University Daily Kansan, February 22, 1985
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SPORTS
Women to play OU after men
NEWS BRIEFS
The women's basketball team will be out to avenge a loss to Oklahoma when the teams meet tomorrow after the men's game at approximately 2:30 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Oklahoma beat the Jayhawks 90-69 on Jan. 19 in Norman. It was the worst defeat KU has suffered this season.
Losing to the Sooners was particularly bad for Oklahoma City native, she said.
"They've beaten us too many times," she said. "I hate losing to Oklahoma.
he said. "I hate losing to Oklahoma.
"It's going to be a good game. They beat
us down there and now it's our turn. It's
going to be right down to the wire."
ADKINS WAS ONE of the few bright spots for the Jayhawks in the first meeting between the teams this season. She led KU points, nine rebounds and five points.
KU will be trying to bounce back from Wednesday's loss to Kansas State at Allen Field House. The Jayhawks lost 77-76 after leading for much of the game.
the toss dropped KU to 16-8 overall and 74 in the Big Eight. A victory over Oklahoma would put the Jayhawks back into third place in the conference and the home-court advantage for the first game of the Big Eight Post-Season Tournament.
Oklahoma is now 19-5 overall and 8-3 in the conference.
Probable starters for the Sooners are Jacquetta Hurley and LaTrenda Phillips in forwards, Lisa Allison at center, and Vickie Green and Viki Streets at guards. Hurley leads Oklahoma with 17.5 points and 8.6 rebounds per game.
Washburn out for the season
RAIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State head basketball coach Jim Valvano yesterday said Chris Washburn would not return to play this season, saying the foot-first freshman should concentrate on learning more of his probation for stealing a stereo.
But Valvano said he expected Washburn to be back on the team for the 2018-19 season.
"I believe the burden on him would be too much to also ask him to practice and play basketball at this time. Consequently, we need to have the team as an active member this season.
"After consulting with the many professional people involved, I have concluded that Chris must now concentrate on his work in order to grow and on his academic work," Valvano said.
fully believe this incident will eventually have a positive influence on Chris' future and that he will become a member in good standing of our basketball program for the 1985-86 season. The university and our basketball program will continue to support Chris Washburn in life and every way that we feel will be beneficial to his future." Valvano said in a statement.
Washburn, one of the nation's top recruits last season, was kicked off the roster and served for stealing the five-piece. $800 stereo from another athlete $dormitory room.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Tennis team may break into top 20 with 2 big wins
Victories over Illinois and Arkansas this weekend could mean the first top 20 ranking in the history of the Kansas tennis program. The first match starts at 1 p.m., today at Alvamar Tennis and Swim Club as the undefeated Jayhawks face Illinois, ranked No. 22 in the preseason tennis poll. Sunday, KU travels to Topeka to play No. 10 ranked Arkansas at 1 p.m., at Wood Valley Racquet Club
Head coach Scott Perelman said he was happy to get the chance to play for a top 20 ranking and to bring a major college to the Lawrence area.
"This will be the best tennis in this area in the last six months," Perelman said. "The crowd will really make a difference. It's what you've worked so hard for."
Three years ago, Perelman made his coaching debut at Kansas and KU finished the season with a 6-22 record.
ONLY TWO PLAYERS on the current team played three years ago, Charles Stearns and Michael Center. Since that time, Pereman has been able to recruit Mike Wolf, Tim Mahaffy, Larry Pascal, Dave Brody and Mark McLiney.
And those seven players are on the ladder for the dual matches this weekend. But Serelman said the team wouldn't have the team at the national level, and old, didn't play and practice hard.
"The kids who were here flourished within a disciplined environment," Perelman said. "The guys were willing to do what I asked them to do."
Center, who will play No 2 singles and No 2 doubles with Wolf, said that when he first got here, he thought there was no way to have the chance to play for the ranking.
"WeVE BEEN WORKING really hard."
Center said "We're definitely capable of getting in the top 20 and winning the Big Bird, if we can walk."
