Monday, March 16. 1959 University Daily Kansan
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Cincinnati Vaults Into NCAA Finals
Oscar shoots over Kansas State's Boozer and Mickey Heinz.
Bv Doug Parker
When was the turning point in this weekend's upset victory of Cincinnati over Kansas State?
"It was Friday night's game," K-State Coach Tex Winter said Saturday night in a vacant dressing room.
"Mentally, we just weren't ready to play," Coach Winter said, as he studiously kicked bits of waste paper away from where he was standing.
His team had just slipped into street clothes and trudged outside to board a bus, just one game short of reaching the NCAA finals at Louisville.
"We won so handily and played such a great game against De Paul the night before. And then Cincinnati played poorly the night before against TCU.
"We were ripe enough to be plucked from the tree," the dejected coach said.
"The most important factor of a ball game, if both teams are even physically, is being mentally fit.
"Mentally, we didn't play any good," Coach Winter asserted between handshakes with friends who came in to say, 'tough luck.'
"This mental stuff has influence— it did when I was a ball player."
Coach Winter said Cincinnati was not the best ball club K-State faced in finishing the season with 25 wins and 2 losses.
While not in the mood for it, Coach Winter traced back to the scene of the crime and pointed out two spots in the game where his team got in trouble.
2. Ced Price got himself into foul trouble so quickly in the game.
1. Forward Wally Frank sat out almost the entire first half with a bruised elbow.
"We lost these two big boys and we had to play differently than we planned," Coach Winter said, shrugging his shoulders indicating the pointlessness of going over the game now.
Talking almost to himself, Coach Winter murmured: "We lost a lot of good shots... We only hit 31 per cent... Two or three boys just weren't ready for the game..."
On the bright side, the coach said alertly when asked about Oscar Robertson's dual role of shooter and play maker:
"He's a great ball player as everyone is well aware of by this time.
"I'd like to have him and Boozer on the same ball club," he said smiling.
All was quiet in Cincinnati's dressing room across the corridor when the last of the K-State entourage walked out into a Kansas blizzard.
Robertson, Boozer Unanimous Picks
All Americas Bob Bozer and Oscar Robertson were unanimous choices today for the all-tournament team selected by sports writers and broadcasters after the NCAA Midwest Regional.
Big H. E. Kirchner of Texas Christian, who set a new tournament record for rebounds, missed on only one ballot.
Joining the three big men on the all-stars were guards Don Matuszak of Kansas State and Howie Carl of De Paul.
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Volleyball Team Is Forming for Meet
A volleyball team made up of players from intramural teams is being formed to compete in the Jayhawk tournament here this Saturday. Both spikers and setmen are still needed. Anyone interested report to Robinson Annex at 7:45 o'clock tonight.
The Bearcats won the berth by a rally in the last two minutes which pushed them by the top-rated Kansas State Wildcats, 85-75, in the NCAA Mid-West regional basketball tournament Saturday night in Allen Field House.
Although the Big 'O' scored only 24 points, compared to his usual 33-plus average, he displayed a brilliant feeding and ball control exhibition in the last ten minutes that gave Cincinnati its necessary margin for victory.
Bob Boozer scored 32 points in the contest that was marked by tension and scraps on both the court and the sidelines. Early in the game the referees had to call the two team captains, Don Matuszak and Robertson, to the middle of the floor for a short lecture on how tempers should be controlled.
No more than five points had previously separated the two teams until the Bearcats' final drive in the last two minutes. But in those last devastating two minutes Cincinnati scored 10 points to Kansas State's one.
Two State Champs Repeat
On the sidelines the University of Kansas Publicity Director, Don Pierce, a 240-pound ex-professional football center, managed to rid the immediate area surrounding him of two Cincinnati rooters, although Mr. Pierce did receive a bloody nose and a pair of broken glasses in thwarting off his attackers.
Wyandotte captured its third straight state AA title Saturday night by sliding past Summer 52-50 in overtime play. Other state champions are: Goodland, who slapped Russell 66-62; Natoma, who added their 48th consecutive victory and second state championship in the same number of years in class B by edging Minneapolis 57-56; and Rozel, who defeated Ada by the same score, 57-56.
Golf Meeting Today
Cincinnati, under the able direction of Oscar Robertson, will next challenge the University of California Friday night at Louisville, Ky., in the NCAA finals.
Golf Coach Jerry Waugh has announced that all candidates for the varsity golf team will meet at 4 p.m. today in room 4 in Allen Field House. Anyone interested should attend the meeting.
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