Monday, Dec. 14, 1959 University Daily Kansan
Page 5
Jays Host Kentucky Tonight
By Dan Felger
The Kansas Jayhawkers return to the basketball wars after splitting a pair of games down Dixie way, tonight when they square off with highly-rated Kentucky.
Coach Adolph Rupp's squad is the third team in the top 20 the Jays will have faced in four days when they take to the Allen Field House floor at 7:30 p.m.
Against the other two — North Carolina and North Carolina State the Kansans could only manage a .500 winning percentage over the weekend.
Saturday night Coach Dick Harp's crew flailed North Carolina State 80-58 after suffering its first loss of the season the night before in a 60-49 defeat at the hands of North Carolina.
Even then, the Jayhawkers brought the only Kansas victory back to the home state after K-State took it on the chin both nights in the Sunflower-Blue Grass doubleheaders at Raleigh, N. C.
A frigid three minutes at the beginning of the second half that enabled the Tarheels to outscore Kansas 10-0, proved the Jayhawk downfall in the North Carolina tilt. The halftime score was knotted at 27-27 after the Jays had set the pace most of the time, but when Carolina balooned ahead 37-27, the game was lost for the Jays.
Bill Bridges fell below his rebounding average when he grabbed only 15 bounces. However, that was good to lead both squads as KU and the Tarheels split 42 apiece.
Saturday night the Kansans rebounded better and shot better in thrasing the Wolfpack, North Carolina State.
Kansas led throughout the game, but never by more than nine points until the last five minutes. NC State had taken advantage of the loss of Wayne Hightower and Al Donaghue to pull within six points with 6:40 to go, but then the Jay-hawkers began to play the basketball they had shown previous flashes of earlier in the season.
Jim Hoffman drilled home all of his ten markers and Jerry Gardner chipped in six to thwart the Wolfpack on the scoreboard while Bridges muscled a monopoly on rebounds in the final stretch.
Hightower led the scoring parade with 25 tallies, 14 more than his disappointing output the previous night, as the Javhawkers regained the range by hitting 42 per cent of their shots compared to 24 per cent the night before.
Before the weekend basketball bonanza, the Jaws were rated ninth. North Carolina was seeded fifth, while the Wolfpack was also in the top twenty.
The season's schedule keeps the pressure on the Jayhawkers tonight as Coach Harp's quintet goes after their fourth win in five outings against the Kentucky Wildcats.
Kentucky lost only Johnny Cox, a regular on the 1957 NCAA championship team, from a Wildcat team that finished second in the Southeastern Conference last year.
Rupp, the winningest coach percentage-wise in basketball, has never coached the 'Cats to a finish out of first in the SEC more
than two years in a row. In addition, Kentucky has won four NCAA crowns in the last ten years.
Bill Lickert, a nifty 6-3 forward, has been leading the balanced Wildcat attack with a 12.5 average in their first four games.
He is joined in the front line by 6-4 forward Carroll Burchett and 6-7 center Don Bills, Bennie Coffman, 6-0, and 5-10 Dick Parsons hold down the guard positions.
Last year Kentucky raced to a 24-3 record and went into the second round of NCAA play.
Tonight's game will mark only the second time the Kansans have ever collided with the Wildeats. The only previous encounter between the two cage powers occurred in the 1951 when Kentucky drubbed the Jays 68-39.
University Daily Kansan SPORTS
THERE HE GOES—Ed Poort, KU swimming team captain, begins his leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay at the Jayhawk Relays Saturday in Robinson Gymnasium pool. Jared Piety is just completing his lay of the relay. KU won the event and the Relays.
Cincinnati Living Up To Coach's High Hopes
Bv United Press International
Cincinnati Coach George Smith said his team this year could be one of the best ever—and the Bearcats are living up to his forecast.
The popular Cincinnati coach, who in seven years as a head cage mentor has won 126 of 180 games, said at the outset of the season "we should be better than last year."
And thus far the Bearcats have given every indication of being far superior to the 1958-59 club which compiled a 26-4 won-lost record and finished third in the NCAA playoffs.
Through the first four games Cincinnati has averaged 105.3 points per game, going over the century mark three times. Last year they surpassed the 100-point mark only three times during the entire season.
Oscar Robertson, the 6-5 All America, is enjoying his best season—thanks to a big assist from a big teammate, 6-9 sophomore Paul Hogue, who is causing the opposition no end of worry under the backboards.
This week the Bearcats have only one game on their schedule, but it will be their toughest of the young season. They play Louisville Saturday in Louisville.
If the Hogue-Robertson combination weren't enough, the Bearcats can toss in all-conference guard Ralph Davis, plus two or three other seasoned players. It's enough to cause rival coaches to think about changing professions.
The Bearcats hit their peak Friday with a 123-79 victory over a well-regarded St. Joseph's (Pa.) team. The 123 points were the second highest total ever scored by a Cincinnati team.
Swimmers Splash to Victory In Four-Team Jayhawk Relays
By Marlin Zimmerman
Kansas swimmers took first in every event they entered to win the Jayhawk Relays here Saturday. outclassing their nearest rival by 34 points.
A capacity crowd watched KU dominate the relays with a score of 80 points. Nebraska was second with 46 points, Colorado third with 24 and Kansas State fourth with 20
The summary:
KU did not enter the diving relay, which was won by Nebraska. The Cornhuskers beat Colorado in the event.
the summary.
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400 yd. breaststroke and butterfly relay — 1. Kansas 4:28.0 (Piety, Jeffrey, Pfuetze, Reamon); 2. Nebraska 4:44.0.
520 yd, freestyle relay—1. Kansas
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2:16:0 (Herlocker, Pfuetez, Jeffrey,
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