WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1964 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Duke Stops Michigan Cagers in NCAA Semi-I Finak * * * * * Cagers' Late Rally Beats Kansas State UCLA By TOM ROWLAND Completes 'Perfect' Year By CHARLIE TOWLE Acting Contributing Sports Editor Special To The Daily KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Michi- gan's Big Ten co-champs ran in- to a sticky Duke man-to-man defense that dominated the back- boards in the opening semi-final contest of the NCAA basketball championships last week and bow- ed out, 91-80. The Wolverines, minus the serv- ices of guard Cazzie Russell, roared back on the second night of the tourney to dump Kansas State, 100-90, and claim a third place finish. The split in the NCAA finals gave the Wolverines a 23-5 sea- son mark, the best ever for a Michigan basketball team. Strong Start Coach Dave Strack's five battled Duke, the Atlantic Coast confer- ence champs, even up until midway in the first half, when a pesky Blue Devil defense and strong control of the rebounds, began to pull away. The Wolverines only had one offensive rebound on the Blue side of the ledger when the. teams left the court at halftime with the score 48-39, Duke. In the second half, the Blue Devils held off every attack that the Wolverines made on the Duke point margin, and the closest the Michigan quintet could come was seven points. Fleet Hopes . Hack Tison opened the for Duke with a short from the lane with only scoring jumper 10 sec- of the "twin towers"-they both stand 6'10"-would be there to lay it in. Although in the second half the Wolverines played the Blue Devils on even terms, trailing by never worse than 13 points but never better than seven,-Michigan never really got rolling. The game reached its final con- clusion when Russell, Buntin and Oliver Darden all fouled out in the last minute of play ii the game. The final game box score re- vealed that Russell had connected on 13 of 19 field goals and made five of six free throws for 31 points in the attempt to give Michigan a chance at the NCAA crown. The next highest scorer for the Wolverines was Buntin with 19 points. High point ma efor the.Blue Devils was Buckley with 25. He was closely followed by Duke's All- America forward Jeff Mullins who hit the hoop for 21. All five of Duke's starters were in double fig- ures. Russell Out The Saturday night contest with K-State got off to an ominous start for the Wolverines even before the first jump ball with news that Russell would not dress for the game on advice of Michi- gan team doctor, Tom Peterson. Russell, in his effort to keep Michigan's NCAA hopes alive the night before, had pulled the ten- dons on the outside as well as the already injured inside of his right ankle. Russell wound tip the sea- ,on with 260 ot of 507 at- tempted field goals for a .514 percentage, 150 out of 178 free throws for an .843 percentage, and a 24.8 points per game aver- age. Herner Starts Senior Doug Herner, who had started for much of the 1962-63 season, started his first game of the 1963-64 campaign and, al- though he didn't score a point, contributed a whopping 10 assists to the Wolverine attack, three more than the entire Michigan team had against Duke the night before. The- score was tied 11 more 'times through the game until Michigan finally pulled away at 13:41 of the second half when Cantrell hit on an 18 foot jumper to put the Wolverines on top by two, 67-65. In Control Michigan, despite -the seeming closeness o fthe score, was in con- trol of the game almost through- out. They held a 52-47 budge at halftime, and it was just a brief spurt at the start of the second half which kept the Wildcats in the game as long as they were. Led by "wondrous" Willie Mur- rell the 'Cats jumped into a quick lead at 16:58 of the second half, 56-60, but Michigan quickly mov- ed back into control of the game. Michigan's Buntin put on a One man show during the second half scoring 22 points on a combination of jumpers, hooks and layups. He finished up the game with 33 