| 1964–65Michigan Wolverines men's basketball | |
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Big Ten champions NCAA tournament, runner-up | |
| Conference | Big Ten Conference |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 1 |
| AP | No. 1 |
| Record | 24–4 (13–1 Big Ten) |
| Head coach | |
| Assistant coaches |
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| MVP | Cazzie Russell |
| Captain | Larry Tregoning |
| Home arena | Fielding H. Yost Field House |
Seasons | |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 1Michigan | 13 | – | 1 | .929 | 24 | – | 4 | .857 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 7Minnesota | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 19 | – | 5 | .792 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Illinois | 10 | – | 4 | .714 | 18 | – | 6 | .750 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana | 9 | – | 5 | .643 | 19 | – | 5 | .792 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 14 | – | 10 | .583 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 6 | – | 3 | .667 | 12 | – | 12 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Purdue | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 12 | – | 12 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | 9 | – | 13 | .409 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 7 | – | 17 | .292 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 1 | – | 13 | .071 | 5 | – | 18 | .217 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rankings fromAP Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The1964–65 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented theUniversity of Michigan in intercollegiatecollege basketball during the1964–65 season. The team played its home games atFielding H. Yost Field House (renamed Yost Ice Arena in 1973) on the school's campus inAnn Arbor, Michigan. Under the direction ofhead coachDave Strack, the team won theBig Ten Conference Championship.[1][2]
This was the second of three consecutive Big Ten titles and Michigan's second visit to theNCAA Division I men's basketball tournamentfinal four.[2][3] The team earned the Big Ten team statistical championships for bothscoring offense (92.9) and scoring margin (12.2).[4] JuniorCazzie Russell averaged 25.7 points per game and seniorBill Buntin added 20.1.[2] The team spent the entire 15-week season ranked in theAssociated Press Top Ten Poll, starting and ending the season ranked number one and holding that position in ten of the fifteen weeks of the poll.[5] The team also finished the season ranked number one in the finalUPI Coaches' Poll.[6] Larry Tregoning served as teamcaptain, while Russell and Buntin shared teamMVP.[7]
The team was the first Michigan team to defeat the number one ranked team in the country when it beatWichita State on December 14 by an 87–85 margin. As of 2010[update] only two Michigan teams have done so.[8] On March 20, 1965,Oliver Darden went 11 for 11 infree throw attempts againstUCLA, which was a school single-game record for most without a miss untilCraig Dill made 12 on February 18, 1966.[9]
1964-65Overall: 24-4Big Ten: 13-1 (1st | Champions)[10]Postseason: NCAA (Mideast) (Final Four; Runner-up)Head Coach: Dave StrackStaff: James Skala & Tom Jorgensen (Freshmen)Captain: Larry TregoningHome Arena: Yost Field House (7,500)
| Date Rk Opponent H/A W/L Score +/- |
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| 12/1/1964 #1 Ball State H W 92-70 +22 |
| 12/5/1964 #1 at #5 Duke A W 86-79 +7 |
| 12/7/1964 #1 Missouri H W 91-61 +30 |
| 12/9/1964 #1 Indiana State H W 102-64 +38 |
| 12/12/1964 #1 at Nebraska A L 73-74 -1 |
