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Monday, January 25, 1993
SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Postseason tournament expands
Doug Hesse / KANSAN
leff Berblinger, Goddard junior, warms up his throwing arm during baseball practice. The Jayhawks, who are gearing up for the new season, will try to improve upon last year's seventh place finish in the Big Eight Conference. Kansas did not qualify for last year's conference tournament, as the top four teams went. This year, the top six teams will participate.
By Brady Prauser Kansan sportswriter
The last time the Kansas baseball team was in the postseason Big Eight Conference Tournament, Ronald Reagan was president, the Kansas City Royals were pennant contenders and most of the Jayhawk players were just beginning to play Little League篮球.
Ten years later, the Jayhawk's chances for reappearing in the tournament have improved. The expansion of this year's tournament to include the conference's top six teams instead of four, coupled with the fact that Kansas returns 20 letter-winners, makes a trip to the postseason tournament look promising.
Since Colorado has no baseball program, Kansas will need to have a better regular-season conference record than only one other conference team to earn the right to play in the tournament. It will be in late May at Oklahoma City.
Kansas coach Dave Bingham said conference coaches in 1991 voted at their annual meeting to expand the tournament, effective this season. Conference athletic directors and faculty representatives ratified the decision.
"We just didn't think that developing the strength of the conference was possible if teams are consistently left out of the conference tournament," he said.
Bingham said expanding it to include six teams would increase the quality of the conference.
Joe Bollig, service bureau director for the Big Eight, said that the tournament was a significant revenue producer for the conference, and that the decision to expand it to include six teams was in part made to meet its rapid growth.
"I'm sure it is a definite recruiting advantage to be able to tell recruits that they have a six-out-of-seven chance of making the postseason oward," he said.
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The Wildcats, 11-3 and 3-1, built a 14-point lead in the second half, then had to hold on to the victory behind two free throws by Anthony Beane with 14 seconds left.
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"We gave one away," Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs said. "The critical issue for us was our free throws. You can't win many games when you have that many chances at the free-throw line and you don't convert."
More poor free-throw shooting doomed Oklahoma in overtime. In the last 6:54 of regulation and overtime, Iowa State made 13 of 16 free throws while the Sooners made just two of seven.
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“那 takes a lot of courage,” Iowa State coach Johnny Orr said. “The kid has been having tough luck shooting. He's been taken out of the starting lineup. A lot of guys wouldn't have taken the shot, and he hanged it right in there. He doesn't make that, we don't go to overtime.”
Missouri, 12-4 overall, 3-0 in the Big Eight, took advantage when Oklahoma State seven-footer Bryant Reeves went to the bench with three fouls with 5.17 left in the first half.
Oklahoma State fell to 10-3 over all and 1-2 in the conference.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Tigers beat Oklahoma State 79-63 yesterday after opening up a nine-point lead by intermission.
Oklahoma, 12-5 and 1-2, leed 68-66 with 51 seconds left in regulation, but center Bryan Sallier missed two free throws.
In other Big Eight games Saturday, Iowa State defeated No. 12 Oklahoma 81-74 and Kansas State edged Nebraska 66-64.
"He gave us a lift," Stewart said of Frost. "He did a nice job defensively. He hustled, he scrapped.
"We were able to get the ball down in low and get him in some foul trouble." Tigers' coach Norm Stewart said of Reeves. "We're struggling right now. But I thought we dug down after the first seven minutes and really played defense well."
"I'm not disappointed with our ballclub. I have just been disappointed in the way we play, particularly on the offensive end of the floor. We just should be a little more advanced than we are right now."
Sophomore point guard Jed Frost, a walk-on, was given his first start of the year and his first since 1991 by Stewart.
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Eaton, who had been scoreless for more than 30 minutes in his last two games, hit a jump shot from the free-throw line with 18 seconds to go to get Iowa State, 11-5 overall and 2-2 in the conference, into overtime.
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