Page 8 , The Michigan Daily - Sunday, January 29, 1984 Cagers clipped in heartbreaker, 75-66 (Continued from Page1) continued his heroics in the first extra period. He went the length of the court and hit a 20-foot jumper to the game at the buzzer. Illinois coach Lou Henson said after the game that he thought Turner's shot was late. Prior to the Michigan guard's jum- per, Illinois' Bruce Douglas had hit two free throws to put his team on top. Douglas had been fouled in the backcourt by McCormick with just seconds on the clock. ILLINOIS led by three in the second overtime before free throws by Mc- Cormick and Antoine Joubert tied it up. Michigan had a chance to win but a Pelekoudas pass to McCormick ' was knocked away with six seconds left. Illinois' Doug Altenberger retrieved the ball but his long heave to the hoop sailed wide left. Michigan needed Turner again in the third overtime. He hit a bank shot with 36 seconds left to tie the game at 64. "Every time they needed a basket," commented Illinois forward Winters, "he (Turner) came through and got a hoop." BUT TURNER'S magic act finally came to an end in the fourth and final extra stanza. Indeed Turner had a sensational game, playing 56 minutes. All but two of his 19 points came after halftime. Turner wasn't the only Wolverine to put on an endurance show. Pelekoudas also played all of the final 40 minutes. THE MOST remarkable display of lasting power, however, belonged to the Illini's Do4glas. The 6-3 guard went the entire 60 minutes without a breather. The four other Illinois starters each played more than 50 minutes. When asked how the five felt after the game, Winters said, "Everybody went in and sat down." Teammate George Montgomery ad- ded, "I'm so tired I don't know what to say." But for Illinois it was a satisfying kind of tired; the agonizing loss com- pounded Michigan's aches and pains. Frieder acknowledged that a loss like this is especially hard on his team. "Our biggest thing is that we have to bounce back in a damn hurry," Frieder said. "Next Thursday (at Michigan State) comes fast. A tough loss like this drains on you emotionally.. don't recover fast you are trouble." And in a if you lot of PPlekoudas ... 44 solid minutes A Douglas ... plays entire game Next time, lose in 40 ILLINOIS MinFG/AFT/A MICHIGAN MinFG/AFT/A / , . WA full court p ESS Winters ........... Altenberger ....... Montgomery ...... Douglas ........... Richardson........ Meents ............ Schafer......... Wysinger....... K:ilusendors ....... Team rebounds.... 54, 51 60 55 13 7 4 1 5/11 3/11 3/11 2/5 2/4 1/1 0/2 0/0 55 7/13 9/12 6/8 4/7 4/4 5/6 0/0 0/0 1/1 0/0 R 8 3 12 5 3 0 3 0 0 7 A 4 0 4 4 5 0 0 0 0 PF TP 1 23 2 16 5 10 3 10 3 9 1 4 1 2 0 1 0 0 R A PF TP Joubert........... Wade.............. McCormick ....... Rockymore........ Turner.......... Tarpley ........... Rellford ........... Pelekoudas........ Jokisch ............ Thompson ......... Team rebounds .... 31 14 55 17 56 37 28 44 17 1 2/6 1/2 4/7 1/5 8/13 4/7 4/7 3/5 1/3 0/0 2/2 0/0 3/5 0/0 3/4 0/0 0/0 2/2 0/0 0/0 9 0 2 6 3 2 0 0 3 3 5 4 0 2 5 4 4 2 0 6 2 11 2 19 8 8 8 2 0 A By RANDY BERGER CHAMPAIGN Totals ............. 300 23/58 29/38 41 17 16 75 'M SO TIRED I don't know what to say," said weary Illinois center T George Montgomery. There couldn't have been a more fitting way to describe Illinois' exhausting, tension-filled, four-overtime victory over Michigan, 75-66, yesterday at Assembly Hall. Both teams clawed and scratched at each other for 60 minutes and then immediately collapsed in their dressing rooms. "Everybody went in and sat down," said Illinois forward Efrem Winters after it was finally over. "We just played and played and played, four over- times I think?" Even Michigan coach Bill Frieder lost track of time. "I thought we were more aggressive defensively and offensively the last 40 minutes than the fir- st 40 minutes," he mistakenly said. Although the game lasted 60 minutes it's no wonder that neither Winters nor Frieder can remember. It seemed that the game wouldn't end until these same schools clashed heads on the gridiron again. The funny thing is that no one felt that this would be another 'Fight 'em til the other team drops' Big Ten Basketball game after watching Michigan play in the first half. Just as in the Purdue game last Thursday, the Wolverines sleep-walked through the opening stanza. Illinois went into half- time with a 27-16 lead and it might have been wise, then, if Michigan had got- ton the bus to Ann Arbor and let everybody go home early. But, hey, this is the Big Ten and no one gets a victory without earning it, or in this case, dying for it. The Wolverines came out in the second half shooting 64 percent and outscored Illinois by 11 to send the game into its first over- time. Okay, so you just play five more minutes and the game's over, right? So the players; thought. "I just wanted to win and get off the court," said Montgomery. To Montgomery's dismay, the game was still one-third of the way from completion. You knew things were just beginning to heat up when Frieder uncharacteristically took off his blue blazer at the opening of the second overtime. It reached a boiling point somewhere