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Wednesday, December 6. 1972
KU's Barrow Hesitates . . .
Kansan Staff Photos by PRES BRANDSTED
Goes Up for Shot . . .
Leaves IU Players in His Wake
University Daily Kansan
KU's 2nd Straight Home Loss
Hoosiers Overcome Jayhawks, 72-55
The University of Kansas got the opening tipoff against Indiana Tuesday night, but did not retain possession long as senior forward Wilson Barrow was called for traveling. The traveling violation seemed to be a bad嗅en for the Jayhawks as their play improved little and they were defeated by the Hosiers, 72-55.
By DON PF ANNENSTIEL
Kansan Sports Writer
The game before 11,600 fans in Allen Field House started as though it was going to be a defensive battle. Neither team scored until the first quarter, when the score was the 17:34 mark. The score remained close for the first 10 minutes until veteran Hoosier forward John Ritter started an Indiana surge. By the 9:07 mark Indiana had pulled up the ball and the Hawks never threatened again.
Although the Hossiers shot only 35 per cent in the first half, it was their dominance under the Hawks offensive board that played a principle role in their half-time lead. Indiana outbounded the Jayhawks 15-8 at KU's end of the court.
With the help of KU's 26 per cent shooting,
numerous turnovers and a tough Hoosier man-to-man defense, Indiana took a commanding 36-22 lead to the dressing room at half time.
The second half began with a change of faces in the KU队连线. KU coach Ted Owens inserted guard Dale Greenelee and guard Chris Baumgartner, but the switch did not help as Indiana's senior center and leading rebounder, Steve Downing, dominated the boards, and freshman Quinn Buckner's ball lead to 58-36 with 9:23 left in the game.
The 'Hawks did improve on their shooting
in the second half as they shot 48 per cent, but the rebounding totals for the game showed the real downfall for KU, Indiana, led by Downing's 16 rebounds and teammate John Ritter's 14, pulled down a total of 51. KU grabbed 40.
The surprise in KU rebounding totals was the sophomore center Suttle, the Hawks' leading rebounder in the Vanderbilt game, who had only two rebounds for the night. Barrow and Smith led the KU rebounding with 10 apice.
At the 4:00 mark in the second half Indiana grabbed its biggest lead of the game, 68-42, but by this time the Jayhawks were considered out of contention, and Indiana coach Bob Knight was letting his reserves get some playing time.
Downing also led Indiana's balanced kick with back points. He was followed by Jake Anderson, who followed.
If there was any improvement for KU in last night's game compared with the Saturday game against Vanderbilt, it was the personal foil total. Against Vanderbilt Hawks committed 29 fouls, but they gave the opposing only 11 chances at the free throw line.
For the second straight game 6-10 Suttle was KU's leading scoring and only man in double figures as he popped in 14 points. Against Vanderbilt Suttle had 19 points. Marshall Rogers was next on the scoring list as he scored eight points.
15 points and veteran Bitter who scored 14
Indiana's victory was its second of an unblemished 1972 season. For the Jayhawks it was their second straight loss which moved their record to 0-2. The Hawks still have yet to beat an Indiana basketball team as the series record moved to 0-4.
Rodgers Wins Heisman Trophy; Big Eight Stars Dominate Voting
NEW YORK (AP)—John Rodgers, Nebraska's three-treth dynamo, outran his badboy image and was awarded the MVP. He played college football's premier player of 1972.
"I never knew my real father and coach Davenay has been like a stand-in father to me. I'm sorte an 'old' 21, but when I was 18, I saw them wash with the law, but I'm not a bad guy."
Explosive Oklahoma running back Greg Pruitt finished second, and Rodgers' teammate from the Cornhuskers, middle defender Trey Burke, 1-2-3 sweep for the Big Eight Conference.
"Give coach Bob Devaney a lot of credit for this," said Rodgers, a 175-pound wingback who dazzled opponents with his pass catchin' running and punt returning.
Pruitt showed up before the announcement at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York, which awards the prestigious Heisman Trophy. He was open disappointed.
"I'm upset at losing," said the Sooner
speederist, "Johnny won because of two things. He does more than one thing on the phone."
Pruitt and Rodgers each said they were close friends, but the Heisman frontrunners from Nebraska and Oklahoma passed away on December 30. They arrived 30 minutes after the announcement.
Louisiana State star Bert Jones was the top man among 1972 quarterbacks, finishing fourth behind the Big Eight heroes with 351 points and 61 first place nominations.
Rodgers polled 301 first place votes from 942 selectors, pling up 1,310 points. Prutt had 986 points with 117 firsts, and Glover received 652 points with 99 firsts for the No. 3 spot.
