'New' Jayhawks blitz Marshall
By STEVE SHRIVER
Kansan Sports Writer
Kansas opened its basketball season with a convincing 96-80 drubbing of talented but smaller Marshall Monday night in Allen Field House. Kansas coach Ted
Owens unveiled his new runand-gun offense, using his depth and speed at the guard position.
Dave Robisch, the Hawks 6-9
All-Big Eight center-forward,
peppered the nets for a career
high 36 points. He was last year's
Photo by Joe Bullard
Little guy's big stretch
Aubrey Nash (25) makes a fingertip snare of a rebound while Marshall University's Bob Didur (54) looks on. The sophomore guard, playing despite a bothersome ankle, shared in the Jayhawks 96-80 thumping of Marshall in the KU basketball opener.
Gardner sharp on still rings
With record-setting Kirk Gardner leading the way, Kansas' gymnastics team will compete in the Rocky Mountain Open at Colorado Springs, Colo., Friday and Saturday.
Gardner, an Atchison junior led a four-man Kansas contingent at the Midwest Federation Open in Chicago last weekend with a school record performance in the still rings.
Recording a score of 9.55 in the rings, Gardner eclipsed the school mark of 9.45 he and Steve Pyle set in 1968.
Gardner's latest performance earned him a fourth-place finish in the Chicago meet.
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top scorer as a sophomore with an 18.1 average. Robisch also grabbed 19 rebounds, and both his marks were game highs.
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Close behind Robisch was sophomore Bud Stallworth who hit for 27 points. Over 10,000 partisans applauded the 6-5 forward with regularity in a sensational varsity debut.
Owens opened with his "smaller" starting unit and the Jayhawks ran and pressed with success throughout the first half. He began substituting freely at the outset in both guard spots to facilitate the 'Hawks fast break.
Pierre Russell contributed nine points and played his usual stellar defensive game. He fouled out at the 4:51 mark with KU ahead, 84-68. The familiar rumble of stomped feet shook the field house several times as Russell stole inbounds passes and turned them into easy layups.
Junior Roger Brown, a 6-10 center, came off the bench in the second half for 10 points as he hit 4 of 4 field goals. Brown's presence altered the entire complexion of the game; he pulled down six rebounds and blocked numerous shots in the brief action he saw.
When he entered the game with 13 minutes left Marshall had just closed to within six points at 59-53. In a span of a little more than two minutes, Brown tipped in a shot, hit a free throw, hit two short field goals and pushed KU into a 67-55 lead almost singlehandedly.
KU was hot at the free throw line in the first half hitting 15 of
17 en route to a 45-38 halftime advantage. Finishing with 34-44 at the charity stripe for a warm 77.3 per cent the Hawks made up the difference in the score since both teams finished with 31 field goals.
Kansas hit 47 per cent and Marshall 40.3 per cent from the field, but the Thundering Herd could only manage 18 of 31 free throws for 58.1 per cent.
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