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THE PUTNAM COUNTY BANNER-GRAPHIC, MARCH 3/4/ ,975

Charge for tournament bids continues in Bis. Ten

By JOE MOOSHIL AP Sports Writer Indiana's undefeated and topranked Hoosiers will take a well-earned rest this week, while Michigan, Minnesota, Purdue and Michigan State put on a final charge for possible post-season tournament bids. The Hoosiers ran their winning streak to 31 games —l7 in the Big Ten and 28 this season with an 86-78 victory over Ohio State Saturday. * Michigan, Minnesota and Michigan State all improved their tournament hopes with victories. Michigan dumped Purdue 9376 in a regionally televised game; Minnesota whipped Northwestern 66-58, and Michigan State defeated Illinois 9682. lowa broke a seven-game losing streak with a 75-68 decision over Wisconsin. Indiana and Ohio State are idle tonight, but the charge for

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tournament bids continues with Pirdue at Michigan State, Illinois at Michigan, Wisconsin at Minnesota and Northwestern at lowa. The season end next Saturday with Michigan State at Indiana; Minnesota at Purdue; Michigan at Ohio State; lowa at Illinois, and Northwestern at Wisconsin. Indiana, led by Steve Green’s 29 points, rolled to a 15-point halftime lead over Ohio State and then stretched it to 19 points before the Buckeyes started whittling away. “I thought we started out well in the second half,” said Hoosier Coach Bobby Knight. “But then we stammered and stuttered around and didn’t get it going after the first three minutes. I think we’re tired. I think we played tired. I don’t offer that as an excuse, but we’re just tired and that’s a big concern to us right now.

“Our kids have gone through 28 games and have been ready to play every one,” said Knight. “Mentally, it takes, its toll.” Coaches Gus Ganakas of Michigan State and Johnny Orr of Michigan had to be happy following their victories Saturday. “We needed to win this game,” said Ganakas. “It was very important to us for a possible tournament bid. If we beat Purdue Monday night, I feel we will have a good chance for a

Porter lends 21 assists to Bullet Laker-licking

By ALEX SACHARE AP Sports Writer K.C. Jones knows what to look for in a little man—a playmaker, a quarterback who can set the tempo of a team’s offense, a hustler who can harass an opponent into mistakes on defense. Jones was that type of player

Colonels beat Nets but lose ground

By The Associated Press The Kentucky Colonels won their battle against the New ’ York Nets over the weekend, but still lost ground in the war. Kentucky came up with a superb effort to beat the Nets 9584 in their head-to-head confrontation Saturday night, then saw that effort negated Sunday night when they lost to the San Antonio Spurs 103-98.

Frazier TKO’s Ellis in ninth round

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Now it’s Ali’s turn. I don’t care where I fight him. I just want to see him on the other side of the ring.” Smokin’ Joe Frazier was speaking Sunday in his dressing room, wrapped in a bright yellow towel. He’d easily dispatched a tired and defenseless Jimmy Ellis in nine rounds, and nothing seemed to matter now but a fight with Ali. “I feel great,” he whooped suddenly. “I feel like I could take Muhammad right now.” Frazier beat Ali in 1971 but lost to him in January 1974. But he hardly has a return date with the champion in the bag. All Ali has said is that he’d “talk about” facing the winner of the Melbourne fight. And in the meantime, the champion has a fight March 24 with Chuck

post-season bid regardless of the outcome of our final game against Indiana.” Steve Grote scored 22 points, 20 of them in the second half, to lead Michigan over Purdue. “I didn’t want to beat them, I wanted to kill them,” said Grote. “All the people in the Midwest were watching. Now they know how good we are and they see we should be in the NCAA playoffs.” Although it isn’t mandatory, the NCAA Selection Committee

with the Boston Celtics, and as coach of the Washington Bullets he’s got a sparkplug who also fits that description—the unheralded Kevin Porter. Porter, the Bullets’ “other” guard who labors in the shadow of high scorer Phil Chenier, handed out a club-record 21 assists Sunday to lead Washing-

