Monday, March 22, 1971
University Daily Kansan
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KU Formula for Houston Simple; Robisch, Brown Key Comeback
By DON BAKER
Knappon Sports Hall
Kansan Sports Editor
WICHTHA-Fortunately for the Kansas Jayhawks, what a difference a ball can make. For it was just a short 20 minute span that the Houston bound Jayhawks turn around an eight-point halftime deficit into a narrow championship to claim the championship of the Midwest Regional single change in strategy made the difference. And that change is spelled R-O-B-S-C-H.
"We told them at half to instead of trying to go down and concentrate on many things to just go to Dave Robisch," KU coach Ted Simons saw the winning dramatic victory witnessed by a national television audience. "I told him not to force, if it wasn't there to pass off."
Needless to say the strategy worked. Robbish scored 19 of his 27 points in the second half while leading a typical frantic comeback in the waning minutes. So speculated he played throughout the entire tournament he won, making valuable player award in a landslide vote.
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"I WANT EVERY young man to receive everything he deserves." Owens said of his 6-12 All-American team. "His All-American honor is very deserved. I also play like an All-American in both games."
And the Jayhawks got another "All-American" performance just when they need it. This time it came from the other half of the giant KU 6-10 duo—Rober Brown.
Brown, who had been far less than spectacular in KU's Thursday night win over Houston and in the first half against Drake, did not even start the second半球. But when he came in with a little over 15 minutes to play the difference was soon felt.
That very ingredient though seems to make John think Kansas could stand up well here.
"I AM SURE I don't have to tell you that a woman has a breakheart loss," he said. "But I'm very proud of our boys for the job they did and only the most muscular team in the country."
"We went to a quicker lineup and started moving better," Owens said of Brown's benching and the start of the KU uprising. "We had their lead that much but we did move better."
It was when Brown entered that things thuded happening.
"HE PLAYED VERY well," Owens said when asked if it might have been Brown's best half of his career. "I was proud of him, but I think he's played better."
"Certainly they have the muscle to stay on the boards with UCLA," he assessed. "I would like to believe it will be a great ball game."
Drake coach Maury John was empathic that the difference was spelled in Brown and Robbish and was slightly critical of the officiating in explaining it.
"The way I saw it was that there was a wrestling match between the pivots and their's was bigger than ours. John began." I remembered a time when I was able to root for position as a being
"Kansas won the game by posting our men inside. Every call called in that situation was called."
The loss was indeed a bitter pit to swallow for John who will be leaving Drake now to assume the head coaching duties at Iowa State.
called his "NCAA shoes," said he felt the two close games in the regional will help the Jayhawks.
Owens, clad in red, white and blue shoes he
"These games will undoubtedly be excellent preparation for us because UCLA is a physical team," he said. "I felt when we tied it and took a small lead we could win the game."
Indeed it was a fast and furious second half that would not have been suitable to a heart-pump. But once again KU's formula was simple, but it wasn't well-mixed in with great advantage and pride.
"I was very disappointed when he fouled it," Owens said of Stallworth who just prior reason to be pickin' the Jayhawks up in their fight from the Cincinnati, this has not been a five man ball team.
THINGS LOOKED BLEAK for Kansas when first Bail Stullwah, who was four in the balling for the all-tournament team, fouled out early in the final half and minutes later was joined by Pierre Russell in the same pretendament. But the Kansas bench came to the rescue, primarily in the form of uoards Bob Kivisto and Mark Mathews.
"After 28 games there are no secrets," Owens offered. "We just told them if we are going to Houston they would just have to go and do it. I thought they tried very hard."
Is it Winning?
By TOMSLAUGHTER
Is it all winning, or is there something else? Trophies are of little material value-polished wood, brass that corrodes within a year.
Yet, there is something more solid about a trophy when it is offered to the crowd, in a communion. Something to be shared.
A trophy hearded is narcissism.
To possess a trophy or a championship is a singular feat, but to share it, throwing it to the collective fan—present or not-so-present, what basketball is, what basketball at this university is about.
