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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 19, 1992
SPORTS
Kansas women lose in tournament
Players celebrate their triumphs over adversity
By Cody Holt
Kansan sportswriter
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—With about five minutes left in last night's first-round NCAA tournament game, one of the 7,652 fans at Hammons Student Center held up a sign that said "The Fat Lady's singing."
Instead, the Jayhawks were dancing and singing all of the traditional Kansas basketball songs as the Kansas pep band serenaded them outside their locker room.
However, the Jayhawks weren't singing any sad songs after the game, despite their 75-89 season-ending loss to hands of Southwest Missouri State.
Kansas coach Marian Washington said the Jayhawks had reason to celebrate.
"I don't think anyone in the 48-tune field has had to overcome what we have overcome," she said. "That's why I'm so proud of this team — they never
What Kansas had to overcome was the loss of three starters to injuries for most of the season, as well as the loss of several other starters for short periods
Despite this, Kansas finished the season with a 25-6 record and the Big Eight Conference regular-season championship. On its way to its first outright conference title since 1981, Kansas won 12 games against conference fees, a school record.
The Jayhawks also finished second in the conference tournament and received an at-large bid to the NCAA post-season tournament. The bid provided Kansas with its third NCAA post-season appearance.
However, a first-round date with the No. 10 team in the nation on its home floor, where it holds the nation's longest winning streak, was too much for the Jayhawks to overcome. The Lady Bears have now won 29 straight home games.
Kansas was able to make a game of it in the first half, trailing only 31-10 at halftime. But after Kansas guard Kay Hart Kay hit the first shot of the second half to give Kansas its last lead of the game, the Lady Bears took over.
Five different players scored 13 points in the next three minutes for SMSU while holding Kansas scoreless. Kansas never got any closer than four points for the remainder of the game.
Several times during the game, there were more bodies hitting the
floor than there were points going on the scoreboard.
Hart said the physical nature of the game had hurt Kansas.
But senior forward Danielle Shareef said Kansas wasn't trying to make any excuses.
"Basketball is a physical game," she said. "Sometimes you just have to roll with the punches."
Throughout the season Kansas had refused to make excuses, and there weren't any last night as the Jayhawks celebrated their best finish in 11 years.
Washington said she was especially proud of her senior class.
"I hope that my senior class will look back at this year and have nothing but experience." "Yes, I did all the reason to give up this year but they didn't. They played until the end."
Shareef said she had nothing but fond memories of her four years at
"The only retreat is that we didn't go farther," she said.
SW MISSOURI ST.75 KANSAS 59
KANSAS (25-6)
"We've had a great season and we've overcome a lot. I'm proud of our team and I wouldn't want to play anywhere else."
| | fgmfa/gl | ftm/fta | tp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Johnson | 1-6 | 2-4 | 4 |
| Aycock | 3-10 | 2-4 | 8 |
| Shareef | 6-13 | 2-2 | 14 |
| Hart | 5-8 | 0-0 | 12 |
| Tualt | 8-14 | 0-0 | 17 |
| Withespoon | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2 |
| Slater | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Muricy | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2 |
| Kite | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-57 | 6-8 | 59 |
CW MICRODICT (32.7)
WinKield 2-12 0-0 4
Rapier 6-10 6-10 18
Bacom 4-6 3-4 11
M. Howard 5-8 8-9 19
Robbins 3-5 5-7 12
Shira 1-3 1-3 5
Mullan 1-4 0-0 2
Surrall 2-4 0-0 4
J. Howard 0-0 0-0 0
Ediger 0-0 0-0 75
Totals 24-49 25-30 75
Halftime - SW Mission St. 11, Kansas ST. 30, Point point goals - Kansas ST. 3-1 Hart 2.5, Pike 1.1, Kate 1.0
2.5, St. 2.5 M (Hawkeye) 1.1, Robbins 1.2) Fouled out
Ayre Reflects 1.4, Tracy Reflects 1.4
Bassoon (Baumann) 7, Assists - Kansas 9,
Aprtock (Trusty) Manvary 2, SW Mission St. 15, (Robbins 8)
Total foulmes 26, SW Mission St. 12, A - 7,552
Justin Knott/KANSAN
NFL replay dies, ending controversy
Early in the first half Kansas forward Angela Avcock drives past Southwest Missouri State's Secelia Winkfield
The Associated Press
PHOENIX—Instantreplay—loved,
loathed or simply accepted as an
in inevitable aspect of the era of technology
– died yesterday. It was 6.
"in theory it was great, in practice it stunk," said Norman Braman of the Philadelphia Eagles, one of 11 owners whose votes against instant replay left it four short of the 21 it needed to be renewed for the 1992 season.
