m kansas city -- neither team surprised the other, but they
both surprised themselves and both jolted a packed house of nearly
10,000 that strained its collective vocal mimmim chords right down |

to the final gun, |

that, in one sense, is the story of kansas university's
e ectrifying 90-88 victory over kansas state friday night in the
semifinals of the big seven tournament, ,

did the full-court pressing defense employed by k-state
surprise or bother kansas? no, said phog allen, veteran jayhawker ~
coach, | &

"we could have written ‘em a it letter and told ‘em when they'd
start that press," boomed mhnogmatiian the beaming phog after the game.

"we knew At was coming, and we imam were glad it was, I thought
we could “ao imamh the best against them if they used the press."

and did the fast break and overall speed of kansas surprise
kansas state? no, said a gloomy but not bitter coach jack gardner
when the milling was over,

"no, we knew that if we pressed they'd break against us, and
we had them figured on speed just about right.”

still, ecch team surprised itself and its coach just a little,

and the most surprised, perhaps, was kansas and allen,

"I wasn't nervous about the game," said phog, "put I did
figure we were going to throw it away. we've been throwing away
so many opportunities, and we kept kicking over the anple cart
every time we got ahead in this game, I thought we'd give it away.
but we didn't, and I was very proud of the way we kept fighting
after iampmanmabahe the agzies came back and tied us up,”