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Page 8-Thursday, March 3, 1983-The Michigan Daily
Wisconsin blasts Blue, 82-70
By JOHN KERR
Special to the Daily
MADISON - Michigan made
Wisconsin basketball coach Steve
Yoder very happy last night.
"Whew, it's nice to get a win," he said
smiling after watching his Badgers
blast the listless Wolverines, 82-70.
YODER AND the Wisconsin team
desperately needed a victory against
the Wolverines to improve the Badgers'
chances of moving out of the Big Ten
cellar and Michigan cooperated to the
fullest extent, sleepwalking through
three-quarters of the basketball game.
The Badgers are now 3-12 in the con-
ference, just one game behind the 4-13
Wolverines.
"We just didn't play well for 30
minutes ofsthe game," said Michi an
coach Bill Frieder. "You can't play like
we did and expect to win."
YOU NAME IT and Michigan didn't
do it. Shooting? The Badgers' point
total was their second highest of the
season. Ballhandling? Michigan com-
mitted 19 turnovers, including eight by
Eric Turner. "We were terrible,"
Frieder admitted. "We did everything
and nothing worked."
The opposite was true for the
Badgers' freshman guard Rick Olson.
He could do no wrong, scoring 25 points
on 10-15 shooting, including 3-3 on three-
point shots. Olson broke the game open
in the first half when, with the score 22-
21 in favor of Wisconsin, he scored
seven straight points during a five
minute Wolverine shooting drought.
Wisconsin's Brad Sellers added four
straight after that and with 3:34 left in
the first half Wisconsin led, 33-21. The
Badgers took a 41-29 lead into the
lockerroom at halftime.
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WISCONSIN CAME OUT fired up in
the second half and, taking advantage
of Michigan's poor defense, took it to
the Wolverines. With the Badgers
leading 51-40, two straight Wisconsin
dunks brought the sparse crowd of 5,572
to its feet. After a Wisconsin free throw
and a Turner jumper, Olson hit on four
straight to give the Badgers a 60-42 lead
with 10:32 left. Michigan called time
out, but that didn't stop the Badgers, as
they increased their lead to 66-47 with
just over 8:30 remaining.
It was then that Wisconsin "lost its in-
tensity" according to Yoder and
allowed Michigan to make a run.
Wolverine freshman forward Richard
Rellford scored nine of his career high
23 points while the Wolverines went on a
15-2 tear to narrow the gap to 68-62 with
a little over five minutes to go.
Two foul shots by Wisconsin's Jim
Smith and a tip-in by Cory Blackwell
(23 points, 12 rebounds) upped the
Badgers lead to 10 and Michigan could
get no closer than seven points from
then on. Olson put the icing on the
finest game of his career by hitting a
25-foot three-pointer at the buzzer.
"I'M JUST disappointed with the way
our team played," Frieder said. They
didn't go out and play with the kind of
enthusiasm we needed."
Yoder agreed that Michigan lacked
enthusiasm. "We probably wanted to
win it more than Michigan did and I
think it probably showed," he said.
One Michigan player who looked
like he wasn't quite sure where he was
was Turner. As he did the first time
these two teams met, in Ann Arbor,
Turner had a horrendous game. Along
with his eight turnovers, Turner made
just three of 13 shots from the floor. Af-
ter hitting a three-point play on the first
shot of the game, Turner seemed
anxious to keep on gunning, bu~t missed
his next three three-point attempts. He
had a lot of trouble in the first half
penetrating the Wisconsin zone and for-
ced Frieder to put Dan Pelekoudas at
the point guard position.
PELEKOUDAS did a better job of
getting the ball inside in the second half,
but it still wasn't enough. When he was
able to penetrate the Badger defense
Pelekoudas got the ball in to center Tim
McCormick and Rellford. Like
Rellford, McCormick scored 23 points.
He hit on 10-13 from the field and grab-
bed 10 rebounds. 17 of those points
came in the second half.
Michigan hopes of getting a bid to
the NIT were all but dashed by the loss
to the Badgers. The Wolverines will
have to win their remaining three
games beginning Saturday at Min-
nesota to have any chance of continuing
their season.
MICHIGAN
MinFG/AFT/A R
WISCONSIN
MinFG/AFT/A1
A PF Pts
Reliford
Wade
McCormick
Person
Turner
Henderson
Pelekoudas
Jokisch
Tarpley
Team Rebounds
Totals
31
15
30
25
35
20
23
7
14
10/18
1/2
10/13
0/2
3/13
2/6
0/4
1/3
1/5
3/4
1/1
3/5
0/0
1/2
0/0
2/2
1/1
2/4
4 1
7 0
10 2
S3
2 4
4 1
2 3
0 1
S0
3
4
1
4
4
2
1
4
1
1
23
3
23
0
8
4
2
3
4
Steinhaus
Blackwell
Sellers
Smith
Olson
Laszewski
Roth
Dandridge
Ploss
Team Rebounds
Totals
15
35
27
36
36
24
16
9
0/1
7/18
7/15
5/11
10/15
2/4
0/3
1/2
0/0
0/0
9/11
0/2
3/4
2/2
0/1
1/2
0/1
0/0
R A PF P
1 2 1;
12 1 1 23
4 1 4 14
5 3 2 13
2 1 3 4
4 0 1, ;
0 1 1 2
9
28/66 13/19 43 15 22 70
First half score: Wisconsin 41, Michigan 29,
Attendance: 5,572
32/69 15/23 43 18 16 8Z
Olson 3, Turner 1.
Three point field goals:
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This chant echoed throughout Crisler Arena last Saturday during
Michigan's,81-71 loss to Ohio State. It seems the fans, mostly in the student-
filled South end, disagreed with some of the calls being made by referee Ed
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Sure, it is the easiest thing in the world to rag on the officiating. First, the
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tremely difficult and thankless job. Bad calls are part of the game, and to be
fair, some are unavoidable. Occasionally an official is screened out of a play,
or his eyes may be fixed on the ball when the foul is being committed with the
legs. But this does not excuse the zebras from making horrendous calls,
game after game, as they have this season in the Big Ten.
Refs must do more than call-them-as-they-see-them in Big Ten games.
They have.the responsibility of keeping the game under control at all times
and seeing that each team has an equal chance of winning, under the rules.
However, the Big Ten is known as a rough-and-tough conference.
Technically, fouls are committed all the time inside the key area, but calls
are not made because it is traditionally the style of play the fans, coaches,
and most of all, players want. Nothing is wrong with this system.
Basketball on the collegiate level is a rough game, and it should be of-
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Officials should be invisible. They should not be the focal point of every
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In the Ohio State game much of the uproar was incited by Eric Turner
being called for three first half fouls, two of which were questionable, make
that bad calls. Taking Turner out of the game with most of the first half yet
to play may have cost Michigan the game. And it is not just Michigan.
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