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Basketball Outlook Pleases Owens
By DON BAKER
Assistant Kansan Sports Editor
KU basketball coach Ted Owens is usually at best cautiously optimistic when evaluating his prospects for a coming season. But this year's coach was probably the KU coach of seven years excited.
"We have the potential to have the best team we've had in the last several years," Owens said a opening of practice on Oct. 15.
"ONE OF OUR WEAK POINTS LAST year was inexperience. Owens said in 2014 that he had overall record and second place finish in the Big Eight with an 8-6 mark. "But you going into this season we have more experience and we have not we had in the last three years."
Ten lettermen account for the experience and depth and will be led by All-American candidate Dave Robbins. The 6-9 senior Eight in scoring last year with a 27 point-per-game average and also led the Jayhawks in rebounding with an average of 12 points, making the all-conference team for the second "naughty year."
Robbisch has scored 1,718 points in his first two years of varsity and four years of collegiate place among all KU scoreers. Ahead of him are KU immortals Clyde Lovellet, Wilt Cham, Walter Wesley and JoJo White.
BARRING THE UN FORSEEN, Robisch appears to be a cincin to climb to the number two spot on the all-time scoring chart. He scored points to overtake Lovelle's life-time total of 1,978 points. Point totals Robach has scored first two years were 489 and 689.
Despite Robisch's imposition and impressive statistics, Owens insists the Jahyaws will not be a one-man team.
Five juniors, three of whom have started at one time or another for KU, given added support to the strong KU depth.
"We have nine players who have been in competition in a championship race and have a total of lot of ball," Owens assessed.
BOB KIVSTO. Bud Stallerville and Aubrey Nash all logged their starts at Kyiv, a 6-1 guard from Anastasia Ill., and Stallerville, a 6-5 forward from Hastellie Ala., started with Kyiv. He played a 6-1 guard from Hyattsville, Md., who was plagued by a crippling cold solid depth in the backcourt
IN ADDITION OWENS HAS promising sophomores that are receiving a petition for starting bertram Randy Canfield, a 6-8 product player who grazed Gray, 4-7 onward and Mark Williams, a 5-11 Denver guard, and 6-23 Jerry House from the No. 11 all being for playing time.
year with a 10 point volley against Cincinnati in the N.Y. Cup. He hauws out the Winters, 82-79 before an overheating Yahoo肢露. He lost to Danny Kubo and Mask, a 6-0 junior from Tampa, who also presses for a starting spot.
Another junior who Owens said must be considered a possible starter is Fred Boudreau. He will play at the season's end and finished the
"Our sophomores offer things we have not had before," Owens said. "Canfield gives us ruggedness in the front line where we need it, Gray is the best guard and I am since Ron Fenn, and Mark Williams is the best shooting guard we ever had."
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Douglas was a part-time starter two years ago while playing just the first semester. He was also an envoy that Owens interned to possibilities are Pierre Rousse and longer Brown. Rousse is in a 63 Kansas City product while Brown is in 641 and halls from Chicago.
WHILE, OVERALL OWENS finds himself with tremendous depth, he once concede that depth depends on the position may be a problem. (But he never apaint much of its early practice switching personnel), primarily Swainthill and Russell, to gain more overall balance.
agenda will test Stathwart and Russell, both last year, at the guard positions. The only guards listed gone into the Kirkus, Nash, Williams and senior reserve Matt Marsh.
the NCAA finals as we've had in some time."
"WE'RE ALSO GOING to stack with the single-post offense." Owee said. "Going from the session簿 will be another item we need to do." We are not in love of Dave (Olahatta) to handle a forward position load.
"We don't have a player with that number," Owens said, "But maybe we won't have to. Maybe by just entering at every position we can win it."
On our said the jerkbill, we will carry and fastrack move this year than in the past because we use it to process, the precondition to do it.
As for KJ specifically Owens is hopeful the experience his squad has will carry it to the championship
Groups are everything any judgment on the final outcome of the conference once face the teams will have a chance at it.
good chance," Owens assessed.
"The good thing about it is that the service is the beat since 97. The benefits are the best since 97. The team has a great team and we have the beat choice of setting."
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"We're going to spend the first two weeks experimenting," she said. "We've just finished our I’m trying to put it in a position that is the strongest at every position."
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