SECTION ;V L THREE Seventy-One Years of Editorial Freedom ~!IaitF SECTION THREE VOL. LXXII, No.90 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1962 olverine Cagers To Take on Buckeyes, Wildca Unbeaten Ohio State, Lucas Invade Ann Arbor Monday Winless Wildcats Seek First Win Against Michi By TOM WEBBER Barring a very large upset by Minnesota tomorrow and barring an even larger upset by Michi- gan, the Ohio State basketball team will break another record in Yost Field House Monday night. The fabulous Buckeyes haven't lost a home game in their last 32 starts, dating back to March, 1959, so Minnesota will be a slight un- I Wanted Interested in sports? Want a chance to express yourself? Then the Michigan Daily Sports Staff is what you have been looking for. It's easy to join. Just come over to the Student Publications Building, 420 May- nard Street (next to the SAB) and see CLIFF MARKS any- ning is so much a habit with the Bucks. For Monday night they will also be going after their 68th win over a three-year span. They've lost four over that span. The Buckeyes are also on their way to another record, but nobody is paying much attention to that one. In their games thus far they have shot at a 50.9 per cent clip, which would erase the present 49.7. per cent record in the books. No- body's paying much attention be- cause the owner of the present' record is the 1959-60 Ohio State team and in second place is the 1960-61 Ohio State team. The lineup for the Buckeyes will be familiar: Lucas, Havlicek, Doug McDonald, Mel Nowell, and Dick Reasbeck. If the pattern of Ohio State games continues,, however, they will play a little over half of the game and the reserves will mop up. Coach Fred Taylor's boys lead the Big Ten in every department this year and are once again the number one team in the nation. They lead field goal percentage, free throw percentage, average points a game, least points al- lowed, rebounds and won-lost per- centage. It is advisable to come early on Monday since nobody remembers the last time that Ohio State play- ed to a less than capacity house. It's that way with the Buckeyes. Everything is perfect. JOHN OOSTERBAAN . out of doghouse MEL NOWELL RALPH WELLS ... top jump shooter . . . only sure starter BOB CANTRELL . . three clutch shots time. derdog at Columbus. It doesn't help that Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek out-rebounded the whole Gopher team in their first en- counter. So at 8:00 Monday night Ohio State will probably be shooting for its 24th consecutive Big Ten victory, which would break the oldest record on the Big Ten books of 23 straight wins by the 1912 Wisconsin team. The event would seem more spectacular if it wasn't that win- By JERRY KALISH Michigan's cagers will make their second appearance tomor- row before a Midwest television audience (4:30, channel 2) against cellar - lodged Northwestern in Evanston. Northwestern Coach Bill Rohr has, been frantically switching his starters to come up with a winning combination. Captain Ralph Wells, tenth in last season's conference scoring race, is the only regular to survive the shake-up. Even leading scorer Bill Cacciatore with a 14 point average has found him- self on the bench lately. Needs Jumpers Rohr's problem is not a lack of good shooters, but rather not enough rebounding strength. Per- centage-wise the Wildcats are outshooting their opponents but are not being outrebounded. He was well aware of this when he commented, "If we were to use our best shooting line-up, it would have to include Wells (6'1"), Cac- ciatore (5'11"), Rich Falk (6'), Bill Gibbs (6'2"), and Phil Keeley (6'- 5"). "That means we'd have a line- up averaging less than 6'2". Much as we'd like to utilize their shoot- ing ability, we can't think in those terms when we know rebounding is our key problem." Three Guards On occasion Rohr will have Wells, Cacciatore, and Falk, who are all guards, in the line-up at the same time to get an even bal- ance of scoring and rebounding. Wells will move to forward and the Wildcats will try to spring him loose in a one on one situa- tion under the basket where he is tough to stop. Cacciatore hit 17 against Mich- igan State in the Wild Wolverines Knock Out Badger Pretenders This Weekend in Sports TODAY Hockey--Denver (there). Swimming-Iowa State (there) TOMORROW Track-Michigan State Relays (East Lansing) Basketball-Northwestern (there) TV, 4:30 p.m., Channel 2 Gymnastics-Ohio State (here) 1:30 p.m. Wrestling-Iowa (here) 3 p.m. Hockey-Colorado College (there) MONDAY Basketball-Ohio State (here) 8 p.m. By TOM WEBBER It has been an odd season for the basketball team, but you won't find Coach Dave Strack complain- ing. Owners of a 2-7 record when the Big Ten season opened, the Wolverines continued the loss skein by dropping two straight to Illinois and Ohio State. They then promptly surprised everybody by knocking off powerful Iowa and Don Nelson. The upset seemed even more amazing when the Wol- verines