The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 5, 1984 - Page 9 CA GERS MEE T YOUNG WILD CA TS 'M' vs. NU in Big Ten opener Michigan joins rest of Big Ten in un-merry Christmas break Bill Frieder might have had a merry Christmas and a happy New Year's dlay, but the week in between sure wasn't kind to the Michigan basketball coach. Frieder's Wolverines lost two games, guard Quincy Turner and their hational ranking. - Michigan dropped two one-point decisions on December 27-28 in the Sun Bowl tournament at El Paso, Texas. Host Texas-El Paso, the nation's 10th- iranked team, handed the Wolverines a 72-71 setback in the tournament opener. In the consolation game, Texas Tech nipped the Wolverines, 59-58. Prior to the defeats, Michigan had crushed Detroit and Rutgers to up its record to 8-0 and climb to 15th in the national rankings. After the Texas trip, the Wolverines disappeared from both the AP and UPI polls. Besides Quincy Turner's departure from the team, probably the biggest development in Michigan basketball over the winter vacation was the disap- perance of Eric Turner from the starting lineup. Turner, a pre-season All- Big Ten selection, missed several games with back spasms and played poorly in brief appearances in the Sun Bowl tourney. Joubert, meanwhile, claimed the starting position. Turner is expected to start against Northwestern, though. Iowa stil the team to beat How does the Big Ten stack up going into the conference season? Not too good. Many of its non-conference victories came against creampuff op- ponents, every team lost a game and only two, Illinois and Iowa, remain in the national rankings. Anyway, here's how the teams should finish: 1. Iowa - The Hawkeyes have the best one-two punch up front in 6-10 Greg Stokes and 6-11 Michael Payne. That alone should carry coach George Raveling's team to the top. In addition, Andre Banks and Steve Carfino are giving Iowa improved guard play. The Hawkeyes have a bevy of high school All-Americans on the bench, too. 2. Michigan State - Jud Heathcote's team looked terrible in the Oreseason, losing to the only three decent teams it played. The Spartans have a savior, however, in power forward Ken Johnson a transfer who became eligible last night. Johnson should bolster MSU's inside game, which suffered when center Kevin Willis injured his ankle. The Spartans have talent, depth and experience at every position but lack a scoring forward. t 3. MICHIGAN - The Wolverines can finish this high only if Eric Turner e eturns to form. He should. Michigan leads the Big Ten in frontline depth and strength. The lack of a shooting forward will hurt the Wolverines. 4. Indiana - Freshmen Steve Alford and Marty Simmons will make Hoosier fans forget about Ted Kitchel and Randy Wittman. Indiana has few experienced players in the lineup and even less on the bench, so 7-2 junior center Uwe Blab must stay out of foul trouble. Without his size and strength, the Hoosiers are in trouble. 5. Illinois - When high-scoring forward Anthony Welch red shirted with an injury, the Illini should have folded. They didn't. Instead they got off to the best start (8-1) in the conference, losing only to Kentucky. Illinois might be playing over its head. K 6. Ohio State - The Buckeyes' season went down the tubes when starters Joe Conchek and Alan Kortokrax got their report cards in the mail. Their let- ter grades spelled I-N-E-L-I-G-I-B-L-E Ohio State still has the conference's best player in Tony Campbell and a pair of guards quicker than Nestles. Coach Eldon Miller will find a way to salvage the season. 7. Minnesota - The Gophers have everything but strength. Jim Petersen, Roland Brooks and Kevin Smith are fine forwards, but none can muscle it out with the Stokeses and Johnsons of the Big Ten. Gopher guards are prone to turnovers. Pwdue iull come down to earth 8. Purdue - Here is another team that played over its head in the preseason. The Boilermakers have excellent shooters but little else. They beat Louisville, but lost to strong Kentucky and Evansville teams. The Big Ten is too physical for Purdue. 9. Wisconsin - Cory Blackwell and Scott Roth provide coach Steve Yoder the conference's best shooting forward tandem. Unfortunately, Wisconsin's strength ends there. The Badgers are small and inexperienced. 