SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 17, 1993
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Kansas preparing to face Oklahoma
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
Oklahoma senior center and leading bryan Bryan Sallier remains hospitalized with pneumonia, leaving one less Sooner for the No. 6 Kansas men's basketball team to contend with when the two teams tipoff at 7 tonight in Allen Field House.
Sallier was hospitalized last week, has missed Oklahoma's two games and is expected to be released no earlier than Friday.
His replacement, junior Kenneth Conley, pulled down nine rebounds in each of the Sooners' last two games, both victories.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said he remembered how his team pulled together during the absence of junior forward Darrin Hancock last month with victories against Rollins and Missouri. He said he expected the Sooners to have the same type of attitude.
"If you lose a guy for a couple of games you're going to be pretty good because everybody tends to focus a little bit more," Williams said.
The Jayhawks, 20-3 overall and 74-1 in the Big Eight Conference, played their best shooting half of the season against Oklahoma last month in Norman, Okla., making 73 percent of their shots while overaking the fast-paced Sooners for the 96-85 victory.
Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs, noted for having high-scoring teams, said during the preseason
that his team would continue playing up-tempo basketball.
Williams, however, said that the Sooners probably would slow it down away from home.
Senior swingman Bryatt Vann, who scored 40 points Jan. 30 against Colorado, and junior forward Jeff Webster, lead the Sooners in scoring. Each averages 17 points a game. Kansas senior guard Rex Walters, who scored a season-high 23 points against Oklahoma, leads the Jayhawks with a 13.7 scoring average.
"I think they'll try to control tempo in here," he said. "It hasn't been that frenetic, up and down, schoolyard kind of game this year."
Oklahoma senior point guard Terry Evans averages 15 points a game and leads the Big Eight in steals, assists, and three-point field goals made. His 57 three-pointers this season have given him 240 career three-pointers, tying him for first place on the all-time conference list with former Kansas State guard Steve Henson.
Evans has a chance at breaking that record tonight, and Kansas senior point guard Adonis Jordan will match up with Evans, as he has for the past three years.
"He's a good player," Jordan said. "I think he's the key for them. He gets them into their offense."
'Hawks scorch nets, Lamar
Hot shooting in first half pleases coach
By Jay Williams Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team's fourth game in eight days was its best, as the Jayhawks defeated Lamar 84-56 last night in Allen Field House.
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Kansas, 15-8 overall and 6-5 in the Big Eight Conference, shot 54.8 percent from the field in the first half as it pulled out to a 13-point lead. The Jayhawks cooled somewhat in the second half, but finished the game at 49.2 percent.
Kansas coach Marian Washington said she was happy with her team's performance.
"I didn't expect us to handle them as well as we did." she said.
Kansas' 84 points were the most in a single game since the team scored 92 against Iowa State Jan. 17. Five Kansas players finished in double figures.
Kansas has had shooting problems this season on the road, where it had played six of its last eight games. Sophomore forward Angela Aycock led the Jayhawks' assault, scoring 22 points on 9-13 shooting from the field. She had shot 14-of-40 in her last four games.
Aycock and senior guard Shannon Kite started the Jahawks on the right foot with 11 and 12 points respectively in the first half.
"Tonight, everybody was getting into the flow," Aycock said. "We got the ball in a lot of people's hands."
Source: Kansas Sports Information
Junior center Lisa Tate pulled down 16 rebounds,the most in her Kansas career.
Kansas played its three previous games on the road, and some of that road weariness showed early as Lamar, 8-12, stayed close in the first part of the first half. The Lady Cardinals tied the score at nine after junior guard Sondra Ancelot scored on a layup with 13-21 left in the half.
"When two or three people start scoring, then everybody seems to start scoring." Aycock said.
Kansas responded with three-pointers on consecutive possessions from freshman guard Charisse Sampson and Kite. Lamar later closed to within four with 8-18 remaining in the half,
KANSAS 84, LAMAR 56
KANSAS (1-0)
Aycock 9-13 4-6 22
Shinn 1-5 2-2 4
Tate 5-10 4-4 14
Witherspoon 0-3 0-0 0
Leath 1-7 2-4 4
Sampson 3-6 1-2 10
Kite 5-9 1-2 14
Muncy 2-3 0-0 4
Holmes 5-7 2-2 12
Luna 0-0 0-0 0
**Totals** 31-63 16-22 84
Player fgm/fga ftm/ta tp
Thomas 1-1 0-1 0-1
Newell 1-6 0-3 2
Gant 9-16 7-9 25
Ancelot 7-17 2-2 17
Jones 3-10 0-1 6
Klein 1-9 0-1 0
Roberts 1-1 2-2 4
Totals 22-60 11-7 56
Hattief Kansas 43, Lamar 30 3-point game Lamar 1-14 (Gant 0-1, Ancelo 1-4, Jones 2, Fountain 0-3), Kansas 6-18 with 90% (Whalers 0-3, Leathers 0-8, Amperson 3, Kite 3-7, Munyco 0-1) Rift 4-15 with 100% (Whalers 13, Ancelo 13, Lamar 13, Jones 6), Kansas 16 (Munyc 9)
Total fouls Lamar 1.3, Kansas 16 Attendance 250
but Kansas went on a 18-9 run. An Aycock steal and layup with one minute remaining gave the Jayhawks a 15-point lead, and Lamar never threatened again.
