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The Michigan Daily

Thursday, March 1, 1984

Page 9


Badger beating a must for Blue

By PAUL HELGREN
Prepare yourself for a barrage of
basketball propaganda in the next two
weeks.
Every year at this time it is
customary for those college basketball
coaches whose teams are near the bor-
derline between acceptance and rejec-
tion into the NCAA tournament to make
a pitch for their team. Bill Frieder's
Michigan team falls into the fringe
category this season. And the fourth-
year coach isn't one to miss a cue.
FRIEDER started what is sure to be
a regular plea last Saturday in Colum-
bus after the Wolverines' 62-59 victory.
The much-needed win raised their
record to 15-9, 7-7 in the Big Ten. The
numbers don't dazzle, so Frieder felt
the need to point a few things out to the
media.
He noted that the Big Ten is a tough
conference and thus the school's recor-
ds will suffer because of it. He
remarked that because each Big Ten
team must play 18 conference games,
they can't squeeze in any breathers in
the middle of the league schedule. The
Big Ten hasn't done too shabbily again-
st non-conference powers either, he
said.
"If you look at what our teams did,"
Frieder said, "Illinois State is rated.
Indiana beat them. Boston College was'
rated. Indiana beat them. We beat

Georgia.. . Ohio State beat Maryland.
You can go on and on."
AND FRIEDER will "go on and on"
until sombody pays attention,
preferably the NCAA selection commit-
tee.
But no amount of cajoling on
Frieder's part changes one simple fact
- Michiganneeds three more winsto
gain the respectability needed to at-
tract selection committee attention.
Respectability in the Big Ten, as
Frieder well knows, means a record
above.500.

Daily Photo by DAN HABIB
Michigan forward Paul Jokisch puts the ball up in earlier basketball action
against Dayton. Jokisch, who will be switching to football in the spring (see
story below), and the rest of the Wolverines hope tonight's game versus
Wisconsin will be another step toward the NCAA tournament.
oosiers top Purdue

Mich igan Basketball Statistics

"A 10-8 RECORD and a fourth-place
finish in the conference should get us a
bid," said Frieder. "The tournament
took five teams from the Big Ten last
year."
With 52 teams receiving bids this
year, the NCAA is virtually obligated to
invite four Big Ten teams. The first
three - Purdue, Illinois and Indiana -
are shoo-ins. The fourth will come from
a pool of Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio
State.
Minnesota's in a hole because its
record is 6-8, with Purdue, Illinois and
Michigan yet to play. Ohio State,
despite an 8-7 record, is in even worse
shape because it has road games with
Purdue, Illinois and Indiana.
ALL THE Wolverines have to do then,
is win three of their next four games,
starting tonight against Wisconsin at
Crisler Arena. After that they host the
Gophers and then hit the road to face
two weaker teams, Iowa and North-
western, who are nonetheless tough at
home.
Wisconsin has been having its
problems since it rode the shooting arm
of guard Rick Olson last January 14 to
down the Wolverines. The Badgers
have gone 2-8 since the pesky Olson flat-
tened Michigan with a 39-point perfor-
mance that the sophomore will not

likely ever repeat. Olson does maintain
a solid 16.4 conference scoring average,
though.
"We can't let Olson have the kind of'
game he had last time," Frieder said in
a huge understatement. "And we have
to do a good job on Cory Blackwell."
BLACKWELL quietly leads the con-
ference in both scoring (19.5) and
rebounding (8.9). If the junior forward
can hang on to the lead in the categories
until the end of the season, he will be the
first player in the Big Ten to do so since
Minnesota's Mychal Thompson pulled
the trick in 1978.
"Blackwell is a very tough player,"
commented Frieder. "We have to do
the job on him that we did on Tony
Campbell (last Saturday)."
And if Frieder's Wolverines can do
the job on the court, maybe they can
save their coach from having to do the
job of convincing the NCAA that they
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WEST LAFAYETTE (UPI) - Stew
Robinson scored 22 points, including six
in a crucial second half spurt, and Uwe
Blab added 18 to lead Indiana to a 78-59
Big Ten upset of ninth-ranked Purdue
last night.
The loss cut Purdue's conference lead
over Indiana and Illinois to just half a
game, giving the Illini a chance to
reclaim a tie tonight against Ohio State.
y Mark Atkinson, hitting Purdue's first
six field goals of the second half,
finished with 18 points, 12 in the final
period. Guards Ricky Hall and Steve
Reid each scored 10 for the Boiler-

makers, now 19-6 overall and 12-3 in the
league.
Indiana claimed a 36-34 halftime lead
on 57 percent shooting and Robinson's
18-foot left-side jumper with one second
1 remaining.
The Hoosiers, now 19-7 and 12-4 in the
conference, still led by two when they
kicked off a 10-point spurt to stretch the
lead to 50-38 with 13:53 left in the game.
Robinson hit three field goals and
Blab contributed two more during the
stretch while the Hoosiers held Purdue
scoreless for nearly five minutes.

