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collsfle football and basketball DETROIT FREE PRESSSATURDAY, NOV. 30, 1985 5D Today's names Spartans win on a knockout, 103-60 Cutlass Classic By GENE GUIDI Free Press Sports Writer EAST LANSING The Michigan State Spartans registered one of the quicker decisions in college basketball history Friday night. How quick was it? If the game had been a prizefight, it would have been a first-round TKO. It took the host Spartans only one minute and 34 seconds to get the shell-shocked Central Michigan Chippewas to holler "uncle" in an opening-round game of the Spartan Cutlass Classic at Jenison Field House. They played the whole game, with MSU winning, 103-60.

But neither the two teams nor the 6,903 in the stands had any doubt the Spartans were the winners before two minutes had ticked off the clock. Spartans coach Jud Heathcote explained the flying start this way: "We came out with more determination tonight than in previous games. I guess the Cutlass Classic means a little more to us than others." with 19 points, nine assists and nine rebounds. Carr led all scorers with 22 points. "I was pleased again tonight.

with the play of our guards, but I was most pleased with the defensive improvement of Barry (Fordham) and Mario (Izzo) inside," Heathcote said. Jim Murray paced Central with 13. The Chippewas' best player, Dan Ma-jerle, had a terrible night, hitting on only two-of-10 from the field for four points. "Our game plan was to stop Majerle and that's what we did," Skiles said. Central will meet Delaware in tonight's consolation game, scheduled to start at 6 p.m.

The championship game between MSU and Western will follow. "Western is going to have a very good basketball team at some point of the season," Heathcote said. "I just hope they don't put it all together (Saturday) night." to 15-6. Before long, it was 24-10. "It was just one of those nights when things worked," Heathcote said.

"A lot of things turned out well for us." By the 13-minute mark, the runnin' Spartans had increased their lead to 38-22. Ginsberg and Pirn, filling in for ailing first-year head coach Charlie Coles, tried more time-outs and 11 different players. But by halftime, MSU's lead had swollen to 56-31 and eventually would grow to 45 points. "We gave MSU a lay-up drill," Pirn said. FUELED BY guards Scott Skiles, Carr and Johnson, MSU played a superior brand of racehorse basketball, getting one close-in shot after another off the break.

Skiles, Carr and Johnson combined for 30 of the Spartans' 56 first-half points. Skiles, who didn't play the last eight minutes of the game, finished Michigan State will meet Western Michigan a 77-61 winner over Delaware in tonight's championship game. THE SPARTANS' opening-minute blitz of the Chippewas began when Barry Fordham knocked in a pair of foul shots. Vernon Carr followed by putting in a rebound and then stuffing a shot on a feed from Darryl Johnson. It wasn't so much the fact that the Spartans had a 6-0 lead, but rather the ease with which they sliced through the Chippewas' defense.

The clock showed 18:26 left to play in the half when Central's interim coaches, Dave Ginsberg and Ralph Pirn, voted 2-0 to call a quick timeout. "We just didn't come to play," Pirn 'said. "They just outran us and we couldn't keep up." The Spartans' lead quickly climbed Dame's Allan Plnkett is one of the better backs in the country, and he runs behind a huge, mobile line that has been inconsistent Miami's Vlnnle Testaverde is one of the nation's best quarterbacks. Alonzo Hlghsmlth, Warren William and Melvln Bratton are fine backs. Miami's weakness is its defense.

Oklahoma (8-1) at Oklahoma State (8-2) TIME: 7:30 p.m. TV: ESPN. LINE: Oklahoma by 14. OVERVIEW: Oklahoma is coming off its impressive 27-7 win over Nebraska and is headed to the Orange Bowl. But.

the Sooners are aware that a loss here will cost them a national title, something they might not get even if they do defeat Penn State. Only Michigan's defense is rated in a class with Oklahoma's. Oklahoma State's defense isn't shabby, either. Oklahoma freshman sensation quarterback Jamelle Holleway is enough to drive any defense up the wall and Sooners tight end Keith Jackson is excellent. Running back Thurman Thomas is the Cowboys' offense.