dropped their next two games to Michigan State and De- troit. But lo! Now Strack's charges have matched their Big Ten win production of all last year by whipping previously unbeaten Wisconsin, 81-74. Two" upsets in five games and seventh place in the Big Ten race-not bad for a team conceded tenth place in pre- season polls. More importantly the Wolver- ines now face lowly Northwest- ern and have a chance to win their third Big Ten game - more then a Michigan team has won since the 1958-59 season. More- over, it ended a 34-game road los- ing streak dating back to' Feb. 2, 1959. The win also denied the Badgers the right to say that they were tied with Ohio State for the league lead, a matter of much pride. The win was also significant in a number of other respects: John Oosterbaan, Bob Cantrell, and Doug Herner, in the doghouse for missing practice and suspended for the Detroit game, came off the bench to lead the Wolverines to the win. Cantrell sank three clutch free-throws in the waning minutes when Michigan held 'a precarious two-point advantage. Suppresses Press The. Wolverines continued to show a stern zone defense. The zone was a prime factor in the Iowa win which stopped Nelson. Bench Helps Strack also found that his total depth was a little better than he thought. Forward Bob Br'own and guards Steve Schoenherr and Hir- am Jackson played a considerable part of the Detroit game, and Brown and Schoenherr also start- ed against Wisconsin. "I figure to go with eight players from now on," Strack said. This is opposed to the six players he has been using. "I figure that I have five men (Cantrell, Herner, Schoenherr, Jackson and Jon Hall) whom I can use at guard without hurting me," he added. Strack also says he will continue to start Brown at the forward spot for rebounding strength. He still is undecided about who will start at guards. FoulShots Good The team as a whole shot 76 per cent from the free throw line (19-25), somewhat of an improve- ment over the season's 65 per cent accuracy. Captain Hall also continued his high scoring. He followed up a 20 point total against Detroit with 16 against the Badgers. In all the Wolverines had quite a memorable evening in Badger- conference victory and he nected for 20 points in the point loss to Indiana. The guard made a spectacular B debut two years ago whe threw in 26 against this sam diana' in his first confe game. Bill Woislaw (6'9") and LaPossa (6'3") have been sl in and out, too. Woislaw, has played inconsistently thi son, pulled down 16 reboun the Indiana game playing o half. And the second-leadin bounder LaPossa has been h in double figures in the las gaipes. MISS GAME: Cage Trio Reinstated Doug Herner, Bob Cantre John Oosterbaan, suspende the Detroit game for missing tice, have been reinstated byt Dave Strack. All three saw considerabl tion in Monday night's vi over Wisconsin, although didn't start, and spearheade Wolverine attack. Oosterbaa Cantrell had been starters u til the suspension and Herne the top reserve guard. The players were suspend Strack for missing a practic sion after the Michigan game. They consequently i another practice which wa ranged at the first session. Strack emphasized that th pension was the result or mi the practice sessions and way was connected withthei prior to the suspension."All played -hard for me befor suspension, and they have I just as hard after it," Strack "The incident is closed as I I'm concerned." Strack did indicate, hov that Bob Brown will probably tinue to start at the other ward spot opposite- Tom Cc least for Saturday's North, ern game. f iCLl14i. 4.i DeBusschere, Thomann Curb M' Quintet FINAL WINTER' CLEARANCE! on Needed Wearing Apparel THAT PUT DOLLARS IN YOUR POCKET! Herner, whom Strack considers to be the best for bringing the ball upcourt against a pressing defense, rendered the Badger full- court press ineffective with his dribbling and ball-handling. Oosterbaan, the team's leading scorer with a 16.7 average, tossed in 13 points to aid the cause. 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Thomann, a 6'9" sophomore who had scored only two points in previous action as a reserve center for Michigan State, team- ed up with soph forward Pete Gent to outlast Michigan here Jan. 20, 80-74. Combine for 43 Thomann scored 21 points and hauled down 15 rebounds, while Gent, five inches shorter, got 22 points and 17 rebounds. Coach Dave Strack was disap- pointed with the results of both games but was high on praise of DeBusschere and Thomann. "DeBusschere ranks among the top ten ball players in the coun- try in my opinion," commented Strack. "Thomann's got a lot go- ing for him. He was the tallest man on the floor. I think he's a good ball player right now." Michigan tried its usually suc- cessful zone defense off and on in both games, but Thomann scored in close on hooks and Gent made the most of every opportunity to score easy lay-ups. 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