KU to meet NU title is at stake
KU's basketball team will put everything on the line Saturday when they travel to Lincoln to play the Nebraska University Huskers in one of the season's most important games. If KU loses, the Big Eight Conference will have a tie for first place. If KU wins, they will be guaranteed at least a share of the Big Eight crown.
The game will be televised from Lincoln. For the Jayhawks, TV coverage has been good luck; they have not been defeated this season during a televised game. KU pldedd by Kansas State 60-55 in its television premier. Then they smashed Missouri last Saturday 90-55.
NEBRASKA COACH Joe Cipriano said, "I think that playing on our own court will be a great advantage." Nebraska has a winning streak of 19 games on their own court.
Cirtiano also said "I don't know if we have had enough time to fully prepare for Kansas, but I feel that we will be ready by the time we take the court."
Cipriano has made some personnel changes in his line-up, shifting the positions of three starters. Cipriano said he may change Jim Damm to the other guard and put 68 center Frank Empkey to the forward spot. In his place will go Ron Simmons.
THE JAYHAWKS have won 17 of their last 20 meetings with the Huskers and have a running series of 138 games with KU winning 95 of them including 34 of the last 40.
Nebraska has beaten Colorado 84-80, and Iowa State 76-65 in the TV series to match KU's unbeaten televised series. Earlier this year, KU smothered the Huskers 84-58. It was Nebraska's lowest score in 29 games.
Most of the credit for keeping Nebraska to such a low score goes to Jo Jo White, who had the task of guarding Husker Stuart Lantz and held him to 10 points. His usual game average is 20 points.
The rest of the team held down Nebraska with tough defense and a deadly offense that enabled the Jayhawks to put all of their starters in the double-figure scoring column. Ron Franz and Rodger Bohnestiel led the pack with 18 each. White hit 16, Vernon Vanoy tallied 11, and Bruce Sloan gathered in 10 points.
BOHNENSTEIL is currently leading the Jayhawks with a 16.7 shooting average. He has hit 52.5 per cent of his shots this season.
Ron Franz is leading the club in rebounds. He has grabbed an average of 7 each game. He is the third highest scorer with a 12.7 average. White is second with 14.5.
Game time in Lincoln is 1:15 p.m.
Ticket sales 2,000 a day
Ticket sales for the NCAA Midwest Regional Basketball Tournament here March 17-18 have reached 2,000 a day, Nick Roach, KU ticket manager, said yesterday.
"Of course, there has been more of a demand for Saturday's games," Reach said, "but we are giving preference to orders for both nights."
All tickets must be purchased by mail until sometime next week, Roach said.
Orders should be addressed to the ticket office, Allen Field House. The price for all seats each night is $4.00.
Sophs pace field events
By-DON STEEFFENS
UDK Asst. Sports Editor
A sophomore--studded KU field event corps could be the turning point in KU's quest for the Big Eight Indoor Track and Field Championships this weekend in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium.
"The field events will be a key to the meet," assistant coach John Mitchell said. And KU has individuals in first, second or third
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positions in the shot put, high jump, long jump and pole vault.
Co-captain Gary Ard is KU's only long jump returnee from last year's meet where he was third. This winter Ard has the conference's best leap at 24-5/4 and sophomore Jayhawker Ken Gaines trails by only one-quarter inch. Gaines and Ard didn't compete in KU's final dual against Oklahoma State because of slight injuries, but they will be ready to compete this weekend.
COMPETITION IS expected to be rugged with the top four performers going into the meet separated by only $13\frac{1}{4}$ inches. Pressing for top honors will be Mike Gregory (24- $3\frac{1}{4}$) of Oklahoma and Gary Rainwater (24- $3\frac{1}{2}$) of Missouri.
Gains will double back after Friday night's long jump final to
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tion will be Olkhemo's Larry Smith who has done 16-234 but seriously injured a knee in practice Tuesday.
SMITH'S misfortune could be helpful to Missouri's Charles Beck who has the conference's fifth-best mark to date, or could open the scoring door to KU's Mike Burdick or Drew Hamilton who show 14-6 and 14-0 as seasonal marks.
BACKING UP Gaines in the vertical jump is still another sophomore( John Turck, who set a life-time mark of 6-834 last week, and a senior, husky Ralph Light, who placed fourth last year.
In the other jumping event KU has sophomore Bob Steinhoff pole vaulting, Steinhoff, the blond and bespectacled Californian who was the nation's second preo to clear 16 feet, will face another 16-footer in Chuck Rogers from Colorado. The two have met twice with each garnering a victory and both decided by misses. Missing from the vault competi-
A seasonal record had been reached by sophomore Gary Tusk at 53-714 last week, but the well-musculed 6-foot 2-inch shot putter sprained the middle finger of his throwing hand. He will compete Saturday, although his condition will not be certain until throwing time. The leader at 55-4 is last year's fifth-placer Earry John of Colorado.
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