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Tuesday, November 29, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Javhawks' offense overpowering in opener
By BILL NEWSOME
Sports Writer
A. Kansas basketball team probably was never more talked about before it played a big role in the game.
A talented crop of newcomers joined nine returning lettermen and left KU fans drooling about the team's capabilities. Talk of a Big Eight championship and national prominence had once again surfaced in Lawrence.
The long-awaited season opener finally arrived last night in Allen Field House, and the Jayhawks turned out to be every bit as good as people said they could be.
KU unleashed the biggest offensive display in school history and demolished overmatched Central Missouri State by 56 points. 121-65.
The 121 points broke or came close to breaking a number of records:
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- It broke the school and field house
building. The old marry was 112 points
south of the school.
- It came in two points of breaking Iowa State's Big Eight scoring record of 123
- It came within one field goal of being the most ever made by a KU team in one game.
- It came within four points of tying the largest winning margin ever by a U20 team.
Kansas coach Ted Owens said he was surreised by the outburst.
"I didn't know what to expect but I sure didn't expect the score or the margin," he said.
Owens, who had been mildly disappointed
Boxed in
Kansas' Donnie Von Moore and Scott Anderson leap into defensive position as Central Missouri State's Lex Fagen tries valyish to find an open man in last night's basketball opener in Allen Field House. The Jayhawks ran away from the Mules, posting an easy 12-4-6 victory.
with his team's play in its two intrasquad games last week, said that the Jawhayws playing a different team had had a lot to do with their good showing.
"WE NEEDD to play someone else," he said. "I was as anxious as anyone else to see how we would do rotating people and playing together as a team."
As Owens and the crowd of 8,140 found out,
the Jayhawks blended together well.
with a rather surprising trio of backcourt starters—Wilmore Fowler, Brad Sanders and Hasan Houston-KU came out of the chute like lightning. KU ran for 28 points, and it was obvious that Central Missouri, already down by 12, would never be in the game.
Three minutes later Owens inserts a new trio of guards--hight-tailed freshman Darnell Valentine and seniors John Douglas and Clint Johnson—and the new lineup moves on to its final courts. With more than eight minutes to go in the first half, KU had already hit 40 points.
After the game, Owens again played down the importance of his starting five.
"THIS TEAM is not going to be based on startups jobs," he said. "We're going to experiment for a while. Using our depth will be strong point. It really paid off tonight."
The star of the game for the Jayhawks, though, did not come off the bench. It was started center Paul Mokeski, who scored a career-high 23 points and grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds, even though he played just over half the game.
Mokeski keyed KU's fast start by scoring 14 points in the game's first seven minutes. He hit his first six shots, mostly on short jumpers.
"I worked on my shot this summer and I think it's improved," the "7-foot-I junior said. "I felt I played good. We've got so many people that we can back every body up."
FOUR OTHER JAYHAWK scored in double figures even though most played less
| | PG | FT |reb | FB | P |its |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Keenings | 9-11 | 6-12 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 18 |
| Sanders | 7-14 | 10-12 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 23 |
| Mokkeni | 11-16 | 13-16 | 11 | 2 | 23 | 11 |
| Powell | 2-14 | 1-2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| Powell | 5-9 | 1-2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| Johnson | 5-9 | 1-2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| Douglas | 4-8 | 1-7 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 11 |
| VanDervee | 3-8 | 1-7 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 11 |
| Valentine | 4-7 | 1-6 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 11 |
| Anderson | 1-2 | 0-4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Gibson | 1-2 | 0-4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Skaggs | 3-4 | 2-3 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| Neal | 3-4 | 2-3 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| Cawker | 3-4 | 2-3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| Totals | 48-45 | 10-26 | 32 | 8 | 11 | 18 |
Central Missouri 37 28-61
Kansas 60 61-123
half the game. Senior forward Ken Koenigs scored 18 points, All-America candidate Douglas had 17, and the pair of each with 10 points, Dainteine, each had 14. All 4 KU players scored
Technical foul: Mokeski.
Officials: Kent Kurtz and Dave Phillips.
Johnson, who has started for the past three years, and Douglas were not bothered by having to sit on the bench at the start of the game.
Central Missions
Fagan 4-9 3-5 Reb Pf Pts
Brumfield 1-5 1-5 1-5
Tremblay 1-5 1-5 1-5
Railton 7-10 4-4 5 2 18
R Ailson 4-10 4-4 5 2 18
Goodman 3-11 3-12 3 12
M Ailson 3-11 3-12 3 12
Stroster 0-3 0-1 2 3 0
Smarter 0-4 0-1 2 3 0
Haggag 0-4 0-1 3 1 0
Fenelly 1-7 4-4 4 0 6
Toak 1-7 4-4 4 0 6
Hooper 0-1 0-1 0 2 0
Murphy 0-1 0-1 1 0 1
Toward 25-47 15-19 31 31 65
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Central Missouri was led by center Rusty Temolernie with 18.
MANHATTAN (AP)—Curtis Redding popped in 19 points and Evan Williams added in 18 as Kansas State choked off South Dakota at 12. The Nets beat the Jayhawks, 68-52, in college basketball last week.
Midwestern used ball control tactics to maintain a 29-28 edge with a minute left in
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP)—Sophomore guard Larry Drew tossed in a career-high 23 points and Missouri added some pimpin free throw shooting in the second half to hold off Nidwater State 81-73 last night in their season-opener.
The game was tied 42-42 with 13:10 remaining when Kansas State went on a 27-17 run.
Miller heads all-Big Eight squad
"No hard feelings," Johnson said. "The team has so many different combinations, it can be overwhelming."
