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University Daily Kansan, March 3, 1981
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Owens looks to fans for edge against Cowboys
By KEVIN BERTELS Sports Editor
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 gips 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.
Jayhawk's opponent best of second division
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 goal for the Big Eight.
Kansas, by virtue of its second place Big Eagle State in Alabama and Oklahoma State in Alabama Field House States.
The luck of the draw, as well as Saturday's 60-65 victory over Oklahoma State that made the difference between second and fifth place, gave the Jayhawks the chance to face the Cowboys back-to-back games presents some problem. The cowboys advantage, KU Head Coach Ted Olsen 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. Okinahara 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 reason. 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 need it 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-8 center Victor Mitchell is back to full strength and the team sent him out of the starting lineup for two games.
John Crawford, 8-5-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 NFC.
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 when the teams are playing in February (34), it would be awfully tough for us to tournament bid with an 18-9 record."
JAHYWAK 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 Ricky Frazier.
The second team was: Jack Moore, Nehraka; Nelly Kaye, Kansas; State, Chad; Barnett, Oklahoma.
Honorable mentee will work to Leroy Combs,
Oliver McGill, and Joe Sundwil for Joe Sundwil
and Steve Stumpf with Missouri.
Five KU players, including three of the players to start tonight, will be playing their
last game in Allen Field House. KU's seniors are John Crawford, Art Housey, Booty Neal, Valentine and George Thompson.
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 I.D. 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 arenas in the Kansas City, Mo., area, according to Bill Hancock, Big Eight Service Bureau director.
Tipoff times Friday are 7:00 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-ween the winner of Okahanna-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 Eig 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 coach's poll before the championships at Lincoln, Neb., won two events and scored 76 points, beating out Kansas State for third place.
THE CORNHUSKERS, coached by former KU men's assistant Gary Pepin, met the meet with 142 points. Oklahoma, with 185 finished second
"The team put in more than 100 percent . . .
they put in 120 percent. It was a total team e-
fort."
"We were really happy." KU Assistant Coach Two Hamilton said this. "This is the best job in town."
Ten Big Eight events in the meet including Tudie McKnight's event-winning leap jump. The mark qualified her for the AIAW 14-31 Pocatello, which will be held March 13-14 in Pocatello, Calif.
"I'm REAL HAPPY," McKnight said. "This jump tells me how I'm beating in the outdoors."
event finished among the top six in every
kansas except two, including a second-place finish in
Texas.
The Jayhawks have qualified four athletes for the national championships. Lori Green-Jones, already qualified, finished third in the 306 at the conference championships.
Gwen Poss, who qualified for the rational championships earlier this season, won the 60-hurdle hurdles with a time of 8.02, edging teammate David Lutz with a mark of 8.03 qualified her for the nationals.
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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 had, but we predicted that we would place third."
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3 A compass that works at least 50 percent of the time. (The kind found in Crackerjacks will not suffice.)
4. Map and itinerary (File your travel plan with a friend, relative spouse, priest, or the local Mountains. Someone has to get a headstart on
5. Desert wardrobe (light-colored clothing that is comfortable and durable bit) the prepared for cold nights. And a hat to keep it fluffy, faintish, like a hat with a brim.)
6. A field knife. (Forget the Che-style guerrilla hardware and macho Jim Bowie meat cleavers.)
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7. Flashlight and extra batteries.
8. First aid kit. (Plus lip balm and sunscreen potions.)
9. Polarized sunglasses. (It is never a bad idea to carry a spare set of Foster Grants.)
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10. WATER and salt tablets. (Remember that water weighs eight
the one out and baggage lst is mercifully brief, there is another lst inside which it should be within which the desert backpacker should indulge ethically with his cortex.
Professor Snakebite's List of Desert No-No's
1 Never set up camp or cut a few zes' n the soft, inviting contours of a gulch. With the approach of a thunderstorm in the mountains or foothills, that jumble in the dirt may become all too transitory, transforming into a dense mail box,堡, terrestrial landscapes, and small owls.
2. Avoid camping within spitin' depths of wet or overcrowded. All kinds of creepers and black widow spiders, loiter on the premises, waiting to ambush you.
3. Do not counsel forced marches during a full sun. Not even Audie Murphy rode out at high noon. Keep a
cool head by hoofing it through the shadows of early morning and evening.
4. Wash out for seep water that tans sulfur, or gulp, even arsenic; A distinctive, bitter odor will usually dissolve in a body of water; cily of water that looks pure as a beer commercial. Desert water that is not scummy, thick with hides of algae and swarming with wringing minutiae is apt to be the final, eternal thirst
5. For those who value the ecstatic qualities of loneliness do not stay too near Las Vegas, sheep droving or near their testing sites, or the Moung Ranch.
state and national narks.
Desert trekking is an addictive form of recreation. Packing into harsh and barren seas of sand is not entertaining, but the search for more amid extravagant quantities of less. According to Thomas Merton, "With the Desert Dathers you have the characteristics of a clean person who lives in social context in order to swim for
When searching for new places to invest do not ignore the so-called "high desert" found in the Columbia Basin, a region of prairies of southern Idaho, the inhospitable outskirts of eastern Oregon, and the un-scarched Sterias of western Utah.
For information and maps regarding those desert areas accessible to the public, simply write to the Parks Dpartment of whichever state harbors a desert area. In order that there are hundreds of out-of-the way priaries, baskets, salt and flair, rather regions which, though rarely intersect, fall within the public do main.
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