FRIDAY MARCH 20, 1964 THE MICHIGAN D fAILY IPA e-4 ilu ovirrv .Fra L L' .1 L 1. £41JC4 iLVLiN I; Cagers Meet Duke in 'Wide Open' Tourney Kansas State, UCLA To Round Off Action By TOM ROWLAND Acting Associate Sports Editor Special To The Daily KANSAS CITY, Mo.-They're all here, and they've all got some- thing to say. Duke coach Vic Bubas: "We're a tougher team than when we played them last time." Duke star forward Jeff Mullins: "We've been looking forward to this game for some time. We know what to expect." Bubas: "This time we'll come out swinging." Mullins: "We've got to beat them on the boards, and that's what we'll do." Frank McGuire, South Carolina coach: "I have to go with Duke. They've got the size and speed, a tough rebounding team. And they were in the semifinals last year. They got their feet wet." Red McManus, Creighton: "Pick Michigan, because of their strength, their physical power." Tend to Michigan Ralph Miller, Wichita: "I tend to go with Michigan-they've got the good rebounding and are a real solid team." Lots of talk here in rainy Kansas City yesterday. Duke, Michigan, UCLA, and Kansas State all went through final drills at Municipal Auditorium, and while everybody had their bit to say, nobody knew much. With four big fingers in the championship pie, this weekend's NCAA basketball finals shape up as one of the most wide-open affairs in years. A very small group of fans was on hand at the airport yesterday morning when the plane carrying the Duke team skidded on landing, slid across the field, and crossed a section of mud onto another run- way. All 81 passengers, including the Eastern Regional champs dis- embarked unscathed. Bubas, Mullins, and Co. stepped out of the plane, grabbed their bags, and in half an hour the Blue Devils were on the hardwood, going through final plans for tonight's semi-final battle with Big Ten co-champ Michigan. Climb To The Top A holiday ago-Christmas to be exact-the Wolverines stepped over the Blue Devils on the Michigan climb to the top with an 83-67 pasting. Said Bubas then: "We ran and hid." Sobered Mullins in ar- ticulate English: "We did not play very well. They didn't let us have many rebounds." From there Duke went on to win 19 of 20 games, including wins over Tennessee, Davidson, and Villanova. Still in the statistics, the Blue Devis have won 52 of their last 59 games over a two-season stretch. Game time is 7:30 p.m. or 8:30 p.m., depending on whether your watch is in Kansas City or Ann Arbor. Coach Dave Strack and his 22-4 Wolverines could feasibly play two games this weekend against foes they've already met. If the Blue beat Duke tonight and UCLA conquers Kansas State, the Wol- verines would face the Bruins for the national title in a dramatic rematch of that same holiday-ago when UCLA handed Michigan its first defeat of the winter. Not Many Straw Votes The Uclans, who held the number one spot in the national ratings for most of the season, finished up with a healthy 28-0 record, but the Bruins haven't drawn too many straw votes to take the NCAA title. Duke and Michigan seem to be favored as the two, top teams in an Associated Press poll of NCAA coaches. Says Dartmouth coach Doggie Julian, "This is one ,of the closest fields I've ever seen. UCLA is unbeaten. Lots of people like Kansas State. Michigan is so strong. Duke is big.,Let's say the team that beats Duke wins it." Only one coach made a quick, straight answer. Tex Winter, Kansas State: "Kansas State." Radio, TV Plans Set Wolverine basketball supporters who aren't among the 500 or so traveling to Kansas City to watch the team in person will be able to watch all of tonight's Duke game and the championship finals tomorrow night. Officials of WWJ, radio and TV, announced yesterday that to- night's Michigan-Duke game Will be broadcast and televised, start- ing at 8:30. Tomorrow night sim- ilar coverage at 10 p.m. is plan- ned for the championship game. Meanwhile, a telegram 50 feet in length and including 2500 signatures of University students will be presented to Coach Dave Strack and the team in Kansas City this morning. -Daily-Jim Greiner EASY TWO-Michigan's Oliver Dardeh. goes up for an easy lay-up in the Wolverines' losing effort to the UCLA Bruins in the December Los Angeles Classic. Looking on (from left to right) are Fred Slaughter, 6'5" center, Gail Goodrich, Bruin guard, Michigan's Bill Buntin, recently voted most valuable player in the Mid-East Regionals and Larry "Trigger" Tregoning, hard-working for- ward. New Mexico, man in Van Heusen 417 Bradley Win1 NIT Contests NEW YORK M -~- The New~ Mexico Lobos blew a 