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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 4, 1957
Jayhawkers Stand Alone
Kansas rests firmly atop the Big Seven basketball standings today and it looks as though the Jayhawkers may have finally realized the greatness forecast for them.
Saturday night's 75-64 decision over Iowa State, the only team to beat them this year, was a convincing demonstration that Coach Dick Harp's Jayhawkers had loosed the shackles previously applied by the Cyclones.
The game was much closer than the score indicates with the Cyclones holding leads up to 11 points most of the way until the Jayhawkers finally went in front to stay when Wilt Chamberlain hit a 10-foot jump shot with five minutes to go, giving Kansas a 61-59 lead.
The Cyclones hit a red hot 50 per cent from the field in the first half to 27 per cent for Kansas but led only 38-31. Gary Thompson, great little 5-10 sharpshooter and center Don Medsker did the damage for Iowa State in the first hall with 13 and 12 points respectively.
Gene Elstun with 10 points and Ron Loneski with 9 points paced the first half scoring for Kansas as the Iowa State zone defense effectively limited Wilt to four points. As in their battle at Ames earlier this season, the Cyclones moved 6-8 Medsker in front of Wilt and alternated 6-5 John Crawford and 6-7 Chuck Vogt behind him.
Iowa State employed a full court zone press sporadically throughout the first half and it bothered the Javhawkers considerably.
Iowa State began running a little more in the last half but as their hot shooting pace fell off, Kansas climbed back into the game. Loneski's hook shot with 11 minutes to go gave the Jayhawkers their first tie at 49-49 since the early minutes of the game.
The savage play of Chamberlain marked the second half action. Wilt ripped in 15 points and pulled down 16 of his 24 rebounds in the last 20 minutes. With the score tied at 53-53 he saved four sure points in less than 30 seconds when he blocked two layup attempts in a row, sprawling to the court after the last block.
Iowa State hung on grimly, however, and led 57-56 with 7:30 to go when in a span of four seconds the Cyclones lost both centers, Medsker and John Krocheski on fouls. Before the game was over Iowa State was destined to lose four of the five big men who formed Wilt's picket at various times daring the evening. The 7-0 Jayhawker sophomore hit 11 of 20 free throw chances provided by the isostling Cyclone defense.
It was strictly a team victory for the Jayhawkers. The return of Loneski to action bolstered the squad tremendously. He dumped in 19 points and dragged in 12 rebounds in an outstanding performance. Gene Elstun and Maurice King gave the
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HEY, LOOK WHAT I GOT—Ron Loneski (33) goes high to drag down one of the 12 rebounds he recovered during the game. Gene Elstun (12) and Wilt Chamberlain (13) move in to lend a hand on the play.
Jayhawkers fine outside jump shooting to go with the tandem post supplied by Chamberlain and Loneski utes to go, dropped in 5 of 7 free throw chances and played a fine floor game.
Kansas built its final margin in the last two minutes. Holding only a 64-62 lead with 2:06 left, the Jayhawkers exploded for 11 points in the next two minutes while holding
The Box Score:
Kansas(75)
FG FT F
Elstun 5 6-7 3
Loneski 6 7-10 1
Chm'bln 4 11-20 4
Parker 2 0-1 5
Hollgrn 4 1
Hollgrn 0 1-0
$billings 0 5-7 1
Totals 21 33-18 50
Iowa State (64)
FG FT G
Crawford 2 1-3 3
Davis 1 0-0 5
Vogt 3 3-3 5
Medsker 4 4-4 5
Kroch'ki 1 3-4 5
Thomp'sn 7 1-1 3
Frahm 6 2-0 3
Galcal 0 0-0 3
Gronau 0 0-0 0
Totals 20 24-33 29
Totals 20 24-33 29
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Harp gave credit for the win to the whole team but singled out the seniors for the greatest effort in their three years at KU. "We put out more effort in this game than we have all year," he said.
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The Jayhawkers used no different strategy in the second half, Harp said. "However, great credit should go to Bob Billings who came in when we had them on the hook and tore them apart. Ron (Loneski) also played a great game for us," he said.
"It was our great sustaining effort that won the game. We simply did things better than they did," Jawhawk Coach Dick Harp said.
The Kansas and Iowa State teams, both strangely subdued after the Jayhawkers 75-64 victory, differed greatly in their opinions as to what led to the Cyclone collapse.
The Jayhawkers could see no turning point in the game—they believed they simply did their job better than their opponents. The Cyclones were unanimous in their belief that if their big men had not fouled out in the final period the ball game would have had a different ending.
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Maurice King, who pumped in three important jump shots for Kansas in the closing minutes, thought the difference lay in the Jayhawkers refusing to play Iowa State's game. "They played about the same way as they did before. We had them figured when they beat us 39-37 at Ames but we just ddn't do our job."
After playing the first full game of his college career, Ron Loneski said he felt pretty good although he got tired toward the end. "Of course, it was a real tough game," he added.
All the Jayhawkers were full of praise for Gary Thompson who almost stole the game for the Cyclones. Thompson hit 21 points, tops for the game despite the defensive efforts of King.
Iowa State Coach Bill Stranigan traced the Cyclones downfall to the departure of centers Medsker and Krocheksi. "Your big men must play
and when they left we lost our poise and the game. I had to move Crawford to center and he is not familiar with our offense from that position," he said.
Strannigan said Loneski made a great difference in the game. He lauded Wilt's defensive play as, "un-doubtedly the way in which he hurts you most."
"We had planned to run more tonight than we have previously. Mavbe we ran too much in the last half but it worked so well in the first period we were afraid to stop," Stranigan said.
Gary Thompson said flatly, "The difference was our big men fouling out. It changed the game completely and put us on the defense immediately."
Architects To Meet At KU Feb. 13-14
"Industrial Forces and the Architect" will be the theme of the fourth annual Architects' Conference Feb. 13 and 14 at the University. More than 150 architects from Kansas, Nebraska, Missuori, Oklahoma and Arkansas are expected to attend.
The Architects' Conference is sponsored by the Kansas City and Kansas chapters of the American Institute of Architects, and the KU department of architecture and University Extension.
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