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The University Daily KANSAN
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October 25,1983 Page 14
Jayhawks picked by media to take conference basketball title
By Staff and Wire Reports
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Although the Nebraska Cornhushers have four returning starters from last season's NIT semifinal team, the Kansas Jayhawks were picked as the preseason favorites to win the Big Eight conference basketball title.
The Jayhawks have five returning starters from the team that finished 4-10 in the conference last season. KU received 24 first-place votes out of the 56 ballots cast by media members in the annual Big Eight pre-season poll and tallied 384 total points.
Nebraska pulled in 16 first places and rolled up 352 points for second place, closely followed by Oklahoma and last year's conference champion, Missouri.
"PUT THOSE FOUR in any order at the top."
said one media voter. "It's a tossp."
Kansas will be seeking its 40th conference crown in 86 years of Big Eight competition. The Jayhawks are fourth on the all-time NCAA college basketball win list, trailing only Kentucky, North Carolina and St. John's in total victories.
But the Jayhawks posted a 13-14 overall record two years ago and were 13-16 last season.
"I'M A LITTLE surprised (at the vote) considering we're coming off two 410 seasons in the conference race," said KU coach Larry Brown. "I hope they're right in picking us. I think the league has great balance. There are some talented teams in the Big Eight."
Brown is probably the reason many of the writers predicted KU to win the Big Eight. Brown, who was hired last spring to replace Ted Owens, has directed his teams to a .637 winning percentage over an 11-year coaching career.
Big Eight Media Rankings
1. University of Kansas ... 384
2. University of Nebraska ... 352
3. University of Oklahoma ... 324
4. University of Missouri ... 300
5. Iowa State University ... 195
6. Kansas State University ... 170
7. Oklahoma State University ... 147
8. University of Colorado ... 143
Big Eight Media Rankings
During his seven full seasons in the pros, he led teams to the playoffs seven times and claimed five division titles. In 1980 he took an inexperienced UCLA club to the NCAA Final Four and lost to Louisville in the championship finale.
Kansas returns forwards Kerry Boagni, Calvin Thompson and Kelly Knight, who played center last season. Knight will probably move to forward to make room for 7-foot-1 transfer Greg Drrelling. Drrelling sat out last season after transferring to KU from cross-state rival Wichita State.
THE JAYHAWKS ALSO return one of the conference's top players in 6-5 guard Carl Henry. He led the team in scoring last season and finished second on the squad in rebounding. He has been mentioned on several preseason All-America squads.
History is on the side of the conference's other seven clubs. A first-year coach has won the Big Eight basketball title only twice in the past 62 years.
that tabbed Kansas first in the poll, t2 of them had Nebraska rated second.
THE CORNIUSKERS ARELED by 6-11 sophomore center Dave Hope, who earned second team all-Big Eight honors last season and averaging 13.9 points a game. Forward Stan Cloudy and guards Eric Williams and David Ponce will also return.
Oklahoma, which lost four starters but has All-American Wayman Tisdale returning, drew nine first place votes, and amassed 325 points for third place in the poll. Missouri lost two consensus all-conference players in Jon Sundvold and Steve Stipanovich, both first-round draft choices in the NBA. The Tigers were first on four ballots, but pouled 300 total points.
Iowa State was a distant fifth with 195 points,
followed by Kansas State (170), Oklahoma State
(147) and Colorado (143).
Missed field goals give Giants tie with Cardinals
By United Press International
ST. LOUIS — Neil O'Donoghue of St. Louis, whose 22-yard field goal with 54 seconds remaining in regulation forced an extra period, missed attempts of 45, 20 and 43 yards in overtime last night, enabling the New York Giants to salvage a 20-20 tie against the Cardinals.
A rare 34-yard punt by Giants' All-Pro Dave Jennings gave the Cardinals possession at the New York 34, but O'Donoghue was short and wide left on a 45-yard attempt at 6:10 of the extra period.
