Wednesday, January 18.1978
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University Daily Kansan
KU to test surprising Cyclones
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"Stretch"
Kansas' 7-1 center, Paul Mokeski, towers over Oklahoma's Aaron Curry during Saturday's 91-61 Jayhawk jump over the Sooners. Mokeski has been weakened by a mild case of pneumonia and has seen only limited action recently. The Jayhawks face the vastly improved Iowa State Cyclones in Ames tonight. The Cyclones and Jayhawks are both 3-0 in conference play, and tonight's game will decide first place in the Big Eight conference.
He returns home Saturday to play rival Kansas State in another tough Big Eight contest.
Kings fall to Atlanta,111-90
ATLANTA (UP1)—Charlie Criss’ 4 fourth quarter points helped repel a Kansas City comeback Tuesday night and pace the Hawks to a 111-90 win over the Kings.
The win put the Hawks' record at 20-23, while the loss dropped Kansas City to 15-28. Ron Boone was high scorer for Kansas City with 21 points.
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The Jainhawks' opponent, Iowa State, a perennial Bight Eight also-ran, has won five games in a row, including its first three games and has earned a first-place tie with KU.
The game is against an unlikely opponent, but, by winning at Ames tonight, the KU basketball team can secure sole possession of first place in the Big Eight conference
Just three weeks, ago, however, Iowa State was struggling with a 37 record. The Cyclones then won their final game in the Big Eight Tournament, beat Drake and opened their conference season with a victory over Colorado.
KU basketball coach Ted Owens was he taking nothing for granted in the game.
THE GAME will match two teams that are plavinic as well as they have all season.
The Cyclones then shocked Kansas State in Ames and Nebraska in Lincoln. They may beat the Jayhawks tonight, but they won't surprise them.
"IM NOT surprised at what they're doing," he said. "They have some impressive victories under their belt. They are a young team, and, from what I can see, I say they are just beginning to reach their potential and play with consistency."
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Tipoff is set for 7:35 in Hilton Coliseum at Ames.
"Even though we won't have our crowd even if we pull together and will hear each other cheers."
Clint Johnson said he thought that KU's experience and team spirit would be able to compensate for the Cyclones' home court advantage.
One Jawhack who has had experience in Hilton Coliseum is John Douglas. Last year he scored a career-high 46 points to lead KU 91-89 overtime victory over the Coyotes.
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“It’s our most important game of the season so far,” Johnson said, “but I think we'll be calm because we do have some experience.
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"I'm glad they beat Nebraska," he said.
"It wakes us up. There is no looking past them this year. It is a game we simply have to win."
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To defeat the Cyclones, Kansas must stop Andrew Parker and Dean Duthoff. Parker, 6-5 junior guard, leads the Big Eight in scoring with a 23.1 average. Uthof's creditors are even more impressive. The 6-4, 245 pound sophomore leads the nation with 18.5 rebounds a game and contributes 13.7 points a game to the Cyclone attack.
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Also scoring in double figures is forward Bob Fowler, a 6-4 sophomore who transferred to Iowa State from the University of Kentucky.
ROUNDING OUT the starting five for Iowa State are senior forward Steve Burgason, who has started since his freshman year and Charles Harris, a
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Iowa State, which won only eight games all last season, equaled to mark when the Cyclones beat Nebraska. Iowa State is now 8-7.
freshman guard who averages more than four baskets a game.
KU 13-2 for the season and 3-0 in
conference play, is ranked 8th by the nation by
both records.
After the near-miss against Arkansas, from a seven-day, four-game East Coast trip, the team was ready to play.
THE JAYHAWK opened the Big Eight Holiday Tournament by crushing Missouri 96-45, and followed with narrow victories over Oklahoma and Kansas State.
KU fell 13 points behind the Sooners in the semi-finals, but largely because of Donny Von Moore's 18 points and a stingy defense. He scored 26 goals in the second half and escaped with a 79-76 win.
KU looked sluggish in the first half against Kanaa State and a frustratedaint treated to 8% defense and VonMoore once again were the key to victory and KU had wun its first Big Eight Tournament.
