WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21. 1951 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS PAGE FIVE Lovellette Breaks Own Big Seven Scoring Mark Bv BOB NELSON Clyde Lovellette, K.U.'s All-American pivotman, easily won his second straight Big Seven individual conference scoring crown with 286 points in 12 league clashes. He averaged 23.8 points a game to break his old mark of 277 set as a sophomore in 1950. Marcus Freiberger, 6-11 senior Sooner center, edged out Nebraska's Bob Pierce, 200 to 197, for runner-up honors. Wayne Tucker of Colorado finished fourth with 165. Twelve players scored from 101 up to 139 points to round out the 16 cagers gaining membership into the Century club. Kansas placed two more players in the top twenty. These included forward Bob Kenney with 98 and his front-line stablemate, Bill Lienhard, with 96 points. Although Kansas State set a new conference average of 69.9 points a game over the 12-game route, it failed to place a man on the top ten because its scoring was so well balanced. The Wildcats did however have four men bettering the 100-point mark. These included Ernie Barrett, 11th with 124; Jim Iverson, 110; Jack Stone, 106; and Lew Hitch with 102 points. Thirteen of the top 20 scorers are seniors. Juniors are Bill Stauffer, Missouri; Iverson, K-State, and Kenney, Lienhard, and Lovellette of Kansas. Two sophomores—Gene Landolt of Missouri and Joe Good of Nebraska—gained spots among the leading conference scorers. LEADING BIG SEVEN SCORERS (Conference Games Only) Clyde Lovellette, Kansas 12 126 34 286 23.8 Marcus Freiberger, Oklahoma 12 67 66 200 16.7 Bob Pierce, Nebraska 12 63 71 197 16.4 Wayne Tucker, Colorado 12 67 31 165 13.8 Jim Buchanan, Nebraska 12 55 29 139 11.6 Sy Wilhelmi, Iowa State 12 53 33 139 11.6 Bud Heineman, Missouri 12 47 39 133 11.1 Gaylord Anderson, Iowa State 12 51 29 131 10.9 Bill Stauffer, Missouri 12 42 46 130 10.8 Ted Owens, Oklahoma 12 50 23 128 10.7 Ernie Barrett, Kansas State 12 55 14 124 10.3 Jim Iverson, Kansas State 12 39 32 110 9.2 Jack Stone, Kansas State 12 40 26 106 8.8 Bill Clay, Colorado 11 39 24 102 9.3 Lew Hitch, Kansas State 12 38 26 102 8.5 Jim Stange, Iowa State 12 36 29 101 8.4 Bob Kenney, Kansas 12 42 14 98 8.2 *Gene Landolt, Missouri 12 26 46 98 8.2 Bill Lienhard, Kansas 12 45 6 96 8.0 Good, Nebraska 12 37 22 96 8.0 * sonhomore K-State vs. Arizona Tonight In Western NCAA Opener Kansas City, Mo. (U.P.)—Brigham Young university's National Invitation champions want the N.C.A.A. basketball crown, too, and tonight they will begin their bid for it. Coach Stan Watts flew his "dog tired" Provo, Utah. Cougars to Kansas City from their New York Madison Square garden triumph over Dayton in the N.I.T., and said he expected B.Y.U. to "do all right here provided they recovered from their eastern trip. N.C.A.A. Western Regional FIRST ROUND (At Kansas City, Mo.) Tonight's Schedule 8 —K. State (22-3) vs. Ariz. (24-5) 9:45—Brightham Young (27-7) vs. San Jose St. (18-11) Thursday's Schedule —Oklahoma A&M (27-4) vs. Montana St. (24-11) 9:45—Texas A&M (17-11) vs. U. of Washington (22-5) But winning the westerns isn't going to be easy, though B.Y.U. (27-1) is favored to win its first round game from San Jose State, an at-arge entry from California. The other game on tonight's opening card will match Kansas State's Big Seven champion Wildcats against Arizona, kingpin of the Border conference. Thursday night's games match Oklahoma A. & M., Missouri Valley champion, and Montana State of Bozeman, the other at-large entry, in the opener. The University of Washington, winner of the Pacific Coast playoffs, plays Texas A. & M., top club of the Southwest conference, in the second game. Tuesday's Basketball Tourney Results National Junior College Tournament (A., Mt. Bhiwangon, Kan.) Wingate (N.C.) JC 70 Benton Harb- box (Mich.) JC 62 Northeast JC (Booneville, Miss.) 78, Tifuin JF, fjl Amarillo JC 63, Norfolk (Neb.) JC 52 Ventura (Calif) JC. 98, Weber (Ogden, U(ah) 69. TYER (Tex.) JC 57, South Georgia JC (Douglas) 52 Dodge City JC 58, Stockton College 53 Men's National AAU Tournament (A. DeBord - Colo.) Jamcos (Sioux City, Ia.) 60, Allen Bradley (Milwaukee, Wis.) 49 sophomore Poudre Valley Creamery (Ft. Col- Valley) 83, Natchitoches, La. 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Phone 1018 NCAA Tournaments Match Leading Offensive, Defensive Cage Teams The offense-defense partisans of college basketball have again split up along the Mississippi River with the N.C.A.A. Tournament sites as the final battlegrounds of the 1951 season. Phone An Ad, Then Be Glad, With Kansan Want Ad Results.Call K.U. 376. The Western half of the N.C.A.A. play at Kansas City starting tonight will settle the defense title of major-college ball, while the final offense leadership is being disputed in Eastern regional play. Then the East-West final at Minneapolis, March 27, is likely to match a high-scoring Eastern quintet against a ball-control, low-scoring Western team in a game that will decide nothing—except the collegiate basketball championship of the country. Qualifying for the Eastern play were North Carolina State, currently the highest scoring major team in the land at 77.3 points per game and Kentucky, a fast-rising third in the national offense rankings compiled by the official N.C.A.A. service bureau. The Wildcats stopped on Loyola of Chicago last week, 97 to 61, to move up to a 75.3 point average for the season to date. Sandwiched between these two Southern point-making machines is Cincinnati which closed its scrapbook for the year with a 76.7 figure. Six of the eight teams gaining Eastern half berths of the N.C.A.A. play averaged 70 or more points per game, a rate that none of the eight Western contenders has equalled. Carolina pushed up 73.0 points per game, Louisville 72.8, Villanova 72.4 and Illinois 70.5. St. John's and Connecticut, the other Eastern tourney entrants, are in the high sixties. he currently in Kansas City, Oklahoma A. and M. and Texas A. and M. will be struggling for the defensive supremacy for 1951 as well as for the N.C.A.A. hoop title. At present the Texas Aggies have limited their foes to 43.3 points a game, the nation's tightest defensive record, while Oklahoma A. and M. is hard at by 44.6 per game. Hank Iba's team will be trying for its 6th straight defensive crown and its 13th in 16 years. The national rankings of the offense and defense leaders show the East-West split even more clearly. Every one of the top twenty scoring teams among the major colleges this winter is campused East of the Mississippi, while 16 of the 20 best defensive records come from the Horace Greeley side of the wide Old Miss. 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