Men's Basketball vs. Indiana Saturday, 4 p.m. Crisler Arena SPORTS Monday, February 8, 1988 Men's Swimming vs. Michigan State Friday, 7:30 Matt Mann Pool The Michigan Daily Page 9 Loss leaves 'M' For Pete BY PETE STEINER' 's Sake Vaught slips... ...Michigan falls The rap on Loy Vaught in the past has been he lacks consistency. He's a great athlete, but he lacks consistency. In yesterday's 91-87 loss to Purdue at Crisler Arena, those very words came back to haunt him. Things started innocently enough for the 6-9 junior. He helped spark a 25-14 run midway through the first half that turned a 17-14 Boilermaker lead into a 39-31 Wolverine advantage. VAUGHT'S vicious two-hand slam dunk underneath gave the Wolverines their first lead of the contest, 20-19. Crisler Arena erupted. On Michigan's very next possession, Vaught sank a layup to in- crease the score to 22-19. More cheers. Several minutes later, Vaught literally rose to the occasion again. On a fast break Rumeal Robinson sent the ball backwards between his legs to a trailing No. 35, who did what he does best - dunk. Even more cheers. That point marked the Wolverines' biggest lead of the game, 39- 31, and it also marked Vaught's last points of the day. THINGS STARTED TO TURN SOUR for the center after that. Late in the half he launched back-to-back air balls, the first of which he said was an errant pass to Mark Hughes underneath. The next one he just flat out missed. "I was at an angle," Vaught explained, "and I was kind of undecided whether I wanted to use the backboard or shoot it straight on. I ended up kind of getting caught in the middle." Vaught's misfortunes carried over into the second half. His ineffec- tiveness helped allow Purdue regain its lead. He admitted the air ball had shaken his confidence. "I made sure I wasn't going to shoot anymore until I got like a downcourt layup or something close to the basket," he said. On one occasion Vaught held the ball with an open shot on the baseline, but he opted to pass it. VAUGHT ENDED UP playing less than nine minutes in the second half. He grabbed one rebound after pulling down five in the first half. And he only took one shot, and that shot might have cost Michigan the game and sole possession of first place in the Big Ten. With less than 10 seconds left and Purdue leading, 89-87, Vaught, Michigan's most efficient field goal shooter, took a feed from Glen Rice along the right baseline. He lofted a half-hook shot - a shot he has made time and time again this season - toward the basket. Vaught's shot fell off the rim and into the hands of the Boilermak- ers. More cheers. But only from the Boilermaker faithful behind the Purdue bench. "He (Rice) looked like he was going to shoot it," Vaught said, "so I darted over to the other side of the lane in hopes I could get a tip in or something like that. "I looked back over my shoulder waiting for him to shoot the ball, and he saw me, I guess. Then he threw it in there, and it kind of caught me by surprise, but I just shot the hook shot, and it didn't fall." "We wanted Gary or Glen (to shoot the ball)," Michigan coach Bill Frieder said. "They knew it. But the ball goes to Loy. He's wide open for a three-footer. You got to to take that." THE SCENARIO that unraveled yesterday was unfortunate be- cause things like that shouldn't happen to the nice guys in sports, especially in a nationally televised game that meant so much. In addition, Vaught has made tremendous strides in his play this season to shake himself of past labels. Taking over the starting center position in the eighth game of the year, he has responded with 9.9 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. For one day, though, Vaught slipped, and it cost dearly. O Iowa whips Michigan women cagers, 89-54 second in (Continued from Paget second of two free throws in front of a frenzied, towel-waving student sec- tion, Purdue had an 89-87 lead with 23 seconds remaining. Michigan then had a chance to tie the game, but Loy Vaught missed a short hook shot with less than ten seconds to play. Without any timeouts left, the Wolverines weren't able to set up a play, and Vaught became the best option when Glen Rice found him open underneath the basket. "We wanted Glen or Gary (Grant), and they knew it," Frieder said, "but the ball goes in to Loy, he's wide open for a three-footer and he's got to take it." A scramble for the loose ball en-1 sued. Jones recovered it and was fouled with three seconds left. Jones hit both free throws to give the Boilermakers their four-point victory margin. "I didn't- let (the crowd) bother me,"Jones said. "I just put my head down and concentrated on the free throws." PU R D U E was led by Todd Mitchell's 22 points and Troy Lewis' 20. Lewis also had six rebounds and six assists. Everette Stephens had 16 points and seven assists, while Melvin McCants had 15 points. All four of those players were re- turning starters from last season and had never won a game at Michigan. They remembered last year's embar- rassing loss and also wanted to end the Boilermakers' three-game Crisler Arena losing streak. Big Ten "This is one of our bigger wins since I've been here," Mitchell said. "We've never won here before and we didn't want to go our whole career without winning at every Big Ten school." As for last year's loss, head coach Gene Keady said, "That's all erased now. This takes care of that." In the first half, it looked like the Wolverines were ready for a repeat of last season. Trailing 15-8, they went on a 21-7 run, including a 10-0 stretch, to go up 29-22. Following a half-court alley-oop pass from Rumeal Robinson to Rice and a be- tween the legs pass from Robinson to Vaught for a dunk, Michigan led by eight, 39-31. The lead would get no larger, though, as the experienced Boiler- makers closed to 43-41 at the half. The lead see-sawed in the second half, with Grant .keeping the Wolverines in the game with clutch shots in the final minutes. The senior guard hit a three-point shot; from the corner to tie the game at 82 with 3:39 remaining. The Boilermakers then took the lead for good when McCants hit a short jumper. After a Terry Mills miss, Purdue scored on two straight possessions with less than five seconds left on the shot clock. Grant hit for 32 points, 19 in the: second half, and became the third Wolverinetin history to score 2,OOO career points. Rice had 23 points, while Robin-: son added 11 points. Daily Photo by DAVID LUBIINER Michigan's Terry Mills blocks Purdue's Steve Scheffler yesterday. 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Please join us Wednesday, February 10, 4-6:00 pm in B1124 MLBp This is an opportunity for you to comment, react, suggest-to really make a difference! We'll see you then! *Copies of the design sketches are posted in the Language Lab also. By MICHAEL GILL The women's basketball team learned why Iowa is No. 1. It learned why in resounding fashion, with an 89-54 thrashing to the Hawkeyes last night at Crisler Arena. The loss ended the Wolverines' (11-8 overall, 4-5 Big Ten) three- game winning streak, which included an 83-71 victory Friday over Min- nesota. The full-court press, which Michigan used to its advantage Fri- day, caused much difficulty for them. Iowa continuously forced Michigan turnovers. "The press was our weapon," M Michigan coach Bud VanDeWege said last night. "We had nothing that we could hurt them with. They took our press away and when you don't have your major weapon, you cannot gain confidence." Iowa coach Vivian Stringer was surprised that Michigan wanted to play an up-tempo game, the Hawkeyes' strong point. "They've got the talent to play an up-tempo game," said Stringer. "I thought perhaps they had a little more talent and could give us a problem. I was very cautious. On our behalf, an uptempo game is in our favor." Iowa (18-0, 9-0) took hold of the game by breaking open a 20-17 lead with 10 unanswered points. This was followed by another six straight points in part of a 28-10 scoring streak the last 11 minutes of the first half. There were a few bright moments for the Wolverines. With the score 20-15, Lisa Reynolds received and inbounds pass and flung the ball down court to Tempie Brown. Brown scurried after the ball and dumped it directly over her head to Reynolds who laid it in. Friday night, Michigan had made it three wins in a row with an 83-71 victory over Minnesota. Sophomore Tanya Powell labelled the game "a dogfight." 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