The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 9, 1987 - Page 11 tull court PRESS By ADAM OCHLIS They've scored more points in a couple of games so Ear this season, they've played better - much better - on other occasions, and they've probably beaten teams with better talent than Ohio State. But for reasons that don't show up in any stat sheet, the Wolverines' 107- 92 victory over the Buckeyes last night was the biggest, and perhaps most impressive victory of this toting season. T t wasn't the Gary and Antoine show like it has ILan many times this year. It wasn't even the Gary, Aitoine, and Garde show like it has been other times. ..:Instead, Michigan beat an Ohio State squad that erapped, hacked, mauled and molested for 40 minutes, getting great efforts and good perfomances from seven players and a head coach. :Add to that very questionable refereeing and the fact that J.P. Oosterbaan and Antoine Joubert were coming off injuries and freshman hustler Jack Kramer was home with the flu, and it makes the victory that much sweeter. Michigan made it's share of mistakes - 21 tirnovers will attest to that - but that wouldn't overshadow its truly gutsy performance. The threesome of Gary Grant, Joubert, and Garde Thompson got their points, 70 of them in fact, as they usually do, but in this game Michigan's frontcourt fayed the way it has to play for the Wolverines to stay brmpetitive in the Big Ten. While Glen Rice did the most damage up front (19 points, 16 rebounds), centers Mark Hughes and 06sterbaan both made big contributions. Each scored eight points and combined for 14 ;bounds. Oosterbaan's layup with just over a minute left that clinched the victory. The Kalmazoo native payed his finest college game, spelling Hughes, who was in foul trouble throughout the game. Tired Wolverines... ...,ey win over OSU "It was good to see us get some inside stuff," said Frieder. "We have to get them to play like that each and every night, not just every so often." Rice also played his best game since the season opener when he netted 27 points and grabbed 19 rebounds against Bradley. Most of his points came on set plays where he'd receive the ball near the basket and simply jump over the defender. Although he scored 14 points against Purdue last week, many of those baskets came off loose-ball layups. The Flint sophomore has at times been accused of playing "soft." Last night, Rice played "hard." And such was the story of the whole evening. Michigan outhustled Ohio State, a team that prides itself on beating teams by playing harder than their opponent. Grant effectively broke the Buckeyes' press, Joubert played well despite a sore knee, and Michigan, as a team, was able to limit Buckeye swingman Dennis Hopson to "only" 16 second-half points (he ended with 39). Credit Frieder with making adjustments during the break, as Hopson got six of those 13 second-half points on three-pointers in the closing minute. Two years ago, after Michigan started 1-2 in conference play, they whipped off 17 straight wins en route to a Big Ten Championship. This year's team now has that identical mark. It would be a miracle if the Wolverines could duplicate the same feat. Heck, Frieder doesn't even know if last night's big victory could be any kind of momentum builder with Indiana coming to town Monday. "All this win does is get you into Monday, that's all it does in this league. You've just got one damn hard game after another," he said. Daily photo by SCOTT LITUCHY Michigan's Antoine Joubert fouls Ohio State's Jay Burson in last night's action at Crisler Arena. Joubert didn't get the call but Michigan got the game, 107-92. *WuND THE BIG TEN: IndianE EAST LANSING (AP) - Senior guard Steve Alford scored 22 Af his game-high 33 points in the second half last night as No. 4 [ndiana came back to rout Michigan State, 79-60, in Big Ten action. Alford's 15-foot jumper broke a 51-51 tie with 9:29 remaining, and the Hoosiers outscored the Spartans, 28-9, the rest of the way. Alford added 11 more points during the spurt. Rick Calloway scored 17 points for the Hoosiers, who climbed to 11-1 overall and 2-0 in the Big Ten. Daryl Thomas added 11, nine in the second half. For Michigan State, Carlton Valentine tallied 17. Darryl A dumps Johnson added 13, but scored onlys two after halftime.t Alford nailed a three-point shoti early in the second half as the Hoosiers scored nine straight toj take their first lead since the earlyt stages, 36-35. Baskets by Calloway, Thomas and Joe Hillman were included in the streak. Illinois 68, Wsconsin 66 1 MADISON (AP) - Ken