SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Tuesday, March 2, 1993 7 Jordan has no regrets Seniors to play last home game tomorrow night kansan sportswriter By David Dorsey Kansas sportwriter Adonis Jordan said he would leave Allen Field House tomorrow night with no regrets about his basketball career at Kansas — a career that has lasted four seasons, at least one year more than any of his teammates. The senior guard has been a three-year starter and the Jahyaws' floor leader at point guard, Jordan, senior center Eric Pauley and senior guard Rex Walters will play their final home game at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the field house against Nebraska. Jordan is the only senior who has played four years at Kansas. Paulley is a junior college transfer, and Walters transferred from Northwestern after his sophomore season. "My four years have been great," Jordan said. "At the time that I signed my letter of intent, there were a lot of things going on. I knew I wanted to come here, but at the time I wasn't 100 percent sure that it was the right decision. But everything has worked out right." "Everything Coach Williams promised me has happened," Jordan said. "He said I'd get the opportunity to play and to become a better player." Improvement, Jordan said, was what he strived for. His freshman year, he played behind Kevin Pritchard, who was drafted by Golden State of the NBA and now plays professionally in Spain. "My sophomore year, I thanked Kevin," Jordan said. "He showed me a lot of toughness. After my freshman year, he shot started getting better. Then I got more consistent. "My personal goal is to improve every day. When there comes a day that I can't improve, then I won't play basketball any more." He averaged three points a game his freshman season while averaging 13 minutes of play. His scoring average improved to 12.5 points as a sophomore and 12.8 points as a junior. Since his sophomore season, Jordan has led Kansas in minutes played. He has led the team in minutes this season despite playing with a stress fracture in his leg. Although Jordan's scoring has dipped to just below 12 points a game this season, Williams said he never lost faith in Jordan. "What matters to Adonis the most is winning." Williams said. As Pritchard helped Jordan improve, Jordan has taken sophome point guard Calvin Rayford under his wing. "I'm trying to work with Calvin like Kevin worked with me." Jordan said. Walters said that Jordan's work with Rayford showed in many ways Jordan's importance to the Iroquois. said. "Adonis is the kind of guy that will help Calvin, and that will help the program. Adonis has done a great job leading the team." Jordan's importance to the Jaywhas. "They're like brothers." Walters Walters said that his impressions of Jordan had not changed from the moment of their first meeting. "He's always happy, always smiling," Walters said. "He's a happy-go-lucky guy." On the court, Walters said he respected his teammate. "When he was a sophomore, he was trying to establish himself as the best point guard in the Big Eight," he said. "After he did that, the expectations on him for this season became so high that they're unrealistic. He's still had a lot of assists, a small number of turnovers, and he's always a threat to score." Jordan said he did not know how he would react when his name was announced tomorrow night. He did, however, recall some of his favorite moments. "The Final Four, and winning the Big Eight were great," Jordan said. "But we still have the goal this season of winning the conference and the Jordan will be nine hours short of getting his degree in Human Development and Family Life at the end of the semester, but he said he would finish his degree through summer school and correspondence courses. Jordan said that he hoped to be drafted and play in the NBA next season, but said his thoughts until then remained on finishing up at Kansas. "I'd like to be remembered as a player who came out and played hard every day," he said. Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN Adonis Jordan, senior guard, keeps Colorado's Johnny Terrell at bay. Tomorrow's game against Nebraska will be the last home game for seniors Jordan, guard Rex Walters and center Eric Pauley Campus lacks basketball courts Welcome to the University of Kansas, an institution known for its academic excellence, beautiful hill-top campus, and oh yeah, basketball. We are one of the most tradition- rich basketball schools in the nation, but you wouldn't know it by looking at your student-accessible basketball facilities. Kansas offers four full-court, indoor basketball courts to its students. Four? Surely you mean four-teen. Nope, four. COMMENTARY Kansas State, a university with rich sports tradition in nothing — well, maybe rodeo — has twice as many courts as us. K-State should not double us in anything, except maybe cowboy boots. Bobby Hurley, one of Duke University's 5,000 undergraduate students, has six courts to choose from when he wants to play a pick-up game. In case the math is not obvious, that averages more than one court for every 1,000 students. Kansas has one court for every 7,200 students. And it's not like we don't have the money. Kansas residents pay $728 for tuition, and out-of-staters pay $2,814. In addition to tuition, each student pays a $171 campus fee. Out of each student's campus