Monday, March 18. 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Cincinnati Wins Regional
By Steve Clark
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The Colorado Buffalooes failed to make their free throws and lost the opportunity to defeat twice defending NCAA basketball champion Cincinnati and represent the Mid-West at the national tournament.
BOTH CINCINNATI and Colorado made 25 of 56 shots, but the Bearcats made 17 of 27 free throws, while the Buffaloes managed only 10 of 21.
The Bearcats trailed early in the ball game by nine-points, but whittled Colorado's lead to one at the halftime intermission. Cincinnati built an eight point lead in the first eight minutes of the second half and went on to win 67-62.
There were two other contributing factors to the Big Eight champions' defeat.
First, the Bearcats employed a full court press in the second half, forcing the Buffaloes to bobble the ball and then took advantage of their mistakes. Second, Colorado fouled 13 times in the final period compared to Cincinnati's five.
COLORADO REMAINED in the game largely because of their senior forward, limping Ken Charilton, who led all Big Eight scorers this year with a 19.4 average. Charilton could not be stopped as he riddled the Bearcat defense with his high arching hook shots. Charilton made nine of his 17 shots against Cincinnati's George Wilson who guarded him a majority of the time.
The Bearcats capitalized on a three-man offensive attack of Ron Bonham, George Wilson and Tom Thacker. Bonham led the Bearcats with 22 points while Thacker and Wilson scored 18 and 15 points respectively.
Bonham came closest to matching
Charlton's accuracy. The Cincinnati All-America made eight of 18 attempts, while being closely guarded by Charlton.
THE BUFFALOES lacked a second scoring threat to add to Charlton's bounteous production. Center Jim Davis, who averaged 13.9 points through the regular season, was hitting over 50 per cent of his shots, but he did not shoot enough. The 6-8
Ken Charlton Voted Top Tourney Player
The Big Eight's leading scorer, Ken Charlton of Colorado, was voted the most outstanding player of the Mid-West Regional tournament Saturday night in Allen Field House.
The voting was made by sports-
writers covering the tournament.
Cincinnati dominated the all-tournament team by placing three men in the remaining four berths. All-America Ron Bonham, center George Wilson and forward Tom Thacker of the Bearcats and Bud Koper of Oklahoma City were voted all-tourney honors.
junior made five of nine attempts and went one for four at the free throw line for 11 points.
George Parsons seemed to be the only other Colorado starter who was capable of scoring for the Buffaloos Saturday night. Several times, he faked the Bearcats defense and dribbled down the lane for easy shots. He finished with nine points to match teammate Milt Mueller.
Parson's running mate Eric Lee could not match his Friday night performance and was held to four points. The 5-10 guard played one of his best games of the year against Oklahoma City and scored 15 points. Many of his shots resulted from driving toward the basket. Cincinnati coach Ed Jucker assigned his best defensive guard Tony Yates to guard Lee. Yates kept Lee from
driving and made him hurry his seven outside shots. As a result, Lee made but two.
The Bearcats will move on to Louisville, Ky., Friday and Saturday for the finals of the NCAA tournaments. The three other berths will be filled by Duke, Loyola of Chicago and Oregon State, who won their regionals also. The Bearcats will meet Oregon State in their first game.
In the consolation game, Texas won third place by defeating Oklahoma City 90-83.
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Player Reveals Bribe Attempt
A Perry Mason-type mystery concerning the NCAA Mid-west Regional tournament here last weekend remains unsolved.
Lemon said he called the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He said that soon after the contact an agent talked to Jackson by telephone and got a description of the man in the restaurant.
Oklahoma City coach Abe Lemons disclosed that one of his players, Eddie Jackson, had been approached by a man who proposed a fix.
However, Henry A. Fitzgibbon, FBI agent in charge at Kansas City, said he had not heard of any such incident and that it would not be in the FBI's jurisdiction. The Kansas City police said they knew nothing about it either.
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The Kansas Jayhawker indoor track team closed its 1963 season with two first places at the Kansas State Invitational track meet Saturday night.
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KU Scores Two Firsts
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Shotputter Yul Yost won his speciality with a heave of 57-6, almost two feet better than the second place finisher. Yost was KU's only individual winner.
A two-mile relay team of Chick Fero, Herald Hadley, Paul Taylor and Tonnie Coane won the other KU first place. The winning time was 7:44.9.
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There were nine records set at the meet and one tied as 33 teams competed. No team points were kept.
Other KU performers who placed were; Dave Crandall, fourth in the 300-yard dash; Paul Acevedo, second in the two mile; Fero, fourth in the mile run; Floyd Manning, second in the pole vault, and Tyce Smith, fifth in the high jump. The Jayhawker sprint medley relay team and the shuttle hurdle relay team finished third.
Salina Captures State Cage Title
Salina won the Kansas Class AA basketball championship Saturday night at Wichita by defeating Wyandotte of Kansas City 57-49.
Jeff Elias led the Salina attack with 23 points and 18 rebounds. The championship was SALinc's first since 1950. Salina Coach Gene Stauffer, former Kansas State Wildcat star, played on that same 1950 team.
In other state tournament action, Russell won the Class A title by defeating Goodland, 20-16, Peabody won the Class B championship over Hill City 50-49, and Durham defeated Corning 56-39 for the Class BB championship.
Frosh Track Team Third in Big Eight
The KU freshman indoor tracic team placed third in the Big Eight freshman postal indoor meet.
Oklahoma State won the meet with 62 points. Oklahoma was second with $43\%$. KU scored $30\%$ points. The remaining order: Nebraska 29 13/24; Missouri $17\%$; Iowa State $12\%$; Colorado $10\%$ and Kansas State $4\%$.
Four records were broken in the meet.
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