Page 4 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 10, 1954 Tigers Tip KU 76-67 Big Seven Conference Ends in Tie; Flip Today for Representative Columbia, Mo.—The Missouri Tigers, behind a 27-point third-period burst, leveled off Kansas' shocked Jayhawkers, 76-67, here last night to throw the final Big Seven standings into a deadlock between the Jayhawkers and Colorado. The league's representative to the NCAA regional playoff, which begins Friday in Stillwater, Okla., will be decided early today in the office of Reeves Peters, executive secretary of the league. Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen and Colorado coach Bebe Lee will draw to decide the representative. It wasn't the same Jayhawker team that played Colorado and Oklahoma A&M which played here last night. Although they led most of the first half, never did they really put the Tigers down with the kind of tactics that have characterized their last few games. But on the other hand, Missouri probably played its best game of the year. Besides hitting 26 shots of 52 attempts for a sizzling 50 per cent, the Tigers got a double-barrel scoring assault from Bob Reiter and Norm Stewart. Reiter, Missouri's leading sooner dropped in 28 points, all of them in the first three quarters. He was almost the whole show the first half, hitting 18 of the Tigers' 31 counters. Stewart took over in the final half, hitting another 18 to propel Missouri to its sixth conference win against six losses and a No.3 finish in the conference. B. H. Born, 6-9 Medicine Lodge senior, hit 25 points for the Kansans while Allen Kelley and Dallas Dobbs each chipped in 15 apice. Down the line, Larry Davenport had six, Harold Patterson, three; Bill Heitholt, two, and John Anderson, one. The Jayhawkers suffered probably their worst night of the campaign in the ball-handling and scoring column. Bad passes were common and the Jayhawks hit only 23 of 64 for a 36 per cent average. The game was harem-scarem through the first quarter with Reiter trading buckets with Kelley and Born. After the lead had been tied three times and changed hands an additional 10 times, the period ended with the score deadlocked, 15-15. Kansas' largest lead came at 1:14 to go in the half when the Jayhawkers apparently had the Tigers down Kelley hit a twisting jumper at the top of the circle to give Kansas a 33-28 margin. Kansas came out in the second quarter to go on top again, 17-15 on Davenport's long one-hander but Reiter came back with three in a row to offset Born and Kelley's two pointers. Kansas went ahead to stay for the period, 20-19, on Born's charity with 6:35 left in the period. Stewart's jump-shot from the side and Gary Fibert's charity brought the Missourians back up to two, at 33-31, before Dobbs hit a long jumper on the side to give Kansas a 35-31 halftime lead. Never again did Kansas see the lead after Reiter's two hooks and Stewart's free throw put Missouri on top, 36-35 in the first 31 seconds of action in the third period. Kansas came back to tie the score twice, at 40-40 and at 42-42 but when Reiter and Stewart hit fielders and Stewart added a charity all in the span of 12 seconds to give Missouri a 51-47 lead, Kansas was under. The Jayhawkers never got closer than five points after that. Born's left-handed hook with 5:30 to go, brought Kansas up to 65-60 and after Stewart hit a jump-shot from the side 22 seconds later. Born again dropped in a crip to make the score, 67-62. After Lloyd Elmore and Filberb had tossed in charities on a pair of Jack Wolfe's fouls. Kelley hit a jumper from the free throw line to bring Kansas up to 69-64 with still 4:04 left. Kansas' hopes fell sharply after that. Hitting nearly every free throw, (Missouri hit 24 of 26 free throws, 21 of them in a row), the Tigers were content to stall out the game and draw fouls at the same time. The whipping took some of the Box Score KANSAS (67)
G-GAF-FAPFTF
Born8-229-16424
Kelley6-163-13415
Patterson0-33-643
Dobbs5-135-6315
Anderson0-11-111
Davenport3-40-006
Heitholt1-40-042
Brainerd0-00-000
