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Page 8 University Daily Kansan, February 17, 1981
Nebraska victory excites swim team
By JIM SMALL Sports Writer
The Kansas men's swim team is on a streak that will hope to bring the Jayhawks their 11th Big Eight Conference team and team members are excited about it.
KU is fresh off a victory this weekend against reigning Big Eight champion Nebraska and will carry a 4-2 record in championships next month in Norma, Okla.
"THE TEAM IS real confident and ready to go, said junior sprinter Jim Rowland. "The biggest thing about us is that we are consistent. Everyone has swum consistently well. A lot of other Big Eight teams haven't done that."
Much of the reason for Rowland's optimism can be found in the Nebraska match.
Before the meet, KU Coach Bill Spain said that for the Jawahres to win the Big Eight Championship they would need to play three games and did just that, pulling off a 84-45 victory.
With the big Jayhawk for an audience, Kansas diver Ben Spencer heads for the water during Saturday's dual swim meet with Nebraska at Robinson Natatorium. The Jayhawks defeated the Cornhuskers 68-45.
KU started off at a torrid pace in the meet, winning the first four events.
"I think that we took them by surprise at the beginning." Spahn said. "I think that our winning those first few events got them a little down."
NOT ONLY DID the Jayhawks swim well, but Spalm said that he saw
Leading Kansas was Rowland, who won the 200-meter freestyle and 100 freestyle. Bob Vince, who captured the 500 freestyle and co-captain Steve Grave, who set a record in the 200 medal medley with a time of 1:54.32
potential in KU's diving. Nebraska is considered a night coach to be the leader of coaches in KU.
"We really showed improvement in divined," he said. "Mark Murphy finished in three-meter diving. I was very pleased."
Rowland said he expected greater things out of the Cornhuskers when the two teams meet at the conference championships.
"We beat Nebraska twice last year by a wider margin than Saturday's meet and they turned around and won eight Eagle Championship," Rowland said.
Spahn also expects a tougher test from Nebraska later in the season.
"WE SWAM WELL Saturday, but in three weeks it could be different," he said.
If Nebraska wants things to be different they will have to reckon with Graves because, according to Spahn, the driving force is the driving force behind the team.
"There is no doubt that he is the leader of this team," Spahn said. "Everyone on the team knows that and everyone on the team respects him."
Graves is also respected by people who are involved with swimming programs.
"I have been aware of him for several years," Nebraska Coach Cal Benz said. "He is a fine swimmer and an outstanding young man. I have a lot of respect for him as do the swimmers on this team."
For four years Graves has been a mainstay in the KU program. He has also been a professor of computer science.
every year that he has been at KU and is expected to be among those competing for national honors this year in Austin, Texas.
LAST YEAR WAS WAS perhaps Graves' finest year. He finished 14th in the 100 breaststroke at the NCAA meet at Cambridge. Mass.
"I enjoy competing in the national's because it gives me a chance to see different parts of the country," he said. "It just is a lot of fun."
But the story of Steve Graves goes beyond his accomplishments in the pool, according to Spahn.
Graves has broken six Big Eight
"He'll be a very successful person in what he ever does," Spahn said. "He is a very hard worker at whatever he works at, and that means that wants to do well in life and will he?"
Graves, perhaps better than anyone else, displays the qualities that make the good student athlete. Competing in a sport that requires 6:30 a.m. practice to go along with two-hour afternoon workout, Graves still manages to maintain a 5.5 grade point average with a major in accounting.
"FOR AS MUCH and as hard as we work it is pretty hard for anyone to do well in the classroom," Spahn said. "It would be believe that he is doing so well."
Graves prefers to shrug off his classroom achievements as part of a daily routine.
"I just sit down after dinner, or study," he said. "It takes a little discipline and a lot of studying on weekends, but most of the other guys on campus do well in school also. I don't think that I'm different from anyone else."
Graves said that he was also optimistic about the Jayhawk's chances at winning the title.
KU women's loss should help against KSU, KU coach says
By SANDY CLARK Sports Writer
If there's any such thing as a timely loss, Kansas" women's basketball team may have had one Saturday.
Taking their No. three ranking and 10-game winning streak into Detroit, the Jayhawks were riding high. So high that the unranked Titans caught them on guard. KU paid the price, losing 82-69 to sixth in the rankings.
The Jayhawks will have a chance to show renewal respect for their opponents when they meet the Kansas City in Allen Field Hotel. Topoff is at 7:30.
KU Head Coach Marian Washington was more grateful for the loss than bitter.
The *Jayhawks* overconfidence was understandable considering that they had won nine of their last 10 games by 20 points or more. At times during that period they even when they didn't play their best.
"THERE'S NO DOUBT about it that this loss will help us," she said. "We've played 24 games and won 20 of them. I think things like this happen for a reason. This might have been just what we needed to push us."
But KU, with a second-rate effort,
couldn't get past a surprisingly tough
Detroit team. The Jayhawks shot only
30 percent from the field and 50 percent
from the free throw line. They suffered
a miserable drought in the first half,
missing all six of their free throw attemptms.
That performance could be easily forgotten with a victory over K-State tonight.
"TM SO GLAD we have this K-State game so soon." Washington said. "I will help us forget that whole bad experience. I know the kids are eager to
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"Our confidence is definitely down," K-State Head Coach Lymen Hickey said. "We've lost a couple of games that we should have won. I think Drake is the second best team in the division to K, but shouldn't have gotten bad that bad."
Nothing would get the Wildcats' confidence back up faster than a win over KU, but that may not be easy.
KU has had the upper hand in both contests against K-State this season, winning 85-60 in January and 88-68 days later in Manhattan. The Wildcats had won 21 straight games against KU on their home court before that loss.
tonight, they will have swept the season series for the first time ever.
"We've never had a year where we've won every game from them in a season," Washington said. "I'm hopeful that the kids can do it. We'll have to control the ball and show more skill, but most important element is intensity."
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