Monday. March 17. 1958 University Daily Kansan
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K-State Now Faces Elgin, Seattle
NCAA Finals Start Friday In Louisville
By UNITED PRESS
Can Kentucky, one of the only two teams to defeat Temple, do it again to break the Owls' 25-game winning streak?
Can Kansas State overcome the scoring feats of Elgin Baylor the same way it overcame Oscar Robertson?
These are the big questions in college basketball today and they'll be answered at Louisville, Ky.. Friday night when Kentucky and Temple clash for the Eastern NCAA championship and Kansas State faces Baylor's Seattle team for the Western title. Friday winners meet Saturday for the national crown.
DON'T STEP ON ME-Oscar Robertson moves around Bob Boozer in Friday night's NCAA thriller.
Judging from what happened last Saturday when these four teams won regional finals to qualify for the Louisville competition, just about anything can happen.
I WANT IT—Bob Boozer tries to take the ball from a Cincinnati player. (Daily Kansan photos by Ron Miller)
Here's how the regional finals went:
At Charlotte, N. C—Temple 69,
Dartmouth 50. Guy Rodgers quarterbacked the Owl victory and led team scoring with 17 points while Rudy Larusso of Dartmouth had 19. Temple's anxious to avenge an 83-80 loss to Kentucky in triple overtime in the Owls' third game of the season on Kentucky's court. Coach Harry Littack admitted "rebounding is the big question with us" against Kentucky but also promised drills on free throw shooting.
Robertson gained solace for Cincinnati's elimination in the NCAA tournament by scoring 56 points for a new tourney record to pace a 97-62 consolation round victory over Arkansas.
There are more geysers in Yellowstone Park than in all the rest of the world together.
The National Invitational Tournament resumes at New York's Madison Square Garden Tuesday night with a pair of quarter-final games: Fordham-Dayton and Xavier-Bradley. Semi-final berths were won Saturday by St. John's, with a 71-70 victory over Utah on Lou Roethel's last-second hook shot; and St. Bonaventure, with a 79-75 victory over St. Joseph's (Pa.). This tourney ends with a nationally-televised game Saturday afternoon.
There are more than one billion railroad cross ties in the United States.
At San Francisco—Seattle 66, California 62, in overtime. Baylor led the scoring with 26 points but the hero's role went to Charley Brown, whose set shot with 12 seconds left sent the game into overtime and then sparked the team in overtime. California Coach Pete Newell complained that "five or six" goal-tending violations by Seattle weren't called by the refs; Baylor was tagged once for this infraction.
The performance snapped the record of 48 points in one game set by Hal Lear of Temple in 1955. It also increased Robertson's lead over Baylor in the national scoring race, giving him a 35.14 average for the season to 33.38 for Baylor.
At Lexington, Ky.—Kentucky 89,
Notre Dame 56. Surprisingly easy
victory put Coach Adolph Rupp's
Wildcats in the eastern finals for the
fifth time—they've won the National
title three times. Vern Hatton's 26
points paced the lopsided victory.
Notre Dame coach Johnny Jordan
complained because a game involving
Kentucky was played on Kentucky's home court, but said this
was "not an excuse."
At Lawrence, Kans.—Kansas State 68, Oklahoma State 57. Bob Boozer's 26 points and Wildcat height were the big factors. K-State, which "held" Robertson to 30 points and saw him foul out in overtime victory over Cincinnati in regional semi-finals, will be "making plans" to combat Baylor, described as a "big problem" by Wildcat Coach Tex Winter.
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BOB BOOZER
... it went the other way
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