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University Daily Kansan, January 21, 1981
Top 20 great, but Jayhawks want Big 8 crown
By KEVIN BERTELS Sports Editor
Sports Editor
National recognition is wonderful,
don't get that wrong. Everybody on the
Kansas men's basketball team is excited
about the 200-place ranking that United
Press International gave the Jayhawks
weekend, but team goals
attend. And a top 20 ranking was not a
team goal set before the season began.
“It’s a great achievement for a group of young men many didn’t pick in the top 50 before the season,” KU Head Coach Ted Owens said. “But if doesn’t happen with their team goals. What happens in the next 12 games or so is more important.”
These games are important because they will determine the winner of the Big Eight, and winning the Big Eight
was one of those team goals. Tonight the Jayhawks will get a chance to move toward that goal as well as improve their national ranking when they play the Missouri Tigers at Allen Field House. Tippier is 7:5 p.m.
Missouri and KU are the early leaders in the conference, along with Oklahoma State. All have won both their Big Eight games. Interestingly, KU and KU have played the same team in all of those two games, KU haven't played. Missouri has, however, and the results were surprising.
After beating Iowa State Saturday at Columbia, the Tigers packed and headed to Louisville to meet the leading national champions the next day.
In a televised noon game, not 24 hours after the Iowa State game, Missouri
was beaten badly, 71-49. Draw no hasty conclusions from that, Owens cautioned.
"Remember, they were only seven points down with about eight minutes to play." Owens said. "It was really a bad game for them to play. It's hard to play a game Saturday and then travel to five fine team like Louisville on Sunday.
"Sometimes we make huge sacrifices for television. If you had seen Louisville do the same thing I think that you would have been in the situation with opposite results."
Owens obviously respects Missouri, especially three Tiger standouts. Curtis Berry, a 6-foot-8 senior forward, has proved himself for four years as one of the most successful players. Steve Stipanovich, 6-foot-11 center, one of the most heavily recruited centers in
high school two years ago, is averaging
points and 7.7 rebounds game this season.
Finally, Ricky Frazier, 6-foot-5 junior forward, is second in the Big Eight in scoring with 19.9 points a game. Those three make up , without question, the most potent offensive front line in the Big Eight and one of the best in the nation, as well as being excellent rebounders.
"Their front line is excellent," Owens said. "B回bounding will be the dey to the game. Potentially, they are the best rebounding team in the league."
Rebounding has been a strong point for this year's Jayhawks, but their
latest performance, Saturday against Oklahoma, was far below their usual standard. Against a much smaller team. KU was outcured 44-29.
Owens is not concerned that similar stats will hurt his team against Missouri, because he blames a lack of emotion at Oklahoma and that certainly won't be the case against the Tigers before a near-capacity crowd.
They weren't really active at Oklahoma," he said. "They were a lot of guys who played games that they weren't really ready to go. It's to their credit that they came
back and played when they needed too, though."
JLAHWY NOTE: So you'll know, the latest Big Eight statistics show Darnell Valentine and Tony Guy first and second in steals. Valentine has averaged 2.5 a game and Guy has averaged 3.2 a game. Is Ricky Frater of Missouri with 1.9?
Valentine continues to lead the Big Eight in assists with 5.9 a game. Far back in second place is Bo Overton of Oklahoma with 4.5.
David Magley is third in the conference in free throw percentage. He has hit 30-of-33 for a .909 percentage.
KU women whip WSU 80-57
By SANDY CLARK Sports Writer
In Wichita, they never forget their hometown superstars.
A record crowd of 4,354 turned out in Henry Levi Wittraa last night to see Lynette Woodard play in her final collegiate game in her hometown of Wichita, and they didn't leave disappointed.
Woodard scored 27 points and pulled down a whipping 21 reebards as the Jayhawks clobbered the Wichita State Shockers 80-57.
An improved, but inconsistent, Wichita State team had hoped to upset the fifth-ranked Jayhawks, and they were not alone in missing several easy inside shots. But eventually KU's talent and depth proved too much. The Jayhawks also had the advantage of a nearly 70-point advantage in Wichita State's Henry Levitt Arena.
"It's always tough playing KU here because KU and Lynette Woodward have such a large following in this area," Kathryn Burnet said. "I think that's always a big crowd when we play. The papers here heavily played up Lynette's final game
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The city may be proud of Woodard, but KU fans wouldn't have been too proud of the Jayhawks' early first half play.
here. She's a Wichita girl and the city's proud of her."
More than a minute had elapsed before the first points were scored when the Shocker's 6-foot-4 center Theresa Drilling scored on a lay up.
After more than six minutes, which included several missed inside shots by KU, the score was tied 6-6.
That was about the last the Shockers saw of KU.
In the next 11 minutes, KU outcured the Shockers 29-8, and with two minutes left in the half, KU held a 35-12 lead. During that stretch, Woodard scored 10 points and was in front forward, bad 11, and Tracy Craxy, freshman center, added another 8.
The Jayhawks dominated on the boards as well, with Woodard and Clarton combining for 22 rebounds in addition to lead to KU to a 48-25 halftime lead.
Wichita State helped put itself away
by committing 18 turnovers to KU's 8 in the first half.
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Things didn't get any better for the Shockers in the second half. Relaxed by the halftime lead, KU settled into its fast break pattern and began to score almost at will and Coach Marian Washington began to substitute freely.
As has often been the case in the past for KU, Washington said the game was decided by the Jayhawk rebounding margin. KU grabbed 58 rebounds to the Shockers 32 to easily win the battle under the boards.
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