K, U. BOWS OUT

pews, 83-81, in Big Seven
Tourney Thriller.

THE ’CATS COME THROUGH

Sunflower State Gains Even Split
as K-State Whips Highly-Re- :
garded Cal, 88 to 75.

Cyclones Bounce Back From a
7-Point Halftime Deficit to
Pull the Upset.

_By Ep GarIcH,
cL Member of The Star’s Sports Staff. )

‘The Sunflower state
split even last night as
the Big Seven pre - sea-
son basketball tourna-
ment completed first-
round activity in Munici-
pal Auditorium.

A firebrand Iowa State
crew edged Kansas, 82 to
81, in a stunning upset,
but Kansas State trounced
a highly-regarded Cali-

- fornia team, 88-75.
A crowd of 10, 500 attended the
second night program.

Jung Tough On De

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K-State’s Jerry Jung, 6 foot,|*

iinch reserve center, again
furnished the defensive power
which got the Wildcats started.
Jung came in halfway through

the first half to put the lid onli Fri

Cal’s Bob McKeen, holding him
to two field goals the rest of the
period, and Jung himself threw
in four straight buckets with
his sweeping hook.

With that dive the Cat’s went
on to build an 8-point lead late
inthe first half, and closed the
period with a 45-41 lead, They
never trailed and never were
threatened in the second stanza.

McKeen, who played almost
the entire game,
thirty-two points to lead all

made both for.a score of 80-79
count, Iowa State still on top.

But Thompson put it on ice
with two more calmly shot free
-|throws, and Kansas scored its
last goal just as the buzzer
Isounded, Ron Johnston getting
Wie

Only End Result Counts,

Kansas held the upper hand
most of the game, but never by
much, A concerted burst of,
points late in the first half saw
the Jayhawks hitting ten points:
while the Cyclones were held
scoreless. That made a 44-3:
score, the only time the Jay-
hawks had a comfortable bulge.
The gap shrank to seven points,
50-43, at the half. Kansas’s last
healthy. lead was a 61-54 count
with four minutes played in the
second half. From then on it
got tight.

Gene Elstun had eighteen and
Dallas Dobbs sixteen for Kansas,
tops in the Jayhawk production.
Thompson had fourteen for the
Cyclones.

It was the first loss of the sea-
son, for Kansas after four yic-
tories. Iowa State now i
The shot percentages w
most identical. Kans
per cent and Iowa

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KANSAS—81.

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scorers. Against him Jung got)

13, playing about half the game
and Roger Cratt, K-State’s
starting center, got eight.
Kent Poore, little
guard, led the well
scoring for the Wildcats with
17, but six players scored in
double figures for the Cats as.
they gave another well balanced,
performance,
California hung © in
through most of the first half.
The score was tied nine times
and the lead changed hands six-
teen times before the Wildcats
emerged on top to stay.

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