d~ Men's Basketball vs. Purdue Tonight, 8 p.m. Crisler Arena SPORTS Men's Swimming and Diving vs. Stanford Friday, 7 p.m., and Saturday, 5 p.m. Canham Natatorium The Michigan Daily Wednesday, January 15, 1992 Page 9 M' ready for Boilers d Wolverines hope to run Purdue by John Niyo Daily Basketball Writer Gene Keady wants a repeat. Steve Fisher doesn't. But only one of the two coaches in tonight's Michigan- Purdue matchup will get his wish. The other will see his team drop to 1-2 in Big Ten play. Michigan (9-2 overall) will look to bounce back from a disap- pointing 73-64 loss at Minnesota that came on' the heels of an over- time victory at Iowa. Meanwhile, Purdue (9-5) has played 90 minutes of basketball in its first two games - an overtime loss last Wednesday at Illinois fol- lowed by an overtime victory Saturday over Iowa in West Lafayette. All that leads Keady to believe that Michigan has a rather large ad- vantage. "I think they'll bounce back great, because I don't think that coach Fisher will let them be down," Keady said. "We know they'll be ready for their first home game in the Big Ten. Unfortunately, we have to be the team that goes in there first. We're probably playing them at a bad time." Fisher, who gave his team the day off Monday, hopes Keady is right. "I'm positive that we're going to play hard," Fisher said. "But we've also got to play smart. (The players) worked hard this week. But we weren't so good with our execu- tion in practice. That worries, me ,----'11 " out of Crisler "If we run with people that have more experience than us and have better players, we're going to get killed." Purdue will count on the leader- ship of senior guard Woody Austin to try to slow down the pace. Austin has improved steadily this fall after having his season cut short last year when he was declared aca- demically ineligible for the second semester. "It took him a while to get back into the flow of things," Keady said. "He's using the offense to his advantage, coming off screens and squaring up. He's not doing some of the things that maybe you pick up during a layoff." Austin is the focal point of Purdue's offense, leading three Boilermakers in double figures with 16.8 points a game. Center Craig Riley and first-year guard Matt Waddell both average 10.8. Riley lit up the Wolverines last year in Ann Arbor, scoring 23 points with seven rebounds in an 83-77 victory. "We've been working on keeping them from getting the offensive re- bounds, working on boxing out, ba- sically all practice," forward Rich McIver said. "We were doing it real well before, so we need to get back in control of that." ik Austin One of the aspects of tonight's contest that has the Michigan coach- ing staff concerned is the tempo of the game. The Wolverines would like nothing more than to get out and run, especially at home to help fire up a crowd they haven't seen in nearly a month. The Boilermakers, on the other hand, will come into Crisler with a completely different game plan. "We were not going to let our kids get carried away," Keady said. Michael Talley drives past Duke's Bobby Hurley in action earlier this season. Talley and the rest of the men's basketball team will continue their quest for the Big Ten title when they take on Purdue at 8 p.m. BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK Andrew highlights " . . disappointing week by Ryan Herrington Daily Basketball Writer Although the Michigan women's basketball team got off to a rough start in the Big Ten this past weekend - dropping both its games - the play of center Trish Andrew continued at its usual high level. Against Purdue Friday night, Andrew scored 11 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. She topped both of those marks Sunday against Illinois when she scored 18 points, had 11 boards and tallied eight blocked shots. Then again, achieving double-doubles is nothing new for Andrew. Including the two this weekend, she has posted eight double-doubles in the 11 games this season. For her career, she has 44 in 69 games played. HALL MONITOR: Sophomore Michelle Hall continues to be ham- pered by a broken bone in her right foot, which was injured in a game earlier this season. She will miss both of the Wolverines' games this weekend, and any return to the lineup is still in doubt. "She may well be ready to practice next week," Michigan coach Bud VanDeWege said. "But in my eyes, she'll be back against Minnesota and Iowa (Jan. 24 and 26) at the earliest. "From a coaching standpoint, I'm going to prepare as if she's not going to be back, and if she comes back, well, that's a bonus. I don't mean to be a pessimist, but I have to be realistic and prepare the team for the moment." REBOUND PARADOX: When one looks at the Big Ten leaders in re- bounds, two Wolverines stand out among the top 10 - Andrew and junior Nikki Beaudry. Andrew leads the conference with 11.8 rebounds per game and Beaudry is ninth with 7.5. However, drawing the conclusion that Michigan is a strong rebounding team would be incorrect. Collectively, the Wolverines average only 40.8 * per game, eighth in the conference. This disparity frustrates VanDeWege. "You don't want to panic and make radical changes at this point," VanDeWege said. "But offensive rebounding is going to hurt us, so if I have. to look at some lineup combinations, then I'm going to have to." Icers not where they should be by Josh Dubow Daily Hockey Writer Last weekend's series against Notre Dame began the second half of the Michigan hockey season. While most students have already received their report cards, the grades for the