SIX' THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1966 SI__l MC IA D IYTUSDY ACH1,1_ Hilitoppers Whip Up M' Worries By GRAYLE HOWLETT What sport has the highest accident rate? Skydiving? Wrong. Bobsledding? Guess again. Touch football? Way off. Try college basketball. "College basketball," you say, "where oversized men run around in short pants, throwing a few elbows and maybe skinning a knee. What's so rough about that?" Nothing, really, but you're considering the wrong victims. It's the fans and coaches who suffer, not the players. And what's the main cause of the injuries? That whirling dervish of hysteria and hooplah known as tournament time. Rat Race with Color The NCAA tournament is some- thing special. It is that lovable rat race filled with pomp and color where the spectator ceases to spectate and where the most calm lose their composure. But the tour- ney is something the best team in the country must endure to lay, claim to the title of Number One. The fever pitch, the rabidt crowds, the unbearable pressure,t and the 16 best college basketball; teams in the nation are again present as the season moves into its last two weeks with the NCAA Regionals beginning Friday night. For Wolverine fans the hoop cap- ital of the nation will be Iowa City; where Michigan, Kentucky, West- ern Kentucky, and Dayton will battle it out for the right to move onto the semifinals in College Park, Md. Hilltoppers on Rise Tournament time is the right time for surprises and the Mich- igan cagers take on the biggest one when they face the Hilltop- pers of Western Kentucky on Fri- day. Western Kentucky, ranked tenth in the AP's final poll, upset Loyola of Chicago in the districts last Monday to earn its ticket to Iowa City and the Hilltopper con- vincing 105-86 win indicates that this is not going to be just a joy ride. Western K e n tuck y, reigningt Ohio Valley champs, are paced by Clem Haskins, 6'3" forward who scored 26 points against Loyola, and Dwight Smith, a 6'5" guarda who took game honors against thei Ramblers with 29. That's right, a 6'5" guard, and Western Kentucky will not only start one but two as Wayne Chap- man also tops the tape at 6'5". Rounding out the starting line-+ up are Steve Cunningham, a 6'5"+ center, and Greg Smith, Dwight's brother, a 6'5" forward whose jumping ability has earned him a label as the Hilltoppers' best re- bounder. Jorgenson Impressed Michigan assistant coach Tom Jorgenson scouted the Western Kentucy-Loyola game and came back a firm believer. "They're as good as any team we've seen this year. Haskins and Dwight Smith are super-stars-they made their conference all-star team and they would have made it in the Big Ten or any conference." Elaborating on Smith, Jorgen- son commented: "From a size standpoint, Dwight. Smith comes as close to Cazzie as any player I've seen this year. He's not as as good with his back to the basket at the low post, but he's quicker than Cazzie down the court and he's very good on the fade-away jumper." The key to Western Kentucky's 24 victories this year (their two losses came at the hands of Van- derbilt and Dayton) is their de- fense. Their zone defense kept Lo- yola outside and held the Ramblers to only 86 points, 12 under their usual average. The Hilltoppers rank eleventh in the nation in total defense and have held their opponents to a scant 66 points a overpowering, but whose shooting game. ability is. The citizens in the proud state The Kentucky quintet is a co- of Kentucky also have another hesive unit which has been play- pretty good team to crow about, ing together for two years now. namely the Wildcats of Kentucky. Its passing is superb and it al- Kentucky, the nation's No. 1 team, ways seems to find the open man. has had a rebirth to prominence The 'Cats aren't an explosive team after they suffered through their but they score steadily and at worst season in 35 years in 1964. will. Besides, they are. steeped in Key to their return is the leg- the tradition of xwinning and this endary Baron of basketball coach- is just another obstacle Dayton es, Adolph Rupp. Rupp came to will have to overcome when it Kentucky 36 years ago and has meets Kentucky in the semifinals merely won four NCAA champion- Friday night. ships and 22 Southeastern Con- Second Time Around ference titles since then. The Flyers from Dayton move The Wildcats are a pretty hard into the Mid-East regionals for team not to warm up to as they the second straight year. Last reeled off 24 victories in a row year, they were eliminated by the this year en route to the mythical Wolverines in the first game. Like national championship. Their only last year, they are led by 6'11" defeat was to a cautious Tennessee