during the third OT when Michigan assistants Steve Fisher and Bud VanDeWege likewise shunned their outer garment. "It's no surprise that the Michigan coaches got a little toasty in Assembly Hall. It seems that whenever the Wolverines fall behind early in a game they somehow fight back, make the game close, but can't get over that last hur- dle. An errant pass, a missed shot or a foul always seems to prohibit the Wolverines from tasting the fruits of victory. Not once during the Purdue game and only once during this epic here at Illinois did Michigan have a lead. Every coach in the Big Ten complains how hard it is to win on the road, but its even more difficult when you're always behind. Michigan, however, tried its darndest to prove this theory wrong. Time and time again when it looked as if the Illini were going to put the Wolverines under, the young squad came up for a gasp of air. Eric Turner 's 20-foot jumper with no time remaining sent the game into its second overtime and then Roy Tarpley swatted away a desperate, last second shot by Doug Altenberger to put the game into the fourth and final overtime. But the Wolverines could never pull off the big play to win the game and all they came away with was another loss and tired bodies. "My whole body is tired right now," moaned Tim McCormick. He had plen- ty of reason to be tired after slugging it out against the Illini front line for 55 minutes. Even the coaches were exhausted and they didn't once go up for a rebound or take a shot. "I think the players are ready to play the next game but I think the coaches will have to take three or four days off to rest," said Illinois head coach Lou Henson. All jokes aside, the defeat was devastating to the Wolverines. Their character will be tested strongly to see if they can bounce back when they battle intra-state rival Michigan State on Thursday. Maybe, next time, though, Michigan can start playing good basketball in the first half. As McCormick said, "If we learn how to play 40 minutes we'd get some wins." They sure couldn't get one playing 60. Totals .. ...........300 28/56 10/13 28 17 29 66 AP Photo Attendance: 15,952. SCORING 1 2 OT1 OT-2 OT-3 OT-4 T Illinois ........ 27 19 11 5 2 11 75 Michigan ...... 16 30 11 5 2 2 66 Illinois center George Montgomery goes up over Michigan's Tim McCor- mick during yesterday's 75-66 Illini victory at Champaign. Efrem Winters, hanging from the rin,had 23 points in the four-overtime contest. BIG TEN R OUND UP; Purdue mangles MSU,' WEST LAFAYETTE (AP)-Steve Reid pumped in four of his game high 18 points during an early scoring streak, and the Purdue defense held top con- ference scorer Scott Skiles to a pair of field goals, as the Boilermakers downed Michigan State 72-54 yesterday afternoon in a Big Ten Conference college basketball game. Purdue, the Big Ten co-leader with Illinois going into the game, took a 16-5 lead in the opening six minutes, aided by six points from Mark Atkinson. The Boilermakers, now 13-4 overall and 6-1 in the league, never trailed in the game after that, and led by as many as 17 points before closing the half with a 28- 11 lead. In the second half, Michigan State managed to cut the lead to nine points. 34-25, before the Boilermakers ex- ploded with unanswered field goals by Jim Rowinski, Ricky Hall, Reid and Jim Bullock. Indiana 54, Iowa 47 BLOOMINGTON (UPI)-Steve Alford scored 18 points and helped In- diana maintain control of the ball for more than 10 straight minutes in the second half yesterday in the Hoosiers' 54-47 Big Ten basketball victory over Iowa. Indiana rose to 12-5 overall and 5-3 in the Big Ten, while the loss dropped Iowa to 908 overall and 3-4 in the con- ference. IOWA LED, 29-28, at halftime, but Alford and Mike Giomi combined for 14 points in the first 7:24 of the second half to give Indiana a 42-37 lead. After an Iowa turnover, the Hoosiers began a slowdown game, as Alford and guard Chuck Franz led a passing display that lookr10:10 off the clock. The Hawkeyes touched the ball again after a turnover with 1':42 to play, but were forced to foul. Indiana hit 12 of 12 at the free throw line to close out the game. r2=54. Ohio St. 72, Northwestern 51 COLUMBUS (UPI) - Ohio State, led by Dave Jones with 18 points and Troy Taylor with 17, used two first-half scoring spurts to break the game open and roll into a 72-51 Big Ten victory over Northwestern last night. The nationally televised win was fourth in a row for the Buckeyes, now 11-6 overall and 4-3 in in the Big Ten while Northwestern dropped to 9-8 and 2-5. Big Ten Standings Conf. Overall W L W L Illinois ................ 6 1 15 24 Purdue.............. 6 1 13 4 Indiana.............. 5 3 12 5 Ohio State ............. 4 3 11 6 MICHIGAN'........... 4 4 12 6 Minnesota............13 4 11 5 Iowa .................. 3 4 9 8 Wisconsin ............. 3 4 7 9 Northwestern .........'2 5 9 8 f Michigan State ........ 1 7 7 10 Reidt ..18 points to stop Spartans Alford ... directs Indiana stall I SCORES Illinois 75, MICHIGAN 66,4 OT Indiana 54, Iowa 47 Purdue 72, Michigan St. 54 Syracuse 78, St. John's 74, OT Georgetown 63, Pittsburgh 52 Temple 90, W. 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