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1952 brings first NCAA title
No more Kansas dances past Du
team and individual honors.
The dayhawks soared into the de-
Lovellette, a 6-foot-9, 240-pound cen-
sus first team All-American duo
beyond the Phog Allen-cou-
national Chai
Lovelletta, a n.a. co-
sensus first-team All-America
He helped the Phog Allen-coach
ture the 1952 NCAA National Cha-
ng St. John's 80-63.
Lovelletta gone the next w
With Lovellette gone the next year expectations were not hi- Born expected from Lovellett center had been Lovelletta's b season. — and led Kansas to Championship Game, where th ana on a last second missed jum Both the 1952 and 1953 teams
Doyle Murphy
Both the 1952 and 1953 team who would go on to North Co winningest coach in the h " the Jayhawks r
winning coach in
1955, the Jayhawks r
seat arena that would be
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house on March 1, 1955
given up the reins to
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