6 Tuesday, March 16, 1971 University Daily Kansan Jauhawks Face Houston Thursday Now 25-1. Champion KU Looks to Midwest Regional By DON BAKER Kansan Sports Editor The most successful KU regular season in history behind them, the Kansas Jayhawks went on to play the best game ahead as the NCAA Midwest Regional opens Thursday in Wichita State University's Henry Now 25-1 overall while finishing 14-0 in Eight play, coach Ted Owens' four ranked quintet will face a rematch in the opening round of regional play facing Houston, now 21-6, at 8 p.m. Thursday. The garm will follow between Drake and Notre Dame, both 20-7. Kansas defeated Houston, 89-73, in the finals of this year's Jayhawk Classic but, for a variety of reasons, the game figures to be closer this time. For one thing, the Cougars easily could have a psychological advantage over their earlier loss to the fifth ranked Jayhawks. "You can look at it two ways," Owens said Monday after a two hour practice he termed good. "Our players should have confidence from our previous win. On the other hand Houston should have some added incentive because of the loss." KU center Roger Brown paced the Jayhawks in that game with 23 points and 21 rebounds. Afterwards Houston coach Guy Williams scored four goals Buck professional great LeWalcindor "I don't know what to tell you," he began in talking to the press, "other than we got beat up and shot us. We had good enough to win it all. And we've never been intimidated in the inside like we were tonight since we played against Alcidor" for a nearly a dozen Coquare Sharp at the 89-73 tournament. One might think Lewis is singing the blues at the thought of having to play KU again, particularly since he has lost the services of Jeff Hickman due to ineligibility since the Hickman, who was named to the Classie's all tournament team, was the primary Cougar player in the first game as the Jayhawks shut off center Dwight Davis and guard Poo Welch, usually two Houston stalwarts. But the Houston mentee of 15 years has replaced Bickman with 64-6 shoopmer Jerry Bonney and the difference has been only slightly noticed. "Yes, I've been concerned," he said following Saturday's 59-14 win over Nebraska in Allen House House. "But this squab has really been a year and they've managed to meet the challenge." Meeting the challenge just four more times would bring KU its first national championship. KANSAN sports Another factor that appears to make this meeting closer is the recent play of KU. In three of the last four games the Hawks have won, but only one has reached fourth one they nearly lost the lead in the last two minutes. But they managed to prevail in all and now have a 19 game win streak to show. They are Owens, who recently was named the Big Eight Coach of the year, is obviously concerned. been all year, it's one at a time and now all thoughts rest with the downing of Houston. Consequently Monday's practice was in a hard and more the same is expected today. "There is just so much to cover," Owens explained. "Houston can do a lot of things." One of the things it does well is play a zone where players can be concentrated on that. In the earlier meeting the Couagars used a full court man-to-man press dropping back into a zone in the early going. An early KU lead forced them out of it, and the Ewes expects to see a zone defense aim. "we fully expect to see a zone," he said, adding a three-quarter or half court zone. Thursday night's game is a sellout and no more tickets are expected to be available for KU students, John Novotny, KU assistant athletic director, had hoped earlier he might receive some additional ducats returned by the Browns. But the latest word is that both Nate Dame and Brinke have exhausted their allotments and Houston is expected to soon sell their's. But the game will be televised in the evening area of charge will start at 9:00 AM. The Jayhawks will leave at noon Wednesday for Wichita from Jayhawker Towers. A sendoff rally will be staged beginning at 11:45 a.m. at the entrance of the towers and it s hoped as many supporters as possible will be present. The Jayhawks are scheduled to workout in the arena from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. that day before retiring to their headquarters, the Holiday Inn Plaza in downtown Wichita. Final Big Eight Standings
All GamesConference
W-Let.Pct.W-Let.Pct.
