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University Daily Kansan, February 23, 198
KU on road to face Iowa State
By GINO STRIPPOLI Sports Writer
Sports Writer
The Kansas Jayhawks had their backs to the wall last week.
They were not playing well and were buried in the cellar of the Big Eight Conference race.
After a victory over Oklahoma and a five-point loss to 12th-ranked Missouri, though, the 'Jayhawks believe they have turned the corner, and they will try to prove it to the Iowa State team. They will meet tonight at 7:35 in Ames, Iowa.
Kansas has not won a conference road game since they beat the Cyclones on Feb. 14, 1981.
"We had two, tough, emotional games last week so we gave the team Sunday off," head coach Ted Owens said yesterday. "You can't stay that player and with the day off, the players were able to get back to a normal level."
LAST WEEK the Jayhawks, 2-8 in the conference and 10-13 overall.
played their best back-to-back games of the season. Against national power Missouri, the 'Hawks played tough throughout the game on a hostile court and turned the ball over only 10 times before falling to the Tigers.
Then, against Oklahoma on Saturday, Kansas turned the ball over just five times and upset the Sooners at Allen Field House.
"We are better prepared now to play than we were two or three weeks ago," Owens said. "We understand now what it takes to win. We're a lot more
"Our defense has become sound, our rebounds is competitive and we have a strong leadership," he said.
"At the beginning of the season, I didn't know how we would finish, but I thought it would be a little better than we were. We have continued to improve, though."
Against Iowa State, the Jayhawks will take on one of the most improved teams in the Big Eight. The Cyclones, 13-10 overall, are 5-5 in the conference and are in fifth place. The Cyclones, however, are just one game out of third place.
THE CYCLONES, coached by Johnny Orr, are led by 6-5 forward Barry Stevens, Stevens, who has been named Big Eight Player of the Week twice in the past four weeks, leads the Cyclones in scoring and rebounding, averaging 19.0 points and 3.3 rebounds per game. They also have nine points in the first meeting between the clubs, which was won by Kansas 75-69 in Lawrence.
Stevens will be joined in the Cyclone starting lineup by 6-38 Ron Harris, 14.7 points, at forward; 6-11 Ron Falensche, 5.6 points, at center; and 6.0 Richard Allen, 10.4 points, and 6.3 Jeff Horcornski, five points, at the guard slots.
"Iowa State is the most improved team in our league and they are playing with a world of confidence." Owens said. "They have some veteran players and they've blended well with the newcomers. This game is very important to both teams at this stage of the season."
The Jayhawks will counter with a lineup led by Carl Henry. Henry, who has scored 69 points and pulled down 42
rebounds in Kansas' past four games, is averaging 10.0 points and six rebounds.
"I don't think there is a player in the league that deserves all Big-Eight honors any more than Carl Henry," Owens said. "He hasn't had a bad game all year and has been something special in the conference.
"He's just done everything we've asked of him."
HENRY WILL be joined in the starting lineup by Jeff Guiot at guard; Kelly Knight, who has scored in double figures the past two games, at center; and freshmen Calvin Thompson and Kerry Bougni at forward.
"Our players came out of the Missouri game feeling that they could play and they've just continued to work hard and believe in themselves," Owens said. "Our young players have learned through experience learned along the way. They know they must continue to work if they want to improve."
After Iowa State, the Jayhawks will return home to take on the Kansas State Wildcats at 3:08 p.m. Saturday.
Swimmers look for ninth title
By COLLIN HERMRECK Sports Writer
Kansas' women swimmers will try to make it nine for nine this weekend when they travel to Norman, Okla., for the Big Eight championships.
The competition begins at 9 a.m.
toward and continues through Sat-
day.
A heavy favorite once again, the Jayhawks will try to extend their string of eight straight conference wins. The Jayhawks beat the championships were instituted.
"We do have what I consider our strongest team ever," Coach Gekmp said. "We've got very good balance in every area we so do feel like the Big Eight championship does belong to the University of Kansas."
THE JAYHAWKS ran away with last year's meet at Ames, Iowa, by compiling 745 points, followed by Nebraska with 459.
Kempf considers the Iowa State Cyclones to be the strongest team challenging the Jayhawks for this season by Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma.
careful we can make it a meet. we
always have a team sneak up on us.
But Kemp admits that he and others on the team are looking toward the NCAA championships, March 17-19 in Miami where KU hopes to finish in the top 10.