Wolf, who will play No. 1 singles, said he thought the level of play would be higher than the Jayhawks' previous opponents. He said the Jayhawks could win both matches if they moved together as a team.
"The key is that everybody has been consistent." Wolf said. "There is no more importance if I win than the No. 6 man winning."
Media blitz storms KU as OU game nears
By MIKE BRENNAN
Tomorrow's game against Oklahoma will be the biggest game of the year for Kansas Jayhawk fans and for Kansas media coverage.
Sports Writer
The game will start at noon and the doors to the Allen Field House will open at 10:30 a.m. The game will be televised to 95 percent of students on channels 4 and 27 in the Lawrence area.
Doug Vance, sports information director,
said yesterday he had received more than 150
requests for media passes. About 100 of those
are for sports writers and KU statisticians.
The rest are for photographers, the NBC
announcers — Dick Emberg and Al McGuire,
the cameramen and the technicians needed
to get the game on the air.
Mary Ann Hathaway, secretary at the sports information office, said a lot of people had called requesting passes.
"Everybody but President Reagan has called." Hathaway said.
Vance added, "If he does, we don't have a seat for him."
THE PRESS ROW consists of 14 tables and four people can sit at each table. Tomorrow, a total of six tables will be added, three of them to the court, bringing the total number of seats to about 80.
Almost every part of the country will be represented tomorrow by various newspapers, magazines and wire services. Sports Illustrated, Turner Broadcasting, the college basketball editor of the Associated Press, and writers from Dallas, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boulder and USA Today will be covering the game.
"We try to avoid that," Vance said. "And it's tough deciding who sits where.
"We try to treat people well. We don't want to move the people that have covered us all year."
Vance said he had to turn down some requests because of space limitations.
WITH THE LARGE number of media expected to cover the game, Vance said the biggest problem will be space.
During games which Vance called normal, the media is able to meet Brown for post-game interviews in a designated room
Despite the large number of media people, Vance said nothing would change in the post-tame procedure.
in Parrott Athletic Center. Members of the media are also allowed in the locker room to interview the players after the game.
"There is nothing we can really do," Vance said. "We like to have an open locker room and basically we hope everyone will get in and get out and not hang around."
Today, McGuire will be taping a feature with Danny Manning which will be showcased.
Head coach Larry Brown will also be busy
tending the turf. Turner Broad-
gaining and Sports Illustrated
NOT ONLY WRITERS and broadcasters require attention, photographers also need special arrangements.
Photographers sit at both ends of the court and the side that the press tables are on. Tomorrow there will only be a couple of changes.
A photographer from National Geographic, who is doing a feature on Kansas, wants to mount a camera underneath the scoreboard. There will also be some special light in the
Coordinating all of these activities affects a lot of people, Vance said. Those affected are usually students and faculty in the information office as well as maintenance crews, who help set up the tables and chairs.
field house for the Sports Illustrated photographer.
But Vance said he liked all of the act... "This is a tough job, but it's exciting."
"This, I think, is something we will face a lot in the future."
IT WILL BE the second time this season KU and Oklahoma have faced each other on national television and the Sooners won that game in Norman, 87-76. Last season, in Lawrence, Oklahoma defeated Kansas 92-82 in overtime.
Danny Manning said he was excited to play them again and he said Wednesday's 75-64 win.
"It gives us momentum going into the game," Manning said. "We just have to come ready to play."
Track teams competing in Big 8 championships
The Jayhawks are 8-3 in Big Eight play and are in second place, behind the Sooners who are 11-6 in the conference. A victory by Oklahoma would clinch the conference title.
By DAVE O'BRIEN Sports Writer
The KU women's track team will look to finish near the top and the men's team will try to stay out of the cellar when the Big championships begin today in Lippoo, Neb.
Cliff Rovelto, assistant women's coach, said the Jayhawks should be in a close race for second place in team scoring.
"K-State, OU and us are looking close for second," Rovelo said. "It could go any wav."
Nebraska is favored heavily to win both the men's and women's titles. The only school to ever win both Big Eight championships was Kansas State, which
"WE'RE DEFINITELY GOING to improve on last year." Rovello said of KU's fifth place in 1984. "I think we can get second. We're ready."
