The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 24, 1986 - Page 11 Sky-high Skiles takes on Blue ': (Continued from Page 1) said Michigan head coach Bill Frieder, "you could take Scott Skiles, and Rob Gibbs, who is a walk-on for me, and you might have the best backcourt in the nation. This guy is phenomenal." "HE'S capable of beating us." Yes, he is capable of beating Michigan; what the rest of the Spar- tans do is incidental. Skiles is in the franchise. Aside from Skiles, the Spartans consist simply of one good guard (Darryl Johnson), a 6-8 center who averages 2.3 points per game (Barry Fordham), and two extraordinarily av- erage forwards in Larry Polec and Vernon Carr. It doesn't take a genius, therefore, to figure out that the Wolverines will try to work the ball inside almost every time down the court. MSU head coach Heathcote sure knows it, which is why he is considering juggling his lineup. "WE'RE talking about starting a legitimate center instead of Fordham or moving him to forward," said Heathcote. "That means starting Mario Izzo or David Mueller, although Height is key for 'M' neither is very active or ready to play in the Big Ten at this time." Realistically, no matter what lineup changes State makes, Michigan will dominate the rebounding and inside scoring. The Spartans strategy will be to counter Michigan's overbearing size with quickness. Michigan does have a weakness in defending the transition game, and Skiles and crew run it as well as anyone. So how does Frieder plan to defend that quickness? He's not quite sure. "IF I HAD any guts, I'd start Hen- derson, Wade and Tarpley and see what they do," said Frieder. "Would that force them to go to a bigger lineup or would they just try to out- quick us?" Basically, Frieder has two options in countering the Spartan speed. Either hope the Wolverine beef can outrebound MSU by enough to keep the transition game from developing, or add some speed of his own to try to match up. On that front, Frieder is contem- plating starting either Glen Rice or Garde Thompson in place of Butch Wade. IT'S unlikely that any lineup shif- ting will take place, however. The in- timidation factor alone in the front court match should be enough to coun- teract even the most torrid shooting from Skiles. micigan is a team that doesnt have a weakness," said Heathcote. "We have to play a near-perfect game to upset a club that, talent-wise and experience-wise, is better than our club. "They might not only be the best rebounding club in the Big Ten, but in the country as well." Still, a little luck and a rousing Jen- nison Field House crowd could go a long way toward overcoming Michigan's talent and experience. Remember Minnesota. THE LINEUPS Michigan (17-1, 5-1) Mich. State (11-5, 24) (6-6) Richard Rellford ..... (11.9) F (6-8) Larry Polec........(11.1) (6-8) Butch Wade.........(5.3) F (6-6) Vernon Carr........(13.1) (6-11) Roy Tarpley.........(14.7) C (6-8) Barry Fordham........(2.3) (6-3) Gary Grant.........(13.3) G (6-2) Darryl Johnson.......(14.5) (6-5) Antoine Joubert.....(11.9) G (6-1) Scott Skiles........(25.4) SITE: Jenison Fieldhouse TIME: 7:05 p.m. RADIO: WUOM (91.7 FM), WAAM (1600 AM), WWJ (950 AM), WPAG (1050 AM) LAST MEETING: MICHIGAN 75, Michigan State 73 (February 23, East Lansing) SERIES LEADER: MICHIGAN 71-47 Alford, Indiana cut down Purdue in OT, 71-70 BLOOMINGTON (AP) - Steve Alford scored 27 points last night, get- ting 13 of Indiana's final 17 and scoring the only field goal in over- time, leading the Hoosiers to a 71-70 Big Ten Conference basketball vic- tory over the 15th-ranked Purdue. With all three Indiana front-line starters out on fouls or injury, Alford took over during the closing minutes of regulation play. The Boilermakers, who dropped out of a first-place tie with idle Michigan in the Big Ten race, took their biggest lead at 69-64 with four minutes remaining, but they didn't get another field goal the rest of the game. Alford, the conference scoring leader, hit one free throw. Reserve Steve Eyl got a rebound basket and Alford hit two more foul shots to tie the game 69-69 with 