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University Daily Kansan Monday. March 10, 1958
University Daily Kansan SPORTS
Is The Champ Really King?
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UP)—The lid slams shut on another Big Eight basketball season tonight with league followers pondering the question. "Is the champion really king?"
There would have been few arguments two weeks ago. Many observers felt Tex Winter's Kansas State team was as strong a unit as the league has produced, maybe as good as the Kansas teams of 1952 and 1953. The former was NCAA champion.
But following a lightening one-two punch applied in the season's final week by Nebraska and Kansas, Kansas State stock has fallen sharply. Winter's men now find themselves confronted by NCAA tournament foe Cincinnati with their morale at a season low.
The NCAA regional playoff in Lawrence Friday night matches last week's first and second ranked national powers. Had K-State avoided last week's pitfalls, the clash would have loomed as one of the best of any year.
Cincinnati, boasting the country's leading scorer in sophomore sensation, Oscar Robertson, has won 16 straight games and is 24-2 for the year. The Bearcats dehroned Bradley as Missouri Valley Conference champion.
in harness to Kansas State, two of its three losses this year were partially explainable. In the Big Eight pre-season tournament, forwards Bob Boozer and Haydon Abbott were flu-streken. Center Jack Parr missed the Nebraska loss last Monday.
The most recent K-State loss, however, was an apparent case of the best team winning, Kansas' Wilt Chamberlain controlled the boards, and closed out his junior season with 23 points, recently ailing Bob Billings, meanwhile, hit from the outside and a Kansas zone shackled Boozer and Parr on a mere 14 point total.
Winter has promised the "shock" treatment as an antidote for his faltering team. The youthful coach, seeking for a third time his 100th varsity victory this Friday night, assembled the squad following the Kansas game for an "executive session."
He told newsmen "we ended the season three weeks ago. Now we're going to start a new one." Lauding Billings' play, the K-State coach said, 'We've been flat since winning the championship. We're going to try to shake the boys up" and the Cincinnati game depends on "how they react."
Iowa State and Missouri close out the regular Big Eight season in a game at Columbia, Mo., tonight. The Cyclones can tie Kansas for second place in the final standings by winning.
Oklahoma State, sitting out the conference title race until next winter, meets Loyola (La.) in an NCAA
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first round game at Stillwater, Okla. Tuesday night. The Cowpokes concluded their season with a 19-7 overall record to capture an at-large NCAA berth.
Conference Games
The standings:
All Games
| | W | L | PCT. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| K-State | 10 | 2 | 833 |
| Kansas | 8 | 4 | 607 |
| Iowa State | 7 | 4 | 636 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | 7 | 417 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | 7 | 417 |
| Missouri | 3 | 8 | 273 |
| Colorado | 3 | 8 | 250 |
All States
K-State 20 3 870
Kansas 18 5 783
Ohio State 13 7 783
Iowa 14 8 636
Oklahoma 13 10 565
Nebraska 10 13 535
Missouri 9 12 435
Colorado 9 12 435
- Not yet eligible for conference title.
The Schedule: Monday
Iowa State at Missouri (end of regular season)
Tuesday
Oklahoma State vs. Loyola at Stillwater. (NCAA tournament game.)
Friday
Kansas State vs. Cincinnati at Lawrence, (NCAA tournament game)
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Sooners Romp, KU Surprises
The Sooners set 10 conference records, scoring 179 points. Iowa State was second with $88\frac{1}{2}$ points. KU was third with $47\frac{1}{2}$ points, Colorado fourth with 45, Kansas State scored 23 and Nebraska had 13.
Oklahoma added six first places Saturday, making a 2-day total of 13 victories in 16 events, and won its fourth consecutive Big Eight Conference swimming title. $ \textcircled{6} $
Iowa State was the only team to
Volleyball Team 5th In Tall Corn
KU's volleyball team placed a disappointing fifth in the Tall Corn Volleyball Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa over the weekend.
break Oklahoma's first place dominance. Dale Wassmuth won the two diving events and Gary Petkus won the 60-yard freestyle for Iowa States' three first places.
Kevin Jones, KU coach, said the team won only one 2-out-of-3 match. The team lost to Des Moines and Topeka. The Jayhawkers had defeated Topeka earlier in the season.
New records set Saturday by Oklahoma were:
Dick Thatcher, 100-yard butterfly in 58 seconds; Caryln Cruzen, 200-yard breaststrock in 2:38.3; Larry Lermo, 400-yard freestyle in 4:43.4 and the 400-yard medley relay in 3:58.
The Sooners had double winners in Jeff Farrell, Cruzen, Chuck Lechick, Lermo and Thatcher.
KU coach Jay Markley said that he was surprised at the performance of his team. The team did better at the conference meet than they had ever done before.
Jared Piety was high point man for KU with a total of 10. Piety
hadn't practiced with the team for four weeks because of illness.
Markley seemed optimistic about next year. The freshman team defeated the varsity 58 to 28.
"With one more season of good freshmen, we should have a good team," Markley said.
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Third Daily Kansan Photo Contest Winners Named
Dale Brown (left), Mission senior, and Lou Hoell, Kansas City, Kan., senior, are shown holding their Best of Show trophies won in the February contest.
BLACK AND WHITE
PERSONALITIES
1st Place, Lou Hoel; 2nd, Jeanette Jackson; 3rd, Robert Berkebile; Honorable Mention, Jeanette Jackson and Steve Schmidt.
CHIU
Honorable Mention, Jeanette Jackson and Steve Schmidt.
CHILDREN
1st, 2nd and 3rd Place, Jeanette Jackson; Honorable Mention, Steve Schmidt. FEATURES
1st Place, Lou Hoell; 2nd, Ron Allerton; 3rd, Jeanette Jackson;
Honorable Mention, Charles Lux and Gary Gruendel.
SPORTH
SPORTS AND NEWS
1st and 2nd Place, Robert Berkebile.
SCENICS AND TRAVEL
1st Place, Gaylord Tefft; 2nd and 3rd, Jeanette Jackson;
Honorable Mention, George W. Byers.
COLOR
PLACES
1st Place, Dean Humphrey; 2nd. Harley Stafford; 3rd. Arthur Shaw; Honorable Mention, Gayle Kenover and Harley Stafford. PEOPLE
1st Place, Dale Brown; 2nd and 3rd, Dean Humphrey;
Honorable Mention, Dean Humphrey, Victor Hyden and Takis Panayotopoulos.
Last Contest Closes April 25
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