If it was only winning, there would be need to go to the game—just to pick up a paper the next day, divorced from the fact and fantasy of sweat, and resin—the sterile fan reaching into his newspaper looking for the guts of the game, and coming up with the shell.
The thought of a basketball game played without the crowd, the life, the animal, the thumbs-up-thumbs-down punctuated by all that is scarcely anchored in the wood—and that's all—is terrifying.
Go to an empty gymnasium by yourself sometime - see what it's like.
This year's team—they know what it's like to hear that ball—and nothing else, except that they are on the court.
Perhaps that's why they share the trophies without thinking twice, not looking for their own image in the polished brass—but more than to the fan. Give him a chance to see himself.
The animal could make a barn its cathedral, as long as each new trophy is rationed equally to the hungry parts.
I left the Roundhouse after it was over Saturday—then returned for a final look. No team, crowd, cops or crying—just a shell of the animal that a few minutes before chanted that it was, indeed, "Number one"—and no one dared argue with it.
Tennis, Golf Teams Host Meets Today
Both the KU tennis and golf teams swing in action today in home matches. The tennis team, hoping a seven-meet swing during spring vacation sharpened its game, host the third of Iowa on the vasty courts of West Allen Field House. The dail will begin at 2:30 p.m.
And the golf team opens its 1971 season at Alvamar Hills Golf Course against Barker University and Emporia State. Tee off time is 10:00 a.m.
Both teams are under the direction of new coaches this year. Bob Lockwood, who also guides the Jayhawks gymnastics team, is in charge of both. Chuck O'Neal has taken over the golf reigns.
CHICAGO (UPI)—Ernie Banks of the Cubs hit five grand slam home runs in a single season, a major league record.
KU Baseball Team Hosts C of E Today
By DON BAKER
Kansan Sports Editor
With a badly needed week of outdoor practice under their belts, the Kansas Farm opens its home schedule today Hosting College students begins at 1:30 p.m. at Quicken Field.
The Jayhawks, 17 on the year after a disastrous southern swing during spring break, have impressed coach Floyd Temple. He believes the club might be on the right track now.
"Getting in a solid week of outdoor practice should help us," he said. "All of these games (in the southern swing) would have been better if they didn't get some practice right behind them."
"We're looking better. Our infielders are beginning to relax a little bit. We've done a lot of good work—our guys are getting their confidence back."
One problem Temple did not anticipate has developed in his pitching corp where Bex Cole was the manager.
Temple said neither is likely to see action in today's games or tomorrow's games when KU hosts Friends University for another year. The Jawahra's strength should consider楚.
"I thought at halftime Saturday we might have Robbish back a week early," Temple smiled in reference to basketball player Dave Robbish who will join the team after this
"But I hope these pitchers we'll use can go six or seven innings," he said. Gaining the starting nods will be right handers Bob Wolf and Bill Stiegemeier.
week's NCAA basketball championships in Houston
As a result of KU's poor showing in the early outings, Temple has undergone a massive restructuring of his offensive and defensive sets.
Today's lineup will be as follows with batting averages or pitching records in parentheses: 1. Ken Carpio, If (231); 2. Biff Temple, cf. (333); 3. Skip James, ff. (233); 4. Jerry Evans, bk (250); 5. Paul Womble, ss (267); 6. Danny Fitzpatrick, 7. Dave Pannellmer, c (200); 8. Dan Lahti, b (400); 9. Bob Wolf, p(0-2) and Bill Silliman, p(0-1).
Temple said he does not expect at this time that lineup to change much.
"I think we're going to go with what we've got," he said. "We're getting to the point now that we've got to make up our minds and go with it."
Tomorrow's, doubleheader with Friends will also begin at 1:30 p.m. at Quigley Field. Then (0-2) is due to start the first game but Tomor said he is undecided on the second start.
With Wilhelm on the mount, James will move into first base from right field with Planlinaker taking over James' position. Moving back to left last year's regular backstop, Larry Matson.
Gymnasts Take Third
Bv HAL WHALEN
By the end of the compilations Friday the johyhans had fallen 4.4 points below the average for this team.
