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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 16. 1953
Hawks Into Finals Play
Oklahoma Teams Can't Halt Kansans
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Manhattan—A crippled band of Kansas Jayhawkers weathered a fourth quarter Oklahoma A&M storm to chalk up its greatest victory of the season in the Kansas State fieldhouse Saturday night—a 61-55 decision over Oklahoma A&M for the NCAA regional championship.
The hard fought Kansas victory was the 18th of the season against five setbacks and was the second KU win in three starts over the Missouri Valley champs of Hank Iba. The amazing Jays now are just two games away from a second straight national title.
Kansas entered the regional final by whipping Oklahoma City 73-65 Friday night. TCU won the consolation game Saturday by edging the OCU Chiefs, 58-56.
The Jayhawkers, on top by nine at the end of the third quarter 52-43, boosted their lead to 11 early in the final period when A1 Killey connected from the field. But KU was a tremendous bloom by B. H. Born tied up with 9-30 play. Then Harold Patterson followed two minutes later.
The victory puts KU into the national finals in Kansas City Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Tomorrow the Kansans meet the University of Washington from Seattle at 9:45 p.m. At 7:45 Indiana plays Louisiana State. The two losers will meet at 7:45 Wednesday and the winners at 9:45 for the national crown.
The Aggies began to click after these men departed and pulled to within two, 55-57. But KU pulled it out of the fire on four clutch free throws, two by Al Kelley, and one each by brother Dean and Jerry Alberts. The Jayhawkers threw up an airtight defense during this spurt preventing the Aggies from feeding Bob Mattick, the 6-11 A&M postman who scored 22 points. Kansas, which kept the Cowpokes scoreless in the final two minutes and 20 seconds of the game, stalled in the last minute of play to win the title.
The lead changed hands four times and the score was tied ten times in the bitterly-fought first half. The teams were tied at the first quarter, 15-15, but Born raced in for a layup with four seconds left in the half to put Kansas on top at intermission. 30-28.
The Jayhawkers, led by Dean Kelley's ten points, outscored the Aggies in the third period, 22-15. Born scored on a tip-in and layup in the second quarter, but put Kansas ahead 52-43 before Oklahoma A&M rallied to within two.
Born took scoring honors for Kansas with 18. Dean Kelley, who played one of his greatest games of the season, got 16, Al Kielley 13, and Gill Reich eight. Mattick led the Aggies with 22. Harold Rogers was next with 12. The Cowboys outshot and outbounded the Jayhawkers, hitting 41 per cent of their field goal attempts and grabbing 31 rebounds. KU connected on 18 of 48 tries for 38 per cent and got 23 rebounds.
Kansas had to use Alberts, a 6-3 sophomore, on Mattick when Born and Patterson fouled out. But Alberts and the rest of the fighting Kansas crew responded to the call.
The Jayhawkers almost ran Oklahoma City out of the K-State fieldhouse in the first half of Friday's game to soar ahead at the intermission, 47-26. But the Chiefs chopped the margin down three durations good, then oncede the Jayhawkers 19-9 in the final frame.
Oklahoma City warmed up in the second half, but Kansas kept pace to hold a 64-46 third-quarter lead. Al Kelley scored on a layup with 4:41 left in the final period, then the Chiefs run up eight quick points
The fast-breaking Kansans broke from a 6-5 lead early in the first period to race to a 24-13 first quarter advantage. The Jayhawkers continued to pick up steam in the second quarter to take the 47-26 halftime lead.
KANSAS (73) G-Ga F-Fa Pf Tp
Patterson 1-6 6 8 2 9
A. Kelley 7-9 3-4 4 17
Smith 5-1 1-4 4 17
Squires 0-1 0-1 0 1
Born 4-12 3-6 4 11
D. Kelley 2-9 3-5 5 17
Daewon 4-8 4-7 7 4
Reich 8-18 4-7 4 20
Anderson 0-8 0-0 0 0
Huskies Next?
Totals 26-73 21-31 21 79
OK, CITY U. (65) G-Ga F-Fa Ft Tp
Lilens 7-21 3-11 4-14 17
Lilens 15-5 3-4 4-14 17
Key 2-5 8-10 1-20
Jones 0-6 0-0 1 0
Rose 0-6 0-0 3 10
Couts 0-1 1-2 1 4
Natal 2-2 0-0 2 3
Rich 1-1 1-1 1 3
Bullard 1-1 1-1 1 3
Totals 21-58 22-28 21 65
Officials score: Knapp and George.
Officials: Shuffler and George.
OKLA. A&M (55) G-Ga F-Fa Pt Tp
Fuller 1- 4 4- 5 2 6
Mattick 1- 4 4- 5 2 6
Mattick 7-10 8-15 22 8
Roark 3-10 2-3 2 8
Rogers 4- 6 4- 4 5 12
Maloney 0- 0 0 1 0
Hendricks 1- 1 1 1
Hicks 2- 2 2- 5 6
Stockton 0- 0 0 0 0
Reems 0- 0 0 0 0
Burrell 0- 0 0 1 0
Haskins 0- 0 0 0 0
Totals 17-41 21-30 24 55
KANSAS (61) G-Ga F-Fa FF 35
Patterson 0-3 4-6 5 5
A. Kelley 4-10 6-9 5 13
Born 6-10 6-9 6-9 18
D. Kesley 6-14 4-4 2 16
Reich 2-5 4-4 1 38
Davant 0-4 0-0 0 8
Smith 0-0 0-0 0 0
Alberts 0-0 0-2 1 1
Totals 18-48 25-23 21 61
Halftime score: Kansas 30, Oklahoma 61
Officials: Enright and Shaw.
while holding the Jayhawkers scoreless. But the Kansas lead was too big for the Chiefs to overcome.