"We are by no means taking this meet lightly." Kempd said. "There is going to be some very close fights for positions in the meet, and if we're not
"We are taking a slightly different approach to the Big Eight meet this year," Kempf said. "That is, we're using it for a springboard to our national competition. We view our team's strengths and weaknesses and that is to prepare and put a little more emphasis now on the NCAA meet, instead of all on the Big Eight."
SEVEN KU swimmers have qualified in individual events for the national meet, March 17-19, in Lincoln, Neb., as well as all five of the relay teams.
The Big Eight meet will be the last chance for Kanaa to qualify swimmers for the national meet and Kemp said this year. The swimmers still have a chance to qualify.
mers have 14 of the top 18 individual event times as well as the five best relay times turned in by conference teams this year. KU's only losses this season came in Indiana and national team games in Arizona State and to Southern Illinois and Alabama.
"We do have a great many that are tapering and resting totally for the Big Eight meet in hopes of qualifying for the NCAAs," Kemp said.
The Jayhawks have defeated every conference foe in a dual meet this year, but Kemp does not think the teams will overcomeible getting kicked up for the 'Hawks.
A team is limited to 18 competitors at the Big Eight meet and Kemp said he had made a tough decision not to take any divers this weekend.
"Every school in the conference is going to swim their very best hoping to take a shot at us," Kempf said. "Everybody's out for the winner. That's fine with me because the more we're pushed the better we'll swim."
The game between the KU Jayhawks and Kansas State Wildcats at Allen Field House Saturday afternoon has been sold out, according to officials at KU.
Tom Hof, KU ticket manager, said yesterday that no tickets remain for Saturday's KU-K-State contest. It would mark the first selloff of the year for the Jai-Han team who have been front and center of the Allen Field House most of the season.
Tickets gone for KU game
For those without tickets for Saturday's game, it can be seen on NBC-TV as the Big Eight Game of the Week. Tipoff for the game will be at 3:08 p.m.
Going into the meet, Kansas swim-
'Hawks look to tie race with victory over KSU
By BILL HORNER Sports Writer
Sports Writer
The KU women's basketball team can move into a tie for first place in the Big Eight with a win over the 12th-ranked Kansas State tonight.
Tipoff is at 7:30 p.m. in Allen Field House.
The Jayhawks have been anticipating the game for almost a month. Since losing to the Wildcats on Jan. 20, Kansas has won six straight games and is in the conference with a 7-3 conference mark, 10-12 overall.
Kansas State, 8-2 in the conference and 18-5 overall, has been the conference leader and ranked in or out of the nation throughout the season.
"TM REALLY anxious to put our young club on the floor against them," said KU coach Marian Washington. "We've been watching films from the last game, and our players are hungry for a victory."
The Wildcats are going to be hungry for a victory, too.
The last time that the two teams met, Kansas nearly won. The Jayhawks led by as many as seven points in the first half, and didn't surrender the lead until the Wildcats scored eight unanswered points midway through the second half. After building up the lead to as many as 10 points, K-State settled for an 80-74 win.
K-State lost both of their conference games last week, snapping a nine-game winning streak. The Wildcats fell to Missouri and Colorado, teams that were among KU's victims in their current streak.
"We had a good game here," Washington said. "I'm anxious for a second chance to beat them, and they've improved since the last game."
KSU COACH Lynn Hickey said the
game would be a tough test for her Wildcats.
"We're going to have to play our very best to come out a winner," she said. "We had a difficult time beating them here, Kansas has played at home the last few games, and should feel very comfortable playing at home again. It should be a very exciting game."
The game is full of incentives. Kansas, which trails in the series 11 to 28, has lost to the Wildcats three straight times. The Jayhawks' current winning streak is their longest since the 1980-81 season, which ironically began almost two years before today with a victory over K-State.
All of those factors certainly indicate the possibility of a good game, but Washington is using this trick to key to what lies ahead, not behind.
Kansas is in the midst of a six-game home stand, while the Wildcats have spent most of the past month on the road. KSU has proven that its young players are strong. Field House, though, holding a 9-7 advantage in games played here.
"WE CAN'T lose either way," she said. "We want to keep on winning, of course, but when playing a good game you have to know you must gain something from it."
Washington said that K-State's losses to two teams that Kansas has beaten, the Jayhawks' six-game winning streak and the chance to be a national team were lead were not important in her mind. She simply wants to win.
"I'm very competitive. The better you are, the more anxious I am to compete with you," Washington said.
Kansas is led by the conference's third leading scorer, junior Angie Snider. Averaging 20.1 points and rebounds a game, Snider was held to just 10 points in the last match between two teams.
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