A 32-yard pass from Neil Lomac to Roy Green later gave the Cardinals a first down at the New York 2-yard line and after an incompletion, St. Louis coach Jim Hanifan elected to go for a touchdown to Dion Ogonegho, however, under right on a 20-yard attempt.
was wisé right or left on the Rookie cornerback Lionel Washington gave O'Donoghue a third chance when he picked off a Jeff Rutledge pass and returned the ball 25 yards to the New York 25 in the final minute of overtime. Again on second down, Hanifan sent in O'Donoghue, whose 43-yard attempt was wide right with 22 seconds left, leaving both clubs tied for the NFC East basement at 2-5.
The Giants' deepest penetration in overtime was to the St. Louis 44, but New York took a 5-yard delay of game penalty and punted.
and punched.
O'Donoghue's 22-yarder with 54 seconds remaining in regulation was set up when Giants' rookie safety Terry Kinard, making just his second professional start, was called for pass interference against Pat Tilley, giving the Cardinals a first down at the New York 4.
Lomax then passed to a wide-open Roy Green in the end zone, but the Cardinals' top receiver dropped the ball. On second down, Lomax flipped a short pass to Willard Harrell, open in the right flat, but the ball also fell through the running back's hands. A third-down incompletion brought on O'Donoghue, who tied the score 20-12.
United Press International
Huji-Sheikh gave the Giants a 20-17 advantage at 5:40 of the fourth period when he capped a penalty-aided 63-yard drive with a 29-yard field goal. The Cardinals had stopped New York at its own 22, but Dave Ahrens was flagged with a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty on a punt to give the Giants an automatic first down.
Giants' rookie Ali Haji Sheikh, who earlier in the game had set a club record with his 13th straight field goal, attempted a 66-yard field goal in the closing seconds of regulation, but his try at an NFL record fell well short.
four plays later, St. Louis cornerback Wayne Smith was called for a 19-yard pass interference penalty to give the Giants another first down.
ST. LOUIS — New York Giants' quarterback Jeff Rutledge is sacked by E.J. Junior in the second quarter action. Rutledge lost eight yards on the play. St. Louis kicker Neil O'Donghue missed three field goals in overtime last night as the Giants and Cardinals played to a 20-20 tie.
SPORTS BRIEFS From Staff and Wire Reports
Football team rents lights to solve practice problem
The KU football team will be under the lights once again for tomorrow night's practice. This time, however, practice will be at Memorial Stadium.
Portable Power & Light Company of Overland Park will provide the lights at a special rate of $400 a night for KU to look at the possibility of using temporary lights, said Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director.
using temporary signs. KU had practiced at Haskell Junior College on Wednesdays because 14 players had class conflicts but was told it could not practice there anymore because the field was being damaged.
The team traveled to Arrowhead Stadium two weeks ago in order to get in a practice before the Kansas State game. KU paid the Chiefs $250 for use of the stadium plus used two busses to transport the team to Kansas City, Mo.
KU's Seurer doubtful for game . . .
Several Kansas players are banged up, including star quarterback Frank Seurer, who is listed as doubtful for the OU game. Seurer has a hyperextended knee which he suffered in the second quarter of the Oklahoma State game. His place in the lineup will be filled by either junior Mike Frederick or freshman Mike Orth, both of whom saw action against the Cowboys.
With all the bumps and bruise suffered by the Kansas Jayhawks in Saturday's 27-10 loss to Oklahoma State, KU Coach Mike Gottfried gave his team the day off yesterday.
popper. Connerback Jim Rockford, who missed the Sooners' game against ISU with a neck sprain, returned to drills yesterday. Defensive end Jeff Hake missed the workout due to illness and Chuck Thomas, center, sat out with a bruised arch.
Oklahoma's offensive squad had more adjustments to make than the defensive team yesterday afternoon at Owen Field as the Sooners began preparations for Saturday's game against the University of Kansas.
