SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday. January 29. 1993
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Jayhawks to face Rollins without Darrin Hancock
Kansan sportswriter
By David Dorsev
Bouncing back from Monday's loss to Long Beach State should be easy, said senior center Eric Pauley after the game, but he didn't know that the Jayhawks would have to do it without junior forward Darrin Harcock. The Kansas men's basketball team, 16-2, plays Rollins, a Division II tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in Allen Field House. Hancock, who had surgery on his right eye Wednesday and is scheduled for surgery on his left eye today, will be sidelined.
The 6-foot-7 forward, who set career-highs with 16 points and 13 rebounds against the 49ers, played
with blurred vision on Monday. His eyes were damaged during two separate incidents Saturday at Colorado, a game Hancock checked back into after being inured.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said that tomorrow's game against Rollins would give his players a chance to improve on their worst performance of the season.
Junior guard forward Steve Wood-berry will probably start tomorrow in place of Hancock, who is expected to be out for about a week.
"We're not interested in beating Rollins badly," Williams said. "I'm not looking for any great surge. What I would like us to do is have us improve. We're in this for the long haul."
The Rollins Tars, from Winter Park.
"It's tough to play a great game every night," Klusman said. "We were disappointed that they lost to Long Beach State. I'm expecting them to play so much better now that they have lost. We're just going to try to do the best job that we can."
Fla., are 12-4 coming off a victory Thursday against North Florida. The Tars were ranked preseason No.1 by Sports Illustrated, and Coach Klausman he explained the pressures on top-ranked Kansas.
Long Beach State spread the court on offense, which helped them to shoot 75 percent from the field during the first half against Kansas, but Khusman said he doesn't plan on spreading the floor.
"We're going to do what we've always done," he said. "We're going to be outsized, outquipped and outlented, and this will be a learning experience for us. But fortunately it's a team game. We'll see what we can do."
Williams said the theory circulating that the Jayhawks can regularly be beaten by using Long Beach State's tactics is absurd. The Jayhawks also lost to the University of Texas-EI Paso in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in March. UTEP is similar offensively to Long Beach State.
"You can go down along the line," Williams said. "In the last three years, if it has been 25 times, we've been 23-2 against it."
Kansas Jayhawks
record:
16-2
Probable Starters:
head coach:
Roy Williams
**Probable Starters**
**Rox Walters**
G Sr. 6-14 13.8 pp
*Adonis Jordan*
G Sr. 5-11 12.4 pp
*Richard Scott*
F Jr. 6-7 11.8 pp
*Steve Woodberry*
F Jr. 6-4 8.3 pp
*Eric Pauley*
C Sr. 6-10 11.8 pp
Source: Kansas Sports Information
Rollins
Tars
record:
12-4
head coach:
Tom Kluusman
Probable Starters:
■ Derek Thurston
G Sr. 6-3 16.4 ppg
■ Brian Nason
G Jr. 6-3 11.6 ppg
■ David Wolf
F Sr. 6-5 15.4 ppg
■ Dexter Vanzant
F Sr. 6-2 6 ppg
■ Andre Green
C Sr. 6-8 11.3 ppg
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Angela Aycock attempts a layup during the women's basketball practice. The women's basketball team will travel Sunday to Manhattan to play against Kansas State.
Women will attempt to focus against struggling K-State
By Jay Williams
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team hopes it does not overlook Kansas State when the two meet at 2 p.m. Sunday in Manhattan, even though the Wildcats:
have not won a game since Jan. 3, losing six in a row.
have not won not a Big Eight Conference game this season, including a loss at home to 2-16 Iowa State - a team that Kansas beat by 59 points this season.
Kansas coach Marian Washington said the Jayhawks needed to watch out for K-State in the latest installment of the Sunflower State showdown.
"One thing you never want to do is underestimate an opponent," Washington said. "We've had too many lessons of that in my career. They have everything to gain."
Sophomore forward Angela Aycock said the team hoped to learn from the men's team loss to Long Beach State on Monday night.
"We can't overlook K-State, or we'll do the same thing they did" she said.
K-State started the season 7-2, but has not won since. Still, a wary Washington said the Lady Cats have played well in short bursts, losing some close games and playing well in some halves.
"A rivalry like K-State brings out the best in everybody," she said. "It should be a very competitive game."
The game is the 61st meeting between the schools. Washington said every meeting was special.
Although Kansas has only one scholarship player from the state of Kansas on the roster, Washington said the more experienced players on the roster understood the rivalry better.
Source: Kansas Sports Information
"After the first year here, when the players get involved in all the other activities and go to the football and basketball games, the rivalry becomes clearer, and they identify with it," she said.
Freshman forward Amelia Holmes, a Topeka native, is the only scholarship player from Kansas for the Jayhawks. The Wildcats have five players from the state, including freshman guard Dana Pollock from Onaga. Holmes and Pollock played together on summer AU teams in high school.
Andrew Hodges / KANSAN
"It seems when you play each other, you play a little harder" Holmes said
Kansas has had a week to prepare for K-State and correct the mistakes that cost the team a victory at No. 21 Oklahoma State Jan. 24. Washington said the Jayhawks had been working on reducing their turnovers and working on their zone offense.
Against the Cowgirls, Kansas had problems with Oklahoma State's zone and fell behind 15-2. Kawai took the lead late in the game, but turned the ball over on several key possessions, allowing the Cowgirls a 56-54 victory.
"We've really turned the ball over too many times this season," Washington said.
NOTES:
The Jayhawks aim to have a few games each season with 15 turnovers, she said. The team is averaging 20 a game. Noisy.
- Washington has an overall winning record against every Big Eight team except KState. She has a 21-28 record against the Wildcats.
