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Friday, December 9, 1977
University Daily Kansau
Jayhawks hope to pass first test
Sports Writer
By BILL NEWSOME
The question of how good the Kansas team really is will be answered tomorrow.
Inading Allen Field House will be the Kentucky Wildcats, who will provide the first real competition for the Jayhawks this season. Kansas has rolled to a 5-0 start, with its smallest victory margin being 32 points against Fordham.
Troffp is scheduled for 7:40. A sellout crowd of 16,000 is expected, and the game will be televised to a state-wide audience.
KU coach Ted Owens thinks his team is ready for the showdown.
"WE NEED to play some stiff competition now," he said. "We have to find out where we are. I suppose you can find out where we are, by playing the 1. team in the country."
Kentucky and Kansas are having typical seasons this year. The two schools have won the most games in college basketball history.
The Wildcats hold down the top rank in both the United Press International and Associated Press polls, and KU is ranked 18th by UPI and 19th by AP.
LIKE KANSAS, Kentucky enters the game with an unbeaten record. The Wildcats' two wins have come over Southern State, 110-86, and Indiana, 78-64.
The Jayhawks, in probably their best game this season, disposed of Southern
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Methodist University by an even greater margin, 107-71. But SMU coach Sonny Allen would not commit himself to saying which team would win.
"Kentucky's not any bigger than KU," Allen said. "That'll be a great ball game."
Kentucky will counter KU's front-line size-7, 1-Paul McKesewski, 6-10 Ken Koehens (25), and T.J. Heyward (45), giants of its own, Rick Robey and Mike Phillips. The third member of the Wildcats' front line is speedy 6-4 forward Jack Gliven. All three are seniors and three-year let-ters.
The Wildcats have two new starters in the backcourt this year, junior Truman Claytor and Kyle Macy, a sophomore transfer from Purdue.
Jay Shader, who started at guard for the Wildcats last season as a freshman, has been out since before the season started. He can take the trip, but it is not expected to play.
GIVENS AND ROBY, both strong All-America candidates, are Kentucky's biggest scoring threats. Givens is averaging 21.5 points a game and Roby is hitting at a 21.5 clip.
"I rate them as the best team in the country at this point," Owens said. "Kentucky is a very experienced team, and sound funnentially. They aren't going to beat
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"They've also got a lot at stake in protecting their ranking, so I'm sure they'll be ready to play. We'll have to play our best game to have a chance."
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Kentucky coach Joe Hall is equally impressed with KU. He said his team would have to play better than it played against the last Monday night to defeat the Jawhaws.
Washington said the difference between
them and last was the squid's attitude
and colossal size.
Not long ago, it was rare for the top scorer on the University of Kansas' women's basketball team to break 20 points or be grab more than 12 rebounds in a game.
In short, the agony of defeat in last year's season was more familiar than the third season.
"Last year we just didn't have the intensity that we wanted," she said. "We weren't getting it last year like we are this year, it just took us longer to get there."
But this season things are different for the Jayhawks, who will try for their seventh victory tonight against the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Neb.
FOR INSTANCE, Kansas' record is 6-1 compared to 3-4 at this time last season and the Jayhawks lead their opponents in most statistical categories.
"OUR EFFORT is going to have to be vastly improved if we are going to protect our unbeaten status against Kansas," Hall said. "The two freshmen (Darlant Valentine and Wilmore Fowler) increase Kansas' alliance. We'll open up all kinds of threes for them."
SHE SAID the players supported one another in practice and during the games.
"No one that has taken us on so far has played us player-to-player defense for more than a year."
KU coach Marian Washington attributes the team's early success to an aggressive defense that has perpetuated the fast break, the team's trademark.
"We're not successful with just five players," Washington said. "We feel it takes all 13 to make it go for us. I just can't stress this enough."
Washington said that this year's team was the best she had ever coached and that the team was better than ever.
"Our kids are excited that they can turn
the tables on the teams that we've had to take defends from in the past," she said. "I'm no longer surprised by anything they make me confident and it's a nice feeling to have."
V. C. Sanders, a 5-6 junior from Wichita, has won squad-wide respect for her intense defense, although she has been hampered by her team's plays each game with both knees wrapped.
"V.C. HAS 'dedicated herself to this ballcub.' Washington said. "She's putting in extra effort in all phases of her game, even if she wasn't playing every day. She never sees you up on defense."
The brand of defense Sanders plays was a major factor in the Jayhawks' 112-46 pounding of Cramorem Junior College Wednesday in Allen Field House.
But Washington said the team relished the victory only briefly. It now must concentrate on Nebraska, a team Washington has never defeated.
The Cornhuskers beat Kansas twice last year in Lincoln, by scores of 54-51 and 59-47.
NEBRASKA IS under first-year coach Marcia Walker and has been noted for its ability to fast break. The Cornhuskers are led by 5-10 forward Jian Crouch.
Washington said she expects Nebraska to start the game with a zone defense and a fast-break offense. She said the Jayhawks would have to penetrate Nebraska's zone and rebound well on defense to be successful.
Sophomore forward Cheryl Burnett should return to the Kansas linea after
Following the game against Nebraska, the Jayhawks will be title until Jan. 5, when they host the Big Eight tournament in Allen Field House.
The addition of Valentine and Fowler has indeed given the Jayhawks a new dimension from last season, when Kentucky routed them, 90-63, in the dedication game of its Rupp Arena. Through its first five games, the Jayhawks are averaging more than 104 points a game.
KU assistant coach Bob Hill, who scouted Kentucky, said that the Jayhawks' running game and pressure defense would have to be at its best to beat Kentucky.
"The thing we're going to have to do to beat them is pressure their guards as much as we can and rebound better than we have been," he said. "And we're going to have to go back again against Southern Methodist and have that kind of an effort, we can beat Kentucky."
MANHATTAN (UPI)—Junior forward Steve Seldon scored a career-high 24 points, including 16 in the first half, to win a 7-44 victory last night over Oral Roberts.
Soldner, 'Cats roll over ORU
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Soldner had averaged a meager 1.8 points a game as a sophomore and his best previous performance was a 10-point effort this season against Southern Methodist.
Eleven players involved in deal
HONOLULU (UPI)—The Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Mets figured in an 11-play blockbuster trade at the winter ballpark with Mets Montanez, Bert Blyleven, Al Oliver and Jon Matack being the key players.
The Rangers then completed the trade by sending Blyleven and Milner to the Pirates for outfitter Al Oliver and 19-year-old shortstop Nelson Norman.
The trade, the largest thus far at the winter meetings, began with the Rangers sending pitching Adrian Devine and Tommy Braves to the Eddie Miller to the Braves for Montanez.
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