Women's Gymnastics vs. Central Michigan Saturday, noon Coliseum SP ORTLS Women's Basketball vs. Ohio State Thursday, 7:00 p.m. "..+-D. v .-,mI.h Is. v Criser Arena Fhe Michigan Daily Tuesday, March 5, 1985 Page 9 d.. - !! S A ! 7 7 7 ?-T - Y T fTl ' 1 - ' - i.-- - _ WOLVERINES GAIN YEARSFIRST NCAA BID Cagers clinci By TIM MAKINEN Bobby Knight tried over spring break o rearrange the furniture in Indiana's Assembly Hall, only to earn a one game suspension for his reckless interior design. Meanwhile, the Georgetown Hoyas ripped apart the number-one ranked Redmen of St. John's in a hyped-up, heavily promoted national yawner. But the most important basketball news came quietly out "of Ann Arbor. Last Thursday night, Bill Frieder's Michigan Wolverines captured the Big Ten Championship, bringing the title back to Ann Arbor for the first time sin- ce 1977. SUCCESSIVE victories against Michigan State and Wisconsin sealed the conference championship, while an additional win on Saturday against Northwestern boosted Michigan's con- secutive victory streak to 14 games and set a single season record for the Wolverines. Michigan (14-2 in the Big Ten, 23-3 overall) also became the first team in the nation to qualify officially for the NCAA tournament. In the first half of the clincher against Wisconsin, though, the Wolverines did not appear to be a tourney-tuned team. Sloppy play on Michigan's part and a stiff Wisconsin zone kept the game tight, and the teams went into the in- termission with the score knotted at 34. htconference THE BADGERS could not sustain down-to-the-wire 75-73 win over t their intensity in the second half, cross-state rival Spartans in hot a however, and the Wolverines gradually humid Jenison Field House. T pulled away to a convincing 88-68 vic- Wolverines appeared to have the gar tory. Michigan center Roy Tarpley led under control with 3:52 to play wh the Blue with 21 points while freshman Grant's pair of free throws builtt Gary Grant contributed 19 markers and Blue lead to 11 points, 61-50. 10 assists, MICHIGAN State mounted a furi With just under a minute left in the comeback behind the shooting of gu contest, a banner was unfolded which ds Scott Skiles and Sam Vincent, only hailed the victors and the sellout Crisler see its hopes dashed when Skiles' Arena crowd rose to its feet to cheer the foot shot at the buzzer missed its ma champions. The Big Ten title belonged Vincent was virtually unstoppable w to the Wolverines. 34 points, while Antoine Joubert, bei "I don't think anybody would have disciplined for missing a practi given us any kind of chance of (winning came off the bench to pace Michig the Big Ten) after our Indiana game with 18 points. here," said Frieder, referring to the The Northwestern contest, season-opening 25-point loss to the relatively easy 87-66 win for t Hoosiers. "But (after) the Indiana Wolverines, was memorable not for a game, bouncing back the way we did one play - although Grant did give against Ohio State, the win at Purdue tremendous alley-oop pass to Richa after a tough loss at Illinois, coming Rellford - but rather as the last ho from behind to win in triple overtime at game for seniors Leslie Rockymore a home (against Iowa), winning con- Gerard Rudy. sistently on the road, all of those things ROCKYMORE started the contest are the reasons we won." route to an 11-point performance, a "But we came out on top. Our kids Rudy saw his first and only action of t deserve a world of credit because season, having been hobbled with they're the ones who did it. They didn't stress fracture in his foot for most of t fold when they developed a little lead to year. get somebody else back in the picture." Both players received standit Michigan began the break with a ovations as did the champion squad. he nd he me hen the ous ar- to 40- rk. ith ing ce, gan a he ny a rd me nd en nd he a he ng Frieder and Tarpley land a large load of .laurels From wire reports The Wolverines' gig Ten basketball championship is becoming just one award in what could be a crowded 1985 Michigan trophy case. Coach Bill Frieder has been selected as NCAA District 4 Division I Coach of the Year and Roy Tarpley, the Wolverines' leading scorer, Player of the ear by the U.S. 'Basketball Association. DICK FENLON of the Columbus Dispatch, chairman of the District 4 'Selection Committee, said Tarpley, Michigan's junior center averaging 19.4 points, and Indiana Olympian Steve Alford, a 6-2 sophomore guard averaging 18 points per game, were the top vote-getters in the district. Also named to the District 4 squad were Alfredrick Hughes of Chicago Loyola, the -nation's leading scorer; Tyrone Corbin of DePaul, Sam Vincent of Michigan State, Uwe Blab of Indiana, Efrem Winters of Illinois, Ron Stokes of Ohio State, Ron Harper of Miami Ohio :and Dan Palombizio of Ball State. Tarpley was also named Big Ten player of the week by the Associated Press yesterday for the third time this season. TARPLEY helped the Wolverines Frieder ... named region's best oclinch the conference title last Thur- sday when he scored 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in an 88-68 win over Wisconsin. On Saturday, the 6-foot-11 Detroit native also scored 21 points and pulled down 14 rebounds, as Michigan blasted Northwestern 87-66. Also receiving consideration for player of the week was senior guard Sam Vincent of Michigan State. Vince- nt, the league's leading scorer at over 23 points per game, scored a total of 46 points, and added 10 assists, against Wisconsin and Northwestern last week. Those numbers helped Vincent share the third award Tarpley received last night, United Press International's Player of the Week. w .: - u. a.. w .. Daily Photo by BRAD MILLS Roy Tarpley puts up a fadeaway jumper over the outstretched arm of Michigan State's Ken Johnson. Tarpley's 15 points helped the Wolverines top MSU, 75-73. 1 Good friends won't leave you flat. GUADALAJARA SUMMER SCHOOL University of Arizona of- fers more than 40 courses: anthropology, art, bilingu- al education, folk music and folk dance, history, political science, sociol- ogy, Spanish language and literature and inten- sive Spanish. Six-week session. July 1-August 9, 1985. Fully accredited pro- gram. Tuition $440. Room and board in Mexican home, $460.' EEO/AA Wd11L W UV 111MC uldll IUZSL bdY °'