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Michigan almost forgot to play IU
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Secondranked Michigan, flat at the start, just needed a reminder of why it was the preseason favorite for the Big Ten basketball championship. With his club trailing 6-0 and a crowd of 17,253 poised to cheer an upset by No. 15 Indiana, Michigan Coach Bill Frieder decided he couldn’t wait for a television timeout. The game was less than three minutes old when Frieder called time. A minute later Indiana was up 8-0, but then the undefeated Wolverines responded with a 17-2 spurt and were never caught en route to a 74-69 victory in the conference opener for each team. “He (Frieder) just told us to keep our poise,” said 6-foot-ll Ray Tarpley, who had 20 points to go with a 21-point performance by guard Gary Grant. “We were really pumped up to win, and he just reminded us to play aggressive defense and offense,” Tarpley said after Michigan extended its regular-season winning streak to 29. “Tarpley started us off with a slam,” Grant said. “We started punching it inside, and that opened up shots for me and Antoine (Joubert) from the point.” “We really had two different things at the start of the game,” said Indiana Coach Bob Knight. “We got early baskets and a quick lead which was great. But that was also our undoing because we got careless with the lead. We stood around some and got careless with the ball.” A key offensive goaltending call against Indiana late in the game also proved crucial, although Knight declined to discuss it in detail while saying it did take away his club’s momentum. Indiana, down by 12 with 10 minutes to play, had cut its deficit to five when Andre Harris was whistled for offensive goaltending with 3:07 remaining. Knight, who had a technical foul called on him earlier, had to be restrained by his assistants while making a futile protest of the call.
Oklahoma is officially
By HERSCHEL NISSENSON AP Football Writer The Oklahoma Sooners are still in the habit of finishing what they start. Since the Associated Press began a preseason college football poll in 1950, Oklahoma has been ranked No. 1 entering the campaign six times. The Sooners have won the national championship four of those times, capped by Wednesday night’s 25-10 Orange Bowl victory over No. 1 Penn State that gave them the 1985 title. “I don’t think there’s any added pressure,” Coach Barry Switzer said of the Sooners’ preseason status. “I knew we’d be good because of our defense. I knew our defense would carry us.” The Sooners led the nation in total defense and pass defense and finished second in rushing and scoring defense. In winning its sixth national championship, second only to Notre Dame’s seven in the 50 years of the AP poll, Oklahoma received 55 of 57 first-place votes and 1,138 of a possible 1,140 points
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Indiana State's aggressive defense, with hands flying everywhere, caused a lot of loose balls and turnovers during Thurdsay night's game at Hulman Civic Center. Butler's Chad Tucker (left) and Tony Jones (right) can't get a handle on this one because of ISU's falling Jeff Mc-
Even Michigan’s Joubert questioned the call. “I didn’t see it (the goaltending),” he said. “I wouldn’t have called it if I was the ref. It was a little too close.” Steve Alford, denied the basketball by an aggressive Michigan defense in the first half, had 17 of his team-high 20 points after the break to keep the 8-3 Hoosiers in the game. “Alford was on a roll, I didn’t think he was going to miss,” said Michigan Coach Bill Frieder. Tarpley ignited Michigan’s first half spurt by sinking a dunk with 16:05 left. “We just followed our game plan,” Grant said. “That was to try and get (Andre) Harris and (Daryl) Thomas in foul trouble by going to our big fellows, Then when we needed the clutch basket we threw it inside for a dunk of a 3-point layup by any of our big fellows.” Indiana returns to action Sunday when Michigan State visits Assembly Hall. Michigan will be at Ohio State Saturday. Minnesota Coach Jim Dutcher said Illinois took the game away by taking control of the inside. “They completely shut us down inside,” Dutcher said, “and they dominated us so badly inside that we never really had a chance.” Illinois improved to 10-2 overall, while Minnesota dropped to 10-4. Michigan State Coach Jud Heathcote had a concise explanation for the Spartans’ loss to Ohio State. With Sellers scoring 22 points and grabbing a game-high 14 rebounds, and Hopson tossing in 32 points and chipping in with five assists, the Buckeyes put an end to a two-game losing skid while running their record to 7-3. Michigan State is 9-2. MICHIGAN (74) Rellford 4-7 2-3 10. Wade 04) 5-6 5, Tarpley 8-14 4-4 20, Joubert 3-812-1518, Grant 9-13 3-6 21, Henderson 0-0 04) 0. Thompson 0-10-10, Rice 04) 04) 0. Totals 24-43 26-35 74. INDIANA (69) Calloway 7-11 3-4 17, Harris 5-7 0-110, Thomas 4-5 04) 8, Alford 9-15 2-4 20, Morgan 4-5 0-0 8, Jadlow 1-2 0-1 2, Robinson 2-2 04) 4, Eyl Ol 04) 0, Witte 04) 04) 0 Totals 32-48 5-1069 Halftime—Michigan 35, Indiana 27. Total fouls—Michigan 17, Indiana 26. A—17,253.
