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Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, January 27, 1985
NETWORK HYPE FOLLOWS KANSAS INTO CRISLER
Blue to battle Jayhawks on CBS
By JEFF BERGIDA
Sure, Big Ten basketball is exciting.
It's an evenly-balanced league with a
lot of pro prospects and an aggressive
style of play.
But let's face it. The conference
doesn't get the national exposure of
more glamourous Atlantic Coast and
Big East conferences. Take away Bob-
by Knight and his Indiana club away
from the Big Ten and you're left with a
lot of fine teams that are not as in-
teresting as the North Carolinas, Ken-
tuckys and Georgetowns which are on
TV everyday.
TODAY, however, the influencers
make their way out to the boondocks as
the 15-3 Kansas Jayhawks visit Crisler
Arena. CBS will bring in Brent
Musburger and Billy Packer to televise
the game and Jayhawk coack Larry
Brown brings in a background that in-
cludes all the glamour stops-New
York, Los Angeles and Chapel Hill,
N.C.
Danny Manning, the freshman sen-
sation invited to the 1984 Olympic trials,
will be making his first appearance on a
major network. The 6-11 forward has
been acclaimed as a big man who plays
like a point guard.
IT SHOULD all make for a fine
television show.
By the way, Michigan will also be
playing today.
Maybe you remember the
Wolverines, 13-8 and riding a four game
winning streak. But, apparently, CBS
doesn't. The network is hyping the con-
test by praising Manning, Brown and
the "powerful Jayhawks." The "sur-
prising Wolverines" are mentioned as
an afterthought.
WHILE 15th-ranked Kansas will be a
difficult test for Number 18 Michigan,
the game will be a lot tighter than the
broadcast media would indicate. The
Wolverines have been awesome in their
last four outings and coach Bill Frieder
says his task now is to keep the roll
going.
"We've been playing well," he said,
"but I've been around long enough to
know that you have to work extremely
hard to sustain this type of thing."
Kansas has struggled of late. Brown's
club lost to Oklahoma last Saturday and
needed a last-second shot to nip lightly-
regarded Colorado, 70-68, last night.
The Jayhawks possess a tremendous
front line, however, which could be a
problem for Michigan.
JOINING the multi-talented Manning
up front will be 7-1 center Greg
Dreiling, a transfer from Wichita State,
and 6-5 junior Ron Kellogg, Kansas'
THE LINEUPS
MICHIGAN (13-3)
PPg
(6-6) Richard Rellford (10.7)
(6-8) Butch Wade ......(7.1)
(6-11) Roy Tarpley .... (19.0)
(6-5) Antoine Joubert . (14.4)
(6-3) Gary Grant ...... (13.6)
F
F
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G
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KANSAS (15-3)
ppg*
(6-5) Ron Kellogg ..... (18.0)
(6-11) Danny Manning (14.5)
(7-1) Greg Dreiling ... (14.6)
(6-6) Calvin Thompson (14.9)
(6-0) Cedric Hunter .... (5.8)
leading scorer who had 31 last night to
lead the Jayhawks.
"They're awesome," said Frieder,
never one to underestimate an op-
ponent. "Dreiling is only their third-
best player. They may be the biggest
team we play."
Frieder hasn't decided how to defend
Kansas but look for Butch Wade to start
out on Dreiling with Roy Tarpley on
Manning and Rich Rellford lining up
against Kellogg. The Jayhawks play a
lot of zone defense.
"(THE ZONE) is uncomfortable for
me," said Brown. "We prefer to play
the man-to-man. But this conference
(the Big Eight) calls it so close that
we've been forced into the zone."
Michigan gets the edge in the guard
department as Gary Grant and Antoine
Joubert have sparked the Wolverines'
charge into first place in the league.
KU's Calvin Thompson and Cedric
Hunter have been solid, although the
former shot a miserable 4-for-17 last
night.
Grant will get a chance to show
America that Manning isn't the only
freshman in the country. Frieder,
however, hopes that his team pays no
attention to the TV cameras that are all
over Crisler.
"You've got to work to prevent your
staff and players from getting caught
up in all that stuff," he said.
CBS, which didn't have much luck
with Michigan football (0-3 on TV), may
finally find a Wolverine team that
knows how to win.
*Kansas scoring averages for 16 games.
SITE: Crisler Arena
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
TV: CBS-TV (WJBK-TV, Ch. 2)
RADIO: WUOM (91.7 FM), WAAM (1600 AM), WWJ (950 AM),
and WPAG (1050 AM).
LAST MEETING: Michigan 86, Kansas 74 (12-6-82)
SERIES LEADER: Michigan, 3-0
Daily Photo by DAN HABIB
Michigan guard Gary Grant drives toward the basket in action from earlier
this season. Grant will be billed as the "other" freshman in today's
nationally-televised game against Kansas, which features 6-11 frosh Danny
Manning.
