WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12,=1966, TIME MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVE WEDNESDAY, JANUAI~Y 12, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVI EN Short Half-life Haunts Top uintets By HOWARD KOHN deadly this season that Kentucky and Texas Western are the only Playing the game of basketball two major colleges left in the polls and national rankings is ranks of the undefeated. often worse than playing Russian In fact, Adolph Rupp's Ken- roulette at a Ku Klux Klan meet- l tuckians were awarded only a 13th ing-the stakes aren't as high but place rating in the preseason poll the suspense is terrible. 1by Sports Illustrated and weren't Iowa was the latest victim to even mentioned in the top 20 of fall off the tightrope thrones of Dell Sports. Now the Wildcats the basketball kings with its loss, have zipped off ten straight vic- second of the season, to Wiscon- tories and are kicking up specula- sin last weekend. The Associated tions of a Spartan-style coups on Press sporstwriters. dropped the the cage scene. Hawkeyes from the Top Ten and Kentucky Bluegrass replaced them with Kansas. The 64-year-old Rupp, who eats Duke, meanwhile, still reigns in hot chili like it's going out of the number one position, but un- style and vows he won't retire un- beaten Kentucky pulled to within til he's 70, doesn't have an All- 40 points of the Blue Devils. American to lead his team. He Nationwide Balance doesn't even have an All-American Competition has been so bal- prospect. anced and upsets so swift and However, he has four starters back from last year-Larry Con- ley, Pat Riley, Tommy Kron and Louie Dampier-who have picked up where they left off and are again averaging in double figures. Kentucky plays in the annually- vicious Southeastern Conference along with third-ranked Vander- bilt and die-hard Tennessee. How long the 'Cats cane walk the rosy path of the untouched victor de- pends on Fate-and Clyde Lee of Vanderbilt. Vandy's Dandy Vandy, defending SEC champs, has fashioned a 12-1 record this year mainly on the ability of a skinny, shy kid who didn't play basketball until he was 15 because he "wouldn't be caught dead in those short pants." Lee has ma- tured into 6'9" of basketball lead- ership for the Commodores and an All-American center. Vanderbilt polled: enough votes for third place in the AP poll this week to give the South the first three spots in the rankings. Duke, conquerer of Michigan and twice-conqueror of UCLA, rules the roost for the fourth: straight week. The Blue Devils started out somewhere in the mid- dIe of the preseason polls and lost their second start to nondescript South Carolina. But Bob Verga and Steve Vacendak, the "V for Victory" guards, began hitting from the outside like Cazzie II and IIIhand Duke clicked for ten triumphs in a row. Verga, only a junior and al- ready headed for All-American honors, practices shooting on an empty court on Sunday afternoons so he can terrorize his opponents the rest of the week and still have time for dancing the "frug" with his blonde girlfriend at a KA bash after the games.' The Bruins, two-time defending NCAA champions, are beginning the long climb back after two dis- astrous encounters with Duke early in December. The "V" boys and Co. unceremoniously ignored the famed UCLA press and walked off with a pair of crushing vic- tories. UCLA, ranked ninth this week, had been generally accorded a better than even chance of cop- ping a repeat title before the sea- son. Bruin hopes, though admit- tedly tarnished, still hinge on All- American Ed Lacey, Mike Lynn and Ken Washington and the con- tinued success of John Wooden's zone defense. Wooden's specialty, which stag- gered his foes for two years, has become the rage of the basketball world with revamped versions of the pressing defense and how to overcome it now a major part of game strategy. Many of the leading nationwide winners are employing it with happy results. Go East On the east coast St. Joseph's (Pa.) and Providence have the talent to go along with the stra- tegy as evidenced by their rank- ings. St. Jo's is resting in a fourth place slot and Providence is settled in sixth. Matt Guokas, Jr. and Cliff An- derson have been carrying on, the winning tradition of St. Jo's Jack Ramsey. Guokas, a ballhandling wizard who's only criticisni is an over-emulation of Bill Bradley's good-neighbor policy, is following in the foosteps of his father who starred for the Hawks in college and played on the first champion- ship team in the NBA. Providence, playing over the in- eligibility of Dexter Westbrook and the weight problem of Bob Kovalski, has lost only once in 11 games. The only other eastern teams mentioned in the voting this week were Princeton, Boston College and Syracuse. Princeton has five men and the memory of Bill Bradley. BCU has All-American John Austin and coach Bob Cousy, and the Orange of Syracuse have All-American Dave Bing and al disappointing season in 1964 for inspiration. Prairie Panthers Fifth -'ranked Bradley a n d tenth-ranked Kansas are the stal- warts of the Prairie States this season. Eddie Jackson's rebound- ing and Ernie Thompson's shoot- ing are giving the Braves a good shot at the Missouri Valley title, while Walt Wesley is helping the Jayhawkers to a possible Big Eight crown. ,Nebraska' and Oklahoma City are the only other two Prairie State teams raising any dust at the polls. 