Tuesday, March 23. 1971
University Daily Kansan
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UCLA Who?
Kansan Photo by JOHN BURKE
One might thinkILL leader Mead Bollard, Fairway junior, and pompon girls Marilyn Marshall, Kansas City, Ms. mojun, and Mary Williams, Kansas City, Mo. mojun, knew what they were talking about when this picture was taken in Kansas City at this year's Big Eight
Tournament. The trio will join the entire corp of KU yell leaders and pompon girls in competition with the UCLA Song Girls Thursday to determine which generates the most school spirit. Sportswriters will vote on the two squads to determine which is best. All of this, of course, will be decided by a tournament crowned UCLA Bruins will take on the fourth ranked Kansas Jayhawks in the semifinal round of the NCAA Basketball Championships.
Bruins Remember Last Dome Visit
HOUSTON (UPI)—John Wooden of number one-ranked LAU will be the only coach among the four survivors in the NCAA basketball championships who will play a game in the cavernous Astrodome, site of this week's tournament semifinals and finals.
that year's NCAA tournament but the memory of the game still lingers.
It was played on a portable television and the baseball field area of the baseball field will this week's games which will find Western Kentucky, 23.5. (AP)
The winners and losers will be matched against each other for first and third place on Saturday afternoon.
berth in the tournament by squeaking past Long Beach State 57-55 last Saturday.
And he probably wouldn't like the setup any better this time then he did that January night in Boston. Bruins rolled into the dome to meet the Houston Cougars with a win, now-ranked as the nation's best.
"The first time we played there the conditions weren't too good, but they were hard now. I'm sure the facility is much improved. They have learned."
"We like the Astrodome," Wooden said after UCLA won its
49er Coach Favors UCLA
UCLA later avenged that "Game of the Century" loss with a 101-89 defeat of the Cougars in
Wooden and the Bruns left Houston that night on the short end of a 71-68 score and the Cougars replaced UCLA as number one to the delight of 52-34. The game ended ever to witness a basketball game.
LOS ANGELES (UP1) -- The all-time paid attendance record for one game in baseball history is 93,057. Yankees and Dodgers drew 93,000.
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—In the first game of the season, Jerry Tarkanian watched his Cal State Browns' headers how to Kansas by 17 points.
Last Saturday at Salt Lake City, he saw his club lose by two in winning NCAA champion UCLA in the finals of the Western League.
so asked at the weekly meeting of the Southern California Basketball Writers Monday who he felt will win tonight's big game between the Bruins and the layhawks.
"I feel UCLA will go all the way," the folksy coach of the 48s replied. "I don't think
Kansas can win."
John Wooden, whose team shot only 29 per cent from the field reaching the national semifinals in basketball. Astrodome,listened intently.
"I feel UCLA's pressure will make Tarkanian an attacker," I bear Kansas has been trying to run, but they can't run against
Wooden said he probably will use the Bruins' famed zone press against the Jawhaws.
"in all probability," the UCLA coach said, "we will use it against Kansas. It is felt their most maneuverable."
Wooden said he expected the Jayhawks to use a 1:3-1 zone "and I hope we’re better prepared this time."
Long Beach employed a 2-3 zone to nearly upset the Bruins, who will be bidding for their fifth straight NCAA title at Houston.
"Long Beach's zone surprised us and gave us a lot of trouble," she said. "We had much to do with our poor shooting average. However, most people think it is unlikely that we will again shoot so poorly against any enemy."
To get to the national semifinals, the Bruins beat Brigham Young 91-73 before nipping Nileong 57-55.
Kanaan Photo by HAL WHALEN
Soars High
The Jayhawk tennis team, in their first home dual meet of the season, Monday won all six singles matches and two of three ladies. The Ladder of Iowa for an 8-1 victory—their first win of the season.
Campus in Boulder. Carley and his teammates did not find the trip all that enjoyable as for the second straight year they fell to a third place. Abead of KU this year was perennial champion Iowa State and second place finisher Oklahoma. Two Jayhawks qualified for the NCAA meet to be held in Ann Arbor, Mich. later in the year. They were Gerald Carley and Rich Schubert.
"It's good to win," said shivering Kansas coach Bob Lockwood.
Slightly unconventional Jim Ballinger, Leawood senior and number one man on the team, fought the cold and played in gray sweat pants, heavy knit long sleeves, stocking cap with his flowing locks covering his ears. Others like neatly trimmed Tom Carlson, Leadwool sophomore, were a little more traditional. He wore a buttoned sleeve shirt, sleeved shirt and white shorts, but only for a brief time.
KU Tennis Squad Wins
The match was played on the courts behind Allen Field House in 60 degree temperatures, a rare and unusual crescent sunshine. It was cold and the fewer than a dozen spectacles that turned out soon
Kansas gymnasm Gerald Carley soars high over the high bar on his dismount in last weekend's Big Eight Championships gymnasmic meet held in the CL Fieldhouse on the University of Colorado
Kansas after taking only fifth in the West Texas State tournament and losing both of their games, may have more confidence now.
WICHTA, Kan. (UP1)—The Jayhawk class, a December tournament that has been in existence two years, may be on its way to winning the nation's finest pre- Christmas college basketball show.
"We will even up our dual record Thursday," said Lockwood. "We'll heat Emporia."
