NCAA Basketball Tourney bids To be announced Today at 5:30 p.m. SPORTS Sunday, March 11, 1984 Men's Swimming Wolverine Invitational Today and tomorrow, 3:00 p.m. Matt Mann Pool Page 7 The Michigan Daily COLLEGE BASKETBALL illini annihilate Bc CHAMPAIGN (AP) - Efrem Win- ters scored 25 points and Bruce Douglas added 18 yesterday to boost seventh- ranked Illinois past Wisconsin 81-57 and Iinto at least a tie for the Big Ten con- ference championship. The winner of the league's crown will be determined Sunday when Purdue plays at Minnesota. If the Boilermakers lose, Illinois will have its first outright Big Ten championship since 1952. If Purdue wins; the Illini will tie for first place with the Boilermakers. Illinois last tied for the championship in 1963, with Ohio State. Illinois finished the regular season with an overall record of 24-4, the most victories ever by an Illinois team. The Illini were 15-3 in the Big Ten. Wisconsin finished 8-20 overall, and 4- 14 in the conference, giving the Badgers at least a share of the Big Ten cellar for the second consecutive year. Indiana 53, Ohio St. 49 BLOOMINGTON (AP) - Freshman guard Steve Alford scored 17 points yesterday as Indiana, turning back a furious rally in the closing minutes, beat Ohio State 53-49 in their final Big Ten Conference basketball game of the season. The Hoosiers finished in third place in the conference with a 13-5 record and wound up 20-8 overall, giving Coach Bob Knight his tenth 20-victory season in 13 years at Indiana. The Buckeyes finished in fifth place at 8-10 and ended up 15-13 overall. Indiana clinched the victory with two free throws by Uwe Blab and one by Alford as Ohio State was forced to foul in the closing seconds. Blab finished with 12 points, while Ohio State was led by Troy Taylor pbell with 12. with 14 and Tony Cam- Meyer will take a record of 723 vic- tories against 353 losses into the up- coming NCAA tournament, his last hurrah as a coach. Duke 77, North Carolina 75 GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Sopho- more David Henderson sank four free throws in the last 42 seconds to propel 16th-ranked Duke into the finals of the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament with a 77-75 victory over top-ranked North Carolina yesterday. The Blue Devils, who lost a double- overtime decision to the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill one week ago, will play 14th ranked Maryland who defeated Wake Forest, 66-64 in the other semi-final test. Duke will be in its first ACC tour- nament final since 1980, when it lost a 73-72 decision to Maryland. For North Caroliina, it was the first ACC loss after 15 victories over league rivals. Michael Jordan scored 22 points and Matt Doherty added 20 for the Tar Heels, who fell to 27-2. Maryland 66, Wake Forest 64 GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Adrian Branch scored 12 points in the second half to give Maryland another shot at the elusive Atlantic Coast Conference tournament title as the 14th-ranked Terrapins held off No. 19 Wake Forest 66-64 Saturday. idgers Maryland Coach Lefty Driesell ear- ned his sixth ACC tourney final and the Terrapins will face No. 14 Duke, which knocked off topranked North Carolina 77-75 in the other tournament semifinal. Maryland led by as much as 11 in the first half and claimed a 33-20 halftime lead. Wake Forest got hot at the start of the second half and turned a possible runaway into a battle. Branch and Coleman scored 16 points apiece while Len Bias added 15 for Maryland. Big Ten Standings Winters ... pumps in 25 DePaul 64, Marquette 49 CHICAGO (AP) - Kevin Holmes and Tyrone Corbin helped Coach Ray Meyer celebrate his retirement party in his final home game after 42 years at DePaul's helm with a 6 49 triumph over Marquette yesterday. The victory gave the fourth-ranked Blue Demons a season-closing 26-2 record and all but clinched a top seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament. Holmes scored 17 points and Corbin added 16 helping to drop Marquette to a 16-12 record for the year. Illinois ................ Purdue ............... Indiana ............... MICHIGAN ........... Ohio State ............. Michigan State....... Minnesota ............. Iowa......... ..... Northwestern......... Wisconsin ............. Conf WL 15 3 14 3 13 5 10 8 8 10 7 10 6 10 6 11 5 13 4 14 Overall WL 24 4 21 6 20 8 18 10 15 13 14 13 15 11 13 14 12 16 8 20 Ray Meyer, DePaul's head basketball coach, cuts down a net following his last home game victory. DePaul defeated Marquette, 64-49, for Meyer's 723rd career victory. MOTOR CITY ROUNDUP: Pistons bounce Bullets, 115-100 ONE SMALL VOICE By Jeff Bergida lichigan to NCAA's?. .. .. .Frieder has fingers crossed EVANSTON When Brent Musberger goes to "THE BIG BOARD" at 5:30 this afternoon on CBS, millions of college basketball fans, players and coaches, anxiously will be awaiting word on whether they've qualified for the NCAA tour- nament. The 29 teams that have already gained automatic bids will find out the identity of their first round opponents and the site of their opening contest. When Bill Fri'eder switches on his TV set, he will be expecting his Michigan Wolverines to be named one of the elite 53. Time after time, the fourth-year head coach has said that 18 wins and a fourth-place finish in the Big Ten would clinch an at-large berth. Michigan has achieved both of these goals. But while coaches around the Big Ten, most notably Eldon Miller of Ohio State, Minnesota's Jim Dutcher, George Raveling of Iowa, and North- western's Rich Falk, have stated that the tournament will take four teams from their conference, others outside the league are less convinced. The USA Today, in its rundown of possible participants in the NCAA, awarded three positions to the Big Ten. Those would go to Illinois, Purdue and Indiana. Before it lost to Creighton in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, Illinois State's coach said that his team should get a bid before Indiana. CBS' Billy Packer is pushing for seven Atlantic Coast Conference teams while he writes off the Big Ten, saying that its basketball players look like football players. While every team wins a'conference tournament this weekend gets a bid, an issue arises when an upset occurs. For instance, everybody expected Mem- phis State and Louisville to be the two teams from the Metro Conference to gain the NCAA nod. But Virginia Tech surprised the Cardinals in the tour- nament before losing to the Tigers in the finals. If Virginia Tech had gone on to defeat Memphis State, then the NCAA committee would have had to invite that team as a conference champ and then decide how many at-large bids to award. Because Louisville and Memphis State are prestigious, nationally-ranked schools, the odds are that they both would have received bids unless three teams from the Metro would have made it instead of two. One less spot would be available when the people in Kansas City got around to looking at Michigan. Plug in the Panasonic That brings us back to Ann Arbor and coach Frieder's Panasonic. The main reason he keeps telling reporters that his team has earned a spot in the NCAAs, aside from the fact that he really believes it, is that Michigan's position is not assured and he wants to emit as much positive publicity as possible. ,How would it sound to the committee if they heard Frieder saying, 'Well, we have a good shot as long as Cal-Irvine doesn't upset UNLV in the PCAA."? Yet while the Saginaw native won't say it, he's got to be worried about conference tournament upsets. And Frieder is keeping an eye on the results around the nation. Friday af- ternoon, he mentioned that Georgia Tech had-lost to Duke in the ACC, giving the Yellow Jackets one more loss than the Wolverines. He added, "If Virginia loses tonight, (it did) that'll give them, 11 losses." Before last night's Northwestern game, Michigan was 18-9.. Therefore, despite the fact that Eric Turner, Roy Tarpley and company form one of the top 53 clubs in the nation, it still pays for Michigan fans to watch the results outside the Big Ten. Having a personal stake in the Wolverine's success (I'd like to cover an NCAA regional), I find myself listening closely to the results of games I normally wouldn't even notice. It's gotten to the point where I started panicking when I heard that West Virginia (18-11) upset Temple (25-4) Friday night in the Atlantic 10. The Owls' outstanding record will probably gain them an at-large bid and this left an opening for St. Bonaventure to win the conference. That's right, I'm actually lying awake at night worrying about St. Bonaventure. For the life of me, I couldn't name one player on St. Bonaven- By JIM DAVIS Special to the Daily PONTIAC - It wasn't a classic battle, but the Detroit Pistons beat the Washington