Kansas To Fifth In UP Basketball Poll
New York—(U.P.)—Classy Kentucky, with an eye on its second straight national college basketball championship, topped the ratings of the United Press board of coaches for the fourth week in a row today as Illinois replaced Kansas State in second place.
The Wildcats, picked by coaches before the start of the campaign as the best bet for the national title, closed out their regular season Saturday with a 24-2 record and 18 straight victories.
Kansas moved up two places to the fifth position, on the basis of their outstanding win over Oklahoma A&M. A This marked Dr. F. C. Phog Allen's 700th basketball victory.
The 35 leading coaches who make up the rating board gave Kentucky 28 first place votes and a 333 out of a possible 350 points this week for the second highest point-total of the season. Illinois' 334 points on Jan. 16 was tops.
Coach Adolph Rupp's men, who already have won a berth in the NCAA tournament, begin play in the Southeastern Conference tourney, Wednesday night.—
The coaches based their ratings on games played through Saturday night, Feb. 23.
Illinois, which led the ratings for seven straight weeks before Kentucky took over, moved back into second place with two first place ballots and 289 points. The Illini (17-2) were 44 points behind the Wildcats.
Kansas State, upset by Colorado during the weekend for its fourth setback in 20 games, dropped back to third place with 215 points.
Among the other major changes in the ratings, Kansas (18-2) and St. Louis (20-5) each jumped two places from last week; St. John's of Brooklyn (20-2) advanced one notch, and Wyoming (23-5) moved into the top 10 for the first time this season.
Duquesne, upset by Villanova for its first defeat in 19 games, retained fourth place with one first place vote and 174 points.
Behind the Dukes, Kansas, St Louis, the Washington Huskies (22-4), St. John's and Iowa (17-2) were
bunched closely for the succeeding five places.
Team Points
1. Kentucky (28) 24-2) ... 333
2. Illinois (2) (17-2) ... 289
3. Kansas State (16-4) ... 215
4. Duquesne (1) (18-1) ... 174
5. Kansas (18-2) ... 153
6. St. Louis (1) (20-5) ... 149
7. Washington (1) (22-4) ... 132
8. St. John's (20-2) ... 124
9. Iowa (17-2) ... 117
10. Wyoming (1) (23-5) ... 50
Bob Kenney Has Measles
Bob Kenney, stellar performer on KU's basketball team, was stricken with measles after last night's game with Missouri.
Kenney entered Watkins Memorial hospital, this morning, to undergo observations to determine what type of measles he had contacted.
"Trigger" contributed ten points in last night's game with Missouri, and he will probably be lost for the Omaha game, Saturday at Norman.
Basketball Scores
Notre Dame 75, NYU 74
Holy Cross 75. St John's (NY) 70
Boston U 98. New Hampshire 78
Cincinnati 76. Syracuse 78
Loyola (LA) 58. South Lauderdale 55
 Bowling Green 68. Marquette 67
 Cincinnati 45
 Drake 67. Creighton 53
 Tulsa 62. Detroit 44
 Indiana 94. Ohio State 80
 Nebraska 53. New York 52
 Iowa 64. Michigan State 52
 Kansas 65. Missouri 54
Two of the Big Seven's brightest runners will try to complete triples in their specialties at the 24th conference Indoor track and field meet this weekend in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
One of them is Herb Semper, red-haired Kansas distance ace who will be gunning for his third consecutive Two-Mile crown. The other is Jerry Meader, hard-pounding Oklahoma quarter-miler who will be seeking his third straight pennant in that event.
If they succeed in retaining their titles for the second time they will be the 15th and 16th performers to turn the trick since the Indoor carnival was inaugurated in 1922. This is no meager feat, especially in view of the fact that the triple eluded such talented all-timers as Gene Littler, famed Nebraska redhead, Bob Simmons, another great Husker quartermiler; Bill Lyda, one-time NCAA 880 champion from Oklahoma; Bill McGuire, Missouri miler; Tom Scofield, Kansas high-jumper; Herb Hoskins, Kansas State broadjumper; and Shot-putters Sam Francis, Nebraska, Elmer Hackney, Kansas State.
Big Seven Stars Try For Triples In League Meet
Even Nebraska's Don Cooper, first collegian to vault 15 feet outdoors, and his contemporary, Bill Carroll, of Oklahoma, who scored 14-5 at the 1950 Kansas Relays, couldn't put together three Indoor •championships.
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Both Semper and Meader are good bets to win the triple crowns. However, both will be under pressure. Semper will be doubling the
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mile, and thus must come back later Saturday evening in his favorite distance.
He already has proved he can carry the burden in KU's first two meets against Kansas State and Nebraska. He coasted a 4:21 Mile behind Wes Santee against the Wildcats then galloped 9:26.1 in the longer haul. Last Saturday against Nebraska he moved his Mile down to 4:17.9 and still had enough left to unravel a 9:30.4 Two Mile. Up to Saturday's dress rehearsal meets at Columbia, Manhattan and Lincoln, these are the two swiftest Two-miles among Big Seven competitors.
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