Perfectly synchronized, the Hoosiers made this game appear simple. They broke goalward like Thursday's windstorm when breaks presented themselves, and when the Kansas defense set up they passed thru and shot over it. And at the hoops where all things in basketball end -- the Hoosiers scored twenty-six bull's eyes out of seventy-four attempts. It was unbeatable.

Kansas led briefly in the first half, at one time by 10 to 4, but once the Hoosiers shifted into gear, the only suspense centered around the size of the score. Two clever forwards, Jay McCreary, and Paul Armstrong, knifed, wheeled and darted thru the Jayhawk defense like a pair of rabbits. And they forgot to run down. They had size to support them in big Bob Menke and Capt. Marvin Huffman. Another scat guard in Bob Dro, this club impressed as the ideal in basketball production.

It was the uncanny long shooting of Huffman and Dro which turned the first half tide. Midway in the period they had knotted the count at twelve-all and from that point on the Eastern representatives were never headed. Andy Zimmer, a lanky reserve came in to help mount a lead that stretched to 32-19 at the half.

Kansas lost Ralph Miller just fefore the half and altho the Chanute junior was not having a good night, his loss undoubtedly hurt. He never had played two bad halves in the same game, but his mates had to do without him tonight. Matching this break, however, was Indiana's loss of Huffman and then Dro in the second half, but their substitutes helped display reserve strength along with everything else this club claimed tonight. McCreary and Armstrong, yes, and even Schafer, another forward, ran ragged in the last half. The closest Kansas got was 26-38 on some fine back to the ball play by Bobbie Allen, and near the end it wa a complete rout. It was a show that even Kansas -- whose basketball was on trial against its biggest state rival -- had to applaud.

Indiana's offense was easy to see but visiting coaches were ever more impressed with a shifting man for man defense that nullified most efforts of the screening Jayhawk attack. Picked off players merely slid to another man and the nearer Hoosier picked up the man with the ball. It was beautiful execution and worried the Kansans all night.

Hit 14 Out of 81 Shots
The Kansans, it must be said, were as cold as the Hoosiers were warm and hit only 14 out of 81 shots. These shots, however, were hurried and many from long range near the end. The crowd of 10,000 jammed spectators rose in mighty tribute to this fine Indiana team at the finish and we Kansans had to doff our hats and like it.