Jayhawks test run-gun offense against No.2 ranked Kentucky
By BRUCE CARNAHAN Kansan Sports Writer
A fast-moving, high-scoring game is on the agenda this Saturday night when the Jayhawks test their newly installed run-and-gun offense against Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats, the
nation's number two ranked team. Both are fresh from opening game victories as the Wildcats trounced a fine West Virginia squad, 106-87, and KU romped over Marshall, 96-80.
The game will pit two of the greatest basketball schools in NCAA history against each other. Last year both Kentucky and KU
were battling it out with Oregon State to become the first college basketball team to reach the magic Victory No. 1,000 mark.
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Yes, winning is a tradition at Kentucky and this year, despite the unexpected loss of all-Southeastern Conference forward Mike Casey, appears to be no exception. Casey, who averaged 19.1 points a game and set a Wildcat school record with 129 assists last season, will be lost for the year because of a broken leg received in an auto accident this summer. But Rupp, the winningest coach in college basketball with an 810-175 lifetime record, doesn't mourn Casey's loss because he returns nine other lettermen from last year's squad that raced to a 23-5 record and a SEC crown.
Riflemen to compete in smallbore tourney
KU's rifle teams will shoot Sunday in the 11th annual Kansas State University Smallbore Rifle Tournament at Manhattan. The invitational match starts today and runs through Sunday.
K-State's tournament is one of the largest intercollegiate shoulder to shoulder smallbore rifle matches held in the United States. This year's match will include 66 four-man teams from 25 colleges and eight high schools throughout the country.
Top teams and shooters from Murray State, East Tennessee State, University of Alaska and University of Missouri at Rolla will be included in the lineup.
The 1968 tournament brought together 58 competing teams, including some of the best shooters in the nation.
In 1964, the first national team records were established for the one-half international course at this tournament. Three national records were established in 1965 and in 1966 and 1967 other national team records were recorded.
The high school, college men, college women and college ROTC
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teams will all fire a half-inter-
national course of two targets
prone, kneeling and standing with
a time limit of 100 minutes.
All firing will be at the K-State rifle range except the ROTC match which will be at the Fort Riley range.
Highlighting this tournament will be a shooting clinic by the Army Marksmanship Training Unit from Fort Benning, Ga.
The KU men's team will be Rick Dale, St. Louis senior; Ben Zavala, Kansas City junior; Mike Jenkins, Salina sophomore; and Linn Covey, Ft. Leavenworth freshman.
Shooting for the women's team will be Carol Waltz, Orange, Tex., junior; Mary Arnold, Holton junior; Barbara Westervelt, Parsons junior; and Tana Monroe, Columbia, Mo., junior.
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Heading the talented corps of returnees is Dan Issel. The 6-9 senior center was an all-SEC choice and was named to various All-America teams a year ago. He averaged 26.6 points and finished as the top rebounder (428) on the sophomore-dominated squad that advanced to the finals of the NCAA Mid-East regionals. Issel rewrote the Kentucky record books last season, surpassing such marks as most points per season, best season average and most field goals and became the number 10 scorer in Wildcat history.
The talent continues because Mike Pratt and Larry Steele both return to their starting forward positions of last year. Pratt, 6-4, was also an all-SEC choice. He scored at a 16.9 clip and connected on an amazing 55 per cent mark from the field. Rupp has called Pratt one of the strongest basketball players ever at Kentucky.
Steele was the lone newcomer to earn a permanent starting berth on the Wildcat squad last season. At 6-5 Steele is a fine rebounder and is exceptionally good on defense. Last season he averaged 8.6 points a game and chipped in with an additional 7.6 rebounds per contest.
If Kentucky has any weakness it must be considered to be an inexperienced backcourt. Bob McCowan, a top flight front line reserve last year, has been shifted to guard. As a sophomore last year, McCowen scored only 3.8 points a game last year, but he was the leading scorer on his freshman team in '67. Sophomore Kent Hollenbeck has taken over the other guard position. Hollenbeck, a complete player with exceptional quickness and a good outside shot, led the freshman team in scoring last year with a 20 point mark. During his high school career he was named Tennessee's "Mr. Basketball" and was a member of the All-American squad.
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--the contest may be KU's depth in the backcourt. Four guards (Bob Kivisto, Chester Lawrence, Tim Natsues and Aubrey Nash) were interchanged frequently by Owens against Marshall, and if this Saturday's game evolves into the wide open affair predicted, this may be a deciding factor.
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In the Jayhawks opening triumph over Marshall coach Ted Owens was able to start his "small lineup" against the Thundering Herd. Consequently, the Jayhawks ran up a score of 96 points (higher than any game last year) and were still able to dominate the boards. This week the story may be different due to Kentucky's fine inside scoring punch and its powerful rebounding front line.
Owens may start with the same lineup against Kentucky, but it is evident that Roger Brown, 6-10 center who came off the bench to spark the 'Hawks last week, will see considerable action. Teamed with Dave Robisch and Bud Stallworth, both who had outstanding games against Marshall, Brown should give the Jayhawks enough talent to compete on the boards with the Wildcats.
If the Jayhawks control Kentucky's inside game, the key to
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