Tuesday, December 6, 1977
University Daily Kansan
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Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
The Bia D
Reserve center Donnie Van Moore keeps Murray State's Donek Wilson away from the basket in last night's basketball game in
Allen Field House. Von Moore came off the Kansas bench to score a career-high 22 points and provided tough defense and clutch saves.
Older Douglas says John's better
By RICK GOSSELIN UPI Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Leon Douglas was a member of the U.S. Pan American team in 1975, an All-America selection at Alabama in 1976 and the fourth overall pick of the National Basketball Association draft that same year.
And he's only the second best basketball player in his family.
"I'd say my brother is a better all-around player right now than I am," said Douglas, who starts for the Detroit Pistons at forward. "His game is sound: he can shoot, he can really jump, he's solid defensively and he has a very competitive nature."
THE BROTHER WHOM Douglas holds in such high esteem is John. But John Douglas is still in college: playing his basketball on the campus of the University of Arkansas of eligibility at the University of Kansas.
But John's talents are far from amateur. He used up his first two years of eligibility at UCLA, and then went on before transferring to KU last fall. He went on to earn All-Big Eight honors in his first year of major college competition as he finished second in the conference in scoring.
"I always wondered how good he was," said Leon during a recent trip to Kansas City for a game between the Pistons and the Kings. "I played with him for a month this past summer back in Tuscaloosa. I had an angel who and he came down and assisted with me.
"I WAS THE FIRST time we played together since my junior year in college. I
was always oversees competing with national teams during the summer and when I'd get back home, he was off to school or something. We never really had time to play together until this summer. And I was impressed with his ability."
Douglas said his younger brother had hoped to attend Alabama out of high school but was enrolled in an improper prep curriculum in Leighton, Ala., and was not academically eligible to attend a Southeastern Conference school.
"He'd say to me, 'I wonder what it would be like with me on the outside and you on the inside at Alabama?' " Douglass said. "He told me that Alabama is right out of high school but couldn't."
"Alabama wanted him when he got out of junior college but by then I was gone. He would have been compared with me at Alabama and they would have expected big things of him before he even got there. He would have gotten a chance to establish his own name."
has produced Wilt Chamberlain, Walt Wesley, Jo Wo White, Dave Robisch and Stallward. Douglass is being billed by KU candidate since Stallward in 1972.
THE YOUNGER DOUGLAS scored 373 points in his first year at Kansas, the 12th ranked team in the nation.
"Scoring is his biggest asset," said Leon, who talks to his brother twice a week by telephone. "He finds ways to get the ball to the hoop. But I've stressed the importance of having several games together if he wants to work at the pros and he's been working on that."
"I think he could play in this league right now. I've seen all of the best guards who have come out of college during the past two years and I rate John with any of them. And he can also play small forward. If he plays the center, he will be played major college four years, he'd have been publicized more and be recognized as one of the best.
"He's got all the tools to be a great one. He made a believer out of me this summer. It'd be nice if he could two play with me in Detroit but I really don't care where he plays. I just want to see him make it in this league."
Jayhawks roll to 4th win by pounding Murray State
By BILL NEWSOME
Sports Writer
Kansas gave a good indication of how good it is in its game against Murray State last night in Allen Field House. KU beat Murray State 106-71.
But when the game was over, KU had gone over the 100-point mark for the third time this season and had a 38-point win over the Racers. The win raised KU's record to 4-1.
The Jayhawks, as coach Ted Owens was quick to admit, played poorly. They spotted for most of the game, committing 2 fouls and turning the ball over 20 times.
"TWENTY-SEVEN fouls and 20 turnovers is a bad game," Owens said. "When things like that happen and you still score this many points, it makes you wonder what you could have done if you really played the ball well." Owens said that way and win by a straight margin.
The Jayhawks' poor play, though, did not stop them from scoring more scoring shots and their still unaccounted
No Kansas team has ever recorded three 100-point games in a season. Last night's score gave the Jayhawks their first back-to-back 100-point games in history. They scored 99 points in the only game in which they reached to reach the 100-point mark this season.
Murray State coach Fred Overton was expecting an offensive display from Kansas.
"KID UD'T surprise me when I got here," he said. "I got their scouting report and heard they were blowing it up and down the court like Nevada as Las Vegas."
It took the Jayhawks a long time to get started, though. They committed 10 of their own on March 27.
