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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 15, 1959
WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN—Wayne Hightower and Al Donaghue wait to grab off a rebound along with an unidentified Kentucky basketball player during the action packed battle in Allen Field House last night between the two national cage powers. Kentucky won the contest 77-72 in an overtime period although Hightower grabbed off this rebound.
Jays Still Rank 9th
United Press International
The Cincinnati Bearcats remained No.1 today in United Press International's major college basketball ratings and another Ohio team, the Ohio State Buckeyes, replaced California in second place.
West Virginia remained third in the latest balloting by the 35 leading coaches who rate the major schools for UPI. The coaches based their voting on games played through Saturday.
California was fourth, North Carolina fifth and St. Louis sixth. Utah was seventh, Bradley eighth, Kansas ninth and Southern California 10th.
Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Iowa Villanova, Illinois, North Carolina State, New York University, Texas A and M and Louisville rounded out the top 20 in that order.
Bradley and Southern California were the newcomers in the top 10, replacing Kentueky and Indiana. Bradley was 12th last week while Southern California was 15th. Kentucky dropped from sixth to 13th after losing to Southern California and St. Louis. Indiana slipped from eighth to 11th after losing to Missouri.
The ratings with first-place votes and won-lost records through Saturday in parentheses are:
Team
1. Cincinnati (26) (4-0) 331
2. Ohio State (2) (5-0) 255
3. West Virginia (2) (5-0) 252
4. California (4) (1-0) 243
5. North Carolina (3) (3-0) 217
6. St. Louis (4-1) 144
7. Utah (4-0) 100
8. Bradley (3-0) 66
9. Kansas (3-1) 45
10. Southern California (3-2) - 43
11, Indiana, 39; 12, Georgia Tech,
34; 13, Kentucky, 31; 14, Iowa, 19; 15,
Villanova, 11; 16 (tie), Illinois and
North Carolina State, 10 each; 18
(tie), New York University, Texas
A and M and Louisville, 9 each.
Others—Missouri, 6; Purdue and Kansas State, 5 each; Duke and Michigan State, 4 each; Navy, New Mexico State, U.C.L.A., Denver and Wake Forest, 3 each; Utah State and St. Joseph's (Pa), 2 each; St. John's (N. Y.), Notre Dame, Providence, Xavier (Ohio) and Auburn, 1 each.
"Kentucky wore us down out there," Coach Dick Harp said after the game. "They piled in under the boards and conceded us the fastbreaks, but we couldn't capitalize on them enough," he added.
Although Kansas won the rebound war 65-52, the Jays took a beating under the boards. Time and again the Wildcats converged on the offensive board like a blue wave, rocking the scrambling Jay-
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Kentucky's crafty wildcats rushed by a tiring Jayhawker five in an overtime last night to nail down a 77-72 action-packed basketball victory.
Until the last bitter moments Kansas was in the ball game all the way. Led by sophomore Wayne Hightower, the Jayhawkers came back on the Allen Field House court after a dismal first half and fought the Bluegrass Boys to a 66-66 stalemate at the end of the regulation game.
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THEN, in the next five minutes the Jayhawkers seemed to run out of gas. The Kansas passes weren't as sharp, the defense wasn't as quick and the Wildcats weren't willing to be caged as they gradually forged to victory.
In the doubleheader, KU will face San Francisco and Kansas State will meet Brigham Young.
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Kentucky 77, Kansas 72. (OT)
Indiana 67, Kansas State 58.
West Virginia 91, VMI 76.
Bradley 57, Providence 55.
Illionies 99, Marquette 77.
Detroit 95, Xavier 71.
Notre Dame 70, Nebraska 62.
Mississippi 75, Arkansas State 62.
Missouri 78, Wisconsin 66.
Maryland 79, Georgetown 48.
Texas 84, Louisiana State 67.
Rice 93, Tulane 79.
Houston 88, North Texas 59.
Creighton 72, Texas Christian 64.
JUST HOW successful the Wildcat strategy worked was revealed in the game's later stages when the entire Kansas team tired visibly.
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The second half opened with Hightower playing the pivot the first time Jayhawker fans had seen the Philadelphia flash operate at the post.
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The Jays were ice-cold in the first half as they hit a meager 18% to fall behind 34-27. Kentucky used a good outside threat and opened the centerline to keep the Kansas defense honest, a factor that enabled the Wildcats to score 10 straight points at one stretch before the Kansans could knock the lid off the basket.
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Hightower promptly showed his versatility as he pulled Kansas back into the contest by blitzing the Wildcats with a tremendous offensive show. During the next nine minutes he hooked, tipped, and put on some one-man fast-break shows that dazzled the crowd and scared the Wildcats into two time-outs.
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Hightower scored all but four of the Kansas total as the Jayhawkers pulled from their half-time deficit to within one point, 47-46, with 10:40 to go in the contest.
"We're disappointed by the loss tonight." Coach Harp said, "but we aren't discouraged. We've come a long way in the last week."
In addition to capturing game scoring honors, Hightower placed second in rebounds to Bill Bridges, who snared 23 caroms, by capturing 14.
The loss leaves Kansas with a 3-2 record to date with the only other loss being to North Carolina. The Jays have turned back Northwestern, Texas Tech and North Carolina State in that order.
From that point the other Jay- hawkers got hotter and matched Kentucky shot-for-shot, going into the lead, 62-61, with just under three minutes to play.
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On the brighter side, the coach had only words of praise for the performance of Hightower. The lithe sophomore garnered 33 points before he left the game on fouls to lead the Kansas attack. Ned Jennings, the 6-9 Kentucky center, paced the Wildcats with 27.
"We got beat by their pattern tonight. Often a Kentucky player got an open shot when we didn't follow him out—we played better defensively against North Carolina," Coach Harp said in the dressing room following the battle.
"Tonight we told Wayne what he was doing wrong at the half and he came out and corrected his mistakes by playing a whale of a ball game," Coach Harp said.
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"I bet we lost 15 goals by standing still tonight," he lamented.
The Wildcats moved ahead 66-64 but Bob Hickman's jumper with 18 seconds left ended a Kansas comeback and threw the game into overtime.
The Jays will be idle until Friday night when they will entertain San Francisco in the top half of the annual Sunflower doubleheader. Kansas State will meet Brigham Young in a preliminary match.
In the overtime Hoffman's tip in shoved Kansas ahead, but after that the Kentuckians were off and running like thoroughbreds from the Bluegrass State against the tiring Jays.
Both teams shot a torrid 45% in the second half. Although Coach Harp was pleased with the Jayhawkers' offense during this time, he said that a poor Kansas defense kept the Jays from a possible victory.
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