THE MICHIGAN DAILY
vel Farris Named MVP
Villanova Edges Detroit, 88-86,
In Final Seconds of NIT Opener
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N MacCLOWRY
Farris, Michigan's scrappy
center from Cleveland,
,y was named most valu-
asketball player of the
season by his teammates.
stocky 6'3" Farris, who
way from one to eight
n height in the pivot every
was the leading Wolverine
er with 233 grabs in 24
His "rough and ready"
der the boards was one of
bright spots in a season
saw the Wolverines win
ir games.
21 points placed him third
ring, behind only Terry
and John Tidwell, and his
es played put him in the
an class. He and Tidwell
ie only players to partici-
every game.r
announcement climaxes'
rise from "rags to riches."
He came to Ann Arbor in the fall
of 1956 as a highly touted high
school prospect. But come 1957
he was warming the bench for
Coach Bill Perigo or entertaining
the fans with his mis-plays in the
latter stages of a runaway game.'
He did manage to win his letter
that season but little more.
When 1958 rolled around Farris
was in the starting lineup at cen-
ter, perhaps because of his, ag-
gressiveness. But Michigan fans
NBA STANDINGS (Final)
soon found out that this was not
the same player they had seen the
previous year. Instead of trying
to hook and drive around op-
ponents up to eight inches taller
he was now moving out to the
corners and using his jump shot.
This year when 6'5" Bob Brown
became eligible, Perigo quickly
shifted Farris to forward where
he could take better advantage of
his outside shooting.
Farris himself credits his im-
provement to "just plain work."
It was not unusual to find him on
the Yost Fieldhouse court an hour
after official practice had ended
each night. Often he had to be
chased off the court with threats
of spending the night there.
Next year Perigo expects to have
a little more height in his starting
lineup, but it will be hard to have
a better rebounder than this year's
MVP, Lovell Parris.
EASTERN
Boston
Philadelphia
Syracuse
New York
WESTERN
St. Louis
Detroit
Minneapolis
Cincinnati
DIVISION
W L Pct.
59 16 .787
49 26 .653
45 30 .600
27 48 .360
DIVISION
46 29 .613
130 45 .400
25 50 .333
19 56 .253
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By The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Villanova re-
laxed with an 18-point lead and
only seven minutes to play, then
needed two free throws by George
Raveling with 21 seconds left for
an 88-86 victory over Detroit last
night in the opener of a double-
header tipping off the 23rd Na-
tional Invitation Tournament.
Villanova's smooth working
Wildcats led 75-56 and seemed to
have this one nicely in hand when
the big, but erratic Detroit team
suddenly started hitting. With 30
seconds to play Detroit had whit-
tled the Wildcats' lead to 86-84
in a furious rally, capped by a
10-0 spurt while the Wildcats!
stood around bewildered.
At that point, Detroit's Frank
Chickowski fouled Raveling as he
moved the ball across the center
line and the 6'6" senior from
Washington, D.C. calmly dropped
in two free throws, coming on a
deliberate call.
DeBussehere Cuts Lead
The two free throws by Detroit's
DeBusschere cut it to 88-86 with
seven seconds to play. But the
Titans couldn't get those last two'
though 5'9" Tom Villemure came
up with a loose ball and had a
wild shot in theair as the buzzer
sounded. The ball hit the bank-
board to the side of the rim.
So the Wildcats, a gang of
mostly juniors and sophomores
who might have learned a lesson
last night, go into the quarter-
finals against second-seeded Utah
State Saturday afternoon. That
will be on National Television
(NBC-TV 4 p.m. EST).
As it turned out, two Detroit
baskets nullified by the officials
cost the Titans the gamef. - al-
though they seemed ineffectual at
the time. Both Charley North, De-
troit's top scorer with 33 points,
and DeBusschere were called for
interference when they grabbed
the rim at. the moment of success-
ful Titan shots.
DeBusschere Nets 20
DeBusschere, a 6'5" soph who
was ninth. nationally in scoring
with a 25.8 average wound up with
20 points, but was generally in-
effective against Villanova's zone.
