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University Dally Kansan
Friday, March 12, 1965
Wichita, OSU Favored In NCAA Region Play
MANHATTAN, Kan.—(UPI)—Wichita and Oklahoma State carry the favorite roles into tonight's opening round games of the National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Midwest regional basketball tournament.
Southern Methodist defeated Texas 80-78 in a Southwest Conference playoff while Houston, an at large entry, popped Notre Dame 99-98 in a first-round game Monday night at Lubbock, Tex.
WICHITA and Oklahoma State were both automatic qualifiers for the Midwest battle because of respective championships in the Missouri Valley and Big Eight.
The regional is figured to be a defensive battle-the bread and butter in both Wichita and Oklahoma State attacks. The winners of tonight's games clash Saturday night for the title and the trip to the finals next weekend at Portland, Ore.
Oklahoma State, coached by veteran Hank Iba, maintains the best overall mark among the four clubs with a 19-5 slate. Wichita is 19-7, Houston 19-8 and SMU 16-9.
Wichita faces Southern Methodist University in the tipoff game and Oklahoma State tangles with the University of Houston in the nightcap.
THE SHOCKERS presented rookie coach Gary Thompson with a Valley championship on the strength of an 11-3 mark, but Wichita was only average during the second semester following the departure of all-America Dave Stallworth.
Stallworth, however, was around long enough to guide the Shocks to a 14-2 season mark and an 8-0 Valley record with his 25.0 average. Stallworth's collegiate eligibility terminated with the end of the first semester and the Shocks also lost 6-foot-10 center Nate Bowman because of grades.
Kelly Pete, Dave Leach and sophomore Jamie Thompson have picked up much of the slack in Stallworth's loss. The Shocks lost the Midwest finals a year ago to Kansas State.
Southern Methodist is led by 6-foot-7 Carroll Hooser. The Mustangs, who finished with Texas at 10-4 in the Southwest, are rated above average in both size and
DETROIT —(UPI)— Fourteen new National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) indoor track records will be set tonight and Saturday in the indoor championships at Cobo Arena.
That's how many events some 360 athletes from 84 schools will be competing in during the two-day affair—the first NCAA national indoor meet ever held.
But, the meet isn't the only new thing at Cobo Arena. A new $30,000 indoor track has been laid for the event.
First NCAA Indoor Scheduled for Detroit
The new boards should get a workout under the flying feet of the likes of Notre Dame's Bill Clark, Tracy Smith of Oregon State, Chris Johnson of Southern California and Missouri's Robin Lingle.
Johnson and Lingle are expected to finish 1-2 or 2-1 in the mile. Johnson has run it in 4:06.6 while Lingle's winning time in the Big Eight meet was 4:08.9.
The winning proposal was submitted by Larry Sukut, Ellsworth, S.D., junior, and president of the KU A.I.A.A.
The KU chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics received a $100 prize in the Bendix Corporation's annual Student Branch Competition.
Bendix Gives $100
The funds will be used for the production of a short movie depicting aerospace engineering. It will be shown in connection with such things as the high school visitation program and engineering expositions.
speed. Texas Tech was the conference champion but withdrew from the playoffs because it used an ineligible player in many of its season games.
IBA, who coached the U.S. Olympic basketball team to a world championship at Tokyo last fall, has a veteran Cowboy team. The Pokes are led by 5-foot-5 Jim King, a do-everything forward who hits 57 per cent from the field.
Gene Johnson, a 6-foot-7 center, and guards Gary Hassmann and Larry Hawk add experience to the cowboys' strength. The Pokes won the Big Eight with a 12-2 markthree full games better than runner up and pre-season pick Kansas.
Houston lacks size but plays an aggressive game and often utilizes a full-court press. Leary Lentz, a 6-foot-6 sophomore center, has performed well for the Cougars this year and Wayne Ballard is the club's top outside shooter.
KU will be entered in eight of 10 weight classes in the annual Big Eight Wrestling Championships to be held at Norman, Okla., today and tomorrow.
Sports Briefs
Track coach Bill Easton will enter Herald Hadley in the two mile run and the KU mile relay team of Ron Suggs, Bob Hanson, Lowell Paul and Doug Dienelt in the N.C.A.A. Indoor Track Championships to be held in Detroit, Mich., today and tomorrow.
Fred Hare, the sensational 6-1 sophomore from Omaha, led Nebraska's basketball team in scoring for 1964-65 with 380 points and a 15.2 average.
Coach Easton will be a featured guest speaker during the N.C.A.A. Meet Clinic.
Hadley took second place in the 1,000 yard run and third place in the mile run during the recent Big Eight Conference Meet in Kansas City. The KU relay team won first place among all Big Eight schools.
The Omaha Tech grad hit 156 field goals to break Albert Maxey's 1558-59 field goal record for a sophomore. Maxey hit 144.
Hare fell short of Maxey's sophomore scoring record of 384 by only four points.
Other records rewritten in 1964-65 were team field goals in a regulation game (38 against Purdue), team points in a regulation game (96 against Purdue) and points by both teams in a regulation game at home (181 against Purdue).
The Iowa State basketball squad held its usual season-end voting Wednesday and named Bob Ziegler and Al Koch as the most valuable players.
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Ziegler is the highest scoring Cyclone among conference scorers and finished second to Walter Wesley of KU in the Big Eight scoring race with 270 points. Koch ranks next to All-American Gary Thompson in total season scoring for one year with 446. He was named all-Big Eight and All-District forward this year, and was third in loop scoring behind Wesley and Ziegler.
Bob Vander Wilt, senior from Spencer, was elected captain for the past year.
Jim King, Oklahoma State; Walter Wesley, KU; Gene West, Drake; Lou
Hudson, Minnesota; and Lou Dampier, Kentucky, were selected as the Cyclone all-opponent team.
Nebraska's freshman basketball team has broken its team scoring record for the second year in a row.
The young Huskers scored 687 points (63 more than last year) for an 85.9 average for eight games. They were 3-5 for the season, 0-4 against Big Eight competition. Three of those four losses were by one or two points.
Tom Baack, 6-5 forward from Ft. Wayne, Ind., was the scoring leader with 154 points and a 19.3 average. His 97 points in the last half of the season edged Stuart Lantz, 6-3 guard from Uniontown, Pa., who gathered 147 points for an 18.4 average.
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