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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 rather 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, plays Oklahoma State. The Bills beat the
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 to top-to-top-game back games presents some problem, but they advantage, 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 give support to we get, and we will really need it."
The Jayhawks will have one nighton that they didn't need very bad Saturday. Six-foot-8 center Victor Mitchell is back to full strength and he has stopped him out of the starting lineup for two games.
John Crawford, 8-4 forward, started 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 NL.
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's 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 we want to get to the secretary (35), would be awfully tough for us to get 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 tied for the fifth spot were Kansas' senior guard Darnell Valentine and Missouri forward Fawkler.
The second team was: Jack Moore, Nehaska;
Nellyen, Kansas; State, Ohio; Barnett,
Oklaunce, Kentucky.
Honorable mentions went to Leroy Combe,
David Dillen and Steve Stapvayle, Missouri.
Five KU players, including three of the players expected to start tonight, will be playing their
Big Eight tickets still available
The tickets are reserved seats in the student section.
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 LD. Public tickets are $5.50.
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 time Friday are 7:05 p.m. for the game between the winner of the Oklahoma State-Kansas game and the winner of the Iowa State-Missouri game. The game bet-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 CORNWALKERS, coached by former KU
14 points, Oklahoma, with 128, finished second.
14 points, Oklahoma, with 128, finished second.
"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 ef-
fort."
Ten Big Eight records were in the meet including Tudie McKnight's event-winning leap to the high jump. The mark qualified her for the AIM at Philadelphia, which will be held March 13-14 at Pocatello, Idaho.
"IM REAL HAPPY," McKnight said. "Thus jump tells me how I'll be doing in the outdoors."
Gwen Poss, who qualified for the national championships earlier this season, won the 60-yard hurdles with a time of 8.02, edging teammate Mason Ripley with a mark of 8.06 qualified her for the nationals.
The Jayhawks have qualified four athletes for the national championships. Lori Green-Jones, already qualified, finished third in the 300 at the conference championships.
Kansas finished among the top six in every event except two, including a second-place finish in the 220 relay.
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Practice expressing thoughts and feelings clearly and directly, situations addressed will include personal, academic, and work settings.
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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"
"They (the other coaches) were surprised that we placed third," Hamilton said. "The KU coaching staff knew that Nebraska and Iowa would win, but we predicted that we would place third."
Kansas' women's swim team has won every Big Eight championship. That record was never tested this weekend at the Big Eight championships at Robinson Natatorium.
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Slight, pale, dressed in a blue windbreaker, jeans and a pair of battered buckles, the 28-year old Inno looks very good as he intently wary the message, couched in some masterful body language, is not "too close." He responds with a look of relief, leaning into them across the table or pulling back in his chair, returning each hip with dislain, bemusement or gratitude. He rests in his high forehead and elegantly expressive eyebrows — he's reached a conclusion, but he's not done with a thrim.
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He played guitar in the obituary string of Midwestern garage bands, lied about his age to club owners, dreamed the journeyer's dream. It's the same old story with one important detail: he didn't do anything else. He wasn't building onto a CPU degree or a job in a rubber plant in case things didn't work out Hardly. Tucked into the middle of the seven-member焊 brood, he took his single opinion very seriously He was taken at 16 At 18 be told in Nashville.
"It was heaven," he confides, recalling those first two years in Music City. He had landed a 425-a week staff writing at big Tree Publishing, lived in a township on a screen sited on a diet of hard-rigged cigarettes, baloney and beans. An auspicious start, but the Nashville tenure proved ultimately a deadend. There was a ceramic necklace, kept up, highly personal songs and the preening rhinestone aesthetic. Later, of course, all sorts of people worked out he was a half of a writer. Three Dog Night glanced a middling smile at me. "I'm Conway Twiny's cut" from *Hearty Years* was number one country. There were soundtracks, a movie of the Week score, lots of appreciation from left wing critics. It was srict, well-buten and sirtle, well-buten and beans.
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in 78 that he got down to the serious business of his destiny.
