Scoreboard |{irl ft .- Making a 'M'ess NATIONAL Phoenix at Are you ready for some football? A Saturday morning KEY LEAGUE DALLAS, inc. party At 9:55 a.m. tomorrow, the one and only Mud NT Islanders at COLLEGE pry N RANGERS inc FOOTBALL Bowl will be played in that huge hole next to Sigma St. Louis at Stanford at Alpha Epsilon, on the corners of South University and OTTAWA, inc. ARIZONA STATE, inc Washtenaw. New Jersey at COLLEGE PHILIDELPHIA, inc. HOCKEY Frida CHICOic. MAMAoRhe 3 (Ooptbo 19n - -Another uop~tion Cameron's return has Hoosiers alive again By Shaat Ru Daily Sports Editor If there has ever been anyone who seems like he has been bred to do some- thing, it's Indiana football coach Cam Cameron. See for yourself: He's from Terre Haute, Ind. - as 'Hoosier' as a town can be - where his father coached football at Indiana State. He went to Indiana. Played basketball for Bobby Knight and football for Lee Corso. He is married to a girl from Bloomington. Even his hair is Hoosier red. In short, there is no other perfect candidate to lead the Hoosiers to respectability on the gridiron. Not to mention that he is a pretty remarkable coach. In only his second season at the helm, teams are Cameron fearing the Hoosiers. Indiana has been in a position to win each of its six games, blowing late-game leads each time. A 3-3 record overall (1-2 Big Ten) is already better than last year's 2-9 finish. "I'm satisfied we're heading in the right direction,' Cameron said. The path back to Bloomington took two significant detours, however. After graduating in 1983 from Indiana, Cameron considered taking a job some- where as an assistant coach. See CAMERON, Page 13 DANA UNNANE/Daily Junior Stacey Thomas and the Michigan women's basketball team has given coach Sue Guevara reason to be optimistic for the upcoming season. Women's hoops' (uevara confident Z @y Uma Subramanian Daily Sports Writer in most societies, it's the blue- collar workers who get the job done. A blue-collar worker can sometimes spend his whole life perfecting a particular skill, &orking hard in the process. .7To coach Sue Guevara's delight, the players on this year's Michigan women's basketball team has such tendencies. "I like this team," Guevara said. "This team is a blue-collar worker team ... and they got one of the best compliments. (Strength and conditioning coach) Jim Plocki said to me *ue, your team can work. They to not give up, they're very com- petitive and they're workers'." The Wolverines will need the work to make the new team gel, after losing four seniors who were the crux of the team last season. This year, Michigan will espe- cially feel the effects of last year's graduation in the post- where it will have to find some- Se who can replace former all ig Ten and current WNBA play- er Pollyanna Johns. "When you lose a player like Pollyanna Johns ... you lose her presence on the floor," Guevara said. "She did a pretty good job defensively, a good job rebound- ing, and she made people play us honest. "This year, we're going to have * couple of kids who are going to step up and try to fill her shoes." The Wolverines are a young team without any seniors. Regardless, they are not inexperi- enced. They return three starters from last year's team. Junior guard Stacey Thomas - last year's Big Ten leader in steals - will be looked to on the offen- sive end. Last year, Thomas was second in scoring behind Johns. Additionally, Thomas gained invaluable experience playing with the USA Basketball Select Team this past summer. Starting with Thomas in the backcourt will be Anne Thorius, who after her freshman year, holds the Michigan record for 3- point field goal percentage. Also returning to the starting lineup is junior Ann Lemire. "They're all experienced play- ers who've all been in the Big Ten," Guevara said. "I don't think they fear anybody at all. Andy, I'd put those three up against any- body. That's where the leadership is going to come from." The women's basketball season tips off against the Swiss National Team in two weeks. But that is only the first game in a very tough non conference schedule. Though they lost the majority of last year's low-post game, Guevara and the team are opti- mistic about their chances for success. In fact, they've even