He hit only eight of 23 shots from
the field.
Soph Hubie White and Junior
Dick Kaminski each had 23 points
for the Wildcats, who ran their
season's record to 20-5. Detroit,
playing in the NIT for the first
time, wound up a successful 20-7
campaign.
In the second game, little guys
Lenny Wilkens and Johnny Egan
fired Providence to a 71-70 victory
over Memphis State.
NCAA LINE-Up
TODAY's REGIONAL GAMES
(20-3); St. Joseph's, Fi. (20-5), vs.
Duke (16-10).
Mi deast at Louisvile --. OhoV
Western Kentucky (20-6) vs. Ohio
State (21-3).
Midwest at Manhattan, Kan. --
Cincinnati (25-1) v's. DePaul (18-6);
Texas (18-6) vs. Kansas (18-8).
West at Seattle - California
(25-1) vs. Santa clara (21-8); Utah
(25-2) vs. Oregon (18-9).
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MOST VALUABLE PLAYER--Lovell Farris, Michigan's rugged
rebounder, and one of two graduating seniors (along with ex-
captain Terry Miller), was named Mest Valuable Player by his
teammates yesterday. Farris' board strength will be sorely missed
next year.
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By BOB SCHMITZ
Michigan's lone bright spot in
the hardwood squad's most dis-
mal season in two decades, cap-
tain-elect John Tidwell, glim-
mered again in the official season
statistics released yesterday.
Tidwell, the lithe, junior guard-
forward, tallied 526 points in 24
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games to lead all Wolverine scor-
ers and establish a new one-
season record which was helped
along by two other scoring marks.
His 41 point total against Mich-
igan State set a single game rec-
and for Yost Field House. This
ord for both a Michigan player
contributed to his season record
which eclipsed the mark of 460,
set by M.C. Burton in 1958-59.
The Wolverine's combined for
a .343 mark from the field as
compared to their opponents' field
goal proficiency of .439. Michigan
attempted 40 more shots than
their foes, but the opposition con-
nected for 151 more field goals.
This was the main story of Mich-
igan's 4-20 season, though there
were other reasons.
Tidwell, with a 21.6 average,
and center Lovell Farris with 13.3
points per game were the only
hoopsters to average in double
figures. The durable trio account-
I ed for slightly over 75 per cent of
Michigan's points, and for 43.3
per cent of the rebounds.
In rebounding, center Lovell
Farris snatched 233 to lead the
team. Tidwell was second with
147 and Scott Maentz, although
appearing in only 12 contests,
took third with 144.
Perigo's five scored 64.6 points
per game but yielded 77.3, losing*
on the average by over 12 points
a contest.
Following are the official fig-
ures for Michigan's '59-'60 season:
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Final Statstics
By CLIFF MARKS
It may be trite, but Michigan's
basketball fortunes can go only
one way next year, and that's up
from this year's 10th-place Big
Ten finish.
The fact that the Wolverines
lose only two men, Terry Miller
and Lovell Farris, this year's team
by graduation is not in itself im-
portant in that this would not
signify any great hope for a team
that won only four games all year.
However, Michigan will miss
high scoring, captain-playmaker
Miller, along with rugger center
Farris, who developed into one of
the Big Ten's best by the end of
the season.
'Best' Freshman Group
The important item concerning
the cagers for next year is that
the other six or seven squaa mem-
bers who saw considerable action
gained a year of experience if
nothing else, and this, coupled
with what Coach Bill Perigo calls
the best freshman "group" in his
nine years here, is encouraging.
Then, of course, captain-elect
John Tidwell will be back and if
he can only get the needed sup-
port he didn't get this year, could
develop into an All-America can-
didlate, bringing the Wolverines
up on the same level with him.
Perigo has hopes that this help
will come mainly on the "inside"
from two big freshmen, 67' Tom
Cole or 6'5" Jim Ludwig, or pos-
sibly from a Junior College trans-
fer who would be eligible next year
by the new Big Ten rule.
"We'll try and find 'him'," said
Perigo.
