THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29.1963' THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY. FI4BRTTAItV 2* 1Q42 Y;y~A~ a LLIV VC1aV1 1 1V) 1pVV w++ unT hreatens Tidwell's Scoring Record DENVER IN FIRST: WCHA Nears End of Season n By DAVE GOOD Billy Buntin, who was passed off s a "green sophomore" when he rst strode onto the basketball. )Urt last December, today stands ily 60 points away from John idwell's single-season scoring ,cord. With games to play against I1- aois, Indiana and Wisconsin, untin has already jacked his oint total up to 460 points to tie im with M. C. Burton for second ace on Michigan's all-time list.. He leads the Wolverines with it .9 scoring average over 21 games na at this rate will top Tidwell's 959-60 performance of 520 points )metime during the Wisconsin ame on the road a week from aturday. Fourth in Big Ten Buntin can also overtake Burton s Michigan's best scorer during a ig Ten season. Right now he inks fourth in the conference ith a 23.2 average and needs only Zpoints to, pass Burton's 316 oints scored in the 1958-59 sea- )n. Already he is the most prolific phomore scorer Michigan has it on the court. He passed Tid- ell's- 425-point mark two games ,o against Purdue. Coach Dave Strack is more con- rned about winning his last three 3.mes than anything else, how- er. "We're not going to feature ill just to break a record, but we ill feature scoring and so far Bill as been our big man," he explain- s. One of the Few With Buntin's help, Strack ould like to see Michigan take le last three and finish as high third with a 9-5 record. Now e Wolverines are 6-5 in the Big en and 14-7 over-all for only the cond winning season since the iampionship year of 1947-48. "It would be a remarkable thing; we could win these last three, it this team has done some re- arkable things," Strack com- TOP SCORERS G F R T Ave. Bradds 126-227 95.-16 137 347 31.5 Rayl 113-263 83-93 36 309 28.1 Boylard 99-202 63-90 86 261 23.7 Buntin 103-243 49-72 174 255 23.2 Garland 105-230 65-78 47 275 22.9 Downey 92-198 53-66 105 237 21.5 Falk 92-187 53-67 34 237 21.5 Small 90-180 30-41 49 210 19.1 Magdanz 82-232 59-86 104 225 18.8 Siebel 74-177 52-77 101 200 18.2 mented. "Our schedule will be harder than any other team's from here on in, but it's up to us. We can't plan on anybody helping us." Strack will have his team look- ing for Illinois to play 6'8" Billy Burwell and 6'10" Skip Thoren in a double post position near the baseline when the two teams clash .1, Not Impossible The Illini are ranked sixth na- tionally and are tied with Ohio State for the Big Ten lead now. "It's definitely within the realm of possibility that we can beat1 them," Strack said. "We've got to win the backboard duel, even though they're bigger than we are." Buntin, at 6'7" and 232 lbs., cur- rently leads the Big Ten in re- bounding with 174 in 11 games but would need 75 to catch Burton's school record of 249 in the con- ference. As a team, Michigan leads. the conference with an average of 47 a game. The only other Wolverine besides Buntin in the top 25 scorers in the conference is Tom Cole, aver- aging 15.2 points in 19th place. Cole also ranks in the top 10 re- bounders with 122. . For the season, Cole is averaging 12.6 points, followed by Bob Can- trell (11.4), John Harris (8.8) and Doug Herner (7.6). Michigan Gymnasts To Stage Exhibition By STAN KUKLA Three of four teams are assured play-off positions as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association en- ters the final weekend of regular season action. Only fourth place Michigan Tech has to worry about making the play-offs. The Huskies play fifth- place Colorado College tomorrow and Saturday. A double win by the Tigers would give them an 8-8-0 record and the double loss by Michigan Tech would give them a 9-9-2 record. Since the WCHA standings are figured on percent- age points, both teams would be at .500 and thus tied for fourth, nec- essitating a play-off between the teams. Pioneers Lead Denver is currently leading the league with a .667 per cent on 12 wins and six losses. However, the Pioneers finished their league schedule last weekend. North Dakota is right on the heels of the Denver squad with a .656 per cent on a 10-5-1 record. The Sioux meet Michigan this weekend and a double win for the Grand Forks group would mean first place on a .694 per cent. Minnesota, like Denver and North Dakota, is assured of being in the play-offs but its final posi- tion in the league, again like Den- ver and North Dakota, is still in doubt. A double loss by the Goph- ers, combined with a double win by Michigan Tech, would drop them into fourth. Only two teams are firmly en- sconced in their positions-Mich- igan and Michigan State. Neither have a breath of a chance of mak- ing the playoffs. State is sixth and Michigan is holding up the rest of the league. Actually it is a matter of strate- gy to decide in which position to finish, since the first place team hosts the fourth place team for a two-game, total--goal series. The second team hosts the third. Then the two winners meet in a single championship game. Strategems Louis Nanne of Minnesota tight- ened his grip on the scoring race with a goal and two. assists last weekend. Nanne now has 27 points on nine goals and 18 assists. Michigan's Gary Butler remained Denver North Dakota Minnesota Michigan Tech Colorado College Michigan State Michigan W L 12 6 10 5 9 6 9 7 6 8 5 9 3 13 T 0 1. 