from a nationwide panel of sports writers and sportscasters. Three voters did not "Submit their ballots and could not be reached. Oklahoma will receive the Associated Press-Paul W. “Bear” Bryant national championship trophy at a date to be announced. Michigan, rebounding from last year’s 66 embarrassment, finished a distant second to Oklahoma after defeating Nebraska 27-23 in the Sunkist Fiesta Bowl. The Wolverines, No. 5 in the final regularseason poll, received one first-place vote and 1,032 points. The Orange Bowl loss after five weeks as the na ion’s No. 1-ranked team cost Penn State what would have been its second national championship in four years. Instead, the Nittany Lions finished third with 990 points. “We were beaten by a better team,” Coach Joe Patemo said. Oklahoma won national championships in 1956, 1974, 1975 and this season after starting out No. 1, although each time they
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crowned national champion for sixth time •
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Tony Yelovich, offensive line coach at Stanford, has been hired by Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz, it was announced Friday. Yelovich will receive a specific offensive coaching assignment after Holtz has assembled a full staff of assistants, athletic department
fell from the top spot somewhere along the way. This season, they dropped as low as 10th after a 27-14 loss to Miami on Oct. 19. The Sooners also finished No. 1 in 1950 and 1955 after starting out sixth and second, respectively. They were ranked No. 1 at the start of the 1957 and 1977 seasons but came in fourth and seventh. The only other teams to win national championships after a No. 1 preseason
Comb. Tucker scored 14 points, six below his average, during Butler's sixth loss in nine starts. McComb made six steals to lead the Sycamore defense. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).
Holtz picks Yelovich
spokesman John Heisler said. Yelovich, 44, joined the Stanford staff for the 1984 season after serving as offensive line coach at Tulane from 1980-83 and at Arizona from 1977-79. A native of Paoli, Pa., and a 1964 graduate of Tampa, Yelovich has also coached at Cincinnati, Tennessee Tech, Northeast Missouri State and Wichita State.
ranking were Tennessee in 1951, Michigan State in 1952 and Alabama in 1978. The crowning of the Sooners, who were third going into the Orange Bowl, became a formality when second-ranked Miami lost to Tennessee 35-7 in the Sugar Bowl and No. 4 lowa was beaten by UCLA 45-28 in the Rose Bowl. Tennessee received the other first-place vote in jumping from eighth place to fourth
ISU shows Butler some defense
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor TERRE HAUTE—Oh how things have changed at Indiana State University. The basketball program once known for high-scoring offense and narrow losses, is. now one of the nation’s top defensive teams and off to a 6-3 start under first-year coach Ron Greene. THE SYCAMORES MATCHED their defensive average (ninth in the nation) Thursday night while whipping Butler University 72-54 at Hulman Civic Center before a quiet 3,363 fans. Paced by Jeff McComb’s six steals, the Sycamores held Chad Tucker six points below his 20.4 scoring average and Darrin Fitzgerald 14 points under his 18.5 norm. The 6-7 Tucker scored 14 points on 14 shots from the floor and had a great deal of trouble getting the ball for those efforts. Fitzgerald managed only eight shots. “We did not respond well to the defensive pressure they gave us,” Butler coach Joe Sexson said. “We didn’t adapt well to situations on the floor.” THE BULLDOGS WENT down hill all night. After jumping out to a 7-0 lead executing the patience Sexon was looking for, and getting the ball inside, they were outscored 15-0 by the John Sherman Williams led Sycamores. Williams, who scored 24 on 10 of 22 shooting from the floor and four of five at the free throw line, found the bottom of the net for ISU’s first four points of the night. A steal and three-point play by Darrion Applewhite put the Sycamores ahead 9-7 with 14:39 left in the first half and the Bulldogs never led again. “I asked our team to have a little more patience tonight,” Sexson said of game
Purdue's execution simply perfect in victory over lowa
