UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 2,1993
13B
'Hawks return to site of upset
By Matt Doyle
By matt boyle
Kansan sportswriter
Controversy surrounded the last meeting between Kansas and North Carolina at the 1991 Final Four when North Carolina coach Dean Smith was ejected from the game with two technical fouls.
Controversy also surrounded the Jayhawks' first appearance at the Superdome in New Orleans 12 years ago.
On March 20, 1981, Kansas faced Wichita State in an NCAA Midwest Regional semifinal at the Superdome. It was the first time in 25 years the Jayhawks and Shockers met in basketball.
When the buzzer sounded, the Shockers celebrated a controversial 66-65 victory against the Jayhawks. The controversy came in the game's final seconds.
Shocker guard Mike Jones hit a 25-foot jumper with two seconds left to put the Shockers up 66-65. Kansas called time-out, and coach Ted Owens called the play "touch-down" to win the game for the Jayhawks.
"If they chose to cover us on the out of bounds play, then we told Booty Neal to run the baseline." Owens said. "We had a blind pick waiting for the Wichita State player who would knock our player down and draw a foul."
The Jayhawks thought the play worked. It didn't
The Jay hawks thought the pay worker let it sit. Wichita State coach Gene Smithton sent Jay Jackson to cover Neal on the inbounds play. When Neal moved, so did Jackson.
Kansas guard Darnell Valentine set himself at the other end of the baseline. When Jackson chased Neal down to that end of the baseline, he knocked Valentine to floor.
And to the amazement of Valentine, Owens and Jayhawk fans, there was no foul called.
the guy just ran over Darnell, and the official didn't make the call," Owens said.
Ted Owens signals instructions to the jayhawks. Owens was the Kansas coach from 1964 to 1983.
make the call. Owens would have had the official called a foul against Jackson, Valentine would have been awarded a one-and-one free throw opportunity. There was no player Owens would have rather had at the free throw line than Valentine, who owes the Kansas record for most free throws made at 541.
When no call was made, Neal tossed a full court-length pass that went over the head of John Crawford, who was standing under the basket, and out of bounds.
That play still brings back bad memories to Tony Guy, a starter on that Jayhawk team.
"I would go with Darnell 100 percent," he said.
"We had practiced that inbounds play all year long for that special situation," he said. "Under normal circumstances a foul would have been called after the guy ran over Darnell, but in this instance the official just swallowed his whistle."
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