Tuesday, December 10, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
9
Cyclones - small but quick
By DICK DEAN
Kansan Sports Writer
(This is the eighth in a series of Kansan reports on Big Eight basketball for 1968-1969 season.)
Iowa State's head basketball coach Glen Anderson is all too aware of the number of tall players in the Big Eight this season . . . mainly because he doesn't have any.
"I will be exposing my team to a great deal of physical risk when we take the court each night," he quipped. Iowa State is the smallest team in the conference this year. The average height of the team is 6-3 1/4 compared to the conference average of 6-4 1/4. The five tallest Cyclones average 6-6 1/2 while the league average is an inch taller.
Anderson enters his tenth season as Iowa State's head coach. His team posted an 8-6 record to finish in a tie for third last year with Oklahoma. He has nine lettermen returning from last year's squad which sported a 12-13 overall record. Unfortunately for Anderson, all-Big Eight Don Smith is not one of them.
The 6-8 Smith was the leading scorer and rebounder in the Eig Eight. He scored at a 24-pointsper-game clip and averaged almost 15 rebounds. He finished third on the all-time Big Eight scoring list and second in career rebounding.
Jayhawks rated 10th in UPI poll
NEW YORK (UPI)—The United Press International top 20 major college basketball teams with first place votes and won-lost record in parentheses.
**Team** **Points**
1. UCLA (35) 3-0 **350**
2. North Carolina 3-0 **309**
3. Davidson 3-0 **17**
4. College - 14 **148**
5. New Mexico 3-0 **121**
6. Villanova 3-0 **118**
7. Notre Dame 1-1 **114**
8. Cincinnati 3-0 **76**
9. Purdue 2-1 **59**
10. Kansas 2-1 **57**
11. Second 10—11, St. Bonaventure 54:
12. Duke 51, 13, Houston 42; 14, Western Kentucky 55, 15, Santa Cruz 33;
16. Minnesota State 27, 17, Detroit 28; 18, tie, Ohio State and Dayton 16;
19. Southern California 15
Others receiving five or more points
—Wyoming, LaSalle, Columbia, Vanderbilt, College, Louisville, Duquesne, Florida,klahoma Georgia
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"There is no way to replace Don Smith." said Anderson. "We are also greatly concerned with our defense and rebounding—particularly rebounding since we will be such a small team."
"While we will have more speed and quickness than we have had in the past," he continued, "our lack of size is a major problem."
Four of the nine returning lettermen are starters including Jim Abrahamson (6-0), Bill Cain (6-6), Dave Collins (6-3) and Mike Murray (6-1).
The Cyclones have retained a majority of their scoring punch, losing players that produced but 43.3 per cent of their scoring last year. The conference average of offense lost is nearly 50 per cent. Only two teams fared better than Iowa State in this category-Oklahoma State and Kansas who lost 15.8 and 24.6 per cent respectively.
"We'll score this year," said Anderson. "While it might not be a strength I'm not going to worry about it. I feel our shooting will be good . . . and it will have to be because we might not get seconds."
"For once we won't have to rely on sophomores to carry a major portion of the load," he said. Perhaps his top man will be 6-3 Aaron Jenkins, a junior college transfer who averaged 26 points and 13 rebounds a game last year. "He played in a good juco league, but only time will tell how much he will help us," Anderson said.
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"We will be able to play intelligently because of our experience. We're going to try and hide the fact that we're not very
"The loss of Smith will hurt us, but it could help others on the team who might have relied on him more than they should have last year," Anderson said.
big-I've been saying for years that size is overrated," he said. "But now we'll be playing the little ones and have the 6-2 guys guarding the 6-8 ones.
"The caliber of players in the Big Eight is excellent. KU returns seven key people from an awfully strong club last year," Anderson said in evaluating the race. "After that it is wide open. Where the contenders will come from—and there will be several—I can't really tell. I'm sure the coaches are figuring like we are
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... that we have a pretty good team and it is too bad the league is so tough."
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