: Cal in Mild Spurt,
Cal picked up a little as the
iy ee half started and got to
a43-47 position, but then a 10-
point K-State burst while the
Bears were collecting. only two
put the Manhattan crew well in)
front, 57-45, and from that time)
on the outcome was never in|
doubt. os

K-State’e biggest superiority
~ was a 17-point advantage which
was whittled slightly as the|
second half faded.

The shooting percentages were
admirable. K-State notched a
40.9 percentage on twenty-seven
hits out of sixty-six throws.
California had 35.2 with twenty-
five out of seventy-one. Both
hit well up in the 40s in the
first half.

A big assist to the ’Cat victory
was offered by Jim Smith, who)
snared seventeen rebounds, tops
for both clubs. - The ‘Cats
scraped fifty-nine off the glass
to fifty-two for California. ~

Kansas’s Sophomores were up
againsta supercharged Iowa
State band which for the first
time since 1948 won a first-round

victory in the tournament.
K-STATE—88. _| CALIFORNIA—T75.
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Half-time score: California 41, Kansas
, State 45. ; Rs Soh

Free throws missed: California—E. Mc-
Keen, Friend 5, B. McKeen 8, Hagler, Diaz,
Hess 2. Kansas State—Smith 4, ;
Craft, Jung, Poore 2, Vincens 5. Snyder.

Officials: Alex George, Notre Dame, and
John Lloyd, Kansas City.

The skin-tight thriller went
down to the wire with the Cy-
clones behind seven points early
in the second quarter and six
points back with seven minutes
to go.

With about four minutes left,
the Cyclones went ahead for the
first time since early in the
first half when Chuck Duncan
hit a goal from underneath the
bucket to make it 76-75 for the
Cyclones, Then Duncan took a
long pass downcourt and laid
in another for a 78-75 lead and
Kansas never again caught up.