KUBaseball Washed Out
Jayhawk Classic Gaining Prestige
A schedled doubleheader
between the College of
Emergency Medicine and
Emperor Muhammad was
a week, to Monday, March 29
because of wet grounds and cold
Take a look at some of the teams that have played there: Western Kentucky, Houston, Villanova, St. Joseph's Pa., etc.; Kansas State, Wichita Falls, Kansas; whipped West Virginia, Kentucky, 104-81, in the finals of the first tournament. Villanova finished third in this season's finals, Washington before defeating St. Joseph's in the consolation game.
The Jayhawks, 1-7 on the year,
were also scheduled to meet
the team on Wednesday and
another doubleheader but it has
been postponed until Wednesday.
If weather permits, the Friends-KU contends will begin tomorrow.
And now, three teams that have
been playing in Houston and Jawah-
rock Classics are among the last four playin
the national championship at Houston this
week.
KANSAN sports
Kansas made it with a 73-81 victory over Drake in the Midwest. Villanova poured it on shell-shocked Penn. 90-47 in the East, and Western Kentucky put up an overtime, 81-78, in the Midwest.
Closed Practice Set for Hawks
Rapidly preparing for their Thursday night showdown with UCLA, the Kansas Jayhawks will conduct practice today behind the locked doors of Allen Field be the last practice by the team in Lawrence before it moves on to Houston Wednesday morning.
"We're going to have a closed practice," KU coach Ted Owens said Monday after a two hour
A sendoff rally for the Kansas basketball team will begin Wednesday morning beginning just before Jayhawk Towers. The event will be held in conjunction with a trip to Kansas City where it will board a plane bound for NCAA championships.
practice session left the Jayhawks' head man less than pleased.
Rally Plans Determined
The team is scheduled to depart Kansas City at 9:40 a.m. and arrive in Houston an hour and a half later. The will practice in the Astrodome later that afternoon.
"We didn't have a very good one," he said in analyzing the session Owens said the team would take advantage of offense and defending UCLA.
As many people as possible attended the rally as the Jahawks will be trying to win the national championship for the N.C. State football team.
Thursday's game has been tabbed a probable physical one since few college teams in the country can match the Bruins or the Seahawks. The fact KU is equivalent to UCLA in the size department makes some observers believe the Jayhawks can stay with the perennial NCAA champion but have not found anyone around individual matches.
"We just do the best we can," he began. "I don't think its ever a perfect matchup."
Because of their size the Bruins have been difficult to stop in the rebounding department and the Raptors, this is their greatest strength.
Across the front line UCLA will with Curtis Rowe (6-8). Study guide includes information on KU. KU will counter with Pierre Russell (6-4), Dave Robiché (6-4).
The Jayhawks will fly out of Kansas City Wednesday morning enroute to Houston where they play their home games in the Astrodome. Thursday's KU-UCLA battle will tip off at 8:40 p.m. In the first game williana and Western Kentucky williana off. That will tip off at 6:40 p.m.
Kansas Golfers Win
The Kansas golfers conquered the weather, Baker and Emporia College. Monday at Alamanda Golf Club, at the seasons first match. An overall team score of 338 was enough to edge out Emporia State
High winds and cold tem-
peratures annoyed plum-
menters. But the field of teams stuck to the schedule and only the scores
The Jayhawks played two dual matches with both Baker and Emporia State. Against Baker the Hawks gained 11% points to their 6%, and with Emporia State the Hawks gained 7% again in favor of Kansas.
The low score of the match play was turned in by Emporia 13-6, but he first in line with a round of 88. Jim Dennerlem of KU was second with 81 and Ron Walters of Baker University finished third with an 84.
KU's golf coach, Chuck O'Neal, said the scores weren't a very good indication of how the teams played. "You really couldn't tell me," he said because he caused the weather makes that situations very poor for golf," he said.
"I would expect that on a good day the scores for all the players would be at least five strokes lower."
There were also two qualifying rounds held Monday afternoon to determine the last two remaining spots to be filled for the spring golf team Bill Mosiman, a freshman and Bill Lake, an Illinois shotgun at 82 and Bill Kearn, a from Shawnee had an 85. Both men were accepted for the team.
Kansas' next match will be held on Friday, April 2, in Shawnee, Okla. The Jayhawks will travel there to meet a University host in the Oklahoma Invitational tournament.
There will be one emotionally
torn man viewing the happenings
at Houston with more than casual
That will be UCLA
football coach Preper Rodgers,
who left the Kansas job,
in January.
The other finalist, of course, is UCLA, NCAA champion six of the game with a 57-38 win in state with a 57-38 win over Los Angeles State. Kansas has not played the Bruins since 17, 1965, when it won a 78-71 decision at Los Angeles
"There's nothing I'd like better than to see Kansas play UCLA in the Astrodome," Pepper said when he left. His January
"All we did in the second half was go to Robisch," Kansas Coach Ted Dews said. "Wed I felt so do too many things offensively."
imagination became a March reality.
Kansas-6-10 musclemen, Dave Banks and Roses, Brown, Gregan and Drake. The two combined to score 32 of Kansas' 43 second-half
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Robbis responded with 19 of his 27 pointers the last season and he had 15 during the same time span. Their height proved too much for his team.
Robich also took the Bulldogs Jeff Halliburton defensively. Halliburton, a terror in the first half when he hit six of nine attempts, was held to five points in half, making only two on 11 shots.
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