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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 7, 1968
Big Eight swim championships begin today
The Jayhawk swimmers play host to the Big Eight this weekend as the conference's 41st annual swimming and diving championships will be staged today, Friday and Saturday at the Robinson Gymnasium pool. Kansas and defending champion Iowa State loom as favorites.
Time trials begin at 1 p.m. today and Friday and at noon on Saturday. Finals will be at 8 p.m. each night. Five events are scheduled for today and seven on each of the last two days.
Iowa State, which lost only six individual points from last year's squad, is again potent in the freestyle events with defending champions John Westensee in the 50 and Bruce Lechler in the 200 leading the squad.
Westensee, who has the best time this year in the Big Eight at 50 yards, should receive his stiffest competition from Jayhawk sophomore Bob Hines, who tied him in the KU-ISU dual earlier this year. Westensee won last year with a 21.6 clocking.
Both are expected to keep busy during the weekend as they are entered in the 100-yard free, where Hines has the top Big Eight time of 47.4, and probably will anchor their 400-yard freestyle relay squads. Westensee anchored Iowa State to victory last year.
Lechler, Cyclone captain, should be pressed by KU junior Roy O'Connor and sophomore Tom Ellis as he shoots for his conference mark of 1:46.1 set in the 200-yard freestyle last year. Lechler has the best Big Eight time in the 200 this year with 1:47.9.
O'Connor placed second in the 50 and 200 and third in the 100 at last year's meet.
In the longer freestyle events, KU will rely on junior Jim Kent and Ellis to take the place of two-time triple winner and all-
American Don Pennington who graduated.
Kent, who enjoys the gruelling 1650-yard freestyle, will face Oklahoma's Doug Hellerson, 1967
second place finisher in both the 500 and 1650, and Iowa State's versatile Jim Cotsworth, who is capable of placing high in six individual events.
KU faces Temple in NIT
The KU Jayhawks will begin play in the National Invitational Tourney against Temple University at 7 p.m. Friday, March 15, it was announced Wednesday.
St. Peters winner in the quarterfinals and the West Virginia-Dayton winner plays the Army-Notre Dame winner.
White is player of year in Big 8
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UPI)—Iowa State's fabulous Don Smith, the league's number one scorer and rebounder, was the only unanimous choice to the 1967-68 all-Big Eight basketball team announced Wednesday by United Press International.
Smith, who was named to his third straight all - conference berth, was joined by guard Jo Jo White of Kansas, Oklahoma's Don Sidle, Stuart Lantz of Nebraska and Steve Honeycutt of Kansas State.
All except Honeycutt, a junior, are seniors and repeaters from last year's all-conference team.
Smith, a 6-8, 225-pound senior from Brooklyn, N.Y., was named to the first team on all 24 ballots cast by UPT's panel of writers and broadcasters.
White, a first semester senior who has one semester of eligibility remaining, was named to the first team on 23 ballots and Sidle and Lantz on 20 ballots.
Kansas State's Tex Winter, who guided the Wildcats to their first Big Eight title since 1964, was voted coach of the year and White, a third team UPI all-American, edged Smith and Lantz for player of the year honors.
Iowa State's Bill Cain, a 6-6 forward who averages 18 points and 9.5 rebounds, edged Missouri's Don Tomlinson for sophomore of the year honors.
Other first-round games for which the pairings have been set are St. Peter's against Marshall at 7 p.m. and Fordham facing Duquesne at 9 p.m. in the tournament's opening night, March 14.
Smith, the Cyclone's leading all-time scorer and the Big Eight's number three all-time scorer has averaged 25.4 points and 14.5 rebounds through Iowa State's first 13 conference games. Sidle, also 6-8, is second in both departments with a 20.7 scoring average and a 10.5 rebound mark. Sidle, who won the scoring crown
by two points over Smith a year ago has the loop's best goal goal percentage mark at .568.
Lantz, a 6-3 guard from Union-town, Pa., carries a 20.4 scoring average, a 7.5 rebound average and has hit .508 per cent of his floor shots. White, a playmaker-defensive genius, is averaging 15 points a game for the NIT-bound Jayhawks.
Honeycutt, who along with 7-1 Nick Pipe spearheaded K-State's last season drive to the title and NCAA playoffs, is averaging 15.2 points a game.
Rodger Bohnensiehl, an all-conference selection last year, along with Nebraska's Tom Baack and Pat Frink of Colorado headed the second team, which also included K-State's Earl Seyfert and Eugene Jones of Missouri.
Frink and Seyfert were both on the second team a year ago. All are seniors.
Army plays Notre Dame in the nationally televised matinee game March 16. West Virginia will meet Dayton at 9 p.m., that night.
Long Island will play Bradley in another first round contest. The winner of the Temple-Kansas game meets the Marshall-
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