Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1958 University Daily Kansan
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KU Defeats CU; K-State Here Next
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GOOD JOB—Dick Harp greets Ron Loneski.
Kansas Looked Good Despite Slow Buff Game
Coach Dick Harp was pleased with the performance of his Jayhawker basketball team against Colorado Monday night, despite Colorado's clinging defense and attempts to slow down the game, which made for a sloppy appearance of the over-all play.
"Considering the way Colorado played the game we did all right, but the game was a little slow and rough in spots," he said after the conference home opener, won by KU 67-46.
"We came out of our zone defense and went into a man-for-man because we got tired of playing the game so slowly, and of course we can use the experience of practicing the man-for-man defense in a game," he said.
While KU was in a zone Colorado was content to take it easy and wait for only the best shots, and KU had to come out and go for the ball before the pace of the game picked up.
"A slow game bores me and it probably bores the fans so we tried to keep things moving. The boys let me know during a time out that they were in favor of going into a man-for-man defense." Coach Harp said.
The Jayhawker coach said that it Wilt Chamberlain might not have looked up to his usual form it was due to the Colorado defense, which attempted to bottle up the KU center by crowding around him as much as possible.
"Wilt played a fine game, especially under the conditions he was forced to play with. He's in good physical condition, despite being out of action for a while." Harp said.
Chamberlain missed the last two KU games because of a glandular infection and he reported back to practice Thursday. He had gotten a little out of shape while being confined to a hospital bed, but he is back to full strength, according to Coach Harp.
"This was not one of the team's better games this season, but we're satisfied to have won. The game was, in general, a little ragged," he said.
In singling out players for individual praise, Harp said guard Bob
Billings played a good game, as did Chamberlain, sophomores Jim Hoffman and Al Donaghue and senior guard John Cieland.
Harp said Hoffman played his best game of the season in the Jayhawkers' 64-62 loss to Oklahoma University last week, and maintained that level of play against Colorado.
Donaghue and Cleland played only briefly, but Coach Harp was pleased with their performances. Starting forwards Ron Loneski and Monte Johnson played below their usual levels, but were among the Jayhawker rebound leaders. Loneski scored 12 points, but he had averaged 14.6 points per game before last night's contest.
Kansas Drops To No. 3 In UP Poll
NEW YORK — (UP) — The United Press major college basketball ratings (with first-place votes and wost-lost records laugh out loud, 11)
9. Oklahoma State (10-1) 91
10. Tennesse (10-2) 83
1. West Virginia (29) (12-0) 335
2. San Francisco (3) (12-1) 239
3. Kansas (1) (10-2) 221
4. Kansas State (1) (11-1) 207
5. North Carolina (1) (11-2) 166
6. Cincinnati (10-2) 165
7. Maryland (9-2) 145
8. Bradley (8-1) 101
9. Oklahoma State (10-1) 91
Second 10 group—11, Oregon State, 45; 12, Michigan state 37; 13, Kentucky 30; 14, Utah, 13; 15, Mississippi State, 11; 16 (tie), Notre Dame and Tennessee, 6 each; 18, Dayton, 5; 19 (tie), Minnesota, Illinois and Seattle, 4 each.
Colorado Falls 67-46; Wilt Scores32
Others—Texas Christian, North Carolina State and U.C.L.A. 3 each; S. John's (N.Y.), California and Memphis State. 2 each; Iowa State and Northwestern. 1 each.
Everything is back to normal at Kansas as Wilt Chamberlain scored 32 points and KU won 67-46 and is now .500 in the Big Eight conference, still trailing K-State and Oklahoma.
The Jayhawkers were never in trouble Monday night against Colorado even though the early first half was close, the lead changing hands six times.
Kansas took command with four minutes left in the period, however, when Chamberlain dunked through one of his 11 field goals to give KU 18 points to Colorado's 17.
From there it was all Kansas as the Buffs, playing a slow ball control game either by choice or by request of Kansas' tough zone defense, were never able to get closer than six points again.
