Monday, March 18, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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KU tops Temple, moves on in NIT
Kansas overpowered Temple, 82-76, Friday night in the opening round of the National Invitational Tourney and earned the right to meet Villanova, 77-66 winner over Wyoming in Friday's second game, tonight in the quarterfinals.
The Jayhawks' offensive game plan was "to try to attack inside and from the corner with Harmon," KU coach Ted Owens said afterward.
This plan proved successful. Phil Harmon hit on eight of 14 shots from the field over Temple's zone defense and Rodger Bohnenstiehl and Dave Nash worked well inside against the smaller Owls to lead the Jayhawks in a game they dominated more than the score indicated.
It was KU's balanced offensive attack outside shooting and good board control inside and a tough halfcourt pressure defense that held off the stubborn Owls.
Kansas hit 51.6 per cent of its shots for the game and had four men scoring in double figures. Harmon led with 21 points, Jo Jo White had 19, Nash 17 and Bohnenstiehl 15.
"Our size hurt them," coach Owens said, referring to the work of 6-10 Nash and 6-6 Bohnenstiehl inside. The two combined for 24 rebounds to lead KU to a 40-35 rebounding edge. But more importantly, they accounted for six baskets on rebounds and tips. Add three more by Bruce Sloan
and Greg Douglas and Kansas' domination becomes more clear.
Kansas led nearly all of the first half, trailing only after a Temple rally that saw the Owls take a 27-26 lead with 4:40 remaining in the opening period. A three-point play by Nash put the Jayhawks back on top and they left the floor at intermission with a 35-32 advantage.
But this was not to be; in less than three minutes, Temple hit four buckets to take a 40-39 lead. Kansas had missed six straight shots and turned the ball over four times against the Owls' full-court press.
This was Temple's last lead of the ball game. Sloan ended the KU slump with a medium range jumper and then Harmon warmed up. In a minute and he hit three straight fielders and White added another to gain a 49-42 advantage with 13 minutes to play.
Just after the half, KU hit the first two baskets to grab a 39-32 margin and it looked like the Jayhawks would put it away early.
KU continued to open up a lead that reached 14 points with just over three minutes to play. At this point the Jayhawks fell apart again and three turnovers, two unsuccessful shots and a missed one-and-one opportunity allowed Temple to close to within four points, 80-76, with 12 seconds left.
Jo Jo White and the clock combined to finish off the Owls. White
hit on both ends of a one-and-one and killed the rally with two seconds showing.
Tonight at 8 p.m. KU goes against Villanova, a team much like Temple in size and style of play. They play the same tight zone defense Temple used against the Jayhawks on Friday night.
"They are about the same size as Temple but they may be even better jumpers," Owens said about Villanova.
The Wildcats hit a torrid 68 per cent of their shots from the
KU-Temple box score
TEMPLE (76)
| | fg | ft | pt | pf | tb | tp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Snook | 2-5 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 4 |
| Cromer | 7-15 | 2-5 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 16 |
| Baum | 11-21 | 2-5 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 29 |
| Kelpie | 9-12 | 2-5 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 29 |
| Brookins | 7-14 | 1-2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 15 |
| Mast | 2-3 | 0-2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Nathan | 1-3 | 2-2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Brocchi | 1-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Totals | 21-14 | 10-10 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 4
KANSAS (82)
KINEMAS (02)
| | fg | ft | pf rb | tp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Sloan | 3-6 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 7-6 |
| Bohnenstiehl | 7-11 | 1-2 | 4 | 12-15 |
| Nash | 6-11 | 5-6 | 2 | 12-17 |
| Harmon | 8-14 | 5-6 | 1 | 21-19 |
| White | 6-17 | 7-6 | 3 | 21-19 |
| Donovan | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 1-4 |
| Arndt | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 1-4 |
| Totals | 32-62 | 18-13 | 15 | 40-82 |
field in the first half to swamp Wyoming, Friday. The 6-4 Johnny Jones led Villanova scorers with 38 points.
Temple 32 44-76
Kansas 35 47-82
Officials — Bud Fidgeon and Jim Aernjak.
In other first round games Long Island clipped Bradley. 80-77, Notre Dame got by Army 62-58, Dayton rolled over West Virginia
Attendance----8,000.
87-68, and Fordham stopped Du-
queine, 69-60.
Kansas is the first Big Eight team ever to win a game in the NIT.
In tonight's other quarterfinal match, St. Peter's meets Duke at 6 p.m.
Alpha Phi Omega
National service fraternity at KU invites all men interested in service to the campus to attend an open meeting. Featured will be the color film "Highlights of the 1967 KU football season."
Tuesday, March 19 7:30 p.m. Jayhawk Room Kansas Union
NCAA tourney field to 4
The NCAA basketball championship field was narrowed to four teams with finals played in the four regionals Saturday night.
The two favorites, Houston and UCLA, ranked first and second in national polls throughout the season, rolled through their regionalals with expected ease.
UCLA beat Santa Clara in the West region final, 87-66, to earn its berth in the NCAA semifinals Friday night in Los Angeles.
The Houston Cougars showed awesome power in totally dominating the Midwest regional at Wichita Friday and Saturday
nights. In Saturday's final the Cougars exploded to a 15-0 lead in the first four minutes of play to totally demolish TCU, 103-68.
In the battle for third place at Wichita, Kansas State, a pitiful representative of the Big Eight, was demolished by Louisville, 93-63. This followed K-State's Friday night loss to TCU.
North Carolina won as expected in the East regional beating Davidson, 70-66, in the finals. In the Mideast regional Ohio State upset favored Kentucky by one point, 82-81, to earn a trip to Los Angeles.
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