September 09, 1976 (vol. 87, iss. 1) • Page Image 34
…Page Two, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, September 9, 1976 Baskc;tball.- Shooting for the top spot Fast Wolverines return four starters By KATHY HENNEGHAN The 1976-77 Michigan basketball team…
…, voted Coach of the Year by his colleagues, knows what he has to work with for a change. Prior to last season the Wolverines were an un- known quantity. First and foremost was the problem of replacing '75…
…-pleaser virtually indispensable on the Wolverine fast break. If there was one star on last year's team, it was Green. He seemed reck- less on defense in the early going and sometimes tried to do too much, but he…
…. At season's start, a national championship seemed be- yond their wildest dreams. Nevertheless, come the end of March, the Wolverines were playing in the na- tional finals versus nemesis Indiana. But…
…-4 in the Big Ten, good for second place in the conference behind the Hoosiers, h a d earned the Wolverines a spot in the first round of the tourney against Wich- ita State. Behind by as much as 13 points…
… to spark a come-from-behind 95-88 victory over Missouri in the Regional final. T h e Tigers' Willie Smith was phenomenal with 43 points, but the more team- oriented Wolverines von the right to the…
… national semis in Philadelphia. From the opening 90-63 rout of a veteran Vanderbilt club, the Wolverines proved themselves a force to be reck- oned with. What might have been a re- building year began to…
… his tenure at Michigan. The Wolverines came of age in a hard-fought 82-81 loss at Tennessee. They stormed past their next five non- conference foes before losing at Ne- vada-Las Vegas in an unevenly…
… at Bloomington a month later was perhaps the finest ef- fort of the season. Before a national television audience, the Wolverines droped a thriller that they appeared to have won and many thought they…
… extra period, 72-67. Michigan was clearly a team cap- able of rising to a challenge. But it was also a team guilty of mental lapses. In general, the Wolverines were at their best when fighting for their…