Henry Finkel, who is a proven re- five that slowed down the game bounder and excellent shot. Op- enough to silence Kentucky's erating close to the basket. Finkel guns, which had rifled them into has hit on 63 per cent of his shots. the top 20 in team offense. Giving Finkel help is 6'4" Don- "Rupp's Runts," as they are af- ald May, a sophomore starter, who fectionately called down Kentucky helped lead his Dayton Belmont way, may not get many rebounds high school team to an Ohio state but usually they are not needed. championship in 1964. One of his The Wildcats are eighth in the teammates from that squad was land in field goal percentage, hit- Bill Hosket, the 6'6" forward now ting at a hot 50 per cent. playing for Ohio State. Dampier Tops Shooters Dayton is the only unranked Leading the sharpshooters is team of the four playing at Iowa 6'3" Louis Dampier, everybody's City. However, its 23-4 record All-American at guard. Following speaks for itself and a recent 58-51 close on his heels is Pat Riley, a victory over Mid-American Con- 6'3" junior forward, whose 21.4 ference champs Miami of Ohio, average is second to Dampier's which qualified the Flyers from 21.7. the regionals, has given the team Feeding the big guns, Dampier momentum. and Riley, is the specialty of both Hoop fever has definitely struck t i t f k F U 5 5 a }A N !+ TZ 1 4 IN AP POLL: Kentucky Remains First; Michigan Climbs to Ninth IDAN1IEIL CAILLAHAN THE CHURCH IN A SECULAR SOCIETY DANIEL CALLAHAN Associate Editor of the Commonweal, received his B.A. at Yale, an M.A. at Georgetown, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard. Dr. Callahan has been a teaching fellow in Roman Catholic udies in the Harvard Divinity School, a visiting assistant professor of religion in the graduate school of Temple University and a visiting assistant professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He is the author of The Mind of the Catholic Layman and Honesty in the Church. He is a co-editor of Christianitj Divideds Protestant and Roman Catholic Theological Issues, Federal Aid and the Catholic Schools, and Generation of the Third Eye. He has con- tributed to a number of periodicals, including Commonweal, Commentary, Cross Currents, Christianity and Crisis and Harper's. He is married to Sidney Cornelia Callahan, author of The Illusion of Eves Modern Women's Quest for Identity. By The Associated Press The Wolverine cagers, riding on. the strength of their third consec- utive Big Ten title, broke back into the top 10 in the final Asso- ciated Press basketball poll of the 1965-66 season. Michigan received 93 votes, and moved up to the ninth spot in the ratings. Western Kentucky, slat- ed to be Michigan's first oppon- ent in the NCAA regional' Friday night, made its debut in the Top Ten after its stunning upset vic- tory over Loyola Monday night. The Hilltoppers, edging into the tenth position, garnered 63 tallies. (The UPI rated the Wolverines seventh.) Wildcats First Narrowly missing a perfect sea- son, Kentucky's Wildcats ran away, with the top place in the poll. The Wildcats were voted No. 1 by 39 of the 48 sports writers and broadcasters on the nationwide panel. Duke climbed back into the second spot, jumping ahead of Texas Western which, like Ken- tucky, suffered its only loss of the season on Saturday night. Kansas, the Big Eight cham- pion, moved up two positions to fourth, St. Joseph's of Pennsyl- vania advanced two places to fifth and Cincinnati, winner of the Missouri Valley crown,leaped from tenth to seventh. Others listed in the final rank- ings are Loyola of Chicago, which slipped from fourth to sixth, and Vanderbilt, which dropped three spots to eighth. The voting was based on con- tests through Monday night. Kentucky- was toppled by Ten- nessee 69-62 Saturday night, and Texas Western lost to Seattle 74- 72. Both rebounded Monday night -Kentucky whipping Tulane 103- 74 in its regular season finale, and Texas Western downing Oklahoma City 89-74 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Eight in NCAA Tourney Rated as the favorite for this year's NCAA title, the Wildcats are joined by seven other members of the Top Ten in the struggle for the championship. St. Joseph's and Western Kentucky advanced to Friday night's second round games with victories Monday. St. Joseph's earned its position with a 65-58 win over Providence, while Kansas clinched the Big Eight crown withua 85-65 romp over the Colorado Buffaloes. The final Top Ten, with first- place votes in parentheses, rec- ords through Monday,, March 7, and points on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4- 3-2-1 basis: forward Larry Conley and 6'5" guard Tommy Kron. The only sophomore