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Thursday, March 18, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Jayhawks Meet Cougars Tonight
Thought of KU Makes Houston's Lewis Sing Blues
By DON BAKER Kansan Sports Editor
WICHTIA-To hear Houston coach Guy Lewis talk, you'd think he might as well left his 18k ranked team home. In fact, if you believed everything your ears took in from the 15-year head mentor you might wonder why tonight's Houston KU-Met West Regional game was so important, and advance the Joyhacks into the final Saturday afternoon without playing.
"I've known Ted Owens a long time," Lewis began Wednesday at a night press banquet in the Holiday Inn Plaza. "He called me a few days ago and talked about how we have such a fine place to play in and asked about the hotel where I was going, so I like to have one. But I know what he really wanted. He was trying to find out if we were going to show up.
"HE HAD HIS ASSISTANT down there Saturday night (in Houston where the Congars defeated New Mexico State, 72-69, to gain the regional birth) and saw us 19 points down and said we looked just like we did the first time."
The 'first time' was back in December when the Jayhawks riddled the Cowboys, 89-64. The Hawks riddled the Giants, 75-62.
"Our ball club is the same club that lost to Kansas by 16 points in December." Lewis said of his team. "We picked picking Kansas—they're a great ball club, I've been telling people all you they'd be in."
OWEN, HOWEVER, IS a little more cautious when talking about the fourth ranked Jayhawks who go into tonight's encounter. They have a 52% record and a 14-game win streak.
"We played probably one of our best games against Houston and remember it at our place," he said. "We haven't just at home in two years so obviously we play better at it."
"We have a great deal of respect for Houston. Any team that can come from 19 points behind (like the Cougars were late in the first half against New Mexico State) in a NCAA game must have a lot of strength and character."
KEEPING WITH THE TRAIN coaches
seemly have of always building up your
opponent while not saying too many complimentary things about your own team, Lewis reiterated his praise for Owens and Kansas.
"I have a hell of a lot of respect for Ted Owens," he began. "He brought his club through the conference season undefeated and 25-1 overall and that's unbearded of. If he had lost two games I could understand wanting to hang him."
and breaking away from that standing tradition, Owens acknowledged the Jayhawks
"I DO THINK WE have a good ball club," he said. "We haven't even been harmed the cords lately but I'm immensely proud of this club. We've had our good moments and our moments but our rebounding and defense have carried us through."
But Owens admitted the fact RU just barely insisted by its last four opponents concerns
"I do think our team has been a little tight because of the pressure of going undefeated. The only thing that gives me confidence about them is that they can win to win they've had the character to do it."
AMAZINGLY ENOUGH ONE of the things they haven't had to do well to win lately is shoot well. A 30 per cent shooting effort has become common.
"I believe against Nebraska," Owens said, he打32 per cent in the field and 48 per cent in the penalty.
All that was too much for Notre Dame coach John Dee to take.
"AND YOU STILL won?" the Fighting head man head exclaimed breaking into Onuma's hands.
Dee has plenty of problems of his own facing an underdog role when his club takes the floor at 7:00 tonight to battle Drake. Notre Dame has been up and down all year but can lay claim to being the only team to defeat UCLA this year.
Most of the Irish can succeed be pimped to one man—Austin Carr. The 6-3 guard is an All American and was named this week by UPI as the college player of the year.
"AUSTIN IS A SUPER player." Dee began,
"that a lot of it (success) just goes to who you are, where you've been and what you've done."
And Drake coach Maury John, who will
take over at Iowa State next year, is not one to discuss about Carr's capability but stresses his Bulldogs will do nothing particularly different to try and stop him.
"Austin Carr is one of the greatest players of modern times," he said. "You're kidding yourself if you think you can stop him. You played a normal defense against UCLA a few years ago, but now it's good so we're going to open in a man to defender and Johnny can count on that."
WHILE JOHN'S PRINCIPAL worry is Carr, Dee must be more concerned with the entire Drake team. What will it take for a Notre Dame win?
"We have to handle their press and keep them from running." Dee assessed. And if they are successful, who would he rather play in the finals—Houston or Kansas?
"I don't know, I'm just glad to be here—as a winner or a loser."
BOTH NOTRE DAME AND DRAKE come into the game with 20-7 records. But it is the manner in which Drake got it that is impressive.
"With two weeks to go in the season no one thought we'd be here," John said of his Bulldogs. "But we had the determination to stay in there and we made it."
Drake tied for the Missouri Valley championship (by winning its last five games) with St. Louis and Louisville but won the regional berth by thumping the Cardinals, 86-71, last Saturday. Louisville had earlier defeated St. Louis, 68-62, to eliminate the Billikens. Has winning the title in this manner helped Drake 68?
"I DEFINITELY THINK it helped our team," John said. "Our team is much more confident now. I feel at the present time the team is at its peak. I don't know if we have the ability to compete with this great Notre Dame team though we'll just have to wait and see."
Wait and see is all that can be done now as all preparations have come to an end with the issues to be settled in the Wichita State Henry University tonight. All tickets are sold but the KU-Household will be televised in the Lawrence area on show four and 13 beginning at 9:00 p.m.
