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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 29, 1950
By RAY SOLDAN
The consensus of eight pre-season college basketball forecasts is that Kansas will be one of the top 10 teams in the nation and that center Clyde Lovellette will be a first-string all-American.
Four years ago similar predictions were made about a veteran Jayhawker team, composed of Charlie Black, Ray Evans, Otto Schnellbacher, Wendell Clark, and Owen Peck. However, instead of being one of the five or six best teams in the country, the Jayhawkers had to finish strong to gain a tie for third place in the conference. Their season mark was 16 victories and 11 defeats.
Their high pre-season ranking puts the Jayhawkers on the spot this year. As is always the case, a team guns for the teams which are supposedly the nation's best. The Jayhawkers' 24 opponents are tough enough to begin with without giving them any special incentive for winning.
centive for winning. The magazines checked in compiling the consensus forecast are Look, Liberty, Sport magazine, Sport Album, Sports Winter Review, Sport Life, Stanley Woodward's Basketball 1951, and Nat Holman's Basketball Annual.
C. C.N.Y., winner of both of the major tournaments last year—N.C.A.A. and N.I.T-is almost an unanimous choice to repeat as mythical national champion. The compilation shows Bradley a close second. Bradley was runnerup to C.C.N.Y. last year in both tournaments.
The top ten is completed by Kentucky, North Carolina State, St. John's, Western Kentucky State, Kansas (seventh), Long Island, Iowa, and Syracuse.
Kansas will play two of the top five teams on a mid-December eastern trip-St. John's in Madison Square Garden, Dec. 12, and Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., Dec. 16. The number 11 team-Oklahoma A. and M.-is also on the K.U. schedule.
Sport magazine rates C.C.N.Y., Kansas, and Bradley as the three top teams. Look picks the Jayhawkers fifth, Sport Life picks them sixth, and Liberty 11th. Kansas State is considered as K.U.'s most serious conference rival by most of the magazines.
According to the pre-season guessers, the nation's top five players will be Sherman White of Long Island, Sam Ranzino of North Carolina State, Lovellette of Kansas, Gene Melchiorre of Bradley, and Bob Zawoluk of St. John's.
Lovellette was named to the first string by all but one of the selectors. He placed Clyde on the second team behind Kentucky's 7-foot Bill Spivey. Sport magazine goes further to say that "Lovelette, the big University of Kansas center, will prove to be THE college basketball player of the year." This prediction may come true if Clyde improves his rebounding and defensive play, and if he can become as fine a team player as George Mikan of the professional Minneapolis Lakers. Few persons question Lovellette's shot-making ability.
On the second all-America team is Ed Warner of C.C.N.Y., Spivey of Kentucky, Jack Kiley of Syracuse, Whitey Skoog of Minnesota, and Ed Roman of C.C.N.Y. Kansas State's Ernie Barrett and Oklahoma's Marcus Freiberger each got one fourth team vote and were honorable mention in several other magazines.
KU Cagers Open Here Monday
Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen's Jayhawkers will open the 1950-51 basketball season here Monday, Dec.4, playing the Creighton university Bluejays at Hoch auditorium.
With only five practice sessions remaining before the opener, Kansas is in near top flight physical condition and ready to seek revenge from the Jays for a 55 to 59 setback received last year at Omaha.
Coach Allen is expected to start juniors Bob Kenney and Bill Lienhard, forwards; big Clyde Lovelette, center, and Bill Hougland and Capt. Jerry Waugh at the backline spots. Lovelette and Hougland are juniors and Waugh is a senior.
Three additional senior lettermen, Dale Engel, Buddy Bull, and Sonny Enns plus newcomers sophomore Wally Beck and John Keller, junior college transfer from Garden City, have looked impressive in workouts to provide reserve strength.
Five football players reported to Coach Allen this week. They are junior lettermen Dean Wells and Aubrey Linville, Bill Schaake, iun-
BOB KENNEY, junior forward, is expected to give Kansas added scoring punch this year with his accurate one-handed push shots from the corners. This former Winfield all-stater has shown improvement in all departments in pre-season workouts and should have a great year. Last year as a reserve, he played in all 25 games scoring 83 points, sixth highest total on the K.U. club.
Rounding out the 21-man squad are Harold Lowe, junior squadman, and sophomores Kenneth Buller, Dean Kelley, Mark Rivard, Dean Smith, and Don Woodson.
ior squandam, and sophomores Charlie Hong and Jack Rodgers.
Of the eight sophomores, Hoag, a 6-foot 2-inch 185-pounder, is regarded as probably the top prospect. He is fast, an excellent rebounder, a good passer, and great competitor. Hoag is also considered a better than average scorer but may be a little slow in making the switch from the gridiron to the court.
Although 38 per cent of last year's team scoring was tied up in Lovellette's 545 points, this year's team offers scoring power at every starting spot with every starter capable of topping the 15-point mark in any game.
A well balanced scoring attack is one of the reasons why Kansas is favored to win the Big Seven title and finish among the nation's top 10 college teams.
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