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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Feb. 14, 1961
Missouri Falls As Highower Leads Hawkers
Kansas's first place Jayhawkers rode the slender shoulders of Wayne Hightower to outrun Missouri 88-73 last night in posting their seventh Big Eight win.
His previous top marks were 34 points and 16 rebounds.
Using his twisting, spinning drives and soft, fall-away jump shots Hightower kept Kansas ahead early in the game. He scored 10 of KU's first 13 points and drew three fouls on two different Missouri players. With the 20 point performance of as moved to a 43-
AL CORRELL and Butch and Nolen Ellison took up the slack for Kansas after Bill Bridges fouled out with 10:08 remaining but High-tower never let up.
Being most valuable in the role of team leader and in controlling the backboards Hightower offset the fine outside shooting of Missouri's Joe Scott and the close-in work of Charlie Henke.
ALTHOUGH HENKE, the conference's leading seer, had 25 points and Scott had 23 points, the consistency of Hightower and his teammates to hit from the field proved too much for the Tigers and Kansas carved a comfortable lead midway in the second half and coasted to the win.
KU hit 47 per cent of its field goal attempts while Missouri connected for 38 per cent.
One of the big factors was the Kansas control of the backboards. In addition to Hightower's leadership, Bridges had 17 rebounds to give KU an important 60-40 carom margin.
KU COACH DICK HARP called Hightower's play, "The best he has dore at Kansas." He had only one reservation about the win. The KU mentor still wasn't pleased with the Hawkers' work as a team, but is happy with the individual play.
IT'S ALL WAYNE—KU star Wayne Hightower is shown snaring one of his 21 rebounds as Missouri's Charlie Henke (55) and Howie Garrett (50) along with Kansas' Butch Ellison (25) watch in awe. Hightower's overall performance, and especially his 36 points, was the main factor as the Jayhawkers rolled to their fourth straight win. The victory put KU atop in the Big Eight standings as Kansas State fell 81-80 to Colorado.
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KU Freshmen Handed Second Defeat, 59-56
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After a 55-55 score at the end of regulation play, the Missouri freshmen outscored the KU freshmen 4-1 in an overtime period to hand the young Jayhawks a 59-56 defeat last night.
With :43 left in regulation play KU's Jay Roberts stepped to the charity stripe and put through two free throws to tie the game at 55-55.
KU had trailed the entire second half after being down 31-25 at halftime.
In the overtime period pairs of free throws by Missouri's Ray Carey and Carl Maples and KU's inability to cash in on charity tosses gave the young Tigers their margin of victory.
The game's high scorer was KU'i Roberts who connected on seven field goals and two of four free throws for 16 points. Following him were Missouri's Carey and Rich Hendrix both with 14 points. For KU Buddy Vance hit 12 points, and Derrill Gwinner, 10 points.
on KU mistakes to surge into the lead.
The first half was close for the first 14 minutes with the lead changing hands 11 times. Each team was handicapped by inability to connect on its shots and ball handling errors. In the last five minutes of the half, Missouri caked in
The win was Missouri's first of the season after losing to Southwest Baptist Junior College of Bolivar, Mo., 78-68 last Saturday night. The defeat was the KU frosh's second straight as they were defeated on Feb. 6 by Parsons Juco, last year's national junior college champions, 75-72.
The KU frosh have two games remaining, both with the Kansas State freshmen. Tomorrow night the Hawks travel to Manhattan for the first encounter. On Feb. 21 the two teams will clash in Allen Field House.
Ohio State on Top; Kansas Ranked 12th
Wilt Chamberlain picked off 60 rebounds during the 1956 Big Eight pre-season tournament which is a tourney record.
Ohio State's Buckeyes, now winners of 24 straight games, 18 this season, were again picked by the United Press International board of coaches as the top team in the nation. Kansas was picked twelfth.