The Nets’ 117-100 victory over St. Louis Friday night and 11187 rout of Memphis Sunday more than offset the loss at Kentucky. They came out of the weekend with a net gain of onehalf game on the Colonels in their torrid race for first place in the Eastern Division of the American Basketball Association. New York, with a 46-19

Wepner, and says he wants to give George Foreman a rematch. Then there is the everpresent possibility that Ali might call a halt to Ms boxing career entirely. The $325,000 Frazier-Ellis bout at the St. Kilda Junction oval was billed as the “Showdown at St. Kilda.” But afterwards, many fans were calling it the “St. Kilda Letdown.” Ellis held his own for the first three rounds, winning them on points. But Frazier was probably just feeling out his opponent, and from the third round on Frazier was clearly in control. Frazier struck out with the expected left hooks, but threw in right hooks and jabs that surprised his opponent. Frazier bobbed and weaved constantly, making himself a tough target

is expected to reach into the Big Ten for a second team in the tournament which has been expanded to 32 berths this season. “I hope the NCAA committee takes two teams from the Big Ten,” said Purdue Coach Fred Schaus. “Every team has lost twice to Indiana and I think our league is as good as any in the country.” Michigan Coach Johnny Orr said about Purdue’s cliances, “If they get a bid, I wish them

ton to its 21st consecutive homecourt victory, a 117-104 triumph over the Los Angeles Lakers. The 21 assists were the most by any player in a National Basketball Association game this season. Porter scored just four points, but teammates Chenier had 27, Mike Riordan 24 and Nick Weatherspoon 22.

record, now hold a lead of one full game over the second-place Colonels. Elsewhere in the ABA Sunday, the Utah Stars defeated the Virginia Squires 93-83, the Indiana Pacers edged the Spirits of St. Louis 104-99 and the Denver Nuggets beat the San Diego Conquistadors 133-117., Nets 111, Sounds 87

to hit. In the seventh round,-a Frazier hook opened a cut over Ellis’ right eye. Ellis manager, Angelo Dundee, took a look and sent Ellis back in, but by the ninth round he knew Jimmy had had enough. He shouted, “Bob, Bob, end it” to referee Bob Foster, the retired world light heavyweight champion, and the fight ended at seconds of the round. The judges’ point ratings gave Frazier the fight by 112106. Frazier’s record is now 3220 with 27 knockouts, against 39-12-1 with 23 kayos for Ellis. The promoters of the fight recorded a paid attendance of 15,000, far short of the 52,000 capacity. They estimated a gate of $327,000 from tickets which were scaled from $lO to $65.

the best.” As things now stand, Michigan, Minnesota and Purdue are all tied for second place with 10-6 records and Michigan State is a step away with a 9-7 record. However, Michigan and Minnesota have the best overall records - both with 17-7. Michigan State is 16-8 and Purdue follows at 15-9. Assuming the NCAA selects a second Big Ten team for its tournament, the others will be

“Our offense was moving real well today,” said Porter, who like his coach is just six feet tall but makes up for any lack of height with speed, ballhandling, defense and just plain hustle. The victory raised Washington’s record to 48-17, best in the NBA.

Julius Erving and John Williamson tallied 20 points apiece for the Nets, who broke the game open with a 13-2 burst in the third period. New York also got a lift from its bench, with Bill Melchionni scoring 10 points and adding eight assists, Willie Sojourner nine points and five rebounds and Ed Manning eight point and eight rebounds. Stars 93, Squires 83 Ron Boone nettd 13 of his 23 points in the final period to lead Utah to victory. Virginia led by as much as 13 points in the early going, but Randy Denton and John Roche combined for 10 points in the third period to give Utah the lead. Pacers 104, Spirits 99 Rookie center Len Elmore scored a career-high 18 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, made nine steals and blocked six shots for Indiana, which notched its eighth victory in the last 10 starts. ABA scoring leader George McGinnis netted 23 points for Indiana while rookie Marvin Barnes topped the Spirits with 30. Nuggets 133, Q’s 117 Denver got 22 points from Mike Green, 19 from Ralph Simpson and 18 each from Bobby Jones, Mack Calvin and Dave Robisch in ending its twogame losing streak and raising its record to 50-17 best in the ABA. A crowd estimated at 6,500 turned out for the came, largest of the year for the Q’s. But many were apparently attracted by a rock concert which was held immediately after the game.

