TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Jayhawk Nibbles at N.C.A.A. Bait
(continued from page one) holiday. It seemed too good to be true and no one who hadn't actually heard the score over the radio would believe it.
When the Jayhawks went to Ames Jan. 19 they had just finished a grueling "rough and tumble" at Lincoln and had the matter of approaching finals on their minds. But to be outdone, the Iowa State students did their share by providing the most unruly crowd of the season as a background to the cage tilt.
Only Set Back Once
Then the Cyclone cagers were hot as Singapore under siege and the result was a 44 to 41 'riumph for the Iowa State lads. This was the first loss of the season for the Jayhawks and kinda' ruffled their feathers a wee bit.
Since then it hasn't happened again, at least not in a regularly scheduled game (but we better not forget the Great Lakes disaster.) Naturally, when the Cyclones paid their respects to Phog Allen and Co. by visiting Lawrence last Monday there was a little score to settle, and the Jayhawkers were in no hospitable mood, even though five of the Cyclones did their patriotic part by registering for the draft here in Lawrence that day.
As a result the Jayhawks put on their highest scoring exhibition in Kansas Big Six history and sent "Little Louie" Menze's Cyclones back to Ames as a mere puff of wind under a 60 to 44 score.
Oklahoma Gets Too Close
But Kansas wasn't through adding victories nor surprises to the ledger. The Oklahoma Aggies are a sad witness to this fact for Henry Pruz's crew suffered a very important shot in Hoch auditorium Friday night, 31 to 28.
After that game the Kansas record looked pretty salty indeed. In Big Six competition the Jayhawks had won six games and lost only one. Those pesky Oklahoma Sooners, however, had the same percentage. But things looked good for the Kansans because of the greater variance between their offensive and defensive scores than that shown by Oklahoma.
As far as the Missouri Valley was concerned the Oklahoma A. and M Cowboys were the bell-ringers and looked to be in a pretty secure position. They were undefeated and had just returned from Omaha where they had trounced their only real competition, Creighton, by a 31 to 22 count.
The situation at that time made it mandatory for Kansas to whip both Oklahoma A. and M. and Oklahoma U. this week to be sure of both the Big Six title and the right to participate in the N.C.A.A. playoffs.
Sooners Climb, Then Fall
But the past week-end had many games on tap and they proved to be of a very deciding nature. Saturday night Oklahoma won, as expected, but in a pretty tight game if you please, 46 to 41 over Nebraska. This put the Sooners in first place in the Big Six circuit with seven wins and one loss.
The next obstacle in their path to a championship was the Iowa State fray at Ames last night. And those Cyclones proved just as big a hurdle for the Sooners as they did for the Jayhawks. Undoubtedly the same situation prevailed as faced the Jayhawks, for the Oklahomaans
Interesting Developments to Jayhawk Cage Team
Creighton's Blue Jays dealt the Oklahoma Aggies the first defeat they have suffered on their home court since Southern California beat them in 1940 last night with a score of 31-29.
The Blue Jays, playing a tight zone defense, held the Aggies to only 12 field goals during the game. Ed Beisser, center man for this defense, was the outstanding Creighton player of the clash. The top two scorers for the game were Beisser, Creighton center, and Lonny Eggleston, forward for the Aggies, with 12 points apiece. At half-time the Oklahoma A. and M. cagers held a 20-15 lead over their visitors. It was not until the last five minutes of play that the Blue Jays pulled ahead of the scrapping Aggies. This victory for the Creighton s q uad moved them into a first place tie with Oklahoma A. and M.
The Kansas State Wildcats beat the cagers from Missouri by a score of 42-35 Saturday night, giving them two conference wins this season. The victory moved the Wildcats up into a tie with Missouri for the Big Six fifth place position.
Marlo Dirks paced the Kansas State quintet in a second half drive, with a total of 12 points, four field goals and four charity shots. Little Herbie Gregg was high scorer for the Missourians with a total of eight points, though he fouled out in the last period.
The Bengals poured it on in the first half to gain an 18-14 advantage over the Wildcats and this lead was not overtaken until the game was 12 minutes into the last half. The Kansas State cagers began to take up slack when sophomore center Dirks entered the line-up.
were naturally a little weary from their Saturday night game and the additional trip to I.S.C. was bound to take a little more ginger from their spirits.
All in all, with the Iowa State crowd doing its bit, it proved too much even for Gerald "Transplanted Yankee" Tucker and the Sooners rode the rails back to Norman today with thoughts only towards Friday night's engagement in their home tenement district with their favorite foe, Kansas, as a possible balm to the injury they suffered in defeat last night.