... while Sooner offense prepares
More Sports Inside
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- Rick Honeycutt earns UPI honors as Comeback Player of the Year, p. 12.
- Kansas Women's Sports Day at Kansas Union today, p. 12.
- Big Eight football statistics, UPI Top 20 in Sports Almanac, p. 12.
Instant replay in USFL may be used next year
MEMPHIS, Teen. — The commissioner of the United States Football League said yesterday that the time had come to use television replays to help officials make the right calls on the field.
"I do believe there is an opportunity to use it," USFL Commissioner Chet Simmons said. "If it's there, why not use it?"
Nothing firm has been decided, but Simmons said he backed the idea of
"WE SEE ALL the time calls missed by natural effect — being in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.
place in the wrong place. Simmons, former president of NBC Sports, was in Memphis to speak to a local football booster club. It was his first visit to Tennessee's largest city as commissioner of the new league.
utilizing video as a tool to support officiating.
Asked why the USFL expanded from 12 to 18 teams for 1984, he said "No 1, I felt we were much too small with 12 teams. We would have a big enough base of exposure."
Athletic department to screen architects for design of center
By COLLIN HERMRECK Staff Reporter
Four architectural firms will be interviewed for the job, said Allen Wiechert, the director.
An architect will be chosen sometime today or tomorrow to design construction plans for the proposed $2.8 million indoor practice building at the University of Florida and facilities planning said yesterday.
The architect will design a preliminary plan for the building and determine costs of maintaining the building and the costs for utilities
The Board of Regents made the utilities cost study a requirement after KU's architectural services office presented the first proposed plan at last month's Regents meeting.
Several of the Regents members had questioned who would pay for maintenance of the building and for utilities even though the building was being paid for with private funds.
THE REGENTS POLICIES:
commit passed a resolution las week which stated that "preliminary nays plan for any non-academic building that is to be funded all or in part by non-state funds shall include a plan for maintaining and servicing the completed building, as well as a statement of the manner in which custodial support, utilities and routine maintenance are to be funded."
Wiechert said the preliminary plan could be finished in the next two or three months. He said that an actual starting date for construction of the building had not been set and that it would be determined when the athletic department had collected enough donations.
January 1983 has been set as the completion time for the building, which KU plans to finance entirely with private donations.
THE BUILDING, which is to be built on the west side of Allen Field House, will include a 70-yard football field with end zones, an indoor track and practice facilities for KU sports teams.
Mark Fisher, facilities committee chairman of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, said 700 to 1,000 permanent seats would make the building available for KU
and possibly Big Eight Conference track meets.
friedo Temple, an assistant athletic director, also said the building was important if KU wanted to offer adequate facilities for its teams.
He said the department also had plans to construct a new weight-training room as part of the new training center. He said he would practice building the first priority
"We can't even hold a legitimate track meet in here." Temple said. "And then you look at your basket ball coaches who need concentration from their players but have so many things going on around them
Despite the construction, the new building for indoor practices will not be the only expansion of facilities.
A NEW SOFTBALL field, which is to be built southwest of the field house, is scheduled to be completed by the spring of 1985.
But although plans have been prepared for the new field, Temple said the department was still seeking the money for the field's construction.
He said state money would pay for a basic backstory, the field and the fences but that the department would pay for state money for dugouts and any extras.
Temple said that a disadvantage had existed for the women softball players because they had to dress in the field house locker rooms but traveled to Holem Sports Complex for practices and games.
"COACH STANCLIFT has been telling his recruits for a couple of years that we are going to have our own facility and that's what I tell them too when they come to talk to me."
"It will be a great asset for them," he said. "Hopefully, we'll get this thing done."
Temple said KU also hoped to have the Memorial Stadium track renovated by the time of the Kansas Railways, scheduled for April 18-21.
Fisher said the inside lane of the track would be completely replaced and the other lanes would be refurbished. Part of the renovation will include adding pole vault and high jump practice pits and re-furbishing the practice areas at the south end of the stadium.
