ww w w w ~w w w ,qw lw The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, Page 18-Wednesday, January 12, 1983-The Michigan Daily Indiana, Iowa are teams to beat Michigan third? Believe it or not that's the way things worked in the final vote tally. Using a 10-9-8 point system, those fearless roundball prograstinators came up with a set of predictions that are guaranteed not to be in any other printed publication. This totally professional and unbiased crew, which refuses to get swept up in school spirit, could only seem to agree on Indiana as the top team. After that, however, their predictions were as scattered as three-point lines. Who knows, maybe they will get the last laugh. Freed's Follies 1. Indiana 2. Iowa 3. Ohio State 4. Illinois 1. Indiana 5. MICHIGAN 6. Michigan State 7. Purdue 8. Minnesota 9. Northwestern 10. Wisconsin Jim' Gems 1. Indiana 2. Iowa 3. Michigan State 4. MICHIGAN 5. Ohio State 6. Illinois 7. Minnesota 8. Wisconsin 9. Purdue 10. Northwestern Mishkin's Marrels 1. Indiana 2. Minnesota 3. Iowa 4. MICHIGAN 5. Ohio State 6. Illinois 7. Michigan State 8. Northwestern 9. Purdue 10. Wisconsin Barkin's Bets 1. Indiana 2. Iowa 3. MICHIGAN 4. Minnesota 5. Illinois 6. Ohio State 7. Purdue 8. Michigan State 9. Northwestern 10. Wisconsin Kerr's Krackers 1. Indiana 2. Iowa 3. Minnesota 4. Illinois 5. MICHIGAN 6. Purdue 7. Ohio State 8. Michigan State 9. Northwestern 10. Wisconsin Consensus 1. Indiana 2. Iowa 3. MICHIGAN 4. Minnesota 5. Illinois 6. Ohio State 7. Purdue 8. Michigan State 9. Northwestern 10. Wisconsin And the fleet scouts, Sir Brown and It's going to take more than Jim Bain Sir Thomas guarded against all to stop the Iowa Hawkeyes this year. enemies at the outer flanks of Hoosier- The balding Big Ten referee, whose land. officiating cost the Hawkeyes a victory Though not of traditional Hoosier over Purdue and a chance for the con- blood, Uwe Blab (7-3 center), a visitor ference title, will not work a game in from Germany-land will add power to Iowa's new Sports Arena because of the front-line ranks. With improvement numerous threats on his life by over last year's campaign, he may soon fanatical Hawkeye followers. be Knighted and enter the history and BUT IT really wouldn't matter if legends as the first ever "foreigner" to Bain did, for coach Lute Olson's is be so honored. In the meantime, Sir talented and experienced and should Bouchie, a brave yet undersized vie with Indiana for the top spot in the soldier, will protect the king. Big Ten. BUT DESPITE the festive at- Leading the way for the Hawkeyes, mosphere in the kingdom, the despot who finished as the 16th-ranked team in does not share in their, so dubbed, the nation last year, is junior point Hoosier Hysteria. The plaided autocrat guard Steve Carfino. An outstanding remembers times past, of the days of defensive player, Carfino also led Iowa Sir Thomas, Sir Turner the Injured, and in field goal percentage (.562). His Sir Tolbert. And he remembers still the shooting range is excellent: Olson valored lore of Sir Scott, Sir Benson and believes he will be one of the league's Sir Buckner. best three-point shooters. He reminisces too, about when the At the wings for the Hawkeyes will be round table was filled with warriors co-captains Bob Hansen and Mark celebrating past conquests. He remem- Gannon. Hansen, a 6-6 senior, is the bers when his subjects knew how to use team's top returning scorer with a 12- their vast talents to the utmost, in point average. Gannon, a 6-7 senior, is a behalf of the king. solic all-around player who plays a "Our team is unproven," saideth physical brand of basketball. Knight. "I really don't know how good A PAIR OF sophomores will man the our team can be. Even though we have posts of Iowa. Michael Payne, a second- everyone back, we have to show im- team All-Big Ten selection last