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Lee has sparked the Com- modores to a third-place ranking in the AP poll and a 12-1 record this season. BOB VERGA appears airborne, along with the top-ranked Duke Blue Devils, as he lets fly with another of his deadly jump shots from outside in last December's game with Michigan at Cobo Hall. Verga has teamed with Steve Vacendak to lead Duke to a 12-1 mark, including last night's squeaker over Clemson. lie Worsley are sparking the of- fense for Western. Back to the Midwest, Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota have b e e n cornering the headline market in their fight for the Big Ten championship. The Hawkeyes were the last of' the Big Ten teams to fall from the AP's Top Ten, following the wake of the Wolverines and the Goph- ers. Wisconsin shocked Iowa last Saturday with ball control tactics and a str'ingent defense on Hawk- eye George Peeples to send them tumbling. eepes had been teaming with Chris Pervall to give Iowa national prominence. The Hawkeyes now have an 8-2 slate. Iowa's exodus was preceded by Michigan, which lost three in a row over the holidays, and Min- nesota. The Gophers lost top scor- er Lou Hudson on a broken wrist late in December and have been able to win only half their games since. Hudson, however, comes back in the lineup Saturday. Dayton, a Midwest independent, garnered a first place vote this week despite failing to break into the select circle. All-American Henry Finkle holds the key to Dayton's rise-or fall.- Following is the Top Ten, with first place votes in parentheses, won-lost records through last Sat- urday and total points on a 10-9- 8-7 etc. basis: 1. Duke 32 (11-1) 405 2. Kentucky 8 (10-0) 365 3. Vanderbilt 3 (12-1) 338 4. St. Joseph's, Pa.. (10-2) 238. 5. Bradley (13-1) 236 6. Providence (10-1) 174 7. Brigham Young (10-1) 149. 8. Texas Western (12-0) 120 9. UCLA (9-3) 103 10. Kansas (11-2) 47 Others receiving votes, listed alpha- betically: Boston College, Chicago Lo- soya, Cincinnati, Davidson, Dayton 1, Iowa, MICHIGAN, Nebraska, New Mex- ico, North Carolina State Oklahoma City, Princeton, South Carolina, Syra- cuse, Tulsa, Virginia Tech, Western Kentucky. SWIMMERS SET TO SPLASH: 31' Awaits In diana Challenge By JIM LaSOVAGE Swimming coach Gus Stager didn't have much to say about last weekend's meets. He's more concerned with what will happen next Saturday in Matt Mann Pool. That's when the Hoosiers will come up from Indiana to try for revenge against the Wolverine tankers who snapped a 47-meet winning streak with a 70-53 tri- umph last February. But this sea- son's first dual meet clash with the Hoosiers Is scheduled a month earlier than last year's meet. That's why Stager is concerned. There hasn't been much time to get in top shape, and times have been far from stellar. Slow Times "Last weekend's times were much too slow," Stager commented yesterday. 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And Michigan State's best swim- mers took two firsts and a few points away that Michigan could just as easily win as Indiana. Every event will be a completely new race, and it's nearly impos- sible to predict the outcome of all of them. Coach Counts Points Stager has already made up a tentative lineup, event by event. He also attempted to determine possible winners. Giving Michigan the benefit of the doubt in a few races, the score comes out with the Wolverines on top by an even larger margin than last year. Then, being slightly more pessi- mistic, the prognosticated score reversed itself and the Hoosiers were on top by the same margin. That's why Stager figures it'll be a close meet. That's saying something, too. This season Indiana coach Jim (Doc) Counsilman boasts that he is coaching potentially his best' team ever, and he's had some good ones. Newcomers Help This presents another reason why Michigan can't be overlooked. With all but three members of its greatest team ever returning from last year, several sophomores are giving Stager hopes of making this the best yet. Freestylers John Salassa and Tim McDaid (dis- tances), breaststroker Dave Cush- ing, and all-around swimmer Ken Wiebeck are four sophs who promise to have good careers at Michigan. The outcome of this meet' may show much of what is to come in the conference finale. For now, though, it's a lot of hard practices first. Three times -"1 . .. f 0 7 t 1 fi t s AUNIM 1~ w I sR AM? COACH GUS STAGER this week the swimmers will work out twice in one day. The tension is growing. The team ;spirit is building up. The atmosphere is slightly optimistic. Just about like it was last year before Indiana came into town. MISSED OUR, MASS, MEETING? You are never too late to join C14V A 41it3u Iatt SALE! Excellent savings on a fine selection of natural shoulder clothing. 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