Wednesday, January 30, 1980
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Hansen hopes his Cowboys can slow down sizzling Jayhawks
By MIKE EARLE Sports Editor
Things haven't been going well lately for Oklahoma State basketball coach Paul Hansen.
Last week Hansen's starting center and forward scored 35 points, he declared academically ineligible for the remainder of the season. A few days later, Hansen's dog was struck by a car and died.
To add to Hansen's miseries, his owners, of a 62-1 overall record and 0-4 in Eight play, faces KU tonight, which might be the hottest team in the conference.
"Paul Hansen is an excellent coach" Owens said. "It's just a matter of time before he has the Oklahoma State program to win, and which it can compete for the championship."
"WE NEED A WIN for the morale of the University, the players, the coach and the coach's family," Hansen said. "I've never lost many this games in my life. I've never six games in a row in my life. And I have lost so much to Kansas to break out of my worst stalemate."
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"OKLAHAM STATE IS always very difficult in Gallagher Hall. We always expect a battle when we play there. I don't understand the reason to expect this game to be different."
Hansen is in his first year at Oklahoma State, and although his team shouldn't pose much of a threat to KU, coach Ted Owens isn't taking the Cowboys lightly.
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Cowboy guard Ed Odom, who scored 35
points against Iowa State last Saturday, adds weight to Owens' concerns.
Odom, who possesses an accurate jump shot from long range, is the Big Eight's leading scorer, averaging 23 points a game.
"Oklahoma State has had a tremendous amount of adversity this season," Owens said. "We've had some ups and downs, plus the academic problems have hampered them considerably. Despite this, they are still going strong."
KU has shown signs in its last two games of overcoming the adversities that beset a team that hasn't played together for long.
Darnell Valentine, who with a 16-point earned last night. Eight. Player-of-the-week honors for scoring 18 points against Oklahoma and 17 points against Colorado
"They returned almost everyone from last year's team, which was very close to being an exceptional team."
IF THE COWBOYS are close to being an exceptional team, the Jayhawks can't be far off either.
"BECAUSE OF KU's great basketball tradition, every team we face is ready to
play us," Violet said. "We have to go and as hard we can each game and concentrate on the things it takes to win. For us to win, we must patient and run our offence." This is the key.
Another key for KU's recent success has been the play of forward John Crawford and center Art Housey.
Working the base line and exhibiting a deadly 15-foot jump shot, Crawford scored 35 points in last week's games. He tied his career score high with 20 points against
"The hand was in my face," Crawford said of the Colorado game. "But I was just staying down how and the guys did a good job." He said he would probably be open, "I'm open, I'm going to let it go every time." I
HOUSEY ALSO has been letting his shot go. Disappeared a soft touch toward the Jawaharra field goal shooting percentage with a 638 chance, the field goal shooting percentage on the defensive touching force on the defensive end of the court. He ranks second in the Big Eight, behind Okhaloma center AI Alea, in blocked shots.
Valentine, Crawford and Housey have
played instrumental roles in getting KU back into the conference race. Although the 'Hawks are two games behind league-leading Kansas State, their chances of winning the conference title look brighter than expected, and they were written off as league contenders.
VALENTINE NEEDS just two points to pass Wayne Hightower, a starter on the 1964-01 KU team, in career scoring, and is ranked eightth in KU career $257.06.
"They can keep writing us off," Crawford said. "It doesn't matter to me, playing hard with it and matters that." When that's true, a team makes sure they have a team to keep working hard and not let up.
KU has played Oklahoma State 96 times, and has won 61 of these confrontations. He also lost to Tulsa in three meetings and six in the last 13 games. KU also has won the last three games played in Oklahoma State.
Big Eight Conference Standings
| | W | L | PCT. | PTN. | PTRS |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas State | 5 | 1 | .833 | 393 | 373 |
| Missouri | 4 | 1 | .833 | 393 | 373 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 2 | .697 | 665 | 423 |
| Nevada | 4 | 2 | .697 | 665 | 423 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 2 | .697 | 665 | 423 |
| Iowa State | 2 | 4 | .333 | 391 | 425 |
| Colorado | 2 | 4 | .333 | 391 | 425 |
| Arkansas State | 6 | 0 | .000 | 394 | 421 |
The Schedule
Wednesday
Kansas State at Missouri
Kansas State at Oklahoma
IOWA State at Colorado
IOWA State at Colorado
Kansas at Oklahoma State
Kansas at Oklahoma State
Saturday
Kansas State at Oklahoma
Kansas State at Colorado
Nebraska at Missouri
Nebraska at Missouri
IOWA State at Colorado
Football trio pursues recognition
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By TOM COFFMAN
Coastal Hutton
After a 3-4 football season, you would expect the words "Kansas Jayhawk" and "bowl game" to be mutually exclusive. But for seniors Mike Huchab, Iyrco Irwin and Jim Zidde, those words combined and they play in post-season college all-star games.
All-star bowl appearances are a blessing for talented players whose terrible teams have left. Professional football scouts, armed with talk of lucrative contracts, swarm to the bowl sites looking for future big league opportunities and Zidd are all considered pro prospects.
THAT'S MY FOR, FOR defense back Irvine, in a selection for the Senior Bowwash was worth the effort. He played on the victorious North squad in a 57-route of the South. He also received three medals.
"It felt pretty good playing in that game," Irvin said. "In high school, we used to romp like that, so it was fun.
"But the reason I went down there was for exposure. That was the biggest all-star bowl and all of the pro scouts and most of the coaches were watching."