Kansan Sports Writer
BOULDER, Colo.—The Iowa State Cyclones, Big Eight gymnastic champions for the third year running, showed the nation at the conference championships this weekend why they are the favorite for the NCAA title, winning their conference easily with 149-62.
"we kind of gooked on the parallel bars in compulsories," said red-haired Kansas Coach BJ Lockwood. "The first man missed and it was catching. It seemed that every problem he was going to have a problem. Man missed in parallels and three of them fell off."
Oklahoma, placing second with 291.8, gave their best performance topping Kansas in both the compulsory and optional competitions. The Jayhawk gymnasts, who were favored to place second, hit a slump, 283.15, for their third consecutive third.
The Kansas squad did not give a good showing. The first signs of an impending loss to OU became evident in the compulsory competition the first day. A missed set here and there in the early going took a heavy toll from the team confidence.
during the optionals the next day. In optional competition during the season, Kansas had been averaging 157.1 as compared to a national average of 152.5. Amid tough judging and shocking losses, Kansas dropped below their average for a 152.1 Oklahoma rallied for a 156.3.
In the side horse event Rich Schubert, Lawrence junior, was able for the second year straight to place second. Schubert hit a 9.0 to go runner-up to last year's national side horse champion, Iowa State's Rusty Hoffman.
Other Kansas finalists were Dan Bradfield, Lawrence senior, eight place floor exercise, Stan Clyne, Wichita senior, seven place long horse, and Gerald Carley, Wichita sixth place high bar. In the all around John Brombridge, Wichita senior, four look fourth.
Leading the group of outstanding individuals is Kirk Gardner, A孝副校员 who for the second straight year won the Big Ten champion. Gardner gave what Lockwood called his best performance ever for a 9.45 in the final round Saturday night before a crowd of about 2,000.
Gardner and Schubert qualify for the nationals and will be competing in the NCAA Cherry Bowl.
DRAKE
Sakys  FG 2-1 FT 0-1 PF RB TP 4
Bush  6-9 4-1 FF 5 15 14
Bush  5-14 4-6 FF 15 16
Halliburton  8-20 1-3 FF 17 10
Huff  8-14 4-5 FF 4 20
Weklund  0-1 1-1 FF 0 2 1
Norrdrum  1-1 0-1 FF 2 1 2
Johnson  1-1 0-2 FF 1 8 1
Johnson  30-65 11-19 FF 31 71
FG----46 per cent FT----58 per cent
FG—50 per cent FT—62 per cent
KANSA斯
Stallworth 6-13 1-1 FF 5-1 PB 3-1
Nash 2-4 2-3 7-8 4-1 6
Russell 10-18 3-9 7-8 3 10
Russell 0-3 5-5 5-5 3 5
Brown 6-10 3-5 1-9 9 15
Kivisto 2-4 5-8 1-9 0 9
Canfield 0-0 0-4 2 1 0
Matthews 0-0 0-1 0 1 0
26-52 21-34 20-34 23
DRAKE 38 33 — 71
KANSAS 30 43 — 73
Attendance: 10 550
Attendance: 10,550
Dick Reason, who has led Kansas to four consecutive Big Eight swimming championships, has been chosen coach of the year for the first time since 2014 by National Association of Swimming Coaches.
KU's Reamon Fifth District Coach of Year
The Jayhawks captured the Big Eight title with 438 points to outdistance the rest of the league by more than 100 points. His nine KU teams have all finished in the first division, taking second three times along with the four championships.
Heinan's teams have compiled a 92-34 duet record since he became Jawkachy coach.
He will be one of eight candidates for national swimming coach of the year. The winner will be selected during the national swimming annual convention at Iowa State next week.
Four KU swimmers will accompany Reamon to Iowa State for the NCAA meet, Scott Skullety, who led the team to its fourth straight league crown, freshmen Phil Kidd and Tom Kempf and diver Ray Powers will all be entered in the meet.
The meet will bring to a close the swimming season for this year.
O.U.Director Dead in N.Y.
NEW YORK (UPI)--Gomer Jones, the athletic director of the University of Oklahoma, collapsed and died in a New York subway station Sunday night. He was 57.
