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The Big Six Conference has had quite a bit of diffioulty in selecting their
representative for the Nationel Collegiate Athletic Association play-off in
 Kensas City March 24 and 25, As amomeed last week, Iowa State by having the
better offensive-defensive record than Oklahora, was selected to represent the
conference. Iowa State declined the invitation because they were losing some
of their star Naval trainees, ‘Therefore they desired to close their season,
Oklahoma was placed in the same position, so it was necessary for the tournament
manager, Reaves Peters, who is the Big Six Gomissioner, to ask the Fifth District
Selection Comittee, comprising of Dr. H, H. King, chairman, of Kansas State
College, ©, 4, McBride, sports editor of the Kansas City Star, George Bdwards,
basketball coach of the University of Missouri, and a representative from the
Missouri Valley Conference, to select a representative. The University of ee
Missouri was asked because they had a civilien team. Assistant Dean Sam Shirkey,
who is faculty representative of Missouri, was out of town and uo decision could
be had. Sickie The representatives asked the Big Six Selection Comittee to ask
Towa State College to reconsider, which they did, so the Lowa State Cyclones
will be the Fifth District representative, Henry Iba's Oklahoma aggies, which
would be the Missouri Valley Conference representative, would have been the
team to meet in a play-off match with the Big Six representative, but since most
of the Missouri Valley teams had disbanded and since Oklahoma Aggies had accepted
the Invitation Tournament in New York, no ytaywett Was necessary.

The Fifth Distriet has always heretefore had a play-off cneten between the Big
Six wimner and the Missouri Valley wimer, Therefore, this year when Iowa State
has been selected by the Big Six as their representative they now become the
Fifth District representative without a pley-off, ‘The Rocky Mountain District,
which is the Seventh, has no representative, so the N.C.A.A. committee has asked
the University of Iowa to represent the Rocky Mountain area, Likewise, the Pacific
Goast had no representative because the northern and southern section of the