Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Spa BY JIM HERSH Sports Writer Pity the Michigan State basket ball team. After years of mediocrity the Spartans finally think they have the type of team that can challenge for the Big Ten championship. That's great. Except Minnesota, Ohio State, Michigan and Indiana are all in the Big Ten, all in the nation's top twenty and will all prob ably finish ahead of Michigan State. Well, there's always next year. But MSU isn't about to roll over and play dead for another year. While they don't have the super stars, the depth or the experience of the four other Big Ten conten ders, Michigan State, 13-11 last sea son, has built their team up quickly and given another year may be a genuine threat to the Midwest pow ers. So far this season the Spartans are 1-1 with a two-point win over Toledo and a nine-point loss to Ken tucky. That is about the way everyone figured those two games would go. Saturday night at the Coliseum if everything goes as planned Michigan State and Carolina should play a close game. The Gamecocks should rate the slight edge because (1) they have the home court advan tage and (2) they are coming off a What did hu Cahulawaa A JOHN BOOR JON VOIGHT -E CoStrn n"DELIV C-arngNED BEATTY James Dickey Based on his r John Boorman - PANA\ From Warner Bros . A Warr South Carol . SUN., DE For the benefit of ti For Informaio: rtans c tremendous win over Nevada-Las Vegas. When you talk about the top players in the Big Ten Alan Hor nyak, Henry Wilmore, Jim Brewer, et al. are always mentioned. Ever hear of Mike Robinson? Not many people outside of Lansing have. He was the leading scorer in the Big Ten last year, as a sophomore. The last person to do that was Rick Mount. Robinson, not surprisingly, is the Spartans top scorer (21.5) after two games. He's only ; Think that's small? The other , SU starting guard is Gary Ganakas. He's 5-5 and the smallest starter in college bas ketball, maybe in high school, too. Up front, where Carolina played poor against Tennessee, great against Nevada-Las Vegas, Michigan State has three players of only average height who can both score and rebound. The center is Bill Kilgore, a 6-7 senior. Through two games he is averaging 19.5 points and 10.5 rebounds. That is a little better than was expected of him. Lindsey Hairston, a 6-7 sopho more forward, was billed as one of the great new talents in the Big Ten. His averages are 12.5 and 10.5, not quite as good as was expected of him. The other forward is Allen Lppen on the 3see River? MLinC MAr Marrnce IURT REYNOLDS ERANCE" RONNY COX - Screenplay by lovelt- Produced and Directed by ItSlON?- TECHNICOLOR @ er Communications Company ina Premiere C. 10TH ie Heart Association n Call 256-4933 pood te Smith, averaging 11 points, which is what was expected of him. If everything goes as it should, Carolina. Rick Mousa was perhaps the big gest cog in the Gamecock machine aas he started the Carolina effort off with a three-point play to put USC into a lead that they never lost during the entire affair. The Gamecocks grabbed a 5-2 lead on scores by Mousa and merely continued to pad their advantage throughout the game, holidng a 44 28 advantage at halftime and stretching it out to a 27-point mar gin by game's conclusion. "I was very pleased with our play overall. Traylor had a fine night and so did Mousa," said Frank McGuire following the contest. "Joyce--well, he always plays a great basketball." Dunleavy showed tonight that he's a great quarterback on the court," said McGuire of his first year guard who totaled three assists on the evening. "He hasn't shown it yet, but he can score, too. He's playing gn a bad foot and that's affecting his scoring, but he passes Hear... CISCC3 Stereo Sound. " Cartridges " Phonos 2714 D@%4m St. TV & Mui SOUTH OFFERS REWARDI 1973 COLLEGE JUNIORS PLAI The South Carolina Chambel employment interviews duri days at NO COST to stude seniors, graduate students, have the opportunity to mee tives of major industries throughout South Carolina. Sheraton Motor Inn. Thursday December 9:00 a.m. Please complete and mail the to the South Car->lina Chai houn St., Columbia, South Cc Name.-__ - - College, University - Address- - Town, State Zip Code st for L which in basketball seldom hap pens, Carolina should be a 2-1 after Saturday. Michigan State, a good, From Page 6 and handles the ball real well." Dunleavy commented after the game, "I get just as much pleasure out of getting the assist as I do scor ing myself. And right now my scor ing isn't needed that much." Traylor discussed some of the dif ferences of Monday's game from that of Tennessee, ""We had a few little problems up there on defense at Tennessee and tonight we just closed them up. "Personally, in Tennessee I was more concerned with boxing out there their big man, but this game I said 'the hell with that' and went to the boards myself." Numerous times Traylor came away with either points or rebounds and his improvement along with that of Mousa and Winters com plimented that of Joyce and Eng lish. As a balanced squad the Gamecocks rebounded--in more ways than one--to even their season record at 1-1. cIT t' .* ' i 2 Year Warranty Parts-Labor . * Earphones ! Needles Ic Cfr.Ph 256-Om4l AOLINA NG EMPLOYMENT mR' GRADUATES, MNING AHEAD r of Commerce has arranged ng the 1972 Christmas Holi nts. College and university juniors and TEC seniors will ~t with personnel representa and businesses operating SCORE will be held at the 28 - 4:00 p.m. form below. Mail it TODAY ber of Commerce, 1002 Cal irolina 29201. iSC but not great, team, is the type of team USC has to beat if they are to have a good year.. Clements, Greiner lead Biddie win The Carolina Biddies, with scholarship players Jim Clements and Mark Greiner leading the way, manydefeated Phiblant Navy 76-58, day night to open their 1972 cam paign. Clements and Greiner, the only first-year scholarship players to see action for the Biddies, each canned 24 points and combined to pull down 28 rebounds to pace the USC frosh past the Gators, now 11-5. Greiner grabbed 18 rebounds while Clements accounted for 10 and USC's Tim Lewis finished with 16 to give the Biddies to a 16 points first half advantage which they never relinquished against the taller Gators. Abran Hoyett led the Phiblant attack, hampered with poor shooting--26.6 for the night, with 22 points. Lewis, a forward, and guard Al Barwick with 11 and 10 points were the only other members of the USC team to break into double figures. The Biddies face Palmer College in a Saturday 6 P.M., prior to the varsity's clash with Michigan State. 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