Basic Problems
That was a basic problem in the
fall of this year's club from sec-
ond in 1959 to last. Not having
the "big man" forced Michigan
to shoot more from the outside,
w ch put pressure on Miller, Tid-
well, and guard Jon Hall who
knew that one shot would prob-
ably be all they would get. Con-
sequently, shooting was way off
this year, and Perigo himself ad-
mitted that even one "big" man,
such as M. C. Burton, would have
made "a whale of a difference."
He also said that if Farris, Bob
Brown, and Scott Maentz could
have played together all year un-
der the boards (Maentz played the
first half, Brown the second),
Michigan would have rebounded
with the best of them. Brown will
be back next year, and his
strength on the boards should help
greatly. He outrebounded Michi-
Egan State ace Horace Walker
when the two tangled two weeks
ago' in Michigan's one Conference
victory.
Perigo only hopes that Brown
can improve his scoring ability
which would add punch to the
attack. There is also a chance that -
the rugged Maentz will be back
next year if he becomes eligible.
(He became ineligible in January.)
Encouraging Sign
A definite encouraging sign for
next year is the MSU game al-
luded to above. Without Miller,
the Wolverines, led by Tidwell,
put on a fantastic show to de-
reat their arch rivals '12-65. This
means that all who played in that
game, except Farris, will be back
next year.
And although one game doesn't
make a season, that one showed
Michigan fans that their team
"could play" basketball, and a
basically "bad" team just doesn't
rise to that great a height on a
given night, especially without,
one of its starters and best play-
ers. The Wolverines also had vic-
tory within their grasp several
other times, but "tired" out down
the stretch.
This only goes to show that
Michigan wasn't a "bad" team.
However, what then was the prob-
lem? The Wolverines certainly
weren't a fortunate team by virtue
of all the injuries, sickness and
ineligibilities that cost Perigo val-
uable bench strength. This is the
situation that the coach hopes
will be remedied next year with
the new additions.
There also is the possibility that
some of this year's losses like Rich
Robins, Denis Robinson, and Gary
Kane could return to action, along
with the almost for sure return of
sharp-shooting Dick Clark, a
started until sidelined with an
injury after a fine performance
in the near-upset of Indiana.
If bench strength alone can
improve Michigan, not to mention
other factors, the Wolverines will
climb the Big Ten ladder in "im-
provement" next season.
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4John Tidwell
Terry Miller
Lovell Farris
Scott Maentz
Jon Hal
Dick Clark
Rich Robins
Dick Meyer
Bob Brown
Charlie Higgs
Paul Sangster
Steve Schoenherr
Dick Donley
Dick Lyon
Robert Brown
Dave Zimmerman
TOTALS
Opponents' Totals
G FGA
24 482
22 391
24 320
12 134
8 100
11 58
3 21
11 29
10 53
10 36
5 13
19 35
18 42
6 12
1 0
6 13
24 1739
24 1699
FG
201
135
112
41
24
24
6
10
15
10
6
6
6
1
0
0
597
748
Pct. FTA
.410 159
.345 77
.350 144
.306 23
.240 21
.414 25
.286 4
.344 31
.283 17
.277 14
.462 3
.171 1
.145 28
.083 0
.000 0
.000 3
.343 550
.439 543
FT
118
61
97
12
6
12
3
19
4
8
2
0
13
0
0
2
357
361
Pct.
.742
.792
.676
.522
.285
.480
.750
.612
.235
.751
.667
.000
.464
.000
.000
.667
.649
.664
RB
147
83
233
144
49
57
9
31
92
32
7
15
70
.6
0
9
1069
1223.
PF
51
40
94
34
25
29
12
19
41
14
7
16
33
4
0
6
425
415
Pts. Avg.
526 21.6
331 15.0
321 13.3
94 7.8
54 6.7
60 5.5
14 5.0
39 3.5
34 3.4
28 2.8
14 2.8
12, 0.6
25 1.3
2 0.3
0 0.3
2 0.3
1551 64.6
1857 77.3
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