Chamberlain, still second to Oscar Robertson in the national scoring race, scored on 10 of 18 free throws.
Colorado's Leo Hayward was high for the losers with 16 points. Ron Loneski had 12 for Kansas and Bob Billings scored 10.
Wilt Has 61 Per Cent
The Kansas team, led by Chamberlain's 61 per cent average from the field, scored on 41 per cent of its field goal attempts.
Chamberlain had one of his rougher nights under the boards as the Buffs, trying to stop his deadly dunk shot, tried to tie him up.
Chamberlain took 15 rebounds.
A crowd of 12,000, bored at first by Colorado's ball control tactics, came to life when Kansas scored on several successive fast breaks and the usual roars of approval were heard everytime the Big Kansas center swished the basketball through the net.
Colorado, vicing with Nebraska for the Big Eight cellar spot, scored on 31 per cent of its shots from the field.
Kansas is still only .500 in league play with two games apiece yet to be played with Kansas State and Iowa State, the two leading contenders for wrestling KU's title away.
Kansas meets the Wildcats Feb. 3 in Allen Field House in a game whose outcome will be an indication of the true strength of the two Kansas squads.
Kansas' victory over the Wildcats in the finals of the Big Eight tournament cannot be taken as a true comparison of the strength of the two teams since K-State was without the services of Bob Boozer for one half.
Billings Stars Early
Again on the fast break Billings,
the Kansas captain, scored two more
points. And so with more than four
minutes of play gone Billings was
the player keeping Kansas in the
game.
A full two minutes was gone in the game before KU's Bob Billings came to life and scored a field goal on a fast break lay up. Billings was fouled on the play and he scored the free throw giving Kansas a 3-0 advantage.
Two straight dunk shots by Chamberlain, a jump shot by Loneski and a free throw and field goal by Billings, kept Kansas in the game early in the first half.
Chamberlain then hit the first two of his 10 free throws, followed up that performance with two straight dunks and after an interlude when Jim Hoffman and Loneski pushed through field goals, stuffed two more 2-pointers into the basket.
Kansas led, 29-19 at the half.
MINE. AS USUAL—Wilt Chamberlain snares another rebound.
Cornhuskers Sting Favored Sooners,57-54
The nation's third-ranked Kansas Jayhawkers rolled back to the victory column Monday night with Wilt Chamberlain scoring 32 points as the Sunflower state cagers stopped Colorado, 67-46.
The only Big Eight team to see action tonight will be the Oklahoma State Cowboys who tangle with the Wichita University Shockers of the Missouri Valley Conference.
Oklahoma State and Oklahoma were the teams that defeated Kansas while Chamberlain was on the sick list. The Jayhawkers earlier in the season, with the Stilt in the lineup, had beaten both Oklahoma clubs.
The losses had sent Kansas from No. 1 spot in the United Press nationwide college basketball rankings to third place this week.
Iowa State defeated Drake for the second time this season. Monday night was a sharp defeat for Drake, but also for its scoring ace Réd Murrell. He was held to Seven points, his lowest total in two seasons. Murrell had averaged 25 a game for the Missouri Valley Conference team.
Bud Bergman led Iowa State with 12 points. Mell Olson and Bob Tealer tied with eight each for Drake.
The Doors of Memory to the K.U. World War II Memorial Campanile represent a new type of war memorial art.
The $2½ million Memorial Union at the University of Kansas has been built without cost to the state.
Other Big Eight games Monday night saw Nebraska overcome a 7-point halftime deficit to turn back favored Oklahoma 57-54 and Iowa State conquer a cold arch-rival Drake, 63-42.
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Nebraska picked up its first Big Eight victory in three starts while the Oklahoma Sooners took their first loss after two conference victories.
The Sooners trailed only 55-54 with four seconds left when Nebraska Captain Gary Reimers sank two free throws to put the game on ice.
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