Page 8 - The Michigan Daily -Sunday, January 20, 1985 Wolverines pluck the Hawkeyes clea Tarpley 's jumper at buzzer sinks Iowa in triple overtime (Continued from Page 1) Coach George Raveling. "I give Michigan a wealth of credit for hanging in under the adverse conditions of the first half." After Joubert missed a lunging jump shot, Iowa's Payne drove upcourt and deposited a 25-footer to knot the score 57-57 with 25 seconds left in regulation. At 11 seconds Michigan called timeout to set up its last shot. Gary Grant's last- second buzzer shot caromed off the front of the rim to send the game into overtime. BOTH TEAMS traded shots in the overtime before Al Lorenzen tipped in his own rebound to put the Hawkeyes ahead 59-57. Rellford's corner shot knotted the score, but then Michigan missed a golden opportunity when Rellford missed an easy layup. Stokes pumped in a hook shot to again put Iowa in front, but Joubert followed a Gary Grant steal basket to match Stokes' shot. With Iowa setting up its last shot, Grant stole the ball to force the second overtime. IN THE SECOND overtime, wun- derkind Grant started the scoring off for the Blue, but some big Iowa defen- sive plays set up buckets by Greg Stokes and Andre Banks as Iowa pulled ahead 65-63. Entering the last half minute, Joubert solidified the score 65-65 again setting up a last second shot for Iowa. Stokes' long bomb bounced off the rim, however, and the marathon contest went into its third extra period. Gary Grant, shining like never before in front of the national cameras, drop- ped a soft 12-foot jumper to open the final period. The Wolverines then stif- l fened on defense and maintained con- trol of the ball, grabbing rebounds at both ends of the court before yielding possession to Iowa with 1:34 to play. AL LORENZON went over Tarpley to deadlock the score 67-67 entering the final minute. Then with all eyes upon him, and Crisler shaking and swaying, Tarpley banked in the last split second hook shot. Michigan looked shell-shocked right from the opening tipoff. Iowa guard Andre Banks, filling in for the injured Jeff Moe, connecting on a 15-foot-jum- per to start a 10 point Hawkeye surge. The Wolverines, meanwhile, ap- peared to be suffering from stage fright in front of the national cameras. Ten Michigan shots hit rim, the back of the backboard, air, and just about anything but the net before a Robert Henderson layup finally put the Blue on the board at the 13:42 mark. The Wolverines shot a pathetic 32 percent in the first half, while Iowa, led by Payne and Stokes with eight points apiece, notched 62 percent shooting. The Hawkeyes also outrebounded Michigan, 20-10, in the first stanza. Iowa let their lead slip to six points, 16-10, but then matched theWolverines bucket for bucket and then some, ultimately building back up to a 30-18 halftime lead. Leslie Rockeymore paced Michigan with six points in the half. Grant Joubert ... defensive star ... hits some clutch shots ySO eist By Steve Wise T HE CHALK talk ends in the Iowa basketball team's lockerroom. "Any questions?" asks Hawkeye head man George Raveling. "YEAH COACH," says a player from the back of the room. "Could you explain the difference between the din- ner fork and the salad fork again?" The above scene never happened, but the ,Hawkeyes came within one of Emily Post's well-groomed hairs of receiving a seven-course menu of social training to sup- plement their normal instructional diet. Iowa had planned to give its players seven two-hour seminars teaching them things like how to deal with the media and how to act properly in restaurants, hotels and airports. The only thing that prevented the Hawkeyes (saved would be a better word) from holding the social classes was an NCAA rule that _- says athletes can receive no privilege or service not of- fered to all students. What didn't seem to occur to whoever decided to hold the seminars is that in one sense they would have been somewhat demeaning to the athletes involved, and in another sense would have been a misuse of time and energy. The demeaning part is the idea of implying to a college student that he's such an un- Rareling cultured hick that he needs etiquette training. Iowa would have been saying to its players, "Sure, we respect you abilities on the court, but other than that we'll treat you like little kids." And the Hawkeyes don't act like pre-schoolers, at least not the ones I've met. But I've only met a couple, so I asked some other writers, and they agreed that Iowa's basketball players indeed act like adults with reasonable manners. Still, none of us knows whether the Hawkeyes slurp their soup or loosen the caps on salth shakers, so I checked it Manners and media... ... what's demeaning? out with the folks who served them breakfast yesterday. "They were calm," said Greta Jackson, hostess at the Briarwood Hilton's restaurant. "They -weren't rowdy like I would expect a basketball team to be. They handled themselves just like the average (person from the) public." "I didn't see anything," said waiter Chris Dansel. "If something would have stuck out, I would have noticed." Dansel did notice that the players tipped "about average" and avoided junk food. All that without etiquette training! The other part of the seminars' focus was to show the players "how to look good in an interview session," ac- cording to Kris Hofacker, director of communication development for the consulting firm which was to teach the course. "If you get out in this area, the college team is all that's happening in sports," said Hofacker, who holds a Ph.D. from Michigan's communication school. "They're very well covered." "If you're 18 years old and dealing with the media, that's a hard job for someone who hasn't had professional experience or very much life experience," she added. Point taken. But seminars from a consulting firm are not necessarily the vehicle through which players should be getting that experience. As members of a big-name basketball team, they are performers, but they're also students. If they can talk about literature in an English class, then they ought to be able to discuss a basketball game. If they can't, then Iowa is working on the wrong area. The best way to