"He won, I lost," said Pruitt, "that's life."
Alabama's John Hannah was No. 11 and the three other players announced, in order, were Utah State quarterback Tony Adams, Ohio State's Jake Felt and Louisville runner Howard Stevens.
Alabama quarterback Terry Davis was fifth, followed by Penn State quarterback John Hufnagel, Iowa State quarterback George Amundsen, Purdue runner Otis Armstrong, Virginia Tech quarterback Don Strover and Florida State quarterback Garry
Rodgers, an English major from Ormaa,
set 19 Nebraska records in leading the
Cornhousks to national championships in
1970 and 71 and an 8-21 record this year,
good enough to get them to the Orange Bowl
against Notre Dame.
Huff.
In three seasons, he caught 147 passes for
2,667 yards and 26 touchdowns. His dazzling
putt returns averaged 16 yards and
also ran the ball 133 times for 838
yards.
KU will play its second of three games in a five-day stretch Thursday when the 'Hawks tangle with the Murray State Torburets at Allen Field House.
KANSAS (55)
★ ★ ★
| | Rgcn | rcfm | reb | pf | pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Barrow | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sallie | 1.3 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sallie | 1.6 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Rogers, M. | 4.17 | 0.0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Rogers, M. | 4.17 | 0.0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Smith | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Smith | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Fideldee | 1.3 | 0.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Fideldee | 1.3 | 0.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 944 | 714 | 10 | 15 | 15 |
37, 5 . . . . 50, 0 .
INDIANA (23)
| | IGF-1a | IGF-2a | rab | pg | pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Nitter | 3.4 | 1.5 | 15 | 0 | 14 |
| Green | 2.4 | 1.4 | 15 | 0 | 14 |
| Wiltshire | 2.4 | 1.6 | 15 | 0 | 14 |
| Wilhelm | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1 | 6 | 42 |
| Wilson | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1 | 6 | 42 |
| Laskowski | 4.12 | 1.0 | 1 | 6 | 42 |
| Kamatra | 3.5 | 1.2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Noort | 3.5 | 1.2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Neerlhy | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| White | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| White | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Total | 13.90 | 6.11 | 31 | 17 | 72 |
| Totals | 13.90 | 6.11 | 31 | 17 | 72 |
Indiana 36 35 - 75
Kansas 22 33 - 58
USC Increases Lead Faces 1 More Test
Turnovers—Kansas, 16; Indiana, 14
Attendance, 11,600
Although unanimous No. 1 in Tuesday's final regular season Associated Press poll, the 11-USC team must risk its top-ranking one more time.
By The Associated Press
A Trojan victory would almost certainly earn USC its third national title in 11 seasons. The Cal became the only major unbeaten team during a 45-23 smashing of Notre Dame.
Tennessee was 17th in the poll, followed by Orange Bowl-bound Notre Dame, Gator Bowl team Colorado, UCLA, the Fiesta State and Sun Bowl-bound North Carolina.
Southern California sits atop the college football world, but the Ohio State Buckeyes could rock the boat by upsetting the Trojans in the Rose Bowl Jan. 1.
Post-bowl balloting in the infant hours of 1973 will determine the 1972 national champion since most leading teams have post-eason duty ahead.
Texas, 9-1, was seventh, followed by
Nebraska, 8-2, and Louisiana State, 8-1.
**Table:** Nine games of the season.
The Top Twenty teams, with first-place votes in parentheses, season records and total points, points tabulated on basis of 20-18-16-14-12-10-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
1. Southern Cal (50) 11-0-0 1000
2. Oklahoma (10) 11-0-0 878
3. Ohio State (10) 9-1-0 666
4. Alabama (10) 9-1-0 606
5. Penn State (10) 10-1-0 554
6. Auburn (10) 9-1-0 536
7. Purdue (10) 9-1-0 498
8. Michigan (10) 10-1-0 467
9. Nebraska (10) 8-2-1 385
10. LSU (10) 9-1-1 273
11. Tennessee (10) 9-2-0 259
12. Notre Dame (10) 8-2-0 227
13. Colorado (10) 8-3-0 174
14. UCLA (10) 8-3-0 79
15. Arizona State (10) 8-3-0 68
16. North Carolina (10) 8-3-0 60
17. Louisville (10) 9-1-0 22
18. West Virginia (10) 9-1-0 18
19. Washington State (10) 7-4-0 10
20. Purdue (10) 6-5-3
Raiding out the Top Twenty were Louisville, Peace Park West Virginia, North Dakota and Purdue.
