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Big
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Iowa,
Michigan,
Illinois
to
take command of conference
Adam'sRib
BY ADAM SCHRAGER
Big Ten botches
eligibility caper
By Adam Schrager
The Big Ten basketball confer-
ence is good. Maybe the best.
Illinois is good. Iowa and Michi-
gan are better. The other seven
teams are on a lower level. Want to
know more?
Just remember, "This is basket-
ball season. Forget about football.
Tell Schembechler and all, that
basketball is king in the Big Ten."
So says the ultimate sage of college
basketball Dick Vitale, of ABC
Sports.
Yes, college basketball is back.
"This league is going to be wild and
woolly this season," said Purdue
coach Gene Keady. "We may not be
able to keep up with the top three
teams (Michigan, Iowa, Illinois),
but the other seven teams in the
conference can give any coach an
ulcer."
Purdue won the conference
decisively last season with a 16-2
record, but will have a difficult time
living up to that performance. With
the graduationtof his senior tri-
captains Todd Lewis, Todd Mitchell,
and Everette Stephens, Keady lost
three of his top four scorers, his
leading three-point shooter, his lea-
ding rebounder, and his leader in
assists.
Leading the Boilermakers will be
senior power forwardMelvin
McCants and junior center Stephen
Scheffler. McCants averaged 14.2
points at center last season and
Scheffler, according to Keady, was
the most improved player in the
conference last season.
BIG TEN
BASKETBALL
"You can never count Purdue
out," said Michigan coach Bill
Frieder. "With McCants and Scheff-
ler, they have the two top post-up
men in the conference."
Last season's second-place team,
Michigan, appears ready to chal-
lenge for its first Big Ten cham-
pionship in three years. With pre-
season "All-Basketball" Glen Rice,
guard Rumeal Robinson, and for-
ward Terry Mills, Frieder may have
to hold his head for fear of having it
dribbled by his offensive-oriented
team.
Iowa and Illinois tied for fourth in
the conference with a 12-6 record and
both are capable of meeting and
surpassing that record this season.
Iowa, ranked No. 1 in the
country by The Sporting News, has
three returning starters, including
preseason All-Big Ten guard B.J.
Armstrong. Armstrong, one of the
nation's premier guards last season
averaging nearly 18 points per
game, will remain at the point guard
spot. Small forward Roy Marble
will shift to the shooting guard.
"By moving Roy from the small
forward to the small guard position,
we are taking a risk," said Iowa
coach Dr. Tom Davis. "But we feel
that not only will Iowa benefit from
his talents at that position, but he
personally will benefit."
The Hawkeyes frontcourt still
needs to score some points with
critics everywhere to prove its
capability. Senior Ed Horton will
shift to the power forward spot,
allowing 7-footer Les Jepsen to play
at center. Ex-Colorado forward Matt
Bullard will start the season at for-
ward, while ex-Missouri center
Michael Ingram will be the first
frontcourt player off the bench.
Coach Lou Henson's Illinois,
with the tallest player on its roster
measuring 6-8,tis void of the height
that its rivals Michigan and Iowa
possess. The Fighting Illini's star-
ting center of a year ago, 7-foot Jens
'This league is going to be
wild and woolly this
season. We may not be
able to keep up with the
three teams (Michigan,
Iowa, Illinois), but the
other seven teams in the
conference can give any
coach an ulcer.'
-Purdue coach
Gene Keady
Kujawa, returned to his homeland of
West Germany to play on the
Olympic team.
"Illinois is my choice right now,"
said Vitale. "Lou said to me, 'Dick,
you know we lost Jens Kujawa and
you still ranked us No. 2 (in the
country).' I said, 'Hell,.if I knew
that, I would have put you No. 1."'
Preseason All-Big Ten forwards
Nick Anderson and Kenny Battle
lead the Illini. Anderson and Battle,
both 6-6, both averaged 15+ points
per game last season. Joining them
will be Proposition 48 victim of a
year ago, Marcus Liberty, who,
some experts say, is the next Magic
Johnson.