to break into the starting line-up is center Thad Jaracz, whose 6'5" frame is not and now it is time for loyal basket- ball fans everyhere to participate in that nail-biting, traumatic nightmare known as the NCAA tourney., , 4 i i 11 1 F] L 3 For Whom Will Hornback Root? A FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1966 Auditorium A 8:00P.M/ 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Kentucky (39) 24-1 Duke (3) 23-3 Texas Western (1) 24-1 Kansas (2) 22-3 St. Joseph's (1) 23-4 Loyola (Chi) (2) 22-3 Cincinnati 21-5 Vanderbilt 22-3 MICHIGAN 17-7 Western Kentucky 24-2 468 387 313 305 237 226 134 126 93 63 By CHUCK VETZNER Acting Sports Editor Bert Hornback is in danger of committing sports treason, a rare offense for a Michigan English professor who specializes in nine- teenth century literature. Being devoted to his relatives, faithful to an old coach, and loyal to his favorite team, Hornback is in a dilemma, and he is caught in the middle of the court for the big game. He knew it even be- fore his father called him and ask- ed for a scouting report -on the Wolverine basketball team. Risks Ban Risking a permanent ban from Bowling Green, Ky., his home town, Hornback turned down his father. His dad's name is Ted Horn- back, and he is athletic director at Western Kentucky, Michigan's regional opponent Friday. If that isn't enough, his former high school coach, Johnny Oldham, is now head coach for the Hill- toppers; his grandfather was re- gent at the school, and his uncle is sports editor of the town paper. The only things that could be worse would be if his brother were the . Western Kentucky president. Luckily Hornback is only friends with the president while his broth- er is a happy, innocent third party who teaches college in California. An 'M' Fan Hornback is a basketball fan, and as a teacher at the University of Michigan, he is a fan for Mich- igan. "I just wouldn't be right to give my father the information," he sighs. "I told him to call John Benington (the Michigan State coach). I just don't know who to root for. I wished Western Ken- tucky good luck, and I'm going to do the same for Dave Strack." Hornback also knows the Wol- verine coach, as does his father since Strack once played for him in a prep all-star game. Last win- ter the friendship could have solv- ed the whole problem if Strack had had some vacancies in his schedule. The elder Hornback came to Ann Arbor to visit his son and had dinner with Strack during his stay. Aware that his school was going to be a winner the next year, Hornback tried to convince Strack to play the Hilltoppers. Strack declined since he already had a heavy schedule, but if the meeting had taken place, neither side would have any need for scouts. Keats, Yeats and Russell Despite his knowledge of fel- lows such as Keats and Yeats, Prof. Hornback is equally familiar with people like Russell and Rob- ertson. After being declared too bad a shot to play guard and too small for forward as a freshman at Notre Dame, he decided ,to hit the books. But in his free hours, he served as a professional scout for some of the leading college teams. His opinion of a team is not just that of an enthusiastic fan. He knows what to look for and he probably is more familiar with both Western Kentucky and Mich- igan than anyone else. "The game depends on us (that means Michigan) getting the big men inside," says Hornback. "They (that means Western) play like Kentucky and run like rabbits. Clem Haskins has great moves and is a deadly outside shot. Michigan Stronger "Michigan is stronger, and their best bet is to drive 'as much as possible. Western would be smart to try a sliding zone so they can double team Cazzie. They'll try to outrun Michigan, too." Hornback wants to see the game, but he's also apprehensive. Aside from being attacked by either the Michigan fans or his father, he is afraid he won't be able to contain himself from calling Oldham "Os- car." "That's his middle name and he just hates it," chuckles Horn- back. He plans to drive to the game Saturday and root for both teams, but "Friday, I -think I'll just sit home quietly and watch on televi- sion." $ Angell Hall Others receiving votes, listed alphabetically: Boston College, Bradley, Brigham Young, Colo- rado State, Davidson, Michigan State, Oklahoma City, Oregon State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is- land, San Francisco, Southern Methodist, Syracuse, Temple, Utah. t 30GK 1 gKt , yE '113 Ao~tvy DRA o14O B~jX. t.'p~ac ,H tNto +t ' 1'1,O1N A - .. gt t"P STUDENT BOOK SGRVICG. tremendous batman posters David Copperfield Benjamin Books STUDENT BOOK SGRVICG 1215 S. 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