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Tigers on prowl ...
Dave Robisch experiences Missouri's collapsing zone defense but that wasn't all the 'collapsing' the Tigers did as they fell to KU, 63-45.
Cotton 'planned' it all
By CHARLIE SMITH UPI Sportswriter
Cotton Fitzsimmons thinks his most brilliant coaching move of the season may have occurred when he drew up Kansas State's schedule.
Fitzsimmons had a reason.
The second - year basketball coach, whose team clinched at least a tie for the Big Eight championship Saturday night, slipped in an exhibition game right after the semester break.
"Two years ago," he recalled his first season, when he was an assistant to Tex Winter, "our first game after the mid-term break was at Oklahoma and we lost, 82-67. That put us in a terrible bind. The best we could do was 9-5 and we had to win seven of our last nine to do that."
Fitzsimmons got the hint. This season he scheduled Athletes in Action, a touring team of athletes representing Campus Crusade for Christ. Since they do not represent a college, their games do not count in the won and lost columns of the teams they play.
"All we did was get a game in before we had to play one for keeps," said Fitzsimmons. He's glad he did. Athletes in Action startled the Wildcats, 66-60.
"They pinned our ears back and that was good for us," said Fitzzimmons.
Kansas State followed the exhibition loss by going to Oklahoma State and winning and the Wildcats have never looked back.
Saturday they clinched at least a share of the conference title with a 69-62 victory over Nebraska. That victory, coupled with Kansas' 81-73 loss at Colorado, left Kansas State with a three-game lead with three to play. The Wildcats can win the title outright Thursday night when they play Colorado in a regionally televised game in Manhattan, Kan.
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1. UCLA (24) (21-1) 330
2. Texas (1) (19-1) 161
3. S. Carolina (1) (21-2) 241
4. St. Bonaventure (1) (19-1) 231
5. N. Mexico St. (21-2) 187
6. South Carolina (1) (19-1) 129
7. Pennsylvania (23-1) 107
8. Iowa (15-4) 95
9. Florida St. (21-3) 43
10. St. Louis (19-1) 21
11. T Houston (20-3) 29
12. N. Carolina St. (19-4) 19
13. Davidson (19-4) 18
14. Georgia (19-1) 15
15. Notre Dame (19-5) 15
16. T Columbia (20-3) 12
17. N. Carolina (17-8) 13
18. Wisconsin (19-2) 13
19. Utah (17-7) 12
20. Kansas St. (18-5) 7
The Kansas Jayhawks, amidst flying objects thrown from the crowd, defeated the Missouri Tigers Monday night, 63-45, to maintain the fading hope of catching Kansas State in the Big Eight basketball race.
KU hopes for title tie
The Jayhawks, now with six wins against five losses in league play, trail K-State, 9-2, by three games with only three to play. The loss mathematically eliminated Missouri from the championship race as the Tigers now stand 6-6 in league play and 14-10 overall. KU is now 15-8 overall.
However, with 10:16 remaining in the first half, Chester Lawrence hit a 25-foot jump shot to give KU a 13-10 lead. Dave Robisch and Bob Kivisto each added two free throws before a 20-foot Kivisto shot pushed the lead to 19-12 with 6:55 remaining.
The victory was the 12th straight for Kansas in Allen Field House as the Jayhawks have not been defeated at home this year. The early going of the game found both teams tight and playing deliberately with neither capable of gaining a substantial lead.
At this point Robisch was caught throwing an elbow and the ensuing technical foul lead to the first of three delays resulting from objects being thrown to the floor.
Nebraska received strong scoring support from center LeRoy Chalk with 17 and forward Bob Gratton with 14.
By DON BAKER
Kansan Sports Writer
Theo Franks converted the free throw for Missouri but play had hardly resumed until more objects were thrown to the floor and with 6:09 remaining the game was delayed again.
Garfield Heard paced Oklahoma with 33 points.
The Tigers responded by getting two quick baskets from Doug Johnson and Pete Helmback and with 5:13 left in the
Oklahoma also is 5-6 with the loss.
'Hawks slam Mizzou
Chalk grabbed 19 rebounds to lead the Huskers to a 49-35 command in that department.
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half the Hawks led only 19-17.
Missouri started the second half with a brief rally and with 15:30 left in the game Henry Smith sank a free throw to reduce KU's lead to six, 37-31. However, any thoughts of a comeback victory vanished when the Tigers went the next seven minutes and 15 seconds without scoring while KU sank nine free throws to make the
score 40-51 with 9.60 remaining.
As did Missouri, the Jayhawks found field goals hard to come by as they went for over 11 minutes without one. A Robisch tip shot with 5:21 left broke the drought and gave KU a 49-39 advantage.
Missouri's Chuck Kundert then re-entered the game to hit a pair of field goals before Kivisto dropped in two free throws to end the first half scoring with KU leading, 33-23.
But KU regained the momentum with six straight points, two by Kivisto and four by Roger Brown, to make the score 25-17 with 4:04 remaining.
score 46-31 with 9.05 remaining
Robisch, 6-9 junior, once again led KU in scoring with 23 points. Brown and Kivisto were also in double figures with 12.
After two throwls by Missouri's Don Tomlinson, Pierre Russell sandwiched an 18-foot jumper between two Robisch baseline jumpers to give KU its biggest lead of the half. 31-19.
Robisch has now scored over 1100 points in his career. Only Wilt Chamberlain, Clyde Lovellette, and Walter Wesley have scored more for KU.
Henry Smith, a 6-7 junior college transfer, led Missouri with 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Coach Ted Owens expressed satisfaction with the KU performance. He termed it the best defensive effort of the season and pointed out in particular Pierre Russell, who held Missouri's leading scorer, Don Tomlinson, to only four points, all coming from the free throw line.
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