Freshman Jayhawk flying high
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By JOE EWING
Move over Gary Grant, you might just get upstaged
for a few hours this afternoon as the freshman sen-
sation of Crisler Arena when Michigan takes on Kan-
sas. That is, if everything they say about Kansas
newcomer Danny Manning is true.
From looking at all the national and local media
coverage Manning gets, as well as listening to what
his own coach, Larry Brown, and opposing coaches
have to say about the 6-11 forward, you might think
Manning is the second coming of Wilt Chamberlain
for the Jayhawk program, or even the second coming
of, er, you know who.
BUT, really, just how good is he?
"He's tremendous, just a super player," said Iowa
State head coach Johnny Orr, who couldn't say
enough to praise Manning. "He's probably the best
Freshman in the United States.
"He does everything," continued Orr, whose
Cyclones were nipped by Kansas two weeks ago, 76-
72, thanks to Manning's 22-point effort. "He dribbles
the ball up the court against the press, shoots from
the outside or inside, and moves around underneath.
He's a complete player."
UNIVERSITY of Detroit coach Don Sicko is of pret-
ty much the same opinion as Orr. "He's everything
they say about him," noted Sicko, whose Titans lost
to the Jayhawks earlier this season. "He handles the
ball well, passes the ball really well, he gets under-
neath, too. He's got some size. He's very multi-
dimensional."
The media also appear to agree. Just this past
week, while preparing for the today's nationally
televised contest with Michigan, Manning was
barraged with requests for his time. CBS, ESPN,
both Detroit papers, and several other publications
have all interviewed for features, and CBS has
been using his name to promote today's game. So
there's probably something special about him.
But just how good is he?
WELL, how many players get the chance to try
out for the U.S. Olympic team straight out of high
school? Manning did and, according to Orr, one of
the coaches who helped select the Olympic squad, he
nearly made it.
"He had a hard time at the beginning," remem-
bered the former Wolverine head coach. "But he
came on and was really good at the end. If he had
gotten off to a good start, he would have been on the
team.
"He did well against the other big men," Orr ad-
ded. "Guys like Sam Perkins. He didn't go against
(Georgetown's Patrick) Ewing, but this kid is not a
pivotman, he's a forward."
MANNING was also one of the most sought-after
big men in the country by college recruiters, despite
the fact that his father Ed, a former NBA and ABA
player, was already an assistant coach at Kansas.
When it came down to it, he chose the Jayhawks, but
it wasn't because of his father's position with the
team.
"That was not that big of an influence for me," said
Manning. "The biggest was staying close to home
and my mother and my family."
Now that he is at Kansas, Manning has had a great
influence in helping the Jayhawks gain national
recognition and a national ranking, although he
denies it.
"I. REALLY don't think my impact is all that
great," he claimed. "I've come in and done a few
things and gotten credit for them, but that's it."
But Manning's coach, Larry Brown, doesn't agree
with his phenom. "I don't think it's out of the
question for a freshman to step in and have an im-
pact," said Brown. "I had no doubt that he was going
to be this good this soon. He's already a great player
and he's going to get better."
Because he's so good already, he's gotten a lot of
attention, which can be hard on a player, particularly
a freshman.
"THAT'S BEEN tough," said Brown of all the
coverage. "He does it, and he's open and accessible,
but it puts a lot of strain of him."
"It's nice to get attention," Manning admitted,
"but it does get a little old. I try not to let it get to my
head, I'm just a college student."
A college student who's also a star. Just how good
is he?
"You're going to enjoy watching him play," noted
Orr. "He's a quality kid."
We'll find out today at Crisler Arena.
No. 1 Hoyas Mullin-g first loss
Associated rress
Kansas forward Danny Manning goes up with the ball in a game earlier this
season. The freshman is averaging a little over 14 points a game. He scored
10 yesterday afternoon in a victory at Colorado.
BIG TEN ROUNDUP:
OSU dumps Purdue
LANDOVER, Md. (AP)-Chris
Mullin scored 20 points including three
key free throws and third-ranked St.
John's withstood a frenzied rally by
top-ranked Georgetown to end the
Royas' 29-game winning streak with a
66-65 Big East Conference basketball
victory yesterday.
The Redmen, who led by as many as
18 points early in the second half, were
hard-pressed to extend their winning
streak to 10 and raise their season
record to 15-1.
GEORGETOWN made only 11 of 21
WEST LAFAYETTE UPI -Brad
Sellers scored 16 points, including two
consecutive baskets to give Ohio State
the lead for good, and the Buckeyes
defeated Purdue, 67-63, yesterday in
Big Ten basketball.