points, high for Michigan, includ- ing 15 of 17 free throws. Return at the Gun Cantrell picked up 20 points, including two free throws with one second left in the game to lift Michigan to the century mark. Michigan was the only team that made triple figures in the tourna- ment. Starting forwards Larry Tregon- ing and Darden collected 16 and 17 points, respectively, and substitute, Jim Myers helped out the Wolver- ine cause with seven points and some aggressive play under the boards. Murrell and Suttner tied for high point honors on the K-Statej squad, notching 20 apiece. Ferguson Buckley Tison Harrison Mullins Marn Vacendak Herbster Kitching Mann Harscher Cox Totals Goodrich Slaughter Hazzard Hirsch Erickson McIntosh Washington Darrow Stewart Huggins Hoffman Levin Totals DUKE UCLA UCLA G 0-1 4-10 5-9 2-7 4-9 11-16 0-1 0-1 0-1 1-2 0-1 F R 9-9 3 0-0 1 3-5 3 3-5 6 4-4 5 0-0 11 4-4 12 3-4 1 0-0 0 0-1 1 0-0 0 0-0 0 PT 1 27 0 0 5 11 3 13 5 8 2 8 4 26 2 3 1 0 2 0 02 0 0 DUKE'S 6-10 FORWARD Jay Buckley (dark jersey) fouls Michi- gan's Oliver Darden (55) in the NCAA semi-final at Kansas City. In the foreground are Bill Buntin (22) and Larry Tregoning (35). Buckley's 25 points and 14 rebounds paced Duke to a 91-80 victory. 36-76 26-32 52 25 98 38 45-83 50 48-98 Acting Associate Sports Editor Special To The Daily KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- To the happy chant of "we're number one" UCLA's Walt Hazzard and his Bruin coherts took-home the net strings; a 30th straight bas- ketball victory, and the 1964 NCAA championship trophy last week. A record 10,864 fans watched the nation's number one ranked Bruins outhustle, outrebound, and outshoot Duke, 98-83, and put on the final touches to the "perfect" season for a team that was sup- Number 30 for UCLA DUKE G F R P T 2-6 0-1 1 3 4 5-8 8-12 9 4 18 3-8 1-1 1 2 7 1-1 0-0 1 2 2 9-21 4-4 4 5 22 8-16 0-1 10 3 16 2-7 3-3 6 4 7 1-4 0-2 0 2 0 1-1 0-0 1 0 2 0-0 3-4 2 1 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0-0 0-0 60 0 0 32-72 19-28 44 24 83 MAJESTIC ATMOSPHERE: Fans Await Tourney Action posed to be too small for the big- time cage giants. Sophs Spark While the victory could have only been called a solid team ef- fort, it took a pair of reserve soph- omores to come off the bench and spark the Bruins to the title. Guard Kenny Washington, once called "too shy to be much of a basketball player" by UCLA coach John Wooden, poured in 26 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, and 6'6" Doug McIntosh, in for center Fred Slaughter after five minutes had gone by in the game, pulled down another 11. Hazzard, named the tourney's most valuable player, quarter- backed UCLA's fast-breaking, run-run attack to a 50-38 bulge at halftime, and the Bruins were never again threatened. While the new champs put on their expected sharp-passing, out- court shooting show, it was under the boards where the Bruins gained the winning margin. Duke, with almost a three-inch-per-man height advantage, was unable to clamp on to the rebounds that Coach Vic Bubas and the Blue Devils were counting on to be the decisive factor in the game for the Eastern Regional champs. UCLA picked off 52 from the boards, while Duke got 44. Zone Press On the defense, the Bruins em- ployed the same zone press that brought them a 30-0 season mark, with key steals by Washington, Hazzard, and point-maker Gail Goodrich stopping every Duke at- tempt to get back in the game. A 6'1" guard, Goodrich led all scor- ers wth 27 points on some bulls- eye outcourt shooting. Duke All-American forward Jeff Mullins kept the Blue Devils even up with the Bruins until late in the first half when Goodrich and Washington teamed up to lead UCLA on a 14-point straight scor- ing spree that set the score at 43-30. It was 30-29, Duke, when Good- rich hit on a field goal, then pick- ed up another bucket after a dis- puted Duke charging foul, and followed with another two points as Duke forward Hack Tison was called for goal tending. Either stealing off a Duke pass before the Blue Devils could get a shot, or