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM FORRES
KU's Dave Robisch, Regional MVP
... can play defense as well as score
Robisch Named MVP
Dave Robbis, 6-10 KU All-American, was named Saturday as the most valuable player in this year's Midwest Regional Tournament. While leading the Jayhawks to the win, he scored a game total of 56 points and 27 rebounds. Five out of 59 cast for the MVP award
Garnering the other eight was Houston guard Poo Welch. The tournament's second leader scored with 66 points, Welch led the score with 57 points, and a convincing 119-106 win over Notre Dame.
In that same game, Notre Dame's Austin Carr ranked 47 points to raise his two game total of 75, tops among all players.
Robisb, Welch and Carr were the only players listed on all 72 ballots cast. Following the top three were Kui's Bud Stallworth with 64 and Drake's Jef Halliburton with 67.
Rounding out the top 10 were Drake's Bobby Jones, 53; Notre Dame's Collis Jones, 53; Drake's Leon Huff, 44; Houston's Dwight Davis, 38; and Drake's Tom Bush, 37.
Robichaw the most valuable player award primarily on the strength of his leading Kansas from behind in both games to win the championship and the right to move on to Houston this week for the NCAA championships.
By United Press International
"This year's NCAA Tournament, thus far,
has been one of upsets."
Wooden Pleased that Bruins Didn't Contribute to Trend
The words were those of Johnny Wooden, coach of defending NCAA basketball champion UCLA and the veteran menter had "I'm glad we didn't contribute to the trend."
The top-ranked Bruins had to come from as much as 11 points down to eke out a 57-54 victory over Long Beach State Saturday and advance to the semifinals of the tournament scheduled for Thursday night at the Houston Astrodome.
Villanova, Kansas, and Western Kentucky also advanced to the semifinals. Villanova stunned third-ranked Pennsylvania, 90-47. Kansas nipped Drake, 73-71, and Western Kentucky subdued stubborn Ohio State, 81-78, in overtime.
"I never expected to be down as far as we were, but we ended up where we wanted us to be."
Four consecutive free throws by AB-America forward Sidney Wickens in the final 25 seconds clinched UCA-I's 36th consecutive victory in NCAA tournament competition and vaulted the Bruns into their semi-final match with the Midwest champions Kansas.
The fourth-ranked Jayhawks, who have won their last six games by a total of 13 points, had to rely on an 27-point performance from 6-10 senior Dave Dobish to up their record to 27-1 by eliminating Missouri Valley Conference champion Drake.
"Any coach with a fairly good team always
wonders how he would do against UCLA; Kansas coach Ted Owsens commented after an over duke. "Anytime you win a close game, you're one against another one against UCLA it should help."
Villanao ended three years of frustration by freshening the previously unhealthy 28-00 Quince.
"It was the biggest victory I've ever had," said Villanova coach Jack Krait. "I can't give the words I feel." The win lifted Villanova to a new high, and the team meet Mideast camp Western Kentucky.
"I haven't scouted Villanova personally," said Hillott coach John Oldham, "but one of my assistants tells me they're one of the quickest teams in the nation."
Western Kentucky, which also like to run,
overcame a 14-point deficit to get by Ohio
State and up its record to 23.5. Previously,
the jackpackers had to come from behind to
nip Jake in a Midwest regional playoff
game before frontruncing Kentucky, 107-45,
last Thursday.
We keep having to work our way out of
the room. Ohlman commented, "guy you
might be the one that scares you."
Big Jim McDaniels, the Hilloppers' 7-foot center, scored four quick kockets to narrow to 40-34 at halftime and then Clarence Glosson closed it with 8:57 left in the play to be它 at 33-38.
Glover, who led Western Kentucky in rounds with 22, put the game away in the time period with a tip in and a part of free throw spread around Jim Rose's short jumper.
1971 Jayhawks Winningest Kansas Team in History
For the 14th time in 35 years a Kansas basketball team earned its way into postseason play, and at 27-1 this aggregation salts into the NCAA championship series as the winningest Jayhawk quintet of them all at the end of the regular campaign.
