Evening star., 1955-01-19
Decisive Win
Over Maryland
Makes CIV Boss
CirieIIo Surprises
In 1888 Triumph;
Clash Again Feb. 8
BY George Huber

George Washington is back In
charge Of the collegiate basket
ball situation here. Any DISPOSE
tion to rate Maryland higher
than the Colonials-such as was
done in this weeks Associated
Press poll-was removed last
night when CIV came up with
a 1888 victory before a sellout
crowd Of 6.5o0-plus at Uline
Arena.
Maryland was rated the No. s
team in the country and CIV
No. 8 going into the game. but
the Colonials reversed those rat
ings with their decisive 22-point
margin. The two teams meet
again on Maryland's home floor
at College Park February 8. and
until then CIV must be regarded
as the boss.
The Colonials changed their
style Of attack last night, and
in doing so came up with q new
star in Buzz Ciriello. a 6-foot-2
senior from Quincy, Mass. Girl
clio is a. guard who generally
plays outside along with George
Klein and passes the ball to
GW's two scoring aces, Corky
Devlin and Joe Holup.
Last night. though, CIV
opened up its attack. and before
the game Coach Bill Reinhart
told Ciriello and Klein he wanted
more shooting from them. He
got it from Ciriello. anyway.
Buzz tossed in eight field goals
and eight fouls for "a points
to share scoring honors with
Devlin.
Holup, GW's hefty center, was
removed from his regular post
or pivot position under the bas-
ket. and the game wasn't built
around him as usual. With
Holup drifting outside 1t also
took out a couple of the big
Marylanders who were guarding
him, and made room for a more
mobile game under the nets.
Zone Bothers Maryland.
The game was close, in scor-
ing, until toward the end, but
CIV seemed to be in charge even
when its margin was a slim one.
The Colonials came up with a
zone defense In the second half
after taking 40-33 lead in the
first half, and for awhile the
Terrapins acted as though they'd
never seen a zone before. They
have played against plenty of
zones, however, but last night
they were unable to work their
way through the Colonials.
Maryland made only six field
goals In the second half, COM
pared to 10 in the first half.
One reason for the zone was
to break up the rather effective
screen play the Terps used the
first half. Coach Millikan had
big Frank Fuqua stationed lust
outside the foul line with Bob
Kessler dribbling around him.
Ciriello, defending Kessler, had
his troubles as Kessler eff
fectively used Fuqua as a screen,
and Ciriello committed four
fouls In the first 10 minutes.
Once he even ran into Fuqua so
hard he knocked him down--an
infraction the officials missed,
incidentally.
Anyway, it was largely through
use OF the screen that Kessler
had a hot hand for awhile. He
was Maryland's high scorer with
% points, Is Of them in the first
half before CIV applied the zone.
Ovation for Ciriello.
Ciriello was the big surprise for
CIV and when he finally picked
up his fifth foul and left the
game with less than two minutes
left he received a deserved ova-
ton from the crowd. He was
carrying only a 81 scoring aver
age UP to last night, so practical
ly every basket he made was q
surprise. He took so much at
tention away from the other CIV
players that it was surprising to
see that Devlin also had "a points
and that Holup, who seemed to
be doing nothing except drift
around the outside acting as a
decoS, turned up with 10 points
Maryland led for the first few
minutes last night Of two bas-
kets by Kessler, but after i've
minutes had ticked off corner
shot by Joe Petcavich put the
Colonials ahead, 81. They
never were behind thereafter, al
though the Terps managed to
tie it five times before a Ciriello |
shot at II minutes gave CIV a |
1921 lead it never surrendered. |
The Colonials had a 7-point |
lead at 1898 by halftime. but !
(See COLONIALS, Page C-3.)