University Daily Kansan, March 10, 1983
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KU to take on Nebraska Women's tourney begins
By BILL HORNER Sports Writer
The Big Eight women's post-season tournament begins at 2 p.m. today in Norman, Okla., as the third-seeded Nebraska and the second-seeded Nebraska in the opening game.
In other games, second-seeded Missouri faces Iowa State, top-seeded K-State plays Oklahoma State, and third-seeded Colorado squares off against Oklahoma.
The semi-final round will be played tomorrow evening. The final is slated for 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The winner of the tournament will receive the conference's bid in the NCAA women's tournament.
THE JAYHAWKS, who finished behind K-State and MU in the regular season standings with a 9-5 conference mark, have won the conference title three times, most recently in 1881. K-State also has won three titles. MU has won one in the seven years that the tournament has been held.
This season, the tournament winner is expected to be one of those three teams.
K-State and Missouri finished with identical 22-5 overall records, and both have been nationally ranked all season. Kansas, who managed a 12-14 overall record, won 10 of their last 12 games, including an upset win over Missouri. But looking at the results from this season, anything could happen.
COLORADO'S LADY Buffs, seeded fourth in the tournament, scored victories over K-State, MU and KU, but only one game away from home.
Kansas had only three road wins during the season. Iowa State almost squeaked by Missouri in a game at Columbia, before falling 59-54.
Only K-State, which was atop the conference all season long, seems assured of a first-round win.
But the Jayhawks, who for the first time this season have every player healthy for a game, seem confident about their chances.
"It's going to be a very exciting tournament," said KU coach Marian Washington. "Our players are very confident and they realize that they played well during the second semester. I think that they realize they have the personnel to play with anybody in the Big Eight."
KANSAS' FIRST-ROUND game against Nebraska will be the third time that the Jayhawks have faced the Huskers this season. In two previous meetings, KU walked away with 85-75 and 100-84 wins.
"I think we know what we're going to have to do against Nebraska." Washington said. "They're a very quick, very explosive team."
Washington said that the pattern of KU's wins over Nebraska has been the same, but she expected the pattern to change tonight.
"In our previous two games against them, we let them run, in the first half. Then we came back and played again, we were in the face to play against them in order to win."
IN KUZ 16-POINT victory over the Huskers just over a week ago, Nebraska used their fast-breaking, quick-set offense to tie the Jayhawks, 51-51, at the end of the first half. But in the second half, KU was able to shut down RUN's running attack, limiting the Huskers to 41 percent shooting.
"We know now that we've got to start right out and play a pressure defense to try to keep them from running on us," she said. "You're not going to won't permit them to gain a lot of
confidence, because they get that confidence from their running game."
If the Jayhawks beat the Huskers, they will face the winner of the MU-Iowa State game for a spot in the championship game.
"THIS TEAM HAS had to weather some very difficult times, so we know exactly what it's going to take to win." Washington said. "Right now, our biggest challenge is to concentrate on making them understand, and to make very few mistakes.
"There's no way we can start off low
the tournament. We've got to come
right."
The Jayhawks are led by All-Big Eight selection Angie Snider and honorable mention choices Philicia Allen and Vickie Adkins. Snider finished second in the conference in scoring, averaging nearly 20 points a game. Allen is averaging 14 points and 10 rebounds a game at center. Vickie Adkins, who along with Snider and Allen won a player of the week award this season, is averaging 12.3 points and 6.3 rebounds a contest>
SENIOR ANGELA TAYLOR, who started in every KU game this year, and sophomore Barbara Adkins round out the KU starting five.
The Huskers, 5 in conference play and 14-13 overall, start only one senior and have been getting almost half of their points off the bench.
Nebraska is led by Debra Powell, who is averaging 17 points and five rebounds a game. Terri Parrillo, who is leading the team with 26 bounds, a game, is the other forward.
Senior center Kathy Hagerstrom is averaging 10 points and five rebounds a game. Cathy Owen, nine points and three rebounds, and Kelli Benson, seven points and three rebounds, will start at the guard position.
KU has few Big 8 tickets on sale
About 100 tickets remain for tomorrow's Big Eight Conference Post-Season Tournament game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the athletic department ticket manager said yesterday. The tickets go on sale at 8 a.m. today in the Allen Field House ticket office.
