title in the C ranks. As a Class D school, St. Mary won the championship in 1978, with Michigan baseball star Jim Paciorek supplying much of the offense. Reed City won Class C in 1980.. The Class D game will pit Covert and forward John Willhite against Ewen- Trout Creek, the only undefeated team to reach the finals. Prep Pairings CLASS A- Detroit South- Western (23-3) vs. Flint Central (25-2); 2:30 p.m. CLASS B- Okemos (23-1) vs. Detroit DeLasalle (23-3); 11:00 a.m. CLASS C- Reed City vs. Orchard Lake St. (24-4); 8:30 p.m. (20-6) Mary CLASS D- Ewen-Trout Creek (27-0) vs. Covert (25-1); 7:00 p.m. CAREER Planning t Placement ,7 - j PANI CKIIVG SENLQORS lob I-kniing 3 Resume ZI izn ToJ b7Sidj" Ulrich s Annual Inventory Slale March 27th thru April 3rd Involving every article in our store except textbooks With special prices on calculators NO GIMMICKS-Just Good Old Fashioned Bargains. Because of the thousands of items that we carry, it would be impossible to mark down each item. All regular priced merchandise will be discounted 20% at the registers. Special priced items or items with a larger discount will be tagged. 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