Wolfe0-10-220
Totals23-6421-342267
MISSOURI (76) | | G-GA | F-FA | PF | TP | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Reiter | 12-17 | 4-4 | 4 | 28 | | Stewart | 7-14 | 8-10 | 3 | 22 | | Elmore | 1-2 | 5-5 | 5 | 7 | | Park | 2-6 | 0-0 | 2 | 4 | | Reichert | 1-6 | 1-1 | 5 | 3 | | Filbert | 2-3 | 6-6 | 1 | 10 | | Castell | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | | Schoonmaker | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | | Holst | 0-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | * 26-52, 24-26, 21-21, 20-20, 19-20, 18-20, 17-20, 16-20, 15-20, 14-20, 13-20, 12-20, 11-20, 10-20, 9-20, 8-20, 7-20, 6-20, 5-20, 4-20, 3-20, 2-20, 1-20, 0-20, 0-10, 0-1 26-15 15 15 76 Kansas 15 20 15 17 97 Missouri 15 20 15 18-74 Officials: John Lloyd and Cliff Shaw. shine off Kansas' record this year and it also broke an eight-game winning streak over Missouri. The last time Coach Wilbur "Sparky" Stalcup's lads had defeated Kansas was in 1951 at Columbia when George Lafferty scored the winning bucket in the final seconds for a 38-38 victory. It also avenged two earlier Kansas defeats this year for the Tigers. Kansas had beaten Missouri, 69-67 in the Big Seven pre-season tournament, and 86-69 in Hoch early in January. Nevertheless, it gave Kansas a share of its third straight Big Seven championship. The Jayhawkers thus ended their regular season with a 10-2 record in the conference and a 16-5 record overall. Missouri, meanwhile, was 11-10 overall and 6-6 in the conference. American League Wins 12 Contests BY UNITED PRESS It's the same old story in spring or fall—the American league is beating the stuffing out of its National league rival. With less than a week of the Grapefruit league season passed, American league teams have piled up an imposing total of 12 victories over their National league foes while suffering only four losses. N.L. President Warren Giles ordered his teams to buckle down last spring when the games followed a similar trend and probably will do so again this spring. The National league has won the last three all-star games but hasn't had a World Series victory since the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Boston Red Sox in 1946. Grapefruit league games don't count in the standings, of course, but Giles is interested in reversing the annual ritual of the American leaguers coming out with an edge. Worst of all from the National leaguers' viewpoint is the fact that the erstwhile St. Louis Brown's now the Baltimore Orioles- have been inflicting the most damage. Columbia —(U.P.)A coin will be tossed in the Kansas City office of Big Seven conference Commissioner Reeves Peters at 5 p.m. today to see whether Kansas or Colorado will go to the NCAA regional basketball playoffs starting Friday in Stillwater, Okla. Peters decided to let the toss of a coin settle it after Missouri scored a stunning 76 to 67 upset over Kansas here last night to throw the title race into a deadlock, leaving Kansas and Colorado as co-champions, each with 10-2 conference records. A two-man attack gave Missouri its first win over Kansas in nine games. Peters didn't say who would toss the coin. But both Kansas and Colorado will be represented in his office. Peters himself will represent the NCAA since he is chairman of the Western NCAA selection committee. A capacity crowd of 6,000 in Brewer fieldhouse watched Bob Reiter, a junior, and Norm Stewart a sophomore, hit 28 and 22 points, respectively, last night to lead Missouri to its victory over Kansas. Missouri hit on 26 out of 52 field goals attempted for a 50 per cent average. It scored on 24 free throws of 26 attempted. Missouri's Tigers scored 27 points in the third period to take a 58-51 lead going into the final period after trailing at the half, 35 to 31. Lloyd Elmore's two free throws with seven minutes left in the third quarter broke a 42 to 42 tie and sent Missouri ahead to stav. Reiter was held scoreless in the final quarter, but Stewart got eight points. 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