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Friday, February 29, 1980
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the coaches say it's Kansas. KU athletes also say the Jayhawks are favorites. So what's to stop the men's track team from winning the 10th 10k Big Eight Indoor Championship?
Sports Writer
FOUR YEARS AGO KU was edged by Kansas State. 54.52 for the indoor crown.
'Hawks favored at indoor meet
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By MATT SEELEY Sports Writer
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Last year's meet saw KU capture five first-place finishes only to lose to the Missouri Titans 91.83%.
But will the favorite become over-confident and let-down?
The Jayhawks go to the Bob Devaney Sports Complex in Lincoln, Neb., today as the unanimous choice of Big Eight coaches for the championship Missouri won last year.
"We don't want revenge and we don't run on revenge. If I wanted revenge, I just as soon get out of sports. It has no place here." The athletes wait it bad."
Despite the disappointing loss, Tummons said his team was not out for revenge.
"We've already had a team discussion and talked about individual pride." Timmons said. "We're not going to let what happened for years ago happen this time."
ONE ATHLETE WHO wants it badly is spinner Lester Mickens.
"We're thinking of a sweep across the board in the 440- and 600-yard runs," Mickens said. "And you know we'll do it in the mule relay."
Timmons and his coaching staff are not sure who will be in the meet. For that
LONG JUMP: As a result of last week's win over Kansas, Big Eight and is considered the favorite. His toughest competition should come from Kevin Shaun of Kansas State, whose season is now up.
Here is an event-by-event rundown of how the Big Eight Chamionships shae un:
reason, participants in some events won't be known until meet time.
TRIPLE JUMP; Once again it will be KU'S Swain Owaliob and Kansas State's Lauren Johnson, who were House in the first meet of the indoor campain, Parette edged Owaliob on his final play. She lost 3-2 to Lauren 3-2;锁ed 3-2 to KU's record, and Parette is soared 54% in New Mexico. Owaliob is back at full strength a two-week after the game. Steve Combs could be a player in the early stages.
Fuller has the conference's best vault of the season at 17-2. Buckingham and Fuller competed against each other in Allen Field during their age ago and Buckingham came on to cut.
POLE VAULT: Returning Big Eight indoor and outdoor champion Jeff Buckingham, who a conference meet will face Colorado's dennis meet, will face Colorado's dennis meet.
**HIGH JUMP:** This is the event to meet KU's JOel Light, winner of all of his matches during at least 74 in fights will face the host team. The rival will be defending indoor champion Nat Page of Missouri. Page, who is in the final round of championship charges, has a seasonal and
Big Eight best jump of 7-3/5. Light's other challenge should come from Iowa State's John Armand who has leaped 7-14 this year. He yet to compete against either opponent.
404-YARD DASH: One of KU's possible 1-2三 sweeps, with All-America-Lester Mickens, Deen Hogan and Stan Whitaker leading the field. Mickens has a season's best of 47.8 two-tenths of a second faster than Hogan is best. Whittaker, who was the 39-year-old, has a best time of 43.4. Their prime contenders will be Oklahoma's Jody Middelson.
600: "I've never ever won a one close match," he mentioned after being nipped by teammate Mike Ricks four weeks ago at the Bob Davenport Sports Complex. The two players were tied in the race was awarded to Ricks, Mickens, the outstanding performer in last year's meet, will be living for a third straight 600 title. Joining Mickens and Ricks in an effort to sweep the equestrian is freshman Ray Marks. Ricks, who plays Jimmerson and Nebraska's Everton Dacosta.
888: KU's Tum Jantchats the favorite. Jantchats has the best time in the conference this year at 1:35:08. He will face strong defense and will be Davis and KU队mate Leonard Martin.
TWO-MILE: Erin Rankin of Okahoma should face strong challenges from Iowa State's Richard Kaitany and Mark Scrutton of Colorado.
tremely well recently, winning the mile against Colorado two weeks ago. The favorite's role goes to Colorado's Tom Brineau, the conference leader with a time of 4:07.
1,000: Defending champion Scott Poeblin,
last week he run at 2.08%, the conference's top mark this season. The Jawaharskis Rick Ena figures to be Poebling's primary
MILE: The Jayhawk hopes rise on senior Dave Bauer. Bauer has been runnin ex-
**TREME MILE:** This is a carbon copy of the two-mile race. Although the *Hawks* have run the event only once this season, they will probably send Smith and Paul Schoen. The season's best time in the conference game is Schoen's Scratton, with a clocking of 14:36. 26
The 'Hawks will rely on Kendall Smith, who has the fourth best conference time of 8:56:14, seven seconds behind Rankin's best.
DISTANCE MEDLEY: The Jayahawks are undecided on who will be running, but, whoever it is, its stiffest challenge will come from Nebraska.
