Lawrence, Kansas
March 3, 1939

Mre He Ge Olsen, Chairman
NCAA. Basketball Tournament,
Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio.

Dear Ole:

I have just returned from Columbia, Missouri, where last night the
Tigers whipped us for the Big Six championship. Oklahoma may share the
bunting. They are to play Nebraska Saturday night at Lincoln, and their
last game is with Kansas State on Monday night at Manhattan. We will not
know until after the final game, which is March 6th, whether it will be
a tied championship between Missouri, with 7 wins and 3 losses, and Okla-
home, who can have a possible 7 wins and 3 losses if they win both their
remaining gamese Kansas had 6 wins and 4 losses, so it will be necessary
to wait until after Monday.

I talked to George Edwards , a member of the committee, last night.
We plan to have a meeting in Kansas City on Monday, March 6th.

It happens that the Oklahoma Aggies have the flag cinched in the
Missouri Valley Conference, so they must be considered at an early reck=
oninge It is for that reason that I am using every possible date advantage
to have my committee of George Edwards, C. E. McBride and John Truesdale :
meet in Kansas City, but it will, of course, be impossible to have the
meeting any sooner. I am sure you will agree with the necessity of wait-
ing until we have something to discuss with assurance.

You may rest assured of my early eagerness and my kindly cooperation
in bringing the Big Six representative participsting team to the front at
the earliest date.

Possibly it might have been my letter to John Bunn about a week ago
that caused him to set the dates March 17 and 18. I complained rather
bitterly that I did not think that the general committee had polled their
general intelligence and understanding fulsomely enough before the semi-~
final and final dates were sete I told John Bunn how unfair it was, say
to the representative of the Southwest Conference district #6, and the rest
of our people here to play in San Francisco on Merch 20 and 21, and then
to go back to Chicago and meet a team that played in Philadelphia on March
17 and 18 with a short haul and a longer rest to meet that longer travel-
ing team which had gone to San Francisco for the 20th. and 21st and then
traced back across the continent to play the 25th. I told him that I
would be unhappy to be on the general committee and to be held up for crit-
icism by a team which might feel that the detes were made by the general
committee which would put a burden on this worn-out team. Of course, I