Murray State (71)
| | PG | FT | REB | PF | PTS |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Randall | 10 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 15 |
| Muff | 8 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 14 |
| Warren | 9 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 14 |
| Warren | 9 | 17 | 20 | 3 | 10 |
| Jackson | 14 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 24 |
| Jackson | 14 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 24 |
| Wilson | 12 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Wilson | 12 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lowery | 10 | 44 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lowery | 0 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 26.48 | 15.28 | 47 | 23 | 101 |
Kansas (106)
FG | FG | PT | REB | PF | PTS
Douglas | 6-9 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 13
Kowaga | 8-12 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 15
Makeaki | 8-19 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 18
Fukui | 9-14 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 16
Valentine | 7-17 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 16
Houston | 8-12 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 14
Johnson | 8-11 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 12
Sanders | 8-12 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 14
Von Moore | 8-12 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 14
Glennau | 8-12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0
Anderson | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0
Shapiro | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2
Neal | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0
Crawford | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0
© 6-91 | 16-25 | 6 | 1 | 27 | 106
Murray State ... 23  28 - 71
V  ... 64  104
W  ... 146  104
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Von Moore scored a career-high 22 points and grabbed seven rebounds, Mokesh had 18 points and a career-high 14 rebounds and Koenigs had 13 points and 11 rebounds.
Kansas won the game with its inside play. Veteran frontliners Donnie Von Moore, Paul Mokesi and Ken Koenigs combined for 53 points and 32 rebounds.
THE JAYHAWKS ran off 10 straight points early in the second half to put the game on ice, and gradually expanded the lead over the final minutes of the game.
KU did hit a hot spell and outscored Murray State 184 over the last five minutes of play.
its feet by sinking a 20-foot jumper that gave
KU10 100 points with (44) 14 minutes left.
"It took us several minutes to get untracked," Owens said. "We didn't have the good, sharp mental alertness. It didn't cost us in this game but it will later."
Following North Carolina in the UPI top ten are Notre Dame, Marquette, which received two first-place votes, and UCLA. Arkansas, KU's opponent Dec. 22, received one first-place vote and held down the sixth spot.
For the first time in almost three years, the University of Kansas basketball team is ranked this week among the top twenty teams in the country. Kansas is tied for 18th with St. John's University in the United States. This year's ranking is ranked 19th in the Associated press poll.
Fast start lifts Kansas into AP, UPI top 20
The Jayhawks made their last appearance in the polls in January 1975 when they were ranked 20th. A loss the following weekend to Kansas State University knocked them out of the top twenty. Kansas was ranked as high as six earlier that year.
Kentucky, the Jayhawk's opponent Saturday, is ranked number one in both polls. The Wildcats broke out of a first-place tie with North Carolina to take over the top spot in the UPI rankings, and retained first place in the AP poll.
Kentucky, which defeated Indiana 78-64 last night for its second win of the season, received 320 points and 20 of 34 first-place votes in the UPI poll.
THE WILDCATS received 23 of 43 first-place votes in the AP rankings.
Von Moore killed the Racers with his deadly shooting, earned 10 of shots from behind.
Freshman Booty Neal sent the crowd to
"IM SHOTOING well because of pure confidence," said the 6-9 senior from Chicago, who is in getting a lot of my attention when I get worn down guarding the Big Ma and Ken.
In seventh was Cincinnati, followed by Indiana State, San Francisco and Syracuse.
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The UPI Top Twenty
1. Kentucky (20) 1-4
2. Arizona State (11) 1-4
3. Notre Dame (3) 1-4
4. Marquette (2) 1-4
5. UCLA (4) 1-4
6. Arkansas (1) 4-6
7. Carolina State (1) 4-6
8. Indiana State (1) 4-6
9. San Francisco (2) 3-4
10. Syracuse (4) 3-4
11. Michigan (3) 4-6
12. Maryland (3) 4-6
13. Utah (2-4)
14. Purdue (3) 2-6
15. tie St. John's 4-4
16. tie Kansas 2-4
17. Providence 1-4
18. tie Louisville 1-1
19. tie Holy Cross 2-4
20. Monmouth 3-4
The AP Ton Twenty
half, and with five minutes left in the half,
they held only a seven point lead. 34-27.
1. Kentucky (25) 1-4 808
2. North Carolina (16) 1-4 734
3. New Hampshire 1-4 808
4. Marquette (1) 2-4 208
5. UCLA (1) 2-4 208
6. Arkansas 1-4 305
7. Cincinnati 2-4 305
8. Connecticut 2-4 305
9. San Francisco 2-1 209
10. Michigan 3-1 208
11. Michigan Las Vegas 3-1 208
12. Indiana State 3-4 151
13. Maryland 3-4 151
14. Johns Hopkins 3-4 140
15. Utah 3-4 135
16. Holy Cross 3-4 110
17. Louisville 2-4 101
18. Detroit 1-1 91
19. Delaware 1-1 91
20. Wisconsin 4-1 64
21. Kansas 3-2 64
22. Pennsylvania 3-2 70
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