Player G-S
Turner ........................ 22-19
McCormick ................... 23-22
Tarpley ....................... 24-12
Rockymore..................22-18
Joubert ....................... 24-13
Rellford......................24-21
Wade........................24-14
Jokisch........................I11-0
Pelekoudas ....................24-1
Thompson .....................12-0
Henderson .....................19-0
Rudy .......................... 8-0
Antonides......................6-0
Team...........
MICHIGAN ....................24
Opponents-..................... 24

FG-FGA
95-215
90-155
103-190
88-203
80-185
73-124
56-123
10-23
16-3'7
9-22
9-25
2-3
0-2

Pct
.442
.581
.542
.433
.432
.589
.455
.435
.432
.409
.360
.667
.000

FT-FTA
62-79
81-127
41-53
25-32
34-48
39-51
19-42
7-10
16-21
4-4
15-26
1-2
3-4

Pct
.785
.638
.774
.781
.708
.765
.452
.700
.762
1.00
.577
.500
.750

RBS-AvG
50-2.3
124-5.4
175-7.3
40-1.8
51-2.1
70-2.9
134-5.6
7-0.6
17-0.7
10-0.8
42-2.2
5-0.6
5-0.8
80-3.3

A
101
22
16
40
74
7
14
42
13
3
3
0

Pts
252
261
247
201
194
185
131
27
48
22
33
5
3

Avg
11.5
11.3
10.3
9.1
8.1
7.7
5.5
2.5
2.0
1.8
1.7
0.6
0.5

633-1313 .482
553-1219 .454

354-507 .698 810-33.8 338 1620 67.5
383-539 .711 713-29.7 250 1489 62.0

SPORTS OF THE DAILY:
o kish opts for football.EPC

By MIKE MCGRAW
Bo Schembechler may have finally gotten the big tight end
he's been looking for, compliments of Bill Frieder.
Discouraged with the lack of playing time he's received
this season, sophomore Paul Jokisch has declared his intent
to play for the football team, beginning this spring.
"(PLAYING TIME) had a lot to do with the decision,"
said Jokisch. "I wasn't going to make the change initially but
as things went on it got worse and worse."
The 6-8, 230-pounder from Birmingham was rated the
number-one football player in the state by the Detroit News
'fter his senior year at Brother Rice. But he'll be going into
spring practice in a few weeks after spending two years out
of the sport.
"It's going to be rough getting into the swing of things,"
Jokisch said. "But'after a little while I'll get back into it."
The former tight end is not sure whether he will return to
the basketball court. Said Jokisch, "It depends on how things
go with football. Frieder might redshirt me next year so I'd
have fifth year eligibility."

Pistons 137, Bullets 106
PONTIAC - The Detroit Pistons washed out the
Washington Bullets last night at the Silverdome, 137-106. The
game ended the second best month in the history of the team
as the Pistons finished 11-4 for February. Their best month
ever was December 1972 when they were 12-5.
Isiah Thomas continued on his tear through the league,
scoring 27 points and dishing off 12 assists.
THE PISTONS dominated the first half taking a 65-52 lead
into the locker room. "They made a run, but we ran with
them," said Piston Terry Tyler about the beginning of the
third quarter.
Detroit coach Chuck Daly had this to say about the win:
"Without (injured center Jeff) Ruland, it takes a lot out of
their game statistically. They're a really hard team to match
up with. It was a good win coming off a tough game on the
road (last night)."
-SCOTT MCKINLAY

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OMSU to lose
two cagers
By DAN COVEN
Citing a lack of playing time,
sophomores Patrick Ford and Ralph
Walker have indicated that they will
>leave the Michigan State basketball
team at the season's conclusion.
The highly-recruited Ford, a 6-5
swingman from Detroit's Cass Tech,
has said he will transfer to the Univer-
sity of Detroit or Eastern Michigan.
Walker, a 6-8 forward from Southfield
High, will transfer to San Diego State.
NCAA regulations will require both
players to sit out next season at their
new schools. A third player, freshman
forward Greg Pedro is also contem-
plating leaving MSU for a school out
east, possibly Fordham or St. Peters.


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