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Owens to coach for North in first All-Star exhibition
By Ron Hanson
It has been a long exciting season, but top college basketball in Kansas is not over yet.
Wichita has been selected as the site for the first annual North-South All-Star basketball game to be played April 2.
TED OWENS, head coach at KU, has been named coach of the North team which is comprised of players from schools in the Big Eight and Big Ten Conferences.
Gary Thompson, Wichita State
Sophomores star in Big 8
This was the year of the underclassmen, particularly the sophomores, in Big Eight basketball. All four of the individual statistical champions, including three first-year performers, will return next year.
This marks the first time that sophomores became so grab happy when it was time to hand out the post-season laurels. Topping the list was Iowa State's Don Smith, who became the third-leading sophomore rebounder with his 326 total, the best for a first-year man since Kansas' Bill Bridges, the all-time leader, plucked 343 in 1959.
THEN CAME Earl Seyfert of Kansas State and Tom Baack of Nebraska, the shooting accuracy kings. Seyfert holds the top in field goal firing accuracy with 52.3 per cent, while Baack is best at the line with 85.2 per cent. Both marks are tops for sophomores.
Suppressing some of the sophomore bounce was Missouri's Ron Coleman, a junior who took the all-games scoring title with his 21.3 average in 24 outings.
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coach, will pilot the South squad. Members of the South's team will come from schools in the Missouri Valley and Southwest Conferences along with players from top independent teams in the South.
ALTHOUCH members of both teams will not be officially announced until early next week, notification has already been given that Chuck Gardner, the Big Eight's scoring champion from Colorado, and Lewis Hudson, a sharpshooter from Minnesota, have been named to the North's team.
While not stating specific individuals, Owens said he definitely feels several members of KU's Big Eight championship team will make the squad. The game is limited to seniors, therefore, Jayhawks Walt Wesley, Delvy Lewis and Al Lopes could be the men Owens was referring to.
ALREADY named to the South's team are Dub Malaise, 5-11 high scoring guard from Texas Tech; James Ware, the nation's leading reboucher from Oklahoma City University; and Freddie Lewis, a sharpshooter from Arizona State.
Coach Thompson said he feels the southern part of the nation has plenty of basketball talent and both he and Owens have promised to go all out for the initial victory in this contest.
THE NORTH-SOUTH All-Star game will be the first of two such games to be played this year as the annual East-West All-Star game will be played later in April. The site for this game is to be announced in a few days.
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Lawson's legs need rest
KU two-miler John Lawson, Kansas City junior, who finished second in the NCAA indoor track two-mile run last weekend in Detroit, Mich., is taking a five day rest for strain trouble in his legs.
"I'm feeling a little better," said Lawson after seeing a doctor in Kansas City Wednesday. He said the doctor ordered him to apply ice-packs on his legs twice a day.
"I will start running again after the five days," Lawson said. Lawson's legs have been bothering him for three months and were getting worse towards the end of the season. He said the strain hurt his conditioning because he couldn't practice as much as he needed to.
Lawson expects to be running again in time for the opening of the outdoor track season when KU travels to Austin, Tex., April 1-2 for the Texas Relays.
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