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KU starts busy weekend tonight
By JOHN P. THARP
Associate Sports Editor
With hardy a chance to catch its breath, the KU basketball team gets back into conference action at 7:35 tonight, in a rare victory against Oklahoma State University.
KU, tied for third in the league, shares a 3-4
record with Colorado, Kansas State and
Iowa State. The Cowboys are last in the league at 2-5.
Sunday, at 1 p.m. Lawrence time, Kansas will make its season debut on national television on NBC-TV's Game of the Week at East Lansing, Mich., against the big Ten's 12-8. Ohio State spanked Chicago, 17-8. The 15th-ranked Spartan finished 74-79 in Ohio State last night in overtime.
KU coach Ted Owens probably didn't want his team to even hear that score, though, because he has maintained that he should think about one game at a time.
"I don't even want any mention of Michigan State," he said. "The conference was a joke."
PERHAPS THE OSU contest may be more important, especially if Jim
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Killingsworth, Cowboy coach, is correct about his team's new make-up. The injury-ridden Cowbies won Wednesday over Nebraska, 66-57, only their second victory in the Big Eight since the league lid-lifter against Missouri. Killingsworth said his best moment was earlier season form, when they were 8-2 after the Missouri game, instead of 9-10.
"Last night was the first time that that group hosted, like the team you saw in a game, at a charity event."
In the Big Eight Holiday Tournament, the Cowboys looked like the most improved team from last year. They lost to Colorado, then took two in a row from Missouri and Alabama. Then the injuries began, and anywhere from three to five players have been out.
MATT CLARK, who suffered a hyperextended knee and a concussion in
Men win gymnastics dual
The men's gymnastics队 didn't put on its most dazzling show of the year, but it still managed to defeat New Mexico Junior High night in Robinson gymnastium 202-1.188.
Most of the meet was held in the practice room to avoid conflict with intramural students.
"It wasn't that exciting." Bob Lockwood, men's gymnastics coach, said, "but it's difficult to compete in the big gym and then change to the practice room."
KU was led by Ron Ortman, whose score of 50.5 points in the all-around competition was a season high. KU's team score was only 1. point less than its season best.
"I FELT I would do a little better than this," Lockwood said. "We should be about a 200-point team, and, hopefully, we will hit a score against Oklahoma tomorrow night."
The men will face Oklahoma tomorrow at 7:30 in Norman. The Sooners set a new NCAA scoring mark of 223.1 points against Southern Illinois University earlier in the season and are currently rated best in country after losing to Nebraska last weekend.
"It should be a good meet because it will give us a chance to compete against some of the best gymnasts in the country." Lockwood said. "Also, the Big Eight championships are going to be held there," he added, an opportunity to get used to the facilities."
transfer Don Youman, who has had an eye injury, will play the other wing, averaging 16.4 points. He is a possible candidate for Big Eight Newcomer of the Year.
Top scores for KU last night were:
Jon Moorehead, 8- will play center, and
guards Randy Wright and Ed Odom round
Floor exercise -1, Steve Foech 8.7;
pommel horse -1, Scott Boer 8.25;
rinsings -1, Ortman 8.9; parallel bats -1 (tie);
Mark Folger and Orton 8.65; high bar -1,
Marshall Kelley 9.2; vaulting -1, Kelley 9.2
and all-around -1, Orton 50.5.
After a two-week break from dual action, the KU men's swimming team is scheduled to travel to Springfield. Mo. today to take on Drurie College.
Killingsworth said he would start supershooting Mark Tucker, one of the top shots in the league with an 18.8 overall average. He will face the fifth-round field his field goal attempts. Junior college
Tankers to face stiff competition
Last Friday's meet with Colorado, in Boulder, was canceled because of bad weather conditions. It will not be rescheduled.
shape. We had several people down with the flu and I doubt we would have been able to swim very well. Hopefully, the week off has helped."
The Jawhaws, 3-2 in dual action, could be the best hand with Duroc, one of the top players in the league.
OSU's 82.70 loss to KU, just returned to action against Nebraska.
"Swimming is a big sport at Drury,"
she said. "And some good sprinters,
and prestigiers."
"I would like to have been able to make the trip and swim," said KU coach Bill Stead.
Kansas will have to rebound quickly from its first loss in 12 games when the Jayhawks meet Iowa State University tonight at 5 in Allen Field House.
Women host Cyclones
The game will be the only doubleheader
the women will play with the men this
week.
The team averaged 88 points a game to its opponents' 60.知识点 Kansa had its highest team field goal shooting of the season in its conference victory over Wichita State last week. In that game, the team hit 59 percent of its shots from the floor.
KU broke an 11-game winning streak with its loss Tuesday night to Kansas State at Manhattan, 73-45. The defeat came just after the Clippers from 19th to 38th in the women's top 20 poll.
Iowa State was 7-12 going into two games this week. KU is now 19-8 and 1-1 in conference play. Iowa State's Eight do not play within the Big Eight conference but instead in various Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women regions. Thus, tonight's game is not over yet.
