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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1950
KU Cagers Rated Fifth In Nation By Coaches In Pre-Season UP Poll
New York (U.P.)—Thirty-five of the nation's outstanding college basketball coaches, who make up the United Press' rating board, have selected City College of New York as the No. 1 team in pre-season ratings followed by Bradley, Kentucky, North Carolina State, and Kansas.
in predicting how the teams will rank at the close of the 1950-51 season, 22 of them picked C.C.N.Y. to win the national college basketball championship again, just as it did last year by winning both the N.C.A. and National Invitation tournaments.
That gave Nat Holman's classy quintet a total of 313 points in the ratings on the basis of 10 points for a first place selection, nine for second and so on down to one for 10th.
Bradley, beaten by C.C.N.Y. in the finals of both tournaments last March, was rated second with four first place votes and 274 points with Kentucky third with 244 points. Kentucky also drew four first place ballots.
Roundout out the top 10 in the nation at the season's close, the Coaches predict, will be North Carolina State, Kansas, Oklahoma A. and M., Long Island, Iowa, St. John's and Indiana in that order.
In all, seven teams received first place votes. Besides the top three, Kansas received two and Oklahoma A. and M., Long Island and New York university one each. N.Y.U. was far down in the list however—in 22nd place with only 12 points.
Back of the select group, the conches rated U.C.L.A., Kansas State, Arkansas, Syracuse, Western Kentucky, Washington, DePaul, Illinois, Ohio State and Brigham Young. In all, 46 teams received points.
If the forecast of the coaches comes through, and the chances are it will for they are the men who know the sport the best, here will be the major conference basketball champions come next March;
Missouri Valley—Bradley.
Southeastern—Kentucky.
Southern—North Carolina State.
Big Seven—Kansas.
Big Ten—Iowa.
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, 65-year-old dean of American basketball coaches, will launch his 34th Kansas cage season when he sends his Jayhawker club against Creighton university here on Monday night.
And, who knows, this could be his greatest club over his long span of successful years at Mt. Oread. The 1950-51 team shows great promise of being one of the nation's top college teams—at least in the eyes of Coach Allen's fellow coaching associates and sports writers, who often put good teams on the spot and sometimes wreck them.
During his 33 years at Kansas, Coach Allen's teams have won or shared 21 championships in two conferences, the Missouri Valley and Big Six, which preceded the recently formed Big Seven conference.
DR. F. C. ALLEN
Over the years in his colorful coaching career at K.U., Allen's clubs have won 486 games and lost 178, the best long-time coaching record in the country.
Last year Allen's sophomoric team, after a slow start, finished strong to tie Kansas State and Nebraska for the title with eight wins and four setbacks. The year before, Kansas finished a poor last with a 3-9 record. The 1950 club rated with the conference's select few that ever moved from last place to the championship in a single year.
This year's club, built around K.U.'s All - American center, Clyde Lovellette, will get strong support from three outstanding juniors, Bob Kenney and Bill Lienhard, forwards, and Bill
Hougland, guard. These four juniors—with a year of experience behind them—should have a great year and keep pace with Capt. Jerry Waugh's fine steady all-around play.
The Kansas team enters the season at a disadvantage because of all the pre-season publicity that has been written about them. And to make things even tougher, Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg, athletic director, has arranged one of the most attractive and tough schedules ever undertaken by a K.U. basketball team. Teams like St. John's, Kentucky, Northwestern, and Oklahoma A. and M. will be mighty hard to beat on foreign courts, to say nothing of K.U.'s conference opponents.
With all things taken under consideration, we still think this great bunch of kids will carry Kansas through to national cage fame this year.
And like Ole Man River, the good "Doctor" just keeps rolling along—turning out teams that rank among the best in the nation year after year.
BEAT CREIGHTON
Pacific Coast—U.C.L.A.
Southwest—Arkansas.
Skyline—Brigham Young.
Eastern—Columbia
Eastern...COLUMBIA.
C.C.N.Y., Long Island, and St. John's are not members of any conference group.
The coaches upon whose selections the United Press ratings will be based weekly throughout the season are:
East
Clair Bee, Long Island; John (Taps) Galligan, Niagara; Howard Hobson, Yale; Nat Holman, C.C.N.Y., and Donald Moore, Duquesne.
UP's Pre-Season Basketball Ratings
The United Press' pre-season basketball ratings (first place votes in parenthesis);
Second 10; U.C.L.A., 49; Kansas State, 30; Arkansas, Syracuse, and Western Kentucky, 28 each; Washington, 27; DePaul, Illinois, and Ohio State, 23 each; and Brigham Young, 19.
Others; Notre Dame, 13; New York university (1), 12; Louisiana State and Minnesota, 11 each; Southern Methodist, 9; North Carolina and Texas, 7 each; Michigan, 6; Tulane, 5; Columbia, St. Louis, Vanderbilt, and Wyoming, 4 each; Bowling Green university, Oregon State, Southern California, and Wisconsin, 3 each; California, Cornell, Georgetown, LaSalle (Philadelphia), Niagara, and Stanford, 2 each; Arizona, Denver, and Washington State, 1 each.
Midlands
Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, Kansas;
Bruce Drake, Oklahoma; Jack Gardner,
Kansas State; Eddie Hickey, St.
Louis university, and H. P. Iba,
Oklahoma A. and M.
Midwest
Midwest
Midwest Forrest Anderson, Bradley; Osborne Cowles, Minnesota; Ed Krause, Notre Dame; Barnch McCracken, Indiana, and Pete Newell, Michigan State.
Rockies
Hoyt Brawner; Denver; Gerald Carle, Colorado college; H. B. Lee, Colorado; Vadal Peterson, Utah, and Everett Shelton, Wyoming.
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BILL LIENHARD, a 6-foot 5-inch junior forward, has been impressive in early season practice sessions and is expected to add scoring punch to the K.U. attack this year. This former allstater from Newton owns a deadly one-hand push shot from the corner.
He and Bob Kenney will start at the forward spots in the Jayhawkers' opener with Creighton university here Monday night.
Oklahoma, Colorado Cage Teams Open Play Tonight
With three regularly scheduled non-conference football games still to be played, the Oklahoma and Colorado basketball teams play openers tonight while Kansas State, Nebraska, and Iowa State swing into round-ball action Saturday night. Kansas and Missouri remain idle until next week.
Tenight's games are between Southern Methodist university and Bruce Drake's Oklahoma Sooners at Norman and Colorado plays Utah State at Salt Lake City.
Colorado, playing under a new coach, H. B. "Bebe" Lee, will face Utah State tonight as the Buffs play in a two-day two-game elimination tourney with Utah State, Utah, and Oregon State.
Kansas State and Nebraska, who tied Kansas for the title with an 8-4 conference record last year, open against stiff competition Saturday night. Coach Gardner's Wildcats play Long Island university in New York's Madison Square Garden.
Harry Good's Nebraska club, which lost nine of its top eleven players through graduation, invades Minneapolis to tangle with a strong Minnesota team.
Missouri's Tigers open the season on Thursday, Dec. 7, playing Washington university at St. Louis.
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