E FOUR
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1951
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By BOB NELSON
Daily Kansan Sports Editor
The 1951 National Collegiate Athletic association's basketball team gets underway tonight with the eastern eight clubs swing-into action with a pair of games in New York's Madison Square den and in Raleigh, N.C.
Nen and in Recapture.
Columbia's undefeated Lions (22-0) will collide with the Big Ten's npion Illinois (19-4) club and St. John's university (24-4) tests necticut's (22-3) club in the New York City clashes.
Kentucky's fans will get a real treat at Raleigh as the state's power-cage fives—Kentucky (28-2) and Louisville (19-6)—meet headon in nightcap of a doubleheader that pits North Carolina State (28-5) nst Villanova (24-5) in the opener.
Inners of tonight's first round games move into New York for the i-final games on Thursday night and eastern regional championship e Saturday night.
e Saturday night. The winner, and we predict it will be Adolph Rupp's No. 1 ranked tucky Wildeats, will qualify to meet the western regional champ the national title, Tuesday, March 27, at Minneapolis in the University of Minnesota's Williams Arena.
An eight-team western regional field starts a four-day grind Wed-
day night in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium. The opening game
ches Kansas State's (22-3) high scoring Wildcats against Arizona
5) Border Conference champions.
Brigham Young university (27-7), National Invitational tournament ners, will play San Jose State (18-11) in the second game. B.Y.U.'s gars will attempt to duplicate City College of New York's double unionship honors of last year by annexing the N.C.A.A. crown.
Thursday night's opening contest brings together Oklahoma A. and M. 4) and Montana State (24-11) and Texas A. and M. (17-11) plays versity of Washington (22-5) in the second game.
The four first-round winners clash in the semi-final games on Friday it with, the championship game the following night.
I've seen Jack Gardner's K-State Wildcats play seven games this and they've impressed me on each occasion. I'll stick by them all way and predict they'll meet Kentucky in the N.C.A.A. finals at neapolis, March 27.
heapons, March 21. in the Kansas State-Kentucky clash that we think will develop for national title, Rupp's Wildcats get our nod by a slight margin due to great scoring trio—Bill Spivey, Frank Ramsey, and Cliff Hagen—three on one five in collegiate ball today.
sably the greatest three on one live in Kansas State should be impressive in representing the Big Seven. No or team can offer such a balanced attack with eight players members he Wildcat Century Scoring club.
These players are All-American Ernie Barrett, 272; Jack Stone, 239. Iverson, 227; Lew Hitch, 215; Dick Knostman, 198; Bob Rousey, 164; n Gibson, 153; and Ed Head, who scored 140 points in 22 games. above players played in 25 games this year.
This excellent bench strength and a highly competitive team spirit ld be enough to win the N.C.A.A. title.
S-Staters, here's wishing you the best of luck in your NC.A.A. title We know your showing will be a real credit to the high caliber of setball played in the Big Seven conference.
nyhawker Briefs On 1951 Cage Season
Kansas was the nation's only k球队 which faced Amera's No. 1, 2, and 3 ranked fives in the regular playing season. he Jayhawkers met Kentucky, d tops, once; second-ranked Oklahoma A & M twice, and Kansas, rated third, twice. They won of these engagements, the clos-37 to 27 victory over A & M.
Kansas and Oklahoma A & M it have established some sort of record in their final game of the son at Stillwater when they vault a total of 51 free throws. he Jayhawks by-passed 34 of se, shooting only two and cang one. The Cowboys dropped y three of seven charity tries. I the two teams committed a
total of 57 fouls, 35 against A & M,
the Pokes tried feverishly to obtain ball possession throughout the final five minutes.
K.U. surprised the Ages, 37 to 27,
to earn a split in the season's series
and notch its second win since 1939
in Gallagher Hall. It was only A &
M's twelfth loss on its home planks.
Using the now famous "Phog Freeze" Kansas declined 175 free throws during its 12 conference games, earning almost a full game of additional ball possession by this method with 36:30 minutes.