picking off the re- bounds as the Eastern champs got cold from the floor, the Bruins added six more straight points and the national title was in the bag. Ten Points The closest Duke came after that was 50-40 at the beginning of the second half. Both Hazzard and Mullins fouled out wth six minutes to play in the game and Miller Gets Job at Iowa IOWA CITY (P)-Ralph Miller, 45, successful coach at Wichita for 13 years, was named head basketball coach at Iowa Monday. Athletic director Forest Eva- shevski said Miller was the only person to whom the job was offered. Miller succeeds Milton (Sharm) Scheuerman, who resigned Feb. 28 after six years as head coach. Scheuerman plans to enter the real estate business here. Wichita tied Drake for the Mis- souri Valley Conference and was a finalist .in the NCAA Midwest regional tournament. LARRY TREGONING . onds gone in the game, out Mich- igan center Bill Buntin followed right up with a jumper from the top of the circle to knot the score. Cazzie Russell then followed with a lay-up and was fouled in the process by the Devils' Jay Buckley to give Michigan a 5-2 edge. When, with two and a half minutes gone, Buntin put in two layups -within 20 seconds of each other to put the Wolverines ahead 9-4, Michigan fans had some fleeting thoughts of a repeat of the December contest. Both Duke and Michigan; ed to settle down at this into the pace which they' hold for the rest of the For Michigan this meant a By TOM ROWLAND Acting Associate Sports Editor special To The Daily KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Municipal Auditorium Arena here is a vast place-the seats stretch up to the ceiling on both sides, and it instills just the right kind of majestic atmosphere to accom- pany the nation's four best teams as they go after the biggest col- lege basketball trophy in the land. The arena only seats 10,500 fans, but the seats are nicely spaced, and they've got backs- cushioned backs - and whereas most of the clientele for the NCAA finals were local residents present in near semi-formal at- tire, one could have had the im- pression that the west side stands had come to view a Victor Borge- Jose Greco-Joan Baez triple- header. Rah Rah On the other side, slightly more collegiate, the Duke 20-man band complete with pinstripe jackets and straw hats accompanied five belles jeunes filles who were lead- ing the southern delegation cheers. Michigan and Duke took the floor for the tourney's first semi-final match when the arena was just over half-filled-and enthusiasm ran dormant. It seems that the Kansas City folk were waiting for -the evening's next attraction- the local K-State Midwest Reg- ional champs and the nation's number one Bruins of UCLA. While the regular Michigan cheerleading squad was busily oc- cupied at the swimming and gym- nastics NCAA tourneys a couple of Wolverine volunteers made the trip to KC to lead the yelling. Roger Sullivan, a junior who once played frosh basketball, and Jim Podell tried to keep the Michigan noise delegation in competition with the Blue Devils--but then who can beat a brass band and five pretty girls?, Number One? The Duke team was assigned lockerroom number one, and they came out looking the part-tough- er on the boards and peskier on defense and a 91-80 decision put the Blue Devils into the finals. "I can't fault my team," com-; mented a disappointed coach Dave Strack 'afterwards. "They really tried their best. We know that we had to dominate the boards, and we just couldn't do it. We gave up the ball 17 times-and you can't do that against a team, like Duke and expect to get away with it." Meanwhile, back on the floor,1 the NCAA championships were be-j ginning to sound the part. Now it was the UCLA band-brassy and four sections full. Then it was all those cute Kansas State cheer- leaders, hauling the cage of "Touchdown 7," the real live wildcat mascot, around the arena. Rumor had it that "Touchdown" had been obtained from the West arena complete with monogram- med britches and lucky garters- the UCLA cheerleaders had finally made the