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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1950
KU To Go After Bradley Braves' Scalps Tonight
Probable Starters
Kansas Pos. Bradley
6-4 Bill Hougland F Charles Grover 6-1
6-5 Bill Lienhard F Paul Unruh 6-4
6-9 Clyde Lovelette Elmer Behnke 6-7
6-5 Claude Houchin G Bill Mann 6-1
5-11 Jerry Waugh Gene Melchiorre 5-8½
Officials; Cliff Ogden (Wichita), and Ronald Gibbs (St. Thomas).
By BOB NELSON
Kansas' Cinderella club, Big Seven co-champions, and Bradley university, the nation's No. 1 basketball team, tangle at 8 p.m. tonight in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium for the fifth district N.C.A.A. championship. The winner qualifies to play in a four-team bracket against University of California at Los Angeles, Baylor university and Brigham Young university at the same site Friday and Saturday March 24 and 25, for the Western N.C.A.A. championship.
Bradley is laden with experience, floor-burning speed, hustle, a spirit and desire to win, excellent stamina and conditioning, and has two of the nation's top collegiate cagers in All-American Paul Unruh and 5 foot $8 \frac{1}{2}$ inch Gene Melchiorre, one of the greatest small players in the game today.
versity are forwards, Bill Lienhard, and Bill Hougland; center, Clyde Lovellett; and guards,
Capt. Claude Houchin, and Jerry Waugh.
Bradley's 1949-50 Season Record
From left to right, the starters for the Jayhawkers in tonight's basketball game with Bradley uni-
Bradley
73 Houston U. H 57
56 Iowa State H 48
64 Nebraska H 54
85 Texas Christian H 49
Purdue H 71
84 Georgia Tech H 60
67 Washington State H 59
83 Fresno State H 51
68 DePaul H 65
78 Tulane V 46
66 Kentucky N 71
65 Ohio State H 46
72 Drake* V 57
79 Georgetown (Ky.) H 39
89 Manhattan V 67
64 St Joseph's (Pa.) V 60
71 Detroit* H 50
54 Detroit* V 67
64 Tulsa H 45
54 St. Louis* V 45
64 Pittsburg H 48
61 Wichita* H 49
77 Hawaii H 53
67 De Paul V 56
54 Oklahoma A. and M.* H 46
68 Wichita* V 56
52 St. Louis* H 45
42 Oklahoma A. and M.* V 35
7Tulsa* V 56
92 Drake* H 63
N.Y. National Invitational
Tournament
78 Syracuse N 66
83 St. John's N 72
61 C.C.N.Y. H 69
(Key: H, Home; V, away; N, neutral; and * Missouri Valley conference game).
Won 29, lost 4.
Bradley Total Points 2,282
Opponent's Total Points 1,823
Bradley's Average a game 69.2
Opponents' average a game 55.2
Odell Smith plans to break the present 117-day record of flagpole sitting and at the same time write a novel.
Bradley has lived up to early preseason predictions of greatness by winning 29 and losing only four games this year. The Braves finished strong winning 14 straight before losing to C.C.N.Y. in the National In-
"I've never written a book before," Smith admitted, "but I've never sat on a flagpole before either."
Smith is scheduled to begin his combined pole sitting and novel writing soon. His perch is already fixed atop a 60-foot flagpole in Atlanta.
Atlanta—(U.P.)—A 30-year-old ex-
paratrooper says he is going to try
something new in the way of pole
sitting.
While Kansas was idle during the past week, Bradley played three games in the New York National Invitational tournament bowing out in the finals to a sizzling sophomoric club from City College of New York, 69 to 61. The Braves won earlier games in the tournament downing Syracuse 78 to 66 and St. John's 83 to 72.
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vitalized tournament finals. They have averaged 69.2 points a game while holding their opponents to an average of 55.2.
Kansas finished strong by winning ten of its last 14 games after getting off to a rather shaky start in losing six out of the first ten contests. Kansas' four losses in conference play were by margins of one, two, five, and three points to Nebraska, Colorado (overtime), Kansas State and Oklahoma (overtime) respectively.
The Braves use a well-balanced scoring attack built around a nine-player unit. Unruh, the greatest
Bradley university won the Missouri Valley conference championship by winning 11 and losing only to Detroit, 67 to 54. The Braves are coached by Forrest Anderson, 30-year-old former cage great at Stanford university. Coach Anderson's two-year record at Bradley lists 56 wins and only 12 defeats. The past year they won 27 and lost eight to rank seventh in the country.
scorer in Bradley basketball history,
has paced the scoring with 429 points
in 33 games for an average of 13
points.
The second high scorer is Melchiorre with 392 points and a 11.9 average over the 33-game route. Bill Mann, one of the nation's top field goal percentage leaders with a .478 mark for the first 30 games, is next with 323 points for a 9.8 average. Mann is Bradley's unsung floor leader and playmaker.
Charles Grover and Elmer Behne have averaged 8.1 and 6.6 respectively to round out the starters for the Braves.
In Kansas' late season games, the Jayhawkers have shown a better balanced scoring attack with Clyde Lovellette, greatest scorer in the history of the conference, Claude Houchin, Jerry Waugh, Bill Lienhard, and Bill Houglund averaging 21.8, 7.7, 5.9, 5.8, and 5.5 points respectively a game over the 24-game schedule.
Lovellette finished the regular season fourth on the national scoring tables with 524 points in 24 games.
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And if you're one of many who are without tickets to the K.U. vs. BRADLEY game-be sure to listen to Max Falkenstien 7:55 p.m. Monday nite.
Kansas will try to halt Melchiorne, who is considered one of the greatest pivotmen in the game at 5 feet $8\frac{1}{2}$ inches with an alternating three-man defensive unit of Waugh, Dean Wells, and Harold England. Captain Houchin will try to stop Unruh's portside shots at the basket.
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The Terra Haute Terror hook shot artist broke the 30-point mark four times this season and will probably provide Bradley with one of its toughest defensive evenings of the year.
In Bradley's first 30 games, the team ranked third in the nation in field goal percentage with .389 per cent of their shots splitting the cords.
Coach F. C, "Phog" Allen will pit the tallest team in the history of Kansas basketball against the Braves in hopes of controlling the boards and thus slow up the Braves' most deadly weapon, the fast break.
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