Lamar junior center Travea Gant led her team with 25 points, 18 in the first half. She and Ancelot scored 42 of the team's 56 points, but those efforts were not enough as Kansas forced 30 turnovers by the Lady Cardinals. The starting backcourt of Ancelot and senior guard Ramona Jones combined for 21 turnovers.
Washington substituted liberally during last night's game. No Kansas player played more than 30 minutes, and several substitutes saw long stretches of action and contributed to the Kansas cause.
Junior guard Ericka Muncy played 29 minutes, her longest stint at Kansas. She had a career-best nine assists and tied her mark for steals at four. Washington was impressed with Muncy's ball handling last night.
"I saw she was taking care of the ball, so she played," she said. "That holds true for all my point guards."
Washington said Muncy's solid play allowed the team's other point guards, junior Michelle Leathers and senior JoJo Witerspoon, to rest after the tough week of games.
Kansas junior center Lisa Tate drives past Lamar's Travaa Gant to put up shot. Jailer had a career-high 16 rebounds last night's '84-86 victory.
Things did not start well for Lamar, as Kansas took a 1-0 lead before a second had been played. The Lady Cardinals were assessed a technical foul before the game for failing to report their starting lineup to the official scorer 10 minutes before the start of the game. Leathers made one of two free throws before the clock was started.
NOTE:
Sophomore forward Alana Slatter did not play last night. She suffered a concussion Sunday against Nebraska, and doctors did not clear her to play last night. She is listed as probable for Friday night's game against Oklahoma State in the field house.
Football banquet caps off banner year
By Blake Spurnev
Kansan sportswriter
"A banquet like this officially ends one season and officially starts another."
Kansas coach Glen Mason addressed a full house at the annual football banquet last night at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive, to give his "State of the Team Address"
The first order of business, however, was to recognize the accomplishments of last year's 8-4 team, which was the first Kansas team to go to a bowl game in 11 years. By beating Brigham Young 23-20 in the 1992 Aloha Bowl, Kansas garnered its first post-season victory since 1961.
Chancellor Gene Budig thanked Mason for turning the program around.
"The 1992 football season was one to remember," Budig said. "It brought us back to national prominence."
When Mason came to Kansas five years ago, the team was coming off a one-victory season. He said he had a difficult time selling the program to recruits. This year's outgoing seniors, most of whom were members of his first recruiting class, were thanked by Mason for their contributions.
Quarterback Chip Hillery was voted the team's Most Valuable Player by his teammates. With a total of 48 touchdowns, 25 passing and 23 rushing, he accounted for eight more touchdowns than any other player in
the school's history.
Mason stressed not only where the program has been and where it is now, but where it is going. He predicted there will be greener pastures in the future of Kansas football.
"Each year should be something better," he said. "I can honestly see the light at the end of the tunnel with this program."
Specifically, he mentioned this year's recruiting class, which many experts have reported to be one of the top 25 in the nation.
One promising sign for the future is that Mason announced that the Jayhawks are being considered as one of the teams that will play in the 1993 Kickoff Classic. The game, which will be Aug. 28, is the official beginning of the college football season, and it typically features high-quality teams.
The audience of about 300 gasped when Mason said the prospective opponent may be traditionally powerful Florida State. Noticeably miffed, he said that it had taken several years to get his players to believe that they can win against any opponent.
The Kickoff Classic is not a done deal, but if Kansas is offered to play in the game, Mason said he would definitely accept. He said he hoped that Florida State would be the opponent and that he felt the Jayhawks could win.
"All we talk about in our program now is winning," he said.
"We need to work on the attitudes of the fans," he said.
Paul Kotz/ KANSAN
Kansas coach Glen Mason speaks about the transformation that the Kansas football program has made during the past few years at the Kansas football team banquet.
All-State basketball player selects tennis as collegiate sport of choice
By Matt Doyle
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas women's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher can thank the sport of basketball for giving his team Abby Woods.
Woods, a junior from Tulsa, Okla., considered baseball his favorite basketball player than a
tennis player when she was at Cascia Hall High School. She thought for a while that basketball, not tennis, would be her sport on the collegiate level.
"Seriously, I wanted to play college basketball, but now all of that has changed," she said.
Woods was selected as a first-team All-City basketball player by the Tulsa Tribune her junior and senior years, and was named an All-State player after her senior year. She was also a four-time state champion in tennis, and was named an American her senior year by the manufacturers of Prince tennis rackets.
Her father, though, convinced her that tennis was the sport for her to pursue competitively on the collegiate level.
"He told me that I'd be able to do more with tennis than basketball," she said. "I do miss playball basketball, but I realized by playing
tennis and what I want to do in life, tennis is going to help me out a lot more."
Woods has performed well for the Wilhawkss since the calendar changed to 1993. She has posted a 5.0 record this semester playing in the No. 4 singles position.
"She has been one of our fiercest competitors all year long," Merzbacher said. "She realizes that the harder she works, the better the results she will get."
Basketball, though, helped her tennis game in high school. Her basketball coach, Cip Patterson, believed in a strenuous conditioning program, which helped her on both courts.
"I was in outstanding shape, so that when tennis season came around, the thought of back into shape and worrying about physical conditioning wasn't there," she said. "It was just a matter of timing and getting my strokes back to feel confident in playing."
Until her collegiate career at Kansas, Woods was used to playing basketball for half of the year and tennis for the other half. Now by concentrating just on tennis, the conditioning aspect is much easier for her.
"The conditioning program here is tough, but I think basketball is why I succeed through it," she said. "When I'm playing a match I don't have to worry about my physical conditioning."
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