| 12/14/1964 #1 vs. #2 Wichita State N1 W 87-85 +2 |
| 12/23/1964 #1 Butler H W 99-81 +18 |
| 12/28/1964 #1 vs. Manhattan N2 W 90-77 +13 |
| 12/30/1964 #1 vs. Princeton N2 W 80-78 +2 |
| 1/2/1965 #1 vs. St. John’s N2 L 74-75 -1 |
| 1/9/1965 #3 Illinois+ H W 89-83 +6 |
| 1/16/1965 #2 at Northwestern+ A W 90-68 +22 |
| 1/23/1965 #2 Purdue+ H W 103-84 +19 |
| 1/26/1965 #2 at Michigan State+ (OT) A W 103-98 +5 |
| 1/30/1965 #2 at Purdue+ A W 98-81 +17 |
| 2/8/1965 #1 Iowa+ H W 81-66 +15 |
| 2/13/1965 #1 Michigan State+ H W 98-83 +15 |
| 2/15/1965 #1 at #8 Indiana+ (2OT) A W 96-95 +1 |
| 2/20/1965 #1 Ohio State+ H W 100-61 +39 |
| 2/23/1965 #1 at #8 Minnesota+ A W 91-78 +13 |
| 2/27/1965 #1 at Illinois+ A W 80-79 +1 |
| 3/2/1965 #1 Wisconsin+ H W 98-75 +23 |
| 3/6/1965 #1 #6 Minnesota+ H W 88-85 +3 |
| 3/8/1965 #1 at Ohio State+ A L 85-93 -8 |
| 3/12/1965 #1 vs. Dayton N3 W 98-71 +27 |
| 3/13/1965 #1 vs. #5 Vanderbilt N3 W 87-85 +2 |
| 3/19/1965 #1 vs. Princeton N4 W 93-76 +17 |
| 3/20/1965 #1 vs. #2 UCLA N4 L 80-91 -11 |
(1) Played in Detroit, Mich. (Cobo Arena)(2) Holiday Festival, New York, N.Y. (Madison Square Garden)(3) NCAA Tournament, Lexington, Ky. (Memorial Coliseum)(4) NCAA Tournament, Portland, Ore. (Memorial Coliseum)
In the 23-team1965 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, Michigan improved upon its1964 tournamentfinal four appearance by reaching thenational championship game against theUCLA Bruins where they were upset, 91–80. As it had the year before the team had an opening roundbye. Then it defeated theDayton Flyers 98–71 and theVanderbilt Commodores 87–85 to win the Mideast region. In the Final Four, Michigan defeated theBill Bradley-ledPrinceton Tigers team 93–76, before they were upset by UCLA in the National Championship game.[3] In the championship game, Michigan had three players disqualified, which was an NCAA tournament championship game record that stood until March 31, 1997.[11][12][13] The season markedJohn Wooden's second consecutive championship as UCLA coach and the second of what would become nine championships in ten seasons.[14]
Various members of the team earned significant recognitions: Strack earned theUPI College Basketball Coach of the Year.[2] Russell won theChicago Tribune Silver Basketball as Big TenMVP.[2][16] Russell and Buntin were both1965 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans.[17] Following the seasonBill Buntin became the first Wolverine selected in theNBA draft.[2]
That season, Buntin surpassedJohn Tidwell and established the Michigan career scoring record with 1725 and a 21.8 average, but Russell would end his career the following year with superior numbers.[18] Russell eclipsed his own single-season point total record of 670 with a total of 694 ( a number he would surpass the following season).[18] Buntin also surpassed,M. C. Burton, Jr.'s 1957–59 career rebound total of 831 and average of 12.59 with 1037 and 13.13, butRudy Tomjanovich would set the current standards by surpassing both of these in 1970.[19] However, Buntin's total of 58 career point-rebound double doubles remains a Michigan record.[20] While Russell eclipsed Buntin's single-season school free throw record of 151 by one, Buntin set the school's career total record of 385, but both of these marks would be eclipsed by Russell the following season.[9] The team continues to hold the single-season Big Ten Conferencerebounding record with 1521, a total that was tied by thenational champion2000 Michigan State Spartans[21] The team set the single-season team points per game Big Ten Conference record with 92.9 (1,300 in 14 conference games). The record would be broken the following season by the Wolverines.[22] The team set the school single-season free throws made record of 494, which would last until 1977.[23] On December 1, 1964, the team began a 17-gamehome winning streak against theBall State that continued through a January 29, 1966, victory overWisconsin. This surpassed the 16-game streak from February 22, 1947 – February 7, 1949, and stood as the longest home winning streak in school history until a 22-game streak that started on January 12, 1976.[24]