Alabama, stunned by Auburn 17-10 to close its regular season, dropped only from second to fourth with a 10-1 record. The Tide meets Texas in the Cotton Bowl
Ohio State, 9-1, was third and retained hope of overtaking the Trojans in the post-season poll showdown if it spills Southern Cal on New Year's Day at Pasadena.
Penn State, 10-1 and Oklahoma's opponent at New Orleans on New Year's Eve, was ranked fifth and Gator Bowl-bound Auburn moved to sixth with a 9-1 mark.
Southern Cal grabbed all 50 first-place votes from sports writers and broadcasters in a season-season voting in a runaway decision over the No. 1 record, Sugar Bowl bound with a 10-1 record.
Indiana was aggressive. The University of Kansas wasn't.
And those, according to KU coach Ted Owens, were two big reasons the Hoosiers beat the Jayhawks, 72-55, Tuesday night in Allen Field House.
Poor Rebounding Hurt 'Hawks, Owens Says
By DAN GEORGE
Kansan Sports Editor
Kansan Sports Editor
"THEY (THE JAYHAWKS) have to realize how aggressive they have to play if they're going to compete here," Owens said.
"I really think they (Indians) are a good, aggressive basketball team," Owens said. "There were two things that hurt us. We did not shoot well and they beat us physically on the boards."
A major factor in the KU loss was Indiana's ability to open up the Jahwak defense under the basket with quick passes, inside inside shot before the defenders could react.
"I's one of two things. Either bad strategy on my part, because we weren't physically able to get back, or we just didn't need it. It might be a combination of both."
"We spread out in pressure," Owens said, and then we didn't recover fast enough. We were shaken.
The Jayhawks, who have yet to have a good rebounding game, came up with only 40 rebounds to Indiana's 51. The Hawks' biggest problem, however, was on offense where, constantly forced to shoot from the outside, they recovered only 16 rebounds.
Owens admitted that part of the Jiyawa's problem might have been that they couldn't find a way to
Owens could have no real reasons for the continual poor shooting of the Jayhawks, but they were able to win from the field and just 25.8 in the first half. They connected on only half of their 14 free throws.
"WE REALLY haven't had control of either game we've played," he said. "I thought at the beginning we played hard, but we just couldn't convert. If we'd gotten ahead . . . if they were down 12 or 14 points early like we were, you tend to over-drv."
"We were pressured into some bane shots," Owsens said. "We allowed ourselves to be pressured, nobody just gets pressured, and some good ones, too, and didn't hit on them."
Owens emphasized that the Indiana team itself was a big reason KU lost.
"THE PLAYED a good, tough, physical game," he said. "They're a sound defense team."
The KU coach was most impressed with
Quinn Buckner, a 6-2 freshman guard, who also started at safety for the Indiana
"It surprised me the level Buckner played with only a week of practice," he said. "He looked more unlike a freshman than anyone out there."
"But I don't want to wilt the players," he said. "I'm as much responsible as anyone."
Midway through the second half, the KU crowd, displeased with the showing of the young Jayhawks, began to boo. Most of the disapproval, it appeared, was directed at the defense, but they were also seven minutes of the second half. The crowd's reaction was not lost on Owens.
"I DON'T like the booing, of course," he said. "The crowd deserves one thing—it deserves effort. If we don't give the effort, then we deserve to be booed."
Owens, who played a total of ten players in the game, said he substituted primarily because the players "weren't doing the job."
Owens was not worried about whether the team's confidence would be affected by the
"I'm not just talking about rebounding," he said. "I mean execution."
"IT TEN'R realistic to think we'll be too aggressive if we don't have confidence," he said. "We'll have to work to get better and earn the confidence to get better."
Are the Jayhawks, perhaps, searching for a leader to give them confidence?
"I don't want to go into that," Owens said. "We're searching for a lot of things."
SMU to Consider Majors for Coach
Majors, who has also been mentioned in connection with the Michigan State and Kentucky positions, took his team to a 5-1 record and a berth in the Liberty Bank.
Robert H. Stewart III, a member of SMU's board of governors, will head a team to find a replacement for SMU coach Hagius Pry, who was fired despite a 7-4 season.
Other coaches to be considered include Ron Erhardt, North Dakota State; Dave Smith, Oklahoma State; Lou Holz, North Carolina State; Bill Dooley, North Carolina; Jim Owens, Washington, and Oklahoma assistant Barry Switzer.
DALLAS (AP)—Iowa State football coach Johnny Mayer arrived in Dallas Tuesday to be interviewed for the head football coaching job at Southern Methodist
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