Just about anyone who has watched an NFL game in the last six years has been horrified by five-minute delays while a guy in a little booth watched a monitor and finally radioed down, "Inconclusive." How many people were terminally fed up with the phrase, "Upon further review...?"
Cause of death: 28 owners unable to decide whether they would rather get calls right or get things over quickly.
"I think that's the perfect reason for replay," said Washington coach Joe Gibbs. His team had a touchdown nullified by replay during the 1992 Super Bowl.
That, however, may be a short-sighted approach for a league that prides itself on its longevity.
How many times, for example, will a replay demonstrate conclusively to 70,000 fans in a stadium and seven million at home that a call was bad? How many times will those replays provide all-day fodder for sports talk shows? How many times will a coach say, "If only we still had replay..."
Gibbs is in the majority; 17 teams voted to renew replay.
But league by-laws require 21 votes to approve any measure permanently.
The most reasonable opponents, like general manager George Young of the Giants, said it that was poorly administered and made officials hesitant to make calls.
"If they review what they're supposed to review consistently OK, but they don't. "Young said after a 16-13 game that she was able by the Bills was not even reviewed.
Young's Giants were involved in a play that helped kill replay. New York's victory against the Dallas was aided when what seemed to be a dropped pass by the Cowboys was ruled a fumble. It was upheld by replay, this swapped Dallas to vote against it.
So replay goes back for further review in hopes that it will be perfected.
Jim Fink, president of the New Orleans Saints and chairperson of the rules-making competition committee, said, "I think we're going to regret the day we voted it down."
Jayhawks prepare mentally for NCAA tournament
Veteran tourney players advise having fun
Kansan sportswriter
By Lyle Niedens
Ben Davis said he had been waiting for this a long time - the chance to play in the NCAA Tournament.
"This is like a dream come true," the 6-foot-9-inch freshman center said. "I've watched it on TV for so many years and now I'm playing in it."
Davis is far from being the only member of the No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks that is brimming with excitement in anticipation of his first trip to the NCAA Tournament. Including Davis, six of
Kansas '13 players have never been to the tournament
Of those six, four have made considerable contributions to the Jayhawks this season. Transfers Rex Walters and Eric Pauley have both stepped into starting roles. Davis started seven games early in the season and averages 18 minutes and 4.5 rebounds a game, while 7-2 freshman Greg Ostertag averages 10 minutes a game.
Freshman guard Greg Gurley and walk-on guard Lane Czaplinski also have never been to the tournament.
Although almost half of Kansas' team has no tournament experience, Walters said he didn't think those players would have any trouble adjusting to tournament pressure.
"I'm going to try to act like it's another game," Walters says. "We can't worry about it being the first time or about not being a veteran team. We have no control over that."
"We have to worry about stuff we do have control over. As long as we stick to what we're supposed to do, we'll be OK. That sounds boring, but it's the truth."
Pauley also said he didn't think lack of tournament experience would have a big effect on
Kansas.
"Six of us had never been to the Big Eight tournament either, and we won that," he said. "I'm looking forward to it. I don't think it's going to be a problem."
Oostertag is no stranger to tournament pressure. His Duncanville High School team went 37-2 and won the Texas 5A State Championship last spring.
"To be the No.1 seed in my freshman year is exciting," Ostertag said. "I don't think I'll be nervous."
One tourney veteran, sophomore guard Steve Woodberry, was optimistic about this season's
tournament.
"I think everybody is little more prepared this year than last," said Woodberry, off the-bench playing tremendously helped the Jayhawks in last season's NCA A title game. "That's good. This is no time to be nervous."
Both Ostertag and Davis said the Kansas players who had been in the tournament weren't giving much advice to them.
"They keep saying to have fun," Davis said. "I don't know if that's advice, but it's motivation. I'm going to try to have as much fun as they did last year and hopefully, maybe I'll have more fun in the end."
Swimmers ready for NCAA finale
By Chris Jenson
All or nothing
That is the attitude of members of the Kansas women's swim team will participate in the final meet of their collegiate season at the NCAA Championships. The meet will begin at 11 a.m. today at the University of Texas in Austin and will conclude on Saturday.
Pranger finished 16th in the 100-meter butterfly at the United States Olympic Trials three weeks ago and is seeded sixth in the 100-yard butterfly for the NCAA Championships.
"Last year we were 37th," cough Gary Kempf said. "Our goal is to finish in the top 20 this year, but we want to have a swim well to do that."
Six members of the Kansas team qualified for the meet. Leading the team will be three-time All-American senior Barb Pranger, who will swim in both the 100-yard and 200-yard butterfly.
Sophomore Krista Cordsen, who led the Jayhawks to their first big Eight Conference title since 1989, is seeded 11th in the 200 yard individual medley and 21st in the 100-yard breaststroke.