KU'S STARTING lineup underwent some changes after the Big Eight tournament. Von Moore, whose timeless baskets in the Big Eight Tournament led come-from-behind victories over Oklahoma and Kansas State, replaced Paul Mokesi at center, who had suffered a bout with pneumonia. Von Moore has averaged more than 17 points a game against the Big Eight tournament and currently leads the team with a 13.5 average.
Von Moore's performance earned him the Most Valuable Player award and a spot on the All-Star team.
Clint Johnson, who started at point guard his first three years, has started the last three games. Johnson has scored in double figures in three of the last four rams.
KANAS' LAST three victories, all conference games, have come at the expense of Missouri, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
Despite the tournament championship,
the glossy record and a top-ten ranking,
Greg Horn is at odds with the
"I'd say for the most part that I'm satisfied with the play of our defense," he said, "but not with the performance of our offense. We've got to have better concentration and team play on offense for us to reach our maximum potential."
OWENS WAS especially critical of what he called "one-on-one" offense KU displayed in the first half of the 91-69 victory last Saturday over Oklahoma, but he credited the defense with forcing 23 Sooner turnovers.
"Our defense shook some ball loose and our duraf break broke the game open," he
Kansas' sports maintain interest
By GARY BEDORE
Snorts Editor
Things have been hectic in KU sports circles recently with several Jayhawk sports making big headlines over the Christmas break.
The biggest bang has come from the KU basketball team, which, for the first time in four years, is ranked as high as eight in the nation.
This year's team is exciting, averaging 87.2 points a game. Quick freshman guards Mo Fowler and Darnell Valentine have 53 goals each. And in the first kind of pressure defense the Javachis play.
THE JAYHAWKS seem to be a closer knit unit than Kansas teams in the recent past. No one player is stealing all the headlines, and the scoring has been balanced. Four players are averaging more than ten points a game.
One Jayhawk, John Crawford, has been found academically ineligible for the rest of the Yankees. In a City, Mo., had appeared in nine of the Jayhawks games but had scored just 14
After the KU-St. Louis game on December 12, Houston made a comment that now seems true.
After an exciting play, the Jayhawk bench looks more like the KU yell leaders, and the excitement has spread to the crowds at Allen Field House.
when Mo Fowler missed a dunk shot
Saturday against Oklahoma, he showed
a form of excitement all his own. He romped
around the court angry at himself for
missing the easy shot. The crowd responded
to Fowler's antics and let out a furious roar.
A SURPIRISING development occurred before the Big Eight tournament when Hasan Houston, sophomore guard from St. Louis, came to St. Louis University. It came as a surprise since Houston had been excited about the prospects of Kansas making it to the NCAA final. The NCAA championships will be held in Houston and Houston had said it would play there.
"We have so much talent that some guys have to sacrifice and forget about their
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egos," he said. "As soon as we do that we'll be super."
Freshman Lynette Woodward from Wichita North High School is averaging more than 20 points a game and has to rank among the best newcomers in the country.
Houston's reasons for leaving are his alone, but playing behind standout guards such as Valentine and Fowler could put a dent in anyone's ego.
Most of the team's losses came on their recent Eastern trip where they played several perennial power-house basketball teams.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL has also been making a favorable impression at KU. The team, with ten wins and five losses, rallied from a 13 point deficit to fall just three points short of beating Missouri in the finals of the Big Eight tournament.
In a recent interview, Rutledge said he was called by the principal of Homewood H.S. about the job and said he received an offer "too good to pass up." He that said by coaching in high school, he could spend more time with his family.
The Kansas football team was in the news when quarterback coach Gary Rutledge decided to take a head coaching position at Alabama High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
Rutledge and his wife Kathy, are from birmingham and welcome the chance to go on a tour of the city.
Rutledge is remembered at KU for helping quarterback Tommy Waller make a defensive block.
THE KANSAS RELAYS, which were canceled for two weeks, are back on again. The Relays were originally canceled because of the renovation of Memorial Stadium, but now they will go on, at five locations in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Only the marathon will be staged at Kansas, with other college, university and open events spread among the University of Kansas, the University of Texas at Austin, Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence.
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