Indiana will be hard-pressed to
equal its 11-7 record of a year ago,
due to the loss of three of its four
top scorers and the off-court troubles
of first-year phenom Jay Edwards.
Edwards has encountered academic
and drug problems since winning the
Newcomer-of-the-Year award last
season. As of now, it looks like
Edwards will play, but not on
scholarship.
As usual, coach Bob Knight made
life hard on t.np- ' : r :y
attending the annual coaches press
conf, rence 'st vect This a:am
the B ic will nme , c £ r l x
him.
Ohio State, is the unanimous
team to watch this season. With
four returning starters, two top
reserves, and an impressive crew of
newcomers, the Buckeyes look to
build on their NIT runner-up season
of a year ago.
"I see Ohio State where we were
between '84 and '85, when we went
from NIT champs to Big Ten
champs," said Frieder. "This is
going to be a good basketball team."
Led by everyone's favorite camper
Jay Burson, who averaged 19 points
per game last year, the Buckeyes are
solid. If Proposition 48 victims Eli
Brewster and Treg Lee live up to
expectations, they and Burson will
make coach Gary Williams one
happy camper.
Coach Steve Yoder's Wiscon-
sin team finished seventh in 1987-
88, its highest finish in 14 years.
Led by junior forward Danny Jones,
who scored 52 points in a game in
Europe this summer, and 20 point-
scorer Trent Jackson, the Badgers
could break into the top division
this season.
Michigan State w a a
than the eighth spot in th.
mrem:e !_s '
When I was younger and my older
sisters were picking on me endlessly,
I was always the one who seemed to
get in trouble. I constantly com-
plained to my parents that "It wasn't
fair." To which they promptly res-
ponded, "Life isn't fair."
Well, I have never bought that
concept. Maybe I'm too much of an
idealist, but when there are certain
injustices that I find unbearable, I
tranform into Keystone Column
writer to expose them to the public.
In this caper, the Big Ten is the
culprit. By enacting a new rule to go
into effect next September, players
transfering from junior colleges must
sit out a full year before they are
allowed to play for a four-year
school. In the past, these players
were allowed to play the year that
they transfered from the junior
college.
The Big Ten is the only
conference in the country to adopt
this policy, and according to Michi-
gan State coach Jud Heathcote, it was
composed by presidents and faculty
representatives without the consul-
tation of the athletic directors and
coaches.
"The rule is wrong," said
Minnesota coach Clem Haskins.
"You go to the junior college to get
your academics straight. It's not fair
to black athletes. They need to wake
up and realize that they made a
mistake."
A mistake indeed. What this rule
does is alienatehmostly inner-city
student/athletes that may not have
the grades to go directly to a four-
year school. Instead, they do the next
best thing by getting their grades
straightened out at a junior college.
And yet, for doing something
positive, student/athletessare being
punished twice: first, by not letting
them attend a four-year school out of
high school and second, by then
making them wait once they have
corrected the first problem.
Without junior college players,
we would have a different 1987
National Champion because Indiana
would have been void of two key
components, guard Keith Smart and
center Dean Garrett.
Former Indiana players Keith Smart (left) and Dean Garrett
(right) would have had to sit out a year after transfering from
junior college with the new Big Ten rule.
If the rule was to go into effect
this season, there would be at least
seven junior college players playing
for Big Ten men's teams and at least
two playing on women's teams who
would be ineligible.
Should these players have to sit
out? Is that fair?
Does fairness really matter?
INTER VIEW
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Her talk got everybody thinking
about what we can do. We have set
our sights on winning the Big Ten.
We have put that as goal, instead of
saying 'we're not that good - let's
just see what happens.'
W: When you watch games of this
team on video tape, what kind of
play do you hope to see?
B: We'll be a team that plays
hellacious defense. We are going to
play in-your-face defense, all the
time. We are going to bother you
from one end of -the court to the
other. At any point in time during a
game, five people will bust their
butts, totally determined to do what-
ever it takes to win.
W: Being that you are a preseason
All-Big Ten selection and captain of
the team, do you feel added pressure?
B: Throughout the department, the
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