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." L. - How 'bout another year of great loving? - A. Action SportsWear FACTORY CLOSEOUTS WIND KILLERS two 5 lb. ankle/wrist weights special $9.95 nylon running suits special price also lowest prices on court shoes and swimwear 419 E. LIBERTY 2 BLOCKS OFF STATE 663-6771 I 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 o SITE: Crisler Arena TIME: 7:30 p.m. u RADIO: WUOM (91.7 FM), WAAM (1600 AM) WPAG (1950 AM). LAST YEAR: Michigan 72, Michigan State 67 Michigan State 71, Michigan 61 SERIES LEADER: Michigan, 70-47. PS U (12-4, 3-3) ppg ry Polec ..... (10.2) hard Mudd .... (4.1) en Johnson (13.2) n Vincent ..... (20.8) tt Skiles ...... (17.2) , WWJ (950 AM) and $ ONJOSTENS CowD COLLEGE RINGS. 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