Wednesday, March 13, 1968
Page. 6
The Daily Nebraskan
Final Big Eight tally
shows Smith on top
: Kansas City, Mo Don
Smith has become the top
scorer against Big Eight Con
ference foes in the history of
the conference, according to
final statistics for league
games only.
All season long, the big
Iowa State senior has been
chasing some of the lofty Big
Eight standards. Now he has
taken with him one of the
oldest, the career mark for
most points in a conference
CONFERENCE GAMES ONLY
Scoring
If lr ft
Smith. 1SU 11 270 1M 171 25.7
Sdle, OU 108 188
Lantt. NU 102 203
Baack. VU 108 237
Jonas. MU 98 1M
F Ok. CU 98 241
William. CO 88 216
Cain. 1SU 81 lf
Tomllnaoa, afU 7? 171
BohnenaUehl, K1J ... S3 159
Johnson, MU 75 154
White. KU 82 194
Honeycutt, KSU .... 74 174
P"era. OU 74 168
Heard, OU 77 158
S..l.th. OSU 81 112
Gr.topp. NU 57 120
Pino. KSU 68 150
Kekouilac
73 111 20.6
84 112 20.8
44 96 18.C
63 104 18.5
58 86 17.8
69 89 17.5
78 111 17.1
86 126 16.8
42 54 16.3
96 72 14.7
41 51 14.6
S3 73 14.4
39 57 13.4
32 68 13.3
58 74 12.9
59 75 12.4
30 40 ll.t
Smith. Iowa Stat ....
Heard. Oklahoma
Sidle. Oklahoma
W. Miami, Kansaa Stat
Jonea, Mlaaotirl
Cain. Iowa State
PI ao. Kanaaa State ...
Johnson. Missouri
Lanta. Nebraska . . . .
Savell. Oklahoma Stat
Seyfart, Kansas SUt .
Oralopp. Nebraaka
Rogers,
At.
14.6
10.4
10.4
10.1
9.9
9.7
9.4
7.6
7.4
.7
6.7
6.6
6.S
tea pel.
159 .585
.. 204
...146
...145
...142
.. 139
...136
...132
..106
...103
... 94
... 94
.. 2
Oklahoma 81
TCI Wpnantas
nnhunttirhl. Kana 93
Sidle. Oklahoma 108 188 .574
Smith. Oklahoma Stata ..61 112 .545
WilUama, Kansas Stat ..50 97 .515
Harmon. Kansaa 44 88 .512
Jones. Missouri 98 194 .505
Nash, Kansas 57 113 .504
Lantz, Nebraska 102 203 .502
Savell, Okla. St 47 96 .490
Heard. Oklahoma 77 158 .487
Johnson, Missouri 75 154 .487
FT Percent at
ft fta pet
Hawk. Oklahoma SUt ...S3 S9 .898
Sayfert Kansas SUt 38 44 .818
Renlch, Colorado 42 52 .808
Whit. Kansas 41 51 .804
Gratopp. Nebraska .59 79 .787
Baack. Nebraska 44 56 .786
Smith, Oklahoma Stat ..58 74 .784
Boluwnstiehl. Kansas .... 42 54 .778
Herron. Oklahoma State . 35 45 .778
Williams. Colorado .... 69 89 .775
Johnson. Missouri ....... 56 72 .773
' TEAM LEADERS
' FO Farosntac
Oklahoma 40M5 .476
Kansas 379-798 .475
Okla. Stata 287-607 .473
Nebraska .406-869 .46 7
Missouri 353-769 .459
Kansas State 359-869 .413
Iowa State 355-884 .402
Colorado . 348-883 J&4
FT Percentage
Nebraska 289-383 .755
Okla. State 219-307 .713
Xansea 218-307 .710
Iowa Stat 291-423 .687
Missouri 259-384 .674
Coloroo 261-373 .670
Kanaaa State 202-307 .658
Beheead Fere taie
Kansas State 564-471 .Ml
Iowa State 539-457 .541
Jvanaas 433-417 .509
Oklahoma 520-520 .500
Nebraska 439-448 .495
Missouri ... 46 9-521 .474
Okla. State 330-384 .462
Colorado 430-509 .458
career held by Kansas' great
Clyde Lovellette.
Smith closed out his col
legiate career with SO points,
pushing his seasonal total to
a winning 360 points, an av
erage of 25.7. This put his ca
reer total at 946 for 42 games,
a 22.5 average for the three
seasons. Lovellette, playing at
Kansas in 1950-51-52, had 36
games in which to reach his
total; thus holding an aver
age edge with his 25.0 career
mark (899 points). Wilt Cham
berlain has the all-time conference-games-average
high
of 26.5.