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eligible for the Conference Commissioners’ Tournament and also the National Invitational Tournament which Purdue won last year. Grote’s performance wasn’t the only outstanding one Saturday although Orr said, “You don’t see many performances like Grote’s in the second half.”. Green scored Indiana’s first 10 points in the second half enroute to his total of 29, while Quinn Buckner, outstanding on

In other games, the Seattle Super Sonics tripped the Boston Celtics 104-97, the Philadelphia 76ers beat the New York Knicks 91-87, the Kansas City Omaha Kings defeated the Detroit Pistons 122-112, the Houston Rockets topped the Phoenix Suns 110-104 and the Portland Trail Blazers trounced the Golden State Warriors 122-86. Sonics 104, Celtics 97 Seattle stars Spencer Haywood and Fred Brown combined for 59 points, including 11 in the final 2V2 minutes to stop the Celtics in the nationally televised game. Haywood, who had 30 points, put Seattle ahead 96-95 with a three-point play. Brown followed with a twisting layup, a long jumper and an off-balance baseline jumper, then Haywood clinched the victory with a dunk. Haywood had 14 of his points in the fourth period. 76ers 91, Knicks 87 Philadelphia completed a weekend sweep of "the Knicks by erasing a 10-point deficit behing Fred Carter’s 24 points,

Notre Dame looking

for NCAA invitation

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Notre Dame, finishing the regular basketball campaign with an 18-8 record, is awaiting word on a playoff bid hopefully from the NCAA. “It is obvious we could go to the NIT, but the NCAA has always been our goal,” Coach Digger Phelps said after the lfith-ranked Irish defeated Dayton 102-69 Saturday night in South Bend. “This was supposed to be our rebuilding year,” Phelps added. “Nobody expected us to get this far. We’ve been ranked all year, and we’ve won 11 of our last 13 games.” Adrian Dantley paced the Irish with 33 points. Dayton, 1114 with one game left, was led by Johnnie Davis’ 31 points. Phelps noted the Irish made two adjustments at halftime after solving the Flyers’ zone

defense, added 19. Larry Bolden led Ohio State with 22 and Bill Andreas hit for 20. Terrj' Furlow, the Big Ten’s leading scorer, had 22 for Michigan State, but game honors went to Illinois’ Otho Tucker who had 27. Freshman Mark Olberding scored 24 for Minnesota and grabbed 13 rebounds, while teammate Mark Landsberger added 18 points and hauled down 14 rebounds.

including two baskets in the late going. The 76ers now trail the thirdplace Knicks by just 14 games in the Atlantic Division and are still very much in the running for the Eastern Conference wild card playoff berth. Kings 122, Pistons 112 Nate Archibald scored 32 points, Sam Lacey added 22 and Scott Wedman had 21 for the Kings, who won their seventh straight home game before a crowd of 14,843 at Kansas City. Rockets 110, Suns 104 Ed Ratleff tossed in a careerhigh 31 points for the Rockets, who also got 25 from Mike Newlin and 20 from Rudy Tomjanovich. Blazers 122, Warriors 86 Portland posted its third consecutive victory behind Lloyd Neal, who scored 23 points in the first half and 28 overall. The Blazers led 22-20 after one period, then broke the game open with a 24-8 burst to start the second quarter and Golden State never caught up.

defense. “We put Dantley at a low post and then we get good penetration on their zone.” “Notre Dame was just fantastic,” Dayton Coach Don Donaher said. “They really exploded on us in the second half. Notre Dame scored eight straight points near the finish of the first half and led 40-32 at intermission. “Their transition from offense to defense and vice versa is what really makes them a good ball club,” Donaher said. “They really get the ball off quickly a ff er getting it off the boards. We wanted to use a zone defense on Notre Dame and all of our scouting reports said to use the zone. “But you have to have an offense to stay with a zone defense. We got behind by 10 and we just had to come out of the zone.”