Wolverines have just arrived. The biggest difficulty in compiling these grades is whether to give them strictly on performance or on how close the team has come to fulfilling its potential. Our marks reflect some of both. FORWARDS: Michigan's frontline has undoubtedly been its strength all season. The Wolverines field the top line in the nation with Brian Wiseman (12 goals, 26 assists), Denny Felsner (20, 32) and David Oliver (21, 10). Coach Red Berenson's move to put Cam Stewart (7, 7) and Ted Kramier (11, 8) on the wings with David Roberts (8, 22) has given Michigan a formidable second line. Even though Roberts' scoring has dropped from last season - two even strength goals as opposed to 10 at this point last season - it should be expected considering that he is no longer playing with Felsner. Mark Ouimet's (9, 7) scoring has also dropped now that he no longer centers Felsner. Wingers Dan Stiver (4, 4) and Mike Helber (4, 7) have not shown the scoring prowess they demonstrated late last season. Mike. Stone (4, 6) has once again been a penalty-killing force and has started to show some scoring prowess. Rookies Mike Knuble (2, 6), Ron Sacka (1, 1) and Rick Willis (0, 0) have struggled to adjust to the collegiate game. Sacka proved to be a strong penalty killer early in the year but hasn't played much lately. Willis injured his knee in the preseason and has not been given mapy opportunities. While Knuble has played all but one game, he did not have ample opportunity to show off his strong shot in the season's first half. The forwards have sometimes struggled with their defensive assignments. This has led to scoring opportunities for the opponent in transition. Their most notable error came in the first game at Lake Superior, where a missed assignment led to Paul Constantin's game- winning goal. Although the group has been productive offensively, most of the production has come from Wiseman's line. Michigan will need a more balanced attack to advance in the postseason. The Wolverines' top players were held in check against good defensive teams like Lake Superior and Michigan State. The other lines need to lift their games to combat the tightened defenses that Wiseman's line will undoubtedly encounter come tournament time. Grade: B+ DEFENSE: Entering the season, this should have been the strength of the team. Michigan has an imposing lineup with second team All-CCHA See GRADES, Page 10 WHAT'S AC HAPPENING RECREATIONAL SPORTS intramural Sports Program .. s ANTHONY M. CROLL/Daily Wolverine guard Char Durand shoots over Kay Tucker in Friday's 85-68 loss to 10th-ranked Purdue. Sunday, Michigan fell to Illinois, 71-56. NCAA begins reform; more changes needed Theodore Cox ANAHEIM, Calif. - Despite drastic re- forms at each of the last two NCAA conven-. tions, the public perception of college athletics has changed little. With each NCAA sanction imposed on vio- lating schools, there is the notion that athletes face lower academic standards, use steroids and are paid off by cheating coaches. It is often as- sumed that star players will not graduate before they enter the professional ranks. College serves as a minor league system for basketball and football, not as an academic institution. Then there is the image of college athletics being nothing more than a corporate giant with athletic directors acting as CEOs. Television networks and college bowl committees offer schools multi-million dollar deals. Traditional rivalries are dropped in favor of games cast into certain time slots for higher ratings. To look into the debacle, the Knight commis- sion, a panel of university presidents and other * executives, was set up to study the direction of collegiate athletics. The commission revealed only 33 percent of Division I basketball players and 37.5 percent of football players graduate within five years. Toss in the fact that 70 percent of universi- ties lost money on athletics in 1991, and one gets the impression that the whole system is a mess. In reality, it is. The NCAA solution to prob- lems in years past was to enact rules preventing loopholes coaches had discovered. In the 1960s, the NCAA Manual was less than 50 pages; now it approaches 500. Regulations of the recruiting process alone require 30 pages. There is even a rule limiting how many colors of ink can be used on stationery sent to a recruit. Yet, there are hardly any amendments on the academic re- quirements of the student-athlete. The result is confusion by both the coaches and players as to what they can and cannot do. "You've got to be a lawyer to figure this stuff out," Michigan ice hockey coach Red Berenson said recently. But there is hope. The NCAA has begun to. realize that if something isn't done, one of two things will happen. Collegiate athletics will crumble as unprofitable programs are dropped. This has already started at schools like Wisconsin, where several sports, including base- ball, were cut. Or schools will be acting as pro- fessional sports franchises - a minor league system for football and basketball. But this is the ultimate hypocrisy. Universities are institutions of learning, not en- tertainment outlets. "We reject the argument that the only realis- tic solution to the problem is to drop the stu- dent-athlete concept, put athletes on the payroll, and reduce or even eliminate their responsibili- ties as students," the Knight Commission re- ported. "Such a scheme has nothing to do with education, the purpose for which colleges and universities exist. Scholarship athletes are al- ready paid in the most meaningful way possible: See ADVENTURE, Page 10