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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 23, 1992
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Lady 'Hawks crush Cyclones
By Cody Holt
Kansan sportswriter
Despite the loss of senior forward Tanya Bonham, who sustained a season-ending injury to her right knee Tuesday, the Lady Jayhawks handed Iowa State its worst defeat in team history 88-29 last night at Allen Field House.
Kansas' defense stifled the Cyclones, holding them to 8 percent shooting in the first half on two-of-25 shooting from the field.
"Their shoels weren't falling for them but our defense had a lot to do with that," Kansas junior guard Shannon Kite said.
Kansas led at halftime. 43-9. Iowa State's nine points were the fewest points allowed in a half by the Lady Jayhawks this season. Twice Kansas has limited its opponent to 15 points in a half.
"Our defense was awesome," sophmore guard Ericka Muncy said. "Everybody helped each other out."
Kansas was led by Kite's 19 points,
including five of six three-pointers.
*The team had a scoreless game.*
"It helps to come out and hit the first one," Kite said. "It gave me a little more confidence to go out and look for my shot."
The lopsided victory came despite the loss of Bonham. The Lady Jayhawks have already lost the services of starting center Lisa Tate for the season. She suffered a stress fracture in her left leg after the Creighton game.
Bonham's injury to her right knee occurred Tuesday when she stayed
She said she felt the pain when she jumped to the ball.
"Apparently I jumped wrong, and my knee just gave up," Bonham said. "I didn't know it was possible until yesterday."
In three to four weeks the knee will be ready for surgery, she said.
"I knew the day would come when I would no longer play basketball," she said. "I didn't expect it to be like this, however."
The loss of Boham reduces the Lady Jayhawk line-up to 10 players. Senior guard Kay Kay Hart said the team added pressure on Kansas' bench.
"Losing Tanya is very unfortunate, because this has been potentially one of our best years," Hart said. "Everyone is going to have to contribute from now on. I think tonight everyone
proved they can step up and do a nice job."
Kansas had five players in double figures led by Kite and senior forward Danielle Shareef, who added 15 points off the bench. The Lady Jayhawks bench outscored Iowa State's 52-13. All 10 Kansas players scored for the 'Hawks.
"This was a good game for Kansas because we were able to play a lot of players," Kansas coach Marian Washington said. "We were also able to work on a lot of different things."
The 59-point victory margin equaled the second largest victory margin of any Lady Jayhawk team. The 198-65 Kansas team defeated Avila College by 59 points, 108-49. Kansas' largest victory margin is 79 points, 117-38, by the 1981-82 team against Pacific Christian.
Iowa State finished the game shooting 19.6 percent from the field compared to Kansas' 55.7 percent. The Cyclones were led by senior guard Tynetta Rasheed with 10 points. Freshman guard Ericka Bakke, who scored nine points, was the only other Iowa State player to score more than four points.
The Lady Jayhawns will begin a three-game road trip Saturday at Nebraska, which is 13-3 overall and 3-0 in the Big Eight Conference.
Kansas 88
Player Johnson 6 4,7 4,7 2,5 R A 7 T 12
McCloud 22 3,6 4,6 7 0 10
Hart 20 2,4 6,1 7 0 12
Aycock 19 2,5 1,2 5 1 1
Eitherers 19 2,5 1,2 5 1 1
Thompson 20 3,4 1,4 3 0 10
Sharec 18 7,11 1,2 3 0 2 15
Slatter 13 2,7 1,0 1,2 0 4
Muncy 25 2,5 0,5 5 3 4
Kite 20 6,9 2,2 4,2 19
Percentages: FG 56%, FT 68%, Three-point
pointage: 5.7 (Kite 5:7) Boys: 2 (Ackey, J.
Johnson, Steals: 16 (Ackey, K.2, Johnson,
J.1) Boys: 3 (Ackey, I.1, Johnson, I.1)
Boys: 1 (Steals, I.1, Johnson, I.1), Male:
4 (Larson, Truit, I.1).
Van Decst 11 1-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Fitzgerald 19 1-0 0-3 0-6 0 2 0
Gordon 27 1-8 0-4 0-3 1 0 2
Gordon 37 1-8 0-4 0-3 1 0 2
Rashed 20 4-13 1-2 6-1 1 1 3
Evans 12 0-5 0-0 2 1 1 1
Wright 19 1-4 0-0 2 1 0 2
Wright 19 1-4 0-0 2 1 0 2
Herbert 24 14 0-5 2-6 0 2 2
Herbert 12 0-5 2-6 2 0 2 2
Young 14 0-3 0-5 2 0 0 0
Percentages: FG 20%, FT 50%, Three-point
weight: 10:1 (kick) Blocked shots: 4 (Fawn,
Weight 2, Streak 7; Van Dever, Mapple 2, Evans,
Weight 3, Streak 8); Nettle, Ward 6;
Halftime: Kansas 43, Colorado 9. A: 600.
