THE MICHIGAN DAILY vel Farris Named MVP Villanova Edges Detroit, 88-86, In Final Seconds of NIT Opener 11 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 GB 10 14 32 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). 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Sunday 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 Students, Faculty for 24 hr. report on the WEATHER 4 3 2 5 NO 6 5-8617 0 T8 Q SPONSOR MORRI LL'S 314 S. State NO 3-2481 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: I 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. 11 11 Nam* 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 Lucky Strike's Dr. Frood to the rescue. ooTproof rmula r .1 Simplifies Chemistry The Animal Kingdom in Fantasy by the Gallery Group FORSYTHE GALLERY Dear Dr. Frood: I am having a difficult time in chemistry. We are studying the chemical properties of acids, and I have become utterly confused. Can you help me understand acids? JI Bunsen Burner' ± -e Dear Bunsen: Take two parts of hydro. chloric acid and three parts nitric acid. Pour into saucer. Stir mixture with finger. Note how much shorter the finger be- comes. That is due to the chemical action of the acid. Dear Dr. Frood: Exactly what is the difference between adult westerns and what I suppose you would call juvenile westerns? Channel Selector Dear Channel: It's the horses. The hero on juvenile westerns rides a pure white horse or a palomino. 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