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University Daily Kansan, April 6. 1984 Page 16
Coaching box should help, Brown says
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Writer
KU basketball coach Larry Brown yesterday gave his support to the team, which is coaching box, saying it would be cool if officials from harassing officials and fans.
"We represent the game and we don't want to represent it in a bad way," he said. "I think it's a great idea."
The new rule, approved Tuesday by the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee, creates a 28-foot area stretching from the baseline to the court hash marks, which are normally 18 feet from the half-court line.
"I think it will make people be
consistent and not have an unfair advantage over others." he said.
Brown said it would not inhibit his vocal coaching style.
"As long as it's good for the game I can live with it. We had a box in the NBA and I lasted a few years there," Brown said.
"If the people on the committee are good idea, it's fine with me," he said.
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Jack Hartman, head basketball coach at Kamaua, said he had no plans to sign a deal.
Hartman said he hoped that requiring coaches to remain in the box would curb some of the court-side antics that have plagued basketball in the Big Eight Conference. He said the problem was worse in other confer-
Brown agreed, noting that in the NCAA tournament Georgetown coach John Thompson stayed on his feet and roved the sidelines during much of the
"I think it is designed more toward stopping the harassment of officials
During the season, Brown exchanged words at half-court with Missouri coach Norm Stewart. Brown said, however, that he didn't think the rule was aimed at stopping hostilities between coaches.
In another rule change, the committee left the question of a 45-second shot clock open for conferences to decide
Brown said he doubted the Big
Eight would approve the shot clock, but Hartman said he thought it had a good chance of being approved.
Hartman said he liked the idea of a shot clutch, but only if it was continued.
Brown said he wasn't sure whether he would vote for the shot clock
Brown said a 45-second shot clock would have little effect on the game. He said a shot clock probably wouldn't speed up the tempo of the game, as its proponents claim, because teams rarely use 45 seconds to shoot even when playing a delay offense.
Ideally, he said he would like a 35-40-second shot clock that began only after the ball crossed the half-court line.
'Hawks sweep Baker prepare for Missouri
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
Kansas pitcher John Quinn helped his earned run average considerably in a 5-4 victory over Baker in the second game of a doubleheader yesterday afternoon at Quigley Field. KU won the first game 13-3 in a game called after five innings
Quinn, who hadn't retired a batter in his last star, entered the second game with a 12.37 ERA, but had cut it down to 7.61 by the time Chris Ackley relieved him after five innings. Duke Lochr finished up in the seventh.
"I came out with a lot of confidence," Quinn said. He said that he went with his slider a lot more this game, which helped him strike out 10 batters, the most in a game by any KU pitcher this season. He gave up two hits and walked two bases.
KU only had six hits in the game, including two by Todd Schweigert. Nick Zick belted a two-run homer, his first of three.
"We didn't exactly scald the ball," Marty Pattin, KU head coach said. "We had trouble with breaking pitches. They were too cold."
The Jayhawks had no problem hitting the ball in the first game. They had 13 hits and were helped by seven Baker errors. Hugh Stanfield, Rob Thomson, Bill Yelton, John Hart, Steve Meyer and Scott Jones had two hits each. Thomson cracked a two-run double and Yellow had a two-run triple.
Brett Morris, 3,1, started and went the distance, giving up nine runs and four hits. He struck out five batters and打胜
KU, 16-13 overall and 1-4 in the Big Eight conference, returns to conference play with double-headers against Missouri tomorrow and Sunday at Quigley Field. Dennis Copen and Charlie Buzard will be the starting pitchers Saturday, and Kevin Kroeker and Drew Hosman will start Sunday.
Missouri lost three games to Nebraska in its only conference action so far.
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KU catcher Rob Thomson slides into Baker catcher Keith Butler. Thomson was called out in the first inning of the Jeyhawks' 13-3 victory in the first game of a double-header yesterday at Quigley Field.
Softball team to open Big 8 season tomorrow
Sports Writer
By GREG DAMMAN
The Big Eight softball season, new to the conference this year, will open tomorrow with the KU Jayhawks meeting Missouri at 11 a.m. and Kansas State at 3 p.m. at Holcom Sports Complex.
The scheduling is set up so that five of the seven Big Eight teams that have softball teams will travel to one of two conference cities. Colorado is the only Big Eight school that does not have a softball team.
"It will be new," KU coach Bob
Stancill said. "The two things I've noticed the most is that it will cut down on our travel time and missed class time."
After wet weather during the early part of the week, the Jayhawks practiced outside yesterday on the outfield at Ice Field. Stancliff said that he hoped his team could practice on its home field today.
“It’s kind of a strange feeling to be into the sixth or seventh of April and not having been on our own field,” Stanclift said.
Despite the missed practice time outdoors, Stancillock said that he was confident his players would be able to continue.
ticed throughout the week.
