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Michigan Second Best, All Agree

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Ann Arbor News, March 10, 1964
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Michigan Second Best,
All Agree

Michigan is the second best
basketball team in the nation,
the pollsters agree.

The final poll taken by the
Associated Press and United
Press International ranks the
Wolverines, who had a 20-4
regular-season record, rig!
behind the unbeaten UCL >
Bruins,

The Bruins, in winning their
first national title by the poll-
sters, returned the crown to the
West Coast for the first time
since the 1959-60 California
champions.

In the AP poll, UCLA had
392 points to Michigan's 341
while in the UPI poll, the
Uclans had 328 to Michigan's
291.

UCLA piled up 34 first-place
votes by AP and 32 by UPI
while Michigan had one fir?-
place vote by AP. Other fir:

place votes went to Oregon
State and Loyola of Chicago in
the AP ^''1 i!i I'J; and Kentucky
and DuS r UPI balloting.

Collegiate
Cage Polls

FINAL STANDINGS
AP UPI

1-.- UCLA (26-0)——-—1

2—.MICHIGAN (20-4)-—2

3---— Duke (23-4) --_—_4

4—-Kentucky (21-4)——3
5 :_— Wichita (22-5) -.——6

6- --Oregon State (25-3)—5

7--- Villanova (22-3)--——7
8 - Chicago Loyola (20-5)—8
9---- DePaul (21-3)———11
10 Davidson (22-4) —.10

UPI ranked Texas Western
ninth.

Other teams receiving votes
were Arizona State, Bradley,
Bowling Green, Creighton,
Drake, Kansas State, Miami,
Fla., Minnesota, New Mexico,
Ohio State, Ohio University,
Providenf-p, San Francisco,
Seattle, \ & M, Vander-
bilt and Liui. btate.