Mamee Dietnch/KANSAN
Assistant athletic director retires after 40 years
By Jerry Schmidt
Kansan sportswriter
Sophomore guard Ericka Muncy shoots for two of her four points against Iowa State
Assistant athletic director Floyd Temple announced his retirement yesterday, effective June 30, after 40 years at Kansas.
Temple came to Kansas in 1952 and served as an assistant baseball coach for two years before taking over as
hawks' coach until 1981, compiling 437 victories in 28 seasons.
Since 1974, Temple has been supervisor of facilities operations for the athletic department. Temple was also an assistant football coach for 16 years from 1958 to 1974. Upon his retirement as baseball coach in 1981 he became an assistant athletic director.
Floyd Temple
Legendary basketball coach Forrest "Phog" Allen and longtime athletic trainer Dean Nesmith are the only other coaches or faculty in the athletic department to have served for 40 years or more.
"I felt that 40 years sounded really great because two of the most favorite people in my life were Dr. Allen and Dean Neesmith," Temple said. "I felt that if I could be No. 3, that would be a great legacy for me."
Bob Frederick, athletic director, said Temple would be missed.
"Floyd has been a tremendous part of the athletic programs," Frederick said. "He has *v* lot of dear friends around the state that will be sorry to see him go. He did a wonderful job of coaching our baseball team during a time with almost no scholarships. His loyalty was his strength."
During his tenure as the baseball coach, Temple saw many players go on to play in the major leagues including Larry Miller ('58), Chuck Dobson ('64), Steve Renko ('65) and Steve Zeitl ('79).
Temple said that one of the problems he had at Kansas was competing with some of the other schools that could promise players scholarships.
"Up until about 1975 we were almost totally void as far as scholarships," Temple said. "1975 was the first year we received the full allotment, prior to that, the most we had was three. We were truly student-athletes."
Temple said that warm-weather teams had an advantage because there was no limit on how many scholarships they could offer. Temple said that at one time, Oklahoma had 23 scholarships while Kansas had only three.
Temple said he would now be able to spend more time with his grandchildren and practice his golf game.
"I hope my golf game will improve," Temple said. "Jerry Green is the only guy in the department I can beat playing golf but that isn't really saying that much because he's not very good, and I want to get better."
NCAA commission tightens academic standards
By Lyle Niedens
The NCAA Presidents Commission must like controversy.
At its annual convention in 1985, the NCAA Presidents Commission, which makes the rules that NCAA member schools are required to follow, enacted initial eligibility standards for incom- manshman athletes at NCAA schools.
The standards, better known as Proposition 48, required incoming freshman to post a 2.0 grade point average on a 4.0 scale in high school, as well as score 15 or above on the ACT or 700 or above on the SAT.
The new standards stirred debates concerning college athletics, from whether the standards were to high or too low to whether the requirements discriminated against minority athletes.
So, it is no surprise that such debate was renewed earlier this month after the Presidents Commission raised initial eligibility standards for incoming freshman athletes at its Jan. 6-10 meeting in Nashville, Tenn.
"I don't think there will be a rollback," he said. "This came from the NCAA Council and the Presidents Commission, so I don't foresee a
But although appeals to the NCAA regarding the tougher standards are likely, the new requirements will probably stick, Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director said. The changes are scheduled to take effect Aug. 1, 1995.
change."
The Presidents Commission, of which Kansas Chancellor Gene Budig is a member, passed four significant changes regarding the eligibility of freshman athletes. Budig voted in favor of the changes.
The Commission decided to raise the minimum high school GPA requirement for incoming freshman to 2.5. In addition, the Commission voted to increase the number of required core high school courses from 11 to 13. Those courses include subjects such as math, English and science, according Konzem.
The Commission also decided to lower the minimum required ACT score to 17. It had been raised to 18 a year ago. Finally, the Commission created an index whereby an athlete can be eligible with lower than the required 2.5 GPA if the athlete scored higher than the minimum requirement on the ACT or SAT.
The possible scope of the tougher requirements can be seen by applying the following test:
For example, an incoming freshman at Kansas, which uses ACT scores, not SAT scores, may be eligible with a 2.375 GPA if he scores an 18 on the ACT. In other words, the higher an athlete scores on the ACT, the lower his required GPA becomes. However, no athlete may compete with lower than a 2.0 GPA, no matter how high he scores on the ACT.
Kansas brings in around 100 freshman athletes a year, Konzem said. In 1991, four athletes did not qualify for
competition under last year's requirements. Had the recent changes been in effect, an additional 20 athletes would not have qualified.
Konzem he saw the changes as an attempt by school presidents to gain better control of their college athletic programs.
"There were getting to be too many abuses out there," he said.
"It a little bit tougher for us to take chances on people who are pretty marginal students, and we don't take a lot of chances," he said. "There are kids who we will not recruit because we know they will not make it who show up at other schools and do just fine.
Konzem said that many athletes in college did not belong there and had been accepted because they could run fast or were good competitors.
He said that during the convention proponents of the tougher standards presented the argument that wherever the minimum requirements were drawn, students, minority or non-minority, would work to achieve those requirements.