Drith, who earned the demonic “Dr. Death” nickname for his hard hitting at KU, was first notified of his selection on Dec. 24. He arrived in Mobile, Ala., at 3:30 the next morning. But despite being a last-match replacement, Irwin saw extensive action.
"I played quite a bit," he said. "I played strong safety, cornerback and was on the kick-off team. I wasn't in really good shape, but I did best the best I could under the circumstances."
While Irvin was playing in the Senior Zedd was in Pablo Atoa, called; participant in the entire game for the West team at middle linebacker, a new position for him, in a 20-19 game.
"It was a great opportunity to play the whole game at middle linebacker, 'Zidd said. "Although I'd never played that game, more, that's probably what I'll get drafted as."
"I had a good time out there. The other players were really good, and I played
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behind a good defensive line. Also, I got the chance to play on national television. It couldn't have hurt."
UNIVERSITY AND Zidd, Habach was invited to all-star games not held in the continental United States. He was selected by the New York Jets and the Japan Bowl in Yokohama, Japan.
Huubach played both games for the West squads and scored four points in each game. Wu Chao led the West to 17-10 loss effort in Hawaii and booed four extra points in a 38-21 Japan Hawk victory.
"It was fun to be able to play with no pressure," Hubuch said. In Hawaii, there were only two teams against the game, plus the agents. I didn't talk to any of them. You just know that they're up on you.
From Hawaii, Hubach went winging his way to Japan and picked up a common traveler's malady, iet lag.
"WE LEFT HAWAI at 8:30 Sunday night
and to go at Japan at 12:30 Sunday afternoon
because of the time difference. That was
kind of weird getting used to.
"Most of the guys were waking up at 45:30 or 6 in the morning and going to bed about 5 or 6 in the evening. It definitely took a while to adjust."
"I left Hawaii and when I got to Japan I went back like in my hometown of California," she said. "In the game, it rained and by halftime it was sleet. That sleet turned to snow by the second half."
Upon his arrival in Japan, Hubach also found a slightly different climate and game waiting for him.
were water-logged. I've never had to play under those conditions before.
"We stayed in Tokyo, but played in Yokohama baseball stadium. Because the Yokohama stadium had to draw chalk lines on the field, But, of course, the rain washed away those. They had to make the boundary lines, hashmarks and put up clumps of chalk every five yards."
NOT ONLY WAS the field different, but so was the game itself.
"They also use one of only one defense that a team could use and that defense made it hard for the defensive backs to cover them," he added. "I guess the Japanese like long bombs."
"A few years ago, there was a rule saying that each team had to have at least three Japanese players, but when they kept it up for too long, it made the Japanese players look foolish."
Besides playing in the game, Hubach got involved with an exchange of Japanese and American cultures.
According to Hubach, the best description of the Japan Bowl would be lackadascal.
"Practices were never more than an hour and before one practice, Lou Holtz, one of the coaches, was in the locker room doing magic tricks. He's really a wiggy guy.
"I freted耳 and other Japanese food, but I didn't like it too much. Of course, I didn't have to pay for it, so I didn't mind much. I also went to see some Suno wrestling."
"In our hotel lobby, there were some Japanese guys trading all sorts of stuff for our clothes and things," he said. "I trained my KU sweat top for two bottles of sake. I gave them to players played football and they said they were on their college team. I couldn't believe it.
They were smaller than me and that's not too big.
"THEY GO THROUGH some kind of ritual every match that lasts longer than the match itself. One气冲得 some rice, and then it gets too much. Then the other guy get up and throws rice.
"Then they get back down and get up again and throw more rice. When they get around to wrestling, the match is over in about 15 seconds or less."
That trip ended Hubuch's college football career. Above our course, he helped the team asidults and兹助 asidults as did the NFL, draft in May. Then they'll see if Jawayk is in the game by卵 playy's.
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DENVER (UP1) - All-Star guard Otis Birdson scored a season high 49 points last night as the Kansas City Kings ran to a 7-0 NILBA win over the Denver Nuggets.
Birdsong, who entered the game with a 21.9 scoring average, hit 25 of his 28 fouls and recorded eight Midwest Division-leading Kings twice up 20-point leads Kansas City imitated.
The Kings led 57-37 with 2:38 to play in the first half before the Nuggets ran off
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National Basketball Association Standings
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
Central Division
Atlanta 20 20 2374
San Antonio 28 25 26 4
Tampa Bay 28 25 26 4
Houston 25 26 490 8
Cleveland 25 26 490 8
Indiana 14 21 4 16
Boston W 38 L 13 Pct. GB
Philadelphia 19 16 45
New York 26 28 481
Washington 26 28 481
Houston 26 28 481
10 straight points to make it 57-47 at intermission.
The Nuggets, again playing without a contract, were traded in pending trades, were led by Dan Iassel with 27 points. Denver led twice early in the first quarter, but came no closer than Philadelphia.
Western Conference Midwest Division
Market Share
Kansas City 18 22 607 5
Albuquerque 22 26 619 4
Chicago 18 18 346 3
Denver 18 14 312 1
Oakland 7 12 155 0
Pacific Division
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Atlanta 18, Wash. State 7
New York 4, Detroit 4, OTF State 11, Detroit State 13
Boston 10, Chicago 99
Indiana 19, Pittsburgh 9
Phoenix vs. San Diego, n.d.
Phoenix vs. San Diego, n.d.
Seattle 37 15 732
San Francisco 37 15 684
Los Angeles 37 15 1 3
Phoca frenata 29 17 63
S. San Diego 29 29 482
Tampa Bay 29 29 482
Golden State 16 37 20% 21%
Kansas City 16 37 20% 21%
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