keep an athlete from seeming like a dumb jock is to make sure he or she isn't dumb. The money the Hawkeyes might have forked over to the con- sultants could probably pay for some additional academic counseling or tutoring, and the time they would have spent in the seminars could have been devoted to additional study halls. The program actually could have done the players a disservice if it allowed them to improve their images, rather than simply growing as students and human beings. Maybe, having avoided the seminars, they should sim- ply tap into the manners they already possess and say, "Thank you.'' Iowa's Andre Banks drives hard to his right as Gary Grant digs in on defense. BIG TEN ROUNDUP: Bucks nip IU, 86-84 COLUMBUS (AP) - Uwe Blab missed a short hook shot with two seconds left yesterday for eighth- ranked Indiana, helping Ohio State spring an 86-84 Big Ten basketball vic- tory over the Hoosiers. Blab, who scored a game-high 31 points, took a pass from Stew Robinson, wheeled and fired. His shot bounced off the rim and time expired before In- diana could get off another attempt. TROY TAYLOR MISSED the front end of a bonus free throw situation to give the Hoosiers a shot at forcing over- time. Instead, Indiana dropped to 11-4 overall and 3-2 in the Big Ten. Dave Jones, a reserve guard, came off the bench to sink eight of 10 shots from the floor and score a team-leading 19 points for Ohio State, 11-3 overall and 3-2 in the conference. The Buckeyes, scoring the most poin- ts on Indiana this winter, almost blew an 11-point lead with 11:51 remaining. The Hoosiers crept to within 76-75 on Blab's hook shot with 3:08 to play. Joe Concheck, regaining his starting forward job, scored 16 points for Ohio State while Dennis Hopson had 15, Taylor 14 and Ronnie Stokes 10. Illinois 55, Northwestern 43 EVANSTON (AP)-Anthony Welch scored 16 points and Efrem Winters ad- ded 14 yesterday to lead 11th-ranked Illinois to a 55-43 victory over North- western. The victory was the fourth straight for the Illini as they increased their record to 15-4 overall and 4-2 in the Big Ten. Northwestern lost its fifth straight and fell to 4-11 overall and 0-5 in the conference. NORTHWESTERN HELD several four-point leads in the first half, the last at 14-10 before the Illini ran off 10 straight for a 20-14 advantage which they never relinquished. Purdue 72, Wisconsin 68 MADISON (AP)-James Bullock, Steve Reid and Todd Mitchell led Pur- due back from a nine-point second-half deficit yesterday as the Boilermakers rallied for a 72-68 victory over Wiscon- sin. Bullock scored 20 points, including a three-point play that tied the game at 53-53 with 7:15 to play-just 2:09 after Wisconsin had built a 53-44 lead, its biggest lead of the game. REID SCORED 15 points, including the last three in Purdue's 12-0 run that gave the Boilermakers the lead for good at 56-53 with 6:49 to play. Included in the string was a technical foul on Wisconsin's Rick Olson, who scored 16 of his 18 points in the second half. Mitchell, who had 13 points, then scored Purdue's next eight points and Purdue never looked back. rinnesota 81, Mich,. State 7 EAST LANSING (AP) - Guar Tommy Davis' 18 second-half points cu short a Michigan State rally as Min nesota took an 81-ml75 Big Ten basket ball victory from the 19th-ranked Spar tans last night. Davis, who scored 23 points in th game, also sank two crucial free throw with 21 seconds remaining to give th Gophers a 6-point lead, 77-71 Davis' performance outshined a valiant second-half effort by the Spar tans' backcourt duo of Scott Skiles a Sam Vincent. Skiles scored 21 of h. game-high 25 points in the second hall and Vincent scored 16 of his 20 after the intermission. BIG TEN STANDINGS MICHIGAN........ Illinois ............. Iowa ............... Ohio State........ Indiana......... Minnesota ......... Purdue ............. Michigan State ..... Wisconsin........ Northwestern ..... Conf. W L. 4 2 4 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 3 3 3 1 4 0 5 Overall W d 12 15 3 14 4 11 3 11 4 10 5 12 4 12 4 10 5 4 11 SPORTS OF THE DAILY: Michigan thinclads bare the cold, fare wel By DAVE ARETHA The only scantily dressed Michigan: students who were smiling last night were the members of the Wolverine track team. The thinclads performed surprisingly well in the Michigan Relays yesterday, winning two events and finishing second in four others. Head coach Jack Harvey, hesitant about his team's chances of success before -the meet, said he felt satisfied afterwards. "I WAS MORE encouraged than before," he said. "We knew this would be a struggle, but we did well. There were some nice highlights." The brightest highlight of all was the winning time was slow. HARVEY SAID he was also pleased with Scott Crawford. The sophomore placed second in the long jump and fourth in the high jump. The Wolverines finished second in three other events. Todd Steverson was runner-up in the 600 yard run, and the mile relay and the sprint medley relay teams each finished second in their heats. Rick Swilley and Thomas Wilcher placed third in their sprint events. No team standings were kept yester- day, but Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan won nearly half of the events between them. over Louisville in Freedom Hall since 1976, lifted the Tigers to 13-1 overall and 3-1 in the conference. Louisville fell to 9- 6 and 2-2. Freshman guards Vincent Askew and Dwight Boyd keyed Memphis State with 16 and 11 points, respectively, as they made up for a lack of production from Memphis State's big men, Georgetown 65, Pittsburgh 53 PITTSBURGH (AP) - Patrick Ewing turned in a dominating second- half performance at both ends of the court as top-ranked Georgetown, after St. John's 66, Boston College 59 BOSTON (AP) - Guard Chris Mul hit the 20-point mark for the 50th time his intercollegiate career and fourth ranked St. John's rallied in the final si minutes yesterday for a 66-59 Big Eas' basketball victory over 15th-ranke Boston College. Mullin, an All-American guard anc 1984 U.S. Olympic star, scored 24 poin ts, including 16 in the second half, wher St. John's overcame a 10-point defici1 and went onto its 13th victory an eighth in a row since an upset b3 Niagara.