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Monday, December 5, 1994
SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE JOHN WOODEN CLASSIC
UMass coach John
Calipari gives instructions to his players. Calipari said he was disappointed with his coaching performance Saturday.
Cristina Salvador/Long Beach Press-Telegram
Williams says team to improve defensively with time, patience
UMASS: Continued from Page 1B.
At the half, Williams talked to Kansas sophomore guards Jerod Haase and Jacque Vaughn about turnovers and playing with more patience. Haase and Vaughn followed Williams' advice in the second half, feeding the Kansas big men inside and combining for 16 assists.
"Vaughn was good," Calipari said. "His speed and quickness scared us a little bit. He made two or three very, very tough shots with people in his face."
Freshman forward Raef LaFrentz led all Kansas scorers, connecting on five of seven shots from the floor for 18 points. Sophomore forward Scot Pollard added 12 points.
"They played great in the first half, and we played sluggish," Roe said. "At the half we were up by only one, and we said, 'Lets get back to UMass basketball' — but they just wanted it more than we did."
When Massachusetts sophomore Mike Williams fouled out with 1:14 left and Kansas up 75-70, Coach Williams told the Jayhawks in the huddle to go out and play the best defense of their lives.
Kansas' defense, Williams said after the game, is something that will get better with time.
"I told them you've got to play the best defense of your career the next 1:14 seconds. But just let it be your best defense to date," he said. "Because tomorrow it's
going to be better, and the next day it's going to be even better."
Tonight Kansas will meet Coppin State at Allen Field House, and Kansas will prepare for them just like it prepared for the No. 1-ranked team in the nation, Haase said.
"Our goal is to keep our intensity throughout, whether its No. 1 or whether it's No. 300," Haase said. "It doesn't matter what the level of competition — we're going to try to play Kansas basketball and do the things that we've been taught. It's fun to go on and play against such a high-ranked team, but I think we do a good job of really working hard no matter who we play against."
UMass unable to deal with Kansas' size advantage
Minuteman coach says neither he nor his team were prepared for 'Hawks
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan sportswriter
ANAHEIM, Calif. — In the end, height was the advantage that proved decisive in the Jayhawks' victory Saturday.
As Kansas coach Roy Williams molded a game plan around his team's height advantage,
all Massachusetts coach Jim Calipari could do was watch from courtside as his Minutemen got eaten up inside.
"They milked the lob play; I mean they just milked it. And that's what a good coach does," Calipari said. "They figured out that our kids
couldn't make that adjustment, and then they just kept going back to it and back to it."
Calipari said that during the game he had tried to talk the Minutemen through the screens, which the team had not prepared for.
Kansas sophomore guards Jerod Haase and Jacque Vaughn fed lobs to all three Kansas big men throughout the game. The result was an array of slam dunks and easy layups for freshman forward Raef LaFrentz, sophomore forward Scot Pollard and senior center Greg Ostertag.
"Obviously I was ready to call a time out, go to a practice session and show them how we needed to play them. But in the flow of a game, you can't very well stop the game and walk them through it," Calipari said.
At the half, with Massachusetts up 39-38, Calipari said he had told his players that one of the teams inevitably would lose intensity.
Obviously I was ready to call a timeout, go to a practice session and show them how we needed to play them."
out and outrebound the Minutemen 43-37.
John Calipari
Massachusetts basketball coach
"It might as well be Kansas," he said.
But the Jayhawks only turned up the intensity as the game progressed. Williams, who had stressed the importance of the Kansas rebounding game all last week, witnessed his team box
"We outrebounded them, and it's something that surprised me," Williams said. "It's something this team really has to concentrate on because of its size. We felt very good about that part of our game tonight."
Calipari said the Minutenes had not shot as well as they could have against Kansas.
The Kansas defense held Massachusetts' Marcus Camby to only two points and Mike Williams to eight.
But there was no stopping senior Lou Roe. Roe scored 33 points and seemed to score at will.
"This wasn't about one guy. Our team got beat," Calipari said. "It wasn't Mike, it wasn't Marcus, it it wasn't any of these guys. We got beat. And we got outcoached — I'm not even embarrassed to say that. They were more prepared for our stuff than we were for theirs."
Ex-coach cheers on Bruins
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan sportswriter
ANAHEM, Calif. — Only a UCLA victory against Kentucky could make the John R. Wooden Classic complete for the tournament's namesake, an 84-year-old former Bruin coach who watched at courtside.
So UCLA freshman J.R. Henderson brought back memories for Wooden when he made two free throws with six-tenths of a second left Saturday, giving UCLA an 82-81 comeback victory against the Kentucky Wildcats.
Kentucky and UCLA hadn't played against other once a 1975 NCAA championship game.
In that game, Wooden led his team against the Wildcats in a 92-85 victory for the NCAA championship title. It was the last of Wooden's 10 NCAA championships.
On Saturday, the fifth-ranked Bruins and the third-ranked Wildcats were tied 5-5 after the first two minutes of play. But thereafter, the teams traded leads.
At the half, Kentucky led by five points, sparked by 10 points from sophomore guard Jeff Sheppard.
The momentum was in Kentucky's favor, said Wildcat coach Rick Pitino. In the end a defensive breakdown allowed UCLA to come back.
This is a basketball team that is going to be very good." Pitino said of his Kentucky team. "It's early in the season. This is a tough loss to take, but when you have the tough schedule and road games like this, you're looking for things like this to happen," Pitino said.
"We learned a valuable lesson from this," he said. "It's going to take more than shots going in — we have to play competitive defense, too."
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