Georgia (7-2-1) at Georgia Tech (7-2-1) TIME: 8 p.m. Channel 50. LINE: Georgia by 3. OVERVIEW: Although they have identical records, Georgia plays in the tough Southeastern Conference and Georgia Tech is in the somewhat weaker Atlantic Coast Conference. Running is Georgia's meat and potatoes, with Lara Tate and Keith Henderson doing most of the work.

Tech has a versatile offense, but to take care of the more physical Bulldogs, it figures the Engineers will have to pass often. Vanderbilt (3-6-1) at Tennessee (7-1-2) TIME: noon. LINE: Tennessee by 20. OVERVIEW: A Tennessee victory puts the Volunteers in the Sugar Bowl. Vanderbilt freshman quarterback John Gro-mos is an excellent passer, and that's what the Commodores will need to win.

Tennessee quarterback Daryl Dickey has done a fine job since taking over for injured Tony Robinson. Tennessee's defense is adequate. Vanderbilt's is less than adequate and will have a hard time stopping the Vols. Auburn (8-2) vs. Alabama (7-2-1) TIME: 3:30 p.m.

TV: ABC, Channel 7. LINE: Auburn by 4. OVERVIEW: Auburn tailback Bo Jackson is averaging 164 yards a game, but hasn't performed all that well in the big games. He needs a top-notch effort to remain the front-runner for the Heis-man Trophy. Alabama's offense is more versatile than Auburn's.

Quarterback Mike Shula has led the nation in passing efficiency most of the year. Just seven of his 201 passing atttempts have been intercepted. Albert Bell is one of the nation's best wide receivers. Gene Jelks and Craig Turner are excellent runners. Notre Dame (5-5) at Miami (9-1) TIME: 3:30 p.m.

TV: CBS, Channel 2. LINE: Miami by 12. OVERVIEW: Miami is headed to the Sugar Bowl and would have a chance for the national title if it wins today. Notre It's Duke, Kansas in Big Apple final Eli iii'imimiii Twwiwiswipjwpfftpw1, 4fflWlg- I jfz (PS Vi college basketball Top 20 teams, and the schedule Team W-L-T Opponent W-L-T Line 1. Penn State 11-0-0 idle 2.

Iowa 10-0-0 idle 3. Oklahoma 8-1-0 at Oklahoma State 8-2-0 Oklahoma by 14 4. Miami 9-1-0 Notre Dame 5-5-0 Miami by 12 5. Michigan 9-1-1 idle 6. Florida 8-1-1 Florida State 8-2-0 Florida by 4 7.

Auburn 8-2-0 vs. Alabama 7-2-1 Auburn by 4 8. Nebraska 9-2-0 idle 9. Brigham Young 10-2-0 idle 10. Tennessee 7-1-2 Vanderbilt 3-6-1 Tennessee by 20 11.

Air Force 11-1-0 idle 12. Florida State 8-2-0 at Florida 8-1-1 Florida by 4 13. Louisiana St. 7-1-1 atTulane 1-9-0 LSU by 19 14. Arkansas 9-2-0 idle 15.

Texas 9-2-0 idle 16. UCLA 8-2-1 idle 17. Oklahoma State 8-2-0 Oklahoma 8-1-0 Oklahoma by 14 18. Texas 8-3-0 idle 19. Ohio State 8-2-0 idle 20.

Georgia 7-2-1 at Georgia Tech 7-2-1 Georgia by 3 Free Press Wire Services NEW YORK Senior guard Johnny Dawkins finished with 20 points, including the game-winner with 21 seconds remaining, as sixth-ranked Duke defeated No. 18 St. John's, 71-70, Friday night and moved into Sunday's final of the Big Apple NIT against fifth-ranked Kansas (3-0), which defeated No. 9 Louisville, 83-78. Walter Berry's jumper with 37 seconds left gave St.

John's a 70-69 lead. Duke (4-0) called a time-out before Dawkins hit the winning shot. Berry, a junior forward, finished with 35 points. St. John's (2-1) called time-out with 1 9 seconds left to set up a final shot.

