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Wednesday, January 23, 1980
University Daily Kansan
Owens attempts to diagnose KU's ailments
By GENE MYERS
Butterflies in the stomach? Hands on the throat? Blinders over the shooting eyes?
Wherever the problem lies, the Kansas Jayhawks are back on the road again where they have a 1-6 record. Tight it’s up by 5 points against the Booming Oklahoma Suns.
With a 7-4 overall record and a 3-I big Eight record, the Jayhawks face the defending conference champions in a 7:30 p.m. nontelevised game.
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For KU head coach Ted Owens, the game started a trip into the pass room to his home team. The team was concerned with his team returning to the past, back when it was ranked in the early 1970s.
"I BELIEVE in the young people on the squad," Owens said. "We're doing some things wrong that we're trying to get corrected and I expect to get corrected."
"I'm not going to let anyone get discouraged. With the post-season tournament there's no reason to get discouraged. There's always a chance."
But what are the reasons behind the team's problems, especially its lethargic road performance?
"Most importantly, every game we play is to get the offense going. We expect instant success too much, but you can score only a few." You can win any game, your score'd at least 80 points a game.
"I's inexperience," Owens said. "The good, veteran basketball teams, the good, sound fundamental teams, win no matter whether they're at home on or on the road."
- "IT ISN'T A matter of having to score
  in the first half, but more important for a basketball player to understand. It takes time to get off a higher percentage shot and basketball is a game of
  chance."
Even with a lowly 1-6 road show, the Hawks have never been routed on the road. They will fall behind early, midway or late in the race. The team is mad backend in the closing moments.
KU took control of the game early and 13-2 after the first 4-10 of the game. In a five-minute streak midway through the half, KU lost to Woodward by 12 points in Woodard accounting for 12 of those points.
Woodard shocks WSU with 34-point game
The Hawks led 53-22 at the half and maintained the lead through the second半, even though the KU reserves had most of the playing time.
"WID A FINE job under the circ-
linder of our company in Wash-
ington said. "I didn't feel really that challenged on offense and on defense we got so many steals, that there was no kind of
Although she played only 22 minutes, Woodard had a total of 10 steals and 12 rebounds to go along with the 34 points.
Although the Shockers were clearly outmanned, they didn't let up. They scored 10 straight points during one stretch in the
It was KU's ninth victory in a row and raised the ninth-ranked Jayhawks' record to 16.5. Wichita State fell to 8-9.
Lynette Woodward scored 20 of her game-high 34 points in the first 10 minutes to lead the KU women's basketball team at 9-26. University last night in Allen Field House.
By PAM CLARK Sports Writer
All 15 of KU's players saw action, most of them after Woodard had secured the victory in the first half. The Wichita junior scored 30 runs and most of them coming from her nipe steals.
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"Strobel is probably the finest basketball player on our team," Bummell said. "She made the comment to me the other day that she couldn't believe that she was going to play on the same court as Lynette Woodard. She didn't. And you could play on the same court as KU.
"They have pride. There certainly no quit on this team," he said. "It's always hard to catch up, particularly on the road. That makes it even harder.
"THAT'S A PROBLEM with our team. They would rather watch a team like KU than play them. I think we did some of that in the first half."
That irrepressible fight, according to Owens, is encouraging.
The Jayhawks haven't had much time to watch anything lately. The Wichita State game was their fourth game in six nights.
Guard Kem Strobel led the Wichita State scoring with 16 points and forward Terry O'Bryan added 14.
"IF YOU DROP in too many games, you may make a valiant effort to come back, but your percentage of catch us is not good."
second half, but that only chopped a 44-point lead to 34 points.
"I don't think we've done that," he said. "I don't mean that in a negative way. They haven't done it intentionally. We're just going to take the realization of what it's going to take.
BUNNEL SAID THAT although many of her players had played against Woodard before, they were in awe of her when the game started.
The KU players in double figures, besides Woodard, were sheira Legrant with 11 points and Kathy Patterson with 10.
"They were everything we expected them to be, plus more," Wichita State coach Katryn Runnard said. "Of course, they have the ball, and she is the best player in Kansas."
KU will need all the fight it can muster for the Sooners, winners of their last three conference contests, including a victory over Kansas State in Manhattan.
BUT OWEN'S SAID his team hadn't done that yet.
Okahanna has AI Beal at center, one of the nation's best. His game is physical, as his defense has been outstanding in snaring high-lob passes from Aaron Curry, Raymond Whistle and John McCullough. He was one of the toughest players. He played 11 points in the Sooners 68-45 triumph in Norman and 23 in the Big Eight.
thinking about the team," he said. "They have enough to do just to work to become a team, and I don't want them concerned about anything else.
"All I ever want or expect is (for) them to give their best."
But Curry and Whittey are back. So is super-sub-turned starter Steve Bajema and Terry Stotts, who raised Owens' furlast year in Lawency by leading KU's Raven Kalentine to stop his driving layup. The team's second-round Owens, Stats and STOI of Dave Rojas Blevs.
McCullough, the Big Eight's Most Valuable Player last season, is gone from both the collegiate and professional game with the NBA Kansas City Kings before the season.
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Ricky Ross and Art Housey. Valentine is the third leading scorer in the conference with a 16.6 average, but he has only been shooting 41 percent.
"Obviously, we're not that far from being a successful team," Owens said. "The missing ingredient isn't any single thing, the combination of fundamentals break-down."
"Sometimes you be to knock right down to the floor before you realize it. Our chance of success is the same as most any team in the country."
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