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Big Seven Roundup-
Kansas Needs Victory For NCAA Playoff Bid
By UNITED PRESS
Kansas and Missouri will meet in Columbia, Mo., Tuesday night to decide whether Kansas keeps its clear Big Seven conference basketball title or shares it with the amazing sophomores of Colorado.
The game will decide more than that. If Kansas wins, as expected, Coach Phog Allen's defending champions will head for Stillwater, Okla., and the NCAA regionals opening next Friday night.
But if Kansas is upset by its traditional rival, Colorado will move up into a tie for the championship and necessitate a flip-of-a-coin to determine the conference's NCAA representative.
Colorado ended its season with a 79-76 victory over Kansas State at Boulder Saturday night. That gave Colorado Leo Scales the most of success in the 102.
Kansas stood at 10-1 and Missouri at 5-6 as Tuesday's crucial contest neared.
Normally, on the face of the records, Kansas would be regarded a heavy favorite over Missouri, but in this meeting of old foes, the normal rarely prevails. Missouri has won four of its last five games and every coach in the conference agrees the Tigers are tough on their home court.
Still, Kansas' B. H. Born was ex-
expected to shackle Missouri's Bob Reiter, a prolific scorer who has written new records at the Tiger institution this season.
Reiter scored 23 points against Iowa State last week to run his season total to 383—the greatest any individual ever has compiled in the history of basketball at the school. He beat the mark set by Bill Stauffer (368) in 1952.
Burdette Haldorson paced Colorado to victory over Kansas State, registering 26 points which clinched the conference's individual scoring title. Haldorson totaled 256 points in 12 conference games for a 21.3 average. Reiter's total, with the Kansas game remaining, was 224.
The Big Seven representative in the NCAA regionals will get a bye in the first round. Oklahoma City university and Bradley will play at Peoria, Ill.. Tuesday night and the winner will oppose the Big Seven color-bearer next Friday night at Stillwater.
Back of third place Missouri were Kansas State and Nebraska, each at 5-7; Oklahoma, 4-8, and Iowa State, 2-10.
In the lower half of the NCAA draw, the Rice-Texas winner will play Oklahoma A&M Friday night. Victors in these battles will clash Saturday night for the right to go to Kansas City for the NCAA finals.
Cyclone Swimmers Topple Jayhawker Tankmen, 58-26
The KU swimming team lost its sixth meet in eighth starts Saturday when the powerful Iowa State Cyclones defeated the Jayhawkers 58-26. KU closes out the swimming
ason this weekend with the conference swimming meet at Ames, Iowa.
KU took only one first in the dual when Jerry Jester won the one-meter diving event. Even Dick Eflin was not able to win a first place, taking second in the 60-yard free style and third in the 100-yard free style.
300-yard medley relay: 1. IS (Wilson, Thornberry, Stewart). Time: 3:06.2.
High point man for the meet was Iowa State's Jim McKevitt who scored $11\%$ points. Coach Jack McGuire's Cyclones have now won four of seven meets. Only one of the losses has been in dual competition.
220-yard free style: 1. McKevitt
IS; 2. Valleau, IS; 3. Burton, K.
Time: 2:15.7.
60-yard free style: 1. McCullen
IS; 2. Eflin, K; 3. Hollowell, IS
Time: 314.
120-yard individual medley: 1.
Braught, IS; 2. Buchanan, K; 3.
Forester, K. Time: 1:169.
100-yard free style: 1. McKevitt,
IS; 2. McCullen, IS; 3. Eflin, K.
Time: 53.4.
1-meter dwiving: 1. Jester, K; 2.
Gates, K; 3. Nichols, IS.
200-yard back stroke: 1. Braught,
IS; 2. Burton K; Glasco, K. Time:
2:22.4
200-yard breast stroke: 1. Lamair, IS; 2. Best, IS; 3. Schanze, K. Time: 31.4.
400-yard free style relay. 1. Iowa State (Wilson, Hollowell, McKevitt, Stewart). Time: 3:52.8.
440-yard free style: 1. Valleau,
IS; 2. Burton, K; 3. Brown, K. Time:
5:45.1.
Pat Lesser Wins Golf Title
Ormond Beach, Fla.,—(U.P.)Pat Lesser, 20-year-old women's intercollegiate golf champion, added the South Atlantic amateur title to her list of trophies by defeating Jovez Ziske of Waterford, Wits, 6 and 5, in their rain-delayed final yesterday.
Babe Wins Florida Meet
Sarasota, Fla.,—(U.P.)-Babe Didrison Zaharias came out of her first 27-hole golf day since her cancer operation with $875 first money and the conviction that "I think I'm here for好钱."
32 Teams Open Fire in NAIA Cage Carnival
It took all the Babe's famed spirit plus some help from her husky husband to give her victory in the 54-hole Sarasota Open yesterday with a last round par 74 and a total of 223.
Nine holes of the second round had been postponed by rain Saturday, forcing the women stars to go 27 holes yesterday. The Babe wondered if she could carry her pain-racked legs that far. She did and won by nine strokes as Louise Suggs of Atlanta and Patty Berg of Chicago tied for second at 232.
Mrs. Zaharias obviously was in trouble on the 12th hole as she lurched and grabbed her leg after making her drive. She limped along the fairway nursing a painful muscle cramp but still made a tough shot out of a ditch and matched par on the hole.
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.P.)-Thirty-two teams from 30 states—across the nation from California to Connecticut—were poised today for the start of the annual NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) basketball tournament.
Eight games, the first getting under way at 11 a.m. CST inaugurated the 1954 week-long championship, most gruelling of all college basketball events. The dizzy dribble derby will reach its climax next Saturday night when a champion will be crowned.