TWO-MILE RELAY: KU has run the event but once and that was last week in Illinois. In Iowa, the distance durellay, KU is unsettled on who will run. If the 'Hawks go with last week's combination Jantch, McKenna, or Nabrako for the NCAA indoor meet, their toured competition will be from Oklahoma and Nebraska, also qualifiers for the NCAs.
MILE RELAY: If KU fails to win this event, it will be an upset. Undefeated this season, the team of Witaker, Hogan, Ricks and Mickens will face their strongest opponents on the field when they beat on the Bob Devany track by nearly eight seconds earlier this year.
Blossoming Knight gives KU hope
By GENE MYERS
Expectations to frustrations. Ashes to ashes. Kelly Knight to Kelly Knight.
The Kansas basketball season that began last November with such high expectations should come to a close tonight. The up-and-down Jayhawks are favored to be blown apart by the Missouri Tigers in the Big Eight post-season tournament.
But Kemper Arena, the re-roofed site of the tournament, annually brings out the best in the Jayhawks. Last year, it turned David Magley into a two-game superstar.
This year, Kansas will need another instant hero to help tame the Tigers. That he could be Kelly Knight, a KU muriage that was really wasn't.
BUT HELL START tonight and face Steve Stipman, the conference's freshman. The 6-11 Stipman staggered a career-high 29 points in 84-48 on Feb. 9.
Knight, however, says he'll be ready for the challenge.
Colorado. He hit 6 of 6 shots and a free throw for 13 points.
"They don't usually tell us the starting
team until five minutes before game time.
And they don't tell you what the same
attitude as always. All you can do is
play your hardest and do the best you can
Knight played his best Tuesday night in KU's 75-65 first-round triumph over
Knight skinted KU's one exhibition game after a 32-point scrimmage. He then placed his 672-3-pound frame sitter and intently watched the ball, until recently, helped keep him sittin'
"ONE THING ABOUT coming off the bench is that you're not loose and not at your best to go up and down the court to get in the game." The fact that it takes longer times, you'll be right back on the bench.
He'll start tonight along with Darnell Valentine, John Crawford, Tony Guy and Magley. Missouri will counter with Larry Rizzo and Sandin Vickery, Rick Frazier and Sanjinovacky.
Those Tigers are ranked ninth by United Press International, l1th by the Associated Press and the overwhelming favorite by the Kansas is conceding nothing but the past.
"Whomever we play, we just play," Valentine said. "I can't choose. If it were for me to choose, I would pick elementary schools.
"IF IT'S MISSOUR! let it be missouri." It is Missouri. And the Tigers are loadout. They can fly, and almost certain to be a NCAA record. The old mark is $53 set历年 the UCLA
The sharpest sharpshooter is a substitute.
He's Mark Dressler, whose 69.9 percentage
in league play brok the mark set by KU Ken Koening three years ago. Dresser, however, will start because Curtis Berry, leading scored and resbower, is limping.
"It's very pleasing for a club and the coach to watch a person prepare himself and be ready to play when he's called upon." MU coach Norm Stewart said of his team that he has played a lot of good basketball. He continued, "I had a better response to the challenge."
DRESSLER STEPPED in for Berry to score 18 points against Oklahoma and 12 points against Michigan in a regular season. He then scored 19 more against Oklahoma State in the first round.
Missouri is 23-4 and Kansas is 14-13.
But Kansas has the Kemper edge.
Missouri is 13-7 there but losers of four traight. Missouri is 14-3.
In the other semifinal, Kansas State, losers of four of its last five, faces slowdown Nebraska. That game is at 7:10 p.m. The title game is tomorrow at 8:10 p.m.
Big Eight Standings
Conference Games
**Won** *Lost* *Pct.* **Al** *Bests*
Missouri 8 7 261 19 14 B51
Kansas State 8 7 271 19 14 B51
Kansas 8 7 271 19 14 B51
Kansas 8 7 290 19 14 B51
Oklahoma 6 8 421 13 12 B55
Okahanna 6 8 421 13 12 B55
Okahanna 4 8 185 12 12 B57
Assistant basketball coach considered for Ohio job
From the Kansan's wire services
THEMENS, Ohio-Bob Hill, a Kansas assistant basketball coach, is one of six finalists for the head coaching position at Ohio University, according to Harold
McElennan led Wednesday that Hill, who has been a KU assistant for the past three years, was interviewed for the job Monday. Texas assistant Steve Moellen, who
interviewed by McEhlaney's search committee Wednesday, was the final candidate to be screened. McEhlaney said he would make an announcement early next week.
The other finalists are Hal Wissel, 14-year head coach at Florida Southern; Danny Nee, the top assistant at Notre Dame; Jane Gory, the top assistant at Vanderbilt; and Gerry Sears, an assistant at Ohio State.
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