Page 10 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 1, 1985 INSIDE PLAY LEADS BLUE TO 76-52 ROUT 'Cats roll over and (Continued from Page 1) conference, 15-3 overall. Michigan jumped out to a 6-0 lead and kept the Wildcats at bay the rest of the game, never really being challenged. A ten-point halftime margin, 37-27, grew to 18 points at various times in the second half, before climbing ultimately to the 24 point differential at the end. "Michigan can do a lot of things that can make a team look bad," said Nor- thwestern coach Rich Falk. "That's the first team that's made our defense look really shaky." REMARKABLY, the contest did not turn into a rout in the first half. The Wolverines shot a blistering 67 percent from the field, 90 percent from the charity stripe, and blazed out of control under the boards, snagging 13 rebounds to Northwestern's four. Wildcat Shon Morris, a 6-9 freshman, provided the only spark for North- western in the first half. Coming off the bench the 215-pound forward peppered the nets for 14 points with seven of ten shooting from the field. "Northwestern always throws a sur- Big Ten Standings prise at us," said Wolverine coach Bill Frieder. "Morris got away from us in the first half, but we took care of that." ADDED FALK I was amazed we were down only 10 points at the half. Without Morris that would have been a blowout. I had a sigh of relief that we were only down by ten." In the second half, Michigan con- tained Morris to a mere three points, but that was nothing compared to the burning the Blue gave Wildcat bigman Andre Goode. The Wolverines smothered Goode all evening as the 6-10 senior hit a miserable one of 11 shots from the field. Goode had four turnovers as well. "ANDRE GOT OFF to a rough start," said Falk. "I think he was too high tonight, I think he came too ready to play. He just didn't get any rewards for his effort." The Wolverines meanwhile got a balanced scoring attack from their starters. Tarpley had been ill during the week, having missed practices on Monday and Tuesday, but that didn't prevent the 6-11 center from lighting up the scoreboard with a Michigan-high 16 points. Antoine Joubert, also out with the flu during the week, ignited the Michigan attack with 13 assists. JOUBERT tallied 10 points while counterpart Gary Grant notched 12 markers on the evening, including some of his now patented jump shots. Forwards Richard Reliford and But- ch Wade pumped in 12 and 11 points, respectively "We didn't play as well today as we have the previous four games," said I play Frieder. "I think the offense kind of handled itself well. We got some (poin- ts) out of the halfcourt game, and we got some out of the transition." Falk described Michigan as one of the best teams he's seen thus far this season, and was particularly impressed with Joubert, quipping, "I guess he was in bed two days this week, but if he was supposed to be sick he sure didn't look it." The tenth ranked Wolverines now take their red-hot medicine show to Wisconsin tomorrow where they will face a team almost as anemic as the Wildcats. Like Northwestern, Wiscon- sin may get a trial by fire on Saturday. Another Michigan win would make the Wolverine's chances for the Big Ten Title burn even brighter. dead for 'M' ... And call me in the morning NORTHWESTERN Min Goode ......... 22 Peterson ...... 38 Murray........17 Watts ..........33 Fullen.........37 Morris .........33 Flanagan...... 3 Dixon ..........5 Cucuz ..........4 Petrovic........3 Branch.........2 Richardson.... 2 Joost ...........1 FG/A 1/11 4/6 1/4 3/5 3/7 8/16 1/1 0/1 1/2 0/0 1/2 0/1 0/0 FT/A 0/0 0/1 0/0 4/6 1/2 1/2 0/0 0/0 0/2 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 R 2 5 3 2 3 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 A 4 I 1 6 1 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 PF 1 3 3 0 2 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 Pts 2 8 2 10 7 17 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 MICHIGAN Min FG/A FT/A Reliford........ 25 5/6 2/2 Wade.......... 30 5/7 1/2 Tarpley........ 33 6/10 4/4 Joubert........ 34 5/9 0/0 Grant ......... 26 6/9 0/0 Henderson .... 19 3/4 2/3 Thompson..15 1/3 0/0 Rockymore.... 14 1/3 3/4 Stoyko......... 3 0/0 0/0 Gibbis......... 1 0/2 0/0 R 3 4 11 3 4 3 2 0 1 A 1 0 3 13 4 1 3 0 0 0 PF Pts 2 12 0 11 3 16 1 10 2 12 2 8 2 2 2 5 1 0 0 0 MICHIGAN ........... Iowa .................. Illinois ................ Ohio State ............. Purdue ................ Minnesota ............. Michigan State....... Indiana ............... Wisconsin ............. Northwestern ......... Conf 6-2 6-2 6-3 5-3 5-4 4-4 4-4 3-5 1-7 1-7 Overall 15-3 17-4 17-5 13-4 14-5 11-7 13-5 11-7 10-8 5-13 '6 Wade ... five of seven from floor Team rebounds TOTALS ...... 