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Friday, February 27, 1978
University Dally Kansan
Improvement sought against Buffs
By ALLEN QUAKENBUSH
Sports Editor
Take the best basketball player off any team in the nation and it's going to hurt.
Take Dave Logan off a 5-18 Colorado team and the results could be disastrous. Logan, one of the top athletes in the Big Eight, will likely miss tomorrow's game with the Jayhawks because of a injury. Tippoff is 7:35 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Despite Logan's absence, Ted Wenzens isn't sure the Buffalo lightly. He remember past games when he was at the center.
"THE ONLY THING I'll say," Owens said yesterday, "is that they will have the
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same team on the floor as when we played them last year in Boulder (a 78-78 KU win). They didn't have Logan then, and that was an awfully tough game for us."
Actually, even without Logan, Colorado isn't exactly the same team as it was a year ago. It's likely that they've changed rosters.
The addition of one player—guard Emmett Lewis—has changed the complexion of the Colorado team. Only a freshman, Lewis is expected to be in the starting position, he is probably the man KU needs to stop.
BUT THERE are others. Jay Sierra, a 5-11 junior guard, played well in Colorado's win last weekend. And Larry Vaculik is developing into a good center.
RU has won its last six games with the Buffers, including this season. The
Jayhawks romped, 70-50, in the seminal round of the Big Eight Tournament and won a 51-54 sweeper in Boulder. Colorado hasn't won in Lawrences since the 1962-63 season.
With a 5-4 league record, KU seemingly has nothing left to play for. Right now, the most important thing to Owwea is seeing the Jahyaws play well.
"WHAT WE HAVE to be concerned with is not so much Colorado," Owens said, "but that we're sharp. I've told our team that we only concerned with improving ourselves and becoming the best basketball team possible. There's still much to salvage from the season and that's the approach we're taking."
KU will be attempting to come back after a disappointing performance in an 69-54 loss at Kansas State on Saturday. Owens said he was pleased with the team's spirit this week.
"We've had good practices," he said. "I think everyone wants as good of finish as possible."
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AFTER THE DEBACLE at Manhattan, Owens is looking for improvement in every phase of the game. Only Norm Cook played well against the Wildcats.
"We're trying to become as fun-damentally sound as we can," Owens said. "We would like to win our last three games and give us good frame of mind going into next year."
With three games to go, five Jayhawks are averaging in double figures. Cook tops the list with an average of 15.0 points a game, followed by Clint Johnson (11.0), Jake Kuzma (9.2), Ken Koenig (8.0) and Ken Koenig (8.0). Starting guard Mitl Gibson is averaging 5.7 points a contest.
Kansas' Cook named to All-Big Eight team
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—Norm Cook, the steady Kansas forward, has been named to the Associated Press All-Big Eight basketball team for 1975-76.
Cook, a 6-8 junior, was the only non-guard
selected. He is averaging 15 points and 7.9
points per game.
KU's Ken Koenig, a 61-40 forward-center,
and Herb Nobles, a 67 forward, were
ranked No. 2.
Others first-team selections were Missouri's Willie Smith, Nebraska's Jerry Fort and Kansas State's "purple pugus," Mike Evans and Chuckie Williams.
Dave Bliss, who took over an Oklahoma team expected to do poorly, was an overwhelming choice as coach of the year after three players into a well-drilled, respectable unit.
Smith, the sensational playmaker whose last-minute hops have kept Missouri on top of the Big Eight race, headed the list. He was a unanimous choice of a panel of sports officials to select the most valuable player. He was also the only player named on every first team ballot.
Newcomer of the year was also a runaway with Stan Ray, Missouri's 6-0 freshman center, being named on all but two ballots.
But it was Smith who stole the show in the Big Eight. After being recruited from Seminole (Oklah.) Junior College mainly as a drummer, Smith recorded in both his seasons at Missouri.
This season, while leading the Big Eight in scoring with an average of almost 25 points a game, Smith has easily broken the record he established last season. And twice, against Oklahoma State and Kansas, he added the buzzer to give Missouri the win.
Williams, a 6-3 senior, and Evans, a 6-1 sophomore, give K-State one of the finest performances in history. The ranks as the second leading all-time score in Wildcat history, and Evans had been the hottest player in the Big Eight the past month, averaging more than 20 points a season.
Fort, a 6-3 senior, has been one of the steadiest points producers in the Big Eight for the past three years. He's the all-time leading scorer in Nebraska history.
Two meets face KU gymnasts
Two key meets are in store for the KU gymnasium. Join this weekend, says KU gymnasium coach
After a week's rest, KU travels to Hays today for the Fort Hays State Invitational. The team returns home tomorow for a dual match at 2 p.m. in Robinson Gymnasium.
"The Hays team will be our last opportunity (to compete) in a big meet'* atmosphere." Lockwood said. "Then, against Oklahoma, we will want to start to build confidence for the conference meet. If Oklahoma is successful, Oklahoma's one team we'll have to beat."
The Big Eight championships will be March 19-20 at Boulder. Colo. The
Jayhawks will try to improve their fifth place finish of last year.
"Obviously, Nebraska and Iowa State are in a class by themselves at the top of the league, but I think we can challenge Colorado and Oklahoma." Lockwood said. We will win and win our dual at Colorado next week; it will give us a lot of confidence."
KU's best season marks in the seven standard events are 8.58 in the floor exertion test, 6.47 in the floor exercise and Bill Barmes, 9.00 in the rings by John Nunley, 9.35 in vaulting by Sean Williams, 8.35 in the parallel bars by Jody Summers, 8.35 in the backstroke and Hylaney 47.30 by Kerr in the all-around.
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Coaches Miranda and Owens hope things improve
Kansas to test untried swimmers
Dick Reamon, University of Kansas swimming coach, says his team is "right on schedule" in its preparations for the Big Ten championships, March 4, at Ames, Iowa.
I was particularly pleased this past weekend with our team unity. We're starting to come together as a team," he said.
in tomorrow's dual meet against Southwest Missouri State, however, Reason said he was more interested in testing untried swimmers.
"I'll try to look at some new faces in this meet," Reason said, "and maybe move some people into different events. This will be the last chance before the Big Eight meet
to do some experimenting and also give
some of our top swimmers a rest."
Towards that end, Reason said he didn't expect to use any of his top 10 swimmers in tomorrows' meet, which begins at 2 p.m. in Robinson Natatorium.
Following last week's busy schedule, which saw the team defeat Oklahoma State at Stillwater on Friday and a score of teams 12-9, the team played on Saturday, the team might need a rest.
At Oklahoma State, Bill Dostert and Roger Neugen swat to times of 22.1 and 23.0 in the 50 freestyle. Dostert, a freshman from Alabama, was one of few freestyle. That clocking leads the team.
Women's basketball team loses
KU's young women's basketball team lost to a tough, experienced Kansas State squad, 59-36, Wednesday night in Manhattan.
The loss dropped KU's record to 14-11. KState's nationally-ranked basketball team won its 25th game.
The cold-shooting Jayhawks managed
only 33 per cent from the field in the first half and got even worse in the second, but not so bad.
Adrian Mitchell was the only Jayhawk in double figures with 14 points. Greta Sigle and Marsha Poppe led K-State with 18 and 12 points.
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