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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 27, 1980
Dead horse lives after pasting Colorado
By GENE MYERS
Associate Sports Editor
You can't kill a dead horse, especially if it's a dark horse. Colorado discovered that last night.
Kansas is that dark horse, supposedly doomed to early elimination in the first round of the Big Eight post-season tournament. The Jayhawks had died last Wednesday in Boulder, Colo., to all but guarantee the home-court advantage for the team.
But the Colorado Buffaloes fell Saturday to Iowa State, 67-46, because of a basket at the buzzer and the hometown wear by-by. So did their season last night in Allen Field
KU CUT DOWN 75 hits. The KU keys were 20 points from Tony Guy, 15 rebounds and 19 points from the Kelly King and 11 points from Darryl Davenport. I am impressed.
"This is the best basketball we've played all year," KU coach Ted Owens said. We obviously would have liked to not have lost all our games, but you obviously want to be looking at this time.
The Jayhawks, who will take on Missouri in the semi-finals Friday night in Kemper Arena, have won four of their last five. Still, only one game over 300 with a 14-13 record.
The last loss was 81-72 in Colorado last week. The Hawks were outshuted and outlasted the Tigers, who started knight, the first one for the freshman, and John Crawford. Chester Giles and
"WE GOT WHIPPED out at Colorado when we went with a large lime grove," Owens said. "We got to the board and then to get position on the boards. We made them turn around and shoot and it worked."
The switch let Colorado shoot only 37 percent in the first half and 45 for the game, Meanwhile, KU shot 67.4 percent, a school record.
"It didn't matter what they did." Buff coach Bill Blair said. "They flat-out whined our asses.
"Valentine penetrated. We had our shots, too, but they just weren't there. Kansas just out shot and that's the biggest key in tournament basketball."
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face Missouri in seminal action at 9:10
p.m. Friday Kansas State faces
their opponent on Saturday.
Nancy Yale, ticket manager, said the University of Kansas had been allotted 1,000 tickets but that more probably would be available.
The ticket office opens at 8:30 a.m.
But Blair said the entire atmosphere in Lawrence was hardly suitable for tournament basketball.
"I NOT CRYING that we lost, but this game should have been played in Kansas City," he said. "There's more of an atmosphere. You don't have that, not when we're practicing yesterday and you are playing today." He screamed and bullied in the field house.
"We didn't help any. we stank it up tonight. But this game and the other first-round games should be taken to Kemper and have an ACCA atrophere."
Only 3,610 fans turned out in Allen last night. Last year, only 5,825 came to KU's first-round game with Iowa State.
"It was a weird feeling walking in and seeing the place not packed," CU's Brian Johnson said. "That pumped us up."
BUT THE SPARSE crowd didn't hamper either side.
"What's the problem? Is there mid-terms or something else going on tonight?"
The missing masses missed the best basketball performance in a long while from the Hawks. Valentine played perfect defense, high with 11 assists. He also had 16 points.
Most of Valentine's passes went inside to
"I was able to penetrate and I justushed it off," Valentine said. "The big guys weren't dropping the ball. Consequently, we were eetting lauvys.
Knight, who had 13 points going 6 for 6 shooting, and Guy, who went 6 for 11 and 8 for 8 from the free-throw line.
"OUR BIG GUYS should be commended. They have been criticized all year, but they played a great game. They worked the hardest to win everything. I can say about enough."
That hasn't been the case most of the season. The big men worked, usually unsuccessfully, in silence.
Wiseman has alternated between Knight, Giles, Art Housay and Mark Snow in the pivot. Knight started in RUX one exhibition series that featured four weeks. Three weeks later the season opener but bottomed out early by Christmas. Snow was the top reserve before Christmas but has been unbound of since then. And, on Friday night, he was only to rest on the bench most of this month.
"We were really surprised Knight started." Blair said.
JOHNSON, PART of the Buff double post, said that Knight did not make the difference.
"Blew our season in Ames Saturday against a town state," he said. "After a bleating KU, we weren't as emotionally high then. We were a little hesistant and a little less vigorous."
"Tonight, KU wanted it a little more."
The biggest surprise KU pulled was not falling behind right away, a season-long tradition. The Hawks jumped off to an early win and lost the game to the Bufs' offense. Not until the 3-51 mark, when Jack Magno scored from undermeth, did a Colorado player have more than one
THE BUFFS LEADING scorer, Joo Hunter, had only two points after the first 12 minutes. He warmed up to get six at the half. Then he exploded for 16 in the second.
"KU just got to an early head and we had to play catch up until we got into a groove," Hunter said. "I could have done better. I should have shot few shots that I think should have gone down."
