Women's Gymnastics
vs. Ohio State and LSU
Saturday, 7 p.m.
Crisler Arena
SPORTS
Women's Swimming
vs. Wisconsin
Friday, 3:30 p.m.
Matt Mann Pool
The Michigan Daily
Thursday, January 24, 1985
Page 7
Dynamic duos to duel at Crisler court
By STEVE WISE
It would be helpful to imagine
Michigan basketball coach Bill Frieder
and his Michigan State counterpart,
Jud Heathcote, as two fencers, in order
to figure out how tonight's roundball
Vnrivalry will be contested.
"En guards," gesticulates Frieder,
drawing forth his sabre along with An-
toine Joubert and Gary Grant.
"En guards indeed," retorts Heath-
cote, brandishing his own sword and his
own pair of standout guards, Sam Vin-
cent and Scott Skiles.
You probably will not see any real
swashbuckling on the floor of Crisler
Arena, but the parries and thrusts of
the two backcourt tandems will heavily
influence, if not determine, the results
of the basketball game you will see
tonight.
"They're two of the best backcourts
in the country," said Minnesota coach
Jim Dutcher, who's team faced both
last weekend. "It'll be a great mat-
chup."
A GREAT matchup, yes, but it will
not be an exact one. To begin with, the
Spartan duo has a combined four-year
experience advantage.
"Class-wise, Michigan State's are a
more experienced backcourt in that
they're playing a junior (Skiles) and a
senior (Vincent) and Michigan's
playing a sophomore (Joubert) and a
freshman (Grant)," said Dutcher.
"There's some difference there."
There's also some difference in
scoring. Vincent is the Big Ten's second
leading scorer, averaging 20.8 points
per conference game, just two tenths of
a point less than leader Greg Stokes of
Iowa. Skiles is not far behind, his 19
point Big Ten average bringing him in
at fourth.
THOUGH still racking up respectable
numbers, Joubert and Grant notch in
significantly lower at 11th and 16th,
respectively.
Touche. (Two times.)
But the Blue and Maize musketeers
come back with some sharp edges of
their own, the foremost of which are
height and defense.
JOUBERT (6-5) towers over Vincent
by three inches and the 6-3 Grant can
look the 6-1 Skiles square in the
forehead.
More importantly the Wolverine
guards have generally had more suc-
cess than the Spartans hindering their
opposite numbers. Grant especially has
become a defensive star, holding the
likes of Illinois' Bruce Douglas and
Doug Altenberger to just two points in
the 20 minutes he covered each.
"If I had to pick out one (of the
four guards) and say he was the best
defensively, it'd be the freshman
Grant," said Dutcher, who saw Grant
and Joubert combine to hold Tommy
Davis, then the Gopers' and conferen-
ce's leading scorer, to just five points.
FRIEDER hopes that Grant can
"help us to contain" Vincent, and ac-
cording to Dutcher, Frieder ought to
keep his hopes modest.
"Nobody's going to shut Sam Vincent
down," Dutcher said, "but (Grant)
could do a good job containing him.
"Containing him is keeping him un-
der 20 points," he added.
Dutcher also said the two guards may
"end up negating each other" and said
the center position may be the games
real focal point. That's where
Michigan's leading scorer, Roy Tarpley,
may face 6-8 240-pound Spartan Ken
Johnson, if the latter has recovered from
a foot injury suffered last week.
"I don't want to put Tarpley on
him..." said Frieder, "because if Tar-
pley happens to have a piece of the ball
when Johnson dunks it, we might lose
Tarpley for the season."
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Michigan's Richard Rellford (left)
challenges Michigan State center Ken
Johnson in last year's contest at Crisle:
Arena. Michigan guard Antoine
Joubert (above) launches a jumper
over State's Scott Skiles. The two will
renew their backcourt duel in tonight's
game.
Doily Photo by DAN HABIB
THE LINEUI
MICHIGAN (12-3, 4-2) MS
ppg
: (6-6) Richard Rellford (10.7) F (6-8) Lar
k (6-8) Butch Wade ...... (7.2) F (6-9) Ric
I(6-11) Roy Tarpley .... (19.1) C (6-8) Ke
(6-5) Antoine Joubert . (14.4) G (6-2) Sam
(6-3) Gary Grant ...... (13.5) G (6-1) Sco
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LAST YEAR: Michigan 72, Michigan State 67
Michigan State 71, Michigan 61
SERIES LEADER: Michigan, 70-47.
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ry Polec ..... (10.2)
hard Mudd .... (4.1)
en Johnson (13.2)
n Vincent ..... (20.8)
tt Skiles ...... (17.2)
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