Rock Chalk Jayhawk, KU NUMBER ONE
... now is the time to come to aid of Jayhawk:
Now that the snow has all melted and the brisk winds and warm sunshine of an ensembling spring are hardening the ground to allow the players to play, they might just have little sun. You might as well drop that basketball. I think if Ted Owens was going to ask you to fill in, he would done so by calling the coach.
Inside Intramurals
Slow-pitch softball is what's happening and, although I've never played this brand of softball, it sounds like a lack of a neck.
By HAL WHALEN
Kansan Sports Writer
**THERE ARE A Couple of other small technicalities. You can't bust stale and you play with ten players instead of the usual nine. The basic goal is to make sure that guy is used to beef up your defense. He is usually played in short field left or short field right depending on where you think the game is played.**
The result is a lot of hitting, fielding, running, searing,
sweating, grained stains and also fun.
Basketball playoffs will begin in about two weeks which will involve the top two teams of each division, about 80 teams. Single elimination will cut this large number of teams down to three independent and three fraternity teams who will represent the league's best players in their separate classifications. These teams will then turn up to determine the hill championship in the three leagues.
The basic difference between slow-pitch and the regular underhand fast-pitch softball is (you guessed it) the pitch. In fast-pitch, the ball is hit with a rise not less than three feet and not more than ten feet from the release of the hand. Spinning the ball and just plain deceptive can result in a strike.
BASKETBALL TEAM CAPTAINS should be sure to check your team's won-loss record on the intramural ball board. You'll also need to know if the coach doesn't go through the score—the just see who is marked "won" and who is marked "lost." So, before we get into playoffs
The seven fields to be used for round robin intramural play in both slow-pitch and fast-pitch ball are being marked off now. Deadline for entries is the end of next week and games will start on Monday. The teams will either turn in the form to the intramural office in Robinson.
Because of a shortage of time, softball and the tail end of basketball will overlap a mite.
Four-man teams in tennis, badminton, horseshoes and handball will be starting single elimination play Monday March 29
as the Irish defeated Southwest
town champion Texas
Christian, 19 and champion
had to come from 19 points
behind outlast New Mexico
Randy Julian, intramural assistant, has the responsibility to set up the brackets for the four-man teams and make sure every team has a chance to play. Julian eliminated pretty fast anyway, without having a screw up on times and forfeiting your chance. So, if you have questions or need help, contact Julian.
Well, now that the Paper Wienie's escapades playing with the Green Wiennes' "C" league basketball team are drawing to a close, I am looking for a new source of action in intramural play. If any of you newly forming softball teams are desperately in an intactly talented gifted team, an extremely thrrowing arm and powerhouse hitter, let me know—and I'll sympathize.
Drake, though, had the toughest路 to hoe of all. The Buildings of coach Maury John were two games behind Louisville with a week to go in the regular-season loss last of its last two regular-season games to finish in a three-team tie with St. Louis and Drake.
UCLA Sets Sail Tonight
By United Press International
The Bruins, the nation's number one ranked team, begin their journey at Salt Lake City, Utah, where they face four top teams, the Western Athletic Conference champion, in a regional semifinal. Long Beach State, the Pacific Coast Athletic Association titlist, faces Pacific, San Francisco and Oregon Conference championship, in the first game of the doubleheader.
By United Press International
UCLA, with a veteran cast that
includes the *Sleepy Holiday*,
NCAA championship play, sets
sail tonight after its fifth con-
ference.
WICHITA, Kan.  (Urr.)—K
Wichita State, nationally, rates a shakier favorite to win the NCAA Midwest Regional basketball tournament, which
won by the Wichita State
UCLA is a heavy choice to take the Western title and Birgham Young seems to offer the heaviest competition of the three other rivals. The Cougars, who finished 6-2 in seven matches, 6-4, 6-0 in 6-foot-10 center from Yusufiaa.
Winners of all regional games will meet Saturday night for a national semifinals travel to Houston for the semis on March 20.
Jayhawks Play Favorite Role As Midwest Regional Opens
The Bruins, who were 25-1 and won the Pacific Eight title, are led by Sidney Wicks, their 6-8 all America forward.
Marmurte, looking for its 40th consecutive victory over two teams in the CFL last season, Mieminger to set the pace and a high-court press to disturb the opposition. The big confrontation between the defending sophomore centers-6-11, Jim Chones of Marquette and 7-Luke Dixon of the Backeyes of Ohio State.
Villanao, sparked by 8-4
Baird, takes on an understored
Fordham team led by 2-Bierley
Veilson. No Fordham starter is
South Carolina sends all-America guard John Roche and a pair of rebounding terrors-6-11. He goes to John Ricker—against unbattered Penns
The Big Eight Conference champion Jayhawks, 25-1, will face the Dallas Mavericks at 9:05 p.m. CST after independent Notre Dame, 20-7, plays Missouri Valley Conference against Kansas, 20-7, in the 7:05 p.m. opener.
