The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday - October 28, 1990- Page 7
Erasing a nightmare
Hoosiers beat jinx to win five-set match
while keeping sights set on bigger goals
by David Schechter
Daily Sports Writer 1
BLOOMINGTON - The Indiana
volleyball team woke up from a bad
dream Saturday by defeating the
Wolverines.
Every match the Hoosiers have
lost in the Big Ten this year has
gone five games. In two of those
five matches the team even lead by
two games. Saturday was a relief for
the Hoosiers as they swept Michigan
in three straight games 15-11, 15-
12, 15-15.
"What has happened," said
captain Amy VanSchoyck, "is that
we've lost every Big Ten match that
has gone five games. We're 0-5
when we go five games.
Indiana's senior captain Joy
Jordan couldn't figure out her team's
dillema. "I have been racking my
brains as to why we can't win the
fifth game. Subconsciously, we
think if we don't win in the third or
fourth game, then we have the fifth,
the other team puts it into overdrive
and we just stand still."
IU coach Tom Shoji knows the
close games have lent experience to
*the team. "I think this year we've
been our most competitive. We have
not been beaten in three games, by
anybody," Shoji said.
"If a team doesn't come in ready
to play us we'll beat them, whereas
last year and the years before teams
could come in here and just not play
very well and still beat us. That
imeans we're taking a big step
forward to becoming competitive.
Now when we find ourselves in a
five game match we have a chance of
winning."
Michigan came fully prepared to
play Indiana but found the Hoosiers
too talented for their tastes.
Michigan coach Peggy Bradley-,
Doppes holds the Indiana program in,
high esteem. IU's Jordan gave the
Wolverines the most trouble with
her 53 assists.
"They're smart and I think Joy
(Jordan) is doing a good job. Joy
came in and right now she's taking
real good control. I think they're
running a pretty effective middle.
There slide is working really well,"
Bradley-Doppes said.
Losing five Big Ten matches has
destroyed the Hoosiers' hope of Big
Ten glory. "We lost five matches in
the first round, and all five were in
five games. Three of them I thought
we could have won. Two of them for
sure," Shoji said.
"If we had done that we would
have been right in the thick of
things. But losing five we're out of
the Big Ten race. But we're not out
of the race to make post-season play
somewhere," he continued.
If Indiana plays the rest of the
season the way it thinks it can, it
could find itself as one of the sixteen
teams invited to the Women's
Invitational Volleyball Champion-
ship. The Hoosiers just missed that
plateau last year.
Shoji knows what it will take if
the Hoosiers want to play in the
post season. "I think we play well
and I think we're really a well
rounded team... our strength comes
when everyone on our team plays at
a pretty high level," Shoji said.
"Not everyone can play at their
best all the time. Every once and a
while we have a player, just playing
4 out of her mind, and if the rest of
them play at a good level, we're real,
real good," he added.
The Hoosiers rely heavily on
their starting six players, and have
trouble functioning without them.
"We really get hurt when one or two
of our players plays below their
level. We don't have the strength to
overcome that. All six of our players
have to play at a pretty high level
for us to be successful," Shoji said.
The future is wide open for
Indiana volleyball, as far as
VanSchoyck is concerned. "As far as
next year goes, we've got only two
people leaving the team, and our
junior class is very, very strong."
That means intense competition
for a few spots. That competition
will get even tighter if Shoji brings
in the recruiting class he hopes to.
He feels his team could win the Big
Ten but they are, "two of three
players away. I need to find players
that are very very athletic, big and
mobile."
Players like that would put the
Hoosiers in the running for the Big
Ten title. And if the league remains
the way Bradley-Doppes sees it for
the next few years - "this year the
Big Ten is really open. Anybody can
come in and really kick people
around," - Indiana might be doing
the kicking very soon.
Indiana volleyball coach Tom Shoji led his team to a seep over the Wolverines in Saturday's contest. The loss
dropped Michigan to 0-11 in the Big Ten.
Tarkanian volunteers to sit out
NCAA's if team is allowed to play
Coleman apologizes to Nets after
signing contract for $1
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
(AP) - Derrick Coleman apologized
Sunday and so did Willis Reed and
other New Jersey Nets' executives.