fee, $9 is allocated to recreation services, $3 of which is for the maintenance of Robinson Center. Iowa State. a school close in comparison to Kansas in enrollment 25,373 students — charges $1,150 for resident tuition and $3,094 for non- residents. However, $21 of each student's tuition goes to maintain its gym, including 30 basketball courts. If it's not bad enough that we only have four, the courts are occupied by aerobic exercisers, dancers and volleyball tournaments as often as they are used for basketball games. If I had a nickel for every time I went to Robinson Center with hopes of playing ball and found the Crimson Girls or the Jane Fonda wannabes using the courts, I could build my own gym. And it's not that I have anything against the Crimson Girls, they need space to practice just like all athletes. I just wish it was somewhere else. Of course, the fact that the Crimson Girls don't have a more logical place to practice — provided by the Athletic Department — is another column altogether. Again this year, the Kansas basket ball team is ranked among the best teams in the nation. The 'Hawks were on ESPN six times this season. What does that mean? Revenue. Cash. Now I know that the money generated by the basketball team does not go anywhere near Recreation Services. But as students, we buy tickets and go to the games. We buy the $3 Cokes and M- & M's. We pay our fees and buy Kansas basketball paranormalia. I do not care where the money comes from. The fact is that the money is out there. Spend some of it on what we need—basketball courts. Perhaps students should be given a choice of where their $171 in campus fees go. Students are charged $71 a semester for the privilege of using Watkins Memorial Health Center. I've been there once in four years. That was a $568 visit. Students contribute more than $800,000 a year to non-revenue sports, like women's basketball, through campus fees while the Athletic Department allocates more than $1 million to the men's basketball program. Of course, I'm not suggesting money should be taken away from non-revenue sports. But the department should take care of itself. Well anyway, enough complaining. I'm going to lace up my Nikes and go watch the Crimson Girls practice. Mark Button is a Lawrence senior majoring in journalism. BRIEFS Weather postpones Kansas' baseball game Today's scheduled baseball home opener against Washburn was postponed until March 18 because snow made field conditions at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium unplayable. The Jayhawks are 3-3. Kansas is scheduled to play host to Grandview in the first of a three-game series at 3 p.m. Friday. Oklahoma hinders Cowboys'title hopes NORMAN, Okla. — Jeff Webb herd had 19 points and Bryatt vann scored 17 as Oklahoma frustrated 7-footer Bryant Reeves and spoiled No. 19 Oklahoma State's debut in the rankings with an 80-80 victory last night. The loss crippled Oklahoma State's chances of winning or tying for the Big Eight Conference title. The Cowboys, 18-6 overall and 8-5 in the conference, must hope league-leading Kansas loses to Nebraska tomorrow night. Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports. Oklahoma, 19-9 and 7-6, held Reeves to 12 points, seven below his average. Aloha Bowl boosts Mason, 1992 team into Hall of Fame By Matt Doyle Kansan sportswriter Kansas football coach Glen Mason and the Jayhawks achieved an unpublicized honor when the Jayhawks took the field against Brigham Young in the 1992 Aloha Bowl. Mason became the 127th member of the University of Kansas Athletic Hall of Fame, and the 1982 Jayhawk football team to be included in the hall of fame. The criteria for membership for a football coach is to have coached a team in a bowl game. The football team's participation in the Aloha Bowl qualified it for hall of fame status Assistant athletic director Richard Konzem said the official induction ceremony for Mason has not yet been determined. "We are waiting for Ted Watts to finish the portrait of Coach Mason," Konzem said. "When he is finished with it, I assume we will choose an appropriate event next fall to present Coach Mason with his portrait." Watts, a sports artist from Oswego, has painted the individual portraits for every member of the Hall of Fame. He said he should have the portrait of Mason completed by the end of April. Portraits of all 126 individuals of the hall of Farm hang along the walls of the barn. "I am in the process of working up several rough sketches based on the photos and reference materials I have received," he said. "When I am finished with the sketches. I share them Glen Mason with the people in the athletic department, usually Richard Kozem and Doug Vance, to get their approval to start on the portrait." Vance is the assistant athletic director for media relations and marketing. Once Watts gets approval from the Athletic Department, he said, it takes about 20 hours of painting to complete a portrait. For the portrait of Mason, Watts said he has three good ideas that could work. "One has Glen in a semi-formal pose wearing a coach's shirt with a view of Memorial Stadium in the background," he said. "It would look like Glen is in the stands looking at you." The two other ideas have Mason posed, one with game action in the background, the other with a Kansas helmet in the background. 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