FRIEDER DENIES COMPLACENCY Cagers take act to OSU By TIM MAKINEN The idea of travelling to Ohio State is not a pleasant one. Columbus is bleak all year round, but in the winter, it is almost uninhabitable.At the very worst one could even encounter old Dr. Strange-Hayes rummaging around the back of his pick-up. But the Michigan basketball team must make the odyssey down to the snake pit tonight to challenge the Buckeyes. Having already wrapped up the Big Ten championship, it is difficult to predict just how fired up the Wolverines will be going into the game. MICHIGAN could be looking beyond Ohio State to the NCAA tournament, or at least thinking about Sunday's nationally televised contest at Indiana and the chance for some revenge on the Hoosiers. Playing the Buckeyes, whom the Wolverines downed 87-82 in the second game of the season, does not exhilarate anyone's senses. For one thing the game will be played at dreary St. John's Arena. It might be snowing, raining, blustery, or the like. And there's no telling what the weather might be like outside the arena. Moreover, Ohio State is fighting for an NCAA tournament berth whereas Michigan has already qualified for the tourney. At 18-8 overall and 10-6 in the Big Ten, the Buckeyes find themselves in a three-way jam for second place in the conference. A victory in at least one, if not both, of their two remaining games is essential if Ohio State is to qualify for post-season play. IT WOULD seem apparent, then that tonight's contest means more to Ohio State than to Michigan. Wolverine coach Bill Frieder disagrees. "We should have plenty of incen- tive," said the fifth-year Michigan mentor. "We've got a lot of things that we can shoot for. One is more Big Ten victories in a season than any other Michigan team. We don't want to go in- to the NCAA tournament with two straight losses. "In addition, we're fighting for a number-one seed in one of the regions. If we won both games this week, I can't believe we wouldn't get one of those." ADDED GUARD Antoine Joubert, "It's challenging and I like challenges. It's fun playing on the road because everyone is against you. You have to prove yourself." Joubert and Michigan should receive their biggest challenges from the Buckeye backcourt of Troy Taylor and Ronnie Stokes. In the contest earlier this season, the pair attempted with lit- tle success to work the ball inside to 7-0 center Brad Sellers, a transfer from Wisconsin. Once unleashed, however, Taylor and Stokes literally carried Ohio State back from an 18-point deficit late in the game to a three-point spread before ultimately falling to the Blue by five points. Last Saturday, Taylor also tied his career best output with 25 markers in the Buckeyes 78-77 victory over Min- nesota. Sellers, who leads Ohio State in scoring overall with a 16.4 average and is tied with Taylor at 15.1 points per game in the Big Ten, most likely will be covered by Michigan's Butch Wade. That matchup would leave Wolverine Roy Tarpjey on Joe Concheck which could create a problem if Conchek draws Tarpley too far away from the basket, where Tarpley's strongest. The trip to Columbus could be of special significance for Michigan freshman Gary Grant. Many people at Ohio State thought Grant was signed, sealed and delivered to the Buckeyes last spring, when the freshman came to his senses and enrolled at Michigan. It won't be surprising, then, if the Buckeye faithful heckle Grant for his decision to go to college instead of spending four years at Ohio State. .HE LINEUPS. M WHIGAN (23-3) OHIO STATE.(1-4 ppg':p Richard Relford (11.3) F (6-5) Dennis Hopsn . Bu cWade ...... .7) F 8 Joe Conheck ) R Tarpley . . A19.5) C (74) radSeIles ..... (I6A) 5) Antoine Joubert . (13.6) G (H-) o eStokes .. 3.2) (6-G Gary Grant...... (13.6) G (4) Troy Taylor .... (t.5) SftE St. John's Arena TIME 8:0 -m.;EST .gr e WU.M (91.7 FM), WAAM (1600 AM), WWJ (950 AM) and WPAG.1050 AM) lAST MEE TlNG: Mlchjgau 87, Ohio State 82 SERIES LEADER: Ohio State, W7-4S. Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Michigan forward Butch Wade makes his presence on the court known here shown defending against Wisconsin's Scott Roth (32) and John Ploss (50) in the Wolverines' 88-68 victory over the Badgers earlier this season. MARGARET THATCHER TOP YEXPRESSED. RfE AND 5/E MAT BEcNG LEFT OFF MR BLACKWEI.L'S WORST- DRESSEP LIST- r - -' I FiLLY, R REVELATON THAT AMAJO H COMIC 500K COMPANY HRS RBEN SULJGE CTHG LAST SEVERAL YEARS! A NEW RUBBER TOY CRAZE 15 BORN "CHMArrY CEEKY" w/-SDELIVERED TO PI2OUD PARENTS jFip8tE ANP KEN GOO2EAR OF LARCHMONT, N.Y. - -N THE B OUNCING BABY WAS LSST,5EEN OVER SEWFOUNVLRNp AND WAS QEPOQTE PLY L2T/LL UNCNG! 6. 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