3t 2 0 0 2 Pet. .667 .656 .583 .556 .429 .357 .235 in second even though he only picked up one point on an assist in the Michigan State series. Wayne Kartusch is still leading the league in penalty minutes with 74. Suspended Ross Morrison is still second with 45 minutes, al- though Michigan Tech's Norm Wimmer is a close third at 41 minutes. WCHA By MIKE BLOCK The dual meet season over, Michigan's gymnastics team won't see any official action until the Big Ten Meet on March 8 and 9. However, Wolverine fans have one more chance to see the squad in action. Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Intramural Building, the gymnasts will give an intrasquad exhibition for their last home per- formance until 1964. Coach Newt Loken plans to split the team up into its Canadian and American members for scoring purposes in the exhibition. Since the Canadians will be in the mi- nority, Loken has invited Wilhelm Weiler, the top-ranking member of Canada's gymnastics delegation to the Pan-American Games, to help them out. Incidentally, Rich Montpetit, former Michigan star, is second to Weiler on that Pan-Am team. TV Stars. Loken also announced that his men will be on regional television (WJPK, Channel 2) between halves of the Wisconsin-Michigan State basketball game Saturday. Game time is 4:30 p.m., with the gym tape to go on about 5. The Wolverines finished the dual meet season undefeated in six tries this year, their first per- feet mark since 1956, when they had a 7-0 mark. But that year they finished second in the Big Ten Meet to Illinois, so that next week they'll be going for their first sea- son with an unblemished dual meet mark and a conference crown. The team will go to East Lans- ing healthy, with the exception of sophomore all-arounder Alex Frec- ska, who missed the Minnesota meet last Friday, and all of the practices since, with a sore wrist. Loken reports that Frecska still hadn't improved as of yesterday but expects him to be at full strength for the meet next week. Hard at Work "He's been working awfully hard this year," said Loken, "and since he's heavier than most gymnasts, his wrists naturally undergo a lot of strain holding him up." In sweeping to their undefeated season, the Wolverines' widest margin of victory was 51 points against Indiana, and the narrow- est was 27 against Illinois, the lat- ter only because in several events, Michigan gymnasts entered not to count. Their average score was 70 points per meet, as opposed to their opponents' 35. Having defeated the two strong- est teams besides themselves, Min- nesota and Michigan State, by identical 70-39 scores, the gym- nasts don't foresee much trouble in the Big Tens. "Keep A-Head of your Hair" We specialize in * PERSONALITY CUTS * CREW-CUTS 0 FLAT TOPS * PRINCETONS U-M BARBERS near Kresge's -Daily-Bruce Taylor YOU PUT YOUR LEFT FOOT OUT-Sophomore center Bill Buntin- (left) shows Iowa's Joe Reddington how to play keep- away on the court. Buntin scored 32 against the Hawkeyes Mon- day night to put him within 60 points of John TidweIl's school scoring record for one season. NCAA'S AT ST1AKE: OSU, Illinois Face Cruci-alWeekend Co-sponsored by B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation and Beth Israel Center and in conjunction with Creative Arts Festival JEWISH LIFE THROUGH THE ARTS Part I. Tuesday, March 5, 8 P.M. FRANKLIN CHOSET, Conductor-Composer-Pianist Director, Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra speaks, with illustrations at the piano and from taped recordings, on "MUSIC, MUSICIANS and MUSICAL LIFE in ISRAEL" Admission is free Zwerdling-Cohen Auditorium 1429 Hill St. By TOM WEINBERG It's a battle right down to thej wire between Illinois and Ohio State for the Big Ten basketballj championship, and Michigan's, Wolverines are determined to put the Buckeyes on top by virtue of an upset over the Illini Saturday at Yost Field House. In the event that the Strackmen are unable to do a job on the Illini and both they and the Bucks fin- ish their seasons with three vic- tories, the first place tie would permit the Illini to represent the Big Ten in the NCAA tournament. Illinois is given preference be- cause they have not been the Big Ten team in the national cham- pionships since 1952, while Jerry Lucas and the Buckeyes have a l virtual monopoly, having won three consecutive titles in the last; three years. Going into the final three tilts, Ohio State's new-found All-Amer- ican, Gary Bradds, leads the con- ference in practically every indi- vidual scoring category. He has the most field goals, the most free throws, the best shooting percent-1 age with .555, and leads in scor- ing with 347 points for a 31.5 per game average. The other co-leader, Illinois, sparkles in team accomplishments rather than individual, as it leads by a substantial margin in shoot- ing percentage with .464 and in free throw accuracy with .761, each of which is better than a full percentage point over Indiana In addition, the Illini boast four of their starting five in the top 23 scorers in the Big Ten. For- ward Dave Downey leads Illini scoring with a 21.5 average. Bill Small, who is eighth in the scor- ing race, hits for 19.1, Bill Burwell has 15.2 and Bob Starnes, 13.7. Michigan's hope for the future, Bill Buntin, has moved up to fourth in the scoring race based on his 49-point weekend against Northwestern and Iowa. Buntin supports a 23.7 average, only half a point behind third place shooter, Indiana's steady forward, Tom Bolyard. Buntin is far and away the top rebounder with 174, 39 ahead of his nearest competitor, Wisconsin's Jack Brens. As a team, the Wolverines are leading in rebounding with an average of 47. 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