The welcome party for the NBA's
No.1 draft pick was anything but a
party with less than a week to go be-
fore the Nets' season opener.
Derrick Coleman was late and no
one was happy, particularly the
Nets, who are going to need a lot of
help to avoid being the worst team
in the league again.
Coleman was going to be part of
the solution. Instead, he's become
part of the problem.
The NCAA's all-time leading re-
bounder missed training camp and
said he won't be at full speed for two
tQ three weeks. That might be a lit-
tI late for the Nets.
"I never thought it would take
this long, but I'm glad it's over,"
* Coleman said Sunday after signing a
five-year deal that will pay him at
least $15 million.
"Sure, we're a little disap-
pointed," said Bob Casciola, the
Nets' chief operating officer. "We
wanted very badly to get this done
sooner. But it just didn't work out."
It didn't work out because the
Nets and Coleman's agent, Harold
MacDonald, were far apart at the
start of negotiations.
"When this thing began there was
a large difference between us," Nets
owner Alan Aufzien said. "But the
final contract is a good compromise
for everyone."
Coleman, the 6-foot-10 forward
who set all the scoring and rebound-
ing records at Syracuse, reportedly
will receive about $2.5 million this
season. He also will get a $1 mil-
lion signing bonus and his contract
is laced with incentives for making
the all-rookie team, being named
5 million
rookie of the year and being ranked
in the top five in scoring and re-
bounding.
The deal to sign Coleman was
completed Wednesday but the Nets
had to wait until Sunday to fit him
into their salary cap. Nets
spokesmanJohn Mertz said the team
would announce several player
moves by Monday.
The first four years of the con-
tract are reportedly guaranteed. The
Nets have the option to pick up the
fifth year.
Coleman isn't even thinking that
far ahead. All he wants now is some
playing time Friday against Indiana
and a couple of weeks to get ready to
move into the starting lineup ahead
of Jack Haley.
New Jersey won 17 games last
season, even fewer than the two ex-
pansion teams, Orlando (18-64) and
Minnesota (22-60).
CHICAGO (AP) - UNLV
basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian
offered to sit out the championship
tournament, forfeit a personal stake
of as much as $100,000 in playoff
revenue, and abstain from recruiting
for a year if the NCAA reverses a
ruling blocking the Runnin' Rebels
from defending their national title.
The offer was one of four
alternatives given to Tarkanian and
officials of University of Nevada at
Las Vegas in a two-hour meeting
Sunday with NCAA Infractions
Committee, capping a 13-year legal
dogfight with UNLV in July by
banishing the Runnin' Rebels from
the 1991 basketball tournament.
The three other alternatives were:
-UNLV's basketball team will
not be permitted to compete in the
1992 tournament
-Tarkanian will sit out both the
1991 and 1992 tournaments.
-UNLV will make no network
TV appearances during the 1991-92
season, reduce its scholarships from
15 to 13, and reduce the number of
official recruiting visits from 18 to
nine in 1991-92; and allow no off-
campus recruiting by the basketball
for a year.
Each alternative was presented as
mutually exclusive, in exchange for
which Tarkanian promised not to
pursue further litigation against the
NCAA.
The Infractions Committee could
let the original ruling stand, accept
any one of the proposals, or re-
package portions of UNLV's four
proposals.
Four of the committee's six
members attended Sunday's secondw
hearing with UNLV officials. They
declined to comment on the matter.
Chairman D. Alan Williams said
only that a decision would be made
"in a timely fashion."
Similarly, both Tarkanian and
UNLV president Robert Maxson
declined to comment directly. How-
ever, the 60-year-old coach, whose
winning percentage is the highest
among active college coaches, said
of the offer, "I hope this will be
sufficient."
There had been considerable
speculation since July that UNLV
would offer sanctions of its own in
an attempt to convince the NCAA to
overturn the 1991 postseason ban.
Tarkanian said he was willing to sit
out this postseason if a bargain
could be struck that would allow this
year's team back into the tourn-
ament.
The offer by Tarkanian to give up
as much as $100,000 stems from a
contractual agreement he has with
the university, providing him with
ten percent of any revenue generated
for the school through postseason
play. According to estimates, UNLV
pocketed about $1 million for wiri-
ning the national championship.
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