Scramble for second place continues
Hawks tangle with NIT-hopeful OU
By STEVE SHRIVER
Assistant Sports Editor
has his sports editor.
The ice has been broken. But
it's too late.
Kansas won its first conference
Garfield Heard
road game of the season, trouncing Oklahoma State, 78-58, but must face NIT-hopeful Oklahoma tonight in Norman, Okla., in the mad scramble for second place.
The Jayhawks had been 0-5 on the road prior to Saturday afternoon's regionally televised game with the 'Pokes in Stillwater, Okla. But they still trail Big Eight champion Kansas State by $2 \frac{1}{2}$ games with only 2 to go.
The Sooners are fresh from an 80-73 victory over K-State Saturday, and could push their overall record to 18-7 by beating the 'Hawks tonight. That would greatly enhance their chances of receiving a bid to play in the NIT in New York's Madison Square Garden.
However, Oklahoma has been plagued by internal problems and will miss the services of four players including 6-9 center Clifford Ray, Reserves Harry Brown, Bob Wooten and Vester Marshall, along with Ray, all missed practice last Thursday afternoon.
Troubled Sooners rebound to trip conference champs
Ray, Brown and Wooten reportedly quit the squad while
By United Press International
By United Press International The Big Eight basketball race may be over but the run for the runnerup spot continues.
Oklahoma's troubled Sooners kept their post-season tournament hopes alive Saturday night by knocking off champion Kansas State, 80-73, at Norman, Okla., while Kansas closed in on second place with a 78-58 victory at Oklahoma State.
Oklahoma, paced by forward Garfield Heard's 31 points, held off a frenzied Kansas State rally in the final two minutes Saturday
In the only other Big Eight game last Saturday, Missouri clinched a first-division finish with an easy 80-63 home court rout of Nebraska.
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Carley, Wichita junior, Roger Hemphill, Lawrence junior, and Brouillette combined for a team score of 27.25. Carley received the highest score with a 9.25 followed closely by Hemphill's 9.20 and Brouillette's 8.80.
Lockwood expressed satisfaction with the results.
"Overall the effort was good," he said. "I'm real pleased with the performance."
He also had special praise for Kirk Gardner, Atchison junior, who received a 9.30 score on the still rings, and Topea sophomore Ron Faunce who scored 9.30 on the long horse. Brouillette also drew mention with his 51.7 in all round competition.
The total results were as follows:
Floor exercise: Clyne (KU) 8.90, Bradfield (KU) 8.8, Johnson (NU) 8.7.
Side horse: Schubert (KU) 9.0.
Brouillette (KU) 8.8, McWilliams
(NU) 8.0.
Rings: Gardner (KU) 9.3.
Brouillette (KU) 8.8, Hannah
(KU) 8.45.
Long horse: Faunce (KU) 9.3.
Bradfield (KU) 8.85, Reising (NU) 8.85 (tie).
Parallel bars: Blanchard (KU) 9.05, Clyne (KU) 9.0, Brouillette (KU) 8.95.
High bar: Carley (KU) 9.25.
Hemphill (KU) 9.20, Brouillette
(KU) 8.80.
All round: Brouillette (KU)
51.7, Joseph (KU) 45.9, Batten
(NU) 41.45.
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night to take the Big Eight champion Wildcats 80-73.
The Sooners, playing before 4-500 fans, their largest home crowd in five years, captured the lead on Heard's tip-in with 2:10 remaining. Until that point, the lead changed hands 19 times and was tied 34-all at the intermission.
Guard Jeff Webb paced Kansas State with 18 points and forward Jerry Venable hit 17.
Oklahoma climbed to 17-7 on the season and an even 6-6 in the Big Eight, Kansas State, which has already claimed the conference championship with a 10-3 record, fell to 19-6 overall.
Henry Smith led all scorers with 21 points Saturday night as Missouri rolled to an easy 80-63 Big Eight basketball verdict over Nebraska.
Marshall was indefinitely suspended by coach John MacLeod. MacLeod would make only one comment: "I consider practice an awfully important part of our program."
Smith, who connected for 17 of his tallies in the first half, helped Missouri forge a 39-30 lead at intermission in the lopsided battle.
The Tigers, who also paced three other players in double figures, held a 23-point advantage in the second stanza before sending in reserves enabling the Cornhuskers to cut the gap. High for Nebraska was Bob Gratopp with 17.
In the two schools' latest encounter, KU bombed the Sooners, 78-41, in Allen Field House. OU entered that contest in the face of disciplinary action, too, as leading scorer and rebounder Garfield
Heard was forced to sit out the game after missing practice.
The Sooners had previously beaten KU in the Big Eight Tourney, 68-64, in overtime, for OU's first victory ever over a Ted Owens coached team. Oklahoma went on to win the tournament title en route to their best non-conference record in 14 years (11-1).
points against the Wildcats. The 6-6 senior forward has hit over 30 points in three out of the last four games and has moved into second place on the Big Eight scoring chart. He holds a slim edge over Cliff Meely of Colorado at 22 points per game and is fourth in rebounding with an 11.3 average.
Heard continued his late season scoring spree by pumping in 31
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