For the defeat plopped them back into second place with seven victories and two defeats compared with the stationary Kansas record of seven wins and one loss. Oklahoma's season will close with the Kansas game Friday and if they should win it would make a total of eight wins and two losses. Kansas could still tie for the title by winning its two remaining games against Kansas State at Manhattan and Missouri at Lawrence.
K.U. Could Top in N.C.A.A.
Wth the defeat of the Aggies, the Valley race is thrown into a tie and from a glance at the remaining games it looks as if each team will come through with no more losses. The season would then end in a deadlock and neither team would have any more right to represent the league than the other.
The question would then arise, "What team will represent the Big Six in determining the Fifth District representative to the N.C.A.A.?" This would be answered immediately by comparing the offensive and defensive marks of the two teams which would show that Kansas was entitled to the top spot.
With this deduction brought up to date, Kansas is the only team that needs to inquire about train
And since Kansas has already beaten both teams once, it seems logical that the Missouri Valley would be discounted in determining this district's competing team.
With the defeat of the Aggies, the thus decided, the Missouri Valley enters into the picture. That might have proved rather an embarrassing question until the Creighton-Oklahoma A. and M. game last night but now it appears to be settled fairly definitely.
schedules to Kansas City for the weekend of March 20-21.
Can Cinch It Tomorrow
But to make sure that this deduction does not prove false, it would be a very wise thing for Phog Allen to break the jinx which the Gallagher fieldhouse at Stillwater holds over him and have his team complete a sweep of the two-game series by knocking over Henry Iba's Aggies tomorrow night.
But this is in the future and it is only for us to wait and see. In the meanwhile, Phog is preparing his charges for the Southern invasion and they look right sprightly indeed.
To make the picture even brighter, it would seem like heaven indeed if the Jayhawkers continued their Oklahoma invasion by trouncing those Red-and-White Sooners before their 8,000-capacity partisan crowd and thus do away with all subsidiary claims to the Big Six title.
Team Morale Shines Out
The Iowa State Cyclones scored a thrilling victory over Oklahoma last night, 46-43, to leave Kansas alone at the top of the Big Six conference. Even though Gerald Tucker scored 25 points for the Sooners, they failed to outscore the hard-fighting Cyclones.
In practice last night better spirit was shown than at any time this year. Undoubtedly, several things contributed to this fact but it still remains that no dissension is present on the squad and the entire group was hustling in a highly jocular mood.
In a short inter-squad scrimage Murray Brown played the post position for the Reds and the players continually ribbed him by calling him "Tuck." Vance Hall, who was guarding Ralph Miller, also received more than his share of jibes as he was dubbed "Ug" for A. D. Roberts, speedy Oklahoma forward.
Ten To Oklahoma
Ten players were selected by Doctor Allen to take the trip into Oklahoma. They are Ralph Miller, Charlie Black, John Buescher, Ray Evans, T. P. Hunter, Marvin Sollenberger, Charlie Walker, Jack Ballard, Vance Hall, and Paul Turner. The players will leave tonight on the 10:56 Santa Fe and arrive at Perry, Okla, tomorrow morning. After stopping there for a rest the team will take the bus to Stillwater tomorrow night for the game. They will take the train to Oklahoma City from where they will take a bus to Norman, arriving on the Sooner campus Thursday afternoon.
The Iowa State quintet was paced by Bob Harris with a total of 16 points, 12 of them from the field. Al Budolfson and Carol Schneider were also hot with 11 and 13 points respectively. Tucker tallied 11 field goals and three free throws but got little help from his teammates Roberts being the second high Sooner scorer with 5 points. Both teams tallied nineteen field goals, but the Cyclones made eight charity shots to the Sooners five.
Kansas will meet Oklahoma at Norman Friday in the decisive game of the season.
This victory for Iowa State put Kansas in the Number 1 spot in Big Six conference play. The Oklahomaans have won seven games and lost two for a percentage of .778 while the Jayhawkers hold an .857 percentage with six wins and only one loss.
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The Oklahoma Sooners defeated the Huskers from Nebraska 46,41, on the latter's own court Saturday night to jump into the shoes of the top basketball team in the Big Six conference.
With only three minutes left to play, Gerald Tucker, Oklahoma forward, dropped a pivot shot to break the 41-41 tie. Paul Heap tallied three more points for the Sooners, with a free throw and a field goal, before the final gun to give the Oklahoma quintet victory.
Twice the Huskers tied the score, coming up from the short end of a 28-19 reading at half time, to make the score 39-all in the middle of the second half. The Oklahomaans took the lead by two points when Dick Reich broke this tie with a set-up, but Elson soon balanced the score again by sinking a long shot for the Sooners.
Gerald Tucker was the high scorer for the game, tallying 17 points for the Oklahomaans. His excellent rebound work under the Nebraska basket was a decisive factor in the game. Held of Nebraska followed him closely with a total of 13 points in his last basketball game at Lincoln.
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