Tuesday, February 14, 1978
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Fan behavior embarrasses KSU
By GARY BEDORE
Sports Editor
Kansas State University was left with some egg on its face after Saturday's University of Kansas - K-State basketball game. Or was it banana?
The Ahearn Field House fans, primed to a fever pitch by an exciting game, turned the game's excitement into an ugly encounter during the game's final moments.
Before a regional TV audience and respected men, such as former UCLA coach John Wooden and NBC New York television executive, George Gallup, the Wildcat fans showed viewers they don't like, or know how to lose.
When Kansas players began popping fingers into the air signaling that they were No. 1, with about a half minute to play, the shower began. Fans petted rots of toilet bowls and cups onto the court, and even some bananas left from the game's early moments.
AT THE SAME TIME, a K-State fan grabbed one of the KU yell leader's megaphones. The yell leader ran after it, and crowds of people were pushing and crowds of people were pulling the megaphone back. One yell leader said two people were punched in the mellee.
During the latter stages of the game, KU fans and K-Staters engaged in a cup-trophy exhibition that left most basketball fans with a bad taste in their mouths. It seems a miracle or a bad mistake that the game was allowed to continue.
Most of the blame goes directly to the fans. K-State's star guard Mike Evans led them to win, and asked them to ask some dignity and not throw anything. Several boops, along with
KANSAN Analysis
some cheers, were heard following the announcement.
The administration is guilty of allowing the fans to parade around the court before the game with banners, several of which had vulgar sayings on them. This helped incite the crowd and shouldn't have been allowed.
THE BANANA THROWING not only
used the players, but also the
KU'S sports were wilted.
K-State's athletic director, Jersey Jeremy, apologized gracefully after the game to Kansas head basketball coach Ted Owens immediately accepted the apology.
KU FANS' comparison of Redding to a hot dog was prompted by Redding's ever-present comments that appear in the papers don't exactly portray him as a modest man.
The banana-throwing was in response to the throwing hot dogs by Kansas' fans at the state fair. The State played in Lawrence earlier in the year. The hot dogs took only moments to clean up but K-State's bananas left the court in anger for messy workers to frantically throw the bananas.
The game was delayed about seven months, beginning with ushers cleaned barrages of the
B-State fans wearing gorilla costumes and carrying signs calling KU players ages 35-49
The joke, however, appears to be on K-State. The game was regionally televised and NBC officials were upset at the showing. And rightly so. Game delay cost the network time and money and force announcers to make the traditional "Saturday night" game throw things, etc., "NBC's coverage of a golf tournament was delayed 15 minutes."
bananas accomplished nothing except to make the network think twice before going to K-State again. KU heard early in the morning that the bananas were coming and laughed it off.
Aside from the banana throwing incidents, which probably could only happen at a state game, the K-State fans showed win at Athea, it's tough for opponents to win at Athea.
The sad thing for K-State is that the
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KU jumps to sixth spot in AP poll
For the first time in history, a Southwest Conference team sits atop the college basketball world. Arkansas, by virtue of its two championships, has been Associated Prss College basketball poll.
The Razorbacks collected 24 of 53 first points. Arkansas outdistanced defending NCAA champ Marquette, which received 14 first-place votes and 921 points.
1. toucht in all likelihood we would be No. 1." Arkansas Coach Ed迪 Sutton said. "After all, we have won more games than anybody and have just one loss."
ARKANSAS unseted Kentucky, which
chopped to third place after a 90-44 time-
line.
nautureth, 19-2, won twice during the week and moved up from third place. Kentucky, 17-2, received 21 first-place votes and 844 points but dropped those two spots.
"I don't like to use comparative scores," Sutton said, "but we beat LSU at Baton Rouge and the Bayou Rouge. LSU defeating Kentucky gives our record some credibility. I would be the first to admit that we would probably win." He said they were in the Big Ten, the ACC or the SEC."
Kansas, 26-3, had a pair of easy conference victories and climbed two spots to the top.
UCLA, 18-2, was a winner twice and advanced a notch to fourth place. The Bruins got one first place vote and 782 points. New records were set for both and collected 327 points and a first-place vote.
The Lady Jayhawks, ranked 18th in the nation, will battle members of the Kansas Legislature in an exhibition at 6 p.m. tomorrow in Allen Field House. The game will preclude the men's contest between KU and Iowa State.
The AP Top Twenty
The Top 20 team us the Associated Press college basketball team. The top 10 teams have scored records and total points points based on their performance in the game.
2. Houston 144 23-1 950
3. Houston 144 191 826
4. Marquette (14) 172 191
5. Kentucky (1) 182 782
6. UCLA (1) 182 782
7. North Carolina (1) 182 782
8. Kansas 182 782
9. Notre Dame 182 690
10. Detroit (1) 161 447
11. Louisville 161 164
12. Mississippi State 161 164
13. N. Carolina 20-5 309
14. Texas 161 184
15. Providence 161 184
16. Florida State 182 131
17. Illinois State 182 131
18. Syracuse 16-4 40
19. Virginia 16-4 40
20. Georgetown 17-4 29
21. Detroit 17-4 25
22. Dulce 17-4 24
Snow cancels women's game
Washington said she was disappointed the game had to be canceled.
The game was scheduled for 5:15 p.m. at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo., and was to precede the Kansas City Kings-Houston Rockets NBA basketball game.
"It's too bad," she said. "I'm sure her kids were looking forward to it. Meanwhile, we have to get ready to meet Southwest Missouri State on Saturday."
KU women's basketball coach Marian Washington was notified of the cancellation late yesterday afternoon by Lynn Wheeler, Iowa State women's coach.
Heavy snowfall has forced cancellation of
University women's basketball game tonight.
Wheeler said she could not schedule air or bus transportation out of snowbound Ames,
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MANHATTAN (UPI)—Kansas State University announced yesterday the signing of All-East Coast high school quarterback Braydon Crawford, the son of new Wildest coach Jip Dickey.
The younger Dickey, who prepped at Chapel Hill High School while his father was serving as the defensive coordinator at the University of North Carolina, is a 6-2, 100-pounder who completed 54 percent of his 13 touchdowns and 1,460 last fall.
Dickey also was a two-time all-conference pick—a North Carolina All-State selection in
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Dickey completed 68 percent of his passes for 11 touchdowns and, 1,340 yards in his junior year and also handed his school's place-kicking chores the last two seasons.
The elder Dickey, who accepted the KState head coaching job in December, also announced the signing of another North Carolina all-stater, linebacker Kesim Siemon.
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