Tipoff is scheduled for 9:40 p.m. tomorrow at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
Tickets can only be bought as a package for both the tomorrow's games and the finals on Sunday. The
price for both days is $16. The tickets are for upper deck seats.
ESPN will televisie tomorrow night's game in a delayed broadcast, and the championship game will be televised live by CBS on Sunday.
Tom Hof, ticket manager, said that when the Jayhawks beat the Oklahoma Sooners Tuesday, the Big Eight office gave the athletic department 500 tickets. Hof said he had asked for a dress and received them late yesterday.
Of the 650 tickets given to the University, about 270 were sold to
members of the Williams Fund, he said.
The first 500 tickets for the last two rounds of the tournament were sold for $20 and were together in a lower corner of the arena.
Hof said that when he arrived at Allen Field House late tuesday night to prepare for the ticket sales, several students were lined up outside the field house bundled in sleeping bags waiting for tickets sales to begin.
However, tickets did not go on sale yesterday until noon. Hof said the first 500 tickets were gone by 3 p.m.
Gary Smith/Special to the Kensan
Members of the Jayhawk men's lightweight crew roll their new $10,000 shell into the chilly waters of the Kaw. The team is getting ready to head south for a spring break recrunch in Austin, Texas
KU crew team to row in Texas
By STEVE ZUK Sports Writer
Unlike most KU students headed for spring break in Texas, the KU crew will take their shells with them to the warm waters of Austin rather than on a boat.
Along with other teams from the Midwest, crew team members will row their shells up to 25 miles a day during the vacation. The teams will cap the week with the Heart of Texas Regatta on March 19.
The trip to Austin kicks off the spring
season, which the KU crew team, the defending Big Eight champion, is expecting to be its best ever.
"THE CREW IS much stronger overall than last year," coach Cliff Emmons said.
The team has been practicing since the semester started, working in Allen Field House with weights and a rowing machine called an ergometer.
The team put the racing shells in the water three weeks ago and has since been rowing on the Kansas River near Burcham Riverfront Park
The ergometer can measure the muscle development of the rowers, but their first real test will come during the trip to Austin.
KU will spend the week there schooling from schools from Kansas that have crews in
"MOST BIG EIGHT teams will be there," Elliott said. "We'll know fairly early in the season how we'll do."
Keith Walberg, Overland Park junior and president of the crew club, said the club formed in 1777, but didn't amount until Elliott became the coach in 1861.
"We didn't get good until the spring and 'Walberg said, "We hadn't won any more."
Then the men's crew started winning. They swept the Kansas Regional and won the Big Eight. They finished second in the Midwest Region Regatta and finished eighth in the National Intercollegiate Regatta.
THE CLUB WON the Big Eight title for the second time last season, and brought home second and third place medals from the Midwest regional.
The team will be competing in seven categories this spring; novice women, varsity women heavyweight and lightweight, novice men heavyweight and
lightweight, and varsity men heavy-
weight and lightweight. They will all
row in eight-man shells.
The club is only able to compete in the eight-man events because they no longer have a four-man shell. "Our team has never been so well said," we still have the pieces."
NINE PEOPLE RACE in an eighthman boat. The front man is called the bow. He is followed by people numbered from two to seven and by the stroke, who sets the timing for the eight oarsmen. At the stern is the coxwain, a person of diminutive stature who is the eyes of the crew. He doesn't row, but is traditionally thrown overboard after a victory.
The 41 men and 34 women in the club share four racing shells.
THE LATEST ADDITION is a $10,000 shell the club just launched this week. The shell actually cost $7,500, but the oars were $1,500 and transporting the boat to Kansas tacked on $500 more to the bill.
The club gets some money from the Student Senate, but it also has a "steering committee" for fund raising, made up of Lawrence residents and faculty. The students have new shell, the boat has been working on getting a boat trailer, Walberg said.
After the trip to Austin, the club will race in Oklahoma City, March 21, and at the Wichita Invitational, April 2. In April is 6 the KU-KState Regatta in Iowa.
"WE HATE LOSING to K-State," Walberg said, "But the last couple of years it's been no trouble beating them."
On April 16 is the Big Eight championship in Manhattan.
On April 23, Washburn will host the State Championship in Topeka.
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