But a short jumper by Mark Jackson bounced off the rim. In the second game, senior guard Calvin Thompson scored 25 points and Ron Kellogg added 20 for Kansas. Thompson connected on a short jumper with 3:54 remaining to give Kansas a 73-72 lead it never relinquished. Kellogg followed that basket with a lay-up and two free throws to give the Jayhawks a 77-72 lead with 2:19 remining. Freshman Pervis Ellison brought the Cardinals to within three on a dunk with 1:57 remaining, but sophomore Danny Manning hit a jumper with 1:31 to go to bring the lead back to five.

North Carolina 84, Missouri 63: Brad Daugherty's 22 points led the top-ranked Tar Heels in the opening round of the Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage. Dan Bingen-heimer scored 12 of Missouri's first 18 points, giving the Tigers an early 18-7 lead before North Carolina pulled ahead and led at the half, 39-31. Bingenheimer led Missouri (2-1) with 21 points, all in the first half. Purdue 92, Alaska-Anchorage 70: Troy Lewis scored 24 for the Boilermakers (2-0) in the Great Alaska Shootout opener. The Division II Seawolves (2-1) turned the ball over 15 times in the first half.

Syracuse 102, Southern California 68: Seniors Wendell Alexis and Rafael Addison led the undefeated and fourth-ranked Orangemen with 22 and 20 points in the third of 10 straight home games. The Orangemen, averaging 100 points a game, took a 47-26 halftime lead. Freshman Tom Lewis led the Trojans (1-2) with 16 points. Wayne State 81, Michigan-Dearborn 40: Forwards Ted McCree and Dwight King combined for 30 points for the Tartars, who advanced to tonight's title game of their Tartar Invitational. Wayne State plays C.W.

Post, which defeated Aquinas, 89-75. McCree, a freshman, had 16 points and King, a junior, added 14 for Wayne State (2-1) Minnesota 95, San Francisco State 63: Marc Wilson scored 16 points and sparked a second-half surge for the Gophers at home. Center John Shasky added 15 for Minnesota (3-1). Oregon 78, Rutgers 59: Guards Anthony Taylor and Rick Osborn scored 21 and 17 points in the Ducks' opener in Eugene, Ore. Oregon scored 14 straight points after trailing most of the game.

Middle Tennessee 94, South Carolina 77: Senior guard Kim Cooksey scored 20 points for Middle Tennessee State (3-1) in the Mid-South Classic. Host Memphis State faced Tennessee State in the second game. The Blue Raiders led by as many as 23 points late in the game. South Carolina (1-3) was led by freshman forward Terry Dozier with 16 points. Houston 100, Texas Wesleyan 73: Greg Anderson scored 23 points, grabbed 20 rebounds and blocked nine shots as the Cougars (1-1) won at home.

Anderson led five Cougars in double figures. Alvin Franklin scored 10 of his 17 points in the second half, Rickie Winslow had 14 points, Renaldo Thomas 17 and freshman Gerry McGee 12. Guard James Smith led the Rams (6-2) with 17. AP Photo Missouri's Gary Leonard blocks a shot by Brad Daugherty of North Carolina at the Great Alaska Shootout Friday night. game, Utah played Houston Baptist.

After Loyola's Keith Smith hit two free throws with 5:44 remaining, the Titans (2-2) reeled off six consecutive points, taking the lead for good. Forrest McKenzie, a senior All-America candidate, scored 30 points for the losing Lions (1-1) women's game Kansas State 82, Central Michigan 63: The Lady Wildcats advanced to the championship game of the Dial Classic tournament against host Minnesota, which defeated New Mexico, 68-57. Kansas State led all the way against Central Michigan (0-3) and held a 39-28 halftime advantage. Clemson 92, East Tennessee State 67: Forward Horace Grant scored 16 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for Clemson in its IPTAY tournament. The Tigers (2-0) will meet the winner of the late game between South Florida and Vanderbilt for the championship.

