T -AGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN I)ATIN TTTEIRDAT- ATTnTTqIP %A. 169.9 1?AGE FOVR TIlE MICIIJc.AX DAILY I I.Gi31~i, ~uv n~l,4%. t Ib Cagers Set ecr ds-t Leave omething for '66 By PETE DILORENZI But the outlook isn't complete- ly black. Back from last year's Any basketball team which loses starting team is Captain-elect 011- rdayers the caliber of Capt. Larry ver Darden, a 6'7', 230-pound for- d eonng, center Bill Buntin and ward who caught fire midway nrd George Pomey from its through last season and then on tig five is bound to have a was able to provide high and con- t tgh time improving its record sistent scoring help in addition d the last season. to his always ferocious play under Add to that the fact that last the boards. rear's team went all the way to the final round of the NCAA tour- Best in Country narnent, and it becomes clear The other returning starter that Coach Dave Strack's Wolver- from last year's team is only ine cagers have their work cut out Cazzie Russell, perhaps the best for them in the coming season. college player in the country. A first-team All-American as a juni- ior, Russell broke his own sopho- more single-season Michigan scor- ing record of 670 points by pour- ing 692 points through the hoops as a junior. Russell, taking 556 shots Irom the floor and hitting on 270 of them, added 152 free throws 1or lhis 692 point total and a final season average per game of 25,6. He hit 340 of his points in the Big Ten season, but finished see- ond in scoring to Dave Schellhasm' of Purdue for the ;,econd straight year. As a sophomore, Schellhase hit 370 to Russell's 366, but both finished far behind Ohio State's Garry Bradds, who scored a total of 474 points. Last year, Schellhase finished 41 points ahead of Russell, putting on a big scoring rush in the fin- al game of the season with Russell o1 the bench with a fever. Jinng Russell and Darden this year will be veterans Craig Dill, Jim Myers, John Clawson, John Thompson, Dan Brown and Den- nis Biankey. 'Al~lon e --- ... to Todd's and the University of Michigan Dill, a 6'10". 210-pound jun- ior from Saginaw who was rated as one of the outstanding sopho- more prospects in the country by one of the pre-season forecasts last fall, will take on the unenviable1 task of filling Buntin's shoes atI center. Understandably he did nod see much action as a starter last year, but he did manage to please Coach Strack in his frequent ap- pearances as a reserve. Dill is also the possessor of one of the team's best foul-shooting eyes. Myers, a 6"7" senior who hasI seen much action over the pastI two seasons as Michigan's "sixth man," will probably have the in- side track on Tregoning's old for- ward position. Myer's best shot is a soft left-handed jumper from 20 feet out. He will be challenged for the open forward's spot by 6'4" John Clawson and 6'5" Dan Brown, both of whom saw some action as substitutes last year. Other Guard The other guard spot will be up for grabs this season, much as it was at the outset of last season.- John Thompson, who started at the position in theearly part of last season, will have to fight off junior dribbling-specialist Dennis Bankey and sophomore jumping- jack Jim Pitts. Other freshmen who will now make their presence on the varsity felt are Gary Bowman, 6'4", Mark' Fritz, 6'5", and Bill Thomas, 6'5". On its way to the NCAA play-1 offs last season, Michigan smashed its own conference scoring rec- ord as well as the old conference record by scoring an even total of { 1300 points in 14 games for a per1 game average of 92.9. The old team record for total points on the season