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Minus Ace Performers.
Don’t count Kansas State out,
despite the wide loss to Mis-
souri.

Twa reasons are quickly at

hand. The Wildcats played the}.

finals without two top perform-
ers, Jim Smith and Gene Wilson,
Smith injured a knee in the
semifinal game against Iowa
State and did not play against
Missouri. Previously he had
been a top scorer (leading in
about half the Wildcats games
to date) and a tremendous re-
bounder (he snared seventeen
in one game). .
Wilson, the Negro gazelle who
is a service returnee, broke a
hand in practice but is expected
to be a regular when the con-
ference season gets under way.
He is quick, experienced and
can jump with most big men.
Consider the difference in
Missouri’s effect, just to make
a case, if Med Park and Norm
Stewart were out of there.
| That much difference can be
-;expected when the Wildcats get
everybody in shape, which will

 

Nebraska—The Huskers,
haven’t found themselves yet
and may have rough going in the
conference, same as they did in
the tournament. So far the