The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday- January 15, 1990 - Page 5 BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK By Steven Cohen Daily Basketball Writer Michigan junior guard Kirk Taylor, out since last February's contest at Minnesota is expected to be back in action soon. Taylor, who like Tony Boles suffered an injury of the anterior cruciate ligament has been working out on his own since practice began on October 15. Encouraging news for Taylor is that Michigan tight end Derrick Walker and Los Angeles Clipper Danny Manning both have recovered from the same setback. "My knee is kind of stiff right now but after a month I think I could be a hundred percent, Taylor said. "The doctors and Dan Minert, my trainer, predict that I will be ready in a week but I'm the only one who will know I'm ready. I have a redshirt year, so if my knee is not a hundred percent I can redshirt. "It's real tough watching but I know I'm still a part of the team, you know I root for them and support them." If Taylor and 6'5" sophomore guard Rob Pelinka, who has yet to play this season due to tendinitis of his knees, return, it could create an interesting battle for playing time in the backcourt. "I think if I play up to my potential, everything will take care of itself," Taylor said. -Last month, the Detroit News reported that 6'4" frosh guard Tony Tolbert was considering transfering to the University of Detroit. The scorer from St. Martin Des Porres High School was said to be upset with his lack of playing time. Tolbert quelled any speculation of an impending transfer. "I'm staying at Michigan, Tolbert said. "It's been hard not playing but I'm learning a lot." Tolbert, who averaged nearly 40 points a game his senior year before a knee injury felled him, has seen action in six of Michigan's 13 games, providing instant offense in nearly all of them. Against Central Michigan and Chicago State Tolbert missed several shots,but on December 28 against Northern Michigan he bounced back with 15 points in 16 minutes. Though the two-time All-State performer has been working hard to improve his overall game, he does admit, "My role is as a scorer. They( the coaches) know what I can do." -Sean Higgins has revealed the curious origin of his nickname, "The Dean." The monniker flashes frequently on the Crisler Arena scoreboard after a Higgins basket. "Me and the sports information guy came up with it," Higgins said. When there was a space for a nickname, I said I didn't have one, that everybody just calls me 'Hig' ...I didn't think it was going to be such a big deal." -Friday night's high school basketball game between Detroit Country Day and Cleveland's University School provided a matchup between two potential Wolverines: Country Day's 6'9" junior Chris Webber and University School's 6'9" senior Joe Reid. JOSE JUAREZ/Daily Michigan's Michael Talley drives by Minnesota's Connell Lewis during the Wolverines 87-83 victory Saturday. School's 6'9" senior Joe Reid. INDIANA continued from page 1 would have just stopped them that one time, it would have turned the whole game around." Owens lay-up gave Indiana a two- point lead with :21. "The last time- out we called, we wanted the ball in- side to Pam Owens," Indiana coach Jim Izard said. "It was a play out of our passing game that isolated her one-on-one." Michigan set up one last play, only to turn the ball over once again. "That whole play was just to- tally broken up," Szczechowski said. "It didn't seem like anybody wanted the ball." Brown explained why: "Nobody wanted to mess up." Friday afternoon, the Buckeyes (8-5, 2-1) showed the Wolverines why they have won 64 straight Big Ten home games at St. John Arena. Michigan never took itself out of the game, but Ohio State never let the Wolverines gain control. Early on both teams tried to establish their inside game. But good low post defense by Michigan's Val Hall and Ohio State's Mindy Smith kept either team from leading by more than five throughout the first half. The Wolverines had several op- portunities to build a lead but 12 first half turnovers, mostly ill-timed passes downcourt, gave the Buckeyes a 34-33 lead after twenty minutes. The mental mistakes nullified the Michigan running game and took the Wolverines leading scorer, guard Tempie Brown, out of the offense. Brown finished with only four points, far less than the 13 she had been averaging. Michigan came out flat to begin the second half, giving the Buckeyes a nine point lead. The Wolverines tried to stop OSU forward Nicole Sanchez by fouling her. But free throw shooting is her specialty (78 percent career). The senior went 12 for 12 from the charity stripe. "They got us in some quick foul trouble by really pounding it in," VanDeWege said. GILL continued from page 1 "I get excited," Higgins admitted. "I try to hold a lot of that in because a lot of people think the way I act on the floor is the way I act off the floor - wild and crazy. But that's just me and I've been holding that in. That's just the way I play, with emotion." Sean Higgins and Steve Martin have always been considered wild and crazy guys. He is the flash and the pizzazz of the team. Wherever he goes, there is a splash. He came to Michigan after signing a letter of in- tent with UCLA. He became ineli- gible. He had a fight at the CCRB. Last year there was Bo dressing him down before the team and his talk of turning pro. Higgins is a headliner. Now, it's Bo who's the pro, and Higgins who owned the show. "I just wanted to get everybody going," he said. "It seemed like we were falling into that trap of getting lazy and I was getting excited be- cause the crowd was going and he mance in Bloomington - shooting one-for-seven from the three-point stripe, seven-of-21 overall. The rim started to sound like a cymbal. Clank. Clank. Clank. Mills couldn't be found near the basket to grab the rebounds. He had to enjoy the view from the bench. "No one felt worse about what happened than Terry," Fisher said about the Indiana loss. "He tried to officiate and play and didn't do a very good job of either down there and he knew it." But Terry left the officiating to the refs Saturday and was never in any real foul trouble. "Once this team gets motivated, we're hard to stop," Mills said. "We can do some of the things you really don't think you can do. We proved that today." Saturday, they proved it. Now, they must prove it in Illinois -- where the Wolverines have not won since' 1978. JOSE JUAREZ/Daily Sean Higgins 23 points and enthusiastic play brought life to a lackluster Michigan squad against Minnesota. (Mills on the banker) made a great Higgins and Mills led the attack play. scoring 23 points each, to go with , h "The adrenaline gets going and it just takes over." It is the ironies of ironies that Rumeal Robinson's 26. You know the complaints. Hig- gins had a less than stellar perfor- I L CLASSIFIED ADS! Call 764-0557 1 a - A aqaKTf -1 1 " !": h It ... " . If }r Y 11 . }p; "" .. i }/c"r "." ". t: " it': R' ::. 1" 1' " i ...o .:-¢ " ..n P..:.ul v1.,. "t-."1 al-. of "rl ul""1 ul....+./ri "rf " "" .. "" ""r l l 111 .. ul"" ' I I MMAA=MIA MJ lam/ tea MMYiMJ ! ]lam -7.1 E1 I I i . ANN AR1BOR'S PRIME PROPERTIES The Abby -The Algonuquin 'The Dean -7 %au-T hc I ion -The Lodge - 344l ; n 515 E. Lawrence'" 326 F . Mad i son -.0CO % a«an 520 Packard'- Arbor Forest'- Oak Terrace '517 Catherine' -r7 #4loer- 415 Hoover' 511 Hoover- 114 Kingsiey -727 S. 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