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. MOVING SO SOON? 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