University Daily Kansan Friday, March 14, 1958
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K-State-Cincinnati Open Tourney
Cincinnati and Kansas State, two of the nation's top ranked teams, collide tonight in the feature game of the NCAA regionals with the outcome a tossup.
"This will be the toughest regional in the NCAA," said Cincinnati coach George Smith, whose team arrived for a workout last night. "We know we're the highest ranked team in the tournament and we came out here to play. But when you play a team rated as high as Kansas State, you know you're running into trouble."
Cincinnati was ranked second in the final United Press poll and
Kansas State fourth. However, Cincinnati now is the no-tranked team in the tournament following West Virginia's first round defeat.
Coach Tex Winter of Kansas State said he had worked "on a couple of things" he might use in efforts to slow down Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati's 6-foot 5-inch All America forward who leads the nation in scoring with a 34.5 average.
"We know we can't stop him, but if what we have planned works out, we'll slow him down a bit," Winter said.
The two teams collide on the
Smith said he had not planned anything special for Kansas State. "We've met nearly every type of offense and defense over the season and will just have to adjust after we see what they throw at us." Smith said.
Allen Field House floor at 7:30 p.m. Arkansas, the Southwest Conference playoff champion, and Oklahoma State, an independent at-large team, meet at 9:30 p.m. with Oklahoma State rated the favorite.
able to match their height all the way."
"We know they're tall and good," he added, "and we just won't be
K-State sends up a formidable forward wall in 6-foot 9-inch Jack Parr, and 6-foot 8-inch Bob Boozer, both capable in under men or from the outside. And if Winter is so inclined, he can send in 6-foot 8-inch sophomore Wally Frank at a forward position, replacing his fast break man, 6-foot 3-inch Hayden Abbott.
Cincinnati also has a 6-foot 9-inch pivot man, Connie Dierking, who is second only to Robertson in scoring with a 15.8 average. But outside of Dierking and Robertson, the Bearcats fall off to little men in the 6-foot 3 or 4 inch class. Boozer leads Kansas State scoring with an average of 20 points while Parr is second at 14.2.
On a team basis, Cincinnati is best in scoring average, 86.3 to 70.4 for Kansas State. However, Kansas State has a better defensive average, holding opponents to 60.2 points to 65.3 for Cincinnati.
The game, a sellout, will be televised by stations at Topeka and Wichita, Kan., but will be blacked out in Kansas City to protect the NAIA tournament underway there.
Boozer Is Big 8's Top Cage Player
Bob Boozer, a basketball player who had a hard time finding a college scholarship, has been voted the outstanding player of the Big Eight conference by a United Press poll.
Boozer, who couldn't get a scholarship from Nebraska and contemplated leaving Kansas State for fear of playing under center Jack Parr's shadow, was a two to one choice for the honor over KU's Wilt Chamberlain.
Both Chamberlain and Boozer were unanimous choices for the all star team the second year in a row they have won this honor.
The player of the year award may have been a disappointment to Chamberlain. Last year he lost out to Iowa State's Gary Thompson.
This is the first time in three years Farr has failed to make the first team in the selections. He was edged by John Crawford of Iowa State in a close vote.
The selections were also likely a disappointment for Kansas State's Jack Parr who was lowered to the second team in the selections.
The other two on the first team are Oklahoma's Joe King and Roy DeWitz of Kansas State.
Kansas State coach Tex Winter was named coach of the year. Winter won the Big Eight championship the night of his birthday, Feb. 25.
Joining Parr on the second team were Ron Loneski of Kansas, Lyle Frahm of Iowa State, Sonny Siebert of Missouri and Gary Reimers of Nebraska.
Honorable mention; Bob Billings,
Kansas; Schroeder, Colorado; Abbott
and Matuszak, Kansas State;
Talley, Missouri; Fitzpatrick, Kubacki and Turner, Nebraska; Bergman and Medksar, Iowa State; Hudson, Oklahoma. For honorable mention player of the year, Chamberlain, Kansas. For honorable mention coach of the year, Jerry Bush, Nebraska and Doyle Parrack, Oklahoma.
The team was selected by balloting of sports editors, broadcasters, coaches and publicity directors.
Tonight's Game On WIBW-TV
Basketball fans who were unable to get tickets for the first round of NCAA play in Allen Field House can still see the games by way of TV, it was announced yesterday. WIBW-TV, Channel 13 in Topeka has announced it will cover the game and also feed it to other TV stations in the western part of Kansas.
Kansas City stations will not be carrying the game since it would conflict with the NAIA tournament there.
WIBW-TV will possibly televise the Saturday night game also, station officials said.
Basketball Results
By UNITED PRESS National Invitational Tournament at
New York (first round)
St. John's (N.Y.) 76, Butter 69
St. Joseph's (Pa.) 83, St. Peter's (N.J.)
72
NCAA Small College Tournament at
Evansville, Ind. (semi finals)
San Diego State, Calif. (finals)
St. Michael's (V1) 78, Kansasville 70
NAIA Tournament at Kansas City
Western Illinois In Top Spot
Pressure-resistant Western Illinois and colorful Tennessee A&I shared the favorite role today as four survivors from a 32-team field geared for semi-final play in the annual NAIA tournament.
Mo. (quarterfinals)
Texas State 76, Oklahoma 78
Western Illinois 70, Youngstown 67
Ton-ranked Western Illinois, undefeated in 26 games this season, meets unseeded Georgetown, Ky. College in tonight's upper half semifinal while defending champion Tennessee A&I, seeded No. 3, takes on Texas Southern, another unranked team.
Guard Bill Mcafoos, a sophomore, paced Western Illinois' 70-67 quarterfinal victory over Youngstown. Ohio University Thursday night. It was the second straight 3-point victory for the Illinois team, which has recorded a history of comeback victories. Mcafoos scored 20 points and was the leader in a Western Illinois drive which overcame Youngstown's 11-point halftime advantage.
Tennessee A&I, shooting to become the second team ever to win the NAIA title two years running, breezed past East Texas State 81-62 Thursday night. James Satterwhite had 20 and John Barnhill 18 for Tennessee.
Texas Southern, after a slow start,
eliminated Coe (Iowa) College with
a spurt minutes before the half and
went on to a 98-78 win. Percy McDaniel scored 19 points for Texas Southern and Dave Parker and Bob Bobbitt had 18 each.
Georgetown ousted fifth-ranked West Virginia Wesleyan 83-74 in the other quarterfinal. West Virginia led by as many as nine points before the Kentucky squad caught fire to go ahead 45-43 at the intermission. Charles Grote scored 20 for the winners. Ken Remley paced West Virginia with 18.
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Grapefruit League results may not be worth a handful of citrus seeds but it's obvious today why Mike Higgins is beamin' and Casey Stengel is steamin'.
The Red Sox made it four in a row Thursday when they defeated the Yankees, 1-0, on a run-scoring single by Billy Consolo following a double by Sammy White. In those four games, Red Sox pitchers have yielded a total of nine runs and 27 hits while defeating the Yankees twice and the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago White Sox one each.
Higgins' Boston Red Sox are the only undefeated team on the spring circuit with a perfect 4-0 slate compiled despite the fact that Ted Williams hasn't played an inning. Stengel's New York Yankees have the worst record in the league—one victory and five losses—despite the fact that Mickey Mantle and Yogi
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