University Daily Kansan
Monday. November 28,1977
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Opening lineup full of surprises
y BILL NEWSOME
Sports Writer
Ever since Kansas was making its recruiting coup last spring, Jayhawk basketball fans have debated about which five players would choose and whether would choose to make up his starting lineup.
KU opens its highly anticipated 1977-78 season at 7:35 tonight in Allen Field House against Central Missouri State, and the five players Owens said last night would be the Jayhawks' starters might surprise a few people.
Owens said the Jayhawks would open with Paul Mokesi and Ken Koenigs on the front line and Brad Sanders, Wilmote Fowler and Hasan Houston in the backcourt.
OWENS CONTENDS, however, that a lot of emphasis should not be placed on them.
"I don't really think it's going to matter a lot who starts," he said. "We have good evidence that we can win." We could use many different combinations of starting lineups before the season is over.
The battle for the other starting front-line position had been between Koenigs and Donnie Von Moore. Koenigs is a two-year starter and Von Moore was a part-time starter last year after recovering from a lengthy illness.
Mokeski, who Owens played played outstanding in the two intrasquad games last week, took scoring honors in both games. He scored 23 points in the game in Lawrence and 27 in the game at Hutchinson last Friday.
THE BIGGEST surprise in the starting lineup is the absence of All-America candidate John Douglas. Douglas led the Jayhawks to an 18-10 record last season with a 19.2 scoring average, the second-highest in the Białe Iiight Conference.
Douglas had been expected to start at one of the wing positions, but Owens said he had not been pleased with the senior's performance in the two intrasquad games. Douglas scored 12 and eight points in the two games.
Starting in his place will be Fowler, who was one of the most highly recruited prep players in the country last year. He scored seven points in the two intrasquad games.
"He moves the ball well and does a good
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job of passing the ball to the post," Owens said of Fowler.
THE FIGHT for the starting nod at the other wing position had been wide open, but Sanders' performances in the intrasquad games was believed to be the deciding factor for Clint Johnson's starting in place of Clint Johnson, a senior who has started the last three seasons.
Sanders, a 6-16 junior, has seen limited playing time the last two seasons and scored a total of 35 points in the two intrasquad games.
Owens' decision to start Houston settled a three-way battle for point guard. Senior Milt Gibson and freshman Darnell Valentine also scored, and Valentine was believed to have been held up.
But Houston appeared to win the job with his performance in the two intrasquad games, in which he scored 15 and 20 points. Owens said he was not pleased with last Friday's scrimmage but was ready for tonight's opener.
Paul Mokeski
"WE'RE ANXIUS to get started," he said. "We've still got some problems to solve and some improvement to be made. We've had a lot of excellent attitude and have worked hard."
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Central Missouri' State enters the game, which is also its season-owner, minus three starters from last year's squad—which posted a 16-10 record. Gone is the leading scorer, Ben Brantley; but the second leading score, 64 center Rotem Templemi, returns.
KU routed the Wusults last season, 74-52. But Owens was the neverless impressed with the defense.
"It just so happened that we played one of our better early-season games and defeated them by a fairly wide margin," he said. "This is a game in which we must be ready to go out and boost to their program if they best use us." I'm sure they'll be fire up and ready to go.
Missouri is the other Big Eight school opening its season tonight. The Tigers will host a doubleheader.
In other conference games, Kansas State, which narrowly defeated Northern Illinois over the weekend, is hosting South Dakota. It has also been named Tulsa, is at home against Southwestern.
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