4 Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, January 21, 1984 Knight falls. on Crisler The Lineups (11-4) Indiana (10-4) By JEFF BERGIDA The man went into Jenison Fieldhouse Thursday night and started four freshmen against Michigan State, which had Sam Vincent back in its lineup. His team was coming off a tough home loss. He left East Lansing, bound for Ann Arbor, with a 70-62 win under his plaid sportcoat. THE MAN lost four starters and the sixth man from last season's 24-6 team. Most early season predictions placed this year's squad somewhere in the middle of the Big Ten. The Indiana Hoosiers enter today's game against Michigan tied for second in the league with a 3-1 record (10-4 overall). As a team, Indiana is leading the league in field goal and free throw percentage and its league opposition is hitting only 44.7 percent from the floor, also tops in the conference. Ever wonder if Bobby Knight could win 20 games with a good high school team? FIRST-YEAR PLAYERS, Steve Alford, Marty Simmons and Todd Meier lead the Hoosiers into Crisler Arena this afternoon and you won't be able to guess their class standing by watching them play. Knight has his team playing as disciplined as some of the great Indiana fives of the past. He won't accept anything less - even from freshmen. "Sometimes I think I might be a little hard on them when I try to evaluate them,"'said Knight before the season opener. But while his shove-the- fundamentals-down-their-throats style might offend some people, no one can deny that he gets results. And Knight hasn't changed his style in '84. After early season setbacks against Miami and UTEP, Indiana won seven straight before blowing a 10-point lead to league-leading Purdue at home. Despite the fact that the Hoosiers surrendered 22 consecutive points during the game, one might think that Knight would be willing to accept his young team's losing to a conference powerhouse. Then again... "I DON'T think as long as I've been here I've ever had a team outscored as badly, even close to as badly," said the twelve year head coach. "We lost any concentration we had and any feel for the game. We were the least com- petitive of any team I've sent on the floor. "The next team that represents In- diana in the next game will be com- petitive. It won't be made up of the same players, but it will be a com- petitive team." The next game was Thursday night. MSU was overdue and healthy. The Spartans took advantage of some breaks and had the momentum heading into overtime at home. Knight's kids outscored their more-experienced op- ponents, 10-2, in the extra period. THE COACH benched 7-2 center Uwe Blab in favor of the 6-8 Meier. Wiscon- sin's player-of-the-year last season responded with 10 points and some tough play under the boards. Alford continued to tear up the league with 21 I Michigan (44) Tim McCormick.. (6-11) (53) Butch Wade ....... (6-7) (42) Roy Tarpley ......(6-11) (24) Leslie Rockymore . (6-3) (25) Eric Turner ........(6-3) F F C G G (24)] (51) (30)' (23) (12) Daryl Thomas ..... (6-7) Marty Simmons ... (6-5) Todd Meier .......(6-8) Chuck Franz.......(6-2) Steve Alford ....... (6-2) SITE: Crisler Arena TIME: 2:00p.m. RADIO: WUOM (91.7 FM), WAAM (1600 AM), WWJ (950 AM), WPAG (1050). LAST YEAR: Indiana 93, Michigan 76, (Assembly Hall) Michigan 69, Indiana 56, (Crisler) SERIES RECORD: Indiana leads, 66-36 "It depends. I've used 30 lineups to start a game with this season so I don't really know." Meanwhile, the Wolverines must bounce back from that heartbreaking 62-60 loss to Ohio State Wednesday night. Forward Tim McCormick says he's over his illness and is ready for In- diana. "WE HAVE to play with more intensity and play better defense, if we do that we can beat them," said the 6-11 Clarkston native. "It's going to be a dif- ficult game." It's always difficult against Knight. You know his team will be prepared in every way. The coach explains his sub- tle technique: "Daryl Thomas is the nicest kid in the world. I told him if I had a daughter he's the kind of kid I'd love to have going out with my daughter. I followed that up by saying 'But I don't have any goddamned daughters so I don't need you to have this kind of personality.' " How are you going to beat Attila the Hun in a red sportcoat? 