Arnold Short, a 6-3 junior, put on a dazzling exhibition of long-range jump shooting to take scoring honors for the Chiefs with 17. Most of his baskets were scored on a twisting, jumping, baseball-like motion, but the team nets without hitting the bookbards. Short had support from Andy Likens with 14, Jack Key, 12, and Ken Rose, 11.
Gil Reich, who suffered a rib injury in the first half, turned in a great all-around performance and finished with 20 points to top the Kansas scoring list. Al Kelley had 17. Born 11, and Patterson nine.
KU's Dean Kelley was named as the most valuable player in the NCAA regional tourney in Manhattan Saturday and was placed on the all-tournament team along with two other Jayhawkers.
The contest was the first between the schools. The victory over A&M pulls Phog Allen within one game in his coaching duel with Iba at 13-14.
Besides Kelley, center B. H. Born and guard Gil Reich made the squad with Oklahoma A&M's Bob Mattick and Oklahoma City's Arnold Short.
Dean Kelley Wins Award
Kelley finally returned to last year's form in leading the Kansans into the national finals Tuesday and Wednesday in Kansas City. The McCune senior showed his leadership at Oklahoma City, but really exploded in the regional final against Oklahoma A&M with 16 points.
He poured in 10 of these points in a brief 5-minute period in the third quarter to help the Kansans
-Kansan photo by Bob Longstaf
Kansas City — (U.P.)—Final official statistics of the Big Seven conference showed Kansas' B. H. Born as the champion scorer in the 1952-53 basketball season with a total of 270 points in 12 games for a 22.5 average.
Born Nips Knostman, Bunte To Win Big 7 Scoring Crown
COACH, WHAT NOW?—Oklahoma A&M's Tom Fuller looks desperately for a teammate as the tenacious Kansas defense moves in to bottle up the frustrated Cowpoke in the finals of the NCAA regional in Manhattan Saturday. Defenders are Al Kelley (24), Larry Davenport, Gil Reich, and Dean Kelley
Born nosed out Dick Knostman of Kansas State, who finished with 268 points for a 22.3 average. Next was Colorado's Art Bute with 264 for 254.
Champion Kansas basketed 313 field goals in the 12 conference games, added 288 free throws for a 914 aggregate and a game average of 76.1. The champions' opponents finished with a 63.6 average, leaving KU with a 12.5 spread. Only two teams showed a plus spread in the game averages—Kansas State and Iowa State.
Kansas State scored 972 points for an 81.0 average compared with the opposition's, 72.0—a 9.0 margin. Iowa State, with an average of 70.5, yielded 69.9 to opponents—a 6 margin.
Kansas State's total of 72 points was the highest of any team offensively and Kansas showed the best defense, limiting rivals to a total of 764 points. Kansas State committed the most fouls--332.
Del Dierckss, Iowa State, 234 points for 19.5 average; Bob Waller, Oklahoma, 176 for 14.6; Bob Reiter, Missouri, 175 for 14.5; Bill John-
Other leading scorers were;
open up an 11-point bulge.
Kelley was well in front in the most-valuable balloting and Reich ran second.
Mattick was the only unanimous choice for the all-tourney team, Kelley missing on one vote, and Reich, Born, and Short trailing behind. Others who drew votes were Ray Warren and Hank Ohlen of Texas Christian, Al Kelley of Kansas, and Harold Rogers of Oklahoma.
son, Nebraska, 166 for 13.8, and Allen Kelley, Kansas, 164 for 13.6.
Jayhawkers In NCAA Spotlight
Kansas City—(U.P.)—The surprising Kansas Jayhawkers only two victories away from their second straight NCAA basketball championship, were squared in the spotlight today as four regional champions converged on this city for tomorrow night's semi-finals.
Kansas is matched against high-powered Washington in one semifinal, while Louisiana State and Indiana clash in the other.
The Jayhawkers have only one starter, Dean Kelley, back from the squad that roared to the national title last season as skyscraping Clyde Lovellette smashed just about every scoring record in the tourney book. At the beginning of this season, even Coach Forrest "Phog" Allen could forsee only minor success.
What's more, in 6-foot 10 inch B. H. Born the Jayhawkers may have a center who will give Washington's 6-9 all-American Bob Houbregs a tussle. That's quite an assignment, for Houbregs smashed Lovelletta's tourney record with 45 points in his first tournament game and Saturday night scored 34 more to lead a 74-62 win over Santa Clara.
But the Jayhawkers went on to outbattle favored Kansas State for the Big Seven conference crown and then swept through the NCAA regional in Manhattan Friday and Saturday with a 73-65 win over Oklahoma City and a 61-55 triumph over the Oklahoma Aggies.
Santa Clara led most of the way for three periods and the score was tied 15 times before a Houbsgreed-les assault broke the game open in the fourth period. Ken Sears led Santa Clara with 23 points.
By contrast, Born was riding the bench with five personal fouls in the fourth quarter of the Kansas-Oklahoma Aggies game, having scored 18 points. Kansas got only one field goal and seven free throws in the final frame, but held off the Aggies' drive with ball-hawking.
Don Schulundt, Indiana's Big Ten champion scorer, racked up 41 points, a new Chicago stadium record, to lead the Hoosiers to a 79-66 victory over Notre Dame in Chicago. The 6-foot 9-inch pivot man tallied 18 of those markers in the first half as Indiana suttured to a 42-32 lead.
The victory throws Schuldt squarely into another big pivot batte against 6-foot 9-inch Bob Pettit of Louisiana State.
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