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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 19, 1968
Hawks take over Big 8 lead
By Steve Morgan Kansan Sports Editor
Coach Ted Owens the Jay-hawks gave their best overall effort of the year" Saturday and the result was magnificent as they swept by Nebraska, 71-60, and became sole possessors of the conference lead.
For a change the difference was 11 points instead of two or three and Kansas was in command from the start. The Jayhawks started fast and built an early 20-7 lead, with six minutes gone, as a capacity crowd of 17,000 went wild.
"It was a good overall effort. You can tell when they're sharp. We were picking up more loose balls and interceptions than we have been. That's simply because you're mentally alert," Owens said afterward.
The Jayhawk coach felt before the game this would be a good mental effort. "I didn't know if we'd win but I knew we'd have good effort." he said.
"This group had to decide how much the championship meant to them," Owens said. "They responded with the best week of practices we've had since before the season started."
KU surprised its fans with a starting line-up it had not used previously. Vernon Vanoy started at a forward and Bruce Sloan was moved to guard.
"Bruce is a good ball handler and we thought he could bring the ball up well against the Nebraska press. We also wanted to have a lot of height in the game to work the ball inside," Owens said in explaining the shifts.
The height edge was shown in a couple of statistics. KU used
over-the-top-lob passes to its big front line for 14 points and got another 12 as a result of offensive rebounds.
Owens felt the Jayhawks' early lead was a major factor in the type of game that was played.
"I thought our opening spurt kind of set the tempo for the game," he said. "It gave us a margin to build on. A team can play better when it has a lead to work with."
Stuart Lantz and Tom Baack, both averaging over 20 points a game going into Saturday's contest, were held to 11 points each.
KU held the lead and, despite a couple of flat spots just before and just after the half, appeared to have gotten back the killer instinct it had sorely lacked in recent outings.
"We tried to keep Lantz from getting the ball in deep, tried to front him and slide the weak side man in," Owens said. "What helped was we kept pressure on the ball and they couldn't find their open man."
"We tried to keep them from making the lob pass," said Nebraska coach Joe Cipriano after the game. "We didn't do a very good job of that.
"But that's the best we've ever played here, even though it wasn't very good. We had a couple of chances to get back in the game, but we couldn't make our free throws."
Rodger Bohnenstiehl led KU scorers and rebounders with 22 points and 10 rebounds. Sophomore Gratopp led NU scorers with 16 points.
ON THE ROAD TO VICTORY
KU guard Bruce Sloan puts a shot up against Tom Baack of Nebraska. Sloan missed the shot but was fouled on the play and hit the free throws. Looking on are Dave Nash of the Jayhawks and Bob Gratopp of Nebraska.
KU-NU box score
NEBRASKA (60)
| | fg | ft | rb | pf | tp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Baack | 4-1-1 | 3-6 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| Gratopp | 4-7 | 8-8 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
| Von Moggern | 1-7 | 8-8 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| Sambulbry | 2-8 | 2-8 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| Lantz* | 4-8 | 3-6 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| Damm | 2-8 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Simmons | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cauble | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wagner | 0-0 | 2-4 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Lazarer | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| McPherson | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Martin | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Team | | | 12 | | |
KANSAS (71)
TOTALS ... 19-46 22-33 33 15 60
| | fg | ft | rb | pf | tp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Bohnenstleih | 9-14 | 4-5 | 10 | 42 | 12 |
| Bohn | 9-14 | 4-5 | 10 | 42 | 12 |
| Nash | 7-11 | 1-4 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| Vanoy | 0-4 | 1-1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| White | 8-17 | 0-0 | 5 | 3 | 16 |
| Douglas | 2-5 | 1-3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Avery | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harmon | 3-5 | 0-0 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| Thomas | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lawrence | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bradshaw | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | 4 | |
TOTALS ... 31-60 9-15 40 22 71
Nebraska 32 28-60
Kansas 41 30-71
Officials—Bernie SEGgau, Pat Haggerty.
Attendance—17.000.
KU tankmen sink Huskers
The Jayhawk swim team, winning 10 of 12 events, crushed Nebraska 70-34, in a dual swim meet Saturday afternoon in the Robinson Gymnasium pool.
KU juniors Jim Kent and Roy O'Connor were both double winners. O'Connor won the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events and also swam a leg on the winning 400-yard free relay team.
Kent set a new pool record in winning the 500-yard freestyle in 5:05.1. He broke a record set by Iowa State's Jim Cotsworth last weekend. Kent also set a varsity record in winning the 200-yard individual medley in 2:04.4.
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