200 32/53 4 12/15 36 25 15 76 Halftime Score: MICHIGAN 37, Northwestern 27 Attendance: 6,648 Team rebounds TOTALS......200 23/56 6/1 21 15 14 52 BIG TEN ROUNDUP: Iowa retains Associated Press Freshman Gary Grant applies his usual tenacious defense against North- western's Shawn Watts last night in Evanston. Michigan blew out the Wild- cats 76-52 to hold onto their share of first place in the Big Ten. SPOR TS OF THE DAILY: No. 15 La. Tech share oJ BLOOMINGTON (AP) - Iowa, led by Greg Stokes' 21 points, extended In- diana's Big Ten losing streak to four games last night, 72-59, though Hoosier Coach Bobby Knight returned his veterans to the starting lineup. The Hawkeyes increased their overall record to 17-4 and 6-2 in the Big Ten, while Indiana fell to 11-7 and 3-5 in the conference. KNIGHT, who had benched all his upperclassmen except 7-foot-2 senior Uwe Blab in a loss last Sunday at Illinois in an effort to jolt the team, reinserted the veterans, including leading scorer Steve Alford. Blab bulled his way for 10 of his team- high 17 points in the second half before fouling out with 6:11 remaining. Stokes connected on a pair of free throws to begin a 8-0 Hawkeye spree which boosted the Iowa lead form 61-55 to 69-55. Also hitting double figures for the Hawkeyes were guards Andre Banks and Jeff Moe, who had 11 apiece. Michigan State 77, Wisconsin 68 MADISON (AP)-Scott Skiles scored 29 points and sparked two key first-half Michigan State spurts with his shooting and passing, leading the Spar- tans to a 77-68 Big Ten basketball vic- tory over Wisconsin last night. Michigan State, 13-5 overall and 4-4 in the conference, snapped a four-game losing streak. Wisconsin, 10-8 and 1-7, lost its seven- th consecutive contest when a second- half rally fell short. Skiles hit a 20-foot jumper, fed back- court mate Sam Vincent for an alley- oop dunk and hit two free throws to ignite a 10-0 spree that put Michigan State on top for good at 14-6 with 13:14 left in the first half. rlead Ohio St. 76, Minnesota 62 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Joe Con- check grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds and led Ohio State on an early second-half spurt last night that carried the Buckeyes to a 76-62 Big Ten basket- ball victory over Minnesota. The 6-foot-8 senior, twice ineligible in his collegiate career, also scored 14 points to help the Buckeyes to their fifth victory in eight conference games. Ohio State, posting its ninth straight home triumph this season, is 13-4 overall. CONCEHCK scored eight of Ohio State's first 14 points of the second half, giving the Buckeyes a 47-34 lead with less than 16 minutes to play. Brad Sellers, the Buckeyes' 7-foot center, and substitute Clarence McGee led the winners with 15 points apiece. Big Ten takes own TV SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP)-The Big Ten Conference will assume production responsibilities for televising the rest of the 1985 league basketball games, Commissioner Wayne Duke said yesterday. The Big Ten will produce its first shows tomorrow, televising the Michigan-Wisconsin and Michigan State-Northwestern games, Duke said. The conference has severed its ties with the Metrosports Television Net- work of New Kensington, Pa., due to the basketball game syndicator's failure to pay rights fees for the 1985 Big Ten basketball season, the league office an- nounced. Financial details were not disclosed. "Everything is going to remain the same, but the production will be done here," said league spokesman Mark Rudner. "We're going to contract with dif- ferent production companies," he said, adding that advertising revenues are expected to cover production costs. tips Arkar RUSTON, La. (AP)-Karl Malone, held to five points in the first half, scored 21 in the second half last night to power 15th-ranked Louisiana Tech to an 80-73 Southland Conference basketball victory over Arkansas State. In the first meeting this year between the teams, Arkansas State led by two points at half-time and resisted Tech's second half charge until 13:23 remained. That's when Malone fed Wayne Smith, whose layup gave Tech a 43-42 lead it never again relinquished. TWO MINUTES later, Allen Davis' dunk off a steal put Tech up by 51-44 and, seconds after that, Malone's slam- dunk made it 53-44 and the Bulldogs were never again in danger. Tech, rebounding from last weekend's upset loss to Lamar, im- proved to 17-2 overall and maintained a share of the Southland Conference lead at 4-1. Led