THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
By BOB NELSON
After giving Bradley university's season record a thorough analysis, we can find no reason to disagree with the Associated Press' overwhelming choice of the Braves as the nation's number one college basketball team in their final poll of the season.
Bradley, with 28 wins and 3 losses,
goes after victory No. 29 tonight
when they clash with St. John's in
the semi-finals of the National Invitational
tournament at New York's
Madison Square garden. The Braves
will also be looking for their 14th
straight win since dropping a mid-season game to Detroit university,
67 to 54.
In Bradley's first tourney game Monday night, they defeated Syracuse. 78 to 66. They are the tonseeded entry and are expected to return to Kansas City with the N.L.T. crown and then shoot for the N.C.A.A.
After playing three tough games in New York this week and making the hurried trip to Kansas City, Sunday, by air, we feel the Braves will be at a considerable disadvantage when they collide Monday night with the well rested and highly spirited Javahawkers.
If Coach Forrest Anderson's high scoring club wins the N.I.T., they'll have a chance to accomplish something no other college team has been able to do thus far. No team has ever won both the N.I.T. and the N.C.A.A. titles the same year. Kentucky tried last year, but lost in the N.I.T. before capturing the N.C.A.A. crown.
According to the latest National Collegiate Athletic Bureau's Official Basketball statistics, Bradley is ranked tenth in national offense. They have averaged 69 points to their opponents 54.2 through a 31- game schedule. Kansas, with a 14-10 season record, averaged 57.9 to their opponents 51.4.
Bradley ranks third among the field goal percentage leaders with 39 per cent of their shots splitting the cords.
Besides losing to Detroit university, the Braves lost only one of 19 home contests to Purdue, 71 to 65, early in December shortly after K.U. downed the Boilermakers here, 60 to 52. Bradley's third loss was a 71 to 66 setback to Kentucky in the finals of the Sugar Bowl basketball tourney in New Orleans.
Unrub scored 509 points last year and is regarded as the greatest scorer in Bradley basketball history. Melchiorne scored an even 400 points last year in hitting 43 per cent of his field goal attempts. He is considered by many experts as the top little man in college basketball today.
Bradley is powered by two of the nation's top collegiate players. All-American Paul Unruh. 6 foot 4 inch forward, and Gene Melchiorre, 5 foot 8 inch high scoring pivotman.
Several of Bradley's 28 wins are on the impressive side of the ledger. The Braves rolled over a good Tulane club 78 to 46, defeated Ohio State, ranked number 2 in the nation, 65 to 46 (the Buckeyes played without their All-American, Dick Schnittker); and took the defensive minded Oklahoma Aggies by scores of 59 to 46 and 42 to 35.
The Braves from Peoria, IL., are a veteran club that lost only one of the top ten scorers from last year's team that won 27 and lost 8 to rank seventh in the nation. The Anderson coached team uses speed, speed, and still more speed in their fast-breaking offense with only three players standing above the 6-foot 3-inch mark. Kansas should be able to control more than their share of the rebounds and thereby slow up the Bradley high scoring offense.
Students Invited To Gun Club Shoot
The Lawrence Gun club will sponsor a 250 bird program Sunday, March 19. Skipper Williams, club manager, has invited student trapshooters to be present. Those desiring not to compete in the main program will be welcome for the practice rounds to be held expressly for newcomers to the sport.
Coach F. C. Allen's team should throw a better defense at the Braves than they encountered except when playing against the Hank Iba defensive patterns. Kansas' success will probably hinge on just how tight a defense the Allenmen can set-up around the basketball and down the middle, to ward off the fast-break.
Even though Kansas will probably enter the Bradley game an eight to ten point underdog, don't sell the Jayhawkers short on that 14-10 season record. With the proper school spirit and organized cheering in Kansas City's big municipal auditorium Monday night, we think K. U. can and will upset the nation's number one team to gain the fifth district berth in the N.C.A.A. western playoffs to be held in Kansas City on March 24 and 25.
The cheerleaders have done a fine job in helping to create the greatest interest shown in K. U. basketball since pre-war days. Let's all cooperate with the cheerleaders and back the team Monday night with some of the finest cheering ever heard in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
Thursday's IM Volleyball Schedule
Robinson Annex Fraternity "B"
4:30 e DU vs. Sig Alph
w Sig Ep vs. Alph Kap Psi
Fraternity "A"
5:15 w Sig Nu vs. TKE
1.515 w Sig Nu vs. TKE
00 e Delt vs. Dark Horses
6:00 e Delt vs. Dark Horses
Phi Brians, Alpha J
w Phi Psi vs. Alpha Kappa Psi
8:54 PM BKA
6:45 e Phi Gam vs. PiKA
Siz Chi vs. Delta Chi
w Sig Chi vs. Delta Chi
w Sig Ep vs. Delta Ca
7:30 w Sig Ep vs. Alpha Kappa
Lambda
w Sig Alph vs. Lambda Chi
Alpha
8:15 e  Pki H Sig vs. Sigma Pi
w DU vs. ATO
w "C"
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w Edgehill vs. Ritters
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8:30 e Misfits vs. ATO
9:15 w Sig Chi vs. Phi Kappa Tau
e Beta vs. Phi Frosh
10:00 w Kappa Sig vs. Sig Nu
e Keltz Club vs. Phi Psi
George Mikan made 1,698 points for the Minneapolis Lakers basketball team last season.
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Bradley-St John Meet In NIT
New York, March 16. (U.P.) Bradley's top-seeded Braves and unseeded City College of New York were favored to knock off St. John's and Duquesne, respectively, tonight in the semi-finals of the National Invitation Basketball tournament.
The Braves from Peoria, Ill., were a four-point choice over St. John's, while the Beavers were favored by five points over Duquesne.
The survivors will clash for the championship Saturday night at Madison Square garden, with the losers meeting in a consolation game.
If unheralded C.C.N.Y. can maintain the remarkable pace it displayed in bowling over defending champion San Francisco and Kentucky in the first two rounds, Coach Nat Holman's men will furnish the N.I.T. with an unseeded champion for the second year in a row.
The relentless running game of the eager Beavers was expected to sweep them past the deliberate Iron Dukes, who used only six men in their 49 to 47 conquest of La Salle. Tuesday.
The game between Bradley and fourth-seeded St. John's, two resourceful teams that can play either a racehorse or a possession-style game, was expected to be much closer. The survivor undoubtedly will be favored to drive on to the tournament title, Saturday night.
Remember The Rabbit, Son
Lexington, Ky. — (U.P.)—A highway safety poster near here, after urging motorists to drive sanely, adds this postscript: “Remember, Sonny, that rabbit's foot didn't save the rabbit!”
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