Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, December 8, 1984 Blue hopes to fly )ast Dayton today By JEFF BERGIDA Special to the Daily DAYTON, OHIO-Don Donoher's Dayton Flyers, Michigan's opponents today in its first road game of the season, are a lot better than Youngstown State. In fact, eight short months ago, the Flyers faced off again- st Georgetown for the right to advance to the Final Four. Donoher lost only one starter from the club that made the finals of the NCAA Western Regional by upsetting LSU, Oklahoma and Washington. The Flyers were 12-2 on their home court during the 1983-84 campaign, including vic- tories over DePaul and Notre Dame. THIS ONE COULD make the 3-0 Wolverines break a sweat. "It'll be a good test for us," said Wolverine coach Bill Frieder, who directed Michigan to an 85-84 victory the last time the clubs met in UD Arena. "They'll try to control the tempo so they can keep us on defense." Still, despite its success last year, nobody is going to confuse Dayton with Illinois or Duke. The one starter who graduated from that team was All-America guard Roosevelt Chapman, a 22-point scorer who also led the club in rebounds. Even with Chapman, Michigan slaughtered the Flyers, 82-60, last December in Crisler Arena. The Wolverines have never lost to Dayton, racking up a 10-0 mark over the length of the series. FINALLY, DAYTON suffers from the same disease which has plagued all of Michigan's opponents thus far-ter- minal shortness. Flyer center, Dave Colbert, is listed at 6-8 and, while the Dayton front line would match up well with Georgia or Youngstown, Michigan will have a distinct height advantage for yet another forty minutes. The Flyers are extremely well- coached. Donoher, who's had the Dayton job for 20 years, has taken over Ray Meyer's title of dean of midwest coaches. Bobby Knight thought enough of the Toledo native to make him one of the three assistant coaches on the U.S. Olympic team. Despite his 565 games of experience, Donoher claims that he hasn't come up with a way to shut down a club with a big height advantage. "IT'S A PROBLEM for us anytime we have to go up against a bigger club," said-the Dayton mentor. "There's only so much that we can do defensively and there's always a burden on us to execute our offense." "I think the key for us is to generate our own offense. I just don't think there's a whole lot we can do to stop them." Among those players who will be trying to stop the Wolverines are three star- ters from last year's, 21-11 club, junior forward Damon Goodwin, senior guard Larry Schellenberg and sophomore guard Dan Christie. Donoher has been especially impressed, however, with the play of Colbert, a transfer from Cleveland State. "COLBERT'S PLAYED very well for us," he said. "He's an all-around player. (He) doesn't excel in any area of the game but isn't deficient in any area." While Donoher is trying to decide what kind of a team he has this year, Frieder has been looking at some of his club's weaknesses. He claims to have found one in the front line play thus far. "We haven't had great consistency from our forwards," Frieder said. "(Roy) Tarpley's been steady and our guards have been good." ALTHOUGH FORWARD Rich Rellford came up with a 20-point effort Wednesday against those un- forgettable Youngstown St. Penguins, Frieder is not convinced that the Riviera Beach, Fla. native is ready for big things. "In all honesty, Rellford's always done well in those type of games and so has (Leslie) Roc'kymore," he said. "But they've got to learn to do it against the bigger, stronger type of players that we'll meet later on. "Rellford's got to go 110-percent. If you put (Steve) Stoyko's guts and head on Rellford's body, you've got a great player." Frieder should be happy with what he's got, a big front line that should keep Michigan breezing through the non-conference schedule. Rellford ... Frieder hopes for more uiiy rno1to Dy DAN HABI Freshman guard Gary Grant gets set to launch an alley-oop pass to forward Rich Rellford during Wednesday night's game. Rellford converted the slam dunk and Michigan overwhelmed Youngstown State, 103-73. Hustling back on the play are Youngstown's Ray Robinson and Michigan's Roy Tarpley. Dukecals on nigt to defend charges of cheating in Big Ten SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (UPI) - Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke wants to meet with Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight to discuss Knight's