He said that two-thirds of the anticipated $145,000 cost had been collected through private donations
Bv JANELLE MARTIN
Sports Writer
He began running when he was in the seventh grade. At the age of 7, he shed heavy leg braces, and a few years later he was an athlete in a runner in junior high and high school.
No one ever thought life would end so soon for 16-year-old Ryan Young.
Young, a junior at Shawnee Mission West High School, died Oct. 14, apparently of a viral infection of the brain of the doctor who performed the autopsy.
Who ever thought that running, something that brought so much enjoyment to Young, would be a factor in his death?
He had been competing in a cross country meet at Shawnee Mission Park and had just passed the mile marker when he collapsed.
WHEN HE DID NOT regain consciousness, he was rushed to the emergency room of the Shawnee center where he was pronounced dead.
Dan Young, Ryan's father, told the Kansas City Star last week, "He wanted to become a jock. His dream was to get a scholarship to KU. The boy he talked about, the boy he wanted to pattern himself after, was Shannon Brooks."
Brooks is a freshman at KU. He has been redshirted for this cross country season, but will run during the indoor season this winter.
"Ryan fits in the same category," he said. "Shannon won a lot of races his senior year and Ryan wanted to do just as well if not better."
BROOKS, WHO BEGAN running in the eighth grade, met Young in high school at Shawnee Mission West. He was the 6A state champion who went on to win senior years, and he was the state runner-up in cross country in 1981 and 1982.
Carl Owczarzak, who coached both runners at Shawnee Mission West High School, said Brooks was very competitive and always gave his full effort.
He said he remembered meeting Young his senior year because Young was the only sophomore who went out for cross country.
or Cross Country.
"He made the varsity team at time trials," he said. "He was on and off varsity all year long."
The entire Shawne Mission West squad was close, especially toward the end of the year. Brooks said. And that was how he got to know Young.
"A lot of times the cross country team would go to football games together after a meet," he said. "We just did a lot together as a team. In October we would go around to all the haunted houses."
As far as running was concerned,
Young was noted for his hard work.
"He always ran all out." Brooks said.
"He never held back."
He also said Young was different from most people on the team because he was easy going.
"HE NEVER GAVE anybody on the team a hard time," Brooks said. "And if anyone ever gave him a hard time he just laughed it off."
he never met heck.
The Thursday before Young died.
Brooks had gone back to his old high school.
"It JUST BLEW my mind when I found out Ryan died." Brooks said. "I thought . . . I had just talked to him the day before."
day before.
Brooks said that the effect Young's death had on him was difficult to describe.
"I've always had high goals, to win
school. He had a doctor's appointment on Thursday, but because he knew he would miss practice at KU, he decided to run with his old high school squad, he said. That was the last time he saw Young.
"There was a meet that weekend and some of the team was going to run in a road race, but I did not feel like running," he said. "When I read what it said in the paper, it saddened me. It was tough to读但它 also made me feel pretty good. It makes me feel obligated to try harder now."
the Big Eight Conference, the NCA and someday the Olympics," Brooks said. "But now I'm just putting more practice and want immediate results."
Brooks said he saw Young, run a couple of weeks before his death and that he ran a good race.
"IF HE RAN TOL GH his senior year and kept working, he probably could have made it at KU," Brooks said.
Young's high school coach agreed.
"The way he had improved since his sophomore year was great," Owczarzak said. "He had knocked almost 45 seconds off his time. Last year he was running around 11-10 and this year he was down to 10:30 in the two mile. If he could have been over the station and next year, he would have had a good chance at KU."
Owczar扎 also said his cross country team would finish its season, which has the regional and state meets remaining, with only six runners instead of the usual seven on the team in memory of Young.
The establishment of a Ryan Young award for the most outstanding competitor on the cross country squash has been discussed but is not official yet. Owczarzak said. There has been a new tradition that has been led by the high school but school officials and Young's parents have not decided what to do with the money.