From: gritter@cs.purdue.edu (Carl Gritter)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: Purdue Hoop Scoop -- Michigan overpowers Purdue
Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:44:07 -0500
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Keywords: Purdue, Michigan, Big Ten



MEN: The Michigan Wolverines rolled into town and taught the young
Boilers a lesson in Big Ten basketball, beating the Boilers on their
home floor 80-70.

Hats off to Michigan.  They are an excellent team.  They played well.
They are much improved over last year.  With all their talent,
anything less than an Big Ten title and another final four appearance
would be an underachievment.

Michigan won the game with their inside scoring.  Chris Webber, Juwan
Howard, and Eric Riley simply put on a show.  If any of the three got
the ball inside, it was two.  The trio scored 30 of the last 37 points
Michigan scored and 50 overall.  Webber and Howard were 19 of 28 from
the field (13 of 17 in the second half) and 4 of Webber's misses were
3 pointers.  Purdue simply couldn't stop them.  On the rare occassions
they did miss, they would grab the rebound and put it in.  Michigan
simply dominated the boards (43-31), especially in the first half when
they held a 23-13 advantage.  Webber can also run the floor with the
best of them, beating Purdue's defense down the floor on a number of
occasions for some easy slams.  Purdue, on the other hand, had almost
no fast break buckets.

Purdue's offense did alright considering Michigan's tough defense but
two cold spells, one at the end of each half, did them in (the cold
spells were not too surprising since most of the Boilers scoring was
away from the basket).  In the first half, the game was a seesaw
battle until about 7 minutes left when a 5 minute Boiler scoring
drought brought about a 17-2 Michigan run.  Purdue managed to cut the
lead to 8 but a ridiculous foul call on Glenn Robinson with 0.2
seconds left gave Michigan a 43-33 halftime lead.

Purdue stormed back in the second half and went ahead 53-52 with 12:40
to play.  The game was nip and tuck from that point until the 7:16
mark when a Herb Dove slam gave the Boilers their last lead at 62-61.
Another cold spell and a 19-4 Michigan run and the game was history.
Mackey was very loud during the comeback, even without the students.

Glenn Robinson did his part scoring 30 and grabbing 9 boards.  He did
a good job of not getting into foul trouble and two of the three that
were called against him were *very* dubious.  It seemed to me that
Purdue's big men must have been instructed not to try and block the
shots of the Michigan post men when they got it inside.  Thus there
weren't many fouls and three point plays on inside shots, but a very
high percentage of them went in.  Ian Stanback looked confused when he
was in there.  He didn't do much of anything constructive.  Kenny
Williams did better but Cornelius McNary was the best inside
complement (at least defensively) to Robinson in this game.  Purdue
got a great contribution off the bench from Herb Dove but he only
played 11 minutes (Purdue got a whopping six points from its bench
compared to 16 from Michigan).  He spelled Cuonzo Martin who did a
decent defensive job on Jalen Rose.  Matt Waddell hit some threes
early but ended up only 4 for 12 for the game.  Purdue shot its worst
percentage of the year (36.5%) against the excellent Michigan defense.
Michigan shot 49.3% for the game.  They had major trouble scoring from
the outside but they didn't need to.  Both teams blistered the nets
from the free throw line.  Neither team missed until Robinson rimmed
one with about 10 minutes left in the game.  Michigan did not miss
until the waning minutes when the game was over.  Overall Purdue was
20 for 23 and Michigan was 12 for 15 (they missed their last 3).
Turnovers were pretty even (Michigan 14 Purdue 12).

NEXT: Purdue faces a very tough test Saturday at Minnesota.  Whether
this young team can play well on the road after this tough loss
remains to be seen.

WOMEN: The Purdue women capped a dismal night for Boiler fans as they
fell at Michigan State 60-56.  Tricia Cullop and Jennifer Jacoby led
Purdue with 13 points but leading scorer Cindy Lamping was held to
only 10.  MSU dominated the boards 48-34 including 27 offensive
rebounds and won despite shooting 27.7% from the field.  Purdue got
some bad news this week when reserve center Shannon Lindsey decided to
leave the team and the school for a semester for personal reasons.
This leaves a poor rebounding team even weaker in that department.

Carl

Note: Mark Ehlers is not posting a report on the Michigan game due so
he asked me to post my Purdue Hoop Scoop.  I have a mailing list that
to which I send it but I don't usually post it because there seems to
be enough Purdue stuff posted on the net already.  Randy Peppler has
posted some reports on occasion.  If you want to get on the mailing
list, send me email.  I usually include Mark's and Randy's reports at
the end of mine.

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