8 Monday, February 9,1978 University Dafly Kansan Sooners wreck KU hopes, Sooner Eddie Fields drives past Clint Johnson By STEVE SCHOENFELD Associate Sports Editor The Kansas Jayhawks won't win a third straight Big Eight basketball title. Oklahoma took care of that, upsetting KU, 84-63, Saturday before a disappointed Allen Field House crowd of 10,870 and a regional television audience. "It would take a miracle for us to be in the team," KU coach Ted Owens said after the game. "I think it was a mistake." Kansas, 3-4 in league play, is now three full games behind conference leaders, Nebraska and Missouri, who are died with 6 at the time, only one game behind the leaders at 5-2. NOW THAT THE Jayhawks are out of the race, Owens has changed his goals for this season. "I'm not concerned about where we finish," Owens said. "All I want to do is for us to play as hard as we can the rest of the team." He didn't bother me. Not playing well does. The Jayhawks never played well sure they were juggled around and never looked sharp. "We were just as sluggish as we could be. Owen was better. We played tight and never." SLUGGISH OR NOT, it still looked as if KU would win the game until freshman John McCullough hit two free throws with four seconds to play to give the Sooners their first victory in Allen Field House since 1963. The Jayhawks had numerous chances to salt the game away, but failed every time. McCallugh was fouled by KU guard Clint Johnson as they and Billy Gray, a 64-Hour Coach, were caught in the lake. 64-63 loose ball after Oklahoma's Cary Carrabine missed a shot from the corner. OWENS DIDN'T AGREE with Menz's call. Referee Ken Kurtz, who was standing right on top of the play, didn't call a foul. He made a pass to the other official, came storming in from his court and gave Johnson his second foul. McCollough, the game's leading scorer with 20 points, hit both shots of a one-and-a-half shot. "I don't think there was any question that Graham knocked Clint Johnson out of bounds," Owens said. "The films, I think, will show that. I don't know how McCullough even got into the act. It was a very marginal call." "McCullough's a good free throw shooter," said Dave Bells, Oklahoma's first team coach, who has led his team to three straight Big Eight wins. "But more importantly he'a a gutty kid. I've seen good free throw shooters clutch in that situation. That's why it's important to have a gutty kid shooting." SIXTEEN SECONDS EARLIER McCullough was fouled by KU's Ken Koenigs and hit both foul shots to the Sooners within one, 63-62. All Karsas had to do was hold the ball for 20 seconds. They couldn't. KU's backcourt pass was deflected by McCallough into the hands of Eddie Fields, a 4-0 GU player. The Sooners worked the ball through two passes to shot and then his contours' 1-of-1 flown. But as Owens knows, it wasn't just the official's call that beat the Jayhawks. "The game shouldn't have been won on Owen's side." Owens said. "We didn't play well. That." WOMEN'S SWIMMING—The KU women's swimming team easily dominated its double-dual competition against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, but lost to Nebraska in meets this weekend in Robinson Natatorium. The Jayhawks topped Oklahoma, 102-27, and Oklahoma State, 94-35, on Friday. They lost a dual meet to Nebraska, 65-50, westerday. sports shorts Propos wont both the one- and three-meter diving events. Cathy Call and Laurie Propst led the Jayhawks in their victorious effort Friday. Call won both the 200 individual medley and the 100 freestyle in addition to swimming relay teams. She won the individual medley in 2:20.2 and the freestyle in 16:9.9. Call also did well against Nebraska, capturing first place in three events. She won three freestyle events: the 100 in :56.5, the 200 in :82.3 and the 500 in :92.6. MEN'S TENNIS-KU's tennis team defeated Arkansas, 5-4, and Southern Missouri, 6-1. Clarke, KU's number one player, won both his matches. Jeff Thomas, the number four player, didn't lose all weekend, winning two doubles matches with his doubles partner, Mark Hosking. WOMEN'S TRACK—The KU women's track team defeated Missouri, 56-51. Friday at Columbia. The Jayhawks won six of 12 winners. The winners were Nancy Bissell, mile run; Nanette Lee, 60-yard dash; Connie Lane, 600-yard run; Cessera Russell, 444-yard dash; Jessie Riddle, shot put; and the mile relay team. TAKE A BIRD This original signed Color woodcut by UMETMAZO AEZCH-Japan is one of the many original prints presented for sale by MARSON LTD. at The Union—South Lobby Controversy surrounds final call Today & Tomorrow Only sponsored by Sports Editor By ALLEN QUAKENBUSH JOHNSON WAS OBVIOUSLY upset by the call. But he wasn't the only KU player who had a few choice words about the game. When they fouled out, was also a little perturbed. "I don't know what happened," Johnson muttered. "He called it late, too. I had the ball and was throwing it back in bounds before they called anything." "On my fifth foul," he said. "I just put my hands straight up. That's all you can do in a After 39:56 of basketball Saturday afternoon, the outcome of the KU-Okahoma game came down to a judgment call on the part of one referee. Johnson, sitting motionless in front of his jocker with his head down, admitted that he was not on the bus. situation like that. But they called it anyway." Clinton Johnson, battling for a rebound with Oklahoma's John McCullough and Billy Gorski, were able to make 30 seconds to play and KU leading, 63-62. McCullough made both ends of the one-and-one, KU could get off only a 40-foot shot by Herb Nobles and Oklahoma upset Kansas, THE MAIN ORJECTION was that the foul was called not by Ken Kurtz, who was right on top of the play, but by Jerry Menz, who was stationed near half-court. If there was a call to be made, Owens and Johnson argued, it should have been made by Kurtz. But the issue wasn't quite that easily resolved. Both Johnson and KU coach Ted Owens had a few words to say about the call, which was controversial at best. "The other ref (Kurtz) was standing right there," Johnson said. "He just shook his head and didn't say anything. The other guy (Menz) called it." "The calls really hurt it at the end," he said, but our play early in the game could have made things worse. Koenigs, though, wasn't about to blame the referees for KU's loss, which ruined hopes the Jayhawks had of claiming a third straight Big Eight title. To shut off the Sooners' inside game, the Jayhawks played a zone through much of the second half. But the patient Oklahoma offense nicked it apart. PARTICULARLY DISTURBING to Koenigs was the ease with which Oklahoma got the ball inside against the much taller Jayhawks. Despite their lack of height, the Sooners got 51 points out of its muchmalized front line. "Our ineffectiveness inside (defensively) really did hurt us." Koenigs said. "They set a lot of picks and stuff underneath, and we do a good job of fighting them." Time after time, Cary Carrabre is laid open on the wing to shoot a 15-foot jump shot. "WE WERE GETTING hung up." Milt Gibson said. "The forwards weren't coming out and covering the wing, and they kept shooting them in. "They were getting a lot of shots inside, too, because of their penetration and ball movement. Because they were smaller, we had to be on our toes, but we weren't." The Jayhawk dressing room was like a tomb after the game. The players sensed that only a miracle could bring them the league title. No amount of words could express the frustration they felt at being in the race in such a humiliating way. "There's really not much I can say." Herb Nobles said. "We know we should be haunted them. That's all I can say. We just weren't reacting." 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