Kansas25-1.96214-01.000
Oklahoma19-7.7319-5.643
Missouri17-9.6549-5.643
Nebraska18-8.6928-7.571
Colorado14-12.5386-8.429
Kansas St.11-15.4236-8.429
Oklahoma St.7-19.2692-12.143
owa State5-21.1922-12.143
KU Fourth In UPI Poll NEW YORK (UPI) -- UCLA, the most powerful force in college basketball in 20 years, added another laurel to its list of achievements today when it was crowned 1970-71 National Champion by the United Press International's Board of Coaches. It marked the third UPI National Title for the Bruins in the last five years. During that stretch the Bruins have compiled a fantastic record, including a 25-1 mark during this past season, including a 25-1 mark during this past season. The Bruins, who will be going after their fifth consecutive NCAA championship begin Thursday. The team received 29 first round victories from the coaches who participated in the final balloting. Marquette, which stretched its record for the season to 27-8 by defeating Miami of Ohio in an opening round NCAA game last season. The Warriors received three first place wins. Pennsylvania, the nation's only other major college unrest team, was third with 344 losses. Virginia dropped to 174 points. Southern California with 174 points. Southern California dropped two places from last week. North Carolina dropped two places from last week. South Carolina, the Atlantic Coast Conference Champion, was sixth with 119 points followed by Western Kentucky with 115 and Northam and Ohio State rounded out the ten 10. Jacksonville, beaten by Western Kentucky in an opening round NCAA game last Saturday, hell five places in the final balloting into a tie for 11th with Brigham Young. Brigham Young, UCLA's opponent Thursday moved, up two spots from last week. North Carolina, which came within one point of beating South Carolina in their ACC showdown, finished 13th and Notre Dame and Long Beach State were deadlocked for the 14th spot. Drake, the Missouri Valley Conference Champ, was 16th, Villanova was 14th and Duquesne and Houston were tied for 18th. State rounded out the list in the 20th position. Five coaches from each of the seven geographical areas of the country comprise the UPI Ratings Board. Each week the coaches voted on the top 10 teams and points were awarded on a 10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for votes from first to 10th. UCLA lived up to its pre-season billing by winning the National Title. The Bruins were picked to finish first in the pre-season ratings by the UPI Coach Board. However, it was an uphill battle for the Bruins. They fell from favor when they lost to Notre Dame early in 2013 and regained the No. 1 position after beating Southern California for the first time on Feb. 6. with the Bruins are favored to win. Although fifth successive NCAA championship, winning the CBA was somewhat of a jinx over the years. Only twice since 1957 has the UPI National Champion gone on to win the NCAA Championship in excuses the feet was accomplished by UCLA. UPI TOP TWENTY UCLA (29) (25-1) Marquee (3) (27-0) Pennsylvania (27-0) Southern California (24-2) South Carolina (23-4) Western Kentucky (21-5) Kentucky (22-4) Ohio State (18-5) Jacksonville (22-4) Brigham Young (18-9) North Carolina (22-4) Oklahoma State (24-3) Long Beach State (23-4) Drake (20-7) Villanova (24-6) Duquesne (24-4) Quinnipiac (24-3) Weber State (21-6) KU Rugby Club Defeats Blues 1971 NCAA Basketball Championship 326 285 244 274 119 119 89 80 59 22 22 20 13 11 10 6 4 6 The University of Kansas' Rugby Club won its first game of the season Saturday afternoon. The club played the Kansas City Monarchs in a tournament held in Kansas City last fall. Despite having not practiced yet this season the Jayhawks gave the Blues a sound thrashing, defeating them 25-6. The B-game was also won by KU by a score of 6:0. KU took the lead early in the game with a score to John Brown, Kansas City. Mo. Ted Picked For Honor Ted Owens of Kansas was chosen coach of the ted in the fifth district by fellow members of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, it was announced Monday by Joe Vancissin of Yale, chairman of the NABC's awards committee. Kentucky State Snubbed by NIT Owens' Jayhawks recently clinched the Big Eight championship and will compete in the NCAA Midwest Regional in Wichita this season. The Jayhawks host four post-season tournament in six years. In seven