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Thursday, February 19, 1976
University Dally Kansan
Smith's last-second tip-in stuns KU, 61-60
By STEVESCHOENFELD
Associate Sports Editor
It doesn't take long for Missoula guard Willie Smith to make you feel like you're mad.
How about one second and one sound of the final buzzer?
As the last second was ticking off the Allen Field House clock and the 13,256 fans were roaring, Smith leaped and with two hands tipped the ball over the KU defen-
It fell down the chute and the Tigers had a dramatic 61-16 victory over the Jayhawks to maintain their tight hold on the Big Eight lead.
BUT THEN AGAIN, not everyone saw it that way.
"I thought the buzzer was off before Willie Smith tipped the ball," KU's Norm Cook said. "It's a cool game."
Ten seconds earlier it looked all but over for Missouri.
Cook, a forward, had been beFIed by the Tigers' James Claibon. The 6-8 junior calmly sank both ends of a one-and-one to put the Jawhavas ahead by one, 60-59.
Smith took the inbound pass, hit Clabaton at mid-court, fired the ball to center Stan
raey, who was all by himself two feet away from the KU bucket.
RAY SHOT, BUT missed. Kim Anderson,
Missouri 60-47, lowered, tipped the missed
ball down and broke through the bottom.
Smith then out-jumped Cook and KU's four guards—Milt Gibson, Clint Johnson
sports
Cris Barnhoun and Brad Sanders—to tj the ball in as the gun sounded.
"All we had to do was have someone jump on the boards," said Ted Owens, the KU coach, whose team trapped to 5-1 in league play and 12-10 over. "But Norman (Cook) was the only size we had. The other guys were just too small."
OWENS WAS FORCED to play four guards because forwards Ken Koenigs and Herb Nobles and center Paul Mokeski had all fouled out.
Owens said. "We wanted to get the ball out of Smith's hands and we did so. With six seconds left I looked up and didn't even see him. Then they make that hard pass to Ra."
NORM STEWART, THE Missouri coach,
wanted Smith, who was the game's leading
offense.
Even with the small team, Owens got his jaywhacks to play the final 10 seconds to win.
"We really did what we wanted to do,
"We planned to run all the time off and then have Wille tip it in at the buzer," Stewart quipped. "No, really, we wanted Wille to have the ball, and in case they double-teamed him we wanted another guy near the basket."
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BANKSAS (60)
| | FG | FT | RB | TP | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Cook | 6-18 | 7-9 | 1 | 1 | 18 |
| Cook | 6-18 | 7-9 | 1 | 1 | 18 |
| Mokhani | 5-9 | 1-1 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Johnson | 5-9 | 1-1 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Johnson | 5-9 | 1-1 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Clark | 1-0 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Nobles | 3-4 | 7-0 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Nobles | 3-4 | 7-0 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Sanders | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sanders | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| WINNERS (41) | FO | FT | BR | PF | T |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kennedy | 6 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 12 |
| Kensely | 10 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 12 |
| Riley | 4-10 | 1-2 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| Ray | 6-10 | 1-2 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| Smith | 10-25 | 1-2 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| Smith | 10-25 | 1-2 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| Cashion | 0-3 | 2-2 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| Cashion, M | 0-3 | 2-2 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| Total | 34-45 | 13-21 | 16-21 | 6 | 11 |
Kansas
Attendance: Jerry Meen and Buford Goddard
Attendance: 13,260
"THEY DIDN'T HIT very well against our zone on their first shots," Owens said, "but we kept giving them second and third tries. Those really hurt us."
Kansas track hosts OSU, WSU
THE JAYHAWKS, who already have qualified 10 individuals and two relay teams, have several athletes close to KU's leadership strength KU's NCAA title chances.
Mouri, 9; in conference action and 21-3 overall, outbounded the Jayhawks, 42-37. Smith, only 6-2, was the biggest culprit with eight.
By GARY VICE
Admission is free to the meet beginning at 9:30, which will include both men's and women's programs.
In tonight's triangular meet against Oklahoma State and Wichita State in Allen Field House, the University of Kansas track team will be out to qualify athletes in more events for the upcoming NCAA championships.
