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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 6, 1967
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By Harlan Everett Kansan Staff Reporter
The KU freshman basketball team opens up its season tonight preceding the Kansas-Louisville game with many top prospects for next year's varsity squad.
Sam Miranda, assistant varsity coach, scouted most of the fresh last year and feels they have potential to carry on the tradition of great basketball at KU.
Heading the list of prospects is Dave Robisch, a 17 year-old center-forward from Springfield, Ill. Robisch was an Illinois All-State selection and a high school All-American, to make him the most sought after roundballer in Illinois. One of his accomplishments was breaking the all-time Illinois State Tournament scoring record with 159 points in four games, an average of almost 40 points a game. "Robisch will be a standout no matter where he plays," Miranda said.
John Stacy, a 6-2 sharpshooting guard from Hogan High School in Kansas City, also comes to KU with high school All-American honors. Last year he had a onegame high of 54 points and averaged better than 60 per cent from the field in three years of varsity play.
Stacy moved to guard
Stacy also played in the first Dapper Dan High School All-American game at Pittsburgh, Pa. last year. This year he has been moved from a forward spot to guard in order to take better advantage of his height and excellent outside shooting.
The coaching staff has great hope in 6-10 Roger Brown from Chicago. He comes to KU without a great background in making the All-Chicago Area team, yet Miranda feels he could develop into one of the top big men in major college basketball. "He has developed very similar to Walt Wesley, an All-American for KU in 1966, and has all the potential to be an All-American," Coach Miranda said.
Rich Essington is another freshman the coaching staff is counting on to fill a big pair of shoes. He is rated as the best ballhandler on the team, and is also an outstanding shooter. Essing-
ton, from Venice (Ill.) High School, was voted to the All-St. Louis Area first team and is the career high-scorer on the freshman squad with a high school accumulation of 1,900 points.
"Jo-Jo is going to be gone some day, and we hope Rich will take his place," Miranda said. Essington has been working at the same position as Jo-Jo-floor leader.
Russell also from KC
Another top man from the Kansas City area is 6-3 Pierre Russell. Russell was the man instrumental in the Wyandotte High School march to the State championship last year. Besides the All-Area team, Russell was elected to the Kansas All-State team as well as voted Most Valuable Player in the 1967 Class AA state tourney. He had a singlegame high of 46 points last year.
Russell will probably be moved to guard at KU because of his hustle and aggressive defense, but will also be used effectively as a swing man between forward and guard.
Ken Norgaard, another of the
four Illinois standouts was named to the All-Chicago All-State teams for East Leyden High School. He was All-Conference for two years and averaged 27 points a game his senior year.
Norgaard is rated a very fine shooter by the KU coaches. "He has the strength and adequate quickness to give him an excellent chance as a college guard," Miranda said.
Chuck Dodge, from Ellsworth,
Wisc., is the third biggest man
on the team at 6-7. He too was
an All-Stater.
Although he has been slowed by injuries this year, Miranda rates him with good overall speed and touch, and a fine jumper. "He will help us put up a big front line," Miranda added.
Fred Bosilevac is another frontliner who can also handle guard duties. The 6-4 hustler was a 1966 graduate of Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, where he made the Greater Kansas City All-Area team. He played at Lake Forest Academy, a prep school in Chicago, last year and
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averaged more than 28 points a game.
"He is a fine ball player and will probably start most consistently at the forward spot," Miranda said.
Mark Mathews, a 6-3 forward from Shawnee Mission North, will be a forward exclusively on the team. He was All-Conference in the Sunflower League as North fought Wyandotte for the league championship. Mathews is a hard worker and the coaches feel he can do an adequate job for KU.
A football player who just
joined the team is Steve Allen, a fine ball-handler and shooter from Arlington Heights (Ill.) High School. He averaged over 20 points a game his senior year to earn a spot on the All-Conference team.
Steve Houlik, a 6-2 guard from Wichita East is a good hustler with quickness and has a good shooting eye. He is expected to add depth to the freshman back-court.
Coach Miranda noted he was happy with this year's frosh team and added they have done a fine job so far this year.
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