scene. The rest is history. As one KC reporter remarked, "Whatever else the girls brought with them, they undoubtedly included a lid to the Kansas State basket." K- State's Jeff Simons tried a 15- foot jumper from the side- around, around the hoop and out. Beanpole Roger Suttner and Wil- lie Murrell got several easy shots -no good. With the Bruin cheer- leaders leading a frenzied support, the UCLAns notched 11 straight points and were in front to stay. Final score, 90-84. Big Crowd The next night a record 10,864 filled the arena to see the final action, and Wolverine guard Caz- zie Russell was one of them. The heavy pounding of the night be- fore had been too much for an already injured ankle to take, and senior replacement Doug Herner took the starting guard reigns in his final game for the Wolver- ines. Herner tallied nary a point but was credited with '10 . big assists as the Big Ten co-champs got the third-place finish, 100- 90. It was the first time that any- one had ever passed the century mark against the Wildcats. Strack had praise for everyone afterwards. Chewing on the ice of a post-game Coke, the Wolverine coach conceded that soph John Clawson had seen guard action against the Wildcats because "he might well be in line for the start- ing job next winter." Strack was talking about the only hole in the Michigan starting lineup that will come via graduation next year-at guard where senior chaptain Bob Cantrell steps out. seem- point would night. grad- ual falling behind as errors and lack of control of the offensive boards slowly but surely killed Michigan's dream of a NCAA title in 1964. Trouble Michigan consistently fell prey to the same mistake-trying to } pass the ball into Buntin or Rus- sell only to have an eager Duke defender grab it away. In addi- tion, Duke's Buckley and Tison each played one of their better games of the season on the same night with the result that when the long guns of Duke missed one GIRL CHEERLEADER Virginia State Game Farm in ex- change for four Kansas skunks. The crowd of 10,731, vocally par- tisan to the Wildcats, either ar- rived or woke up. Go-Go But it was that kind of basket- ball game that you had to. UCLA got the tip. Run, run, run. See UCLA run. Not big, the Bruins had to count as usual on speed and a sharp outside shooting eye -and they did. It was 9-0, UCLA, before the Bruin band made it through the opening number. K-State coach Tex Winter call- ed time out, adjusted his tie, said the magic words-and the Wild- cats re-took the floor, scored 11 straight points, and UCLA once again had a ball game on its hands. An hour later, with the score 75-75, Kathy, Sherie, Pat, and Marsha came bounding into the ...+i :"Yt}:;wo.nn" "":" ':**'*';';;;;:, s;}}"ii>}cA ">w;>; " n .. }d'' : :xv r: Blue Fall to Duke, Triumph Over K-State Ferguson. Buckley Tison Harrison Mullins Marin Vacendak Herbster Totals DUKE G F R PT 6-11 0-1 0 0 12 11-16 3-5 14 4 25 3-10 6-10 13 4 12 6-15 2-3 2 2 14 8-19 5-6 8 1 21 1-2 0-0 2 1 2 2-5 1-2 2 1 5 0-0 0-0 0 0' 0 37-78 17-27 41 13 91 MICHIGAN G F R P.T Buntin Cantrell Herner Tregoning Darden Myers Pomey Clawson Totals Moss Robinson S imons Suttner Murreli Williams Nelson Paradis Gottfrid Barnard Pomna Totals MICHIGA KANSASS MICHIGAN G F R PT 9-1815-1714 2 33 8-17 4-5 3 2 20 0-3 0-0 1 3 0 6-13 4-5 8. 116 8-16 1-3 14 3 17 3-10 1-2 6 1 7 2-4 0-0 2 1 4 1-3 1-2 2 0 3 37-84 26-34 5013100 KANSAS STATE G F R .PT 4-9 3-3 3 5 11 6-11 0-0 6 2 12. 4-8 -3-3. 3. 3 11 7-15 6-8 5 4 20 10-19 0-0 10 2 20 2-4 0-1 2 ,0 4 2-6 1-1 2 2 5 1-4 3-4 0 0 5 1-1 0-0 2 3 2 0-1 0-0 3 1 0 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 37-7916-2037 23 90 N 52 48-100 STATE 47 43- 90 M .,y MADRAS is the answer Me Buntin Cantrell Russell Tregoning Darden Myers Pomey Berner Totals DUKE MICHIGAN 8-18 3-3 9 6-10 0-0 4 13-19 5-6 8 3-11 2-2 6 2-6 1-1 9 2-5 0-0 5 0-1 1-2 0 0-1 0-0 0 34-71 12-14 41; 5 2 5 4 5 2 0 0 23 19 12 31 5 4- 1 80 shirts !shorts sportcoats! vests I 48 43-91 39 41--80 UNIVERSITY LECTURES IN JOURNALISM DON CARTER (~ih4}I See Saffell & Bush for _ _. vIlk A r.. 1I