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University Daily Kansan Monday, Dec. 17, 1962
Hawkers Drop Pair, Face Denver Tonight
As most coaches do after most basketball games, Dick Harp, Kansas coach, and Ed Jucker, Cincinnati coach, met at mid-court and shook hands Saturday night after the Bearcats had upended KU, 64-49.
Jucker told Harp not to "sell his team short." And, in turn, Harp told his players in the dressing room what Jucker said.
Harp didn't "sell his team short." He shouldn't have, either.
ALTHOUGH LOSING. KU gave the defending national champions a tough battle and only trailed by a mere three points just before the halftime intermission.
Playing the Friday portion of the Sunflower Doubleheader at Kansas State, the Jayhawks put up another strong fight but lost to the nation's No. 13 team, Arizona State, 71-62.
"We put out a lot of energy two nights in a row losing to two fine teams," Harp remarked in the wake of KU's loss to Cincinnati.
Harp might as well have been speaking to Tex Winter, K-State coach. For the Wildcats fell before the Bearcats, 75-61, Friday, and lost to the Sun Devils, 77-72, here Saturday.
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TONIGHT KU runs up against Denver and Harp viewed the tilt like this Saturday:
"Im scared to death right now that we'll let down Monday night and not play Denver a good game."
Tipoff time for the KU-DU battle is 7:35 in Allen Field House.
THE GAME, the final Jayhawk home game for 1962, will mark the
fourth meeting between the Jayhawks and Pioneers from Colorado. KU holds a 2-1 edge in the series but Denver won on a 73-60 surprise victory the last time they invaded Allen Field House in 1958.
Downing Nebraska, 63-54, Saturday, the Pioneers go into the tilt with a 2-4 mark. They have beaten San Diego State and lost to UCLA, USC and New Mexico.
Coach Troy Bledsoe, in his first season as DU head coach, inherited a complete set of returning starters plus four other letter winners. Toping the returnees is Tim Vezie, 6-4 forward, who has led the team's scoring the past two seasons with 16.0 and 15.3 averages.
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"I'm pleased with the whole team," Coach Harp said following KU's loss to the Bearcats. "I think we made progress both nights."
HARP WAS less satisfied the night before. KU trailed the Sun Devils by only three points early in the last half. The Sun Devils soon breezed to a 12-point lead mid-way in the second half and the victory was all but their's when KU's George Unseld, sophomore center, fouled out with 8:00 left.
Unseld, who hit 21 points against Arizona State, was whistled out with 7:30 left the next night after scoring 13 points.
Harp said he was pleased with Unseld's progress. The KU mentor was also pleased with the leadership of Nolen Ellison.
Ellison was supposed to be a
Long Beta String Ends; Ten Left Undefeated
The defeat dampened the hopes of the Betas for a fourth straight Fraternity "A" Hill title, and pushed the P.K.T.'s into first place in Division I with a 2-0 record. The Betas are now 1-1.
Beta Theta Pi, the kingpins of intramural basketball on the Hill for the last three years, met with the unaccustomed last week when they were upset by Phi Kappa Theta. 35-32.
Costly errors and lack of rebounding by the Betas were the deciding factors of the game, along with Phi Kappa's accuracy at the free-throw line. The P.K.T.'s hit 11 of 14 tosses.
PAT CAHILL of the P.K.T.'s took scoring honors with 13 points.
Tied with the P.K.T.'s for the lead in Division I, are the Sigma Nu's, who easily ran past the TKE's, 47-22, for their second straight victory.
In other Division I games, the Kappa Sigs romped by Sigma Epsilon, 61-19, and the SAE's tripped Sigma Chi, 49-35.
PSILON roared into on Division II of the A" competition with a 11-37 victory over the
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Right behind the DU's with 1-0 records are the ATO's and the Phi Delts.
The ATO's wrapped up their first win of the season in a 52-50 thriller over PKA. Other Division II action saw Phi Gamma edge Delta Chi. 36-33.
In Independent "A" play, the Cronies and H.I.D.K. jumped off to an early lead in Division I with 2-0 records.
doubtful starter for the twin bill because of a sprained ankle. Ellison's determination to play swayed Harp and trainer Dean Nesmith.
"They've undoubtedly got the coolest team we've played since I've been here," Ellison said Saturday of the Bearcats. "You don't rattle those guys."
The JRP-Guzzlers lead Division II with a victory over the Westerners in the only game played so far in that division.
ELLISON STARTED and played most of each game. The bona-fide all-America prospect said the ankle didn't bother his play in either tilt.
THE CRONIES mauled Templin, 72-47, for their second straight and H.I.D.K. handled the JRP-Stars, 48-29. The Trumps defeated the PEK's. 43-24.
Jim Dumas, KU forward, put it another wav:
"They're a real good ball club. Then can attack from five different directions."
Battenfeld Hall slipped by Pearson Hall, 31-28, to gain a tie for first place in Division II.
And they did attack from "five different directions."
LED BY GEORGE WILSON, Ron Bonham and Tho Tacker, and supported by Larry Shingleton and Tony Yates, the Bearcats showed the 9,000 fans in Allen Field House why they are the No. 1 team in the nation.
Sharing the top rung with Battenfeld is Stephenson Hall, who battered Grace Pearson, 46-29.
For those who didn't witness the Bearcats' Saturday performance, there is a consolation, or so it would seem. The Midwest NCAA Regionals are to be held here March 15 and 16. Those who missed Saturday's game will probably see them again.
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KC Steers Move to Top
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The defending champions of the Western Division walloped the Chiefs, 112-88, and swept a two-game series which saw the Chiefs drop out of first place for the first time this season.
The Kansas City Steers trampled the once high-flying Long Beach Chiefs into the dust yesterday and served notice that they are still the team to beat in the American basketball League.
Long Beach center Bill Spivey, who sparked the Long Beach team to 11 consecutive victories at the opening of the season, scored 37 points yesterday to share scoring honors with Larry Staverman of the Steers.
The other two games played yesterday were nip-and-tuck affairs, and one had a few rounds of boxing tossed in. Oakland edged Philadelphia, 104-102, in the rough one, and
Pittsburgh got by Chicago 109-107,
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