Page 6 University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 5. 1950
Two NCAA Spots Yet to Be Filled
Kansas State and Texas Christian are the only official entries already chosen for the NCAA Midwestern Regional Basketball Tournament here March 13-14. The remaining two will be named over the weekend.
The two teams that will round out the tournament slate will be either Cincinnati or Bradley and DePaul or Portland.
DePaul and Portland are at-large entries and will play Saturday night at the Oregon city to decide who advances into the regional.
Cincinnati must win against Pradley Saturday night or against St. Louis Monday night to be entered in the tourney as the Missouri Valley Conference champion.
If both Bradley and St. Louis defeat Cincinnati, Bradley will be the Missouri Valley entry.
Kansas State and Texas Christian are automatic entries in the meet by virtue of winning the Big Eight and Southwest Conference championships respectively.
Athletic Director A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg announced yesterday afternoon that the tickets for the two-night tourney have been selling rapidly.
Lonborg said that he looked for a sellout crowd Saturday night during the finals and also for a large crowd Friday night.
Officials for the meet will come from the West Coast so that partiality cannot be shown. In turn,
Midwestern officials will work the Far West regional tourney.
Lomborg, who is also acting as the chairman of the NCAA University basketball tournament committee, has been busy making arrangements for the meet. Hotel accommodations for four groups of 20 people were made last summer.
Texas Christian and the Missouri Valley entry will make the first appearance in the tournament with a contest slated to start at 7:30 Friday night. Kansas State will be paired against the winner of the DePaul-Portland game in the other semi-final game scheduled for 9:30 p.m.
NAIA Game to Be Televised
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — The final game on Monday's opening-day schedule of the NAIA basketball tournament will be televised by WDAF-TV. This is the first time in the meet's 22-year history that a game has been televised. The parade of champions also will be televised preceding Monday's final game. Tourney pairings will be released later this week. The 32-team NAIA tourney opens Monday in Municipal Auditorium with the finals Saturday.
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Around the Big Eight
AT IOWA STATE
AMES, Iowa—Iowa State will play a 26-game baseball schedule for 1959. The Cyclones will split the schedule evenly with 13 games in Ames and 13 on the road. Coach Cap Timm will send his team into action for the first time on April 3 against Minnesota. The concluding series of the year will be at Colorado, May 22-23.
AT OKLAHOMA STATE
STILLWATER, Okla.—Oklahoma State's off-season football drills will end Saturday with an intrasquad
Loneski 2nd In Scoring
By United Press International All America Bob Boozer has clinched the Big-Eight scoring crown, but a red-hot battle is being waged by Ron Loneski of Kansas and Oklahoma State's Arlen Clark for the second place spot.
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Loneski holds a slim one-tenth of a point lead over Clark. Loneski is going at a 19.2 clip for 21 games with 403 tallies and Clark is 19.1 for 22 outings with 420 counters.
Boozer, who this week was named as a first team All America by United Press International, has carved out a 25.1 scoring average for 23 contests and the conference title.
Nebraska's Herschel Turner rides in fourth with a 17.0 average and Cal Abram of Missouri is fifth with 15.7
game at 2 p.m., following intensive practices this week as the Cowboys sought to correct errors that cropped out in the alumni game of last Saturday.
for stride, the number of fans watching Wildecat home games has increased by 500 a contest. Figures from the Wildcat ticket office reveal that an average of 10,547 fans have watched each of K-State's nine home games this season. Last year the average was 10,046 over the 10-game home schedule.
It's Blazer Time
State's star-laden alumni beat the varsity in a close one, rallying for two touchdowns to take a 26-24 victory. Coach Cliff Speegle scheduled the game in the third week of workouts in order to have a week left for corrective study.
AT OKLAHOMA
Four times this season the Wildcats have played to virtual sell-out crowds. Those games were Indiana, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma State. That compares to only two sell-outs in the 1957-58 season.
AT KANSAS STATE
Big Eight conference wrestling teams, winding up their dual meet schedules, are pointing this week for the conference tournament March 13-14 here.
NORMAN, Okla.—Doug Crow, a stubby, red-haired dash man from Fort Worth, Tex., was the top student among Sooner varsity athletes last semester, logging a perfect straight A (4.0) average in Russian reading, Hebrew and professional writing. Jerry Payne, a junior football guard from Breckentridge, Tex., was only a short jump behind Crow. Payne had a 3.87 average, making all A's in physics, math and Bible and being denied a perfect 4.0 score when he dropped to B in qualitative analysis.
Regarded as the toughest conference meet in the country, the Big Eight tourney is expected to develop into a furious fight again this year among defending champion Iowa State, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. The Cyclones won last year with 67 points, edging the Sooners and Cowboys, who tied at 65.
MANHATTAN — While Kansas State's basketball team is more than matching the year-ago team stride