Florida 85, Florida State 66: Guard Andrew Moten scored 26 points, 19 in the first half, as the Gators (2-0) won in Gainesville. Moten, a 6-foot junior, hit eight of nine shots in the first half. The other guard, Vernon Maxwell, added 19 points. Tat Hunter had 21 points for the Seminoles (1-1). Fullerton State 76, Loyola-Mary-mount 71: Senior Kerry Boagni scored 22 points for the Titans in the first round of the Utah Classic in Salt Lake City.

In a later Dec. 7 Today Brigham Young at Hawaii East Carolina at LSU Army vs. Navy at Philadelphia Southern Methodist at Oklahoma UTEP vs. Wyoming at Melbourne, Australia Alabama vs. Auburn al Birmingham a Florida Stale at Florida Pacific at Fullerton Stale Georgia at Georgia Tech San Diego State at Hawaii Notre Dame at Miami, Fla.

Oklahoma at Oklahoma State Houston at Rice Oreoon vs. Southern California at Tokyo, Japan West Virginia at Syracuse Vanderbilt at Tennessee LSU at Tulane Oakland's ambition is tested early Aggies are No. 1 whatever they are By STEVE HARVEY Universal Press Syndicate Its hopes for a Freedom Bowl berth apparently dashed by a 40-23 loss to Utah State, New Mexico State (1-10) still collected one honor: a free trip to the top of the Bottom 10. The Aggies (what is an Aggie, anyway?) now must nervously await the ftsrs sM Steve Crowe mi Michigan colleges outcome of next week came between No. i Tulane (1-9) and Bottom 10 outsider LSU (7-1-1).

Dottom 10 The exclusive Bottom 10 Computer Glitch system calculates that the Green Ripple can nab the 5 traditional Dunce Cap, emblematic of No. 1, by falling to LSU by 56 or more points. Meanwhile, the Dec. 7 Boomerang Bowl between Wyoming (2-8) and the University of Texas at El Paso-Hit-a-Cheerleader 1-9) in Australia will have no bearing on the title. The Bottom 10 selectors do not recognize games played outside the United States or in some rural areas of South Dakota.

USC (5-5), which had made plans to leave the country in anticipation of a fourth straight loss to UCLA, meets Oregon (5-5) in Tokyo on Saturday. The game is of little significance since New Mexico and New Mexico State (with 18 losses between them) have already clinched the state tag-team title for most defeats (Oregon and Oregon State have only 13). The rankings If Oakland University ends its basketball season with a conference title, Greg Kampe can truthfully say the first 1 y2 weeks laid the groundwork. And if, say, five or six years down the road, the Pioneers have completed their master plan for breaking into Division he can say the very same thing. Embarking on an ambitious upgrading of its program, Oakland is essentially asking its team to run the court in ankle weights during its first four games.

Kampe hopes that by watching his Pioneers try to stay with Detroit, Western Michigan, Northern Michigan and Ball State, he'll find out if major-college basketball is a reasonable goal. He might also find out what it's like to begin the conference season 1-3. When Kampe, 29, was hired before last season after being an assistant at Toledo since 1979, the university made it clear that Division I status appeared not only attractive, but viable, in the future. Kampe has 12 full scholarships to offer (up from eight when he arrived) and everything from meals to transportation is now "first class," he said. "WE DECIDED THAT the best way to prepare ourselves was to go out and play those teams and find out what it's going to take to get on their level," Kampe said.

The Pioneers might not be far off track. Coming off a 13-15 season and a seventh-place finish in the Great Lakes Conference (5-11), Oakland has lost to Detroit, 77-62, after trailing by two points late in the first half, and to Western Michigan, 79-69, despite staying close most of the way. The Pioneers easily defeated Northern Michigan, ranked fourth in Division II, 94-80 Wednesday night. It marked only the third time in the last 12 meetings between the schools that Oakland had escaped with a win, and signaled that Oakland may, within a year or two, be able to fulfill what Kampe sees as a basic prerequisite for stepping up in class. "Before we can even think about going Division Kampe said, "we've got to compete on a national level in Division II.