"The argument was that once the message gets out there, if you draw the line at 2.5 GPA, who is where students go to be. I hope that's right," he said.
If we're a little bit tougher on the once-you-get-here side of it, then the
Konzem said that he thought the Konzem were good in terms of Kansas athletics because Kansas was a difficult state. He said that the changes also carried a price.
The changes will take effect beginning with athletes who are now freshmen in high school.
Konzem said his only concern with the changes was that they would take effect too soon.
tough standards on the front end helpus.
“There’s a price, though, because there are some kids out there who aren’t given the opportunity and won’t ever go ahead and succeed.”
"There are some kids who have messed up their freshman year already who won't ever recover from it."
Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams agreed with Konzem that 1995 is too early for implementation of the changes.
"I could wif with it if we give it more time," Williams said. "We need to get the information down into the junior highs."
Williams said he had always been for better academics and that he liked the core-curriculum increase, but he said he disliked the index and its reliance on ACT scores.
"Why doesn't the index allow for a higher GPA and lower test scores?" Williams said.
He said he was against using ACT or SAT scores to determine eligibility because nobody had ever proven that the scores were a good measure of a student's performance.
In addition, he said he thought the requirements discriminated against
Freshman requirements stiffen
At their annual convention Jan. 6-Jan.10, the NCAA Presidents Commission revamped the initial eligibility standards for incoming freshman athletes, effective Aug. 1, 1995. The Commission:
Raised the minimum high school grade point average from 2.0 to 2.5 on a 4.0 scale
Raised the required minimum number of core high school courses from 11 to 13
Lowered the minimum required ACT score from 18 to 17
Created an index whereby freshman athletes with lower than 2.5 grade point average may be eligible if their ACT scores are better than 17
The athlete needs only to have a corresponding GPA of.
17 2.5
18 2.375
19 2.25
20 2.125
21 2.0
No freshman athlete with below a 2.0 will be eligible, no matter how high the athlete's ACT score is.
Source: Richard Konzem, Assistant Athletic Director
certain groups of students.
"Not only are they discriminatory against Blacks," he said, "but they are discriminatory against lower-income artists as well. I don't think that's good."
Former Kansas track and field
Almee Brainard, Daily Kansan
NCAA announces new football rules
A rule change approved by the NCAA Football Rules Committee and announced yesterday will allow defensive players to advance fumbles no matter where they recover the ball.
coach Bob Timmons, who remains active with legislation concerning the NCAA, disagreed with the new changes.
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"The underlying thought is good," he said, "but I think they've carried it too far."
It does not apply to missed laterals and pitchouts, which are considered backward passes under collegiate rules. It also does not apply to muffed kicks.
The rule was changed to improve the balance between the offense and the defense and to make plays involving fumbles easier to officiate. the NCAA said.
The old rule allowed a defensive player to advance a fumble only if it occurred beyond the line of scrimmage.
The rules committee at its annual convention that ended Tuesday also created a new foul for blocking in the
back above the waist, differentiating it from a block in the back below the waist.
Above the waist will be a 10-yard penalty, clipping, or blocking in the back below the waist, will be 15 vards.
"The committee said that the more severe clipping penalty should be reserved for contact in the back below the waist, which can result in serious injury," the NCAA said in a statement. "Pushing merely creates a position advantage and should receive a less severe penalty."
The committee also approved a rule that requires a player who is replaced to leave the huddle immediately, delayed by one year a rule that requires 25-second clocks at each end of the field, and passed a rule that prohibits an offensive player who lines up at the line of scrimmage from going in motion.
McEnroe loses in quarterfinals
John McEnroe's run at the Australian Open came to an end last night at the hands of a 20-year-old Wayne Ferreira.
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Ferreira, ranked 46th in the world, advanced to a semifinal meeting with top-seeded Stefan Edberg with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 victory.
Edberg bett fifth-seeded Ivan Lendl
4-6.7-5.8-6.1-6.7-5.7-6.1.
Second-seeded Jim Courier willface Richard Krajicek in tomorrow's other semifinal. Courier beat Mans Dorf 6-3, 6-2, 6-2, and Krajicek upset fourth-seeded Michael Stich 5-7, 7-6 (7-2), 6-7 (1-7), 6-4, 6-4.
Oregon State postpones game
Oregon State coach Jim Anderson announced the school has postponed its game against Washington State on Saturday night so players can attend the funeral of teammate Earnest Kilium in Los Angeles.
School officials said the game would be played Sunday or Monday. The Beavers will go ahead with their game tonight at home against Washington.
Killum, who had been cleared to play in late December after experiencing a mild stroke last summer, died Monday in a Los Angeles hospital. The sophomore forward was with the team in Los Angeles last Friday when he collapsed at a hotel.
Royals to change uniforms
A Kansas City Royals representative announced yesterday they would change their road uniforms from light blue to gray with royal blue lettering and trim.
The change was being made because of a trend toward more traditional uniforms in the major leagues, General Manager Herk Robinson said.
The change will be made this year.
The change will be made this year. The Royals will continue to wear white uniforms at home.
from The Associated Press