Page 8 University Daily Kansan, March 23, 1981
Sub's bomb knocks 'Hawks from NCAA tourney
By TRACEE HAMILTON Associate Sports Editor
NEW ORLEANS- The Kansas-Wichita State match in the semifinals of the Midwest Regional on July night was a lot like New Orleans. Bourbon Street-wild, unpredictable, exciting and dangerous.
And deadly, too, for the Jayhawks, who fell, 66-
65, to the Shockers.
The game was wild because of the run-and-gun play, unpredictable because of erratic performances, exciting because of a last second shot and possible uncalled foul and dangerous because of the high pitched emotion of both teams' fans.
THE TWO SCHOOLS met for the first time in 26 years before a crowd of 21,192, which later swelled to 34,060, the most ever to watch an NCAA tournament basketball game. Most of those fans came for the Arkansas-Louisiana State game that followed KU's game.
That large crowd saw Wichita State's sixth man, reserve guard Mike Jones, hit a 30-foot jump shot with six seconds remaining to put the Shockers on top of Kansas by one. The Jayhawks then called a left and the clock was stopped with two seconds left.
then came the play that may or may not have determined the winner. 6-foot-5 guard Booty Neal had the ball out-of-bounds under the Wichita State goal. Darnell Valentine, ran toward Neal to receive the inbounds pass. As planned, Shocker forward Jay Jackson knocked
Valentine down. Neal looked at the official for the expected charging call.
Ku was no call. Neal called a time out and
he regrouped. On the next try, a full court pass
was made to the team.
"I THINK 30,000 people knew it was a foul, but three didn't call it," KU Coach Ted Owens said. "I don't like to be unkind but it was obviously a flagrant foul."
Valentine, who missed a layup that would have put KU up by three with 24 seconds to go, also felt he had been fouled but Shocker Coase Smithson said no call was the right call.
"We told the two out officials about the play. We didn't have time to tell the other but that doesn't make any difference. It should have been called."
The call was not all that did not go Valentine's way late in the game. Besides his missed layup, Valentine missed the front end of a one-and-one play that would have given KU at least a two-point lead.
"We just wanted our player to hassle the inbound passes to - jump up and down vertically, take a big hit," he said.
"If IHAD some nails I would have nailed him
out. But I don't think it was a charging foul."
But, early in the game, Valentine kept KU close. The Jayhawks, who blazed Arizona State, 88-71, in second-round action in Wichita, could have won that game smoothly and Valentine had to score on his own.
nine points. Senior center Art Housey had six points and six rebounds. David Magley, junior forward, led KU in rebounding with seven, but from the corner of the court, usually his best spot.
He had a game high 21 points and John Crawford added 11.6-6 guard Tony Guey, who was right behind him, scored 10.4.
THE SHOCKERS beat KU badly on the boards, grabbing 45 rebounds to KU's 32. Wichita State center Cliff Levington, playing that position in place of Oel Jones, who was put on probation before the tournament, had 14 rebounds and forward Antoine Carried added nine.
Wichita State was spurred by a large and vocal crowd. The Shockers placed advertisements in Louisiana papers asking Tiger fans to cheer for them. It worked. Shocker fans and administrators have been pushing for a KU-Wichita State game and have been rebuffed by the KU Athletic Department. The Shockers took advantage of their chance.
JAHAYKW NOTES: The Final Four was completed yesterday with Indiana defeating St. Joseph's 78-46, in the Midwest Regional and Louisiana State beating Wichita State, 96-85, in the Louisiana Superdome in the Midwest Regional. Indiana and Louisiana State will meet Saturday in the national semifinals at the NCAA tournament, where the game will meet the winner of Virginia-North Carolina on Monday, March 30, for the national championship.
As usual, rumors about the Ted Ewens' job status but this time the rumors are that he will get a contract extension this week. Owens has been on the weekend that his contract would be extended.
Art Housey grabs a rebound against Wichita State but the Shockers outrebounded KU Friday and won the Midwest Regional semifinal game, 66-65.
First home loss ends women's season;
By SANDY CLARK Sports Writer
Kansas" women's basketball team didn't lose on its home court in Allen Field House during the regular season. Its timing was very bad when it finally did lose a game in Lawrence.
Before 1,700 hometown fans, the Jayhawks lost Saturday to the tenth-ranked UCLA Bruins, 73-71, in the second round of the AIAW Division I National Championship.
The loss brought the team's season-long hopes or reaching the Final Four to an abrupt end. The loss ended with a win.
"THE KIDS were broken-hearted," KU Coach Marian Washington said. "They wanted it very badly and they gave everything they had. The breaks just weren't there for us tonight."
The breaks the Jayhawks didn't get were at the tree throw line particularly in the second half. The ball was deflected off the ground.
throw attempts in the second half and made just 18 runs hits 17 of 20 from the line in the second half.
“All season we’ve had our problems.” Washington said. “For example, the free throw situation. We’ve had several times when we’ve shot three of six to somebody else’s 20 some old. It’s tough to counter that. I didn’t feel we were getting any over-the-back calls.
"But we didn't hit our free throws like we needed to and their free throws kept them in the
KU LED MOST of the first half, but went into halftime with the score tied at 34.
The Bruins were hot in the opening minutes of the second half, scoring six unanswered points before KU finally scored on a basket by Tracy Claxton.
The Jayhawks seemed to regain the momentum with 9:51 left in the game as they took the lead, 52-51, on a Lynette Woodard jumper.
But the Bruins combined accurate outside and fire throw shooting to build an 8-point lead with 5 points.
The Jayhawks cut the lead to four with 12 seconds left, but Mary Hegarty, one of three freshmen starters on the Bruins team, sank two free throws to seal the UCLA victory.
UCLA Head Coach Billie Moore was more than pleased with her team's clutch free throw
"WE'VE WORKED HARD on free throws and I thought they responded very well at the free throw line in the second half." Moore said. "I don't know if it will be won on defense and on the free throw line."
Washington, perhaps, should not have been too surprised that KU didn't get the breaks Saturday. That has been the general trend for the Jayhawks lately.
Though the Jayhawks won their last four games of the regular season, they dropped from second to fourth place.
Though the Jayhawks won the AIAW Region VI Tournament in Minnesota over spring break to advance to the second round, they fell to sixth in the national rankings.
Even more damaging, however, was that the Jayhawks subsequently were seeded eighth in the AIAW National Tournament instead of fourth, as Washington had expected. The first four seeds received first round byes and the second and third round games at home.
“OUR WHOLE THINKING was that if we had wong regions that we would have one of the top four seeds being ranked third and fourth in the nation,” Washington said. “There’s no excuse for the seeding. I think the kids had to bounce back from frustration there.
"In terms of the polls, I really thought we could handle that. I feel like we had the confidence to give Louisiana Tech our best but it was important to get through this one. Had we had a
few breaks, I'm sure we would have pulled it out."
"I KEPT reading all week that Kansas kept complaining that they didn't want to go to Louisiana Tech," Moore said. "We wanted to go to Louisiana Tech and they didn't. So we decided before the game that we wouldn't send them. So the players tuned in to that."
Moore suggested that her Bruns might have done Kansas a favor by winning.
The Bruins will play the No. 1 ranked Techsters Tuesday.
The Jayhawk's loss was particularly disappointing for the team's two seniors, Woodard and Kane.
"There is no question that the kids wanted this game very badly not just for the team, but for Lynette and Sheba," Washington said. "This is the first team that I’ve had that has pulled players in a way that they’ve been all season. They wanted very much for Lynette and Sheba to get to the final four."
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