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Wednesday, February 21, 1979
University Daily Kansan
'Hawks look past NU, await KSU tilt for tie
Bv NANCY DRESSLER
Sports Editor
Nebraska will be the game at hand but it might not be the game on the minds of many people.
The Jayhawks, who already have beaten the Cornshuskers twice this season, by margins of 18 and 20 points, probably won't be concerned about winning again.
What will be foremost be the team's next game—Monday's Kansas State tilt. That game is a must victory for KU, which trails K-State in the conference standings
K-State is 2-0 and probably will be 3-4 after its game Friday with WSU in Manhattan. Monday's game, should KU win, could tie the 'Hawks with the Wildcats at 3-1. If that happens, a playoff will take place in Wichita, a neutral court, to decide who will represent the state in the regional tournament.
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But there is one thing that might keep $ \mathrm{K}^{1 1} $
minds on tonight's tilt. Adrian Mitchell
could score her .0,000 career point.
The senior forward, who has 1,979, needs 21 points. She has scored 22 and 17 points in KU's earlier meetings this season with the Cornhuskers.
Washington, who doesn't keep track of individual scoring during a game, said she would ask for the game ball tonight if Mitchell achieved her goal.
"But when you hear about it all the time, you've got to think about it a little," she said.
Mitchell said after Friday's Missouriissu-
rity football game that she
gave her coach 25 points not
to think about it.
"I'll probably tell coach (Kathy) Meek to let me know," Washington said. "I hate it. I don't want to get caught."
Washington said tonight's game was originally planned as a precede to the men's game. A scheduling foul-up, however, has been cancelled without the women's preliminary contest.
Kansas, 25-5, is ranked 16th this week. The Jayhawks were in the No. 17 spot last week. Since last week's poll, KU has gone from sixth to fourth place state. Missouri and Wichita State universities
Green, Calmese to AAU
By CARLOS MURGUIA Sports Writer
Sports Writer
Lori Green hopes history will repeat itself Friday at the AAU indoor national meet in Atlanta.
Last weekend Green won the 60 and 300-yd runs at the Big Eight championships in New York.
Green and her teammate, Sheila Calmse,
will be the only KU representatives
competing in the prestigious AUU meet. Green
and her teammates of the 60 and the 300
in meets earlier this season.
Green's performance was one of the few bright spots for the Kansas team at the Big
Kansas could only muster sixth place in the meet as the defending champion Iowa State finished first for the third consecutive year.
Green was the only KU entrant to win any event. She placed first in the 60 (7.02) and first in the 300 (35.35), unseating Calmese. Calmese was the two-time defending champion and won Big Bash in the 390 and barely edged out Calmese 7.07 for her in the 60.
THE JAYHAWKS "two-mile relay team of Vicki Simpson, Louse Murphy, Denise Homa and Debbie Gortz gave the team its only second place finish with a time of 30 minutes.
Defending Big Eight champion Lo
Lowrey made it to the finals of the 60-yard hurdles but finished fifth.
KU track coach Teri Anderson said the team's disappointing performance was a result of some injured athletes who were unable to compete, and the inability of the rest of the team to perform at their usual level.
ALTHOUGH THE TEAM performance wasn't what she had expected, KU managed to quality more athletes for the women's national Association of Intercollegiate Athletics track meet March 2-3 in Columbia, Mo.
Michelle Brown and Maureen Finholm both qualified in the mile run. In a very close finish, Brown was fifth in 47.521 and Finholm was right behind her in 47.531.
The mile relay team of Claire Overtake,
Calmee and Green also finished
(fifth) in the race.
Other national qualifiers were Homa in the 890 and Simpson in the 600.
The final chance for the Jayhawks to be
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Hoping to join the 15 other KU national qualifiers will be Amy Miles in the long jump, Overstake in the 440, Hertzog in the 880, Karen Fitz in the three-mile and the medley relay队 of Homa, Simpson, Hertzog and Murphy.
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To play at home, KU has to win at home.Tonight.
KU faces Nebraska looks for home berth
A healthy Darnell Valentine (14) takes on K-State's Gleem Marshall last Saturday. Valentine injured his ankle in the game, however, and his playing status for tonight is uncertain.
Next Tuesday night, KU coach Ted Owens would like to be playing the first round of the Big Eight conference post-season tournament in Ali Field House. First, however, his team has to try to get by Nebraska, also 64, at 7:35 onlin
By JOHN P. THARP
Associate Sports Editor
Presently, KU, NU and Missouri share third place with identical league records. Iowa state, fourth at 5-7, in another team won by two, for two of the remaining home berths.
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Remembering that means two of those teams will be playing on the road, and Owens hopes it's not his 'Hawks.
"What we're fighting for," he said yesterday, "is an opportunity to play on our home court."
KU's battle plan will be in trouble if floor general Darnell Valentine doesn't play. Valentine, a purple heart canon, was sprained right ankle received against K-State. Yesterday, he got off the exercise he had been pedaling in practice and went on the court to practice shodow, then he had been using Sunday and Monday.
BUT OWENS SAID the chances that Valentine will play don't look good.
