Russell second team choice Robisch, Meely top All-Big Eight squad
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—KU's Dave Robisch, the league's leading scorer, and Colorado's Cliff Meely were unanimous selections Tuesday to the 1969-70 All-Big Eight basketball team announced by United Press International.
Also named to the first five were Garfield Heard of Oklahoma, Iowa State's Bill Cain and Bob Zender of Kansas State.
Robisch was also a near-unanimous choice as the league's Player of the Year. Zender was voted Sophomore of the Year and Cotton Fitzsimmons, who guided K-State to the league championship, was honored as Big Eight Coach of the Year.
Three repeat
Robisch, Meely and Cain were all repeaters from last year's first team, Gordon Tope of Colorado, a first-team choice a year ago, headed the second team, which also included K-State's Jerry Venable, Missouri's Don Tomlinson, Nebraska's Tom Scantlebury and Pierre Russell of Kansas.
Robisch, the Jayhawks' 6-9,
235-pound junior pivot from
Springfield, III., came within
three points of the conference
games' scoring mark and finished with a 26.6 average. He also ranked third in the conference in rebounding, picking off 12.3 caroms per game.
Meely honored in '69
Meely, a 6-8 junior forward and the loop's Sophomore of the Year last season, finished third in scoring (21.1) and second in rebounding (14.0). Heard, a 6-6-210-pound senior, ranked second in scoring (21.5) and fourth in rebounding (11.7).
NEW YORK (UPI) — Pete Maravich, greatest scorer in major college basketball history, and Bob Lanier, rated the best big man in the collegiate ranks this season, were the top vote-getters in the 1969-70 United Press International All-America squad balloting announced today.
Maravich, the Louisiana State University standout who led the Tigers to their best season in 16 years while becoming the most prolific scorer in major college history with a three-year career total of 3,590 points and a 46.6 average this season, was named on 549 of the record 556 ballots received from UPI subscribers.
Maravich dominates UPI All-America selections
With scoring two points for a first place vote and one for a second place, Maravich tallied 1,083 points.
Cal Murphy picked Lanier, the 6 feet, 11 inch giant for St. Bonaventure, received 1,003 points. The Buffalo, N.Y., senior led the Bonnies into the NCAA playoff with a 30 point average.
Other spots on the first team went to Dan Issel of tournament-bound Kentucky, Rick Mount, the nation's No. 3 scorer from
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Purdue and little Calvin Murphy of Niagara.
Issel, a 6-8 senior from Batavia, Ill., received 921 points; Mount, a 6-4 senior from Lebanon, Ind., and the Big 10 conference's top scorer, had 733 points in the balloting.
Murphy, smallest man on the All-America squad at 5-10, got 658 points. The senior from Norwalk, Conn., averaged 30 points a game in leading the Purple Eagles into the NCAA plavoffs.
Cain, like Heard at 6-6 and a senior, was the loop's No.1 bounder. His 211 caroms in 14 conference games tied the Big Eight record set by Kansas' Bill Bridges in 1959.
The Cyclone star also ranked fourth in scoring with an 18.3 mark.
The second team consisted of Notre Dame's Austin Carr, the No. 2 scorer this season; Charlie Scott of North Carolina; 7-2 Artis Gilmore of Jacksonville; John Roche of South Carolina and Rudy Tomjanovich of Michigan.
Zender, a 6-8 rookie from Wyckoff, N.J., was the Wildcats' most consistent performer in their run for the title. He posted an 11.5 scoring average and pulled down 7.1 rebounds per game.
point behind Scantlebury's average. Venable, Tope, Scantlebury and Tomlinson, who averaged 13 points for the Tigers, were all seniors.
Russell, who ranked sixth in rebounding (9.6) and scored at a 13.7 clip, was the only junior named to the second team.
Venable finished last.
Venable, who came on late for the Wildcats, finished with a 15.9 scoring average, fifth in the conference.
Tope ranked seventh with a 15.4 mark, a tenth of a
Venable finished fast
Tomlinson, teammate Dave Pike and Iowa State's Aaron Jenkins were all second-team choices a year ago. Pike and Jenkins are honorable mention this year.
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Garfield Heard, Oklahoma, 6-6,
Sr.; Bill Cain, Iowa State, 6-6,
Sr.; Bob Zender, Kansas State,
6-8, Soph.
First Team:
Dave Robisch, Kansas, 6-9, Jr.;
Cliff Meely, Colorado, 6-8, Jr.;
The 1969-70 United Press International All-Big Eight Conference basketball team.
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