allegations of cheating in the conference, Duke said. Following a Thursday meeting discussing Knight's charges and his recent boycott of two Big Ten gatherings,- Duke said he wanted to meet with Knight "at the earliest op- portunity and talk about this in a positive fashion." "WHENEVER a representatative of one of our institutions makes such a charge, it is his professional responsibility to provide us with information and ours to act on it," Duke said. Knight, without pointing to specific schools, has alluded to cheating in the Big Ten. He has received recent support from Notre Dame coach Digger Phelps and former DePaul coach Ray Meyer. "What Bob is protesting, some of the illegal recruiting in that league, it's happening," Phelps said recently. "He's aware of it. I'm aware of it and it's time people in the right corners get aware of it." Meyer wrote recently in a column in the Chicago Sun- Times that Knight is an honest person and he tended to believe his accusations of illegal recruiting. COLLEGE HOOP ROUND UP: 1ROIS ilinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Tom Schafer and Ken Norman combined for 50 points to help 7th ranked Illinois whip Columbia University 72-48 last night in the opening game of the Illini Classic at the Assembly Hall. Illinois, 8-1, will play the winner of the New Mexico State - American Univer- sity game in tonight 's championship round. Illinois, with a substantial height advantage over Colum- bia, got the builk of its scoring from its forwards and centers. Columbia's tallest player is 6-foot-7. The Illinois outscored the Lions 39-20 in the first half. They outrebounded the Lions 18-8 and out-shot them 61 percent rounees to 39 percent in the first 20 minutes. Illinois' 6-9 forward Efrem Winters,. who was guarded by 6-3 Todd Williams, hit four baskets in the first five minutes of the game. Even though Illinois rested its regulars and used a three-guard lineup for most of the second half, the team maintained a lead of 20 points or more throughout the final period. Columibia, 1-3, was led by Mark Set- tles and Tom Gwydir, each with eight points. Syracuse 84, Maine 65 SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Sophomore guard Dwayne Washington, returning to last year's form, scored 21 a ', In a barrel because of debts? LOOK FOR WORK IN 't1hui d ut t rf ittr FI tf GolumbiaA points last night as 12th-ranked Syracuse bombed Maine 84-65 in the fir- st game of the Carrier Classic college basketball tournament. The Orangemen, 3-0, who have qualified for the finals every year in the eight-year-old tournamnet, will go for the title Saturday night against the winner of Friday's other game mat- ching Bowling Green and Lamar. Junior Rafael Addison and freshman Michael Brown each scored a pair of baskets early in the second half to help Syracuse overcome a sluggish start. Syracuse held a slim 39-32 halftime lead, but Addison scored 10 of his 16 points in the first 12:19 of the second stanza and Brown finished with 12 poin- ts, his first double-figure performance for the Orangemen. Rockhurst 84, Quincy 69 QUINCY, ILL, (AP) - Joe Monochino connected for 27 points as Rockhurst defeated Quincy 84-69 in non- conerence basketball last night. Quincy led at halftime 38-37 and the game remained close until the last five minutes when Rockhurst pulled away and increased their lead with accurate free throw shooting. Henry Felton and Mike Sievers led Quincy with 15 point apiece. Rockhurst improved its season mark to 7-1, while Quincy fell to 2-5. Blinois Tech 92, Milwaukee Eng. 64 CHICAGO (AP) - Will. Recchia scored 20 points to lead the Illinois In- stitute of Technology to a 92-64 non- conference win over the Milwaukee School of Engineering las night. After a nip-and-tuck first half, IIT, 1- 5, took a 38-32 lead at intermission. In the second half, IIT shot 44 perced- nt and never trailed. Andy Griffis led Milwaukee 2-8, with 16 points and a game-high nine rebounds. James Houston added 10. Texas-El Paso 83, W. Illinois 49 'CARBONDALE, ILL, (AP) - LemuelClanton led a balanced attack with 15 points as Texas El Pas routed Western Illinois 83-49 last night in the opening game of the Saluki Shootout college basketball tournament. Dave Feitl and Lester Good win ad- ded 14 points apiece for the winners as Texas El Paso improved its season record to 3-1. Feitl also pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds. More people have survived cancer than now live in the City of Los Angeles. We are winning. A . . 0