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—Kansan photo by Bob Longstaff
**WHAT'S GOING ON?—Kansas center B. H. Born dodges the diving Missouri forward, Bobby Cruts, in fourth-quarter action in last night's game. Cruts is going after the ball knocked from his hands by Jayhawker Dean Smith (22) when Cruts attempted to drive for the basket. Other players: Kansas' Harold Patterson (9); Missouri's Bill Holst (52).**
Knostman on All-Star Team
Kansas State center Dick Knostman has been placed on Look magazine's 1952-53 all-American basketball team.
One other Big Seven player, KU's B. H. Born was named to Look's Fifth District team along with Arnold Short of Oklahoma City, Dick
Boushka of St. Louis, and Cleo Littleton of Wichita.
Second Round Play in NAIA Set for Today
Others named to the all-American squad are Bob Houbregs of Washington, Johnny O'Brien of Seattle, Walt Dukes of Seton Hall, and Ernie Beck of Pennsylvania.
Kansas City—(U.P.)—Firing in the second day of the fifteenth annual NAIA tournament started today at 9:45 a.m. after an extra game was crowded into an already full schedule.
St. Benedict's of Atchison led the winners of the seven first-round games Monday into Wednesday's second round. The Ravens defeated North Dakota university 69-66 after wiping out a five-point lead in the fourth quarter.
Led by Bill Samuels, the Ravens started fast and rolled up a 12-5 lead in the first quarter, but North Dakota trimmed it to 20-19 at the quarter. St. Benedict's slipped behind 20-27 in the second period, but trailed just 33-37 at the half.
The Missouri entry, Southwest Missouri State, the defending champion, plays tonight against Gonzaga.
The Ravens will play the winner of tonight's Tennessee A&I—Geneva college game Wednesday.
Astronomical scores marked the first day of play—Pasadena, Calif., 107, Ricks college of Idaho 72; Eastern Illinois 84, Morris Harvey 67; Findlay, Ohio, 80, Adams State, Colo., 63; Mississippi Southern 106, River Falls, Wis., 12; Indiana State 100, Midwestern, Wichita Falls, Tex., 76. St. Benedict's, Atchison, 69, North Dakota 66, and Nebraska Wesleyan 83, Arnold College of Connecticut 62
Tuesday. March 10. 1953 University Daily Kansan
Two tournament records went by the boards yesterday. The total number of free throws now is 61, set by Mississippi Southern and River Falls of Wisconsin in their game. The same game also accounted for another record—the most free throws by an individual.
Roger Kuss of River Falls converted 18 out of 28 to break the old mark of 16.
Seton Hall, Duquesne Favored in NIT Tilts
New York—(U.P.)—Top-seeded Seton Hall is favored to beat Niagara and Duquesne is a slight choice over Western Kentucky in tonight's quarter-finals of the National Invitation basketball tournament—but both choices should be warned by the fate of La Salle.
Big 7 Action Ends Tonight
The Big Seven conference winds up its basketball play tonight with one conference encounter and one non-league affair. In Manhattan, the disillusioned Kansas State Wild-cats will take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers in a gaue that means nothing. Oklahoma and Oklahoma A&M clash in Stillwater.
Four seniors will be playing their last Big Seven game, three of them from Kansas State. The departing Wildcats are center Dick Knostman, named to several all-American teams, forward Jack Carby, and guard Bob Rousey. Nebraska's only senior will be guard Joe Good.
Until last night's Kansas victory over Missouri, the Wildcats still held hopes of gaining a tie for the conference bunting, but now the preseason favorites must be content with second place. Kansas State, with a 16-4 record, will be highly favored to trounce the Huskers in the final conference contest.
Elsewhere in the Big Seven, Iowa State shoved the Colorado Bucks into undisputed possession of last place in the conference standings with a 69-48 trumping on the Buff's home court. Thus the team won. But the saw Colorado lose every home game except the one to the champion Jayhawkers.
Big Delmar Diercks, playing his last game for the Cyclones, scored 20 points for high honors.
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La Salle's Explorers, the defending champions, were ousted from the tournament, 75-74, last night by a hard-driving St. John's team living up to its rich tradition as an "upset king."
In another quarter-final game last night, fourth-seeded Manhattan romped to an easy 79-66 victory over Louisville. In the opening game of the tripleheader, Niagara earned its quarter-final berth by rallying to beat Brigham Young in an overtime, 82-76.
Niagara frittered away a nine-point lead and finished the regulation time in a 67-67 tie. But the Eagles scored seven points in the first $1\frac{1}{2}$ minutes of the extra period to clinch the game. Larry Costello led Niagara with 25 points, while Joe Richey paced Brigham Young with 18.
As for La Salle, Coach Ken Loefler was being criticized today because of his big "gamble" that back-fired. He tried to beat St. John's without using two of his ailing stars—all-American Tom Gola (sprained ankle) and rebounder Jack Moore (flu)—hoping to rest them for the semi-finals.
But the upset-hungry Redmen from Brooklyn, who surprised St. Louis in the opening round, outplayed the La Salle lineup of three regulars and two subs and led by 39-30 when Loeffler finally sent Gola and Moore into action at 6:20 of the second period.
The Explorers kept plugging away and finally tied the score at 74-74 on a tip-in by Gola in the last minute. Then Dick Duckett hit one of two free throws to put St. John's in front.
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