"We've had a couple of good practices," Stanciflard said. "But defensively we've had problems' since the beginning of spring."
The Jayawhaws' only chance to work out those problems before the Big Eight opener, a make-up game against Barton County Junior College, was rained out Tuesday. But Stancil said missing that game hadn't hurt his team.
Kansas' record stands at 10-7 following Sunday's double-bheader split with Creighton. Stancifer said that Missouri and K State were the only Big Eight teams he hadn't seen play this
year and that both were young teams.
Missouri's pitching staff has a combined earned run average of 0.6 and the Tigers are allowing only 1.5 runs a game. The Tigers, 13-7 this season, are ranked in the top 15 in the country.
"Talking a little bit to some of the other coaches, Missouri and K-State are very similar to us as far as having a shared identity," said Larry Knowlton, who know very little about their personnel."
"Even though they're very young, they're playing very well," Stancill said. "They hitting and run production is great," and a lot of that is due to graduation.
KU men's tennis team to face Oklahoma, OSU
By JEFF CRAVENS Sports Editor
The Kansas Jayhawk men's tennis team will try to gain some respect in the Big Eight when it takes on Oklahoma State and Oklahoma, the Conference's top two teams, in dual meets today and tomorrow in Lawrence.
KU will take on Oklahoma State today at 2 p.m. on the Allen Field House courts. The Oklahma校会 is scheduled to begin tomorrow at 1 p.m. If the weather is bad, the matches will be moved to the Alvamar Racquet Club with the OSU match beginning at 9 p.m. and the OU match ending at noon.
"This is what the team is gearing up for," head coach Scott Perlenean said. Basically, this is the big Eight season. But he also dominated the league in recent years.
The Jayhawks, 9-6 on the season, are led by freshman Mike Wolf. Wolf, while trying to qualify for the NCAA tournament as a freshman, will face OSU's Peter Mallett and Oklahoma's Sam Fotopolous, both of whom are ranked among the top 50 collegiate players in the country.
"Definitely Mallett and Fotopolus are among the best players in the region," Wolf said. "There are about five players competing for the four
Wolf and sophomore Michael Center are also competing for a spot in NCAA
Perelman and Wolf both said they were hoping that a vocal crowd will be able to join in.
Wolf agreed.
“Our guys perform better when they are in front of a large group of people.” Perealman said. “I think people would be more motivated to enjoy this caliber of tennis can be.”
The women's tennis team will be in action in Oklahoma this weekend, facing Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
"I know I like to play in front of a lot of people," he said. "I know that a crowd can really help you, just like at a basketball game. We're not as well known as Oklahoma State, but I hope we can get a big crowd."
"I feel like we have really improved as a team over the last 10 days," Perelman, who will stay behind with the men, said. "I have a much better feeling about them. I wish I could be in two places at one time."
News briefs from staff and wire reports
Valesente stable at KUMC after apparent heart attack
Valesate, 43, began experiencing chest pains Wednesday afternoon and was taken to the Med Center, where he is in the intensive care unit.
KU assistant football coach Bob Valesente, who was hired Monday as a quarterback coach, was in stable condition last night at the University of Kansas Medical Center after undergoing emergency bypass surgery for an apparent heart attack yesterday afternoon.
Physicians originally diagnosed that Valesente was suffering from a blockage problem with one of the arteries to the heart. The problem was not diagnosed as serious early yesterday, but Valesente's condition worsened about 5 p.m.
KU head coach Mike Gottfried hired Valesente from the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League. Valesente participated in one workout on Tuesday.
Jabbar breaks record against Utah
The 7-foot-2 center, in his 15th NBA season, needed 21 points entering the contest to break the record. He received a standing ovation by the team's fans.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers hit on his trademark shot, a 12-foot skyhook, in the fourth quarter of last night's game against the Utah Jazz to break Wilt Chamberland's all-time NBA regular-season scoring record of 31,419 points, a mark many thought would never be eclipsed.
He tied the mark with a slam dunk at 10:55 left in the game and with 8:53 remaining he took a pass from Magic Johnson on the right baseline. Despite being guarded by three Utah players, he then dropped the hook through.
Men, women travel to K-State meet
The KU men's and women's track teams will be in action tomorrow at the Kansas State Invitational in Manhattan. Four members of the women's team and one member of the men's team are passing up the K-State meet in order to compete in the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas.
Two of the women, Rosie Wadman and Connie McKernan, are competing in the heptathlon at Texas. Stine Lerdahl is entered in the shot put, and Anne-Grette Baeraes will compete in the javelin. Clint Johnson is entered in the shot put and discuss in the men's division.
The K-State Invitational includes teams from K-State, Nebraska, Central Missouri State, Wichita State and Kansas. Twelve women and 29 men will make the trip to Manhattan, with seven men competing unattached.
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