by Malone with 26 points, four of Tech's starters finished in double figures-Smith with 13 points, Willie Bland with 11 and Willie Simmons with 10 points before he fouled out with 1:45 left in the game. Tim Norman with 16 points, Reggie Gordin with 13, Alan Smith with 12 and Mike Todd with 10 points led ASU, now 8-9 and 2-3. RoziPr in limbo NEW YORK (AP)-The agent for former Heisman Trophy winner Mike 1sas, 80-73 Rozier said yesterday that an agreement had been reached to sign with the Jacksonville Bulls, but later said nothing definite had been worked out with the United States Football League team. Riggins shows he's a true Hog WASHINGTON (UPI) - Redskins star John Riggins put on a raucous display at a formal banquet Wed- nesday night, at one point urging Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to "loosen up, Sandy baby," then passing out on the ballroom floor and snoring through a speech by George Bush. Also at Riggins' table were Justice O'Connor and her husband, John J. O'Connor III. A guest said Riggins repeatedly spoke loudly to Mrs. O'Connor, several times saying: "Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up. You're too tight." Another guest was Virginia Gov. Charles Ross, son-in-law of the late Lyndon Johnson. His spokesman, George Stoddart, told United Press International: "The govet'nor said it was a very memorable evening, and he doesn't feel it's appropriate to comment beyond that." Associated Press Indiana center Uwe Blab scores easily over Iowa's Greg Stokes in last night's action as Todd Meyer and Gary Wright of Iowa look on. Blab's 17- point effort was not enough to stop a 72-59 Iowa win. Women tankers call the Copp By JIM GINDIN I SPACES STILL AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING MINI-COURSES: Aerobic Dance Bridge Conversation Skills For European Travel Dream Interpretation Financial Planning Mime Pool Sign Language Speed Reading Yoga Meditation Swimming an educational experience? Well, sure-if you look at it in a certain way. And in Melin- da Copp's case, swimming has been just that-a major part of her education. Copp has been swimming year-round since being recruited at age 13 from a local swim camp in nor- thern Ontario to go to Pinecrest highmschool inFort Lauderdale, Florida, a private school well known for both academics and athletics. "IT WAS EXCITING. It was the beginning of the realization that things could happen if I put time into swimming. I saw a lot of potential Olympic swim- mers, saw the benefits, perks you might say, they got," Copp said. She came to Michigan five years ago because it was closer to her family in London, Ontario, it had a good swimming program and it offered an education ad- mired greatly in Canada. Under former Wolverine coach Stu Isaac, she won the Big Ten Championship in the 200 yard individual medley her freshman and sophomore years and the 200 backstroke her sophomore and junior years. She went on to finish 10th in the backstroke at Nationals in 1981, second in '82 and seventh two years ago after trials and qualified for the Olympics in Los Angeles the next month "THE HIGHLIGHT of my career was making the Olympic team," said Copp. "But the experience of my career was at the Olympics. I should have done better there, but I got caught up in the experience, sort of let go of what I was supposed to do." Copp ended up placing 18th in her event, her goal having been to reach the final eight. "You should look ahead when something big is coming up. I learned a lesson there," she said. "I set a goal to make the finals coming in. Maybe it was part of the problem. I was afraid of that goal. . . . It put so much pressure on me that I reached a bad anxiety level. "I DON'T EVEN remember the race. I remember the friendships, the opening and closing ceremonies.. . . Everything you hear about the frien- dship and comraderie at the Olympics is true .... Medals don't symbolize what I've done." This season, as a senior, she's been named captain of the swim team. "All our awards are wrapped up in that selection," said Wolverine coach Peter Lindsay. Copp tries to set goals both challenging and realistic. In the Big Ten Championships this coming spring break she wants to win the 200 backstroke and the 200 and 400 individual medley races. At the NCAA meet the end of March she would like to place in the top three in the backstroke. After the meet, she'll end her 11-year career in swimming. "WHEN I'M NO longer training, I'll just relax and take things a little slower... than the pace of getting up for training every day at 6 a.m. I'll start looking at the rest of my life." i i = me