10-point lead but never lost their poise and ral- lied to defeat New York Univer- sity 72-65 last night in the semi- finals of the National Invitation Basketball Tournament. The Bradley Braves crushed Ar- my 67-52 in the second game of the NIT doubleheader and will meet New Mexico in the cham- pionship game tomorrow after- noon. After a 10-10 tie the Cadets fell steadily behind and could not du- plicate their previous comeback triumphs over St. Bonaventure and Duquesne. Breaks Tie Mike Lucero's basket from un- derneath the net broke a 61-61 tie with 3:26 left and put the Lo- bos ahead for good after they had survived a furious NYU rally. Happy Hairston had led the Vio- He's completely masculine and so-o-o lets from a 37-27 deficit to a 57- attractive in the V-Taper fit. Slim 53 lead and had tied the score at and trim all the way. I like the 61-61 with 4:56 left. Hairston played a tremendous casual roll of the Button-Down and' game for the Violets who had up- the neat look of the Snap-Tab. For set top-seeded DePaul in the quar- that smart authentic styling - sport ter-finals. He scored 26 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, but unfor- or dress-Van Heusen's really got it! tunately fell and missed a lay-up with two minutes left that would have kept NYU close at 64-63. Harge Gets 17 Harge, the "Big I," and the key to New Mexico's chances, got 17 VAN H S points, but 12 of them came in o a younger by design the first half. Lucero and Williams shared high scoring for the Lobos. with V-Taper-for the lean trimn look. 18 points each. -Daily-Jim Greiner JUMPING JACK-Everybody's All-America, Cazzie Russell, goes high for a jumper in December's game with the Uclans. Looking on anxiously is Bruin Fred Slaughter. The Wolverines lost that game by 18 points, but hope for a rematch this weekend. t' 3 Tankers T Challenge Leaders in NCAAs By JIM LaSOVAGE Nine members of Michigan's varsity swimming and diving team will spend a few days of their spring vacation at New Haven, Conn., where the NCAA Swimming' Meet will be held on March 26-28. Coach Gus Stager will be tak- ing Ed Bartsch, Rich Walls, Bill Farley, Rees Orland, Geza Bod-' clay and Tom Dudley, all of whom placed high in the Big Ten meet last March 5-7. Dick Kimball will take his three finishers in the same meet, Ed Boothman, Bruce Brown and John Candler. .Based on performances in the dual meet season and the Big Ten meet, the Wolverines' best hopes for a first rest with Bill Farley in the freestyle distances. He cap- tured two first places in the Big Tens, one in the 1650-yard and the other in the 500-yard freestyle events, tying and setting Big Ten records with times of 17:36.0 and 4:57.6, respectively. Walls also took two firsts in freestyle events, in the 100- and 200-yard races. In the longer 200 distance, he set a new Big Ten record of 1:47.0 in the prelimin- aries. Farley finished third in- this event. Bartsch contributed two seconds for Michigan in the Big Tens in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke races. In both events he was touched out by less than a second. In the 100-yard race, teammate Orland finished two places be- hind him., Stager will use Bodolay in the breaststroke events. He placed fifth in both the 100- and 200- yard events in the Big Tens. Dud- ley will back up Farley in the distance freestyle events. Coach Kimball's biggest threat will be Ed Boothman, runnerup of both the low (one meter) and three meter boards in the Big Ten meet. Behind him will be Brown,, who took a fifth and a sixth, and Candler, who added points with a fourth and a ninth. The Maize and Blue will have formidable foes in Southern Cali- fornia, Yale, and, once again, In- diana. Southern Cal comes to New Haven as the defending champion. But Yale and Indiana are expect- ed to make a strong challenge to take the crown. Indiana swept the Big Ten meet from Michigan by a 50-point mar- gin, and has the power and depth to stack up quite a few points. This is the first time the Hoos- iers have been able to compete since 1960 because of a suspen- sion 'for illegal football recruit- ing practices. Yale continued its domination in the East this year. The Elis have an outstanding swimmer in Steve Clark, who set a new NCAA record in the 200-yard freestyle of 1:45.5 in the Eastern Inter- collegiate championships a week ago. The Hoosiers will bring with them five individual Big Ten win- ners in Ted Stickles, Pete Ham- mer, diver Rick Gilbert, Fred Schmidt and Chuck Ogilby. Gil- bert, Stickles and Hammer each collected two firsts. 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