Valuable Player
Lewis Foresees 'Best Year'
By Emery Goad
Selection as the most valuable player in the Big Eight pre-season tournament was a pleasant surprise to Del Lewis, 6-2 Jayhawk guard.
"I felt I had not played up to par the last two years and I was really out to play my best this year. The award really surprised me," the Topeka senior said.
LEWIS BEGAN playing organized basketball in the fifth grade. He played his high school ball at Washburn Rural.
Lewis, who likes to date and play golf whenever there is time, admits there will be a little added pressure after winning the tournament but, "That's what we like," he said, speaking for the team.
"You cannot imagine what a great student section can do for a team. The students are what makes teams like K-State and Colorado so tough," Lewis said.
SLIGHTLY OVER SIX feet, he admits he is usually the smallest man on the court, but "I don't notice it much," he said. Lewis scored 24 points against Nebraska in the finals of the Big Eight preseason tournament at Kansas City and 13 points against Colorado on Monday. "Actually scoring is not really my job," he adds.
Besides spending a minimum of 25 hours each week with basketball, Lewis keeps a 1.5 grade point average and currently carries 18 hours. "I don't really have time for much else, but I did run for senior class president last year," he said.
Lewis came to KU because "I was raised in a KU environment." Lewis currently lives at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
LEWIS ADMITS he has thought about the National College Athletic Association title but, "I think about us winning the Big Eight title first and then the others," he said.
Lewis graduates this spring with a major in social studies and plans to return to KU in the fall again for master's work in guidance counseling. He also plans to be on the coaching staff, working with the Jayhawk freshman team. He predicts a coaching job later.
"It will really be nice to be a free man after this year is over." he concedes. "There is so much to think about during school with basketball and grades."
LEWIS LOOKS forward to his summer job with Goodyear and some water skiing.
The last seven Jayhawk games have been out of town and Lewis says the team is looking forward to the games with Iowa State and Oklahoma this weekend in Allen Field House.
"We have a tremendous field house and when it is filled with students it gives us that added lift to win," Lewis emphasized.
Steve Sloan To be Ready
MOBILE, Ala. —(UPI)— Improvements in both the weather and the bruised ribs of Alabama's Steve Sloan raised the spirits somewhat of the South coaches preparing here for Saturday's North-South Senior Bowl.
The Alabama passing star was injured in the Orange Bowl, but seemed on the mend today.
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Daily Kansan Thursday, January 6, 1966
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
Addition For Sigma Chi
Del Lewis . . . . tourney's most valuable player.
Work on a $250,000 addition to the Sigma Chi fraternity house is due to begin soon.
Vince Bilotta, adviser to the chapter, said the project will increase the chapter house capacity from 54 to 94 men. Completion is expected by September.
Plans call for remodeling existing facilities and adding rooms, a dining room for 128 persons, kitchen, lounges, library and new housemother's quarters.
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