Pqge8 -The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, December 1, 1987 Women cagers begin season on right track s ' yr Darren to be Different BY DARREN JASEY NCAA football tournament... -Seminoles come out on top By MICHAEL SALINSKY It wasn't impressive, but it's a start. The Michigan women's basket- ball team opened its 1987-88 cam- paign Saiurday with an 80-64 vic- tory over Indianapolis at Crisler Arena. The Wolverines, who finished with a 9-18 record last season, are desperately looking for improve- ment this year. Especially disap- pointing was a 2-16 Big Ten record which placed them dead-last in the conference.I MICHIGAN hopes the win spearheads a successful nine-game non-conference schedule. A restora- tion of confidence after last year's season is necessary for Michigan to have any hope of moving up in the conference standings. The Wolverines got off to a fast start, opening up a 14-6 lead in the first eight minutes. Heidi Lawrence kept Indianapolis close, though, hitting all three of her three-point attempts while scoring 11 first-half points. The Lady Greyhounds scored the last four points of the half to tie up the game at 33-33. Lawrence finished as Indianapo- lis' leading scorer with 21 points. She also pulled down six rebounds. Her shooting prowess, however, was enigmatic. Lawrence was 1-11 from the floor, but a staggering 5-7 from three-point land. To start the second half, Michi- gan broke open what had been a close game. The Wolverines scored ten unanswered points to take a 43- 33 lead. Sophomore Tempie Brown, who led all Michigan scorers with 25 points, contributed three points in this stretch. INDIANAPOILS closed to 47-40 at the 12:35 mark. A seven- point spurt by Michigan increased the lead to 14 and Indianapolis never came within less than 10 points again. In addition to Brown, sophomore center Joan Reiger and first year forward Carol Szczechowski contributed to the Wolverine cause. Reiger netted 13 points in only 19 minutes of play. Szczechowski, from Mt. Carmel High School in Wyandotte, sparkled in her first game for the Wolverines. Last year's Most Valuable Player of the Michigan high school all-star game, Szczechowski contributed 11 points and 11 rebounds despite being lim- So you want to see a playoff in college football? Okay here goes... Remember, this is hypothetical. A selection committee similar to the one used to select teams for the college basketball tournament is used. The panel of experts from around the country (just me in this case) selects the best 16 teams and seeds them one through 16. HERE THEY are: 1. Miami (10-0), 2. Florida State (10-1), 3. Oklahoma (11-0), 4. Syracuse (11- 0), 5. Auburn (9-1-1), 6. LSU (9-1- 1) 7. Nebraska (10-1), 8. Michigan State (8-2-1), 9. Tennessee (8-2-1), 10. USC (8-3), 11. South Carolina (8-2), 12. UCLA (9-2), 13. Iowa (9- 3), 14. Pittsburgh (8-3), 15. Penn State (8-3), 16. Notre Dame (8-3). Strength of schedules and recent performances were taken into consideration along with overall records when ranking the teams, but people in College Station, Athens, Clemson, and even Wyoming are furious because their teams were left out. A great season at Indiana is wasted. Notre Dame just gets in ahead of Southwest Conference champ Texas A&M, the two teams that will meet in the Cotton Bowl under the current system. The matchups: The 16th seed will play the first seed, the 15th will play the second and so on, meaning: Notre Dame-Miami, Penn State- Florida State, Pittsburgh-Oklahoma, Iowa-Syracuse, UCLA-Auburn, South Carolina-LSU, USC-Ne- braska, and Tennessee-Michigan State. THE EIGHT first round games will be played at these bowl sites: Hall of Fame (Tampa), Liberty (Memphis), Freedom (Anaheim), Holiday (San Diego), Bluebonnet (Houston), Sun (El Paso), Peach (Atlanta), and All-American (Birmingham, Ala.) on Saturday Dec. 19. As expected there are some up- sets. Notre Dame takes advantage of its second chance for revenge and bounces Miami 24-0, the Seminoles beat Penn State by two touchdowns, Oklahoma over the Panthers, 3-0, Iowa out-scores the Orangemen, 39- Thompson ... nine assists ited to 20 minutes of playing time because of foul trouble. Brown, Reiger and Szczechowski lead a large scale youth movement for the Wolverines. Saturday, Michigan beat an experienced Indianapolis squad that returned nine letter-winners. Seventy of Michigan's 80 points came from first year students and sophomores. Senior guard Vonnie Thompson (nine assists) was the most impor- tant contributor from the upper- class. Michigan head coach Bud Van De Wege attributes last year's lack of success on "inexperience and lack of chemistry." Doily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY Florida St. halfback Sammie:Smith, shown here in last year's game against Michigan, will lead his Seminoles to the national championship in the first annual Jasey Bowl on January 9, 1988. 