The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 16, 1990 - Page 13 REDBIRDS Continued from page 1 said of Michigan. "Number one, their rebounding power. Number two, the tremendous threat of Ru- meal (Robinson)." Michigan coach Steve Fisher is blunt, yet cautious. "We're bigger than them, we're better than them, but bigger and better doesn't always mean you'll win," he said. * Vaught will likely enjoy a four- inch advantage over his defender but claims that he won't let that affect his attitude. "I respect them,".he said.."I'm not going in there think- ing that I'm from a bigger school so I must be better." $ But Vaught believes that Mich- igan's stature will affect Illinois State's confidence somewhat. "We are always on TV and Vitale and all those guys always say what great players Michigan has," Vaught $aid. "So those guys hear that stuff and it's got to play a little bit on the back of their minds." According to Fisher, the Red- birds will play a ball-control game, with lots of passing. Defen-sively, they like to pressure the ball hard. "They will give us a little bit of the pressure we felt at Ohio State ...they pressure the ball real hard," Fisher said. "If they get you on one side of the floor, it appears that they want to keep you there. They don't want to let you move the ball from side-to-side." Illinois State's leader is Jackson, 4 senior who won Most Valuable Player honors for the Missouri Val- ley Conference tournament. "He can shoot the three or dunk over you," Fisher said. Jackson is playing on emotional energy caused by the death of his mother, which occurred during the conference tournament. Other starters include Coleman, a senior who averaged 16 points and six rebounds, Fowler (seven points, three rebounds), and guards Richard Thomas (10 points per game) and Randy Blair (nine ppg). by Theodore Cox Daily Basketball Writer STILLWATER, OK - I glanced at my watch: 3 a.m. The Michigan women's basketball team had won their first-ever NCAA tournament game over Oklahoma State, 77-68, the previous night. I'm sitting at the Will Rogers' airport in Oklahoma City. My luggage is somewhere in St. Louis, so they tell me. I'm broke. I've missed classes. I'm just beginning the complimentary dinner the bozo airline that lost my luggage provided to compensate for their faux pas. It's salted peanuts. As I'm munching I go over all that has happened in the last week. Michigan gets a10th-seed bid. Wolverine coach Bud VanDeWege is named Big Ten coach of the year. Michigan (20-9) beats the Cowgirls, and they're off to Raleigh, NC, to play North Carolina St. (24-5). I'm in a complete daze. It's unbelievable. I'm sitting there, trying to grasp all that has hap- pened. Besides, since my school books are in Missouri due to some bonehead Southwest worker, the only other avenue of entertainment open to me is playing "name that tune" to the elevator music blaring overhead. Michigan had never been in the tournament before. They had never finished in the top half of the Big Ten before (4th place at 11-7). In the fall, success was unexpected. In the winter, when the Wolverines were 1- 4 in conference play, success was unexpected. By late February, it had become only a possibility. By March, it was reality, a mad scramble for VanDeWege and his staff to prepare for Oklahoma State. Today, he's making plans for round two. A week ago only three media services covered Mich- Women cagers March on Madly. igan's women's basketball team: The Daily, The Anri Arbor News and The Wolverine. Today, the Wolverines are covered everywhere I look. "I think they (Michigan players) are all really excited about picking up the newspapers and reading about it in the USA Today, The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, The Daily," VanDeWege said. "I think that really feels good to them, because they realize they are being recognized for what they've done." In Oklahoma, the game between the Cowgirls and the Wolverines was the top story in The Daily O'Col- legian, The Daily Oklahoman, and The NewsPress. The story was even placed above victories by the 5th-ranked Cowboy baseball team. I was even more surprised to come across a flier at the airport advertising the women's basketball game in Stillwater, which is 65 miles away. Granted the flier was on the floor getting trampled on, but it was there, which is more than I can say for my luggage. And then at five in the morning, the reality of the events came over me like a fever. I was yelling at another blockhead airline employee who was trying to rationalize with me as to why my luggage was now resting in Houston. What she was saying was complete lunacy, craziness, madness. That's what I was feeling, March Madness. The complete destruction of predictions and assumptions. And to think, it only took me two hours of deep thinking to realize that. . A r .i c JOSE JUAREZ/Daily Eric Riley and the Wolverines hope to slam Illinois State in the first round of the NCAA tournament tonight. WOLFPACK Continued from page 1 Michigan is once again the taller team, as they were against the Cowgirls, but their height ad- vantage is minimal. However, that statistic does not necessarily mean a great deal come tournament time. "We want more than just getting here," Michigan guard Carol Szcz- echowski said. "We want to keep winning and we know we can. We are playing great as a team, and I don't have any doubt in my mind that we can go in and beat North Carolina State." 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