University Daily Kansan, February 8, 1983
'Package deal'sisters add size, power to team
By DAVE MCQUEEN
Sports Writer
When the KU women's basketball program decided to recruit Vickie Adkins, they probably didn't realize they had such a good thing going.
Not only were they getting a talented 6-foot-1 high school All-American center, but it just so happened that she had a 6-foot younger sister named Barbara who played a little basketball too.
In other words, it was a package deal.
"I came up to visit KU one summer,
and I really liked Coach Washington
and the campus a lot," Vickie said.
"And Barbara said she was going to go
wherever I went."
BUT THE DEAL gets even better. Barbara had a boyfriend back home in Oklahoma City who shot the hoop a little also. After startling two years at Oklahoma City University, he was interested in transferring to another
Noor.
His name is Carl Henry.
His name is Jack. But the story has a sad side to it. While the younger sister and her boyfriend have seen a lot of playing time for their respective teams, the older sister has had to watch from the sidelines, hobbled by a frustrating series of early-season injuries.
But finally, after a year and a half, the Adkins sisters are together again on the court. With Vickie back in form and the addition of 6-6 Philicia Allen to the lineup, the team has found the rebounding power it lacked early in the season.
season:
LONG BEFORE they ended their playing days at Alabama City's John Marshall High School, where they were
both all-city and all-state selections,
Barbara and Vickie knew they wanted
to continue playing together, enjoying
the same success they shared in high
school. Barbara, who skipped n grade,
graduated and came to KU with Vickie.
But then came the injuries.
But then came the injury.
Last year, one week before her first game as a Jayhawk, Vickle tore up her knee in practice. The knee had to be operated on and she was out for the rest of the season.
season.
And when Vickie finally got to play last November, she only lasted one half before separating her shoulder in a game against Wayland Baptist at the Queen's Classic tournament.
Queen S Class!
TO SAY THE least, Vickie was traumatized. And if it wasn't for the support of her sister, her teammates, and a long talk with her mother, she said she might have quit basketball altogether.
nologo!
"I really felt like that," she said.
"But my mom talked to me on the phone and she told me not to. She said nothing was broken so I should be all right. So I didn't quit."
Barbara said she told her that the best thing to do was to keep on playing.
"We go to was to keep on playing. 'She was really upset,' Barbara said. "A lot of us felt that I am tired to think the girls on the team helped her the lot. They all tol她 to keep going to rehabilitation and she should be back soon."
should be back soon.
Her perserverence has paid off. Since returning to the lineup Jan. 15, Vickie has contributed to the team with her play off the bench. Despite playing only about 19 minutes a game, she is averaging 7.5 points a game. When the team played Oklahoma in Norman last month, she came off the bench to hit 7 of 16 shots and score 19 points.
"I feel good," Vickie said. "I'm beginning to adapt to the way the team plays. I'm glad I stuck it out."
plays: I'm glad.
FOR THEIRST part of the season,
with Vickie or action, Allen waiting to be eligible and the loss of All-American Tracy Claxton, Barbara,
normally plays at forward, saw a kill of action under the basket. After riding the bench last year, she has started every game this season. She has grabbed 139 rebounds this season, second only to Angie Snider's 144.
Even though she was grabbing almost five rebounds more a game last year, Barbara said she would like to improve her rebounding.
"I'd like to hit the boards a little harder," she said. "Points really don't excite me. I'd rather have more boards than points.
than points.
WE JUST KNOW we were a short team, and everyone would have to crash the boards. With Philia in, I do get to play outside more, but the way we rotate (during plays), everyone ends up playing low."
For someone not excited about making points, Barbara has contributed her share. In last Saturday's win over Missouri, she scored a career-high 26 points, and her 12.8 points per game average is third best on the team.
According to head coach Marian Washington, Barbara has improved a lot since last year, when she averaged only 3.5 points a game.
only 3.5 point.
"She WAS obviously a fine athlete, but physically she wasn't strong and she wasn't able to do some of the things she wanted to do." Washington said.
"But after the season she did some physical conditioning. It's just amazing how much she's improved since last
year.
Barbara, too, has noticed that improvement. She said she didn't expect to improve as much as she had.
year."
"I'm satisfied compared to where I was last year," she said. "I'm very pleased. Just getting used to the game last year helped me this year. That was the first year I ever played five-on-five ball."
In Oklahoma, high school girls do not play the usual five-play team, full-court game. Instead, they play with six players on a team, with three playing offense on one end of the court and three playing defense on the other. Some players spend the whole game playing white others play nothing but defense.
defense.