That means getting to the Final Four. We've got a good idea of what we want to do, but we're fighting the fact that we're Division II. We can usually sell a young man on going here with the merits of the program. Our problem is selling the coach, his parents and his peers. The coach often feels, 'Hell, I've got a Division I kid, that's where he should KAMPE INHERITED one player of that caliber, look into playing in a big-time facility.

The Lepley Sports Center, which seats 3,000 on campus in Rochester, would obviously be unacceptable for big-time basketball. The most logical alternative, university officials said, would be the Pontiac Silverdome, located within minutes of Oakland. The heat is Off: Jill Hirschinger is probably thankful that her Ferris State women's volleyball team doesn't enter the NCAA Division II tournament with a 46-match winning streak, as it did last season. "Last season, with our long streak," Hirschinger said, "we kept thinking, 'Somebody's going to get There was just a lot of pressure. This season, since we've taken our lumps, we kind of feel we have nothing to lose.

I feel a lot more comfortable with that." The Bulldogs, 33-9 and ranked eighth in the nation, have landed their fourth straight bid to the nationals after finishing in a three-way regular-season tie for first place in the Great Lakes Conference, then winning the league tournament. Ferris upset Michigan State, 16-14, 15-7, 2-15, 15-9, earlier this week in its final regular-season match, basically a tuneup for the Great Lakes regional Dec. 6-7 at Nebraska-Omaha. The Bulldogs' winning streak came to a halt in the final match of last season's regional against Sam Houston State, one match away from the Division II Final Four. A 40-match Great Lakes Conference winning streak ended this season at the hands of Grand Valley State.

"The way we dominated last year, I really didn't expect the kind of competition we got in the league," Hirschinger said. "But it seems like everyone gets up to play us. All year, everybody saved their best matches for us. But this team never quits. We could be down 14-0, and you wouldn't know it by the way the girls played." Patty Theis of Fowler has set a blistering pace for Ferris, setting five school records and earning all-league status.

The marks include kills in a season (537), solo blocks in a season (1 14), attack percentage block solos in a single game (13) and block assists in a game (12). Chris Johnson, a 6-0 senior from is considered Hirschinger's best all-around performer. Her 26 kills against Michigan State set a school single-match record. Chris Howze Greg Kampe Team Last week Next loss 1. New Mexico St.

(1-10) 23-40, Utah St. retired 2. Tulane (1-9) 6-24, Southern Miss. LSU 3. Kansas St.

(1-10) 0-30, Colorado retired 4. Columbia (0-10) 0-34, Brown retired 5. Missouri (1-10) 20-34, Kansas retired 6. UTEP (1-9) idle Wyoming 7. Wyoming (2-8) idle UTEP 8.

New Mexico (3-8) 20-55, San Diego St. retired 9. Arizona St. (8-3) 13-16, Arizona not Iowa 10. UCLA (8-2-1) 13-17, USC Iowa and recruited another during the off-season.

Chris Howze, a 6-foot-3 guard-forward from Orchard Lake St. Mary's High, has averaged 16.4 points in his three seasons at Oakland. He averaged 18.3 points and nearly seven rebounds last season en route to all-conference honors, but his true worth, Kampe says, is his versatility. "He does everything. I've never seen a kid that ranked in the league's top seven in every major category, as Chris did last year.

That's very unusual. I've seen it in three or four of the five, but not all of them. Chris Howze would be an all-league player in the Mid-American Conference." Most of Kampe's counterparts agree that the recruitment of freshman guard Johnny Johnson of Detroit Southwestern was a coup. Johnson (5-9) helped Southwestern win the Public School League title three times and advance to the state finals four times. Coupled with Howze, the Pioneers are an uptempo team, but vithout great depth in the front line.

"But Johnny's only a freshman," Kampe said, "and we can't put all of our eggs in one basket. But he has the potential to take us where we want to go." And if they get there, the Pioneers will have to Pentagon (at sea) (3-7); 15. Boston College (4-8); 16. San Jose State (2-8-1)-17. Indiana (4-7); 18.

Cornell (3-7); 19. Cal (4-7); 20. USC (5-5). ROUT OF THE WEEK: LSU (7-1-1) vs. Tulane (1-9).

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