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University Daily Kansan, January 11, 1984
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KU's Allen is ruled ineligible
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
The KU women's basketball team will be without the services of at least three players as it prepares to enter Big Eight conference play.
Center Philiae Allen and guard Sherri Stoecker are out for the season and will be redshirted, said women's head coach Marian Washington. Allen, a 6-foot-6 senior, is academically ineligible, and Stoecker, a 5-7 freshman, is scheduled to undergo arthroscopic knee surgery today.
In addition, Evette OiA, a 5-7
trojanian guard, will be out for four
days.
A FOURTH PLAYER, 5-6 junior guard Mary Myers, was suspended indefinitely earlier in the season for failing to provide a failful her responsibilities to the team.
Philicia Allen, a 6-foot-6 center on KU's women's basketball team, has been declared academically ineligible for the second semester. Coach Marian Washington will have to play without Allen and two other injured players, Sherri Stoecker and Evette Ott, for the beginning of the Big Eight season.
The Jayhawks will be particularly hurt by the absence of Allen, who averaged 15.9 points and a team-leading 9.6 rebounds in 16 games last season after transferring from South Florida and hind siding out the first semester.
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She helped lead the team to third place in the Big Eight and a 13-15 overall record after it had finished 2-9 in non-conference play.
Without Allen the Jayhawks are lacking in height, and Washington said she had stressed better blocking out on the boards as a team and making better use of the team's quickness to compensate for the lack of team needs more effort and consistency.
"We've PROVEN WE can play a good 20 minutes," Washington said. "We've played one good half in every game, and haven't put two halves together yet."
An example was the Jayhawks' 86-69 loss to nationally ranked Northeastern Louisiana in the final round of last week's Miami Dial Classic.
The Jayhawks led by two at halftime after holding Northeastern Louisiana's dominating center Lisa Ingram scoreless. But Ingram broke loose for 17 points in the second half, helping to sink the Jayhawks.
In the Dial Classic, a round-robin tournament, the Jawhacks lost 81-64 to Cleveland State in the opening round and defeated Mercer College 72-66 in overtime in the second game. Their record is 4-8.
The Jawahares open Big Eight play Jan 18 against Missouri in Lawrence Washington said Missouri and Kansas to beat in the conference this year.
KU WILL PLAY an exhibition game
Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Allen Field
House against Varsity Sports, an
Amateur Athletic Union team that
includes former Jayhawk Angela Taylor
With the addition this semester of 5 to sophomore Marilyn Jenkins, a transfer from the Air Force Academy, Wash- ington has nine players to work with.
The Jayhawks are led by the front-line trio of 5-10 senior Angie Snider and the Adkins sisters, 6-0 junior Barbara and 6-1 sophomore Vickie. Snider has been the Jayhawks' leading scorer the past two seasons and an All-Big Eight selection last year
As in the past, the Jayhawks will enter the Big Eight season after a rugged pre-season schedule.
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