University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 21, 1992
SPORTS
Kansas to face K-State in Manhattan
'Cats expect challenge in Bramlage
By Lyle Niedens
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas State Wildcats will go into tomorrow's game against No. 3 Kansas coming off their biggest game of the season, a 64-55 come-from-behind victory at home against No. 23 Iowa State Wednesday night.
The victory, which improved the Wildcats' record to 13-9 overall and 3-6 in the Big Eight Conference, even spurred talk among the Wildcat players of a possible NCAA Tournament berth.
"We would have to win four out of our last five in the conference," Altman said of a possible tournament berth. "It's something I'm not concerned with."
But K-State coach Dana Altman is not ready to talk about March Madness just yet
After the game, Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton was taken to a Tulsa hospital, complaining of chest pains.
Doctors found a problem with one of Sutton's arteries, but they said the problem could be treated with medication. Oklahoma State associate sports information director Mike Strauss said the 55-year-old Sutton was expected to coach this weekend when the Cowboys travel to Missouri.
Altman is concerning himself first with the Jayhawks, who are coming off their most disappointing loss of the season, an 81-19 overtime setback Wednesday night at Nebraska. The loss dropped Kansas to 19-3.
Although K-State has had trouble on the road this season, including an 80-58 loss to Kansas in Allen Field House earlier this month, the Wildcats have played well at home, posting an 11-2 record in Bramlage Coliseum.
After second-place Missouri lost at Colorado on Wednesday, Kansas remained in sole possession of first place in the conference, with a 7-2 record. Third-place Oklahoma State also lost Wednesday night.
The Jayhawks benefited, though, from a wild night of upsets in the conifer
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KANSAS STATE WILDCATS
(3) KANSAS JAYHAWKS
Coach: Roy Williams Record:19-3, (7-2)
Coach: Dana Altman
Record: 13-9, (3-6)
Game time: 3 p.m. tomorrow at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan. It will be televised on channels 9 and 13 in Lawrence and broadcast on 105.9 KLZR.
Probable Starters
Player/Position Height Year PPG RPG
24-F Alonzo Jamison 6-6 Sr. 10.3 4.3
34-F Richard Scott 6-7 So. 10.0 4.4
51-C Eric Pauley 6-10 Jr. 8.5 3.1
23-G Rex Walters 6-4 Jr. 16.5 3.2
30-G Adonis Jordan 5-11 Jr. 13.8 3.6
Player/Position Height Year PPG RPG
24-F Askia Jones 6-5 So. 14.8 3.9
22-F Wylie Howard 6-8 Sr. 11.3 7.3
21-G Vincent Jackson 6-4 Jr. 8.4 3.6
23-G Gaylen Nickerson 6-3 Jr. 10.8 4.0
05-G Marcus Ziegler 5-11 Sr. 4.6 1.8
Source: Kansas Sports Information Department
Bramlage Coliseum, which opened in 1988, and have not lost in Manhattan since 1983.
At his weekly press conference Wednesday, Kansas coach Roy Williams told of a conversation he had with one of the players on the one Kansashas in Manhattan
"He said, 'You know you're going to lose there, you just don't know when.' Williams said. "That's really the feeling that you have."
Altman said that for K-State to win, the Wildcats would have to shoot around 50 percent, which is 7 percent higher than their season percentage.
"Kansas is solid defensively. They always have been," he said. "Against Kansas, we're going to have to shoot very well."
For the Jayhawks, the game will be a chance to forget Wednesday night's last-second loss to the Cornhuskers, though Williams said forgetting would be hard to do.
The game marked Kansas' second straight poor shooting performance on the road.
"This one will stick with me for a long time," Williams said after the game.
After shooting just 40 percent in a 64-56 loss at Oklahoma State two weeks ago, Kansas shot just 43 percent Wednesday night, including 5-22 for 23 percent from three-point-range. For the season, the Jayhawks are shooting 52 percent overall and 42 percent on three-point attempts.
Junior guard Rex Walters, who hit just 1-of-10 three-pointers against the Cornhuskers, said Kansas needed to learn to overcome poor shooting nights.
"Some nights your shot just doesn't go in," he said. "But you're supposed to do other things to make up for it."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Kansas coach Rov Williams cannot hide his feelings about a referee's call at the Nebraska game on Wednesday
Peggy Woods/KANSAN
Kansas, Razorbacks to scrap in baseball
By Jerry Schmidt Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas baseball team will return to Arkansas this weekend hoping to come home with some better results.
