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‘team effort of the season; it may
lhavé been the best of two seasons.

You would have a hard time

picking an SMU here in the game.
Big, lanky Jim Krebs hit 11 field
goals, got 10 rebounds and hovered
‘over Kansas Center Lewis Johnson
‘that Johnson managed only one
field goal,
_ He tried nine but more often than
not the ball was capped by Krebs’
big hand as it started toward the
basket and when it wasn’t, Johnson
was shooting under pressure.

- Larry Showalter played brilliant-
ly. He got SMU away to a quick
lead with a pair of high, cleanly
arched 1-hand set shots from 20
feet out» but his shot-making was
only the spectacular part of. his
contribution. Showalter was a
strong point in the SMU defense
and he rebounded vigorously, pick-
ing off nine.

Joel Krog, the SMU captain,
gave the Mustangs their blanket
control of the backboards, though.
Krog, who is 6-3, rebounds like a
giant, He plays the banks like

Wille Hoppe shooting a 3-ball com-
‘bination and he took 21 shots off

‘

the backboards, only two less than
the whole Kansas team.

Kansas made a game of it

through the first half, although
‘they. never got close enough for a

tie. With Showalter’s two quick
field goals, SMU was off ahead.
The Jayhawks pulled up to within
three points quickly, on long set
shots by Johnson and Maurice
King, but Krebs sent SMU winging
‘when he piled in five field goals
in the next six minutes.

He lofted a soft hook shot over
Johnson from. the side. He jumped
and fired 2-handed from near thé
basket for another goal. He got a

 

tip-in when one of Showalter’ s long
shots just missed and he worked
free to take quick passes under the
hoop for two more field goals.

Kansas couldn’t get in close
against the pressing, tough SMU
defense. The Jayhawks fired 32
shots in that first half and 24 of
the attempts came from beyond
the free throw line. Dallas Dobbs,
Kansas’ leading scorer, hit three
times from far out, but the rest of
the Jayhawks’ were missing and
the Mustangs covered the rebounds
voraciously,

It was 39-30 at half-time and the
standing-room-only crowd in Per-
kins Gym was still on edge.

But SMU pulled away rapidly in
the second half. In ten minutes,
the Mustangs had a 17-point lead
and Doc’ Hayes began taking his
shock troops out. As each starter
left the game, the 2700-plus crowd!
roared acclaim. ,

Bobby Mills, the husby little
guard who has so capably filled
Art Barnes’ shoes, turned in the
prettiest play of the evening. He
stole the ball from Dobbs just in)’
front of the free-throw line, raced
the length of the court with Dobbs
and Maurice King on his heels and
plopped in a lay-up. The play set
back a Kansas rally which had
pulled the Jayhawks up to within
four points of SMU.

This was Kansas’ first defeat)
after three victories. SMU _ has
won six and lost one..

SMU hit 42.5 percent of its field
goal attempts while Kansas, under
unnerving pressure nearly all the
time, scored 18 of 62 for 29.0. The
Kansans made only six field goals)
in the second half.

The Mustangs had a whopping)
56-23 advantage in rebounds.