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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 28, 1974
Smith Rises in High Jumping Rank
After starting the indoor track season with four of the top high jumpers in the conference, the University of Kansas is down to only two.
Hurry Schur, who jumped 7-4 at the Kansas Invitational in Des Moines, is suspended from the squad until the beginning of the season, April 6, at the State Relays.
Keith Guinn, a freshman, is out indefinitely after severely straining his knee Feb. 8. Guinn was named the outstanding defensive lineman at Iowa Track and Field Federation Meet in
Oklahoma City. He jumped 7-2 at the meet earlier this season.
John Butterfield, also a freshman and one of the presently active jumpers, has jumped
That leaves Randv Smith.
This season, Smith finished in first place at the Central Collegiate track meet in South Bend, Ind., with a jump of 6-11%. He seconded to teammate Schar at the Karmes Invitational by jumping 7.4, and he also secured State Track and Field Federation meet.
Smith, a 6-foot-2 junior, is a consistent
jumper. In his first two seasons at KU he was plagued with consistently sub par performances. Hindsight perhaps would mean more pleasurable for Smith in these times.
At McPherson High School, Smith established a Kansas state record with a sourcing 6-9 leap. That accomplishment is part of high school truck dominance in Kansas.
It was expected that Smith would jump in college as he did in high school, but college teaching hadn't been a major.
Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Smith, One of the Big Eight's Best, Clears Seven Feet
Aura of 'Losers' Plagues Tourney
Kanaan Sports Writer
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH
The University of Kansas Jayhawks are honing they're not invited to it.
The National Invitational Tournament (NIT) doesn't like it.
And how, fans are asking, can they be expected to get excited about it?
"I' is the brand new Collegiate Commissioners Association (CCA) basketball tournament, which will be March 14-18 in St. Louis.
Briefly, the CCA's tourney is an eight-team, single-loss elimination tourney. Participating teams will be chosen in late February and early March by the three-member CCA tournament committee. Their conference title ranked second in their conference title ranked.
TEAMS WILL come from nine participating conferences: the Big Eight, the Big Ten, the Pacific 8, the Missouri Valley, the Southern, the Mid-American, the Southeastern, the Southwest and the Western Athletic. It was announced Tuesday that the first four conferences mentioned would be assured berths in the six teams to be competing in the last five conferences will be competing for the five remaining berths.
And one more thing; for a tournament that hasn't even played its first game, the CCA's adventure has become quite a talked-about issue in national collegiate basket-
For example, University of Kansas basketballists don't want to be invited to the tourney for the simple reason that it's for teams that finish second. Needless to say,
the Hawks aren't planning on that. Thus, the fennec gets two billing with them.
The tourney also gets second billing with the NIT, the invitational basketball tournament in New York City that's always been able to count on getting the teams that the National Collegiate Association Athletic Association hosts, their own national championship tourney.
But now they'll be getting some third rate competition and teams, and they're unhappy.
AND THE FANE? They're the unknown quantity in the CCA issue. How they react to it?
No one is watching more closely than Chuck Neiss, Big Eight commissioner. The fact that Neiss is of the three persons who will select the journey's participants makes him particularly aware of what's being said of the tournament.
"The tournament is strictly a positive endeavor by those schools with common interest." Neinas said in a telephone interview Tuesday from his office in Kansas City, Mo.
"It's a tournament set up for schools with major status in both football and basketball. Neinus said "These colleges are so important to our schools themselves—to help college basketball."
But what about the NIT? It's apparent that the two tournals will be competing for some of the same teams. And, as any tourney promoter will tell you, the success of a tourney's gate usually depends on top quality teams into the tournament.
"THE WHOLE IDEA of this tournament is positive," Neinas stressed. "And we're trying our damned not to get into a fight with the NIT."
Like it or not, though, the CCA and the NIT are fighting for the talented college basketball teams that are left after NCAA invitations go out.
And so far the CCA holds the upper hand. That fact factens when one appears at all who is guaranteed to show up to the league when participating conference. And because many conferences are very balanced or have two teams going neck and neck for the league crown (as in the Big Eight race) you have that role as the CCA's pickings appear rather good.
it seems the NIT, meanwhile, is going to have to be content with grabbing of the best of the Eastern independent teams, and at least one of the powerful Atlantic Coast teams in the area of which are rated in the nation's top 20 including No. 1 ranked North Carolina State.
