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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1942
With new basketball tournaments starting daily and hundreds more due to get underway within a few days, the line-ups for the Western and Eastern play-offs of the N.C.A.A. are becoming more definite.
East of the Mississippi two teams have already been definitely selected. Illinois, winner of the Big Ten, was picked automatically by K. L. "Tug" Wilson, director of athletics at Northwestern and supervisor of the Fourth District, as that district's representative.
ILLINOIS, PENN STATE, DARTMOUTH AND KENTUCKY
The Illini won the title Saturday night in their runaway tilt, 63 to 49, against Northwestern before 18,931 fans in Chicago. This crowd was the largest ever to witness a collegiate basketball game. Monday night, however, Illinois was tripped by Iowa 46 to 32 to insure a second place finish for the Hawkeye. This game also raised the judge of the Jayhawks considerable. During the mid-semester cage trip the Kansans knocked off Iowa at Iowa City 53 to 51 in a rough and tumble match. This indicates an extremely favorable comparison of the Kansas and Illinois cage teams and boosts the Jayhawks chances of competing as the Fifth District representative without a play-off with a Missouri Valley team (providing, of course, Kansas defeats missouri tomorrow night).
ILLINOIS PENN STATE. DARTMOUTH AND KENTUCKY
The other team already selected is Pennsylvania State. The Nittany Lions will represent the Second District and edged out West Virginia in the final tabulations. The Penn State cagers have won 16 games and lost 2 this season. The First District has not officially announced its selection but Dartmouth appears to have the inside track. The Indians sidetracked their roughest competition last weekend when they dumped Cornell 68 to 53. Monday night they moved serenely on in their effort to regain their 1941 honors of Eastern Intercollegiate champion and that district's N.C.A.A. quintet by downing Columbia 46 to 43. Princeton has an outside chance to tie Dartmouth but it is extremely doubtful.
In the third District there is still a tournament to be played before any official action will be forthcoming. Tennessee won the Southeastern Conference but Kentucky won that conference's tournament and this makes them the outstanding choice. In the Southern Conference Duke won the regular season title and their tournament starts today. Since Duke won the conference by a good four games the Blue Devils should experience little trouble in taking the tournament. The decision will then rest between Duke and Kentucky as the team to represent the huge Dixieland area. Present prospects are that Adolph Rupp's Kentucky crew will get the nod. Last year North Carolina entered the competition when all other teams refused the invitation.
COLORADO NOT INVINCIBLE BUT MIGHTY RUGGED
West of the Mississippi there are also two teams that have been selected. Rice Institute gained the rating in the Sixth District when Arkansas and West Texas State Teachers both withdrew any claims they had to participation. Rice and Arkansas tied for the title in the Southwest Conference but Coach Glen Rose of the Razorbacks did not ask for a play-off because his team had been weakened at the tail-end of the season by sickness, injuries, and players going into defense organizations. West Texas automatically dropped out when they accepted a bid to participate in the Invitational Tournament in Madison Square Garden at New York.
Colorado has been selected as the representative of the Seventh District after winning the Big Seven Conference. The Buffalooes won their first 10 games but lost Tuesday night to Wyoming at Laramie 40 to 39. This marked their second loss of the season and their first intercollegiate loss of the year. Their other loss was to the Denver Legion A.A.U. squad. The Buffers have one game with Utah State Saturday at Logan remaining on their schedule but at present have a two-game advantage of Wyoming and Brigham Young and thus could not be dislodged from their top-ranking berth.
In the Eighth District there remains a play-off between Oregon State and Stanford to determine that district's representative. Oregon State won the Northern Division with a record of 11 wins and 5 losses. University of Washington finished second with 10 victories and 6 defeats and Washington State, last year's Western N.C.A.A. champion, finished a game farther back in third place.
Stanford clinched the title in the Southern Division by defeating Southern California twice last weekend. This places the Indians four full games ahead of the Trojans with only two games remaining on the Stanford schedule. The play-off between Oregon State and Stanford has been set for March 13 and 14 at Palo Alto with a third game, if necessary, being played the 16th.
KANSAS NEEDS ONE WIN, AND HOW!
In the local area, the Fifth District, the biggest confusion exists. At present four teams are technically in the running to enter the play-offs at Kan- (continued to page seven)
Defeat Will End Season For Kansas
Final Game Tomorrow
After defeating Kansas State at Manhattan Tuesday night by a 45 to 26 score, the Jayhawks crept within one-half game of Bruce Drake's Sooners and need only a win tomorrow to snare their tenth title, undisputed or tied, in the fourteen years of Big Six history.
The University of Kansas Jayhawkers close their regular cage season here tomorrow night with but one purpose in mind and that is to trounce the Missouri Tigers and thus earn a tie for the Big Six title with Oklahoma.
More than just the Big Six title will be decided in the Missouri fray.
That Play-Off Berth Again
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however. The right to represent the conference in a play-off with the Missouri Valley champion to determine the Fifth District's N.C.A.A. representative at Kansas City will also be at stake.
If Kansas wins, the Jayhawkers are assured of the Big Six bid to continue in post-season games. Although Oklahoma and Kansas will be tied the Kansans will receive the nod
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Swimming meet for Div.' A. will be held on March 11, and will include the following teams: Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Delta Pi, Watkins I.W. W., and Delta Gamma. Swimming meets for Division B will be held March 12, including the following teams: Kappa Kappa Gamma, I.N.D., Gamma Phi Beta, Chi Omega, Miller Hall, T.N.T., and Corbin Hall. Finals will be held March 18.
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To you fans who think that you know the five best players in the Big Six that have opposed Kansas this season here's your chance to see just how close you come to being correct. At least, you can compare your "picks" with those of 11 varsity Jayhawkers who made their first and second team selections and then had the results tabulated.
From who know, the players themselves, Sid Held of Nebraska and Al Budolfson of Iowa State are the outstanding players in the conference $ ^{\circ} $
Other players who received first (continued to page eight)
Jayhawker Varsity Picks Two All-Opponent Teams
Schneider Gets An Extra Vote
Carol Schneider, Iowa State guard,
ranked next in the selections as he
Schneider Gets An Extra Vote
because of their better offensive-defensive ratio which, under Big Six rules, decides the ranking team. Gregg Will Be Tough
The Missouri squad which will face the Jayhawks has undergone considerable change since the first meeting of these two teams this season. In that game the Kansans looked impressive as they ran up a 48 to 34 score. Since then, however, George Edwards has regained the services of two forward lettermen from last year, Captain Herbie Gregg and Keith Bangert, and has lost lettermen George Evans and George Constantz.
The Tigers have won two games this season and unless they nip the Jayhawks tomorrow night they will wind up in the same spot as last year.
in the cellar with two wins and eight losses.
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, wily Kansas coach, is not overlooking the potentialities of the Bengal team. It was to Missouri that Iowa State lost its first Big Six game and started on the downward track. And after Saturday's heart-breaking, last second, one-point loss to Nebraska the Tigers will be in a fighting mood.
This game affords a similar set-up to the contest three years ago when Missouri and Kansas were fighting for the Big Six crown and the Tigers swamped the Jayhawks, 55-30, to tie Oklahoma for the title and relegate the Kansans to third place. Tomorrow night Kansas will try to turn the tables, taking the title and pushing Missouri into the cellar.
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