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The University Daily KANSAN
March 22,1984 Page 14
Wade finalist third on KU's all-time scoring list
Hawks' Snider finishes sparkling career
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
Sports Writer
Angie Snider's last game in a Kansas Jayhawk basketball uniform was not one she'll look back on with fond memories.
"The only thing I won't be able to forget about this season is that I didn't get to play in the second half of my last game," said the 5-foot-10 senior from Roeland Park, who is one of 30 finalists for the Wade Trophy, the award given each year to the top senior player in women's collegiate basketball.
Snider was forced to the sidelines with a sprained ankle with 17 minutes, 21 seconds left in KU's opening round game of the Big Eight Post-Season Tournament against Oklahoma. She played only 12 minutes in the 76-63 loss and was held to a season-low total of four points.
"It was just disappointing for me to sit on the sidelines and watch, but our team tried so hard," she said. "I was proud of them even though we lost."
It was hardly a fitting finale to Snider's sparkling career as a Jayhawk, during which she was an All-Big Eight selection her junior and senior years and twice Big Eight player of the Week. She finished third on the all-time KU scoring list behind Lynette Woodard and Adrian Mitchell.
Snider led the conference in scoring this year with 21 points a game and finished second last year with a 19.5 average. She had 16 games in which she scored 25 or more points in her career, including a career-high 38 in a triple-overtime victory over Missouri last year.
The Jayhawks have struggled in the past three years, but not because of Snider. While various players have been injured, declared inelegible, or have transferred, she has been the catalyst that has held the team together since then, but two games in her three seasons at KU after transferring from Oregon
She led the team in assists her first
two seasons and in scoring and steals the past two years while playing everywhere from point guard to high post.
"I never really felt comfortable at any one position because I didn't know which position I'd be playing from game to game," Snider said. "I just wanted to contribute in any way I could, whether that meant scoring, passing or defense, for whatever given game in any given situation."
Snider said she could notice the other teams in the conference concentrating on her more this year after she made her presence felt last year.
"There would definitely be one person denying me the bail, and whenever I got it there would be two people on me," she said.
After scoring 26.1 points a game during the non-conference part of the schedule, Snider watched her average score decrease by 5.7 points in non-conference teams ganged up on her inside.
But when freshman Renae Page was inserted at center in the Colorado game late in the season, Snider was able to and busted loose for 35 points.
"I really felt comfortable outside, and a lot of things opened up," she said of that game. "So many things were played there, and one was used to having me out there."
Now that her basketball career at KU is over, Sniper plans to student teach next fall and get her degree in physical education, with a minor in biology, and then begin work toward a master's degree. KU head coach Marian Washington has asked her to be a graduate assistant on next year's KU squad.
If the opportunity arises, Snider said she would like to play professional basketball, either in Europe or in the United States, starting up this fall in the United States.
Snider started playing basketball in the fifth grade in the Catholic Youth Organization program in her home town. She also gained experience in pickup games with friends, both male and female.
"I played against guys all the time, whether outside or in the gym," she said. "I think it helps out a lot. It makes you concentrate a lot more."
Although she played mainly inside during her high school days at Bishop Miege, where she led her team to two state titles, Snider said she had no trouble making the transition to point guard her freshman year at Oregon.
"After my senior year, all summer long I worked on my ball handling, because I knew that's what I'd be done," she said. "My high school coach prepared me well. He knew I would be playing guard, so even in my senior year he would play me some at guard."
Washington recruited Snider out of high school, but she forsook the Jayhawks and headed for the West Coast.
"I felt a need to break from my family base because we have a really close family with lots of kids," she said, "I needed to ... grow up a little bit."
But once she got out to Oregon, she found that her loyalty went deeper than her heart.
"I was getting into my major, which was teaching and coaching, and in my classes my teachers were telling me, 'You have to get to know the people in the community, you have to let people know you're around and are interested in what you're doing.' I planned on living in Kansas and thought that I better get back there."
She started all but one game her freshman year at Oregon and averaged 11.1 points. Her team made it into the final with something she never experienced at KU.
“Here, so many things have happened, and so many people have come and gone, but what could have been, or might have should or have been is all null and void,” she said. “I’m satisfied the way everything turned out, although you can never not keep striving for better.”
"It's funny when you start talking about these things and think to yourself
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After three years, senior Angie Snider has finished her career at the University of Kansas. The 5-foot-10 forward and guard, who led the Big Eight Conference in scoring this season with a 21-point average, finished third on the all-time KU scoring list, behind Lynette Woodard and Adrian Mitchell. Snider also is one of 30 finalists for the Wade Trophy, which honors the top senior in women's collegiate basketball.
Mideast regional semifinals
Kentucky, Louisville battle tonight
By United Press International
LEXINGTON, Ky. - At least the participants have got their priorities straight.
The Illinois and Maryland basketball teams are not going to let all the hoopla surrounding the other two participants in the NCAA Mideast regional semifinal game will be taking their game tonight is some unimaginable preliminary to the Main Event.
And, now that they've actually met a couple of times on the basketball court, Louisville and Kentucky no longer are going to let the long, heated intrastate rivalry of their universities and fans get in the way of the Big Picture.
After all, the Mideast semifinals are the next-to-the-last hurdle a team has to clear to become a member of the NCAA's elite Final Four and earn a trip to the national championships next week in Seattle.