Valentine, who should know about his health, said his ankle felt better westerday while he was shooting.
"I'll have to see how it feels," he said.
"I haven't run on it since Saturday. I feel like I can play on it and contribute to the team cause, and not slow them down,
"But I don't want to go on the court if I'm not going to help them."
While Valentine has been off the court, Wilmore Fowler has been slowed because of a knee injury. In the two games that followed, the lineup of the regulars -Tony Gau, John Crawford and Paul Mokeski- has been augmented with sophomore Booty Neal and freshman David Magley. This could have helped him take the court against the Cornhuskers.
Neal, the hit or miss jump shooter, has never started a college game. However, he is coming off two good games. Against the Raptors, he scored in a career high of 13 points, all in the second
half. He scored nine points in 20 minutes against Kansas State.
MAGLEY SHOT 50 percent against K-State for six points. The addition of Magley and Neal would be a contingency that would allow the presence could allow wing-man Guy to switch to point guard. Guy excelled defensively against K-State with a career high seven steals, and he led KU in most scoring plays. He has his best defensive effort of the season.
The Cornhuskers came to town yesterday, and coach Joe Cipriano was on the sidelines. "Joe Jijie" said he had brushed up on his judo lessons, in case Owens, who approached Oklahoma's bench in an in-ground, headed toward the "Husker coach."
Seriously, Cipriano is expecting a tough game from KU.
"They've lost two in a row," he said.
"Any time you play them, and they've lost two in a row, you've got a tangle on your hands."
IN THIS CASE, it the home playoff berth, because both teams are mathematically invisible to capture the championship. Cipriano refused to discount the threat of upstart Missouri clinching a home court.
"I don't think we've ever caught KU at a bad time. It seems like whenever we play Kansas, there's something at stake."
“If KU, Missouri and Nebraska split their remaining games,” be said, “there’s a three-way tie for certain. They play twice, so KU and Missouri can fun.”
By the flip, Cip meant that the priority for breaking ties for post-season bracket positions will be decide by regular tournament games or the draw of the luck.
Nebraska has taken two out of three games from Missouri. KU has split the conference games with the Tigers.
starting for Nebraska will be 6-8 Carl McPipe, the 'Huskers' leading scorer with a 14.3 average. The guards will be Mike Nader and UPI all-conference Brian Banks. Bob Moore and 7-Andre Smith will be playing forward.
in other conference games tonight,
league leader Oklahoma (93) plays at
a Iowa State (57); second place K-State
(68); third place Oklahoma State and
Colorado plays at Oklahoma State.
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Rv DAVID PRESTON
Swimmers aim for 5th straight championship
KU's women's swimming team will defend its conference championship tomorrow when the Big Eight Championship Meet opens in Norman, Okla. The meet will run tomorrow, Friday and Saturday.
Kansas, the favorite in the meet, has won the conference championship four years in a row. The team beat Georgia 6-1.
pected good competition from several schools.
"From general consensus," he said, "the coaches in the league play us as the favorite."
"I expect a good show out of Missouri, and you can't count out Nebraska or Oklahoma. They both have very good swimmers and good depth."
Kempt has good reason to be cautious.
Missouri came from nowhere last year to
finish a strong but surprising second in the Big Eight meet. Nebraska took advantage of some Jayhawk injuries to upset his squad in a dual meet earlier this year.
KU, however, defeated MU in a dual meet this year and two weeks ago avenged the loss to Nebraska by destroying the Cornhuskers in the Colorado State Invitational. Kemp said that the weeks since the state meet MU had been good ones for his squad.
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"I've just gotten them to believe in themselves as much as I believe in them," Kemp said. "I want them to have confidence." He added, "and I think I've seen them come to that."
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One of Kempf's top swimmers, Janet Linstrom, said the squad was ready for the
Lindstrom is one of three Kansas swimmers who have put it together well enough to qualify for the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women's National Meet in March. She has qualified in three individual events, as she teammate
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Aspen, however, thinks that this week's meet will result in more national qualifying teams.
Lanny Schaffer. Diane Ellis has qualified in one event.
He said he was confident the 200- and 400-freshley freestyle tennis would qualify, as the two teams had won in previous seasons.
"I've never worked with a group that has been more dedicated," he said. "They want you to be the best they can be."
Women's Top Twenty
Women's top 20
The top 20 teams in college basketball teams are compiled by the Mil Greenberg of the Philadelphia Inventors in a composite index that includes parentality, and season record through Feb. 11.
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*Maryland* — 25-4
*Miami* — 25-4
*Louisiana Tech* — 24-3
*Cheyenne State* — 24-3
*Oregon* — 23-6
*Maryland* — 24-3
*North Carolina St.* — 25-4
*Penn State* — 24-3
*Peace Baptist* — 18-6
*Wayland Baptist* — 17-4
*UCLA* — 18-6
*Vulcan State* — 18-4
*Delta State* — 18-4
**Kansas** — 18-4
*Morgan State* — 18-4
*Long Beach State* — 19-4
*Nortwestern* — 16-4
*Ole Miss* — 16-4
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