Bullets, 115-100, last night at the Silverdome, and the large crowd got to see the bonus it wanted, the Chicken. The win, their fourth in a row, places the Pistons in a tie with Milwaukee for first place in the NBA's Central division., WHILE THE quality of basketball wasn't great, the chicken was his usual spectacular, to the delight of the an- nounced crowd of 25,381, the largest crowd in Pistons' history - in front of the chicken, that is. The Pistons started slowly in the first half, hitting only 37 percent of their shots, but stayed within range. Jeff Ruland led Washington to a 30-26 lead after one quarter hitting 11 of his game- high 24 points. Detroit took the lead for the first time and never gave it up when Kelly Tripucka hit two free throws midway through the second quarter. TRIPUKA POURED in 10 of his 21 points in the period, helping the Pistons to a 49-47 halftime lead. The Pistons may have been cold from the field in the first 24 minutes. but when they finally heated up in the third quarter, it was all over. The period saw them build a two-point halftime margin to as much as 12, and later by as many as t7. "I think the key (to the game) was John Long's play in the second half," said Piston coach Chuck Daly. "His shooting kind of got us the lead." By the fourth period, Detroit was in command led by Long, who registered 12 points in the final stanza, and Earl Cureton off the bench. Long finished with 22 points. "It feels great to have my rhythm back," said the former University of Detroit star. Cureton finished the game with 13 rebounds and eight points. "When you have guys who can come off the bench and give the starters a lift, it helps," said Cureton, another former U-D star. It sure helped last night. Tigers 6, Twins 3 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Rusty Kun- tz, who recently was traded from Min- nesota to Detroit, belted a ninth-inning home run and scored twice as the Tigers won their first exhibition game, 6-3, over the Minnesota Twins yester- day. Detroit, 1-4, took advantage of the wildness of rookie relief pitcher Rich Yett to score three runs in the fifth and sixth innings. Detroit ace Jack Morris fired four scoreless innings to earn the victory and four relievers held Minnesota scoreless until the ninth, when a pair of errors led to three unearned runs. Barbaro Garbey contributed two hits and two runs while Dwight Lowry and Marty Castillo added two hits apiece for the Tigers. MSU wins CCHA title DETROIT (UPI) - Michigan State's Newell Brown scored two goals and Spartan goaltender Norm Foster stop- ped all 23 Western Michigan shots as Michigan State blanked the Broncos, 5- 0 in the championship game of the Cen- tral Collegiate- Hockey Association playoff last night at Joe Louis Arena. A record playoff crowd of 17,515 wat- ched the Spartans dominate the Bron- cos, scoring one goal in the first and two in the last two periods. Despite the set- back, Western Michigan goalie Glenn Healy turned away 29 of Michigan S'tate's 34 shots and 89 in two tour- nament games, earning the playoff's Most Outstanding Player honor. GORD FEGEL, DALE Krentz and Jeff Eisley also scored for Michigan State, which earned home ice in next weekend's quarter final round of NCAA playoff. The Spartans are now 32-10 while Western Michigan finishes at 22-18-2. Goalie Foster received All- Tournament honors for his performan- ce as did teammates Eisely on defense, Brown and Fegel. Western Michigan's Dan Dorion was the other all- tournament forward, while Bowling Green's Dave Ellett received honors at the other defense box. Tourney time MICHIGAN NORTHWESTERN MinFG/A FT/A R A PF TP Min FG/A FT/A Turner .........42 Joubert........ 38 McCormick .32 Tarpley ......... 45 Wade............ 20 Rellford ......... 35 Pelekoudas ...11 Rockymore. 2 Team Rebounds . TOTALS ........225 Attendance: 8,092 2/8 6/10 1/3 5/10 0/0 3/7 0/0 0/1 2/2 2/2 4/5 7/9- 1/2 2/2 0/0 0/0 R 0 6 4 5 7 0 0 3 A 4 2 0 0 0 PF 1 i 4 2 4 5 0 TP Goode........ 6 Aaron ......... 14 Schultz... 6 Murray. 17 Watts.......... Petersen ...... 8 Pitts'.......... 0 Fuller....... 0 Team rebounds 45 44 31 12 45 40 7 4/10 9/16 2/4 1/1 3/4 3/4 0/0 0/0 0/2 2/5 0/1 0/0 2/3 4/5 2/2 0/0 4 6 0 s '0 3 3 3 0 0 7 0 0 a 2 3 4 4 4 0 8 20 4 2 8 10 2 0 54 ToTALS'...... 225 22/39 10/18 21 13 20 17/39 18/22 26 9 21 52 SCORING 1 2 OT T MICHIGAN ....... 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