The team posted the following statistics:[25]
| Name | GP | GS | Min | Avg | FG | FGA | FG% | 3FG | 3FGA | 3FG% | FT | FTA | FT% | OR | DR | RB | Avg | Ast | Avg | PF | DQ | TO | Stl | Blk | Pts | Avg |
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| Cazzie Russell | 27 | 27 | 271 | 558 | 0.486 | -- | -- | 152 | 186 | 0.817 | 208 | 7.7 | 66 | 3 | 694 | 25.7 | ||||||||||
| Bill Buntin | 28 | 28 | 221 | 454 | 0.487 | -- | -- | 122 | 159 | 0.767 | 323 | 11.5 | 87 | 8 | 564 | 20.1 | ||||||||||
| Oliver Darden | 28 | 25 | 152 | 322 | 0.472 | -- | -- | 59 | 95 | 0.621 | 246 | 8.8 | 88 | 4 | 363 | 13.0 | ||||||||||
| Larry Tregoning | 28 | 28 | 133 | 292 | 0.455 | -- | -- | 44 | 63 | 0.698 | 211 | 7.5 | 73 | 2 | 310 | 11.1 | ||||||||||
| George Pomey | 28 | 20 | 86 | 194 | 0.443 | -- | -- | 37 | 57 | 0.649 | 104 | 3.7 | 59 | 0 | 209 | 7.5 | ||||||||||
| John Thompson | 23 | 11 | 52 | 119 | 0.437 | -- | -- | 18 | 25 | 0.720 | 29 | 1.3 | 43 | 0 | 122 | 5.3 | ||||||||||
| Jim Myers | 26 | 0 | 44 | 140 | 0.314 | -- | -- | 14 | 23 | 0.609 | 117 | 4.5 | 35 | 0 | 102 | 3.9 | ||||||||||
| Craig Dill | 20 | 0 | 32 | 66 | 0.485 | -- | -- | 30 | 42 | 0.714 | 54 | 2.7 | 27 | 0 | 94 | 4.7 | ||||||||||
| John Clawson | 16 | 0 | 22 | 48 | 0.458 | -- | -- | 6 | 11 | 0.545 | 23 | 1.4 | 21 | 1 | 50 | 3.1 | ||||||||||
| Tom Ludwig | 11 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 0.294 | -- | -- | 4 | 4 | 1.000 | 7 | 0.6 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 1.3 | ||||||||||
| Dennis Bankey | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.000 | -- | -- | 5 | 6 | 0.833 | 5 | 0.7 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0.7 | ||||||||||
| Dan Brown | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.143 | -- | -- | 1 | 3 | 0.333 | 8 | 1.3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0.5 | ||||||||||
| Van Tillotson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | -- | -- | 2 | 5 | 0.400 | 4 | 1.3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.7 | ||||||||||
| TEAM | 28 | 173 | 6.2 | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charles Adams | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | -- | -- | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||||||||
| Season Total | 28 | 1019 | 2225 | 0.458 | 494 | 679 | 0.728 | 1512 | 54.0 | 521 | 18 | 2532 | 90.4 | |||||||||||||
| Opponents | 28 | 876 | 1979 | 0.443 | -- | -- | 448 | 651 | 0.688 | 1156 | 41.3 | 514 | 20 | 2200 | 78.6 |
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| Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Final |
| AP Poll[5] | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Five players from this team were selected in theNBA draft.[26][27][28]
| Year | Round | Pick | Overall | Player | NBA Club |
| 1965 | 1 | Territorial | 2 | Bill Buntin | Detroit Pistons |
| 1965 | 15 | 3 | 103 | George Pomey | St. Louis Hawks |
| 1966 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Cazzie Russell | New York Knicks |
| 1966 | 3 | 2 | 22 | Oliver Darden | Detroit Pistons |
| 1967 | 4 | 11 | 42 | Craig Dill | San Diego Rockets |