After thrashing Arkansas-Little Rock on the road last Saturday 12-1, the Jayhawks lost to the Trojans on Sunday 8-3. Today, tomorrow and Sunday the Jayhawks will play Arkansas in Fayetteville with hopes of consistent play throughout the three-game series.
"We're going to respect this
"weeper a lot more than last
weekend," coach Dave Bingham
said. "We had the best day,
and didn't玩 like the day before."
The Razorbacks were 40-22 overall last season and 10-11 in their last season in the Southwest Conference. The 'Hogs will begin play in the Southeastern Conference this season. The SEC boasts the honor of having the last two College World Series champions, Georgia in 1990 and Louisiana State last year.
"Because we haven't seen a lot of these teams, we'll have to learn a new conference," Arkansas coach Norm DeBriyn said. "I felt the Southwest Conference was good, but the SEC could be a little better top to bottom."
DeBryn is in his 23rd year at Arkansas. He is is 17th on the all-time NCAA victory list. The Razorbacks are 3-1 this season. They beat Kansas State two out of three games last weekend and beat
Missouri Southern on Feb. 14. The 'Hogs have averaged more than 14 runs a game with a high of 19 runs in a 19-9 victory against K-State.
Second baseman Tim Thomas is eight for 12 with one home run and 12 RBI in the first four games and left fielder Jeff Houck is eight for 15 with four stolen bases.
DeBriynsaidhewas surprisedby his team's early season hitting success.
"I feel like once you get 20 to 25 games under your belts, you get a feel for hitting," he said. "It's a little early to tell."
"Our hitters worked on developing some confidence throughout the week," Bingham said. "We worked on hitting the ball up the middle and trying to gain some confidence." he said. "We can win whether we hit the ball or not with our defense and our pitching."
Kansas senior Curtis Schmidt will pitch today's game for Kansas. Schmidt gave up only one run in his first start of the season, striking out six hitters and walking one. Kansas junior Jimmy Walker will start tomorrow's game. Bingham said he was undecided on a starter for Sunday's game.
Kansas junior catcher Jeff Neimeier is four for eight this season with an RBI, and junior first baseman John Wuycheck has six RBI.
Bingham said he hoped his offense would return to the form he held in Saturday's game at Little Rock.
Jayhawks look down homestretch
Kansas staff report
Kansas defeated K-State 82-52 on Feb. 2 in Manhattan. The Jayhawks' defense smothered the Lady Cats in the teams' first meeting.
The No. 18 Kansas women's basketball team will begin the final week of Big Eight Conference play in a rival Kansas State game at 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 24.
Kansas' defense limited K-State to 34.7 percent shooting and allowed only one player to score in double figures — Guard Mary J Miller who had 11 points.
Kansas' offense was equally effective, hitting 5.1 percent from the field. Freshman forward Angela Aycock led the way with 22 points. Aycock was just one of four Jayhawks in double figures.
Kansas has dropped the last three games against K-State at the field house dating back to Jan. 30, 1988. K-State defeated Kansas 74-73 in overtime last year.
The Jayhawks, 20-over and 8-2 in the conference, are taking a one-game lead over Colorado, 16-8 overall and 8-3 in the conference, into the final three games of the season. Both teams will play two of their last three games at home. Kansas is undefeated, 11-0, at the field house. Colorado has a 9-2 record at home.
The Jayhawks will travel to Oklahoma on Wednesday and will return home Saturday, Feb. 29 for the season finale against Missouri. Earlier in season, Kansas defeated Oklahoma 75-56 but lost to Missouri 57-56 in Columbia.
Women's basketball probable starters
Game time: 2 p.m. Sunday in Allen Field House. The game will be broadcast on KJIK 90.7 FM.