37, UCLA, 24-14, over Auburn, LSU by a point over South Car- olina, Nebraska rolls, 38-7, against USC, and Tennessee stuns the Spar- tans, 16-6. The next four games are played at these bowls on Dec. 26: Gator (Jacksonville), Citrus (Orlando), Cotton (Dallas), and Fiesta (Tempe). Tennessee and Notre Dame play to a tie, forcing an overtime period. Tennessee wins, 20-17. Florida State and Nebraska clash at the Fiesta Bowl with the Seminoles coming out on top. Oklahoma loses to LSU in the Cotton, and Iowa rips UCLA, 42-7, at Jacksonville. THE FINAL Four: Tennessee, Florida State, LSU, and Iowa. The games will be played on New Year's Day at the Sugar Bowl (New Or- leans) and Orange Bowl (Miami). In a rematch of the Kickoff Clas- sic, Tennessee and Iowa play first at the Sugar Bowl, 3:35 p.m. kickoff. Head coach Hayden Fry and his troops avenge their one point loss in the classic, beating the Vols 26-19 on two fourth quarter touchdown passes by quarterback Chuck Hartlieb. At the Orange Bowl in Miami (8:30 p.m.) Florida State breaks open a close game in the third quar- McHale set to return BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Celtics removed Kevin McHale from the team's injured list yesterday, and announced that the All-Star forward will be with the team for tonight's game against the Atlanta Hawks. McHale underwent surgery June 22 fro a fractured navicular bone in his right foot. Since then, he has been sidelined while his teammates have gone 10-4 in the opening games of their NBA schedule. McHale averaged 26.2 points and 9.9 rebounds per game in the 1986- 87 season. . The Celtics also announced that guard Conner Henry was waived to make a spot on the roster for McHale. Henry, 24, was signed as a free agent Jan. 1. He averaged 3.4 points in 10 games this season. Celtics General Manager Jan Volk said McHale was expected to see at least limited action against the Hawks in Atlanta. "If everything is as we expect it to be, he'll get some playing time," Volk said. "He'll come back in a limited role at the start. This is the next step in bringing him back to what we hope will be midseason form." SPORTS OF THE DAILY: North Carolina's Cruii CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina head football coach Dick Crum resigned yesterday, end- ing two weeks of speculation over his status. UNC officials said Crum will be paid an initial $400,000 a n d $100,000 per year over the four years remaining on his contract. Crum's assistants have had contracts since July that will be fully honored, the school said. A statement released jointly by Crum, UNC Chancellor Chris Ford- ham and UNC Athletic Director John Swofford said Crum was given the option to continue as head coach. "However, coach Crum and the university have reluctantly deter- mined that it is in Crum's best in- terest, the best interest of the players that he recruited, and the best interest of the university for him to submit and for the university to accept-his Lincoln Would Lkeb GiveYour Career A Litde Directon. resignation effective January 31, 1988," the statement said. SMU probe continues AUSTIN, TX (AP) - An assis- tant state attorney general is sched- uled to meet this week with South- ern Methodist officials and discuss the investigation of the SMU foot- ball scandal. Assistant Attorney General John Vasquez, who has been directing the probe, will discuss the attorney gen- eral's inquiry with the SMU board, said Ron Dusek, a spokesperson for Attorney General Jim Mattox. Mattox ordered the investigation earlier this year, following public revelations about the school's pay- for-players scandal. SMU received the death penalty from the NCAA after it was discov- ered that players received cash pay- ments for playing. Texas governor Bill Clements admitted in March that, while chair ter on a 44-yard touchdown run by Sammie Smith and a 12-yard touch- down pass by Chip Ferguson. The Seminoles win 20-9. The Rose Bowl (Pasadena): It's Jan. 9, 1988 and Florida State (13-1) meets Iowa (12-3) for the first ever "true" college football Division I championship. Bobby Bowden coaches the Seminoles to a 36-17 victory and the crown. The opponent is different but the Big Ten still loses the big one, and, of course, Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson are out there somewhere saying that their teams are No. 1. Some things never change. iquits of the SMU Board of Governors, he and other officials approved contin- ued payments to players after SMU was placed on NCAA probation in 1985. The attorney general's office has been investigating SMU under state laws governing charitable trusts. Mattox has said he was particu- larly interested in $863, 013 that was paid to three athletic department employees who left SMU under "termination agreements." According to a special report is- sued by Methodist Church bishops, former SMU Athletic Director Bob Hitch received $246, 272, former football coach Bobby Collins re- ceived $556, 272, and former athletic departnrent assistant Henry Lee Parker received $60,299. 4 Mattox has indicated that his of- fice might .be willing to take the case to a Dallas County grand jury if that procedure was needed to obtain additional information. Michigan Balfour House. 14 You're looking at the fastest route to sun- drenched California. To success. To Lincoln Savings. 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