The Jayhawks hit 40 percent of their field goal tries in conference milling, canning 297 of a possible 742. Loop rivals scored 225 of 651 for a mark of 35.
16 Top Collegiate Teams Battle For NCAA Cage Title This Week
For the first time since Dr. Naismith invented the game of bas-9 ketball some 60 years ago, all of the nation's top collegiate teams will be represented in one elimination series for the national championship when the N.C.A.A. Tournament play opens at Kansas City, Raleigh, and New York this week.
Although the NCAA championship tourney has been in existence for 13 years and other tournaments which draw on the nation-wide field have been operating as long, never before have all national title claimants been gathered into the same draw.
The consensus of the men who teach and write about the game (determined by combining the results of final polls conducted by the United Press and Associated Press) puts Kentucky on top, followed by Oklahoma A & M, Kansas State, Columbia and Illinois. Each of these high-powered squills will be making its only tournament appearance in the NCAA championships.
2. Oklahoma A & M
1. Kentucky
3. Kansas State
4. Columbia
5. Illinois
4. Columbia
5. Illinois
6. Bradley
6. Bradley
7. Indiana
7. Indiana
8. No. Carolina State
10. Brigham Young
Outdoor Track Season Opens At Texas Relays
Bill Easton's track team will open the 1951 outdoor season April 6-7 when they compete in the annual Texas Relays at Austin, Texas.
The K.U. cindermen will compete in two additional Relays--Kansas and the Drake relays—and three dual meets before the Big Seven's Conference meet at Columbia, Mo., May 18-19.
Kansas won three relay events at the Texas Relays last year taking the Distance Medley relay, Four-Mile relay, and the Two-Mile relay.
The Jayhawker quartet composed of Cliff Abel, Herb Semper, Pat Bowers, and Bob Karnes set a new record of 17:20.9 in the Four-Mile relay. The old record was 17:40.1 set by Illinois in 1931.
This year's personnel for relay teams has been reduced by graduation losses and they will be hard pressed in defending their titles in the three events.
Here is the 1951 Kansas outdoor track schedule:
April6-7-Texas Relays, Austin, Tex.
April 14-Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
 April 21-KANSAS RELAYS, Law-
Moines, Ia.
May 5-Kansas State, Lawrence
May 12-Missouri, Lawrence
May 18-19 Pin Scooter, Confer
April 27-28-Drake Relays, Des Moines, Ia
April 21-KANSAS RELAYS, Lawrence
May 26-Missouri Valley AAU Meet,
Kansas, City, Kan.
May 18-19-Big Seven Conference Meet, Columbia, Mo.
June 15-16 NCAA Meet, Seattle,
Wash.
Kansas City, Kan.
June 9 Central Collegiates, Mil-
as
June 22-23 NAAU Meet, Detroit,
Mich.
11. St. Louis
13. Washington
14. Dayton
15. Villanova
Every one of the top 15—except Dayton, which is not a member of the national association—is a participant in this year's NCAA elimination program. Bradley, St. Louis and Indiana are not actually in the remaining 16-team field, but only because they already have been eliminated by their respective conference champions, Oklahoma A & M and Illinois.
If play follows the pattern traced by the experts—which it rarely does—Kentucky and either Columbia or Illinois eventually will collide for the Eastern title. In the
draw with this top-rated trio will be North Carolina State, St. John's, Villanova, Louisville and Connecticut.
The "teams to beat" for Western honors are Oklahoma A & M's Missouri Valley champs and Kansas State's Big Seven kingpins. Their regional rivals will be Brigham Young, Arizona, Washington, Texas A & M, San Jose State and Montana State.
Wind-up of the week-long tourney will come on Tuesday night, March 27, at the University of Minnesota's mammoth Williams Arena in Minneapolis, where Eastern and Western champions and runners-up will converge for the real "world's series" of the collegiate game.
The team on the long end of the score when time runs out that night will be able to thump its collective chests and claim the national championship without fear of contradiction.
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