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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 hopefully bring the Hawks to Big Eight Conference championship and team members are excited about it.
KU is fresh off a victory this weekend against reigning Big Eight champion Rudy Gay, carrying a 4-2 record into the conference championships next month in Omaha, OKa.
"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 Fight teams haven't done that."
Much of the reason for Rowland's optimism can be found in the Nebraska match.
DAVE KRAUAP/compass staff 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.
Before the meet, KU Coach Bill Spahn said that for the Javahayts to win the Big Eight Championship they would have had to pull off a 84-45 victory did just that, pulling off a 84-45 victory.
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."
Leading Kansas was Rowland, who won the 200-meter flexreel and 100 freestyle. Bob Vince, who captured the 500 freestyle and co-captain Steve Tres, who set a pool record in the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:54.32.
NOT ONLY DID the Jayhawks swim well, but, Spain said that he saw
potential in KU's diving. Nebraska is to be the Big Eight power in diving.
"We really showed improvement in diving," he said. "Mark Murphy finished second 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 SWAM WELL Saturday, but in three weeks it could be different," he said.
Spahn also expects a tougher test from Nebraska inter in the season.
"We beat Nebraska twice last year by a wider margin than Saturday's meet and they turned around and won Big Eight Championship," Rowland said.
If Nebraska wants things to be different they will have to reckon with Graves because, according to Spahn, the team driving 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 around the league.
"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."
this team:
For four years Graves has been a mainstay in the KU program. He has swum at the NCAA championships
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 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's just a lot of fun."
Graves has broken six Big Eight
records and is the current conference record-holder in the 200 and 400 individual medleys. He also holds school records for the 1973 and the 200 and 400 individual medleys.
But the story of Steve Graves goes beyond his accomplishments in the pool according to Snabb.
"He'll be a very successful person in what ever he does," Spahn said. "He is a very hard worker at whatever he works and wants 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. Competting 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 will be believed that he is doing so well."
Graves prefers to shrug off his classroom achievements as part of a demonstration.
"I just sit down after dinner to study," he said. "It takes a little discipline and a lot of studying on weekends, but most of the other guys on school 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 Jawahrys chances at winning. "I'll try," he said.
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 game that ends up being the football 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 from halfway up to fourth, losing 25-46 and falling to sixth in the national rankings.
The Jayhawks will have a chance to show renewed respect for their opponent, but they meet the Kansas Wildcats in Allen Field House. Tino is off at 7:30.
KU Head Coach Marian Washington more grateful for the loss than blitz
"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."
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 won when they didn't play their best.
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 atten-
toms.
That performance could be easily forgotten with a victory over K-State tonight.
"I'M SO GLAD we have this K-State game so soon," Washington said. "I'll help us forget that whole bad experience. I know the kids are eager to
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"The confidence is definitely down." K-State Head Coach Lymick Heydon said. "We've lost a couple of games that we should have won. I think Drake is the best team in the division to RU, but we 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 look well and show more intensity. The single most important element is intensity."
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The Wildcats will once again be without the services of their leading scorer, Tammie Rostam, out with a knee injury, but junior Jeanine Daniels will be back after sitting out two weeks with an ankle injury.
This game is especially important for the Wildcats because they are in the middle of a battle with Wichita State for an automatic berth in the Region VI Championships at Minnesota in March. The two teams are tied for second place in the southern division of Region VI behind KU.
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