THE GAME is only the fifth this season at
Kansas' scoring punch of Lynette Woodard and Adrian Mitchell continue to lead the Jayhawks. Woodard is averaging 18 points on an outing and Mitchell has a 16.7 average.
home for KU, which is 4-0 in the Field House.
The four teams that have beaten KU this season, meanwhile, have moved their combined records to 58-6. Three of the four are ranked in the top 20.
Despite not ending the month of January undefeated, KU did set impressive statistics. The percentage of students in grades 7-12
Qualifiers are dual goal
Bob Timmons, head coach of KU men's track, hopes a few sacrifices tomorrow afternoon in Lincoln will develop into long-range dividends.
The Jawahars battle Nebraska in a dual meet at 1:30 and Timmons is willing to risk losing points to help qualify his athletes for the NCAA MNCA Indoor Championships.
"We'll approach the Nebraska dual from the standpoint of qualifying as many people as we can," he said. "It may cost us points in the meet, but we're working on a limited amount of time and we have a long way to go."
KU probably will need all the points it can muster to defeat its first Big Eight competition of the season. Last year Nebraska, which holds an 12:3 edge in the series, downed the defending Big Eight Indoor Champions 85-58 in Lincoln.
EVEN THOUGH the Jayhawks have recorded two relatively easy triangular victories to open the indoor season, only Jeff Newell has had a win. Newell have qualified for the NCAA Indoor. Both Mickens and Newell have met the NCAA standards in the 440 yard dash, while Jeff Newell has qualified for the NCAA Indoor.
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The mile relay and the mile could prove to be the highlights of the dual meet.
Distance runners Colm Goldsmith, Rick Ernst and Paul Schultz are questionable for the final.
The KU women's gymnastics team will face Grandview College and Washburn University at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Robinson Gymnasium.
Grandview is currently ranked 19th in the country and should provide good competition for KU, Ken Snow, women'symnastics coach, said.
"they scored 134 points last weekend." Snow said, "and I think we can go above 130 if things go right. I think we will be competitive if our vaulting holds up."
Gymnasts host meet
Snow said Kathy Ross would be competing in the all-around competition for the team.
"I am hoping that Kim Dianne will come through and have a strong meet for us," Stuart said.
Valentine, Johnson share court talents
By RICK GOSSELIN
UP1Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—If there's a better point guard in the country than Darnell Valentine of the University of Kansas, it's probably Earvin Johnson of Michigan State University. And if there is a better point guard than Johnson, it's probable Valentine.
Only their size—Johnson at 6-4 and Valentine at 6-2—separates them. The two sophomore standards are as comfortable as the junior college game, and they'll be going head-tohead with each other on national television Sunday when KU visits
The careers of the two players are parallel.
VALENTINE IS the only player ever to earn all-state acclaim three times in Kansas. Johnson is the only high school player in the state's top division in Michigan. Both were named their respective state's player-of-the-year twice; in their junior years when their teams finished as state runner-up and in their team wins the championship.
Valentine averaged 26.1 points, 7.0 steals and 6.8 assists to lead Wichita Heights to a 23-0 record in his senior year. Johnson averaged 28.2 points and 16.8 rebounds to lead Lansing Everett to a 27-1 record in his senior year.
ROTH PLAYERS spurned hundreds of scholarship offers in order to attend college. Johnson traveled 150 miles upstate to attend KU and Johnson 10 miles east to attend Michigan
In Valentine's first year at KU, he was a unanimous All-Right Eight selection and the runner-up for league player of the season. He has scored 13.5 points to guide the Jayhawks to their
first conference championship in three years.
JOHNSON ALSO served as the architect in Michigan State's resurrection of the city. He coincided with the Spartans' first BIG Ten title in 11 years and a school record
Johnson and Valentine were the starting guards on a collegiate underclass All Star team that represented the United States in Russia at the Gargarin Cup International Tournament last summer.
Darnell Valentine
"EARWIN IS a true guard at 6-4," said Michigan State assistant coach Dave Harshman, who also saw Valentine while he was an assistant at Nebraska last winter.
"I think Darnell is quicker than Earvin and is so strong for strong in size. That's what impresses me. At 6-2, he can take the ball inside and shoot it over people."
'Hawks to try comeback at home
The KU women's swimming team will try to come back from last week's loss at Nebraska when it faces Oklahoma in a dual meet on Robinson Natatorium this weekend.
The meet was originally scheduled to be a four-town Kansas invitational, but for various reasons the squads from Southern Methodist University and the University of Arkansas have been forced to cancel their participation.
Kansas coach Gary Kemp said the meet would be staged both today and tomorrow. Three events—the 1,000-yard freestyle, 800-day freestyle and one-meter wiffle—will
be held today at 5 p.m. the remainder of the meet will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
Kempf he expected most of the six squad members who missed last week's meet to be in action against Oklahoma. He said he was unaware of the status of his teammates, Warnam Summerhill Nohinek and Maureen Sheehan, but said all possibly could perform.
"We expect some good times this week end," Kemp said, "because we have most of our people back. We're going to try to qualify a few more people for the national meet and just swim better than we did last week."