Monday, December 11, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
7
Hawks freeze in December
By Chip Rouse
Kansan Sports Editor
Kansas Sports Editor Last week was the week that was—or wasn't, as far as the Kansas University basketball team was concerned.
KU's basketball Jayhawks were ranked fourth in the nation going into the Louisville contest last Wednesday. We all know the conclusion of that story. But for those who don't, it might be best to refresh their memory. Louisville downed the Jayhawks 51-51.
Over the weekend, the Crimson and Blue moved into the Windy City to tangle with the Loyola of Chicago Ramblers, only to leave without what it came for—a victory. The former NCAA champions put a clamp on KU's offensive attack, and marched on to claim an 83-73 victory.
But hold on to your seats, sports fans. Losing two games within a period of one week is not an unusual occurrence for a KU basketball quintet—especially in the month of December.
For the past two roundball campaigns, the Jayhawks have lost consecutive games within one week in December. During the 1935-66 season, powerful UCLA and Southern California provided the damaging blow, and last year, Texas Western (now referred to as the University of Texas at El
Paso) and St. John's followed suit.
Nevertheless, KU managed to capture the Big Eight crown both years and received a complimentary ticket to the NCAA Regionals.
Trailing throughout most of the game against Loyola, the Jayhawks fought back to a 60-all tie with 10:30 left in the contest. However, the defending Big Eight champions couldn't get the big play when it counted, and the Ramblers chilled away at the Kansas defense eventually putting the game out of reach.
and Bill Baumgartner splitting 32 between them.
"Loyola played extremely well—probably its best game of the year," Miranda said. They were real quick at all positions. This hurt us more from an offensive standpoint than a defensive one.
Miranda singled out White and Nash for their sparkling performances. "Nash is coming along very well, but he still has a few areas to iron out," Miranda commented.
Swimmers place first in Big Eight Relays
KU opened its 1967-68 swimming season Saturday with a solid victory over conference teams, and also defeated an outsider, Colorado State, in the Big Eight Invitational Relays.
"Our own mistakes hurt us," assistant coach Sam Miranda said. "There were a lot of times when we were unable to get a second shot at the basket."
Among the victims was Iowa State, last year's Big Eight champion The Cyclones collected only 87 points, winning two events. Next was Oklahoma, 53; Oklahoma State, 51; Missouri, 26; Nebraska, 16, and Kansas State, 9.
Kansas won five of the 11 events to beat CSU, whom Coach Dick Reason called one of the best in the nation. The final score was 105-102.
Reamon praised the team for a "real fine job." He said "everybody has a purpose and knew what he had to do."
In winning the meet, the Jayhawks won all four freestyle events. "This is one area we have really been working on," Reamon said, "and we are ahead of the rest of the conference teams in it."
The game served more or less as a homecoming tilt for three KU cagers. Jim Hoffman, Bradshaw and Bohnenstiehl all hail from the Illinois area. Hoffmann and Bradshaw are from Chicago and Bohnenstiehl is from Collinsville.
Co-captain Tom Eovser, Rey O'Connor and Tom Ellis were among the many standouts for KU. Each was on three winning teams, Jim Askins, Big Eight champion diver, was also instrumental in the KU victory.
"We served notice to the other conference teams that we are in contention for the championship," Reamon said.
KU narrowly missed last year, capturing second place.
Nationally second-ranked Louisville fell from the unbeaten ranks on the same Chicago Stadium floor, preceding the KU-Loyla contest. The Cardinals dropped an 88-83 decision to Northwestern in the first game of the double-header with All-American Westley Unseld pouring in 36 points for Louisville.
KU's Jo Jo White led all-scorers in the contest with 25 points. This total matched his previous high set last year against Oklahoma in the Big Eight Tournament.
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