2:37 to go. Iowa 76, Northwestern 43 CHICAGO (AP) - Jeff Moe scored 12 points, 10 during a 16-point run, as Iowa beat Northwestern, 76-43, in Big Ten basketball last night. Iowa, 14-5 overall and 4-2 in the con- ference, sped to a 7-0 lead behind two baskets and a free throw from for- ward Roy Marble. Iowa substituted freely, as 13 Hawkeyes scored. Illinois 67, Ohio St. 65 COLUMBUS (AP) - Ken Norman and Bruce Douglas each hit two free throws in the final 23 seconds as Illinois held on for a 67-65 victory over Ohio State in a Big Ten Conference game last night. Illinois, now 13-5 overall and 4-3 in the conference, watched a 13-point halftime advantage turn into a six- point deficit late in the game but scored six of the game's final eight points to pull out the victory. Ken Norman scored 27 points with Anthony Welch adding 16 and Glynn Blackwell 12 for the Illini. Michigan center Roy Tarpley jams home two points against Minnesota. Tarpley and the Wolverines are looking to top Scott Skiles and the Spar- tans on Saturday. 'M' ENGINEERING STUDENT JUMPS TO NOVICE CHAMPIONSHIP: Perky Powell parachutes for pride, win SPRING BREAK SKI UTAH By DAVE ARETHA Scene: U.S. Collegiate Skydiving Championships - Marana, Ariz. It's a bright, chilly morning in late Decem- ber and the Novice competition is at its climax. A small crowd focuses in- tently on a small airplane hovering above. Mark Powell, an. aerospace engineer from Michigan, sits anxiously in the cabin of the Cessna 206. He has already won one of the three Novice events for style, but he needs a victory in accuracy to claim the Novice Overall Championship. A pinpoint landing in the third round would leave the others waiting in the wings. ! ACROSS FROM Powell is James Mayberry of Tennessee Tech. Mayberry is breathing down Powell's neck in the overall standings, and staring down his face in the Cessna 206. "My competition was right in my face," said Powell. "Eyeball to eyeball the whole ride to altitude. Eyeball to eyeball as the doors opened." The pilot shouts "EXIT" and the plane door opens. Powell leaps toward a 10-meter radius pea-gravel pit a half-mile below. At 800 feet Powell checks the always-shifting wind. At 500 feet, he sets up his approach "just like you were landing an airplane," and eyes his target. With a final check of the wind, he slams on his steering toggles and rides hard into the pea-gravel. BULLSEYE. Powell nearly lands on a dime. Just a foot and a half from the center of the target. No one would do better. Mark Powell is a U.S. Collegiate Skydiving Champion. "I was ecstatic when I got up," he said, grinning. "I knew that I had taken it, and I was very happy!" The next day Powell took a victory dive. It was his first purely fun jump in nearly two years - all the others being disciplined practice dives geared for the Championships. "I JUST went out of the airplane and celebrated," he said. "Went nuts t3V~lgw oION2zJe\ WOOc' 1todl ~\ * . P ci A 0 150 x'exc Wv \n \ jvWo oviss 15 oN 2 for 65 seconds." A day later came the awards ceremonies. Powell was honored along with three Air Force cadets. "They took the picture of the four individual champions," said Powell. "Three guys in uniform and me. I liked that." Now Powell is back at Michigan. He still lives in the Baits single, but the walls are no longer barren. Medals for style and accuracy hang on the wall next to his bed. 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Powell could write about the 37-hour car ride that took him from his barren-walled single in Baits to an old air force barracks "out in the boonies," or how he spent Christmas with strangers in the Arizona desert just so he could have a few extra days for practice jumps. HE COULD also write about his low money supply, since he was one of the few competitors in the event who wasn't supported by his school. "The others didn't have to hitch rides cross-country and live off Grape Nuts and crackers that they stole out of the Bursley cafeteria," Powell said. "The University didn't even know I was there." Powell's book could describe the "extremely intense feeling of jum-