'I .McCormick ... will start versus Hoosiers Knightf ... even his suits are loud points. Simmons (8 points, 7 rebounds), Daryl Thomas (18,7), and senior Chuck Franz also contributed. Will Knight stick with a winning hand? 3 'M' tankers dunk Thinclads excel By CHRISTOPHER GERBASI Indoor school records by the Wolverines' distance medley relay team and pentathlete Melody Mid- dleton highlighted the first night of ac- tion at the Michigan Relays. The relay team of Martha' Gray, Joyce Wilson, Jennifer Rioux, and Sue* Schroeder raced to a time of 11:34.0, shattering the previous mark by almost ten seconds. MICHIGAN COACH Francie Goodrich had not only hoped, but ex- pected to. break the record. "As of this past Monday, I thought they really had a shot," she said. "I took a look at one of their workouts and said 'we're ready to fly. Wemayaswellgoforit.' The anchor insthe relay, sophomore Schroeder, ran an excellent 4:49 mile. "Sue ran tremendously," saida Goodrich, "I'm going to predict right now that she'll be a contender in the Big Ten (in the mile)." Middleton, a senior, piled up 3646 points to capture the pentathalon for the second straight weekend. She finished second in the sixty meter hur- dles, the high jump, and the 800-meter run, her strong point. GOODRIDGE ALSO wanted to see signs of imporvement and strength in the mile relay team.' The Wolverines "A" team of Sylvia Qualls, Darlene Fortman, Dedra Bradley, and Wilson came through with a first place finish and a time of 3:54.94. Goodridge was particularly im- SU PERBOWL SUNDAY Open 2 P.M. Large Screen TV BE THERE! pressed with Bradley. "She's made a grea t.impact," said the coach. "She's a raw talent, just coming on and finding out what she can do." Michigan also received strong per- formances in the high jump relay from Dawn Rich and Angie Hafner. Rich and Hafner finished first and second in- dividually and combined for a height of 11' 2" for the team title. In a repeat of last week's performan- ce, Cathie Bridges competed in three events and did well in all of them. She won the triple jump with the distance of 31' 912", ran fourth in the sixty yard dash and teamed with Middleton for a second place finish in the long jump relay. The women's next meet is January 28 in Windsor. The men's portion of the Michigan relays takes place at 1 p.m. today. The finals are scheduled for 7 p.m. V men ready for Relays Brian Diemer will return to the Track and Tennis . building today for the Michigan' Relays but not as a Wolverine. The former 'M', track star, who graduated last semester, will run as an independent in the men's meet, which only recognizes individual winners. No team scores are kept. While Diemer will gun for the mile- run championship, some of his former teammates will be working to improve their times and better their marks. The highijumpers are no exception. "The high jump should be an in- teresting and close event," said coach Jack Harvey. "There are four in- dividuals who clear over seven feet." Probably Michigan's best bet for a first would be David Lugin, who reached 7' 3 3/4" last week. His fiercest rival should be Eastern Michigan's Dennis Lewis, who has cleared 7'4".y Harvey summed up the meet by saying, "We're running pretty well and we have a good chance for some out- standing performances.E - EDA BENJAKUL Hurons, 4 $y PAULA SCHIPPER Perhaps Eastern Michigan coach Mike Jones summed it up best before last night's swim meet: "We'd like to beat Michigan very much . . . We never have . . . We won't tonight." How right he was. The Wolverines downed the Hurons easily, 69-42. THE WOLVERINES, however, were surprised by how good their times were. Coach Urbanchek ex- pected to win, but he had not planned on his swimmers doing so well. Af- ter all, Michigan considered this only a practice meet for future com- petition and the team suffered through double workouts yesterday for five and a half hours. Every Wolverine qualified for the NCAA Regional Championships. One notable was sophomore Marc Parrish, who has swam the most consistant of the team members this year. Last night, he made excellent time in the 200-yard individual medley, capturing first. . Not to be outdone, freshman Jeff Gordon may have notched the 69-42 fastest 1000-yard freestyle so far this year in the Big Ten. - Also impressive was Dave Ker- ska, who grabbed first in the 100- yard freestyle to take one of the fastest times in the