6 Tuesday, March 19, 1974 University Daily Kansan Owens Likes Underdog Role for Javhawks By GERALD EWING Kuman Sports Editor Before Saturday's finals of the Midwest Regional Tournament, oral Roberts Coach Ken Trickle said he was scared to death of the University of Kansas and didn't relish his work. He had a right to be frightened as KU pailed off its most important comeback of the season for a stunning 93-80 overtime The win moved the Jayhawks. 23-5. into Kansan Staff Photo by DON PEANNENSTIEL Owens discusses the strategy to use in the overtime period against ORU Baseball Team Goes 1-8 in Tourney Before heading south from Lawrence to the Citrus Invitational Baseball Tournament in Edinburgh last week, beach coach Floyd Temple expressed concern with the team's ability to score runs. Now, after nine games, his concern has become reality. Kurt Kniff was credited with the win. Kurt struck out six batters and gave up four hits. During the tournament, the Jayhawks were only able to score 16 runs. Five of those were good for their lone victory of the season, while Hwaks hawed defeats Missouri, 3–3, in that game. NCAA... From Page One less than $300. The price includes 4-nights lodging at the Airport Holiday Inn in Greensboro, the charter flight and three parties for alumni. The chartered buses are scheduled to leave Lawrence at 6 p.m. Thursday and return to Kansas City at 9 a.m. Saturday. The deadline for making reservations is noon Wednesday. The round-trip to Greenboro is about 3,000 miles. There is no direct route by interestate highway to Greenboro and many may have trouble finding enough gasoline. Clark said that no lodging was available in Greensboro and in Winston-Salem. However, he said, there was still lodging available in High Point, N.C., at the Holiday Inn and in Burlington, N.C., at the Hilton Greenbergs are less than 20 miles from Greensboro. John Turner and Bill Griffin had good runs each getting two hits. Both had run-scoring errors. "We didn't get the hitten when we needed it out of anyone," said Temple after the tournament was finished. "We would get the men on but couldn't score them." In fact, the 'Hawks put 89 men on base and stranded 73 of them. SUA FILMS SUA FILMS % In addition to the overall displeasure with the lack of batting, Temple was also criticized for its decision-making. “Our veteran pitchers were wild, and our defense made some very silly errors that cost us ball games. I know going down there that we would have some problems but I felt that we could win three or four games.” However, even with the lack of hitting I was glad to see freshman Bill Griffin, "told Hutchir and Mike Deplue but well." However, with the lack of heat Thermometer will play with the heat Humidity will play with the heat Humidity will play with the heat most-hits nine. Add to that list two more freshmen-Jerry Shapiro and Tom Gatson—and you have the top five hitters on the team. Batbaire jabbed 38, and Gatson hit 262 but led the team in getting on base. He reached first base 14 times. Henrich came home with the team's highest batting average at 400. Deplie said his team's best was 397. The Hawks next game is Monday against Northwest Missouri University. The Jayhawks will begin conference action the day Saturday at the University of Oklahoma. the semi-finals of the NCAA National Tournament to be held Saturday and Monday in Greensboro, N.C. K.U will face Marquette at 12:10 p.m. Lawrence time. The game was originally scheduled for 2:10 p.m. Lawrence time. It will be televised by NBC and carried over WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Mo. According to Mike Howard, athletic department ticket manager, all of the 1,000 tickets allowed to KU have been sold. But he said they are for refunds and would be for sale today. UNION ACTIVITIES COUNCIL Presents IN CONCERT The other two teams in the tournament are defending champion UCLA and top- JIMMIE SPHEERIS with SPECIAL GUEST STAR JIM STAFFORD ranked North Carolina State. Those two teams meet at 10:10 p.m. in the second game. KU is considered the underdog in the tournament that features the top three teams in the country as rated by the Associated Press. KU is ranked sixth, Marquette third, UCLA second and North Carolina State first. FRIDAY, MARCH29, 8pm WHITE AUDITORIUM, EMPORIA, KANSAS "I like being the underdog," Coach Ted Owens said yesterday. "It's a good position to be in. We've played two common foes in Notre Dame and Creighton. They (Marquette) lost to both while we split with the two." Travel grant given to Marissa B in the Mission General of EMPLOYEAR KANAKA RECEIVED. Received travel grant $4,100. $4,100 General Donation $2,850. Received travel grant $3,900. General Donation $2,850. Received Travel Grant Address mail indexed to one of the United Arabian Countries. Received Travel Grant State Bank Indexed IQOS General Donation KANAKA MABI KU reached the final four by beating Creighton, 55-54, on Thursday and winning over Oral Roberts on Saturday. Both games were typical tension-filled affairs with the 'Hawks coming from behind in both to win by a narrow margin. "The Crestign game was just another game," Norm Cook said. "But today (Saturday) I felt more pressure than ever and the way you blows, you just have to forget about it." The now famous Tommi Smith back door play won both games for the 'Hawks. "I can think of five or five games Tomnie has gotten the winning basket for us," Owens said. "If we'd lost one of those, we wouldn't even have been here." "That was one of the guttiest performances I've ever seen. I'd like to be able to say there was a great speech made when we were behind, but it was just a matter of these guys knowing what to do and going out and getting it done." Trickley said the reason his team lost to KU was the shooting percentages. KU shot 54.8 per cent from the floor while Oral Alcaline shots slot only 40.9 per cent from the floor. Against Creighton, Smith scored the winner basket on a lob pass from Tom Kivisto with only 1:24 left. Against Oral Roberts in the third quarter, Roberts plays in the overtime period to again get the win. "I'm just real pleased for Ted and KU," Trickey said. "I hope they will it in all of us." KANSAS (92) | FK | FR | RR | TP | TE | TP | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 5-7 | 0-6 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 10 | | 9-10 | 1-2 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 13 | | 9-16 | 1-2 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 13 | | 8-14 | 2-2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 13 | | 8-14 | 2-2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 13 | | 5-10 | 2-2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 12 | | 5-10 | 2-2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 12 | | 40-73 | 12-6 | 16 | 35 | 21 | 10 | The Most Valuable Player of the tournament was Sam McCants of Oral Roberts. He had 30 points against Louisville and 24 against KU. FG 40 FT RT KB F B T Fox 4-8 9-10 7-8 5 4 13 McDougall 5-11 9-12 6-9 5 4 13 Woods 4-7 3-5 6-9 6 5 11 Wilson 4-7 3-5 6-9 6 5 11 Roswell 7-23 4-14 3-11 5 3 14 Roberts 6-9 6-9 6-9 6 12 12 Roberts 6-9 6-9 6-9 6 12 12 Totals 36.68 18.24 18.24 12 12 12 Joining McCants on the all-tournament team were Danny Knight and Roger Morningstar of KU, Gene Harmon of Creighton and Allen Murphy of Louisville. Even though KU is considered the underdog against Marquette, Owens doesn't think the other teams are that much better than KU. 45 36 (11)-92 45 27 (2)-90 "A lot of people talk about the Midwest Regional not needing to send a team to the finals," Owens said. "This队 has a lot of pride. Until someone proves they're better play, we'll just keep on playing. I think it'll be a pretty even game against Marquette." Marquette, with a season record of 25-4, won the Mideast Regional Tournament by defeating Michigan. 72-70. Michigan had won the non-finals-and Marquette won over Vanderbilt. The Warriors are led by 6-foot-9 center Maurice Lucas, 6-foot-9 forward Bo Ellis and center guard Earl Tatum. They are the leaders of the team and can defense that could cause KU problems. "We told our players that Marquette is going to reach and grab a lot and they had better get accustomed to it," Owens said. 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