THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Colorado Buffaloes Rate Top-Ranking Position On Season's Record NCAA Western Division Playoffs Start Tomorrow
COLORADO
Number One favorite to sweep through the Western Division finals to victory is Frosty Cox's crew from Colorado. The Buffaloes have won 16 games and lost two this season, winning the Big Seven conference with a record of 11 games won and 1 lost.
Ace of the team is—not one but three. The Silver and Gold triumvirate of Leason McCloud, Bob Doll, and George Hamburg is the greatest trio that the Boulder school has ever produced on one team. McCloud was the leading scorer in 10 games, Doll in seven, and Hamburg led in the loss to the $\Lambda \Lambda$U Denver Legion club.
McCloud led the Big Seven in scoring with 192 points in 12 games for an even 16-point average. For the entire season he averaged 15 points a game. Doll finished second in the Big Seven with 12.4 points a game and a season average of 12.5 points. Hamburg was the eighth best scorer in the conference with a mark of 9.4 points a game and finished the season with a mark of 8.7 points.
The other two regulars for Cox are Bob Kirchner at guard and Heath Nuckolls at forward. The latter's average for the season is 4.1 points a game while Kirchner has averaged only three points a game.
Colorado's offensive style generally finds three men out and two men in but a Cox-variation shifts one of the out-men into the inner line and from this the Buffs work their screen plays.
If their close-in offensive game is not working the Buffaloes rely on Hamburg to break up the opponent's tight-knit defense by potting long goals from the center stripe. Kirchner and Doll form the defensive backbone of the club.
Barney Oldham, one of six Kansans on the 11-man squad, has started several of the recent games and with his five feet eight inches provides most of the fight and hustle
The pride of Kansas and kingpin of the Missouri Valley, the University of Kansas Jayhawkers will carry the colors of the Fifth District into the N.C.A.A. playoff against Colorado tomorrow night.
Rated as one of "Phog" Allen's greatest teams, the Jayhawks have won 16 out of 20 games during the season and tied with Oklahoma at eight and two for the Big Six championship. The Kansans have averaged 48 points a game during the 20-game schedule and have held their opponents to 38.5 points.
KANSAS
The Jayhawks set a new Big Six scoring record by tallying 521 points in 10 games for a 52.1 points-a-game average. Ralph Miller led the league in scoring with 152 points for a 15.2 average. Charlie Black, the other forward, was second high scorer in the conference with 128 points. Both players made the official all-Big Six first team.
This year's Kansas team has a world of natural ability with Miller as the pacemaker. He tallied an even 100 points in his last five Big Six games and continued with a brilliant 17-point splurge against the Oklahoma Aggies in the playoff game to determine this district's representative. Black has been the rebounding demon for the team the entire year and the threat of his scoring prowess always makes the opposing team put one of their two best guards on him. At six feet four inches, he is the tallest man on the Kansas regular five.
SPORTIN' AROUND---should simplify the hardships somewhat. Also the Jayhawks will be in better shame for the game tomorrow night.
At center is the scintillating ball-handler John Buescher. He averaged 9.8 points a game in conference play and is the quarterback of the Kansas offense.
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At guards the Kansas team is well fortified with sophomore Ray Evans the outstanding defensive man of the conference. The other guard spot is alternated between Marvin Sollenberger and T. P. Hunter.
The idea that Kansas has a wealth of material and substitutes galore is strictly erroneous. The Jayhawks have only seven men that can be inserted into a tight fray with any confidence and one of them is extremely precarious as defensive insurance.
Wake Up Students
If the Jayhawks can't beat the Buffs tomorrow night they might as well find it out early and get the agony over with. On the other hand, and this is the more logical point of view, should Kansas win their first tilt it will give them added confidence and enable them to get over their second hurdle on Saturday night. All the other teams of the tournament play the same, fast-breaking, high scoring type of game that Kansas does, so the Jayhawks should be at their best. If they are, they can't be defeated.
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Only three men on the 11-man squad are under six feet three inches in height with Ed Voss, center, topping the list at six feet five and one-half inches. The regular starting quintet averages six feet four inches.
The Eighth District's representative this year is Stanford and a powerful club it is. The Indians have won 24 out of 28 games and copped the Pacific coast crown with 11 victories and one defeat.
STANFORD
Co-captains Durness and Bill Cowden pace the team. Both men gained all-conference honors for the second year in a row. Burness averaged 8.75 points a game in conference play and had the same mark for the 25 regular season games. Cowden tallied 5.7 points a game in conference and 5.4 points for the full season.
The leading point maker for the Indians this season has been sophomore forward Jim Pollard. He finished second in the conference with an average of 10.1 points a game and for the entire season made 9 points a game.
Voss, the most improved player on the inexperienced Indian squad, averaged 8.25 points a game in conference games and 7.6 points for the 25 scheduled games. The fifth man in the starting line-up, Howie Dallmar, a junior college transfer playing his first year at Stanford, made 8.1 points a game in conference and 7.4 points for the full season. The last three regulars made the second team picked by the Pacific Coast conference coaches.
RICE
The highest scoring team in the tournament is the Rice Institute aggregation from Houston, representing the Sixth District. Winning 20 out of 23 games, the Owls amassed an average of 56.4 points a game while holding their opponents to 38.9 points.
Bus Brannon, coach of the Owls, brought his team through the season to tie with the Arkansas Razorbacks at 10 wins and two losses for the championship of the Southwest Conference. Coach Glen Rose of Arkansas withdrew his team from consideration, which would have necessitated a playoff, because the Razorbacks were hampered by injuries at the last of the season.
Coach Everett Dean's outfit averaged 43 points a game for the full schedule and held their opponents to 34 points a game. Stanford utilizes the fast break and sticks to a man-to-man defense.
Stars of the team this year are concentrated mainly in the offensive front line. At forward spots for the Owls are Bill Closs and Placido Gomez. Clos is a six foot six inch sophomore who has been in and out of the scoring lead of the Southwest Conference all season. He finished in second place. Gomez is the shortest man on the first string, touching the measuring bar at five feet eleven inches.
At center is the star of the team, big Bob Kinney. He is another of the Owls who played against Kansas in 1940 and he stretches upward six feet six inches. He led the Southwest Conference in scoring after a close fight with his teammate Closs. In his last three games Kinney tallied 58 points. Kinney's latest honor was to be chosen on Pic magazine's All-American team this week.
At guards for the Owls are Chet Palmer, a flashy driving player, and Harold Lambert, a brilliant dribler.
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