586 rebounds
In his finale, Smith also got
15 more rebounds to push his
three-year total to 586 in
league games, surpassing the
old mark of 580 held by an
other former Kansas leader,
Bill Bridges, who finished in
1961.
This gave Smith his third
straieht rebounding crown as
he gained 204 in the 14 games.
This is but seven shy of
Bridges' single-season mark
of 211. Smith's winning totals
were 186 as a sophomore and
196 last year. He and Bridges
are the only two to win the
individual title three years
running.
Kansas' Rodger Bohnen
stiehl and Oklahoma State's
Larry Hawk also got into the
record-breaking act. Bohnen
stiehl has become the most
accurate shooter from the
field in league annals, finish
ing his three years of Big
Eight play with a percentage
of 56.6. This betters the old
standard of 53.3 held by Tom
Russell of Nebraska.
Fourth best
Bohnenstiehl's high mark
came as a sophomore, when
he scored at a 61.9 pace, hit
ting 52 of 84 tries, winning
the shooting championship.
He slipped to a still very re
spectable 52.1 last year, fourth
best in the loop, but popped
back to another accuracy title
this season with his 58.5 av
erage, scoring 93 of 159 times
he tried.
Wh
by Harry Argue
Sports Columnist
Quick. Give me one answer
to the question, "Who is the
1968 Nebraska high school
basketball champion?"
I bet you couldn't do it.
Sure, vour replv was proba
bly Lincoln Northeast in Class
A, Schuyler in Class ti, urant
in Class C and Adams in
Class D. But that didn't an
swer my question as to who
THE champ is.
What I'm getting at is that
you cant determine a real
winner with the class system.
In brief, the classes should be
abolished and there should
just be one huge tournament
for all the schools in the state,
regardless of size.
Hold It down, fans
I can hear the howls now.
"The small schools wouldn't
have a chance." and "It would
be so unfair." I disagree.
To beein with, there could
yj a nlav-off between the four
class titlists and I'd imagine
there might be a few sur
prises. I'm sure s c n u y i e r
wnulrl have iust loved a crack
at Northeast, Grant would
hflv liked a shot at both of
them, and so on down the line.
tvia disadvantage of that
set-up though would be drag
ging the season on a weex
longer. Combining all of t n e
districts and adding a few
more for just one large tour
ney would not have this effect.
What more, the districts could
be so arranged to give some
advantage to the small
schools.
This could be done by may
be having only two district
winners from Omaha, one
from Lincoln, and the rest
from outstate.
A one class system does
work and the small schools
like it too. In my home state
Illinois there are about
950 high schools, all in o n e
class, and it's always d e e n
fine. Remembering that Chi-
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ARG UEments I
cago has nearly half of Illi
nois' population, you might be
surprised to learn that a Chi
cago team never won top hon
ors until 1958, an:l have won
only twice since then.
Chicago muzzled
This is partly because of the
final 16 tournament slots,
Chicago only gets one entry
and the suburbs cet only two.
Also, downstate 1 1 1 i n o i s is
widelv reearded as one of the
best, if not the best, hotbeds!
of basketball talent in the
United States, although Chica
go teams have been gaining
in caliber for about the last
15 years.
What about the real small
towns thoueh? Well, one only
has to look to 1964 as an tfeal
example. The finals were be
tween Pekin, a Peoria suburb,
whose school had about a 3,000
enrollment, and Cobden, a
hamlet in Illinois' southern
tip, with a school enrollment
of 70. Tiny Cobaen. wnom ev
erybody in the state except
Pekin was pulling for. played
like they were right at home
before 16.000 fans, and took
the game into overtime, be
fore Pekin finally won the ti
tle. What was that about
small schools never having a
chance without classes?
Nebraska gaining
I hasten to add that I am
not trying to cut down either
Nebraska basketball in gen
eral or the Class A cham
pions, Northeast. Nebraska
basketball is definitely on the
rise and is becoming compar
able to the basketball of places
like Indiana, Kentucky and
Illinois, where "March Mad
ness" strikes with epidemic
proportions.
As far as Northeast goes,
it's hard to take anything
away from them and many
would contend that they are
the real 1968 champ. I'd prob-
Kelly-Melton win
handball title
Defensive Line Coacl
George Kelly and Linebacker
Coach John Melton are the
1968 Cornhusker Football Staff
handball champions.
Kelly and Melton defeated
Frosh Line Coach Monty Kif
fin and Warren Powers, de
fensive star of the Oakland
Raiders who helps the Husk
ers in the spring for the
crown.
ably tend to agree, especially
after attending their game
with Omaha Central last Sat
urday. I can't remember ever
seeing a team so keyed-up, so
inspired and that worked so
well together as a unit with
no superstars, but five stars
always on the court. I would
even be inclined to guess
that no one in the state could
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