0 Men's Basketball vs. Eastern Michigan Monday, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena SPORTS Women's Basketball vs. Auburn Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena ,' . j ' The Michigan Doily. Monday, December 12, 1988 Page 10: ' t i The Holl Truth BY JULIE HOLLMAN Western Michigan goes oh-for-three on big day 'M' withstands big MAC attack r' }' :' t r . r c, KALAMAZOO, Mich. - The Western Michigan campus was bubbling with excitement Saturday 'afternoon. Second-ranked Michigan was in town to play basketball, defending national champion Lake Superior State was in to play hockey, and the Western football team was on the West coast to play in the California Bowl, the Broncos' first-ever nationally televised football game. If everything had proceeded by pan, Saturday would have gone down in Western history as the school's most victorious day. Michigan spoiled everything. THE WOLVERINES just had t' do their own celebrating. They couldn't play the right way. They had to be such party poopers. When the Western basketball team invited Michigan to Read Fieldhouse on the biggest day in their school's prts history, the Broncos expected ti ;Wolverines to get wrapped up in the festivities. Instead of giving their hosts a present, Michigan spoiled the fun and handed the Broncos a 107-60 loss. If the Broncos wanted the trifecta, they should have invited somebody else, because Michigan wanted no part of this historical stuff - unless, of course, the Wolverines were writing the record books. Western's 47-point loss tied the team record that was set last year against Michigan at Crisler Arena. "When we went to Ann Arbor last year, they beat us pretty bad, and I didn't want it to happen again," Western forward Phil Holmes said. "I kniew it was going to be a tough game, but I didn't think it was going td be this tough. I thought that if we could have gotten a win here it would have supported the football team, but we didn't." THE LOSS, which came before Read Fieldhouse's first full house in four years, set a bad trend for Western. On top of the crushing basketball defeat, the football team lost to Fresno State, 35-30, and the hockey team lost, 3-2. Defeat was hard to swallow, especially since the Broncos jumped to a 10-2 lead and looked like they might give Michigan a tough battle. "We came out strong," center Tony Baumgardt said. "I think maybe we surprised them with how we were playing." But the fiery mood of the party didn't last to the 11-minute mark. With 8 minutes 42 seconds gone, Michigan took the lead at 15-13 and ran away. At halftime Michigan led, 45-24. Glen Rice was the first Wolverine to get rowdy and inhospitable. Rice's first three baskets of the game were dunks. Rumeal Robinson also got into the act with two breakaway slams. A little R&R was not what Western needed. Rice and Robinson ended the half as Michigan's leading scorers with 15 and nine, respectively. In the second half Michigan continued to trample Western, which failed to show any of its first-quarter life. "Our intensity level just dropped," Holmes said. "Some of our players were intimidated. I think that if they were not the second team in the nation we would have played a lot better." Western head coach Vernon Payne disagreed that Michigan could have such a psychological effect. "I'm See Bashed, Page 11. OSE JUAREZI~aiy Michigan's Glen Rice has led the Wolverines to an 8-0 start. 'M' EMU pit perfect records BY STEVE BLONDER If the Michigan Wolverines beat Eastern Michigan tonight, they will have beaten all of the state's representatives to the Mid-American Conference. "If we win (tonight), I'd say we could win the MAC championship," Michigan coach Bill Frieder joked Saturday. The 5-0 Hurons hope to spoil Michigan's perfect 8-0 record with their second-ever victory against the Wolverines. Tip-off is at 7:30 at Crisler. "Eastern has been quietly preparing for us since last year (when Michigan won, 115-63). When teams quietly prepare, that concerns us," Frieder said. Michigan forward Glen Rice promised the Wolverines would come out ready to beat the Hurons. "I expect them to play us hard, but we'll be ready when we come out on our home floor. It's not hard to get up for these teams because Coach has trained us well. We will not let a MAC team beat us," Rice said. The Hurons are led by a pair of undersized guards - 5-foot-10 senior Howard Chambers and 5-11 sophomore Lorenzo Neely - who will have trouble matching up with 6-9 Sean Higgins and 6-3 Rumeal Robinson. Chambers averaged nearly 12 points per game last season and has been the leading scorer this year. Neely added 11 points per game last year. BY STEVE BLONDER SPECIAL TO THE DAILY KALAMAZOO, Mich. - The scoring express continued Saturday as the Michigan basketball team overcame a sluggish start to go over 100 points for the fourth time in its last five games. "When they do the things I tell 'em to do, they can score," coach Bill Frieder said after the Wolverines hit their first 12 shots of the second half to seal a 107-60 victory over Western Michigan. The Michigan defense created key turnovers to add some spark to an otherwise auspicious start and held Western to 34 percent shooting from the field. THE BRONCOS gave Michigan a battle for the first 10 minutes, jumping out to a 10-2 lead in the first 3 minutes 10 seconds. "We didn't want Western to go on a quick run early. I'm glad they didn't get six or eight more on us. But after that, we played very well," Frieder said. After the initial run - in which Phil Holmes scored five of Western's first 10 points - a Rumeal Robinson slam with 8:42 gone in the first half gave Michigan a lead it never lost. Michigan improved to 8-0, while Western fell to 3-3. "For the most part, our guys went out and played them as hard as they could play them. I haven't seen a team as good as Michigan is in a long time, " Western coach Vernon Payne said. "We had to play flawless basketball to be successful. We did, but only for 10 minutes." MICHIGAN had six players score in double figures, led by Glen Rice's 28 poihts. "In this game, we all played as a team. We can't be beat if we play like a team and get everyone involved," said Terry Mills, who scored 14 points and grabbed six rebounds. Mark Hughes came off the bench. to spark Michigan, connecting on' five of his nine shots to set season highs in scoring (11) and rebounds (12). Robinson tied a career higlh with 11 assists, in addition tQ scoring 17 points, while Sean Higgins scored 11 and Loy Vaught added 10. Jerry Overstreet scored 17 and lei the Broncos in rebounding (six), while Holmes added 16 for Western. Payne felt the key to Michigan was its frontline, which he called the best collective group of frontcoul-t players he has seen recently. "Michigan presents so many problems. They are a power team; yet all of their power players are such great passers,"-Payne said. "It makes them impossible to defend, because they play so well together as a team' You just can't take Michigan out of its game. The players are really irk sync with what they need." No. 2 Michigan found itself id trouble early, fighting a hostile crowd that had suddenly come to life and a Western team that didn't want to quit. After a time-out, the WolverineA scored seven unanswered points, and outscored the Broncos, 21-8, to take a 35-18 lead with 3:37 to play in the first half. Michigan scored the last nine points of the half to take a 45, 24 halftime lead into the locket room. Michigan came out strong in the second half and put the game out o, reach, scoring on its first 14 possessions. Rice scored 11 of thosd points, hitting from the corners an4 the baseline and showing the crowd his slamming style, as Michigan took a 73-40 lead with nearly 12 minutes left to play. From that point on, it was ali academic, as Michigan continued its dominance over the Broncos, leading 102-50 with 3:41 left in the game. ;; 0 4 I IMICHIGAN UNION BOOKSTORE BUY BACK NEWS'!! I WIN!! GOOD SOUNDS FOR YOU!! WIN!! 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