years as Jayhawk head coach Owens' teams have won 147 games and lost 41 for a winning percentage of. 782. This figure is topped only by Adolph Rupp of Kentucky at. 825. John Wooden of UCLA ranks third in percentage at. 781. Other distinct winners besides Owens are: Gerald Alaimo, Brown, and Jack Leamon, Massachusetts, co-winners; district one, Dick Phelps, Fordham, district two; Dean Smith, North Carolina, district three; Al McGuerreil, North Carolina, district four; Christian, district six; LaDell Anderson, Utah State, district seven; Bob Boyd, Southern California, district eight. Tickets are priced at $4.50. Cage Dinner Plans Made Vancissi and NABC members will vote for a national coach of the year during their annual convention at Houston next week. The coach of the year will be selected from the list of district winners, plus coaches of the NCAA and National invitation finals. Kentucky State, led by 7-foot-2 Elmore Smith who's one of the nation's most heralded big men, was hoping to duplicate the feat of Southern Illinois when Walt Frazier led the team in a Class A NCAA tournament, SIU had the advantage of being an NCAA school while Kentucky State is at an NAIA state. NEW YORK (UPI) — The Kentucky State basketball team, passed up by the National Invitation Tournament despite its 31-2 mark, has lost a quarterback who powers may have been afraid to play them. Al Hack, chairman of the ticket sales committee, said banquet tickets may be purchased at the following locations: Allen Commerce, First National Bank, Lawrence National Bank, Douglas State Bank, University State Bank, Lawrence Savings and Loan, Raleigh Drug Stores (all three locations), Forsyth College Shop, Campbell's and Royal College Shop. The University of Kansas' Big Eight championship basketball team will be honored at a March 29 dinner at the Kansas Union and local fans may attend. Of course, the NIT officials firmly denied Mitch's call that there was any pressure from the major college teams to keep the college NAIA club out of the tournament. trouble in selections from the larger schools. But teams like ours only come along every summer. "I think there was some pressure not to pick a small college," coach Lachie Mitchell said Monday after the NIT completed its 16-taem field and passed up the NAIA champions, who beat Eastern Michigan 102-82 at Saturday for its second straight NAIA crown. The Big Ten team won both and ranked North Carolina—in the field but Kentucky State was still bypassed. "Some of the big schools don't want to play a small college," Mitchell said. "We could have won it, we had the team to do it. If they chose a small college, they might have out Kentucky State, it was a matter of selecting other teams. We weighted the merits of several teams by their schedule and performance. Duke and Pardue as our last two clubs." Ken Norton, a member of the selection committee, said, "It's not a case of leaving Duke was eliminated in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tourney and has an 18-4 record while Purdue wound up third in the Big Ten and is 18-6. The 13th and 14th teams, North Carolina and Florida, joined the Missouri teams in the AAA, the NCAA and the Missouri Valley. The other 12 teams named earlier were Massachusetts, Providence, Tennessee, Dayton, St. Bonaventure, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Georgia, Georgia, Tealau and St. John's. Swimmers Win Fourth Straight Jayhawk coach Dick Reamton expressed pleasure in his spain's 10 first place medals out of 18 events in the conference meet two weeks ago in Norman, Okla. that saw KU finish with 438 points, far more than second place Oklahoma's 335. With a fourth straight Big Eight title tucked away, the Kansas swimming team has now begin preparations for what it hopes will be the nation's top collegiate championships at Iowa State March 25 and 27. Skulletty swam a 1:59:38 in the 200 backstroke to erase his own school and league mark of 2:00:0, set in last year's preliminaries. Junior backstoker Scott Skulley had the biggest performance winning three individual titles while erasing three school marks and one conference record. "Winnning 10 to the 16 swimming events was the most satisfying aspect of the meet," Reambon笑道. "I feel we had quite a few wins, but our best effort. We put it together pretty well." Two other Jayhawks - junior Bob Wright and senior Ken Kolton - were double winners. Bolton won the 50 freestyle and the 80 hurdles, both KU's victorious 400 freestyle relay team. second leg of the Jayhawks' winning 800 freestyle quartet. backstroke (54.81) and the 400 individual medley (4:22.49). "In my all years at Kansas, both as a swimmer and a coach, I've never witnessed such depth or a more rounded effort by *e* team," Ream summarized. Wright claimed the 200 individual medley and the 200 backstroke and also swam the Freshman Tom Kempf was KU's other champion taking the 500 freestyle. He also broke KU records in the 100 KU 1-7 After Road Trip KU baseball coach Floyd Temple has joined kusball coach Ted Owens as an opponent Because of the early vacation, the Jayhawk baseball team made its annual southern swing two weeks early and it showed in the results—one win and seven losses. "The biggest mistake we made was scheduling that trip at that time." Temple assessed of his team's showing. Before the trip he said he would not experiment but as it turned out that was about all was done and new line changes are in the making. Ken Carpio will move to second base from left field replace Bob Hensen who had difficulties at the plate. Moving into left field will be Jerry Evans, who started the trip at center field but would have short into Evans' old position with newcomer Don Lahiti taking over at short stop. Meely Player of Year; Robisch, Russell Get Votes Meely, a 6-8, 215-pound senior from Chicago, has been called the "most complete ball player I ever have coached" by coach Johnny Perez, who's been at the Colorado helm 15 years. Mely, who re-wrote the Big Eight record book in his three seasons at Boulder, was named on 16 of 18 ballouts in the UPI poll. Only others to be named were Kansas' Dave Robich and Pierre Russell, who receive one award and midland's sportswriters and sportscasters. Meely established eight conference records in his three-year career. They are: KANSAS CITY, Mo. (OUP) - Cliff Meery dominated United Press International's Big Eight Player of the Year voting about like he played in basketball players-overwhelmedly. Most points in conference game—47 vs. Oklahoma, 1971. Most points in conference season—427 in 1971. Most points in career—1,940. Most points in conference career—1,070. Highest average for conference season- 30. Most field goals in conference game—19 vs. Oklahoma State, 1971. Most field goals in conference season—185 in 1971. Most field goals in conference career -409. Establishing those records, Meely wiped such illustrations names as Kansas' Wilt Chamberlain, Clyde Lovellette and Walter Wesley. Missouri' Joe Scott and Iowa state' Dawn Smith off the record books. Meely also was the first player ever to score more than 40 points four times in one season against conference foes. NIT-bound Oklahoma was his principal victim, the Sooners giving up 43 and 47 points in two games. Meely was spectacular from the start. He led the Buffalos to the NCAA Midwest A fluid performer, Meely occasionally was used to bring the ball up the couch when the Bufs trailed in the waning moments. He dribbled them and then shuffled them as he rebounded at 7-foot centers. Regional as a sophomore in 1968, setting a school record 667 points his first year. He shocked off to 544 points as a junior, but fell behind for the second time shopping 728 to erase his own school standard. Generally considered to be the finest big man to play in the Big Eight since Willie Murrell led Kansas State to the NCAA semifinals in 1964. Meley figures to be a first-round draft choice in the National Basketball Association. He was an excellent shooter, hitting 45.9 per cent of his shots as a sophomore, 40.8 as a junior and 49.8 this season. In three years, he also averaged 12.1 rebounds a game. Carr Claims College MVP NEW YORK (UP1) -Austin Carr of Norre Dame, a high-scoring guard whom the pro scouts compare favorably with Oscar Robertson, today was named college basketball's Player of the Year for 1970-71 by United Press International. Carr, the nation's second leading scorer this past season, was an easy winner in the balloting of 394 sports writers and sportscasters across the nation. He received 221 votes to easily beat out Sidney Wicks of UCLA, who finished second with 109. PYSHARHWTDP As a result of this honor Carr today will receive the third annual James N. Matsumish Trophy, previously awarded to