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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Jan. 17, 1961
University Daily Kansan SPORTS O-State Beats KU With Stall Tactics
Oklahoma State Coach Henry Iba's "here we are, come and get us" strategy worked to near perfection as the last place Cowboys handed Kansas its first Big Eight loss last night, 54-49, before 3,000 fans in Allen Field House.
After O-State had surged to a 19-14 lead midway in the first half, they changed tactics. From that point until the finish the Cowboys employed a semi-stall to keep the free-wheeling Jayhawkers from opening a scoring lead.
A times the winners held the ball for a full minute before weaving through the KU defense. The Cowboys moved the ball up and down the sidelines until they spotted an opening then broke to the basket for short shots.
This type of play helped O-State connect for 18 of 37 field goal attempts for 49 per cent.
Kansas was frequently a foul victim as it tried to adapt to the slow style of play. Bill Bridges fouled out with eight minutes remaining to play. Jerry Gardner left in the final minute.
KU tried to break O-State's lethargy, but was unable to do so mainly because of poor shooting and inadequate rebounding.
KU shot for only 28 per cent from the field and 65 per cent from the free throw line. The Jayhawkers tried 58 shots.
Although KU had a decided height advantage, it was out-rebounded 35-33. This proved important as Kansas seldom was able to get more than one good shot before losing the ball.
At the start KU'tried to repeat its performance of Saturday's convincing victory over Iowa State but poor shooting and ball-handling errors allowed O-State to take control midway in the first half.
Oklahoma State built its margin to 10 points on two occasions as it moved to a 33-27 halftime lead after Gardner and Wayne Hightower pulled KU back from a 31-21 deficit.
Kansas came back to start the second half with a more aggressive defense and quickly chopped the Cowboys' lead to 33-32.
Hightower, who led all scorers with 26 points, pulled KU even at 39-39 with 14:07 remaining. The
Allan Correll gave the Jayhawkers life once more as he sunk a pair of free tosses with 46 seconds remaining making the score 50-49.
game was tied three more times but two free throws by Moe Iba gave O-State the lead for the last time with 5:11 to play.
With KU behind 44-43 and 6:29 remaining to play Kansas' Jerry Gardner and O-State's Eddie Bunch exchanged blows at mid-court. Players from both squads jumped to the floor but officials and coaches prevented further fighting.
Shortly after Gardner stepped to the foul line and momentarily gave KU the lead before Iba sunk his crucial free tosses.
KANSAS (49)
| | FG | FT | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Hightower | 10 | 6 | 26 |
| Correll | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Heyward | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Dumas | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Bridges | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Gardner | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| Ellison | 1 | 3 | 5 |
TOTALS 16 17 49
O-STATE (54)
| | FG | FT | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Gordon | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| Epperley | 7 | 4 | 18 |
| Bunch | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| Greer | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Iba | 3 | 9 | 15 |
TOTALS 18 18 54
Halftime: Oklahoma State 33, Kansas 27.
Ohio State Still On Top in Ratings
NEW YORK—(UPI)—St. Bonaventure, beaten only by Ohio State this season, moved into second place behind the unanimously-claimed Buckeyes today in the United Press International college basketball ratings.
For the second week in a row, all 35 members of the UPI Board of Coaches made Ohio State their no. 1 choice.
St. Bonaventure, with a 13-1 record, advanced one notch to second place and Bradley dropped to third after losing to Houston for its first defeat in 14 games.
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"It is always the same story when you play Oklahoma State. If you let them get control of the game you are in trouble. That is what happened tonight."
"I'm taking the positive outlook. That is that they played better basketball and it was what they did well and not what we did poorly that beat us," continued Harp.
These were the words of KU's Coach Dick Harp after he had seen his team fall to Oklahoma State for its first league loss.
"They denied us the cheap shot and we didn't react well enough; we didn't have the necessary poise to get the good shots," he said
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How will this loss affect the remainder of the Jayhawkers' play? Harp said;
When asked how he felt about coaching against the type of basketball which Oklahoma State used, the KU coach said, "I have no resentment for that type of basketball but I sure hate to sit on the other side of it. I don't think it would draw people to Allen Field House."
"The future is entirely dependent upon the character of the squad. This game doesn't have much effect
Harp said, "I knew the game was lost when we failed to properly execute a maneuver after the time out with about one minute left to play. But, we first broke down when they got that quick six point lead in the first half."
hustle under the boards was almost unbelievable. We played the game with only seven men and four were in all but a few minutes."
BALTIMORE, Md. — (UPI) — Roger Maris, the American League's Most Valuable Player, was honored last night as baseball's "Sultan of Swat" at the Maryland Professional Baseball Player Association's Eighth Annual "Tops in Sports" banquet.
"The game went pretty much the way we planned it except for several bad mistakes which almost cost us the win. We tried to keep the ball on the outside to bring Bill Bridges away from the basket," he said. "We knew our short men couldn't match Bridges, Wayne Hightower and Allan Correll for rebounds."
Maris, who hit 39 homers in leading the Yankees to the American League pennant, was the fifth slugger selected for the "Sultan of Swat" award.
Iba said, "We were very fortunate to win. We played a whale of a ball game. The boys are real tired after a game like that because we play most of our games with six players and with our type of play the boys get pretty exhausted.
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Iba lauded the play of KU center Bridges, saying, "He's probably the best rebounder in the conference and a real fine shooter."
Down the corridor Oklahoma State Coach Henry Iba talked quietly and there were little signs of joy which usually prevail in the dressing room of a winning team.
The veteran coach also praised the work of his center, Cecil Epperley for keeping Bridges away from the basket most of the game. Iba's final comment was. "Our
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"We kicked away a wonderful chance to make a run for the roses this semester."
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