1965–66 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

1965–66 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball
Big Ten Regular Season Champions
NCAA Tournament, Elite Eight
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 7
AP	No. 9
1965–66 record	18–8 (11–3 Big Ten)
Head coach	Dave Strack
Assistant coach	James Skala
Assistant coach	Tom Jorgensen (Freshman coach)
Assistant coach	George Pomey
MVP	Cazzie Russell
Captain	Oliver Darden
Home arena	Fielding H. Yost Field House

1965–66 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
#9 Michigan	11	–	3	.786	18	–	8	.692
Michigan State	10	–	4	.714	15	–	7	.682
Iowa	8	–	6	.571	17	–	7	.708
Illinois	8	–	6	.571	12	–	12	.500
Minnesota	7	–	7	.500	14	–	10	.583
Northwestern	7	–	7	.500	12	–	12	.500
Wisconsin	6	–	8	.429	11	–	13	.458
Ohio State	5	–	9	.357	11	–	13	.458
Indiana	4	–	10	.286	8	–	16	.333
Purdue	4	–	10	.286	8	–	16	.333

Rankings from AP Poll

The 1965–66 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1965–66 season. The team played its home games at Fielding H. Yost Field House (renamed Yost Ice Arena in 1973) on the school's campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Under the direction of head coach Dave Strack, the team won the Big Ten Conference Championship.^[1]^[2]

Season review

This was the last of three consecutive Big Ten titles and NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament appearances.^[2] The team earned the Big Ten team statistical championships for both scoring offense (95.4) and scoring margin (9.9) as well as field goal percentage (48.9).^[3]^[4] Senior Cazzie Russell averaged 30.8 points per game, including 33.2 in conference games to lead the conference.^[2]^[5] Rusell also led the conference in field goal percentage (.542).^[5] The team was ranked in the Associated Press Top Ten Poll ten of the fifteen weeks, starting the season ranked number two and ending it ranked number nine.^[6] The team also finished the season ranked number seven in the final UPI Coaches' Poll.^[7] Oliver Darden served as team captain, while Russell earned team MVP.^[8] On February 18, 1966, Craig Dill went 12 for 12 in free throw attempts against Ohio State, which was a school single-game record for most without a miss until C. J. Kupec made 14 on January 2, 1975. This surpassed Oliver Darden's total of 11 set the prior season.^[9]

Post season

In the 22-team 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Michigan reached the elite eight in the Mideast region by earning a bye and defeating the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 80–79. The team then fell to the Kentucky Wildcats 84–77.^[10]^[11]

Accomplishments

Russell won the Chicago Tribune Silver Basketball as Big Ten MVP for a second year in a row.^[2]^[12] When Russell was selected as a 1966 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American for the third year in a row it was the first three-time recognition for a Wolverine.^[13] Following the season Russell was the Number one overall player selected in the NBA Draft.^[14] He won the numerous national player of the year awards including the Oscar Robertson Trophy, Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year, UPI College Basketball Player of the Year, Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year and the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year.^[2]

Russell and the team set numerous Big Ten Conference records. Russell set the following record: single-season field goals made (308 all games, broken 1981),^[15] single-season field goals made per game (13.0 conference games, broken 1969)^[16] and career field goals made (839, 1964–66, broken 1970).^[15] In addition, the team set conference game records for single-season points per game 95.4 (broken 1969)^[17] Also, on February 19, 1966, against Purdue, the team set conference records for single-game points (128 broken 12/30/2006) and single-game field goals made (52, broken 12/19/1972).^[18]

Russell also established numerous scoring records. He became the first Wolverine to total 800 points in a season, surpassing his own junior season total of 694 that surpassed his sophomore season record. This total has been surpassed by Glen Rice, but his 30.77 points per game still stands as a Michigan record. He also surpassed Bill Buntin's career totals and career average points records with 2164 points and 27.1. The average continues to be the school record, but Mike McGee eclipsed the total record. Furthermore, he surpassed John Tidwell's single-game total of 43 with a 45-point effort on December 11, 1965, against San Francisco and then established the current school record of 48 on March 5, 1966, against Northwestern.^[19] Many of Russells points were scored on free throws. He continues to hold the school's career free throw record with 486, which surpassed Buntin's 385 total but has been surpassed by the vacated 505 total of Louis Bullock.^[9] In 1966, he also set the current school single-season total record of 184, which eclipsed his own record of 152 set the prior year.^[9] His career percentage record of 82.65 has also been surpassed by Bullock's vacated statistics (86.03%), but Lester Abram also surpassed this mark with an 82.93% in 2007.^[9]

On December 1, 1964, the team began a 17-game home winning streak against the Ball State that continued through a January 29, 1966, victory over Wisconsin. 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.^[20]

Statistics

The team posted the following statistics:^[21]

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
Cazzie Russell	26	26			308			--	--		184	223	0.825			217	8.3			58	1				800	30.8
John Clawson	26	26			165			--	--		79	104	0.760			186	7.2			94	5				409	15.7
Oliver Darden	25	25			141			--	--		64	110	0.582			241	9.6			94	6				346	13.8
Jim Myers	26	21			148			--	--		45	60	0.750			215	8.3			59	2				341	13.1
John Thompson	24	20			68			--	--		31	42	0.738			47	2.0			54	1				167	7.0
Craig Dill	26	6			60			--	--		33	42	0.786			99	3.8			66	2				153	5.9
Dennis Bankey	24	6			40			--	--		18	33	0.545			47	2.0			34	0				98	4.1
Dan Brown	15	0			9			--	--		13	20	0.650			24	1.6			15	0				31	2.1
Jim Pitts	11	0			8			--	--		7	18	0.389			13	1.2			8	0				23	2.1
Van Tillotson	9	0			5			--	--		1	2	0.500			15	1.7			5	0				11	1.2
Marc Delzer	6	0			2			--	--		2	4	0.500			5	0.8			3	0				6	1.0
Martin Slebodnik	3	0			1			--	--		0	0				3	1.0			0	0				2	0.7
Mark Fritz	1	0			1	1	1.000	--	--		0	0				0	0.0			0	0				2	2.0
TEAM	26															163	6.3
Season Total	26				956						477	658	0.725			1275	49.0			490	17				2389	91.9
Opponents	26				856			--	--		442	628	0.704			1085	41.7			496	21				2154	82.8

Rankings

Ranking movements
**Legend:** ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Final
AP Poll^[6]	2	2	3	3	7					9	10	10	10		9

Team players drafted into the NBA

Three players from this team were selected in the NBA Draft.^[22]^[23]

Year	Round	Pick	Overall	Player	NBA Club
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

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Michigan Wolverines men's basketball

Venues	Waterman Gymnasium (1908–1923) Fielding H. Yost Fieldhouse (1923–1967) Crisler Center (1967–present)

Rivalries	Duke Michigan State

Culture & lore	Maize Rage Fab Five (film) Scandal WWJ Michigan IMG Sports Network Fox Sports Detroit

People	Head coaches

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NCAA national championship in bold; NCAA Final Four appearances in italics

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