The Jayhawks are expected to score well in the pentathlon, in which Rosie Wadman leads a group that has four of the top six marks in the conference this season. Wadman finished second as a freshman last year to Nebraska's Deb Clark, and she ranks second to Clark again this season.
"I think Rosie's ready to perform to the best of her abilities," said Roselov, who coaches the pentathletes. "Rosie ranks second to Clark, but if Clark performs well, she'll be hard to beat."
Wadman also is expected to score points in the triple jump, in which she has one of the top three marks in the conference this season.
KU'S ONLY INDIVIDUAL winner last year, Stine Lerdahl, will be defending her title in the shot-plot. Lerdahl goes into the Big Eight again this season.
Kim Jones is expected to do well in the long jump, in which she consistently has jumped over 19 feet this season, and Kelly Brown will perform well in the middle-distance races.
"We haven't entered people in any
events where we don't have a chance of winning, with the possible exception of the distance races," Rovello said. "Our distance people are capable of school records, but probably won't score points."
MEN'S HEAD COACH Bob Timmons said his team would have to compete well to finish higher than it did in 1984, when the Jayhawks lasted in the indoor嬉皮hips.
Roveto said the relays also would be important if the team planned to finish construction.
"We'd like to finish in the top half of the conference. Timmons! It'll be perfect." We'll have "we" we'll shoot
Timmons said he expected a close finish among fourth through eighth places in the team totals.
"I think all those places will be close," he said. "We're talking about competition, and you can't work that out with statistics."
KU will have to get solid performances throughout the meet if the team hopes to stay close. Timmons said.
"If we stumble, we don't have the strength to stay out of the collar," he said.
CLINT JOHNSON AND Craig Glicken should pick up some points in the shot-pro. Johnson easily won the event outdoors in 1984 and has the leading throw in the conference this season.
"Clint's been injured, but he's ready to go now. Timmons said." He'll be up for the job.
Timmons also expects points out of the pole vault, in which KU has dominated most meets during the indoor season. Jim Metzer finished fourth in the event last year, and coached and Tom Hays on sixth, coast Coit Hanks also has performed well this season.
Other hopefuls for the Jayhawks are high jumpers Craig Branstrom and Sharreif Hazm, sprinters Rodney Harris, Marissa Doyle and Andy Berry and trumpeter Fred Lewis.
"It's important that we score points in the pole vault," "timms said."
The meet will run through tomorrow in the Bob Devanty Sports Center in Lincoln.
Tubbs may disappoint fans hoping for trouble
Fans ready for a showdown with Billy Tubbs at high noon tomorrow may find themselves alone in the battle.
If Tubbs behaves as well as he has been for over a month now, the sellout crowd at Allen Sports will have little provocation from the newly improved version of the 49-year-old Oaklandman.
Then again, further provocation may not be needed.
KU's love affair with Tubbs started with the time-out he called last year after his team had clinched the Big Eight Conference title with an overtime victory in Lawrence.
AS TUBBS AND his Sooners waved that victory in the faces of more than 15,000
Lauretta Schultz
Sports Editor
raucous Jayhawk fans, an impression was made on every person watching the game. It is an impression that all of Tubbs' recent efforts may fail to alter.
But he's trying. And not necessarily because he feels some burning desire for people to think he's a nice guy. But because he has gone to the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents.
Jan. 16, Tubbs was told that "if his irritating behavior didn't change, he would be gone," according to The Daily Oklahoma. Tubbs, after receiving a published report from the Regents, had apologized to Tulsa fans for berating them and the officials after OU's 104-89 loss to the Cyclones on Jan. 9.
Tubbs said he had decided to "hang up his whistle and stick to coaching." He even made a New Year's resolution to that effect.
"My New Year's resolution is to let the officials officiate, let the fans be fans and I will try to be the best coach I know how to be."
Since then, Tubbs has been a different
man. In the 12 games since the Tulsa incident, including a Jan. 19 victory over KU, he has not badged leaders or officials in any manner similar to his habits of old.