An interesting possibility exists this year for the CCA's tourney. If the UCLA Bruins lose their Pac-8 crown to Southern California next week, the Bruins probably would be the league's representative to the CCA tourney.
That would come as quite a shock to those who scheduled the CCA's journey. In early February, they sent out a list of teams and opponents in conference titles. And the Bruins weren't listed.
"The coaching was different and they were all telling me how to jump. In high school all I did was just go out and jump. That was the way we learned. I had noses grade the transition well."
"It was hard for me to move away from home, learn to study and just generally get accustomed to the college surroundings," Smith said.
It probably never occurred to them that
the Bruno would finish less than first in the
competition.
"We're one of the few teams in the country with three seven-foot jumpers," Pepin said. "Unfortunately the Big Eight has seven of them, and adds so much to our offense and reputation."
Gary Pepin, coach of the high jumps,
seems to be all督聟 every day when he
is running.
Pepin said he was pleased with all his jumps, but singled out Smith as possibly the best.
"and he is developing into one of the most consistent lumpers in the nation."
An avid weight liftter, Slim attributes much of his recent success to his leg strength.
"My legs are stronger from lifting," Smith said. "This gives me a completely different style of approach. Now I can come at the bar with more speed and not be afraid of just running through the bar. I can control myself better."
Smith said he really didn't mind where he jumped but if he had his choice he preferred
"I just used to the outside," Smith said. When you indulge people are too close
Smith will contend with the indoor problem this weekend in Kansas City at the Big Eight Indoor meet. But foremost on his mind will be winning.
"I've had personal goals before," Smith said, but the most important thing to me is that I want to be a good person.
Cage Tourneys To Issue Bids
By the Associated Press
Nine teams will get the call today to join the fight to take the national college basketball championship from UCLA for the first time in eight years.
The National College Athletic Association was scheduled to invite nine nallarge teams to its postseason tournament by telephone calls early this morning.
The National Invitation Tournament also was to begin issuing invitations today to its 24 participating teams, beginning March 16 and ending March 24. Considered certain for at-large invitations to the NCAA tournament were second-place Dame and eighth-ranked Marquez.
Other candidates were 11th-ranked Pittsburgh, 12th-ranked Providence, No. 14 South Carolina, No. 16 Creighton, Boston College, Maryland-Eastern Shore, Massachusetts, Rutgers, St. LUNG's of New York, Syracuse, Cincinnati, Dayton, Marshall, Marshall, Alabama, Southern Houston, Houston, Oral Roberts and Hawaii.
A school that gets an at-large bid has 30 minutes to accept.
"I can't remember anyone declining" said an NCAA soknesman.
The nine at-large teams will be joined in the NCAA tournament by winners of 16 major conferences, including the Pacific-8 with a record for first place for northern California.
First-round NCAA games will be played March 9. The four regional champions will advance to the national semifinals March 23 at Greensboro, N.C., and the championship game will be played at Greensboro March 25.
Approximately 320 in prizes will be awarded to the winning filmmakers. Approximately 50 sponsors, Wollers and Zercher's in Topeka, Elko, Crick, and business sponsors, Wolt
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The stations carrying the game are WBW, KHMA, in Kansas City, Mo. KOAM at Great Bend, KLG at Garden City, KAYS at Haye KLOE at Goodland and KOMC at
The Big Eight Conference basketball showdown between the University of Kansas and Kansas State will be televised on a nine-net station, it was announced
K-State Game on Area TV; Seats Available Game Day
Tonight at the Flagship
Also available are tickets for the Big Eight Indoor Track and the UdD Championship, as well as Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo. The tickets are $4 for both nights of competition and may be purchased at the ticket or the Municipal Auditorium box office.
In a joint statement, Athletic Director Clyde Walker and Jerry Holly, manager of WIBW-TV in Topeka, said special permission was obtained from the Big Eight to television the game. The telecast will start at 7:30 p.m., 10 minutes before tipoff.
manager, said that although the game was a sell-out, between 500 and 1,000 student tickets would go on sale for the game. These tickets may be purchased for 75 cents at the ticket office in the east lobby of Allen Field House.
Howard said a number of good reserved and student tickets were still available for the March 9 game against Missouri, the last home game of the season.
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