Norman hit an 18-foot jump shot at the buzzer to give the 12th-ranked Illinois a 68-66 victory overL Wisconsin last night.A Wisconsin's Mike Heinemanr was called for traveling with threey on Stati seconds left, setting up Norman's basket. Norman took a full-length, inbounds pass from Doug Altenberger and hit the shot from just inside the free throw circle as the horn sounded. Norman, who led Illinois with 22 points, blocked a shot by Wisconsin's Danny Jones and threw a court-length pass to Glynn Blackwell who scored to tie the game at 66 with 17 seconds left. Purdue 85, N'Western 67 EVANSTON (AP) - Troy Lewis scored 26 points and Todd Mitchell added 17 to fuel sixth- ranked Purdue's 85-67 victory yesterday over Northwestern in Big 79-60 Ten action. Northwestern outscored the Boilermakers in the second half, 43- 40, but Purdue was ahead by 21 points at halftime and held on for its eleventh victory in 12 games and for its third win against no defeats in the Big Ten. Northwestern, which lost its sixth straight game, outscored Purdue 12-4 in the opening minutes of the second half, mostly on the shooting of forward Shon Morris. The Wildcats, 5-7 overall and 0- 3 in the conference, pulled within 12 points with less than four minutes left in the game, but Purdue's Everette Stephens completed a three-point play. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GILBERT & SULLIVAN SOCIETY INVITES YOU TO AN ORGANIZATIONAL MASS MEETING FOR OUR SPRING PRODUCTION OF ' SUNDAY JANUARY 11 8:00 PM, HENDERSON ROOM, MICHIGAN LEAGUE lUp YOU CAN: M'grapplers have -a1 By DOUGLAS B. VOLAN Youth is something all of America craves for and is something that the Michigan wrestling team has plenty of, with 22 of 31 wrestlers being freshmen ot-.sophomores. "We got an awful kxit of young kids," said assistant coach Joe Wells. This however, is by no means detrimental as a 4-1 record thus far points out. "We're pleased to be at this stage," said coach Dale Bahr. "We feel that we've been wrestling to our potential." The Wolverines were particularly impressive over winter break, when tbey won a triple dual against Ohio State, Ohio University, and Northern Illinois at the OSU Quad Meet in Columbus, Ohio. Michigan followed that up with an impressive 25-15 defeat over a tough Lehigh squad which had just lost to national powerhouse Iowa by only one point right before the holidays. THE TRUE test for the Wolverines however will begin tomorrow at Crisler Arena when they take on Northwestern (6-0), which marks the opening of the Big Ten season. "The Big Ten is one of the top conferences in the country," said Bahr. "Iowa is the strongest, but they are vulnerable. Wisconsin is second, and after that it's anybody's ball game. I think it will be a real dog fight past that first one (Iowa). If the kids improve, we could give Wisconsin a run for their money for second." Bahr has good reason for this optimism as Michigan finished just one point behind Wisconsin in the Las Vegas Open (December 5-6). Sophomores Doug Wyland, John Fisher, and Joe Pantaleo lead the youthful Wolverines. "They have been our most productive wrestlers," said Bahr. "Right now, they are each ranked in the top eight of their weight class, and if they continue to perform at this pace, they all will be All-Americans." W Y L A N D, who wrestles at 118 pounds this season, was voted the outstanding freshman in the country at 126 pounds last year. Fisher, t Americanc fourth in freshman.T the outstan young taleni he only returning All- they will learn from them and be on the team, placed better by the time the Big Ten and the NCAA's as a NCAA tournament role around." That year, he was voted "I hope we finish in the top five ding freshman in the in the nation," said Wyland. "We're F IHAIbYIR 1~ PAI[ TAEN, AREN YOUR TALENTS ARE NEEDED INFORMATION: 761-7855 country at 134 pounds. Pantaleo, ranked second in the country as a freshman at 158, is off to a great start with a 21-3-1 record. "Joe is capable of wrestling with anyone in the country," said Wells. Perhaps the biggest surprise however, was freshman Dave Dameron who has already defeated two nationally-rankediwrestlers (Wyland and Harry Richards of Central Michigan) this season. "Dave has indicated that he is capable of competing on this level(college) immediately," said Wells. Overall, both coaches and team members agree that the Big Ten season will be a tough one. However, they remain optimistic. "The lack of experience will make for a hard year on the coaching staff," said Wells. 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