Wednesday, March 6, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Jayhawks go to NIT
The University of Kansas basketball team accepted a bid Tuesday afternoon to play in the 31st annual National Invitational Tourney (NIT) at Madison Square Garden in New York March 14-23.
For Kansas it will be the third straight appearance in a post season tournament but the first ever in the NIT. The Jayhawks have appeared eight times in the NCAA post season tournament and have an overall record of 16-7. They won the national championship in 1952.
Wade Stinson, athletic director, accepted the bid from Asa Bucknell, tournament director and commissioner of the Eastern Athletic Conference.
Kansas was selected after it became known it would not be able to return to the NCAA regional.
Kansas State defeated Iowa State Monday night to clinch the regional berth. KU is still in a position to gain a possible tie for the Big Eight title and has an 18-7 record for the season.
Pairings for the tournament have not yet been announced. They will be set Wednesday or Thursday. Other teams who have accepted bids to the 16-team field are Army, Duquesne, Notre Dame, St. Peter's, Long Island, Temple, Villanova, Oklahoma City, Wyoming, Bradley, Dayton, Marshall and Fordham.
Two berths remain to be filled. One will probably go to the Atlantic Coast conference runnerup and the other to an Ivy League team. This is the tourney's first year as a 16 team affair. It was expanded this year from 14 teams to eliminate byes.
"We are going back to New York with the idea of winning this tournament and representing the University of Kansas as well as we can," Ted Owens, KU basketball coach, said. "Tve impressed upon the team that we are going to work hard and are not going back on any pleasure trip."
The action starts with first round games on March 14, 15 and 16. One of the Saturday afternoon games will be nationally televised. Quarter-final play will take place on the evenings of March 18 and 19.
The last Big Eight school to play in the tournament was Nebraska. Big Eight runnerup one year ago. The Cornhuskers were trampled by Marshall's Thundering Herd, 119-88, in last year's quarter finals.
Hayes named player of the year
NEW YORK -(UPI)—Elvin Hayes of the University of Houston, who seven years ago was not even good enough to make his high school team, culminated three outstanding seasons of collegiate basketball today by being selected United Press International's player of the year.
The 6-foot-8 forward from Raybille, La., was a runaway winner in the balloting conducted of 250 sports writers, editors and announcers from across the nation. Hayes was named on 184 ballots and far out-distanced runnerup Pete Maravich of Louisiana State.
Maravic, who established a single season per game scoring record in his sophomore season, received 27 votes for player of the year honors with last year's winner, Lew Alcinder of UCLA, third with 19 votes.
which he averaged better than 27 points per game, Hayes boosted his scoring output to better than 35 points per game and moved in behind Oscar Robertson as the second most prolific scorer in college basketball history.
Coming off two seasons in
There was much more to Hayes' game than just scoring, however. He also was a strong rebounder.
pulling down more than 13 per game, a fine ball-handler and passer.
The talented senior, elected to the UPI All-America team for the second straight year, was the high scorer in all but one of the Cougar's games this season. His season high was 62 points against Valparaiso.
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