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Shocker fans reason to ignore WSU
By TRACEE HAMILTON
Associate Sports Editor
The Kansas basketball season has ended.
Head Coach Ted Owens' future is certain this season—he has been offered a new three-year contract. Senior guard Darnell Valentine has finished playing in the Pizza Hut March 24-30 and draft. Recruiting is in full swing. Everything seems calm on a sea that has traditionally been stormy.
One question, however, remains unanswered—the fate of another Kansas-Wichita State matchup.
THE MERE MENTION of the season-ending KU-Wichita State game in New Orleans brings a shudder to many a Jawahra across the state. The two teams met after 26 years of basketball drought—a drought that was welcomed by most KU fans.
Wichita State defeated the Jayhawks, 66-65, but the outcome
was not as upsetting to the red-and-blue troupe as the idea that the NCAA tournament had forced a pairing that Shocker fast-talk and proposed legislation had been unable to bring about.
Wichita State has long clamored for a chance to play the Jayhawks.
Opinion
The Shocker basketball program has been built in recent years to one of extreme notoriety.
The Wichita high schools are a gold mine for a college coach writing up his recruiting list. KU has snatched several Wichita products in recent years, including Valentine and Ricky Ross, but WSU won forward Antoine Carr and this year, 7-footer Grew Crelling.
EVEN THE KANSAS Legislature has felt the need to get involved in the cross-state dispute. Legislation
has been introduced in the last couple of sessions to force the two schools to meet, both in football and basketball. The bills have been thrown out, and KU has coolly declined the Shocker手袋.
It's also easy, now, for Shocker as being part of KU's snob hill tradition, which in part it is. Kansas has a basketball tradition as long as the trip to Wichita and plays top-notch nationally ranked teams year after year. Why add Wichita State to the schedule?
It's also easy, now, for Shocker fans to scream "Chickencawns!" Since Wichita state beat KU, they reason, the Jayhawks are obviously frightened of losing face and feathers to the Shockers.
Actually, it's all high school squabbling. And before the trip to New Orleans, it was easy to laugh at good old schools, not anymore. Not now.
AFTER SEEING the Shocker crowd's behavior at the game, it would be in KU's interest to rebuff
attempts to make the game a regular. KU is already intensely hated by two schools, Kansas State and Missouri, the bickering at times can be ugly.
But not as ugly as the Shocker fans. Never has a group been more vocally, embarrassingly rude to the Jayhawks. Cheers that Wildcat fans mutter under their breaths or write on posters, such as Rock Chalk鸡鳅enhawk, and you know the rest, were screamed by the Shockers crowd on national television. That predominantly slums incidentally, predominantly slums abused everyone wearing even a hint of red and blue. It was truly embarrassing to be from the same state as the Wichita State fans.
KU ATHletic Director Bob Marcus says that, as of now, there are no plans to add Wichita State to the schedule. It is hoped that the pressure of the victor over the vanquished will not take hold, and that KU will not subject itself to that kind of performance again.
Kings to test playoff luck against Suns
The funny thing is, the Kansas City Kings weren't supposed to get this far.
By PAUL D. BOWKER Sports Writer
The Kings, who were the last team to qualify for the National Basketball Association this year, suddenly themselves Western Conference semifinal-round series against the Phoenix Suns. The Kings outlasted the Portland Trail Blazers in a best-of-three series to win, and they moved the club moved from Cincinnati in 1972.
The first game of the series is at 10:30
tonight at Phoenix. After tomorrow night's second game in Phoenix, the teams return to Kansas City for the third and fourth games this weekend.
THE KINGS advanced to the semifinals after beating the Trail Blazers 104-95 in Portland Sunday. The Trail Blazers, who beat the Kings Friday night in Kemper Arena to force the third game, took a 15-point lead in the second quarter but lost their momentum in the second half.
The Kings' success in beating Portland was a result of slowing down the Trail Blazers' running game, the same team that beat the Suns, the Pacific Division champion.
"We have to control the tempo," Kansas City Coach Cotton Fitzsimons said. "We have to keep Phoenix out of their running game, execute our plays and apply defensive pressure for the full 48 minutes."
The Kings and Suns are not strangers in playoff games. In fact, the Suns are a team the Kings might rather not face. The Suns eliminated the Kings in the miniseries last year and in the Western Conference semifinals the year before.
The Kings, however, recaptured some of their pride this year after beating the Suns three of five times during the regular season, including a 105-68 rout of the Suns in Kansas City March 8. The Suns' point total tie the
"I think the effect will be positive in that we realize they are a very competitive, rugged team and we have great respect for them," Phoenix Coach John MacLead said. "I think it will have a positive slant to it."
The third game of the series will be played at 7:05 Friday night at Kemper Arena, with the fourth game scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Kemper Arena.
Phil Ford, the Kings' second-year guard, might play in spots against the Suns, but isn't expected to see much action because of an eye injury.
The cold, windy weather Saturday didn't make the switch from indoor track to the outdoor version any easier for the Kansas' women's track team, but the result of the team's meet made the weather a little easier to take.
Women's track team 2nd in chilly outdoor meet
The Jayhawks placed second at the
Iowa Invitational with the Cornhuskers
wins their first.
OVERALL, IT was a chilly day." Coach Carla Coffey said. "I was really pleased with the meet. Our relays are getting better, but we still have some stick passing to work on. I'm also pleased with the field people."
Merlene Otley led Nebraska to its first-place victory, winning the 100 and 200-meter dashes with times of 11 and 13 seconds. Her team ran in the winning 400-relay team.
The Jayhawks scored 125 points to finish behind Nebraska, which had 139.5 points. Minnesota placed third with Kansas. State State had 92 and Missouri 22.
Jayhawks who placed first included Debbie Hertzog in the 1,500, 4:44; Connie McKernan in the 100 hurdles, 14.2; Becky McGranahan in the discus, 150-9 team #4, and the 1,600 team of relay team of Cindy Cox, Lorna Tucker, Tudie McKnight and Hertzog, with a time of 3:58.9.
MCGRANAHAN, a sophomore who has been throwing the discus since junior high, had a best throw of 154-6. To qualify for the AIAW National Outdoor Meet, she will have to throw at least 158.
KU's softball hopes tested today by MU
After knocking off last year's conference championship Oklahoma State last week, the Jayhawks will battle the Bengals in a first-round Holcomb Complex at 3 p.m. today.
Missouri has had some impressive victories this spring, defeating two nationally ranked teams, California-Berkley and Texas A&M. The Tigers also won a 30-team tournament over spring break.
Kansas is expected to battle both Oklahoma State and Missouri for the conference title this spring. The Jayhawks already have defeated Oklahoma State and Oklahoma in a 17-team tournament last weekend.
Earlier this fall Kansas and Missouri split two games and Gay Boznang, senior third baseman, today's game to be just as even.
"We've played about the same amount of games so it will be pretty even," she said.
Women's golf team win
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