Kansas 20-4, (9-2) Position Year Height PPG RPG
32 Danielle Shareef F Sr. 5-10 6.0
10 Jojo Witerspoon G Jr. 5-7 1.0 1.3
33 Kay Kay Hart G Sr. 5-7 9.8 3.6
23 Terrilyn Johnson F Fr. 5-11 7.3 9.0
30 Angela Avcock F Fr. 6-2 10.1 4.4
Kansas State 5-19, (2-9)
| Kansas State | 5-19, (2-9) |
| :--- | :--- |
| 13 Lymn Holzman | F | So. | 5-11 | 6.0 | 3.0 |
| 12 Leah Honeycutt | F | Jr. | 5-10 | 10.4 | 3.2 |
| 14 Jennifer Grebing | C | Sr. | 6-2 | 7.3 | 4.6 |
| 12 Mary Jo Miller | G | Sr. | 5-5 | 14.6 | 3.5 |
| 20 Gretchen Bertrand | G | So. | 5-9 | 6.0 | 2.1 |
Source: Kansas Sports Information Department
Jayhawk swim meet will start in KC
Pranger said the meet was open to swimmers who were trying to make
By Chris Jenson
Kansan sportswriter
After helping the Kansas women's swimming and diving teams win their 13th Big Eight Championship in 18 years, three-time All-American senior Barb Pranger didn't spend much time celebrating.
The Jayhawks will take their new focus to Kansas City, Mo., tonight for the Jayhawk Invitational. The meet will be at Central High School because of a scheduling conflict at Robinson Natatorium.
*On the bus ride home after winning Eight Elegs, I started to focus on the O-100.
Coach Gary Kempf said four Kansas swimmers had qualified for the Olympic trials. They are Pranger and sophomores Krista Cordsen, Ronda Lusty and Scott Townsend. Four men and five women have qualified for the NCAA meet. They are Lusty, Pranger, Cordsen, senior Heather McRoberts, junior Aimee Brainard, sophomores Scott Townsend and Curtis Taylor, junior Robert Townsend and freshman Mark Bontrager.
Olympic-trial or NCAA-qualifying times. Pranger has qualified for the 100-yard butterfly in the Olympic Trials.
Kempf said he expected between 10 and 15 additional KU swimmers to attempt qualifying tonight.
"We have reached a point in our
season where we are more of an individual program," Kempf said.
Pranger said the team also would use the meet to improve relay times to have a better seeding at the NCAA championships.
With two weeks remaining before the United States Olympic Trials and a month before the NCAA Championships, Pranger said the team was continuing to fine tune at its practice sessions.
"We have worked so hard for so long that it should not be a problem for us to maintain our taper," she said. "Right now we just need to take things one step at a time."
Pranger said she was excited about swimming in the Olympic trials because they occurred only once
evervfouryears.
"The Olympic trials are completely different from the NCAA meet," she said. "The trials are more of an individual meet, and the NCAA's are more team-oriented."
Kansas has a talented team going to the NCAA meet, Pranger said. The women's 200 freestyle relay is ranked among the five best in the country. In the NCAA meet, relays are scored double, making them a key to scoring well overall.
For the team to do well overall, pranger said that all would have to do three things.
"This is where we have got to prove our rankings," she said.
The Kansas women are ranked 16th nationally; the men are 23rd.
Olympic medals count
OLYMPICS UPDATE
Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
Germany 10 9 6 25
Unified Team* 8 5 7 20
Austria 5 7 7 19
Norway 7 6 5 18
Italy 3 4 3 10
France 3 5 1 9
United States 3 4 1 8
Country Gold Silver Bronze Total'
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Yamaguchi to fire off seven triples in show
O O O O
ALBERTVILLE, France — Get ready for a barrage of triple lutzes, triple salchows, a couple of triple axes and an attempt at a quadruple. If you want to skate with this crowd, you have to be a triple threat.
Kristi Yamaguchi plans to fire off seven triples in her $4\frac{1}{2}$ minute free program tonight as she tries to
become the first American since 1976 to win the gold medal in women's figure skating at the Winter Olympics. Yamaguchi is in first place after Wednesday night's original program.
And just because Japan's Midori Ito, considered Yamaguchi's chief rival for the gold, shot herself in the foot with a fall on the triple lutz Wednesday does not mean Yamaguchi is easing up.
"The program will stay the same," said Christy Ness, Yamaguchi's.
coach. "We'll keep the same focus."
American gets silver in short-track skating
coach. "We'll keep the sametocus." The United States could finish with two medals. American Nancy Kerrigan is in second place.
ALBERTVILLE, France - Sylvie Daileg in world champion Canada to the gold in the women's 3,000-meter short-track speedskating relay yesterday with a time of 4 minutes.
The United States was second with 4.37.85, giving the Americans their eighth medal of the Winter Games.
36. 62 seconds.
The Unified Team, which got into the final when world record-holder China fell with 50 meters to go in its semifinal heat, took the bronze in
Medals were awarded in the sport for the first time in Olympic history. It was a demonstration sport in 1988.
■ From the Associated Press