Coincidentally, the 21-game winning streak this club boasts is the longest at Kansas since 1936 when Phog Allen took the Jayhawks in their first post-season venture for the original Olympic playoffs. That club of 35 years ago played the best games without a loss and ran its winning streak to 28 before bowing to Utah State in the Olympic eliminations at Kansas City.
COACH TED OWEN$^3$ current Mount Oread marmels could match that school record streak with two victories in Houston and if they do, they'll become national champions. They're reading to 29-1 and surpass KU's high water mark of 28 triumphs in one season which the
Although closely pressed in several games toward the close of the season, the Jayhawks sailed through their Big Eight slate with a 14-2 record to win the title race by a whipping five games. In addition they captured the conference title and won the 6th time in 20 years and also won their own yankahawk Classic over a field that won all four teams into the NCAA tourney.
1952 NCAA kings established when they finished 28-3.
Big and aggressive on the backboards, Kansas outrebounded all but five opponents and averaged 10 more recoveries a game than its combined foes. Yet, the Jayhawks are swift and agile enough to play full-court pressure defense and often blitzed rivals into submission with tempo-turning baskets triggered by the press.
OFFENSIVE BALANCE and the ability to
make either elder inside or outside
make the Jakehawker
different players scored 22 points or more in various games.
Dave Robbish and Roger Brown, both 6-10 seniors, provide the big muscle around them and they are backed up by Randy Cardiff and so sophomores, and Greg Douglas, a 6-8 senior.
Hobbs led the队 in scoring for the third straight year as he became the third highest scorer in Big Eight history. Brown was the club's top rebounds and final finished in third.
Capt. Pierre Russell, a 64 senior whose normal pace is spectacular, ranks third in rebounding, fourth in scoring and first in just about every other phase of basketball that he's played in. "blue" that keeps the Jahyws together and puts up the guys in the other uniforms.
PIERRE ALWAYS DRAWS the opponent's top scorer, unless he happens to be a big pivotman. Although Russell's scoring is
generally overshadowed by other facets of his play, the Fabulous Frenchman's point totals reached double figures in each of the last nine games.
Bad Stallworth, who scored over 20 points a dozen times this season, is a constant buster for defenders since he's the team's most dominant player in long range and also difficult to cover on drives.
Aubrey Nash, Bob Kivisto and sophomore William Williams shared time at the playground. "We got to the 'Point.' Their primary job is to direct the fensive operations rather than score a lot themselves, yet together they averaged about 70 points," Williams reports about the same amount of time as a player.
the same league of Russell, Robbis,
Brown, Stallworth and Nash started 21 of 26
season games, yet Russell and
Stallworth only plays on deck for
every open topfof
Kansas opened the season impressively against Long Beach State, which swept into Allen Field House to a hurl of fanfare that turned out to be justly deserved since the 49ers wound up second to UCLA in the Western Regional. With two minutes to go in the first half Kansas led long Beach, 32-4, and the year of the Jayhawk was under way.
OWENS WENT TO THAT lineup immediately after the Jahyawk's only loss of the season at Louisville just before Christmas and he stayed with it except for the Missouri game at Lawrence which Brown missed due to influenza.
THE NEXT BIG confidence builder came
Other high spots were back-to-back triumphs over St. Joseph's and Houston to win the Jayhawk Classic, a 33-point lacing of Missouri to tip off the Big Eight Tournament. A team from Georgia Tech in mid-January that gave the team a second chance could win on the road against a ton-flight foe.
at Nebraska in the fifth game of the league race—a regional television match in the Huskers' den of dm. Ahead by only one point at intermission, the Jayhawks put Nebraska on the ropes with a withering burst early in the second half and from then on the league's attention centered on trying to head off Kansas.
Another pressure victory as achieved in the eighth game at Oklahoma as Kansas prevailed, 71-68, on the clutch shooting of Abner Nash. The Jayhawks clinched a tie for the flag in the 11th game with a 68-65 decision and they wrapped up their third-point play with seven seconds remaining as they wrapped it up in the next game at home by downing Oklahoma, 54-52, in overtime.
Another overtime decision at Missouri in the next to last game and a narrow victory over Nebraska in the regular season finale at Alamo Stadium, Nebraska has a perfect season against Big Eight rivals.