Men's Swimming vs. Michigan State Friday, 7:00 p.m. Canham Natatorium SPORTS Coed Gymnastics vs. Michigan State & hwa Friday, 7:30 p.m. Varsity Arena The Michigan Daily , Thursday, February 1, 1990 Page.) I L i Mike Gill Blue sleepwalks out of league race The crowd started to flow out of Crisler with more than 7 minutes to play. With five fouls, Loy Vaught left with 4:20 remaining. As time wound down on the clock, the number of fans looked more like the size of a crowd attending a Liberace fan club meeting than the one attending a game with significant conference title implications. With the stadium mostly empty, even Tony Tolbert, Sean Higgins, and Eric Riley left the arena - although their bodies were still on the court and the clock still showed ' time remaining. With 10 seconds left, Fisher called his last time out. It wasn't because a lightning bolt just struck and he figured out how to mastermind a heroic comeback. The reason: Michigan stopped playing. They gave up. No hustle. No flamboyance. No nothing. And maybe rightly so. The Big ,Ten race might have just ended. And Michigan has been left just outside the starting gate. "A lot of things can happen," .said Steven Scheffler, who's cautious side did not show up until the postgame press conference. During the matchup, Scheffler showed buoyancy and confidence - scoring 18 points and hitting all but one of his shots. On the miss, he grabbed the rebound and scored. t "We can't start letting up and start celebrating. We could lose five in a row. That sounds ludicrous but it's still a race." If Purdue plays like it did tonight for the rest of the season, this race M ended long before it started. : The Boilermakers hit their shots. They passed up good shots to get great shots. In the end, that doomed -Michigan more than anything else. *"We don't have any individuals on .our team," Ryan Berning explained. "We have to play within our limits." Of course, Michigan took the «-other philosophy - take the shot, :regardless of where it's from. "It was disgusting," Higgins said of the game. When Michigan coach Steve Fisher was asked how he felt when he went in at halftime with his team trailing by nine - and shooting almost 59 percent - Fisher pointed out the other side. "I said (Purdue) can't shoot 70 percent in the second half. They didn't. They shot 69." 69.6 to be exact. Which rounds up to 70. Purdue won this game with their shot selection. And now they control the Big Ten. "We got a good whipping from a very good basketball team," Fisher added. True enough. Purdue played hard, with intensity, with smartness, and they won. Except for one 10-0 spurt which pulled Michigan within three and had the stadium buzzing, the Wolverines lacked the emotional edge. A Purdue time out put things back on track. Gene Keady said coming into the season he wanted to win three games on the road and win all his home contests. He accomplished his goal before arriving in Ann Arbor. "Just one more," he said Tuesday. One more win on the road. It came last night. Against Michigan. And the game Fisher called a "must win" became a murky loss. Michigan gave up in the end - and now, the opportunity for a conference title has been taken from the Wolverines hands. When's the tournament? JOSE JUAREZ/Daly Purdue's Tony Jones takes a dribble-drive baseline left past Michigan's Demetrius Calip en route to two of his game-high 23 points. PURDUE Continued from page 1 Coupled with only three turnovers, it added up to a 47-38 halftime lead. In fact, Purdue played so well in the first half that Fisher said he tried to find salvation in the fact that Purdue shot 70 percent and only led by nine. Unfortunately for the Wolverines, Purdue's efficiency was only a hair lower in the second half. Michigan was able to make a game of it, briefly, early in the second half. Demetrius Calip and Sean Higgins made back-to back three pointers, spurring a 10-0 Michigan run, which cut the deficit to three and inspired Purdue coach Gene Keady to call time out. "I told them that if we didn't stop them we were going to get beat, he said. "We got eight stops in a row. That was a turning point." On the Boilermaker's first possession after the time out, Sheffler missed his only shot of th° game. But he rebounded his miss and scored, starting a 13-0 Purdue run. That was the game. "I think the guys came in a little too sluggish," Michigan guard Rumeal Robinson said. "Any time its a big game like this you figure your guys are going to come to play and do their best but tonight it was a different story." But Robinson, who led the Wolverines with 17 points, was willing to give Purdue at least partial credit for their shooting. "At times they were shooting wide open jump shots, something we didn't want them to do," he said. "But when they didn't have the wide open jump shot they swung it under the basket," Robinson said. Scheffler concurred: "If you have a reasonably good shot, be willing to make the extra pass for a really good shot." Guard Tony Jones led Purdue with 23 points. Sheffler had 18 points, while Clyburn added 15 points and five assists. "If he keeps playing like that, he'll open some eyes," Keady said of Clyburn's play. "Maybe next year they'll pick us sixth." Purdue was predicted to finish seventh in the pre-season coaches' poll. I AMY -FELUMAN/Uaiy Michigan forward Loy Vaught hits two of his ten points in Wednesday night's loss to Purdue. Vaught also added five rebounds. 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