And that's what is most important to all these teams, even if it isn't to the
marity pre-Kentucky crowd that will jam Rupp Arena for the double-header and to the sports media looking to warm over stories from last year. That's when the NCA Mideast championship game between Louisville and Kentucky was, historically speaking, a big deal.
Until last year, the two basketball powers that reside just 75 miles apart had not played in 24 years. But tonight's game is the third meeting between the Cardinals and the Wildcats in less than 12 months. So you can't blame those players — or the members of the Illinois and Maryland teams — for getting a little tired about all this Hattfield & McCoVy-vee stuff.
"This particular game is more important from the standpoint that it's a tournament game." Louisville coach Denny Crum said.
Kentucky guard Jim Master said, "it's not who we're playing that's important. It's the fact that each one of us plays that sort of this tournament to the NCAA finals."
Maryland center Ben Coleman commented on the Louisville-Kentucky brouhaha wryly: "Our game might be a preliminary for the TV viewers and the fans in the arena, but it's the main event for us."
And the Maryland Illinois game does shane up in a basketball classic
Tenth-ranked Maryland, 24-7 and the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament champion, is one of the hotest teams in the nation. The team won straight games and 10 of the last 11
They are big, physical and, at the moment, on an impressive shooting spree. Led by the 6-foot-9 Coleman and 6-8 guard Adrian Bran, they have made nearly 58 percent of their field goal attempts in the past four games.
The sixth-rated Illini, 25-4 and the Big Ten Conference co-champions, also are physical, though they are not very hard. Also, they also lack the depth of Maryland
"They are," said Illinois coach Lou
Jaison, team that could give
away trouble.
Michigan Wolverines want revenge at NIT
By United Press International
Michigan, still smarting from what it considers a snub by the NCAA Tournament Committee, is determined to take it out on its National Invitation Tournament opponents.
Next on Michigan's hit list will be Xavier of Ohio, a team which ran up a 22-10 record without attracting any national attention.
Michigan's 20-10 record is almost identical to Xavier's, and should set the stage for a spirited game tonight at the teams meet at Ann Arbor, Mr.
quette. And his teammates echo his sentiments.
"I think a lot of people on the NCAA committee are having second thoughts now," said Michigan forward Tim McCormick, who scored a team-high of 21 points in the Wolverine's 83-70 victory over Mar-
Santa Clara, which has a record of 22-10, will play at Southwestern Louisiana, 22-8, in the other NIT pairing tonight.
Tomorrow, Notre Dame, 19-11,
will be at Pittsburgh, 18-12. And
Tennessee, 21-13, will play at
Virginia Tech, 20-12.
The scene will shift to New York's Madison Square Garden for the semifinals, which are scheduled for March 28 and the finals scheduled for March 28.
Virginia Tech has won 80 percent of its games during the past 23 years at Cassell Coliseum. The Hokies beat 16th-ranked Memphis State there this season on their way to a fourth-place finish in the Metro Conference and have won two straight home games in the NIT.
Tennis team to challenge WSU women
Coach suspends three players for one week
By JEFF CRAVENS Snorts Editor
The KU women's tennis team will travel to Wichita State today, but will have to face the Shockers without the services of three of its top six players.
Head tennis coach Scott Perlman said yesterday that Christine Parr, Cindy Bregin and Barbara Inman had been given a one week suspension from tennis but would take the work to each individually next week before they would be reinstated.
"The three have been suspended for disciplinary reasons." Perelman said. "I believe the important thing is after you take the three back, we start to play like a unit."
Parr, a junior, played No. 3 singles for the Jayhawks this season During KU's recent trip to Hawaii. Parr finished with 4-1 single record.
Inman and Bregin, both freshmen,
each played No. 2 singles for the
Jayhawks during the Hawaii trip.
The Jays were the most reliable
different linesups in its five matches.
Perelman said he hoped his team would be able to pull together before the end of the season.
"I believe we are every bit as talented as any team in the region." Perelman said "We just haven't hit that goal. It has been kind of frustrating."
The lineup the team will use in the Wichita State meet will have Laura Runnels at No. 1 singles, followed by Janel Beleen, Steffa Dicke, Debbie Coleman, Pam Porter and Beth Brainard.
Rumelis, Dicke, Coleman, Porter and Boundare are all jammers when Boiler is in charge.
The Shockers beat KU 7-2 in action this fall
In doubles competition, Runnels and Dicke will play No. 1 doubles, Bolen and Coleman No. 2 and Porter and Brainard No. 3.
"Wichita is probably the most solid team in the region," Perelman said. "Their No. 1 player, Sandie Sadler, is one of the top players around, and their No. 1 doubles team of Sadlier and Jill Braendle is also very competitive."
"It is a chance for our team to see the top players in the region."
JAYHAWK NOTES — The men's tennis team will be in action this weekend at the Region V qualifying meet in Wichita KI will face Oklahoma City in first round play and the winner will advance against Wichita
Big Eight powerhouses Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will also participate in the tournament, which is designed to get the top team in the Oklahoma. Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska region together
The men are coming off an impressive victory in the UNLV-Michelde Lafate tournament over spring vacation. Perelman said that injuries to three players which forced the West Coast be sent should be located for the Region V meet
"Our guys believe we can win it," Pere尔明 said.
You'll find lots of interesting people at Gammons tonight. And how about these specials? Dollar drinks and quarter draws 'till 10:30. Very interesting.
"I DRINK TO MAKE OTHER PEOPLE MORE INTERESTING."—George Jean Nathan
See you there.
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