Big Seven Crown At Stake As KU Meets Buffs Tonight
The Big Seven basketball crown could rest squarely on the heads of the Kansas Jayhawkers tonight if Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen's cagers can come through with a victory of the Colorado Buffaloes.
This meeting, the final game of the regular season, will decide whether the Jayhawkers get clear title to the championship or if a playoff with the Kansas State Wildcats will be necessary.
The Buffs have rapidly become the giant killers of the conference, knocking over K-State in the upset of the year at Boulder and also whipping Wyoming, the powerhouse of the mountain states.
The game will be broadcast over radio station WREN at the close of the Kansas State-Oklahoma cage tilt at Manhattan. This game will begin at 7:55 p.m. and the broadcast will continue on through the Kansas-Colorado contest.
In their last meeting, Kansas came through with a narrow five point margin of victory. Colorado held the lead several times during the game, and it was not until the closing moments that the KU squad was able to come through with the win.
At present Kansas holds undisputed first place in the conference with a 10-1 record against a 9-2 record for K-State. A 'victory tonight would mean an automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs.
The playoffs will be held in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium March 21-22, with the winner of this event moving to Seattle for a chance at the national collegiate title.
The Colorado upset over K-State and Wyoming places them as a very dangerous opponent, and unless the Jayhawkers are in top form they could have plenty of trouble in downing the Buffs.
Coach Jack Gardner of Kansas State has predicted that Kansas will defeat the Buffs and go on to win the national title.
Gardner said, "I don't believe Colorado can touch the Jayhawkers. The Maverick players have been together for the season and have finally found themselves."
In regard to the national title, he said, "Teams not familiar with Kansas will have trouble playing the Hawks. Most coaches have the idea that if you stop Lovellette, you can stop Kansas."
Seeded Favorites In Debut Tonight
New York —(U.P.)— St. Bonaventure and St. John's, a pair of seeded teams who drew first-round byes, make their debut in the National Invitational Tournament tonight and both appear to be headed for plenty of trouble.
St. Bonaventure (19-5) is matched against tall, tourney-tested Western Kentucky (26-4) in a quarter-final game at 5 p.m., (CST.) that starts a triple-header at Madison Square Garden.
St. John's (22-3) goes against Lagille (21-5), the team that has become the fans' "darling" with its color, dash, and scoring punch, in another quarter-final. And unseeded teams Holm Cross (23-3) and Stenley (22-4) beat the tight jig's final game, a contest which completes first-round play.
St. John's, a skillful, deliberate team built around six-foot, six-inch center Bob Zawoluk, hardly ranks as a solid favorite over LaSalle and its six-six Tom Gola. The Explorers from Philadelphia, a smart, agressmash club using Gola's uncanny shot-making itself as a real title threat by its 80-76 first-round win over Seton Hall on Saturday.
St. Bonaventure posted a regular season, 73-60 win over Western Kentucky at Buffalo, NY but folks will be very surprised if they can win by that much again. The Bonnies have been slumping lately, with a loss to Villanova Saturday in its last regular-season game. But Western's Hilltoppers never looked better than in their 62-59 first-round win over sharpshooting Louisville.
A TWO-POINTER—Bob Kenney, All American honorable mention, shows the form which has made him KU's No. 2 scorer. Jim Iverfalls away.—Kansan photo by Jim Murray.
The Holy Cross-Seattle winner will meet top-seeded Duquesne in the quarter-final round tomorrow night.
By JOHN HERRINGTON Kansan Sports Writer
Lawrence went completely basketball crazy Friday night for the Jayhawk-Wildcat game.
Besides the 3,800-odd persons who were packed like the proverbial sardines into Hoch auditorium, some 910 more persons jammed into the Granada theater to witness the event on the Granada's giant TV screen. Seventy-some persons were in the Student Union watching the game on the television screen there.
And then there were the million who watched and heard the contest on family television and radio sets.
**Title Tilt Notes:** Pandemonium after it was over. Jack Gardner's Wildcats were in it just enough to keep their heads above water. A 2-3 zone defense didn't do much to stop the Jayhawkers the first half. The man-for-man defense the 'Cats used in the second half did little more good. Clyde Lovellette's fourth foul early in the third quarter had the Jayhawker rooters in a cold sweat. Brother Gardner fumed when Jesse Prisock got his fourth foul early in the third period. Knostman great for State. Prisock out on number five with 13 minutes left in the third quarter. B. H. Born and Lovellette side-by-side in the third period. Wildcats were never in it. Bill Houghland was the first of the quintet of Jayhawker seniors to complete his basketball career on his home court. He went out on five fouls with eight minutes left in the fourth quarter. Hoch auditorium sounded like State's touted fieldhouse. Many hailed KU's spectacular defensive game as
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the best ever . . . Lovellette out on | bottles hard . . . Hoch went wild
fouls after 33 points . . . Coaches | when Lovellette left. Cries of "we
Allen and Gardner hit the water" | want Lovellette," when it was over.
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