Thursday, Feb. 20, 1958 University Daily Kansan
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With each succeeding weekend Kansas State draws nearer to the NCAA regionals in Allen Field House and once again, as in many past years, it is regrettable that one of two very fine Big Eight teams must be left out of any post-season activity.
This fact is being deplored by all Kansas University fans this year just as Kansas State fans were moaning about the same matter last year. Neither, however, gets much sympathy in the other's camp.
But bush league or no, NIT officials would be delighted to see a Kansas team in their tournament and visions of dollar signs would dance through their heads with every thought of Wilt Chamberlain playing in Madison Square Garden.
Whenever two such good teams are produced in the Big Eight in one year the name of the National Invitational Tournament immediately crops up even though the NIT is the big tournament in the East where the Big Eight is still stubbornly regarded as a bush league.
But for Kansas and the Big Eight the NIT is taboo-a rival tournament to the NCAA of which all major colleges and universities are a member.
The Big Eight and all major conferences except two, the Missouri Valley and Skyline, rule that the league champion shall play in the NCAA tournaments and other teams shall not play in post-season tournaments.
Still A Bush League Some Say
On the one hand it makes sense that a team should not compete against an organization to which it belongs.
Then again, why should a team like Kansas or Kansas State sit on the sidelines because it happens to belong to the same conference?
Many coaches in the Big Eight would like to see that conference allow teams to compete in post-season tournaments other than the NCAA—which the champion would automatically have to play in.
But Big Eight officials and faculty representatives frown on any such agreement.
One reason is the rather spotty history of the NIT. The basketball bribery scandals of a few years ago in which St. Johns, Kentucky and Bradley players were involved, did little for the NIT except point out that many Eastern basketball fans had a slightly larger financial interest in the game than the price of their admission ticket.
But in many parts of the country the NIT is regarded as the true national tournament and the NCAA is secondary.
For Kansas now there remains a rather remote possibility that some conference team will defeat K-State in which case KU would have to defeat the Wildcats in Manhattan March 8 to gain a tie for the championship.
Winner Chosen By Chance
Should this happen a truly inane Big Eight practice would be applied—the winner would be chosen by lots.
No championship game would be played on the theory that it is too close to tournament time. The choosing would not even be submitted to a disinterested, well-qualified committee.
As regards the NIT, one Kansas team winning that tournament would tend to minimize to some extent the progress another Kansas team made in the NCAA. Many Kansans would rather keep it all in the family and would be unwilling to minimize one school's victory by playing in the NIT, or would they—Tex Winter has indicated that he would have liked to play in the National Invitational Tournament last year.
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Phi Delts Down Beta, 53-41
Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gam, Sigma Chi and Phi Psi were victorious in Fraternity A playoff games Wednesday.
Phi Delta defeated Beta 53-41 in a hard-fought game. Beta led most of the first half, but in the second half Phi Delta tied the score several times and was behind only one point at the end of the third quarter, 36-35. In the last quarter Phi Delta went ahead for good, moving out to the final margin of 14 points.
Phi Gam defeated ATO 42-26 in a game that was fairly close during the first half.
John Peppercorn was high point man for Phi Gam with 12 points. John Husser and Jim Tierney had 6, Wally Strauch, Dick Lee and Bill Crank 5, Don Wrench 2 and Lee Meyer 1. ATO scorers were Roger Hill 10, Tom Holler 6, Stu Luder 4, Tom Jones 3, Perry Walters 2 and Jim Trombold 1.
Ray Johnson led the winners with 16 points, followed by Bob Mettlen 12, John Redick and Jim Elliott 8, Jim Steerman 6, Dale Remsberg 2 and Frank Becker 1. For the losers Dick Endacott had 12, Jack Steele 11, Jim Jones and Alan Forker 6, Gary Rempe 5 and Brad Sheafer 1.
Sigma Chi defeated Sig Ep 52-33 in a game featuring balanced scoring by the winners. Joe Mize led with 14 points, followed by Diz Daharb, Norm Mailen and Jan Banker 9, Charles McCue 6, Wayne Swenson 4 and Dave Thornning 1. The losers' Jack Leatherman was high point man for the game with 15. Other scorers for the losers were Jim Westoff 12, Jack Beverly 4 and Jim Branden 2.
In the final game of the evening Phi Psi defeated AKL 54-23. Phi Psi moved out to a lead of 9 points at the end of the first quarter 11-2. They were never headed after that. Gary Cooper hit 16 points to lead Phi Psi.
Other results:
Fraternity C—Phi Gam III 47, SAE III 12; Sigma Chi M3, Sig Ep 18; Phi Gam II 6, ATO IV (forfeit); SAE IV 40, Sig Nu II 21; Phi Delt V 42, Sigma Chi II 31; DU I 36, ATO III 23; Phi Gam IV 26, Phi Psi 25.
Fraternity B-ATO 59, Lambda Chi 16; Delta Sigma Phi 47, Sigma Chi 36.
Games Today
Independent A playoff—Cats vs.
Chicken Pickers, 4:15; Oread vs.
Jollife, 5:15
Fraternity C—DU II vs. Phi Gam I, 5; Delta Chi vs. TKE I, 5.
Independent C—Pokes vs. NROTC.
5:45; Cisabs vs. 69ers, 5:45; KHK vs.
AROTC, 6:30; NROTC vs. Jim
Beam, 6:30; Jolliffe vs. Backwoods-
man, 8.
Three KU Linemen Signed By Cardinals
CHICAGO — (UP) — The Chicago Cardinals announced today the signing of three University of Kansas football linemen.
The players are tackles Tom Horner of Johnston, Pa., a 235-pounder, and Frank Gibson of Lawrence, Ohio, 225 pounds, and Guard Bob Krause of Massillon, Ohio, 220 pounds.
Krause, the Jayhawkers' captain last season, was regarded as one of the best blockers in the school's history.
Chuck Mather, KU coach while the three played at Kansas, is now a coach for the Chicago Bears.
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