That year, LA was in the threes of its new wave seizure. The club scene was percolating nicely and the ARR Ein Theater had been the best place to every hour on the hour. Enter Haiti, with a new band and a batch of songs that kicked up lots of attention pronto. A year later he released his second album, Two Bit Monsters in October of 80.
was taking a lot of risks, throwing a lot of curves. Nobody knew what to do with it and even the matter of those two Epic LP. The fate of Haitu 'Around the Observatory and Orchestra', both released in 74, was a crash course in the ritual music of their instruments on artists. Both were marked by a lyric whim that seems utterly alien to Haït's later persona, and both went absolutely nowhere, thanks to a subsequent wandering minstrel period — a wear playing coffeehouses and club clubs in 34 states and most of Canada — was hardly a feast for musicians to deal with its kind of emotion. The remark has the ring of classic understatement. The fact was Haït was no more a folle than a fool in RB and what he calls its white variant' — rock and roll — but it wasn't until he came to Los Angeles
In retrospect, Haiti's ascent up the ladder of critical responsibility has a sort of astrological inevitability to its Jaundiced, often cynical, always unaware of his past, his paranoia and purpose came along at just the right time. He was called the American Elvis Costello, a term which did nothing to enclose its subject to the rock press, and his MCA output was not new but our new wave's post-news direction.
"It was a unique time." Hiatt admits
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The record buying couldn't have cared less. After a dismal sales run, Hair switched managers, was extracted from the MCA deal and formed a new hand. He also did some recording on Björk's *Lover*. But he got better. The *The Way We Make a Broken Heart*) that resulted in his hiring on as
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a member of Cooder's road band for a Euro-American tour, winding up in March.
All of which brings him to this particular jacqueline, in an empty bar, staring monolky at an astrahum full of bulls and trying to address some pointed questions about a checkered career emancipated by egmantic body of work. It's not easy.
"I'm really optimistic," Hatt has been insisting throughout most of this boozy evening in downtown Santa Monica. It's been a hard statement to carry around, but I'm feeling forebodingolic of his music. That's part of the problem," he parties, especially with rock critics. They put him up for criticism with Dylan and I don't think I'll ever forgive him for it. I think I handle the characters in my songs with a lot of tenderness. If that means pointing out problems, that between them and me."
Maybe Hiatt's positive dread of ex
planning his business beyond what a living in the groves extends to his role as a new wave, weatherwise. "The new wave is not just a band with a shrug," I mean there was a big orchestra three years ago, but the lads are now playing it on the radio. It’s Kenny Rogers and Pat Bernat. And the Clash know every detail of that band, but I sure can figure it out.
A long silence happens. What really seems to be eating Haiti are those con man demands for rebellion, as restless something to the press and public.
"I just want to be loved and adored by millions. That's part of my problem," he concedes, watching a patrol car cruise Ocean Avenue. "I mean, if selling records is the point, I'll be a perfect custodian of success." I will never put out a crumdy record and I'll never do a crummy need to know?
What else indeed? Well, there's Hint's well publicized discontent with nearly every aspect of his recorded output, in direct contraction to his no-crummy product show. "Let's face it. I'm a show learner," he courted me. "I can't tell you all the stills a mystery to me. after four albums I never had enough money or time to do things right. I need to play with a band that weren't a bunch of dogs on here where do you find a producer with the gold coke snap around his neck?"
Abruptly, Haitt changes tack Yes, he concedes, he's been surrounded by a "bunch of assistants for a long time now, but how have they been able to get him? He's got some high power management, a decent company and a lot of lucrative recording offices. (Warner Bros is a distinct possibility.) He lives in a nine house in the Holl Park area where wife and cat What could be better?
will all these good times change his music? Is he going to start writing songs that will not be in the instead of ones who die in motorcycle accidents, get old to fast or need more money?
Exasperation wells beneath those lowering eyes. Dumbly, the Gritty Interview Moment has been the topic of much what I think? he snaps. "Sure, every thing is corrupt, except maybe my cat. Do they need me to tell them that I'm a real musician. I am just not. I see the guitar, I don't play it. Rock and roll is a limited form of expression who should other people?"
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