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Purdue’s Boilermakers did just what their coach had trained them to do: get the ball to Troy Lewis for a last shot. Lewis made the shot, sending the game into overtime, and Purdue went on to defeat lowa 76-73 in a Big Ten college basketball opener for both teams Thursday night. “The players know they are supposed to get the ball to the shooters, and we did just that,” Coach Gene Ready said after the game. “We had no set play to set up Troy for the last shot.” The sophomore guard, who finished with 24 points, also scored the goal that gave Purdue, 12-2, its final lead. The Hawkeyes led 68-86 with nine seconds left in regulation when freshman forward Roy Marble missed a free throw. Purdue’s Todd Mitchell grabbed the rebound and fed it to Lewis, who hit a 10foot jumper with one-second remaining. Ready complained, “We were up 37-30, and before you know we were down 38-37. If we are playing in lowa City we lose the game. Outrebounding lowa 41-26 is a very amazing statistic to me. This was a great victory, but we have to leave it behind and prepare for Minnesota.” lowa, 1(M, led 71-70 and 73-72 in the overtime before Lewis hit a 12-foot jumper with
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with 957 points. The Vols were followed by Florida, which moved up from sixth place td’fifth. The Gators are on probation and did not play in a bowl game. Texas A&M, a 36-16 winner over Auburn in the Cotton Bowl, vaulted from 11th place to sixth with 792 points and cracked the Top Ten for the first time since Oct. 9,1978. UCLA climbed from 13th to seventh with 767 points, followed by Air Force, up from 10th to eighth with 755 points after beating Texas 24-16 in the Bluebonnet Bowl. Miami got a break when Penn State lost but blew its national championship hopes by falling to Tennessee. The Hurricanes skidded from second place to ninth with 699 points. lowa rounded out the Top Ten with 621 points. Nebraska and Brigham Young’s 1984 national champs, seventh and ninth in the final regular-season poll, dropped into the Second Ten, which consists of Nebraska, Arkansas, Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State, BYU, Baylor, Maryland, Georgia Tech and LSU.
plan. “Our shot selection, especially on the road, has to be a better than it was tonight.” SEXSON WASN’T HAPPY with too many players on the court, even Tucker and Fitzgerald. In a rare move, the coach pulled each from the floor during the first half because of their shot selection. Indiana State, meanwhile, used the Butler turnovers and a 37-22 rebounding advantage for spurts that looked more like layup drills. Because of the fast breaks, and breakdowns in Butler’s defense, the Sycamores shot .528 (15-26) from the floor and .615 (16-26) from the free throw line. Butler managed just .451 (23-51) for the night from the floor and hit just .615 (8-13) at the free throw line. COACH SEXSON SAID before he would have to take a look at the lineup before the Jan. 11 Midwestern Collegiate Conference opener with Loyola University at Hinkle Fieldhouse. The Bulldogs have one more pre-conference season game, traveling to Eastern Illinois Wednesday night. Coach Greene did not come to the press room after the game because of radio show commitments. *** SYCAMORE NOTES: Former Attica High School scoring star Jeff Cooper is out
Hoyas lose Big East opener
By The Associated Press This is no time for the Hoyas of Georgetown to fold their cards, says Coach John Thompson. Rather, it may be about time to deal in the Pitt Panthers. The llth-ranked Hoyas, opening their Big East season, lost 80-76 at Pittsburgh Thursday night, dropping to 9-2 on the
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1:06 remaining. Junior forward Doug Lee hit two free throws for Purdue with 24 seconds left. We’re obviously very happy to escape with a victory,” Ready said. “Our program is built on being competitive, and that’s what this game came down to. lowa played better than I thought they would.” lowa Coach George Raveling said, “Purdue played we!!. Lewis is a heckava clutch shooter. We did as well as possible. For starting two freshmen, two sophomores and a senior I think we did a good job against one of the best coaches.” Purdue led 29-26 at halftime and increased that margin to 37-30 with 14:17 left in regulation before the Hawkeyes reeled off a 20-4 scoring spurt in the next 4:56 to gain the game’s biggest lead, 50-41. Sophomore forward A 1 Lorenzen led lowa with 15. lOWA (73) Lorenzen 5-15 5-6 15, Marble 6-7 2-314, Lohaus 1-4 04) 2, Banks 4-10 5-713, Jones 3-7 4-410, Moe 1-5 04) 2, Wright 3-5 2-2 8, Armstrong 1-104) 2, Gamble 04) 04) 0. Horton 1-6 5-7 7. Totals 25-60 23-29 73. PURDUE (78) Lee 7-13 2-2 16, Mitchell 2-9 8-6 12, McCants 2-5 64 10, Gadis 4-7 3-3 11, Lewis 12-19 04) 24, Stephens 1-3 0-1 2, Jones 04) 1-2 1, Robinson 0-1 04) 0, Fisher 04) 04) 0. Totals 28-5720-2276. Halftime—Purdue 29, lowa 26. End of regulation—lowa 68, Purdue 68. Fouled out—Gadis, McCants. Rebounds—lowa 26 (Lorenzen 7), Purdue 41 (Mitchell 12). Assists—lowa 13 (Lorenzen, Banks 3), Purdue 20 (Gadis 6). Total fouls—lowa 17, Purdue 22. Technicals—Purdue bench. A—14,123.