Sophomore forward Alana Slatter, who missed the Oklahoma State game with an illness, has practiced this week and will play Sunday.
High school coach praises recruit
By Matt Doyle
Kansansportswriter
Tony Severino has coached many outstanding football players at Rockhurst High School, including former Notre Dame offensive lineman Tim Ryan and Oklahoma fullback Kenyon Rasheed.
He believes that Tony Blevins rates with Ryan and Rasheedas one of the best players ever to play at Rockhurst, a Kansas City, Mo., school.
Blevins, a 6-foot-1, 170 pound cornerback, announced two days ago that he planned to sign a letter of intent next Wednesday with Kansas. He chose Kansas over UCLA and Stanford.
"He's the most highly rated kid I've had because of the position he plays," Severino said. "The corner-backposition is really valuable with
today's passing game."
The decision to attend Kansas was agonizing for Blevins and his parents. Blevins said that he chose to play for the Jayhawks because he felt most comfortable at Kansas.
Rockhurst teammate Kevin Kopp, a 6-5, 235 pound lineman, announced yesterday that he would join Blevins this fall at Kansas, Severino said.
"I'm happy that it is over with," Blevins said. "It was really hectic and stressful, but I would do it all over again."
Sills, 6-4 and 215 pounds, played linebacker and backfall for his father, Frank, at Sublette, but the Kansas coaches project him as a defensive end.
The Jayhawks also received an instate commitment from Luke Sills of Sublette.
Sills, who averaged 16 tackles a game in high school and runs a 4.7 second 40-yard dash, selected Kansas over Kansas State.
Sands is the younger brother of Kansas' all-time leading rusher Tony Sands. Irvin is the younger brother of Dallas Cowboys' receiver Michael Irvin.
Shawn Sands and Derek Irvin, both from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., St. Thomas Aquinas High School, committed to Kansas yesterday, according to the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
Sports clubs director suspends hockey
He chose Kansas over several
other schools.
The Kansas ice hockey club will not take to the rink again until the spring of 1905.
Venita Mitchell, assistant director of sport clubs, suspended the hockey club on Jan. 13. She told club members that the suspension was the result of their lack of organization and interest in the club.
Kansan sportswriter
By Mark Button
"We've had problems with clubs remembering that they are representing KU, whether it be in filling out paperwork, paying their fees, or their actions while playing." Chappell said. "They displayed inappropriate behavior."
Members of the club appealed Mitchell's decision, but Mary Chappell, director of Recreation Services, denied the appeal on Tuesday.
The club was suspended in the 1991-92 season for forging the signature of a faculty advisor in an attempt to sidestep actually having the required advisor.
The club was suspended during its last two seasons, as well.
This season's problems began early in December when Mitchell and Brad Bauer, a graduate assistant for sport clubs, attended one of the club's games and became concerned by the Jayhawks' rough style of play. They scheduled a mandatory team meeting to discuss the club's behavior on the ice, to do an inventory check on each member's equipment and to have the players pay their $15 fees. All Kansas club sport team members are
In 1990-91, members failed pay to their required $15-a-player participation fees and equipment costs and received fines.
required to pay the fees.
Mitchell said she decided at that point to give the club members one more chance to show interest in the program. She gave all members two days in which to see her, to pay their fees and to have their equipment checked.
Only seven of the club's 30 members attended the meeting.
By 5:00 p.m. on the second day, only one player had come to Michell
Mitchell said she then decided to suspend the club.
Fighting was not a reason for the suspension. Mitchell said.
Ryan Dunn, president of the club, met with Mitchell and Bauer several times to try to resolve the situation.
"I did all I could," Dune said. "The number of people that showed up at the meeting was a good indication of the team's attitude."
'Hawks to put rankings on line
Cyclones to blow in challenge Kansas swimmers at home
By Matt Doyle
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's and women's swimming and diving teams are receiving recognition as being two of the nation's top programs.
The latest College Swimming Coaches Association of America poll has the women's team ranked eighth and the men's team ranked 18th.
Both teams will put their rankings on the line against Iowa State at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Robinson Natatorium. There is no charge for admission.
Kansas coach Gary Kempf is excited about the new rankings but also knows that his team still has to perform well at every meet.
KU swimming and diving coach Gary Kempi explains speed building drills to the men's swimming team. The Jayhawks will face Iowa State tomorrow.
"It is nice to be recognized in the rankings, but I am also a realist." Kempf said. "Newspaper clippings have never won anything for us."
For the first time since 1983, the women's team is ranked in the top 10. The 1983 women's team, led by All-Americans Tammy Thomas and Jenny Wagstaff, finished seventh at the NCAA Championships.
Iowa State women's coach Ramsey Van Horn has fond memories of that 1983 team.
"That was a pretty impressive bunch of kids they had," said Van Horn, who is in his 13th season as the Cyclones' coach. "They were a good team in and out of the pool. They were good academically and athletically, and they were good people."
Kempf thinks this year's women could be as good as the 1983 team.
"Potentially this team could be better than the '8S team," he said. "We have people competing so closely that I'm looking for a swimmer to take the next step and become that elitist swimmer."
Kempf said that the elitist swimmer could come from any event because there are good swimmers in every event.
"They had to go through a period of adjustment with the training, but they have done a nice job with it." Kempf
The meet against the Cyclones returns the Jayhawks to competition for the first time since defeating Drury two weeks ago. Kansas has been concentrating on speed training the past two weeks in practice.
Iowa State's women's team is 3-4 in dual meets this season. Jenn Kollbaum, the Cyclones' top swimmer in the 50, 100 and 200-yard freestyle, is the team's only senior.
"We have some people who can go head-to-head with Kansas," Van Horn said. "We're not intimidated by Kansas. We will match up the best we can against them and continue to develop right through the Big Eight Championships."