10. Northwestern - The Wildcats, on the other hand, are big and inex- perienced. If 6-10 center/forward Andre Goode wakes up, Northwestern :might finish ninth. Art Aaron will score some points, but not enough to offset the handicap of two freshman guards and big men who couldn't find a basket the size of Lake Michigan. By JEFF BERGIDA From now on they count. Michigan opens its 1984 Big Ten basketball schedule tonight against Northwestern in a match-up which brings back memories of Opening Day, 1983. Last season, the two clubs met in Evanston to begin conference play. The Wolverines entered the game spor- ting a surprising 9-1 record with the loss coming in a tight holiday tournament battle. Rich Falk's Wildcats were also 9-1, but critics pointed to their weak non-conference schedule (opponents in- cluded Angelo State, North Park, and Furman) and no one really considered the team a contender. THINGS HAVEN'T changed a whole lot. Both schools have lost twice entering tonight's action at Crisler Arena. "Losing Stack, Michael and Gaddis does not really mean a deep loss to the team," said the Chicago native. "It means that we will miss their presen- ce on the court. But we have other people with the same ability, probably some of them (have) even more. "IF WE get a nice little road winning streak, I think we can be a contender for the Big Ten title . . . really." The people to whom Aaron was referring include two freshmen who startinthe backcourt, Shawn Watts and Chris Berg. Inexperience in the backcourt is usually cause for joy in the opposing camp but Michigan's Bill Frieder notes a surprising statistic. "SHAWN WATTS has only made 13 or 14 turnovers in nine games (Watts has 16, Berg 14). We're more concer- ned about containing him than taking advantage of anything," said Frieder. Northwestern's other starters are forward Andre Goode and center Paul Schultz. The Wolverines will go back to their opening season lineup as Eric Turner will start for the first time since December 5. Falk is impressed with Michigan but is not going out on a limb to predict an upset. "Hopefully playing a great team like Michigan will bring out the best in us. We're just hoping we can go in there and score one more point than they do," said the six-year veteran. Last year's opener ended with the Wildcats on top, 69-64. Michigan is hoping that the deja vu. stops here. The Lineups Michigan (8-2 Northwestern (7-2) (44) Tim McCormick. (6-11) F (44) Andre Goode ....(6-10) (40) Rich Rellford .... (6-6) F (24) Art Aaron...."...(6-8) (53) Butch Wade ...... (6,-7) C (23) Paul Schultz ..... (6-7) (24) Leslie Rockymore (6-3) G (22) Chris Berg .,.. .(6-) (25) Eric Turner... (6-3) G (20) Shawn Watts ..... (6-1) PLACE: Crisler Arena TIME: 8:04 p~m. RADIO: WUOM (91.7 FM), WAAMm(160 AM), WWJ (950 AM). LAST YEAR: Northwestern 69, Michigan 64 (Alumni Hall) Michigan 64, Northwestern T,(Crisler) SERIES RECORD: Michigan leads series, 65-44. uincycalls it quits Citing a lack of playing time, freshman guard Quincy Turner quit the basketball team over Christmas break. Turner informed coach Bill Frieder of his decision on Christmas day, just prior to the Wolverines' trip to the Sun Bowl Classic in El Paso. Frieder was still noticeably upset when asked to comment on why Turner left. "I don't want to talk about that. Enough has been written about that already," he said. "He left because he didn't think he was playing enough, that's all." Turner could not be reached at his home in Benton Harbor, but his father said he would announce Friday what school he will transfer to. Turner was averaging 2.2 points and. slightly over -three minutes in five games played this year. L -PAUL HELGREN Q. Turner ... transfering out Aaron ... leadirtg Wildcat scorer Michigan's losses were both one-point heartbreakers at the Sun Bowl Tour- nament. While Northwestern's schedule has improved quite a bit, most of its wins came at the expense of such non-notables as Tampa, Denver and Cleveland State. The Wildcats are led by senior for- ward Art Aaron whom Falk calls "one of the top seniors not only in our league but in the land." Aaron is averaging over 17 points a game, including 16 in a victory over Notre Dame and 25 against a tough Loyola squad. The 6-8 swingman wants to show the experts that Northwestern is not a last-place team, as predicted by many. "We pay attention tothat (predic- tions) . .. it makes us want to prove them wrong," said Aaron. "WE'VE BEATEN almost everybody in here (the conference) last year. If not we came within a close game and that's only with Indiana and Iowa." This isn't the same team, however, that made the second round of the National Invitational Tournament. Co- captains and starters Jim Stack, Gad- dis Rathel and Michael Jenkins were all lost to graduation. Yet Aaron believes thatrthe Wildcats are still capable of improvement. "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS BELL!" 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