Oklahma also has not lost since Tulsa, although a battle between those two facts occurred to do it.
NONETHELESS, A TURNAROUND in Tubbs' attitude may not be enough to get him off the hook with fans in Lawrence.
About 15 businesses in town are selling "Billy Buster" T-shirts. The shirts depict Tubbs surrounded by a circle with a bar through it.
Kent Houk, vice president of K-2 Sportswear, the company which prints the shirts, said yesterday that sales were far less than he had expected.
"His change is killing us," he said. "We expected to sell about 5,000 of those shirts by now. We've only sold about 2,000.
The bedlam that broke out after that game was an unnatural, real People wanted to hurt Billy Tubbs.
"He just hasn't done anything wrong." But not all of this can be taken as lightly as T-shirts, posters and the harmless pranks that are inevitable tomorrow.
FLOYD TEMPER, ASSISTANT athletic director, is in charge of security at Jawhayk home games. He says he is concerned, but doesn't say that may transpire at the game and afterward.
"We are not going to increase our force," he said yesterday. "We feel we have an adequate number of people to handle most situations.
"But we are going to station a couple of officers behind Oklahoma's bench."
Temple, need coach Larry Brown and everyone else in the athletic department have been praising the spirit and sportsmanship of KU fans this week with good reason. Spirit, they want. Riots, they can live without.
"You can have all kinds of rules and warnings," Temple said. "But what it all boils down to is a respect for the teams and coaches.
"It's going to be a good game. I just hope our fans will do the right thing — stand behind KU as they have been and support our team. Period."
Medics watch for problems at KU events
By SUE KONNIK Sports Writer
The roaring crowd drowned out the painful gurgling sounds of a young boy. On Feb 9, as the Jayhawks battled Memphis State in Allen and brought home the battle to battel to control the boy's epileptic seizure.
CHUCK BELOTE, RETIRED anesthesiologist, started the program called the Emergency Crowd Watch 23 years ago. He attends every game and remains in the first aid station at the northwest corner of the field house, unless needed in the stands.
Eight to 12 volunteers trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, armed with walkie-talkies, attend every basketball game. The volunteers are on the spot within seconds if a medical problem should arise. The epileptic seizure is just one of many incidents that the volunteers face each season.
"We were the first college in the nation to have this type of setup," he said Wednesday. "To my knowledge we are the only ones with this particular setup in the midwest today."
John Langa, St. Louis graduate student, and Steve Alpers, Watch, a volunteer group that responds to medical emergencies at KU basketball and football games, convocation and an emergency call. They are members of Emergency Crowd commencement ceremonies, concerts and the KU Relays.
The volunteers are strategically located throughout the field house to get the best view of the crowd.
"We have trained, equipped personnel with radio communication and we can jump anywhere within 15 seconds after getting word of the problem," Belote said. "This is important to me because the gun we have to move fast and get them stable right there before moving them."
Steve Alpers, Garden City special student and volunteer, has been with the program since 1975.
"THE OFFICE of resident programs
made it mandatory that all staff
responsible for housing be
Alpers accepted immediately.
was being trained and one of the nurses asked for volunteers for the watch."
"People always read about heart attack victims dying because no one was there to save them," he said. "I wanted the chance to be there."
Some of the medical problems are minor, others more severe.
Beloje said the program's primary concern was to prevent major medical problems and to improve access.
"WE'RE HERE TO help the sick or injured and what really bugs me is the lack of respect and concern the students that throw objects have," he said. "We get a lacerated scalps and foreheads and damaged eyes from people throwing coke cups and other objects. I've been hit myself. When I see someone throwing cups I run that dude down and take him to the cops."
John Langa, St. Louis graduate student and volunteer, said he liked to attend the
games but being involved in the crowd watch was more important.
If a problem arises that the watch patrol is not trained or equipped to handle, they will radio Lawrence Memorial Hospital for an amputation and prepare the young boy at the Memphis State game.
"he would have responded as he should have, he would have been watching the game 10 minutes after the seizure." Beloit said. "He would have been continuous so we had to ship him out."