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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 22, 1956.
NCAA Starts Tonight Frisco, Iowa Favored
EVANSTON, Ill. (UP)—San Francisco's undefeated basketball team aims for its second straight NCAA championship tonight and Coach Phil Woolpert expected that rival Southern Methodist would have no fears of the potent Dons.
The Dons, winners of their last 53 games, were an eight-point choice to defeat the Southwest Conference champion, winners of their last 19, in one semi-final clash. Iowa's Big Ten titleholders, with a 16-game winning streak, were rated nine points better than Temple for the other semi-final.
Woolpert said his team was "a little better balanced, a little better shooting and with a little more bench strength" than last year's club which captured the NCAA title from defending champion LaSalle.
Should the Dons win the tournament, it would be the third time in history that a team has repeated. Oklahoma A&M won in 1945 and 1946, and Kentucky won in 1948 and 1949. Only one other team has ever entered the NCAA finals unbeaten. Columbia won 21 without defeat in 1951 but lost to Illinois in the first round of the tournament.
San Francisco has won 27 without defeat this year.
Iowa's Coach Bucky O'Connor reported his starting forward, Bill Scoffo, would be able to start against
Moberly Juco Wins Again
HUTCHINSON (UP)— Defending champion Moberly, Mo., winner the past two years, and Kilgore, Tex., junior college held semifinal berths in the National Junior College basketball tournament today.
The feature game tonight pits New York City Tech and Hannibal LaGrange. Mo. at 9:30.
Moberly had to come from behind for a 52-51 win over scrapy Boise, Idaho, with eight seconds left. Kigoreh had a much easier time, leading all the way to down Graceland, Iowa 85-63.
In the final two first round games Wednesday, Pueblo downed North Greenville of Tigerville, N.C. 86-84 and Cameron romped over Chicago City Junior College, Wright Branch 91-71.
Temple even though he suffered a "charley horse" March 17 against Kentucky.
NIT Semi-Finals Set For Tonight
NEW YORK (UP)— Top-seeded Dayton and second-seeded Louisville are solid favorites to win tonight's semi-final games in the National Invitation Tournament.
Dayton and its 7-foot center, Bill Uhl, looked tense and jittery in the quarter-finals, but the Flyers are expected to down scrappy little St. Francis of Brooklyn in one game tonight.
Louisville's Cardinals, led by 6-foot 8-inch Charley Tyra, are picked over third-seeded St. Joseph's of Philadelphia in the other.
Dayton Coach Tom Blackburn admits that skyscraping Uhl has got to "snap out of it" if the Flyers are to whip St. Francis, the only unseeded team to reach the semi-finals. Uhl represents the chief height difference, but the big blond bey seems bewitched by a "Madison Square Garden complex", Blackburn said.
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