Only Tennessee and Texas had two entries in the field. All other states had only one hope.
University Daily Kansan
Ohio boasted the top of favorite in Rio Grande and its fabulous point-maker Bevo Francis, and Missouri had the defending champion in Southwest Missouri State at Springfield
Six other teams were listed, alphabetically, in the seeded group. They included East Carolina, of Greenville, S.C., East Texas State of Commerce, Geneva of Beaver Falls, Pa., Lawrence Tech of Detroit, Mich., St. Peter's of Jersey City, N.J., and Pasadena (Calif.) college.
More than 12 hours of action were promised on today's 8-game opening program. The schedule; 11 a.m.; Whitworth, Sookane, Wash.
aam. Whitworth, Spokane, Wash.
Nebraska Wesleyan, Lincoln.
Neb.
12:30 p.m.: St Peter's, Jersey City,
N.J., vs. Wayland, Plainview, Tex.
8:00 p.m.: St Peter's, Jersey City,
ton, W. Va., vs. Western Illinois MacComb.
3:30 p.m.: Regis, Denver, Colo., vs.
Tennessee A&I, Nashville.
000 p.m. East Texas State, Commerce,
vs. Portland (Ore.).
West Missoula Springfield, West. Tennessee. Johnson City.
9:00 p.m.: Rio Grande (O.) vs. Arizona State. Flagstaff.
10:30 p.m.: Arkansas Tech, Russell-
ville, us; Mercer, Macon, Ga.
12:30 p.m.: Southeast, Louisiana,
Hammond vs. Georgetown (Ky.).
The first round will be completed tomorrow with these contests:
11:00 a.m.: Lawrence Tech...Detroit
vs. Carroll, Waukeska, Wis.
12:30 p.m.; Southeast Louisiana.
vs. Southeastern Oklahoma, Durant.
2:00 p.m.: Montana State, Bozeman
vs. Southeastern Oklahoma, Du-
s
3:30 p.m.: Geneva, Beaver Falls, Pa.
vs. Indiana State, Terra Haute.
6:00 p.m.: Pasadena (Calif.) vs Bridgeport (Conn.).
7:30 p.m.: St. Benedict's, Atchison
Kan., vs. East Carolina, Greenville, S.C.
9:00 p.m.: Gustavus Adolphus, St Peter, Minn., vs. Mississippi Southern, Hattiesburg.
10:30 p.m.: St. Ambrose, Davenport
Iowa vs. North Dakota, Grand
Forks.
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Heavy Action Tonight In NCAA, NIT Tourneys
New York—(U.P.)-Play in both the NCAA and National Invitation tournaments, plus the possible crowning of as many as three league champions, highlights a night of wild action on the college basketball court tonight.
The NCAA post-season carnival gets underway tonight with a doubleheader at Buffalo, N.Y., and a single game at Durham, N.C., while the NIT continues at Madison Square Garden with a triple-header.
At Buffalo's Memorial auditorium, opening-round NCAA games match Connecticut (23-2) against Navy (16-7) at LaSalle (21-4) against Fordham (18-5). The winners of these games qualify for the regional tourney at Philadelphia next week-end.
At Durham, N.C., North Carolina State and George Washington clash for the right to enter the same Philadelphia regional. State qualified for this game by winning the Atlantic Coast conference tournament on Saturday night with a dramatic, 82-80 victory over Wake Forest in overtime at Raleigh, N.C. George Washington, which went unbeaten in southern conference play, kept right on going by taking the league's post-season tourney with an 83-70 victory over Richmond in the final round at Morgantown, W. Va.
The National Invitation, which opened with a tripleheader of first round games among unseeded teams on Saturday, will complete the first round in its opening game on tonight's program. Brigham Young (19-18) vs. St. Francis of Loretto, Pa., (20-4).
Then the seeded teams will appear for the first time with second-seeded Western Kentucky (28-1) playing Bowling Green (17-6) in one quarter-final game and fourth-seeded Niagara (21-5) playing Dayton (25-6).
Bowling Green sprang one of the two surprises that marked the opening NIT card, ousting Wichita
88-84. St. Francis of Brooklyn provided the other with a 60-55 decision that qualified it for a quarter-final meeting tomorrow night with Holy Cross. Dayton was the only favorite on the opening card to win, beating Manhattan, 90-75. Top-seeded Duquesne won't play until tomorrow, when it faces the Brigham Young-St. Francis (Pa.) winner.
The league title in the Pacific Coast conference is certain to be settled tonight, while the titles in the Southwest conference and Ivy league also could be decided.
Oregon State, the northern division champ, and Southern California, the Southern division winner, clash at Long Beach, Calif. in the third and deciding game of the PCC playoffs. USC won the opening game on Game 5, 38-48, but Oregon State bounced back Saturday to win, 65-47.
Rice and Texas clash on Texas' court at Austin in the second game of the playoffs in the Southwest conference. Rice, winner of the opening game on its own court Friday, 70-62, can clinch by winning but a Texas triumph would force a final game tomorrow night on a neutral court at Waco.
Cornell (11-2) clinched at least a tie for the Ivy league crown by beating defending champ Pennsylvania, 57-56. Saturday as Carl Rolles scored 23 points. The Big Red can clinch it outright by beating second-place Princeton (10-3) tonight in the season windup.
Only two other major conference titles are yet to be decided—the Southeastern and the Big Seven. The Southeastern will be settled tomorrow night when Kentucky and Louisiana State, both unbeaten in league competition, clash on a neutral court at Nashville, Teen.
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