Steve Soldner and freshman Rolando Blackman each had 10 points for the team.
Tigers take opener
"it's the coaches' jobs to pick whoever will benefit the team the most by starting," echeo Douglas. "I don't worry about not getting a play, but maybe it'll make me a better player."
South Dakota, which scored 128 points in its season-opener Saturday against Westmar of Iowa, led the Wildcats 34-30 at intermission and would just hold 18 just inches on second ball.
K-State wins second
Hunt, a junior, and Cumby, a sophomore, jolted enemy ball carriers with such swiftness that he was killed before they said they were the best the Sooners had ever had. They were joined at linebacker by Kansas State senior Gary Spani, who totaled more than 400 tackles in a memorable play.
MILLER WAS the only senior in a four-man basefield chosen by one of Big Eight players.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—Terry Miller, the league's all-time righthump champion, and the Oklahoma linebacker twosome of Daryl Hunt and George Cumby head the Associated Press All-Big Eight football team for 1977.
Miller, who entered a run for the Heisman Trophy as he capped an illustrious career at Oklahoma State, was a unanimous choice for the second straight year. Durable and quarterback of 474 career yards, the most successful by fourth best in major college history.
Also at running back were Dexter Green, the Iowa State junior who cracked the 1,000-yard mark for the second year in a row, and Nebraska sohomore I. M. Hipp, the runner-
up to Miller for the league rushing championship.
For the first time, a non-passer was chosen at quarterback: Oklahoma's Thomas Lott. A junior, Lott may the finest winnish signal-caller ever. Every Big Eight team had a quarterback, two with, greater passing statistics.
The offensive line is dominated by conference champion Oklahoma, and Nebraska, which tied with Iowa State for runner-up in the conference. Oklahoma's defense was superior, Greg Jorgensen were tabbed at guard. Hasker senior Tom Davis is the center.
Two rangy seniors were picked at defensive end, Colorado's Randy Westendoff and Oklahoma State's Daria Butler. The defensive backs, all seniors, were Zac Henderson of Oklahoma, Odis McKinney of Colorado and Tom Fitch of Kansas.
Oklahoma's 6-4, 260-pound Kari
Bakker was the winner of her 6-2, 260-pound
Tanner was the winner of her 6-2, 260-pound
most physical in the league, landed both their tackles on the first team.
Junior Mike Stensrud, 64, 270, and senior
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season, Oklahoma. Oklahoma.
The Iowa State Cyclones, whose defense was recarded by opposing coaches as the
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THE INDIANS, without one trip to the free throw line in the first half, got into four trouble in the second half, allowing Missouri to connect on 22 of its 25 second-free throw attempts, and then scored six than Thrills, but Missouri hit 22 more charity throws.
The other four OSU starters also scored in double figures with Eli Johnson hitting for 17 points, Andrew Jones 16, Olus Holder 14 and Howard Kelsey 10.
the opening half. The Tigers broke loose,
however, scored the last six points of the
half and then jumped to a 10-point lead five
minutes into the second half.
STILLWATER, Okla. (UPI) - Oklahoma State's Mark Tucker scored 25 points last night to lead the Cowboys to a 93-78 victory over Southwestern (Tex.) University.
OSU coasts to win
THE BATTLE OF CHILE
Southwestland scored the first bucket, a 15-foot jumper by Belcher, but the Cowbys posted seven straight points and never trailed. OSU repeatedly broke the Pirates' zone press and increased its lead to 48-33 at halftime.
Clay Johnson canned 17 points for Mila while Brad Droy had 14 points and 12 rebounds.
Southwestern's 6-8 center Carl Bethew was the game's winner with scorer at 26 points and fourth in scoring.
The win pushed the Cowboy's season record to 2-0 and dropped the Tables to 3-2.
Southwestcut the margin to seven points twice in the second half, but OSU rebounded to build its peak lead, 88-69, with about two minutes to play.
The 93-point outburst was the eighth highest in school history and the best in almost three years. The win marked the victory in 1960 OSU has won its first two games.
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KOENIGS WAS just happy to be playing someone other than his teammates.
“It’s nice to play with these guys instead of getting beat up by them,” he said. “In fact, this is the first time that I had played with this particular group of starters.”
With Owens shuffling his players in and out, KU gradually expanded the lead the
Elmore's death puzzles doctors
ROME (UP1) - A surgeon who performed an autopsy yesterday on former Wichita State basketball player Bob Elmore said a narcotics overdose was the likely cause of death, but it would take several days to recover. He said diagnosis and come up with a definite finding.
The 23-year-old center for Rome's Lazio-Elidorado team was found dead early Saturday, sitting in a chair in front of a television set with a syringe and heroin packet beside him and fresh needle marks in his arm.
entire evening. After taking a 60-37 halftime lead, the Jayhawks poured it on in the
They scored 14 straight points at one point in the final half, and the streak was capped by Mac Stallock's turnaround jumper which placed him on the centric mark with 6:54 minutes left.
The final score might have been even worse had KU not missed nine free throws in the second half, many of which were the front ends of one-and-opes.
Central Missouri coach Tom Smith was awed by the Hawjacks.
"I SHOULD have known better than to try to play against a big-time team when we're not big time," he said. "They're quicker than hell in the backcourt. They're definitely quicker than they were last year."
The Jayhawks return to action to tomorrow, hosting Fordham.
The game's statistics proved Smith right. KU killed the Mules on the backboards by out-rebounding them, 62-33, and outshooting from the field, 58 per cent to 37 per cent.
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