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Wednesday, March 6. 1974
University Daily Kansan
'Hawks Fight 'Cats Tonight for NCAA Bid
By JIM SHELDON
Kansan Sports Writer
When the University of Kansas and Kansas State University meet tonight at 7:35 in Allen Field House there will be more at stake than just an intrate rivalry.
The winner will receive a bid to the NCAA Midwest Regional tournament in Tulsa. The loser will go to the new Collegiate Conference tournaments. St. Louis for major conference runners-up.
KU, if it loses, could still gain a tie for the conference championship by beating Missouri Saturday, but K-State would lose that match and result as a result of having twice beaten KU.
"It is a year's work for both teams and it is all tied up in this one game," KU coach Tucker said.
KU leads the Wildcats by a half game in the Big Eight race. The "Hawks are 19-5 on the season and 11-1 in the conference. K-14 in the 18-4 and its conference record is 11-2.
KU's one conference loss, however, was at K-State, 74-71, last month. In that game, the Hawks outshot K-State from the field and outbounded the Wildcats. The difference was at the free throw line where K-State hit 18-24 and KU was 14.
"The first thing we are going to try to do is ease up on our fouling." KU co-captain Tom Kivisto said. "We really got hurt by fouls at K-State."
However, K-State coach Jack Hartman said the Wildcats would not make any changes.
"We're going with the things that have
been successful for us," he said. "The winner will have to control the boards, stay calm and focus."
But fouling wasn't the only trouble KU had at Manhattan. The Hawks were unable for most of the game to get the ball inside against a tough K-State 24-2 zone defense. Owens said the Jahyhaws would not make basic changes in their play against the zone.
"We will try to correct some of the mistakes we made at K-State," he said, "namely, our impatience on offense and we were wrong." We'll just try to be a little more patient."
Kiviśi to KU also would have to keep a better balance in its offense if it expected to be outmatched.
"Early in the game of Manhattan we jumped out to a 6-1 lead, but then we look our own team up again."
didn't maintain an offensive balance against their zone and we couldn't get the
Another important factor in the game could be experience. K-State has a starting line-up that includes four seasoned Big Eight champions and seven straight Big Eight champions squads. Kivisto is the only senior in the KU starting line-up, but Owens said his UCLA experience couldn't really hurt him in terms of scoring.
"They have four seniors and a lot of experience," he said, "but so do we really. The main experience that counts is the success of success and we've gained that this year."
A factor that could help KU overcome any experience could very well be its八爪抓.
"Usually the home court advantage makes some difference," said Owens. "In Iowa, it takes more effort."
Big 8 Official Denies Slurring NIT
KANAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Big Eight Conference Commissioner Chuck Neusma said yesterday that remarks critical of the law were "unfair" and tributed to him were "pure fabrication."
The Basketball Weekly was reported to have quoted Nelasas as saying that the latest two Big Eight teams to play in the NIT got $2,900 and $4,900, and that the amount
The Daily Oklahoman, an Oklahoma City newspaper, yesterday quoted sources close to the tournament as saying: "Neiams is very critical of the NIT in that story in Basketball Weekly. The answer is no on Oklahoma going to the NIT."
divided eight ways scarcely paid for the manpower involved.
The paper said an earlier report from New York said Neinas had termed participation in the NIT by the conference a "pittiful success," noting that quotation also as pure fabrication.
Neimas said that the figures mentioned were "highly inaccurate," and that he didn't say that going to the NIT scarcely helped him, because he did, he said, was "pure fabrication."
The paper quoted Tom Start, a Big Eight
Inside, as saying, "Chuck didn't make any
difference."
was traded to Memphis, which moved to Houston.
mentally and psychologically I really don't know."
| | Conference | | Overall |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas | w 1 | f 1 | w 8 |
| Kansas State | 11 2 | 1 4 | 19 6 |
| Oklahoma | 1 2 | 4 6 | 17 6 |
| Oklahoma | 7 6 | 6 7 | 14 11 |
| Iowa State | 7 6 | 6 7 | 14 11 |
| Missouri | 4 9 | 4 9 | 13 12 |
| Colorado | 4 9 | 1 0 | 13 7 |
| Colorado | 2 1 | 1 0 | 13 7 |
Green, a 9.5 spinner, cited lack of stability in the WFL as one reason for his choosing the Chiefs. He added, however, that playing with Kansas City was "a once in a lifetime dream. They've been there—as far as you can go."
out in the East is trying to do a sham job on us. We would love to have a team, in any form, here at Eagle.
Green was the No.1 pick of Jacksonville in the new World Football League and later
Big Eight Standings
Last night's result
Nebraska, 65, Colorado, 42
Games Tonight
Kansas State at KU
Iowa State at Oklahoma
Coach Hank Stram said he thought Green could help the Chiefs next season "as a running back, a receiver and on specialty teams."
Terns of the contract weren't announced.
The 6-foot, 189-pound running back from
St. Louis Stated rushed for more than 1,000
yards and scored a touchdown at college
and finished with a total of 3,806.
KANAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—Woody Green, the No. 1 draft choice of the Kansas City Chiefs, has signed a multi-year contract, the club announced yesterday.
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