"ITS A REAL disadvantage because if you’re a forward, you never get to show your defensive ability, and if you’re on defense, you never get to shoot." Barbara said.
Because Vickie played that style of high school basketball, Washington said she was still learning to play both offense and defense in a game.
"Making the transition to playing defense along with offense is something most of these players have never experienced." Washington said. "Vickie is definitely an offensive player, but this is really her first game, some game experience. I think next season it might going to be confident about herself."
aberdeen sees more playing time together, Barbara and Vickie Adkins share another desire — to win the Big Eight conference championship.
"I just want to win the Big Eight." Vickie said. "I don't care how we do it, I just want to win it. A lot of people don't think we can do it."
Barbara Adkins helped her sister Vickie warm up before Bates KANSAN Allen Field House yesterday. Vickie has fought her way back into the KU lineup this season after knee surgery.
Debra Bates/KANSAN
Tarheels, Virginia vie for top basketball spot
By United Press International
NEW YORK — North Carolina and Virginia held on to the top two positions in the United Press International Board of Coaches college basketball ratings yesterday, setting up a dramatic battle for the No. 1 spot between the two Atlantic Coast Conference titans at Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday night.
North Carolina, which won three games last week to stretch its winning streak to 17 games and boost its record to 29-3, remained in the No.1 spot by receiving 26 first place votes and 585 points from the 41 members of the coaches board who participated in this week's ratings.
VIRGINIA, which won its only two outings last week to raise its record to 19-2, received six first place votes and 50 points to retain the No. 2 spot ahead of unbeaten Nevada Las Vegas, 20-0, which held on to the No. 3 position. Nevada Las Vegas received eight first place votes and 498 points.
Houston, 18-2, also moved up two spots to No. 6 after beating two Southwest Conference opponents.
Indiana, 17-2, moved up two places to No. 4 after turning back two Big Ten Conference foes last week and UCLA, 16-2, advanced two places to No. 5 after downing two Pacific 10 Conference rivals.
St. John's, 19-2, split a pair of games during the week and dropped three places to No. 7, followed by Missouri, which advanced two spots to No. 8 after posting a pair of victories over Big Eight Conference opponents.
ARKANSAS, 18-1, held onto the No. 9 position, but Memphis State, 17-2, fell five places to No. 10 after splitting a pair of games.
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Levittie, 18-3, recovered from its humiliating loss to Virginia on Jan. 29 and won two games during the week to advance one place to No. 11.
Kentucky, 14-5, Georgetown, 15-5,
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Villanova, 14-4, dropped three places to No.14.
Illinois State, 17-2, dropped two places to No. 16, in a tie with Syracuse, 15-4, which returned to the top 20 after a one-week absence.
PULSEUE, 15-4, which has moved into a contending position in the Big Ten race, made it back into the top 20 for the first time since the first week of the season by taking over the No. 18 spot. Georgia, 15-4, made it into the select list for the first time this season. In the No. 19 position, Tennessee, 14-5, climbed back into the ratings in the No. 20 slot after a two-week absence.
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Jayhawk is Big 8's third-best scorer
Snider named player of week
KU's Angie Snider, who has sparked the Jayhawks to three straight wins and a tie for second in the Big Eight standings, has been named the Big Eight Women's Player of the Week for the week ending Feb. 6.
the conference's third leading scorer, Snider scored 43 points and grabbed 22 rebounds last week, leading KU to an 81-79 win over Oklahoma last Wednesday in Lawrence and an 85-7 win over Nebraska in Lincoln Salisbury.
HEAD COACH Marian Washington said, "We have been a team of numbers this season and Angie Snider has been
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"I didn't expect this at all," the 5-foot-10 junior forward said. "It takes all of your teammates, though. You need good passes and good boards. It's a team effort."
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one of those players who has been consistently performing for us all season."
"We're peaking at just the right time," she said. "We'll hit the Big Eight tournament right when we need to."
scores on Thursday, have fought back from a 2-9 start, winning five of their last eight games. Their current streak began 10 days ago with a 118-111 win over nationally ranked Missouri, a game in which Snider scored a career-high 38 points.
0. SNIDER, WHO is averaging 19.7
points and almost 10 rebounds a game, has been the team's leading scorer in 15 of KU's 19 games, but she considers the team's success just that — a team success.
"We've been getting double figures out of everybody, at least the starters. We're feeling good. That's not to say we don't need to improve, but right now, people want us."
Snider, who was named to the second team All-Big Eight tournament team last season, won All-State honors for three years at Bishop Miege High School.
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