Big win over NU face CU tonight
Coach Ted Owens is a very pleased man since his basketball team edged Nebraska Saturday 64-57. The victory gives Kansas a 12-1 record in the league and a 20-3 overall record.
But the victory was not certain until the final minute when Jo White hit three free throws and Ron Franz put in a bucket to boost KU over Nebraska.
The game was see-saw most of the time as the score was tied 14 times during the game. A lay-up by Bruce Sloan of Kansas put the Jayhawks ahead for the remainder of the game. His shot came with two minutes left.
A Nebraska player was the key player in the final minute of the game, and he wasn't even on the court. As the referee ran downcourt, the player stood up and brushed the ref. The result was a technical foul. JoJo White, deadliest of the KU free-throw artists (86 per cent) flipped the nets twice.
WHITE WAS FOULED a few seconds later and added another free throw to his 11 point total in the game.
High point man for KU was Rodger Bohnenstiel with 18 points. Ron Franz was second with 14 points.
KU blew an early 11-2 lead and had Nebraska hot on its heals as the score was tied 14 times. It was Bruce Sloan's bucket that gave KU the final edge.
With the victory over Nebraska tucked under its belt, KU faces Colorado tonight. The Buffaloes are the only league team to pin a loss on the Jayhawks. Colorado is currently in second place with a 9-3 record. The Buffers defeated the Hawks 62-59 at Boulder earlier this season in January.
Asked if he thought KU would suffer a let-down after the Nebraska game, Coach Ted Owens said, "Hopefully not, after all they have beaten us before this year. We have a great deal of respect for them."
Records tumble in Big 8 indoor meet
He glanced at the clock and it read 3:01.0, then Jim Ryun stepped up his record-breaking pace and the 10,000-plus fans' excitement mounted. With a lap to go, all the spectators at the Big Eight Indoor Track and Field Championships were on their feet as Ryun finished with a 57.8 last quarter to record the world's fastest indoor mile time this winter of 3:58.8, only 2.4 seconds away from Tom O'Hara's world mark.
An hour later the KU sophomore again stepped onto the track, this time for the half-mile. Again, Ryun followed the leaders for half the race, strided past the quarter at 53.2 and then shifted into high gear as he demolished the field. Ryun's time: 1:52.0 to second place Jim Metcalf's (Oklahoma State) 1:53.3, the defending champion.
Ryun had also trailed in the mile, behind Kansas State's senior Conrad Nightengale, as the Wildcat was after "a four-minute mile." But before the meet Jim said, "I'm out for 10 points, and then if I can do something else, fine."
And Jim was determined to get those 10 points and two firsts as Nightengale went out on a blistering, record-setting pace of 58.5 and 1:59.6. But the K-Stater lost contact as Jim rushed past him after the half and the race was a matter of Ryun versus that old nemesis—the clock.
The clock showed excellent results for the Jayhawks all night as KU runners won five firsts and scored 64 points to Nebraska's and Missouri's 31 each. Bringing home 14 of those tallies were KU's hurdle two-some, George Byers, who ran a world record 6.6 in the lows three times, and Lee Adams, who won the highs in 7.4 and ran second to Byers in the lows.
Another meet record came in the final event, the mile relay, as KU was placed in the slow heat. But Gary Ard, Steve Ashurst, Dwight Peck and Ben Olison combined for a school and conference record of 3:16.8. Olison and Ashurst had sprinted to first and fourth, respectively, in the open 440 earlier in the evening.
Kansas' other victory came as senior Tom Yergovich pulled away from the 1000-yard run leaders with a quarter to go and held the lead for the title.
Other placers were: Long Jump, 2. Gary Ard; High Jump, 3. Ken Gaines, 4. John Turck; Pole Vault, 2. Bob Steinhoff; 4. Mike Burdick; 600, 3. Dwight Peck; Mile, 4. Gene McClain; Two-Mile, 4. Mike Petterson.
Kansas' Don Pennington won three events as he led the Jayhawks to second place in the Big Eight swimming championships last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Columbia, Mo.
ISU swimmers win Big Eight
Iowa State scored 125 points to KU's 114 with Oklahoma in third with 93 after 13 consecutive conference crowns. Kansas State scored 42, Oklahoma State 27.5, Nebraska 26, Missouri 25.5, and Colorado 7.
Pennington, the meet's only triple-winner, successfully defended his 1966 titles in the 500-yard freestyle and 400-yard individual medley. He broke his own meet records in both events with 4:53.4 and 4:25.8, respectively. Pennington also won the 1650-yard freestyle in 17:21.1 and ledoff KU's second-place 880-yard freestyle relay team.
Jim Askins defeated Missouri's Mickey Varner in Thursday's one-meter diving, 383.30 points to 375.50. Varner reversed the finish Saturday in the three-meter competition, 422.40 to 396.35.
Daily Kansan Monday, March 6, 1967
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