KANSAS CITY– The Associated Press is republishing verbatim the tale of the North Carolina-Kansas NCAA males’s basketball national championship, as it was sent out to the cord on the evening of March 23, 1957.
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By CAPTAINS PATRICK
Associated Press
2 totally free tosses by calmness Joe Quigg with 6 secs staying in the 3rd overtime separated a bitterly opposed video game and also provided the North Carolina Tar Heels a 54-53 success over Kansas and also the NCAA significant university basketball champion tonight.
The Tar Heels, expanding their one-season document to 32 triumphes, eliminated a five-point shortage late in law play to send out the video game right into the very first overtime at 46-all.
Ball game stood 48-all after the very first additional duration as each group tallied a basket and also neither had the ability to count in a wild 2nd overtime, ruined by a light tussle. Both instructors, Cock Harp of Kansas and also Frank McGuire of North Carolina, began the having fun flooring.
Play was cut off practically a min while event authorities, helped by police officers, brought back order. No impacts were traded, just words.
Tommy Kearns, a 5-11 playmaker, opened up the last overtime with a basket from the side court. Kearns adhered to with 2 totally free tosses to make it 52-48 for the Tar Heels prior to All-America Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas was and also struck a brief shot fouled on the play.
The 7-foot Wilt made his totally free toss to reduce the handicap to 52-51.
Maurice King’s totally free toss connected the video game at 52-52 and also with 31 secs left Genetics Elstun racked up one more charity shot to border Kansas in advance 53-52.
North Carolina called time out with 28 secs left and also the method settled as King fouled Quigg with 6 secs to go. Both of Quigg’s shots swished with the internet for the clinching factors.
Kansas had a one-shot possibility at the round however the basket jumped and also struck the edge away as the last buzzer appeared.
The Tar Heels established some kind of an event document in operation an overall of 6 overtime sessions to win the champion. The country’s No. 1 group required 3 additional durations to defeat Michigan State, 74-70, in the semi-finals last evening.
North Carolina shed its wonderful All-America soft shot musician, Lennie Rosenbluth, with 1:45 of the law video game left when the Tar Heels routed, 43-44.
Quigg was a clutch guy in the drive to dissipate the Jayhawk five-point margin at that phase. He and also Kearns teamed to send out the video game right into the very first overtime.
Chamberlain, that copulated, was the leading marker with 23 factors. Rosenbluth had 20. When Chamberlain and also Pete Brennan of North Carolina jockeyed for placement under the Kansas basket,
The flurry of negative sensation in the 2nd overtime created. Train Harp claimed he approached the court to attempt to soothe his gamers.
McGuire, that hurried to the Kansas bench, claimed he was pushed away by Jack Eskridge, Kansas aide trainer, and also the short however angry rhubarb got on. When Chamberlain and also Kearns patted each on the back,
Tempers flared briefly once more in the 3rd overtime however it finished promptly.
It was a ball-control examination in between the country’s 2 top-ranked groups. North Carolina was ranked very first and also Kansas 2nd in The Associated Press survey at the close of the period.
North Carolina had a sizzling capturing portion of 64.7 the very first fifty percent and also end up with a video game standard of 46.7 on 21 objectives in 45 shots.
Kansas made 15 of 47 shots for 31.9 percent. Train McGuire commended Quigg, specifically for getting the last rebound.
” He came with when we required him,” McGuire claimed. “He has actually been a great gamer for all of us period.
” Our prepare for the video game went as we anticipated them, with a falling down protection versus Kansas’ wonderful gamer, Chamberlain. We believed it functioned extremely well.
” We really feel extremely lucky, and also all I need to state is that every one of our children maintained their grace also when in deep difficulty. It was actually exceptional that we won, with Lennie Rosenbluth unemployed, given that he was our crucial guy all period.”
Harp had this to state, “I assume North Carolina is the No. 1 group in the country. They had every possibility to win and also we had every possibility to win and also it took 3 overtimes to resolve it.
‘ No one has actually played us that hard on the boards. Not just were they hard on the boards, however when we did obtain the round they pestered us a lot we could not do a lot with it.”
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