spoken of returning to the NCAA tourna- ment. Normally, that's off-limits. We're playing "a schedule that will get us ready for the Big Ten," Guevara'said. "Obviously one of the goals is to get to the NCAA Tournament. and strength of schedule is one of the factors they use to evaluate the teams." For right now, however, Guevara said she is pleased with the way her team is coming along. "But, I really like this team," Guevara repeated. "I like the makeup of this team and the chelhistry on this team." The Michigan football team will have its hands full tomorrow when Indiana brings another option offense to town. Coach Lloyd Carr will rely on Tal Streets and the offense to contribute. Randle El, hated offense likely By Jim Rase Daily Sports Editor Here we go again. Jarious Jackson and Donovan McNabb, in all like- lihood, have been on the televisions and VCRs in Bloomington this past week. And why not? With the way those two option quar- terbacks handled Michigan earlier this season, there's no reason to think Indiana coach Cam Cameron & Co. won't be looking for every hint they can find in the days leading up to tomorrow's game in Ann Arbor. Three games into the conference season, Indiana, and not Michigan, owes its success to a freshman quarterback. He's smart, he's fast, he's all the rage - and, wouldn't you know it, he just happens to run the option. Just Michigan's luck. So here we go again. In a week that's usually a breather-- usually the gear-up win that leads into the crucial stretch of the Big Ten schedule - the Wolverines are faced with the unenviable task of defending Antwaan Randle El, the electric freshman whose athletic ability has made Indiana a team to be reckoned with. Without further ado, let's get to the matchups. We'll start, of course, with the one everyone will be watching ... INDIANA RUSHING OFFENSE VS. MICHIGAN RUSHING DEFENSE Antwaan Randle El runs the option, and he runs it well. And judging from past performances, Michigan's defense would seem to be just his type. But in reality, after a pair of early-season disasters against the option, the Wolverines have more than righted themselves against the run. With the down- linemen as healthy as they've been all year, and Dhani Jones likely returning from a knee injury that kept him out of action last week, Michigan's defense should be jumping. And if anything's certain, it's this: The Wolverines are just dying to prove that they can, after all, stop the option. Having said all that, Antwaan Randle El will still run like the wind. EDGE: EVEN INDIANA PASSING OFFENSE VS. MICHIGAN PASSING DEFENSE Here's where the Wolverines could be most vulner- able. Like the rush defense, the secondary has made strides. Unfortunately, many of those strides have been in pursuit of runaway receivers. Actually, that's too harsh. Everyone sees that D'Wayne Bates caught eight passes last week against big headaches the Wolverines, but few remember that once the game progressed to crunch time, the secondary tightened up. Bates didn't catch a single pass in the fourth quar- ter. But, with 189 passing yards each game, Antwaan Randle El has consistently made run-wary defenses pay. And you can bet that Michigan, with its option history in mind, will be stacking the line against the run. With Marcus Ray still out of action, tomorrow's game will be a serious test for the likes of Andre Weathers, James Whitley and the safeties. All, no doubt, have something to prove. Having said all that, Randle El will pass to his heart's content. This is starting to sound familiar. EDGE: INDIANA MICHIGAN RUSHING OFFENSE VS. INDIANA RUSHING DEFENSE Here's where it changes. With the old reliable. In the prequel to the Mud Bowl, Justin Fargas slipped, slithered and slopped his way to 130 yards last week in what Lloyd Carr termed "one of the finest performances" he'd seen by a freshman at Michigan. More encouraging, at least to Carr, was the fact that See MATCHUPS, Page 13 U _________ i M s ® t - . . . 1. b/4 J t15 L A .' Belize Russia Ireland eto St b 0 VEU 232 Bay State Road iostonMA 02215 617/453-9888 E-Mail abroad@bu.edu Visit our web pages " https/www.bu.edu/abroad PIisieuaiopprulityv iAeirm otiveActiiinostituti'. N"e Ecuador China m a a. 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