WHITE ADDS FIGHT
Hawks Stampede Cowboys
By Steve Russell (Sports Editor)
Jo Jo White's promotion to KU's varsity not only changed the Jayhawk's starting line-up, but it also changed their playing attitude, as was evidenced in their easy victory over Oklahoma State last Saturday night at Allen Field House.
Aggressiveness is the new way to describe KU play. No second half come-back was needed. The Hawks jumped off to a 16-1 lead in the first five and one-half minutes of play and kept the Cowpokes at bay for the rest of the game to win 59-38.
DEFENSIVELY, the score proves the Jayhawks' fierceness. They held the Pokes to the lowest scoring level in the history of KU play in Allen Field House. The previous low was the 40 points Kansas allowed New Mexico State last season.
Offensively, the proof lies not in the score, nor in the shooting percentage—KU hit for only 33 per cent—but in the number of shots the Hawks put up. 67. KU outshot OSU by only three percentage points but they put the ball up 27 more times than the Cowpokes.
Coach Ted Owens didn't think much of his team's offense, but as he said, "That's going to take time.
"With the new line-up we've
got to play . . . get the feel of playing."
WHITE'S BALL-HAWKING and playmaking added the difference to KU's fighting spirit. The 6-foot-3 sophomore teamed up with Delvy Lewis in a full court press which rattled the Cowpokes into throwing the ball away 24 times.
The whole team was caught up in the aggressive mood, stealing the pokepokes blind and ramming their shots back at them. Even Walt Wesley pulled off two thefts and at one point pounded the ball back to the half-court stripe in blocking an OSU player's attempted shot.
The Jayhawks battled the backboards with as much enthusiasm, pulling down 45 rebounds to OSU's 27.
WHITE'S JUMP SHOT 62 seconds into the first half of the game gave Kansas the lead which they were never to relinquish. His offensive effort, however, was no more than could be expected of a rookie sophomore. He scored six points on two out of seven shots from the field and two out of five from the free throw line, and grabbed seven rebounds.
Of his much-publicized new comer Owens said, "I thought he did a very good job considering it was his first game.
"Jo Jo is a good solid basketball
Hawk Matmen Fall Hard
KU's varsity wrestlers nailed only two victories in Saturday's home match against Omaha University, losing 25-8.
scoring KU's second victory, convincingly won the 177-pound match from Martin Maull, Omaha.
Mare Ryan's win in the 145-pound weight division was KU's first victory and George Baldwin,
Omaha now stands 8-4, while KU, says Coach Gary Duff, has "two wins and too many losses."
player," he continued, "who, in time will be an exceptional one. We've all got to give him time."
WESLEY led the scoring attack for the Hawks with 20 points, half of them coming on 10 of 14 shooting from the charity line. His relief, Rodger Bohnensiell, was, with 10 points, the only other Jayhawk to hit in double figures.
The victory gives KU a 7-1 conference record which keeps them hot on the heels of league leading Nebraska. The Cornhuskers upped their conference record to 8-0 by defeating Iowa State 81-70 at Lincoln last Saturday night.
Center Jim Feamster led Oklahoma State's scoring with 16 points, hitting 7 of the Cowpokes total of 12 field goals before fouling out with nine minutes left in the second half.
COACH OWENS said his team, because of the new line-up, has got to "improve a great deal more if we're going to win the conference championship." He feels the Jayhawks will develop into a tight unit by playing more games and thus, only by playing more games, will they improve.
The Jayhawks will get a quick chance to "improve by playing" and to patent their new-found aggressiveness against the Tigers of Missouri here Tuesday night.
MU's short-handed squad had to finish with only four players on the court last Saturday night as they went down to defeat at the hands of Oklahoma University 103-89 at Columbia. The loss was their ninth in a row and made them 0-8 in Big Eight play.
4 Daily Kansan Monday, February 14, 1966
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