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Tuesdav. February 12, 1974
University Daily Kansan
K-State Coach, Cagers Praise KU
Bv MARK ZELIGMAN
Kannan Sports Writer
Kansas State basketball coach Jack Hartman must have been looking at the wrong schedule. To listen to Hartman talk, you'd think that KState was playing UCLA tomorrow instead of the University of Kansas.
"Kansas presents one of the biggest challenges to K-State's basketball tradition since I've been here," Hartman said yesterday in a telephone interview. "KU is one of the top teams in the game, and it will be very difficult for us to match up with them personnel wise."
"Kansas has great size and shoots the ball extremely well," he said. "They're complete in every phase of the game. They have to be very aggressive." If a combat team is execute as well as we can."
HARTMAN, HOWEVER, HAS no reason to be envious of KU. His Wildcats have defeated the Jayhawks the last four times they have met, and could move into first place in the Big Eight with a victory tomorrow.
Kansas State has also won the Big Eight
tune and finished second in the NCAA
Masters tournament.
In an analysis of our own team, Hartman said that K-State's strengths were quickness and shooting ability. He said they lacked size which had hurt their rebounding, a:"hough the rebounding had improved in recent games.
Hartman will likely start a short aggressive line consisting of Lon Kruger
Williams and Dean Harris at forwards and Gene McVey at center.
THIS YEAR' s KANSASTA team was considered, prior to the season, to be rebuilding from the loss of Steve Mitchell and retaining his position, and rebounders from last year's team.
"You might say we don't have any superstars," Kruger said. "We've played together a long time and our experience really helps."
Kruger, a 54-foot-11 senior, is the acknowledged leader of the Wildcats. Last year's conference player of the year as voted by one poll, he's averaging more than 16 points a game in conference action this year.
"Lomie does have a great feel for the game," Hartman said of Kruger. "He has such tremendous perception of what we are going to do. He is a step ahead of everybody else."
K-STATE IS IN MUCH the same position as KU in regard to substitutions and team depth. Hartman's top substitute is center Carli Hardin. Doug Snider and Chuck Dickie Williams.
Gerlach, a 64-foot-9 sophomore, is a good percentage shooter and ranks third on the team.
Snider, a 6-four-4 junior, is also a good shooter and a tough defensive player.
Williams, a 6-foot-3 sophomore, is a good ball handler and has won several games for the Wildcats with his clutch freetrow shooting.
The only non-senior starter for K-State
Iowa State Edges MU
AMES, Iowa (API)—Iowa State, led by Hercle Iy's 24 point performance, edged Missouri, 79-5, in a Big Eight Conference loss for Missouri and with consecutive conference loss for Missouri.
Ivy, a sophomore from St. Louis, scored 10 of his points in the first half to give the Cavaliers an advantage.
El Eberhard led Missouri with 28 points. Garv Link had 16 and Steve Dawnings had 14.
Iowa State's biggest margin was eight points, 79-21, on a pair of free throws by Jeff Duff. (AP)
A total of 50 fouls were called; 28 belonged to Missouri.
In the second half, the lead changed hands six times before Iowa State gained the lead for good at 66-65, on Robert Wilson's short jump shot with 4:12 left.
Missouri, which had defeated the Cyclones in the Big Eight tournament title game in December and also at Columbia Jan. 12, dropped to 1-6 in the league and 10-9 overall. The Tigers haven't won since the last victory over Iowa State.
The win improved Iowa State's league mark to 3-6 and 12-9 overall.
"I'M LOOKING FORWARD to playin in the KU game," Harris said. "I've heard people talk about how the crowd reacts and people begin to stand in line to get in at noun."
will be Harris, a 6-foot-8 freshman who is
not forced for his rebounding.
Harris said that he had played against Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn was irritated that Harrison wailed no words in describe Sutcliffe.
MeVey, the Wildcat's center, will have the unenviable job of guarding Suttle and the other half of KU's center combination, Danny Knight.
"If somebody's a good shooter, you can't stop him from shooting," Beard said. "You can just try to be there every time and give him the best chance. If he does, then you've done your job."
"Suttle and Knight are both fine basketball players." McVey said. "One won't be able to hold them down. It'll take a team effort."
BEARD AND HIS TEAMMATES have been doing the job all season if statistics are any indication. K State ranks first in the Big Eight in fewest points allowed—an average of 61.5 points a game in eight conference games. The highest point total they've allowed thus far has been 69 points to Oklahoma in their only conference loss.
HARTMAN SAY THAT HE hadn't made up his mind: he would play a zone or man-to-man defense. K-State has used a zone defense extensively in recent games.
Although the KU game is important to the K-State players in terms of state rivalry, most of the Wildcats have tried to keep the game in perspective.
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If the Wildcats do employ a zone, look for KU to counter with long distance shooting, an art at which KU's Dale Greenlee, Roger Browne and Norm Cook are quite proficient.
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K-State's Beard, a 6-foot-3 senior, is regarded as one of the premier defensive players in the Big Eight. That said a good start for the Greenlee, was going to get his points anyway.
"is s just another game," McVey said. "I really haven't looked forward to KU all that much because of the other teams we've had to play, such as Colorado, Oklahoma State, and Iowa State. I just take them one at a time."
WILLIAMS, A 6-FOOT-9 SENIOR,
another of the Wildcat matts. A good
outside shooter, Williams is K-Sate-
sis leading in conference games with an
award on 87 JULY 1974.
"Naturally we'll be more fired up emotionally for KU." Williams said. "But mentally we'll approach the game about the same as always."
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)—LORD Killianan, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said yesterday that American college athletes might be given opportunities if they compete as professionals in one sport and as amateurs in another.
He was referring to the new rule passed last month by the National College Athletic Association, allowing pros to retain amateur status in a particular sport.
The IOC executive board has yet to finish
The IOC executive board, which wound up a three-day meeting at Olympic headquarters, expects to have its new eligibility rule ready in about two months. A draft will be sent to all IOC members, who will vote on it at Vienna next October.
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