season, provement in a lot of areas if we are to brings his 11.4 scoring and 7.4 reboun- become a good team." ding average back to Iowa City, not to So understateths the King. mention a few extra pounds of muscle -JESSE BARKIN on his 6-11 frame. Greg Stokes, who stands 6-10, averaged 5.7 points and 4.2 2. Iow a rebounds last year. The top player off the bench is junior forward Craig Anderson. Iowa should be well prepared for the Big Ten campaign. Its non-conference schedule included such foes as the Soviet Nationals, Marquette, UCLA, James Madison and USC. a' -JIM DWORMAN 3. Michigran Du tcher ... Breuer's the key Knight ... haseth doubts Last season was an off-year in In- diana-the Hoosiers finished tied for second in the Big Ten. That is about the size of it in Bloomington-land where the basket- ball team is nobility and Bobby Knight is its despotic ruler. KNIGHT spent most of last season juggling his lineup, but when tour- nament time finally rolled around the dictator in plaid settled on five juniors: Ted Kitchel, Randy Whitman, Steve Bouchie, Jim Thomas and Tony Brown. Well the seasons passed in the land of Knight, and suddenly the fivesome was collectively Knighted and dubbed ... seniors. And they all came back to ser- ve their vasselage in the attempt to prove to the Big Ten and the nation that Bloomington-land is the mightiest kingdom in all the land. Leading the crusade for the Hoosiers are Sir Kitchel and Sir Whitman, two of the most accurate marksmen to ever serve under the red and white. Sir Kit- chel (6-8, forward) earned All-Big Ten honors last year and made UPI third team All-American, as he led _the Hoosiers in scoring with a 20.1 average. His 59 percent shooting from the field and 88 percent from the foul line put to shame past Hoosier legends like Sir Gawain, Sir Lancelot and Sir Gallahad. RIDING alongside Sir Kitchel is Sir Whitman (6-6 forward), a more trusted companion there never was. Sir Whit- man thrust his rapier in the name of the king for an 11.9 scoring average. shooting big men in the country," en- thusiastically notes Dutcher. "He is the key to our offense and will go into his senior year with All-America poten- tial." However, the lanky center's suppor- ting cast is its weakest in his four seasons. Gone are four-year starters Trent Tucker, Darryl Mitchell and Gary Holmes, leaving Dutcher with a tough rebuilding year. But Minnesota has two returnees to replace some of the tall timber up front. Zebedee Howell (6-7) and Jim Peterson (6-10) both saw limited action last season, but will be pressed into starting positions this season. IN THE backcourt Marc Wilson and Sophomore Tommy Davis will assume the starting roles. "Tommy is an ex- cellent perimeter shooter who can play either guard or forward for us," said Dutcher. "This year we will ask him to take over the ball handling respon- sibilities for us." With a young team, though, Dutcher will need more than a tall performance from Breuer to repeat in the Big Ten. -LARRY FREED 5. Illinois After three straight seasons in which they saw post 'season action, the Fighting Illini and coach Lou Henson face a rebuilding year in 1983. Graduation hit Illinois hard and Hen- son has lost his three top scorers from last year, Craig Tucker, James Griffin, and Perry Range. But a strong recruiting class, including consensus 4. Minnesota Minnesota coach Jim Dutcher and his Golden Gophers will have a hard time repeating their Big Ten championship of a year ago, but with Randy Breuer returning they will have a step in the right direction. Make that a very big step-because Breuer, all seven-feet three-inches, could be the dominant player in the con- ference this season. "RANDY IS one of the premier Olson ... heads exerienced team * U ~:. * A . r a s4.4 " s* ., .. 1,,_ _~ ter. r . st'r cc F f., .. nay.. r f r t Y- f f "Y -t w v .. w l' " .