Ron Stokes, who led Ohio State with
18 points, scored a basket at the buzzer
of the first half to put the Buckeyes
ahead, 31-30. James Bullock, who was
the game's high scorer with 20, scored
four of Purdue's first six points in the
second half to give the Boilermakers a.
36-33 lead with 14:55 left in the game.
But Ohio State got four straight
baskets in that string to put the
Buckeyes ahead for good at 39-36 with
13 minutes remaining.
Freshman Troy Lewis scored 13 poin-
ts for Purdue, which fell to 4-4 in the Big
Ten and 13-5 overall. Ohio State raised
its conference record to 4-3 and its
overall record 12-4.
Iowa 105, Wisconsin 65
IOWA CITY (AP)-Iowa Coach
George Raveling was happy with the of-
fense, but displeased with his team's
defense after the Hawkeyes routed
Wisconsin 105-65 yesterday in Big Ten
Conference basketball.
Iowa, 16-4 overall and 5-2 in the Big
Ten, put the game out of reach early,
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figures, led by forward Gerry Wright
with 19 points.
Wisconsin, 10-7 overall and 1-6 in the
Big Ten, was led by Scott Roth's 28
points. The Badgers' Ricky Olson, who
averaged 17 points coming into the
game, scored just 7 points.
N'western 56, Minnesota 51
MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) - Elliot Fullen
scored 15 points and Colin Murray ad-
ded 12 to lead a second-half rally, lifting
Northwestern to a 56-51 Big Ten victory
over Minnesota yesterday for the Wild-
cats' first conference win.
Northwestern overcame a 28-22 half-
time deficit for the victory, raising its
record to 5-12 overall and 1-6 in the Big
Ten. Minnesota dropped to 11-6 and 4-3.
The Wildcats pulled within 36-34 on
John Peterson's tip-in at 10:38 of the
second half, capping an 8-2 North-
western rally.
Peterson tied the game 38-38 at 9:02
on a layup and Fullen's 15-foot jumper
at 8:16 gave Northwestern the lead for
the first time since midway in the first
half.
free throws, including two straight
misses apiece by Billy Martin and All-
American center Patrick Ewing after
Georgetown had cut the lead to 59-51
with seven minutes to go. Ewing was
held to just nine points but had 14
rebounds.
It was the first loss for the defending
NCAA champions since last Feb. 21,
when St. Johns beat them 75-71, also at
the Capital Centre.
St. John's' winning margin came with
25 seconds left when Mullin hit the
second of two free throws to make it 66-
61. Michael Jackson scored with 18
seconds left and again with six seconds
left for Georgetown's final four points.
Mullin then held the ball out of bounds
before throwing it in just as time ran
out.
Kansas 70, Colorado 68
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Calvin
Thompson canned two free throws with
16 seconds left and popped in a jumper
at the buzzer as No. 15 Kansas, which
takes on Michigan this afternoon,
squeaked past Colorado 70-68 in a Big
Eight Conference basketball game
yesterday.
The Jayhawks, 15-3 overall and 3-1 in
league games, broke a 68-68 tie as time
expired when Thompson swished a
running 15-foot jump shot.
COLORADO, which dropped to 7-10
and 1-3, had knotted the score five sec-
nds earlier on a Michael Lee jumper
from the top of the key.
The Buffaloes jumped out to a 33-29
advantage at halftime and increased the
lea to 41-31 four mminsinto the
Memphis State 89,
Virginia Tech 79
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Keith
Lee scored 37 points and hauled down 12
rebounds yesterday to propel Memphis
State's-fourth-ranked Tigers to an 89-79
Metro Conference basketball victory
over Virginia Tech.
Lee, a 6-foot-10 senior averaging 20.5
points a game, broke a three-game
scoring slump in which he scored a total
of just 27 points. The victory raised the
Tigers' record to 15-1 overall and 5-1 in
the conference. Tech dropped to 13-4
and 4-1.
Dell Curry finished with 30 points
and teammate Perry Young added 27
points and 10 rebounds for Virginia
Tech.
William Bedford backed Lee with 17
points and 12 rebounds and Baskerville
Holmes added 16 points and 10 caroms.
Syracuse 80, Pitt 75
PITTSBURGH (AP)-Dwayne
"Pearl" Washington scored 30 points as
Syracuse rallied from a seven-point
second-half deficit for an 80-75 victory
over Pittsburgh in a Big East Con-
ference basketball game yesterday.
Rafael Addison scored 12 of his 16
points in the second half as the 11th-
ranked Orangemen, trailing 55-48,
reeled off eight consecutive points to
take a 56-55 lead with 8:30 remaining.
After seven lead exchanges,
Syracuse, 12-3, took the lead for good
when Addison hit a running one-hander
in the lane with 2:49 to play, giving the
Orange a 70-68 edge.
Wendell Alexis came off the bench to
Big Ten
Standings
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