While Kansas was coasting through the last few weeks of the regular season, its NCAA beryl were back to preseason for those were fighting for their existence.
Sensational Austin Carr, Notre Dame's Naismith Award winner as the outstanding collegiate
player of the players, heads a talented array of players, which includes Drake's Jeff Halliburton and Poe's Jared Lewis. Davis and Poole Woo and Kansas' Dave Robisch and Bud Stallworth.
CST, with the losers playing a consolation game at 1 p.m.
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"We certainly don't view them with any 'overconfidence'," she says. "Ted Owens says, 'That was one of or three best games of the year.'"
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in 12 years to go through the 14 game Big Eight schedule undefeated.
The 'Jayhawks' meeting with Houston will be the second of the season, Kansas winning the first. The team played classic last December.
KU Takes Long Tradition to Wichita
By BION BEEBE
Kansas Sports Writers
After scoring 33 points in each of the last two games, Clyde Lovellette was chosen the outright player of the tournament.
The KU basketball team's trip to the NCAA region in Wichita takes with it a long tradition of play, as well as a post-season play. Only once have the dayhawks gone all the way to the NCAA national championship.
Lovellette broke all records in the first game of the regional by scoring 44 points and KU edged it. The second game, 68-44 KU downed St. Louis 74-55 in the second game of the regional and went to the finals in Los Angeles. KU climbed Clara fell to the Hawks 74-55 and in the championship game KU blasted St. John's of Brooklyn 80-KU was the national champion.
KU basketball teams have played in a total of 16 post-season tournaments including eight NCAA tourneys. Twice the Hawks have gone to the NIT and twice they have played in minicampions (in the old days). The other four district playoffs.
As that 1952 season neared an end, Kansas State was ranked third in the nation and KU was ranked fourth. In one of the greatest games ever played in college football, the 1984 to win the Big Seven championship and a brawl in the NCAA regional.
IN 1940, KANSAS lost in the NCAA final to Indiana by a score of 60-42. But the first really big team for the Hawks was in 1952 when they had one of the top squads of the country, Clyde Loyette.
FROM THEE THE HAWKS went to the Olympic playoffs in the first half, losing in the finals to the Peoria Caterpillars, 62-80. However, seven members of the Kansas team were chosen for the Olympic squad.
The next year Kansas again won the Big Seven and went to the regional. Lovellette had two wins, but the new center for Kansas. They won the regional and went into the finals. Washington was easily defeated by the Hawks in the first round. The Hawks lucked in the finals and lost to Indiana by one point, 69-88. Born had 26 points that game but with 5:36 remaining and the Hawks couldn't do it without him.
FOUR YEARS LATER, 1957, Kansas went to the again—this time with a young rookie in the middle Chamberlain. It took one overtime for Kansas to beat Southern Methodist in the first game and then easily beat Oklahoma to capture the midwest regional.
In 1960 Kansas lost to Cincinnati in the regional and that Cincinnati won. That people are already familiar with. That is the memorable regional game in Lobbs, Tex. in 1986. It was a win for Texas. The game against Texas Western that Jo White fired in a 35-foot shot apparently gave KU the win.
Hawaii, which is the first team from outside the continental
They defeated San Francisco 80-56 in the opening round of the finals, but then came the barn-bernuer. KU and North Carolina battled all the way and after the final score was North Carolina 54, Kansas 33.
NIT Gains Class
For one thing, Madison Square Garden, in an effort to beef up attendance to the early round of the four tripleheaders—a different approach to the tournament. Second, the appearance of an AT Tennessee in the tourney will provide a bit of color for the spectators.
Forced to settle for conference also rans and lesser independents, the NIT doesn't command the national respect of the NCAA tournament. But this team, which begins with Saturday, has a chance like quality about it which just might make it a major attraction.
NEW YORK (UP1) - The National Invitation Tournament can't compete with the NCAA basketball tournament in terms of attendance. NIT might just outdo the NCAA when it comes to showmanship.
BUT THE REFEREE ruled he
United States ever to appear in the NIT, features hula girl cheerleaders who throw orchids into the stands, and Tennessee has a pre-game warmup drill that involves Roberto Bertottetti antics and unpredictables.
The tournament opens with North Carolina meeting Missouri in a tripleheader. Louisville takes on Providence and Dayton meets Duke to conclude the afternoon game. Providence continues Saturday night with Tennessee opposing St. John's, which is Georgia Tech meeting LaSalle.
On Sunday there is another doubleheader as the first-round opponent, the visiting Syracuse in the first game and St. Bonaventure in Purdue on Durpee in
Hawaii finally swings into action on Monday against Oklahoma in the first game of a round to conclude first round play.
In 1967 Kansas lost to Elvin Hayes and the Houston Cougars in the first round of the regional, 65-33.
stepped out-of-bounds just before the shot and the game went into a second overtime in which Texas Western won, 81-80.
And that brings us to 1971. What will happen this year? After quite a bit of bad luck the last few years, we may maybe the time has come for some good luck for the Jayhawks. But the time they go all the way again
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