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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 26, 1968
Wildcats upset KU share Big 8 lead
By Steve Morgan Kansan Sports Editor
Kansas had spent a month climbing to the top of the Big Eight conference where everybody had said it should be. The Jayhawks had become sole possessors of the league lead and were in a position to take a giant stride toward their third straight conference crown with a victory over Kansas State Saturday night.
That victory never came. The Jayhawks played lethargic basketball, they lacked the alertness and hustle they had shown a week earlier against Nebraska. Kansas State looked like the better team and walked off the court with a 64-61 overtime victory and a share of the Big Eight lead with KU and Iowa State. All three have 7-3 conference records.
"The key factor which set the tempo for the whole game was our inability to hit and their good early start," Jayhawk coach Ted Owens said after the game.
Poor shooting was the big factor. KU made only three of its first 23 shots, then finished the first half with four out of five to raise its half-time percentage to 25. By game's end, it was up to 34 per cent.
This was hardly the kind of shooting the capacity crowd of 17,000 fans in Allen Field House had expected.
The Wildcats shot 48 per cent.
"There were two things that
beat us," Owens said. "We didn't shoot well and we didn't get on the boards. I don't recall us getting over two or three offensive rebounds all night."
K-State outrebounded the Jayhawks 41-35.
KU actually looked like it might have the power to win only once. In a 27-second span in the last minute of play the Jayhawks scored six points to tie the score at 53-53. This was the first time the score had been tied all night and it appeared KU had the momentum to win in overtime.
"I thought we had the momentum," Owens said. "Especially when we got the ball. It was the first time we had had the ball with the score tied."
Seconds later the momentum evaporated. "It evaporated when we missed a shot and fouled right away and Seyfert (Earl) hit the one and one," Owens said.
Kansas missed two more shots and Nick Pino, the game's high point man with 20, swished a hook to put KU away for good.
KU's freshman team had provided the huge crowd with an exciting build up to the varsity clash by drubbing the K-State frosh, 107-64 Jayhawks Dave Robisch and Roger Brown led all scorers with 28 points each. KU's frush record is now 7-0.
The varsity and freshman teams both play at Nebraska Tuesday evening.
Photo by Moe Behravesh
TOO BAD IT DIDN'T HAPPEN MORE OFTEN
Jo Jo White lays the ball up after a steal late in the first half. It was one of a few bright spots in a disappointing game for KU fans.
The KU swim team increased its dual record to 8-2 Saturday afternoon with a 72-30 victory over Oklahoma State.
Kansas swimmers sink Oklahoma State
KU took nine firsts and eight seconds but was unable to break any records in the 12-event meet.
Tom Ellis, Leawood sophomore, was a double winner for KU, capturing the 1000-yard freestyle in 10:50.2 minutes and the 500-yard freestyle in 5:06.5 minutes.
Roy O'Connor, Middleton junior and holder of the Kansas varsity record for the 200-yard freestyle at 1:47.3, won the 100-yard
freestyle in 48.5 seconds. He also swam on the 400-yard relay team which won with a time of 3:16.
Another record holder, Bob Hines, Mount Pleasant, Ill., sophomore, won the 50-yard-fresstyle with a time of 22 seconds. Hines' varsity record for the event is 21.4. He also holds the pool and varsity records for the 100-yard fresstyle with a time of 47.4.
Some of the meet's closest competition came in the 200-yard backstroke with George Phillips and Bob Workman of OSU taking
first and second over KU's Jim Coughenour, Kansas City senior. Coughenour battled to the finish line but finished third with a time of 2:08.2 behind Workman's 2:07.4 and Phillips' 2:06.7.
KU divers Jim Askins, Wichita senior, and Bob Wilson, Wichita junior, swept first and second in diving with point totals of 248.9 and 208.45 respectively.
Next in line for the swim team are the Big Eight Championships March 7-9 at Robinson Gymnasium.
Gymnasts set records; beat Nebraska
KU freshman aid varsity gymnasts set 14 meet records and won 13 out of 16 first place awards to defeat Nebraska Saturday at Robinson Gymnasium. The varsity score was 178.40-177.95 while the freshmen won 171.60-137.95.
The varsity was led by Robert Pierson, Lawrence junior, who set records of 9.35 out of a possible 10 points in floor exercises, 9.4 in the long horse, 9.2 on the parallel bars and 49.70 out of a possible 70 in the all around, combined score in all seven events.
Other varsity records were a 9.45 score on the rings by Steve Pyle, Baton Rouge senior, a 25.15 out of a possible 30 team score on
KU-KSU box score
the trampoline and the overallteam score of 178.40.
KANSAS STATE (64)
| | fg | ft | rt | pb | tf |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Seyfort | 5-9 | 6-9 | 7-12 | 3-14 | 16 |
| Williams | 9-11 | 6-9 | 7-12 | 3-14 | 16 |
| Pino | 8-12 | 4-4 | 4-7 | 4-20 | 16 |
| Webb | 2-7 | 5-9 | 7-12 | 4-20 | 16 |
| Hancourt | 3-7 | 4-4 | 4-21 | 10 | 16 |
| Arnold | 0-0 | 0-4 | 4-0 | 0 | 16 |
| Team | | | | 4 | |
Stanley Clyne, Wichita, a 9-1 on the high bar by Gerald Carley, Wichita, a 50.1 in the all around by John Brouillette, Wichita, and team records of 26.25 in the rings and a 171.60 over-all team score.
TOTALS ... 21-44 22-27 $\overline{41}$ 11 64
Jim Gillespe, Lawrence senior, and captain Richard Hemphill, Lawrence junior, added to the KU score with a 9.2 on the side horse for Gillespe and two 9.0 scores on the parallel bars and the horizontal bar for Hemphill.
KANSAS (61)
| | fg | ft | rb | pf | tp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Bohnensiehl | 4-13 | 3-3 | 3-7 | 0-11 | 11 |
| Vanoy | 6-12 | 3-3 | 3-7 | 1-8 | 8 |
| Nash | 6-12 | 3-3 | 3-7 | 1-8 | 8 |
| Sloan | 6-12 | 3-3 | 3-7 | 1-8 | 8 |
| White | 5-18 | 2-2 | 4-7 | 4-12 | 12 |
| Harmon | 5-15 | 0-0 | 5-21 | 1-9 | 11 |
| Douglas | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 1 |
| Bradshaw | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 1 |
| Team | | | | 5 | |
TOTALS     25-73 11-11 35 18 61
Kansas State          28 25 11-64
Kansas             21 32 8-61
Officials—Wayne Lichte, Ben Dreith
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The varsity record is now 4-1 and the freshman record is a perfect 3-0 due to what gymnastics coach Robert Lockwood called "excellent effort."
Freshman records were 9.45 in the rings by Kirk Gardner, Atchison, a 9.3 on the long horse by
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