In addition to swimming their individual events, Cordsen will participate in all four of the team's relays and Pranger will swim in three of the relays. But Kempf said that both women would be ready for the role they would play.
Kempf said all four relay teams were seeded in the top 15. The relays are the 200- and 400-yard freestyle relay and the 200- and 400-yard medley relay. He said the relays were crucial to the overall team scoring because they score double points.
Other swimmers participating in the event are freshman Kristen Carlson, sophomore Ronda Lusty, junior Aimee Brainard and senior Heather McRoberts. They will join Pranger and Cordsen as members of the four relay teams.
"I don't think fatigue will be a factor," he said. "They will definitely be ready."
"The reylars are real important," he said. "But we still have to come in and do the job. We have to be prepared to swim."
Tigers rested up
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Missouri got ready for its return to the NCAA tournament in the worst possible way — by putting together its longest single-season losing streak in 13 years.
Coach Norm Stewart has substituted sparingly this season, sticking primarily with his five starters and two reserves. So when the Tigers made an early exit from the Big Eight tournament last week, he decided to give his team a rest.
SPORTS BRIEFS
The Tigers will seek to break a four-game skid today when they face West Virginia in the opening round of the East Regional, Missouri (20-8), which started the season 11-0, hasn't won a game in more than three weeks.
"We took a day off, then practiced—quickly, briefly—then took a day off," he said. "That's what we think is the remedy. Now, we have to go out and win a ball game."
The other afternoon game today is Seton Hall (21-8) against La Salle (20-10). The evening session has top four finishes. A team with Andrus (23-11) vs Jowney (24-10).
Missouri is going to the NCAA tournament for the sixth time in the last seven years, having missed last season because of probation. When they do get in, the Tigers have had a habit of losing the first game. Their 1990 loss to Northern Iowa marked the fifth time in six tries that Missouri got zapped in the opening round.
"We've always given a good account of ourselves, but always seem to run into a team on a roll," Stewart said. "To get by the first round, it would really turn our players on."
In view of those losses, Stewart considered making some changes. Then he decided against it.
"You think, 'We ought to change this or change that,' yet all the other things that we do seem to work, so we just dispel that," he said.
So the Tigers will handle business as usual, which means senior Anthony Peeler will take care of the majority of the offense. Peeler scored 43 against Kansas in the regular-season finale and averaged 23.2 points per game.
"We have to do well in the first game," Peeler said. "That's the most important game of all."
Wildcats win in NIT
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Vincent Jackson, pleasantly surprised by the size of the crowd, gave everybody plenty to cheer about yesterday by triggering Kansas State's 85-74 victory over Western Kentucky in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament.
"The crowd was a big help," said Jackson, who scored a career-best 21
Despite a sudden snow storm, more than 5,000 people filed into Bramlage Coliseum to see the Wildcats (16-13) to capture its first-ever NIT victory.
Tennis plays at Rice
Western Kentucky (21-11) trailed virtually the entire game.
points. "Since the weather was bad, I didn't really think there would be a lot of people to night. I hope we get another game at home," he said.
"We were never really in it. we just seemed to be hanging around," said Western Kentucky coach Ralph Willard.
As a result of the injuries, sophomores Ian Goodman and Brian Harris or redshirt freshman Seth Korey will probably move into the Kansas lineup.
The Kansas men's tennis team will be without one or possibly two players when they travel to Houston tomorrow to compete in the Rice Invitational during the weekend.
Freshman Manny Ortiz will definitely miss the trip with a sprained wrist that will keep him out of action for 10 days. Sophomore Rhain Buth also may not make the trip because of a corneal ulcer in his left eye, which is limiting his eyesight. A decision on his status will probably be made today.
The Jayhawks, 10-6, will begin the tournament against Rice at 9:30 Saturday morning, then will play No. 12 Tennessee at 1 p.m. The "Hawks will end the tournament against Michigan at 9:30 a.m.Sunday.
ATLANTA—Willie Holyfield, older brother of heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield, was shot and killed early today at his home, police said.
Atlanta Homicide Sgt. Tom King said Willie Holyfield's brother-in-law, Michael Lucas, was arrested and charged with murder.
Boxer's brother killed
King said Lucas, who lived around the corner from Willie Hollyfield, came to the house about 4 a.m. armed with a 12- gauge shotgun. King said that several people had been at the home and that Lucas had accused someone of stealing something from him, but it was not immediately determined who was accused.
Willie Hollyfield, 35, was in his bedroom at the time and came out to see what had happened. King said. He was shot once in the chest with the shotgun and pronounced dead at the scene, the officer said.
King said Lucas, brother of Willie Holyfield's wife, was arrested at the scene and charged with murder.
Evander Holyfield was notified andcame to his brother's house, King said.
From The Associated Press