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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1948
Jayhawkers Have Chance To Top .500 Percentage
The Kansas basketball Jayhawkers will have another chance to pull ahead of the .500 mark, when the Colorado Buffaloes come to Lawrence for a game Saturday night.
The present Kansas ranking is five victories and five losses, with one of the former already being over the Bucks—in the Big Seven pre-season
By PAUL ZEH Assistant Sports Editor
Kansas State, pre-season choice of many to cop the initial Big Seven basketball flag, has never finished higher than third in 18 years of Big Six basketball. The Wildcats tied for third in 1931, the only season they didn't wind up in the second division.
With such a court record, the Staters certainly deserve a bumper year on the hardwoods. They had some happy moments last year when they won 14 and dropped 10 under Jack Gardner, but seven of their setbacks were in conference play. They managed to topple Kansas, 48 to 45, at Manhattan, but still ended up in a fifth place tie with Nebraska.
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The Wildcats loss to Long Island U, Tuesday night in the Garden hasn't destroyed the K.-State myth much. We're believed in Gardner's Gazelles after watching them in the Kansas City tourney.
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Many visiting quintets run into trouble on their first trip to the smoke-filled Garden. Also, the pressure had been put on the Wildcats by Eastern writers, who billed them as big favorites and rated them tops in the country. They were due for a slump, and Madison Square Garden is very conducive to such things.
We have been overlooking the Missouri Tigers as title contenders this year, say some of our readers. Sparky Stalcup's five took second last year, and three of last year's stalwarts, Pippin, Jenkins, and Pierpont, are back.
The Tigers will be tough, as will every team in the conference. But we doubt that they have the class, or that they had the class last year that their record indicates.
The Tigers were opportunists last year. Their average score was 44.3 per game, and their opponents' 43.5 per game. The Jayhawkers were more impressive in this comparison, averaging 47.6 against 42.1 allowed their foes. But the Kansans dropped the close ones, and ended up tied for third.
Another interesting sideline on the 1947 season is seen in the free throw department. The winning
- tournament. Kansas stopped Colorado 49 to 39 in the tourney for the first Jayhawker win of the season
But while the Jayhawkers are fighting with the .500 mark in all-season play, they are right at the top at the pile in the conference race. Kansas will have a chance at its second conference victory Saturday, since Colorado is a newly-added member of the Big Seven.
The next Jayhawker opponent will be Drake university, featuring towering John Pritchard, Pritchard, who stands 6 feet 9 inches tall, is the key figure in the single post attack of the Bulldogs. Kansas really will hit the conference proving grounds the following Saturday, when the squad travels to Columbia for a clash with the Missouri Tigers. Leading scorer on the squad to date is lanky Claude Houchin, hero of the Oklahoma game Tuesday night. His game-winning goal boosted his total to 88 points in 10 games for an 8.8 average. Harold "Cat" England pulled up on Houchin with a 13-point blast Tuesday but remains eight point shy.
Kansas scoring for the season:
G Pts. Av.
Houchin, g 10 88 8.8
England, f 10 80 8.0
Penny, f 10 55 5.5
Waugh, c 10 54 5.4
Mabry, c 10 52 5.2
Sapp, g 10 52 5.2
Eskridge, f 9 42 4.7
Enns, g 9 29 2.2
Martin, f 8 20 2.5
Barr, g 9 20 2.2
Schnellbacher, f 1 2 2.0
Gillin, f 3 4 1.3
Kissell, c 4 4 1.0
Strenel, f 9 7 8
Feagans, g 4 1 2
KU Totals 10 510 51.0
    10 526* 52.6
Sooners and the runner-up Tigers were first and second in percentage of successful free tosses. The Sooners hit the mark 64.7 per cent of the time and Mizzou 64.4 per cent. Kansas was fifth with 56.7 per cent success at the charity line.
Here again is an indication on what was wrong with Kansas State last year. The Wildcats ran away with the booby prize at free-throwing, missing 144 and converting only 134, less than half. They have shown no glaring weakness at the line so far this season.
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