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University Daily Kansan, March 3, 1981
Owens looks to fans for edge against Cowboys Jayhawk's opponent best of second division
The Big Eight postseason basketball tournament is five years old today.
Our five years have been filled with complaints from lovers of the Big Eight Holiday Tournament, which the postseason meet replaced. There have also been grips from coaches and fans, who would have the big Eight's representative to the NCAA Championship tournament be the regular season champion, as it was before the postseason tourney.
ALL COMPLIANTS will be set aside by seven teams tonight, however. The only team in the Big Eight that might favor the old plan is Missouri, the regular-season champion. All others will truly get a "second season," another chance to win the NCAA's automatic spot for the Big Eight.
Kansas, by virtue of its second-place Big Eight during the regular season, play Oklahoma State and give the Browns a chance.
The luck of the draw, as well as Saturday's 80-65 victory over Oklahoma State that made the difference between second and fifth place, gave the Jayhawks the chance to face the Cowboys who played without a playoff game presents some problems, but there are also advantages. KU's Head Coach Ted Owens said.
"IT HELPS IN some ways." Owens said.
"Your preparation for several days has been to play Oklahoma State and you just continue that preparation."
Most of the other Big Eight coaches are probably happy that Owens gets the advantage of preparing for the same team two games in a row. Oklahoma State, the Big Eight's leader until mid-February, is the best of the second division teams.
"All of the teams that play at home in the first round would like to play anyone but Oklahoma State," Owens said. "They have that kind of respect. The other home teams would rather not play Oklahoma State because they are a dangerous team."
Because the Cowboys are a talented team, Owens is more concerned about the attendance of tonight's game. Attendance at first-round tournament games has been low in the past, as low as 3,610 last season against Colorado. The crowd was an important factor in Saturday's game, Owens said, and despite lagging ticket sales, he hopes to see a larger crowd tonight.
"I THINK MOST times people have assumed that we will win and that they will wait to see us in Kansas City," Owens said. "The best chance that we have of winning is to have student support. One of the most important reasons for our success at home is the crowd response.
"It's vital that we have the student support for this game. OSU is a dangerous road team. They
beat Kansas State, Oklahoma and Iowa State on the road.
"The reason for the home court advantage is the positive force that the crowd has for the home team. There aren't many teams that get support that we get, and we will really need it."
The Jayhawks will have one thing tonight that they didn't need very badly Saturday. Six-foot-6 center Victor Mitchell is back to full strength and should help him out of the starting lineup for two games.
John Crawford, 8- forward, both those games and played well enough that Mitchell was used for only 13 minutes Saturday and 14 minutes the game before against Nebraska. Crawford scored 13 points and had 5 rebounds against NI and had 15 points and 12 rebounds against Oklahoma State. Crawford will start tonight, Owens said.
"VICTOR HAD A good practice yesterday and I would anticipate that he will be ready to play."
Paul Hansen, coach of the Cowboys, is looking at tonight's game as a chance to get into the NHL.
A victory tonight would give his team a 19-8 record and possible consideration for an at-large
bid to the national meet. The victory would also advance the Cowboys to Kansas City where they could win the automatic bid, but the record is more important to Hansen.
"I WANT THAT 19th win," Hansen said. "That's what is important to me. It doesn't matter if we had gotten it Saturday or Tuesday. We've got to have it for a shot at a tournament that could have been February (34); it would be awfully tough for us to give a tournament bid with an 18-9 record."
JAYHAWK NOTES: United Press International announced its All-Big Eight team last night. The first team was: Rolando Blackman, Kansas State; Andre Smith, Nebraska; Matt Clark, Oklahoma State; Jojo Hunter, Colorado; and had for the fifth spot were Kansas' senior guard Darrin Valentine and Missouri forward Ricky Fruzier.
The second team was Jack Moore, Nebraska; he
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Gill.
Five KU players, including three of the players expected to start tonight, will be playing their
Big Eight tickets still available
Tickets are still available for tonight's first round Big Eight postseason tournament game in Allen Field House. They can be purchased until halftime of the game at the Allen Field House box office for $2 with a KU I.D. Public tickets are $5.50.
The tickets are reserved seats in the student section.
Nearly 3,000 tickets are also available for the semifinal and final round games in Kemper Arena. These can be purchased at ticket outlets in the Kansas City, Mo., area, according to Bill Hancock, Big Eight Service Bureau director.
Tipoff times Friday are 7:06 p.m. for the game between the winner of the Oklahoma State-Kansas game and the winner of the State-Missouri game. The game between the winner of Oklahoma-Kansas State and the winner of Colorado-Nebraska is set for 9:05 p.m.
KU women's track team overcomes low ranking
By WENDY L. CULLERS Sports Writer
Nebraska won its second consecutive Big Eight women's track championship this weekend, but a third-place finish for KU did not cause any disappointment.
The Jayhawks, ranked sixth in a coaches' poll before the championships at Lincoln, Neb., won two events and scored 76 points, beating out Kansas State for third place.
THE CORNWURKERS, coached by former KU men's assistant Gusty Ammann, with 128, finished second with 124, with 128, finished third with 120.
"We were really happy," KU Assistant Coach Theo Hamilton said. "This was our best job in competition this year. It was a super team effort."
"The team put in more than 100 percent . . . they put in 120 percent. It was a total team effort."
Ten Big Eight events are in the meet including Tudie McKnight's event-winnning leap of 1984 in the long jump. The mark qualifier held by John Foster at Pocatello, Idaho will be held March 13-14 in Pocatello, Idaho.
"I REAL HAPPY," McKnight said. "This jump tells me how I be doing in the outdoors."
Gwen Poss, who qualified for the national championships earlier this season, won the 60-hurdle hurdles with a time of 8.02, edging teammate Jason Kerr with a mark of 8.05 qualified her for the nationalists.
Kansas finished among the top six in every event except two, including a second-place finish in the 220 relay.
The Jayhawks have qualified four athletes for the national championships. Lori Green-Jones, already qualified, finished third in the 300 at the conference championships.
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"They (the other coaches) were surprised that we placed third," Hamilton said. "The KU coaching staff knew that Nebraska and Oklahoma, but we predicted that we would place third."
PEPIN SAID the Cornhuskers' victory was important because it was his first year as a head coach at Nebraska. He said the Cornhuskers had a g*
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