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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 13, 1956
No.1 Rating At Stake
Jayhawkers Leave For West Coast
By GEORGE ANTHIAN
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
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Kansas, the team which, in the opinion of three major news services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service, is the best college basketball team in the country, left from the Kansas City, Missouri Municipal Airport Wednesday for the University of Washington.
Although Dick Harp, coach, and his players say it is a great honor to be chosen first, they add that the pressure is now on and if the team continues winning, it will become greater.
Bruno Boin, 6-3 center, heads the Washington team awaiting the Jayhawkers in Seattle. Boin, who scored 14 points as the Huskies defeated Oklahoma A&M, 49-44, Saturday, would like to provide Wilton Chamberlain with a little pretournament experience; experience at losing, that is.
Double Post For Huskies
Boin, who teams up with Doug
Smart, 6-7, in a double post set-
up, thinks he and the Huskies might
be the ones to upset the Jayhawk-
ers.
After Washington, Friday and Saturday, Kansas faces Caliirnia, the co-favorites for the West Coast championship. Tuesday at Berkley, California thinks it has an All-American candidate in Earl Robinson, 6-1 guard. Cal
also possess another threat in forward Larry Friend.
Harp is quick to recognize the honor of being selected No. 1 in three polls but he is also quick to recognize the headaches that go with that rating. If the Jayhawkers continue to add to the left side of the won-lost column while the right side remains empty, then the pressure on the team and individuals will continue to rise.
Harp and most of his players see room for vast improvement in the present squad. He said that he "expects a very difficult time from Washington," and he's probably right. The score does not always indicate the closeness of the game and although Chamberlain may score his average (45.5) weaknesses may show themselves that other coaches will be quick to seize upon.
Room for Improvement
Moran decided that it was no use to shoot at the basket in the second half of the Marquette contest. The lanky center finished with only 4 points after Chamberlain intercepted nine of his shots in mid-air.
The cold facts, however, are right on the box scores of Kansas' first two games. Chamberlain, in facing Joe Ruklick of Northwestern and Mike Moran of Marquette, proved that he could score while keeping his opponent from running wild. Ruklick did score 22 but Chamberlain's 52 points countered that performance.
He Doesn't Foul
Another deplorable fact to opposing coaches is that Ruklick and
Moran both fouled out before the game ended while Chamberlain added to the frustration of the opposition by drawing only two fouls in each game.
The West Coast trip and meeting two top teams will probably do a lot to condition Kansas for a pre-season tournament that looks "rough" to say the least. Granted that Kansas State (ranked in the top ten) defeats Oklahoma Wednesday, Dec. 27 (the Sooners haven't won yet), Kansas will meet its cross-state rival Friday Dec. 29. That is, of course if Chamberlain and Co. can defeat highly rated Iowa State Dec. 27.
N. C. Is The Latest Victim As 'Upset Season' Goes On
It will probably be a safe bet that the Wildcats have no regard at all for the Jayhawkers' lofty ranking. As for Chamberlain, they have their own point maker, 6-9 junior Jack Parr. Parr came down with 26 rebounds in a 90-41 K-State victory over Drake, and also scored 21 points. This would not be exceptional except for the fact that he left the game with 10 minutes to go.
By UNITED PRESS
It looks as if it's true what they said about Dixie—North Carolina State isn't kingpin any more.
For nine of the last 10 years, Coach Everett Case guided State's Wolfpack to a conference championship and a high national rating. That's why pre-season whispers from the Southland that State wasn't up to par were hard to believe.
But Clemson surprised Tuesday night by upsetting the Pack, 96-94, for the first time in 15 years and last night came the real shocker—South Carolina's runaway 75-61 victory over State, the first Gamecock win in Case's reign.
Harp's traveling squad consisted of Chamberlain, Lew Johnson, Gene Elstun, John Parker, Maurice King, Ron Loneski, Ron Johnston, Monte Johnson, Bob Billings, Blaine Hollinger, Lynn Kindred and Eddie Dater.
The already gregyg experts were jolted again last night when Niagara, tied for the No. 18 national ranking, suffered an 82-79 setback by twice-beaten Syracuse. Niagara was fresh from an easy victory over Seton Hall and seemed on its way up in the national rankings.
But four other high-ranked teams came through with victories last night to defy the early-season upset wave.
North Carolina, ranked no. 2 nationally and heir-apparent to N.C. State's Atlantic Coast Conference championship, rolled on with an 82-55 rout of George Washington at Norfolk, Va.; 10th ranked Dayton bounced back from its upset by De Paul to nip Miami of Ohio, 76-75; 16th ranked West Virginia romped over Penn State, 81-66; and Temple, which shares the 18th ranking with Niagara, sank 51 percent of its shots in defeating Princeton, 67-58.
In other leading games last night; Purdue led all the way in beating De Paul, 83-78, despite 29 points by De Paul's Dick Heis; Loyola of Chicago tuned up for a Friday date with San Francisco's national champions by drubbing Kalamazoo, 88-57; and Texas edged Oklahoma, 68-62.
Western Kentucky, ranked 12th nationally, and St. Louis, conqueror of Kentucky earlier this week, both face tough assignments in feature games tonight. Western tangles with Seten Hall at New York's Madison Square Garden, while St. Louis plays host to Texas Christian and its high-scoring Dick O'Neal.
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