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Wednesday, February 11, 1976
University Dally Kansan
Javhawks hop on comeback trail
By ALLEN QUAKENBUSH
Sports Editor
A lot of fans have given up on the KU basketball team this season. The question to be answered is whether the basketball will give up on itself.
Tonight's game with Iowa State should go a long way toward answering that question. Tip-off is 7:35 p.m. in Hilton Coliseum at Ames.
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Nebraska by three games with only seven to play.
KU's Paul Mokeski and Herb Nobles will try to stop Iowa State tonight.
KU Coach Ted Owens reminds the rest of the season isn't going to be easy. But he's coming to terms with it.
"THEY (THE PLAYERS) must dig into their resources and just decide to work hard and come back," Owens said. "At this point, we are simply going to improve and be the best."
KU's preseason goal was to be Big Eight champs for the third season in a row, but Owens would now be satisfied with a first division finish.
"I think we can still salvage something from this season," Owens said. "We expected more, but I think a first division win would be important considering our youth and experience."
FIRST ON KU's comeback agenda is Iowa State. And there isn't a much easier place to start. The Cyclones are 25 in Iowa, 29 in Illinois and 36 in Iowa. Iowa State, 68-60, at Lawrence last month.
"I don't think there's any question that they (low state) have made considerable improvement since we last played them," he said. "They have some victories under their belt and obviously are playing with more confidence."
The key to stopping the Cyclones will be
shutting off their fast break. Led by guard Hercule (Poulson) lily and forward Art Carle (Cohen), the game is on.
"THEY'RE A GOOD breaking team," Owens said. "They can get a lot of easy baskets if you, don't get back on defense each time.
U.S. Olympic surprises continue
INSBRUCK (AP)-Dorothy Hamill established herself as the gold medal favorite in women's figure skating, young Dan Immerfall won a bronze speed skating medal for his cheering, flag-waving mom and the U.S. hockey team stunned Finland under the underdog Americans continued to provide surprises at the Winter Olympic Games.
The U.S. hockey team became the favorite for the bronze medal when they upset Finland, 54, in a game which had the Austrian crowd roaring "U.S.A., U.S.A." The Americans fought of a frantic finish by Finland and got an assist from a Russian team who allowed a Finnish goal that would have played the game at 54 with two minutes left.
The hockey team was jubilant after its first victory of the Olympics. The triumph avenged 9-4 and 9-2 defeats at the hands of the Fins in pre-Olympic competition.
place finish in the men's giant slalom ski race.
"We want to control the tempo of the game and not get in a run-and-shoot game"
"WE FORCED THEM into mistakes and suddenly found they were human," U.S. Coach Bob Johnson said. "Steve Sertich's shot was decisive."
The day's other major surprise was supplied by two Swiss bricklayers, Heini Hemni and Ernst God, who won the gold medal at the Olympics. Their victories sent Italian艺 Gustavo Thoeni storming off the slope, pushing his team over the newsmen. He had a firm lead after.
In their first meeting this year, Clint Johnson held the high-eccorting window without a face mask.
Meanwhile, to no one's surprise, the mustans and East Germans dominated the tense.
In the front court, Johnson is KU's biggest concern. He's a big, strong rebounding forward who gets downcourt quickly on the fast break.
To stop those two—and Iowa State-
Owens steps that KU must do three things.
"We have to do a good job of rebounding,
and we must get back on defense," Owens said.
After 21 events, the Russians led the medal standings with 10 gold, four silver and six bronze. Because of their lead, a Russian newspaper said these games had proved the superiority of the socialist system of training athletes.
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Russia's Raisa Smetina won the 10-kilometer women's cross-country ski race, and Russia Evegn Kulkov won the men's race. The Russian team was "while fighting the flu and a high fever."
EAST GERMAN EXPERTS Hans Rinn and Norbert Hahn won the two-twose luge race. They careened down the artificially refrigerated course in 1:25.6.
The Russians, Communist block partner,
East Germany, was second with six golds,
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Sertish of Virginia, Minn., scored a crucial goal that broke a 2-12 tie in the second period. Steve Jensen of Middleton, Wis., scored twice.
The United States, which has now equaled the medal total it reached at the Winter Games four years ago, was a surer team with one gold, three silver and four bronze.
Immeralf, 20, of Madison, Wis., won the bronze medal in men's 500-meter speed skating at the U.S. national championship, works two jobs to support his skating and music training, cheered and waved an American flag. When the race ended, she helped her team compete long, black fur coat and embraced him.
And 18-year-old Philip Mahe of White Pass, Wash., turned in a surprising fifth-
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More U.S. medals are likely to come. One seems certain to be won by Bem, Hailman, 19, of the United States, who is competing Tuesday in the compulsory figures part of the three-phase figure skating competition. In doing so, she beat her arch-rival, Diane Neumann of The Netherlands, who placed third.
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Isabel de Navarez of West Germany finished first in the compulsions but wasn't considered a threat to Hamill or de Leueun at all. He was mistaken, which counts 50 per cent in judging.
"Even though we are not in first place, beating de Leeuw in figures is just as good as winning," said Carlo Fassi, Hamill's coach. "If she can do well in the short program and the free skating, she has the gold medal."
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IF SHE DOESN'T make mistakes, Miss Hamill figures to top Miss de Leuw in the important freestyle skating. The short which counts 20 per cent, is Wednesday.
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