Sophomore spinner Cliff Wiley is omen-
taining the qualifying
gift of $1 in the skydrive d
bank.
Thad Talley, KU assistant track coach,
said yesterday, "He qualified last year in
the 60, and there is no reason he shouldn't
make it this year,"
The KU women take on Kansas State in dual competition.
SENIOR LARRY Jackson will be shooting for the NCAA qualifying standard in the 90-yard dash. Jackson recorded a 6.2 touchdown last month and has a lifetime best of 6.0.
Jim Podrebarac, hopeful of joining his role Rudy Guglielmi to improve his late wife's health.
Staff Writer
Poderbarca said, "I want to qualify this meet or at the (Big) Eight indoor. I should
KU was paused by Cook, who popped in 19 points. Mokseki added 11 and Gibson 10. After Smith's 26, Missouri was led by Anderson with 12 and Ray with 10.
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HIGH JUMPER STEVE Rainbolt and hurdler Dennis Bracke also are close to qualifying for the trip to Detroit and the NCAA meet.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -Kansas State, led by sophomore guard Mike Evans' 30 points, downed Nebraska 65-31 last night in Big Ten basketball action here before a crowd of 8,000.
K-State is 8-2 in the Big Eight, good for second place, and Nebraska is 7-3.
KSU's Evans fells Nebraska
The game got in the slow a start. With 8-17 to play in the first half, Nebraska junior forward Bob Siegel tied the score on a layup at 13-13.
K-State was on the 23,19 with 3:30 left in the half. But in the period's final minutes Nebraska held K-State scoreless and made eight points to lead at the half 27-23.
In the next seven minutes, K-State rallied to smatch the lead. Junior forward Larry Dassie scored from five to push Kansas State ahead, 38-37.
The Wildcats outscored the Huskers 14-4 in the remainder of the game. Overall, the Wildcats scored 25 points, over the Huskies' 18.
Nebraska tied the score three times during the next four minutes, but couldn't grab the lead. With 3:21 remaining, junior forward Rickey Hankey scored from underneath, pulling the Huskers to 51-49, the last time Nebraska came close to victory.
Nebraska raced to its biggest lead of the contest with 18:42 to play when senior guard John Stark had 17:03.
Another potential doubled is Kevin Newell, a KU qualifier in the 60, who is only two-tenths of a second off the 48.7 time needed in the 440. However, Newell has a slight muscle strain and won't run tonight, Talley said.
KU shot ahead, 37-30, at the start of the half second, but then started getting beat on the boards. Nearly every basket the Tigers打破 was on second and third follow shots.
McCall's best 600 is 1.3 seconds off the NCAA standard of 1.10.7.
to lower his best time in the 60-year high hurdles by one-tenth of a second to 7.2 to join freshman teammate Anthony Coleman, who hit 7.2 last month.
TALLEY SAID HE was hopeful that some team members would be able to qualify in more than one event, Tommy McCall, who has qualified in the half-mile, will run the 600-yard run tonight for a chance at doubling in the NCAA.
"THAT HAMSTRING has hampered Kevin all inward season," he said, "and we
don't want to take any chances on any athlete in this meet."
Talley said that neither Oklahoma State nor Wichita State had a very strong team.
KU will be hard-pressed to win in the long jump and triple jump events, Talley said Vervil Crawford, Wichita State's outfielder, who regretted as one of the best in the region.
THE BIG EIGHT leader in the 440-yard dash, KU's Randy Benson, won't be in the quarter mile field because of his recurring knee injury. The team is not indicating to the mile relay, the last event.
Benson said yesterday, "I'm going to swim tonight, and then I'll probably run in the relay. I need to rest my up breast (the Big Eight) indors."
Missing from tonight's lineup will be shot patter Rudy Guevara, who has a sore ankle.
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THE GAME WAS a dog fight from the outset. Smith hit the Tigers' first 10 points to give MU an early 10-lead. KU came right back, however, behind the inside game of Kobe, plus the newly found outside shooting touch of Gibson, to lead at halftime, 33-28.
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