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‘We lest to Nebraska at Lincoln in one of the hottest games that I have ever seen the
Cornhuskers playe Iowa State got a further break in the fact that Kansas played
Oklahoma at Horman, and Iowa State played them at Oklahoma City preparatory to the
‘Sooners going to New York, Oklahoma Aggies and Texas Christian played the other

end of a double-header in Oklahoma City, and Iowa State won by 2 points, If it is
true that the home court is worth from 2 to 6 points, we could say that Iowa State
got a slight break in the schedule, But no one is belittling the efforts of that
fine Iowa State team. They had the stuff and showed their merit all the way through,
so we. take off our hats to Louie Mense and the boys in Iowa, They are the real

champions.

The three games we lest were to Lowa State, ‘tities Conn point in an overtime)
and to Nebraska, In recalling the hot teams of years back, I remember Bruce Drake,
Tom Churchill and Vic Holtz, and the fine 1929 team at Norman, We had a pretty
good team and they ran over us roughshod something like 47 to 29, I thought that
was the hottest team I had seen until 1939 when we met the Missouri Tigers at Col-
umbia, We had a good team and thought that we were in the championship hunt, which
proved later we were to tie and then win the playeoff, but Missouri poured it on us
from every angle, and every shot they took seemed to whiz through the netting in
this game at Columbia. Then in 1940 we met Indiana for the NCAA finals in Kansas
City and held them to 4 points in the first 8 minutes of play, and then they started
shooting. And what a barrage{ They couldn't miss from any angle. They hit impos-
sible shots, one after the other, And yet we scored 42 points against them, but it
wasn't nearly enough. | uo :

Nebraska scored 59 points on us while we got 45, and Iowa State scored 61
while we got 39, Those two games compared with Oklahoma, Missouri, and Indiana,
and these are the games from 1929 to 1945, so you can see running into two outfits
in the same year was just too much for a very willing, aggressive and hard fighting
Kensas team. With every kind word to a dogged and determined Kansas team, we did
not have the material that some of our opponents possessed this year. But we gave
them everything we had, and I am mighty proud of these boys to be able to take
- second place, with none of baa other four lower teams near the Kansas 7 won and 3
lost margin.

Early in the season I or Iowa State first, Oklahoma second, Missouri,
Kansas and Kansas State fighting it out for ties, and I thought Nebraska would fin-
ish last. The only game that Nebraska won was that 59 to45 shellacking they gave
us, so I rather look at their effort in that game as something out of this world.
That is the first time that a Nebraska team, coached by "Lew" Lewandowski has de-
feated a Kansas team, but there must always be a first time for everything, and it
happened. It has been six years since Kansas dipped her colors to the Cornhuskers
in basketball, But you will remember in the last Rebounds I said, “We are looking
for trouble e we go to Lincoln on February 10."

Now for a ene resume of Kansas efforts a the ‘Big Sixe We lost a heart-
breaker at Oklahoma in an overtime game. Kansas had the game sewed up three differ-
ent times, but our lack of experience caused the boys to shoot long shots when they
should have nursed the ball, In the Iowa State game at.Lawrence on January 27, we
defeated Louie Menze's team 50 to 35, although Firebock, one of their stars, was on
the sideline. Then the Kansas-Kansas State game at Lawrence was a typical Kansas-
Kansas State game, on January 30, It was a thriller, and it looked as if Kansas
was doomed to defeat, but Kansas won one of the wildest and most exciting games
that a packed Hoch Auditorium has seen in years, The massacre at Lincoln on February
10th has been recounted. On February 13 Oklahoma came to Lawrence and Kansas