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The University of Kansas Jayhawkers close
their regular cage season here tonight with
but one purpose in mind and that is to
trounce the Missouri Tigers and thus earn
a tie for the Big Six title with Oklahoma. It
is the 106th basketball meeting between the
schools.

After defeating Kansas State at Manhat-
tan Tuesday night by a 45 to 26 score, the
Jayhawks crept within one - half game of
Bruce Drake’s Sooners and need only a win
tonight to snare their tenth title, undisputed
or tied, in the fourteen years of Big Six
history.

More than ust the Big Six title will be
decided in the Missouri fray, however. The
right to represent the conference in a play-
off with the Missouri Valley champion to
determine the Fifth District’s N.C.A.A. rep-
resentative at Kansas City will also be at
stake.

If Kansas wins, the Jayhawkers are as-
sured of the Big Six bid to continue in post-
season games. Although Oklahoma and Kan-
sas will be tied the Kansans will receive the
nod because of their better offensive-defen-
sive ratio which, under Big Six rules, decide
the ranking team.

This Missouri squad which will face the

Jayhawks has undergone considerable change
since the first meeting of these two teams
this season. In that game the Kansans looked
impressive as they ran up a 48 to 34 score.
Since then, however, George Edwards has
re-gained the services of two forward let-
termen from last year, Captain Herbie Gregg
and Keith Bangert, and has lost lettermen
George Evans and George Constantz.

The Tigers have won but two games this
season and unless they nip the Jayhawks
tonight they will wind up in the same spot
as last year, in the cellar with two wins
and eight losses.

Dr. Forrest C. ‘’Phog’’ Allen, is not over-
looking the potentialities of the Bengal team.
It was to Missouri that lowa State lost its
first Big Six game and started on the down-
ward track. And after Saturday’s heart-
breaking, last second, one-point loss to Ne-
braska the Tigers will be in a fighting mood.

This game affords a similar set-up to the
contest three years ago when Missouri and
Kansas were fighting for the Big Six crown
and the Tigers swamped the Jayhawks, 55
to 30, to tie Oklahoma for the title and
relegate the Kansans to third place. Friday
night. Kansas will try to turn the tables,
taking the title and pushing Missouri into
the cellar.

 

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