Big Ten this season. In diving, it was Michigan all the way,earning the top three spots from the one meter board, lead by Kent Ferguson. Bruce Kimball edged Ferguson -from the three meter event, however, to take first by less than a point. "Obviously,' our . kid was superior," Jones said of Miller jokingly. Jones had not, expected great performances from his team because it had lost to NCAA second division champions Oakland the day before. The Wolverines may have the same nemesis tomorrow, too, as they face Oakland this afternoon at 3:30. "Oakland's well balanced in all strokes and could give us a run for the money," said Urbanchek. "If psyched and rested, they could do it." I Daily Photo by PAN HABIB Leslie Rockymore unloads a jumpshot in early-season action. In Wednesday night's 62-60 loss to Ohio State the junior guard scored 12 points on 6-10 from the field. SPORTS OF THE DAILY: LoU sigi ROCHESTER (AP) -- The, Michigan Panters signed Michigan defensive back John Lott yesterday, and released eight players from their United States Football League training camp, the+ club said. The 6-foot, 178-pound Lott had reached an agreement with the Pan- thers on Wednesday, club spokesman Tim Pendell said.. North Stars 8, Wings 5 DETROIT (UPI) - The Minnesota North Stars extended the Detroit Red Wings' losing streak yesterday to eight games by drubbing the haplessWings 8- 5. The Stars scored thefirst three goals of the game in the first period on goals by Tim McCarthy, Dennis Maruck and Craig Levie. It was McCarthy's 28th goal in 40 games. DETROIT finally got on the board late in the first period on the first of Danny Gare's two goals of the efening. Minnesota opened the second period by scoring three times, in 33 seconds, a club record. The first was scored by Maruck at 5:59, then Steve Payne scored twice. His first came just 7 seconds after Maruck's goal and the second at 5:59. Other goals scorers for Minnesota were Neal Broten and Al MacAdam. Also scoring for Detroit were Steve Yzerman, John .Ogrodnick and Ron Dugay. is pact, Pistons 116, Hawks 94 PONTIAC (UPI) - Isiah Thomas scored 19 points and Kelly Tripucka ad- ded 17 last night to spark the Detroit Pistons to a 116-94 victory over the Atlanta Hawks at the Silverdome. Detroit used a 30-5 blitz in the first quarter to build a 19 point lead and roll to the 12th win in its last 16 games. THE PISTONS fell behind 8-2, then ripped off a 20-4 attack, keyed by Bill Laimbeer's eight points, to charge ahead 22-12. Detroit built the margin to 19 before Atlanta responded with an 8-2 spree to close within 34-21 at the end of the quarter. Hoopsters fall Special to the Daily COLUMBUS - Michigan was never in it last night as the Wolverine women's basketball team dropped a game at Ohio State against the Buckeyes. Michigan's record falls to 0-5 in con- ference, 2-11 overall. Wendy Bradetich was the Wolverine's leading scorer with 14 points. The, only other person in double figures for Michigan was Sandy Svoboda, who had 13 points Michigan had a dismal first half, being outscored 40-15 while shooting only 21 percent from the field. The Wolverines will get a chance to improve their record when they meet Indiana on January 22 at Bloomington, Indiana. I Parrish and Bruzzese ... take first in dual meet TRACK THE WOLVERINES THRU THE BIG TEN BASKETBALL SEASON ON WPAG Y2LDI AN 'M' FA CES ILLINOIS, PURDUE: Wrestlers, By STEVE HUNTER The Michigan wrestling team has a busy weekend ahead of it. No, it's not throwing a Super Bowl party. What the Wolverines are doing is going head-to-head against Illinois and Purdue today and Sunday, respectively. Illinois,vthough finishing only eighth in the Big Ten, managed to unset the Wolverines last year, and ac- set for busy weekend I optomistic because "(William) Walters is coming around at 118 (pounds)" and the team as a whole is in good shape due to vigorous training. Bahr is confident: "We'll put our best against their best, any day". White Sox select Searer NEW YORK (AP) - The Chicago White Sox an- Mets General Manager Frank Cashen, stinging already from criticism that he had blundered in not protecting Seaver from the compensation pool, called it a bad day for the business of baseball, a sentiment echoed by Seaver. DePaul 59, S. Florida 50 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The backcourt tandem of. I