In the end, the Buffaloes were the ones who were down
Darnell Valentine broke up Colorado's Toulli Ellis *pass to teammate Jacques Tuur in last night's opening round* the Big Eight's.
post-season tournament in Alief Field House. Valentine moved to KU in 75-64 victory over the Buffaloes, and had 12 assists in KU/75-64 victory over the Buffaloes.
Pass protection
JoJo White
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Jo Jo White has seen the best of times. Now Jo Jo White is experiencing the worst.
A two-time All-American at KU, White is presently playing part-time for the sinking Golden State Warriors, winners of only 19 of the 68 games they've played this season.
And he's bitter about it.
But now White is a man without a team. This was evident again last night as Golden State lost to the Midwest Division leading Kansas City Kings 117-9.
By MATT SEELEY
Sports Writer
White is unhappy because of his reserve role, which limited his playing time and leadership potential.
White played only 17 minutes in the loss, but he dished out eight assists and scored a point for each minute played.
"I figured the same thing." White said, but "I don't run that portion of the game. I don't understand a lot of the decisions here, but I can't control it."
"You have to take the batter with the sweet in life and right now I'll just do what's asked of me," White said. "They say on you the shirt." They say it off the bus. "I off the bus."
AT 33, WHITE has one year remaining on his two-year contract with Golden State.
THE OLDEST, and most experienced man on the Warriors, White was the catalyst and driving force of the Boston Celtics in their last dynasty period.
With K.C.'s RIVERROCK
A guard of White's caliber and experience on a young team would usually make him the leading candidate for floor boss. Not so with Golden State.
7th & Mass. Where the stars are
After that white's like a jump ball
The rumour mill has churned out
speculation that White will become a coach with next year's KU basketball team. White, however, denies it.
White, however, denies it.
"Sometimes I guess I'd like to enter coaching, but right now I have a contract to honor."
"Nobody has said anything I me about it," White chuckled. "I've never heard anything about a coaching position, and maybe come up, but right now I've talked to no one."
Would White accept the KU position if offered to him?
"That, too, depends on a lot of things,
right now I'm still a plaver." he said.
In addition, White is the only player in Big Eight history to be named most valuable player in the Big Eight Tournament three times.
IF WHITE goes into coaching, he's certain it will be at the pro or collegiate level, not high school.
"There's enough babysitting at this level." White said.
White bought a house in Lawrence last summer and has maintained close ties with the University of Kansas and most of its alumni. All-Blight Eigh guard Darnell Valentine.
And last night, while White was praising Valentine, the KU junior was in the process of passing White as the sixth leading scorer in KU history.
"Every summer I play with Darrell." White said. "He an exceptional talent, Definitely pro material. I don't think you'll find a capler player in college."
"I don't look at it as an honor," Valentine said, "I just feel fortunate for having produced consistently.
White also recalled playing in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
*HOFFELLY, I'LL never be forgotten here at KU, but somebody will pass me. That's what the records are there for—to be broken.*
As White looked back last night in the
"That was another big thrill, just to be a part of it," he said. "We were a strong bulbit and we knew we wouldn't lose."
Warrior locker room on his three-and one-half years at KU, his fondest memory was, oddly enough, a loss.
Following the Olympics and a year at KU,
White began playing for the Boston Celtics.
After 10 years, he asked to be traded.
"We were playing in Labback, Texas, for the Pac-16. The squad found them in Texas-EPA 1964. They went on a time I hit a 35-foot jumper that I thought I hit a 35-foot jumper," he said. "But he refused rul
The basket was nullified and the "Hawks lost in double overtime 81-40.
WHILE AT KU, White guided the swimmers to two regional teams finals 12 and 18A in the National Invitational Swimming. White, finished with a 22-8 record and secondplace in the National Invitationals.
"THERE WERE A LOT of personal problems there," he said, "stuff that wouldn't work out. But I have no regrets in leaving."
Memorial Stadium was transformed into a.yard markers didn't seem to get in the way.
The Jayhawks moved outside for the first time this season on Saturday and Sunday, but they had to settle for a gridiron instead of the diamond at Quailfield.
Wet, muddy terrain forces baseballers to stadium
Temple said he was hoping for more good weather this week, so that Quinley Field would be able to start the season. Then KU is scheduled to open its 91st home game on Monday and double-header against William Jewell College.
Snorts Writer
By KEN DAVIS
The Jayhawks found the artifical turf at Memorial Stadium more suitable than the natural grass at Quigley, which is still wet and muddy.
After nearly a month of workouts inside Allen Field House, the KU baseball team finally got the weather break it had been under for months. The team returned to its natural setting. Well, almost.
"It was great to be outside again," KU coach Floyd Temple said. "Working out in a
"It's still on," Temple said. "If something happens that we can play, we might try to bring someone else in on Monday or Tuesday."
70-foot area with a net around it can start to get to you after a while."
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