Michigan second to No. 1 Oklahoma By The Associated Press The Top Twenty teams in the final Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, season record, total points based on 20-19-18-1 7-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 and last week's ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Oklahoma (55) 11-1-0 1,138 3 2. Michigan (1) 10-1-1 1,032 5 3 Penn State 11-1-0 990 1 4.Tennessee (1) 9-1-2 957 8 5 Florida 9-1-1 929 6 6. Texas A&M 10-2-0 792 11 7 UCLA 9-2-1 767 13 8. Air Force 12-1-0 755 10 9. Miami, Fla. 10-2-0 699 2 10. lowa 10-2-0 621 4 11. Nebraska 9-3-0 500 7 12. Arkansas 10-2-0 495 14 13. Alabama 9-2-1 484 15 14.0hi0 State 9-3-0 409 17 15. Florida St. 9-3-0 359 18 16. Brigham Young 11-3-0 228 9 17. Baylor 9-3-0 184 18. Maryland 9-3-0 158 T2O 19. Georgia Tech 9-2-1 128 20. LSU 9-2-1 126 12 Others receiving votes: Fresno State 85, Auburn 79, Army 37, Oklahoma State 6, Georgia 4, Minnesota 4, Arizona 3, West Virginia 1.
with a broken foot and could be lost from the ISU squad for the year. The 6-2 freshman had played in just one game for the Sycamores and could be redshirted...Center Ralph Winters is academically ineligible right now... Not only are the Sycamores ninth in the nation in scoring defense (54 points per game), but freshman forward Darrion Applewhite entered Thursday’s contest ninth in the nation in free throw percentage, hitting 20 of 22 for .909 percent. ..John Sherman Williams has now scored 1,995 points at Indiana State and should go over the 2,000point mark Monday night in the Missouri Valley Conference opener at Hulman Center with Illinois State. Williams started the season third on the all-time scoring list behind Larry Bird (2,850) and Jerry Newsome (2,147). Butler (54) Tucker 6-14 2-2 Sl4. Gallahar 44 0-6 48. Yeater 44 6418. Beam 041-2 31, Fitzgerald 24 04 24. Herbert 04 04 00. Fowlkes 0-2 2-2 0 2. Croner 0-1 04 1 0. Givens. 3-7 24 1 8, Jones 44 1-3 3 8. Mackey 04 04 0 0, Harper 0-1 04 2 0Totab FG 23-51, FT 8-13. PF 22 Indiana Stale (72) McComb 4-7143 0. Williams 10-22 44 1 24. Applewhite 5-0 5-7 615. Gillespie 2-2 04 54. Harris 34 34 00, Kegerrets 12 04 4 2. Martin 04 04 0 0. Cantrell 04 0-1 1 0. Bosh 34 3-3 20. Marshall 04 04 00-Totals FG 2843. FT 16-26, PF 16 HALFTIME SCORE: ISC 30. BU 22 REBOUNDING: ISU 37 (McCombs 15. Applewhite 0). BU 25 (Tucker 6). ASSISTS: BU If (Givens 5). ISU 18 (McComb 5). STEALS: BU 15 (Fitzgerald 4). ISU 15 (McCombO). TURNOVERS: BU 23, ISU 20
season. Georgetown lost last Friday at Pittsburgh, behind Curtis Aiken, led by as many as 14 points in the second half and took advantage of some poor free-throw shooting to hold on. Trailing 76-72, the Hoyas saw Reggie Williams miss the first shot of a 1-and-l, then Michael Jackson missed two foul shots.
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