University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, January 17, 1979
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'Hawks get road victory
By JOHN P. THARP
Stillwater, Okla., should be the datetime for this story.
That is where the University of Kansas men's basketball team ended a curse, of sorts, last Saturday by winning an edge on the road from Oklahoma State, B7-20.
KU swept the three games in Kansas City's Kermena Krena in the last Big Eight Conference. Holiday Basketball Tournament, but as five league coaches agree, a neutral court, just 40 miles from LAway, and also near Manhattan and Columbia.
Before the victory in Gallagher Hall at OSU and the title at the final holiday tourney, KU was winless away from Allen Field House.
THE ONLY thing more surprising than KU's disastrous road trip to sunny California, where the Jayhawks dropped an 84-83 overtime game to the University of San Diego, and an 81-69 decision to San Diego State in the league play-open at Norman, Okla.
There KU was methodically picked to pieces for 40 minutes by the University of Oklahoma, 68-45, for the 'Hawks' lowest-scoring game of the season. That loss caused fans to do a double at the same team KU had completely dominated in the
second game of the Holiday Tournament, 86-75.
KU was the talk of the tourney in Kansas City. In one newspaper's poll, all 45 writers and broadcasters polled selected the winner of a conference race. Many writers praised
sophomore Darnell Valentine as the only "great" player in the league.
VALENTINE LIVED up to that billing by snaring the unanimous selection as the tourney's most valuable player. He averaged 7 points a game,败出 23 out of 41.
Center Paul Mokeski helped pace KU during the tourney by averaging 13 points a game, shooting that helped him make the all-tournament team.
After an easy tourney game against Iowa State, which easy KU won 75-55, and the victory over OU, KU kung on in the final 40 seconds to defeat Colorado 72-66 for the championship. Up to their old trick of late-in-the game clutching, the Jayhawks kept their act together to snare the trophy for the 13th time in the tournament's 33-year history.
Darnell Valentine
Before going into the tourney, KU won its last game at home in 714-4, from Southern Michigan.
THAT THAT game, KU head coach Ted Owens has gone to his bench and found out that Mac Stallcup, a three-year veteran, can play against him. "He freshman David Maples might pan out."
It has been Valentine, possibly the best sophomore basketball player in the country, who has led KU. His effect on the team's play was evident in Norman, when he scored only eight points, his poorest showing of the season.
Fighting Irish take over poll's top spot
SOUTH BEND, IND. (AP) - Notre Dame's Fighting Irish are ranked No. 1 in basketball for the first time this year, but Coach Digger Phelps doesn't expect them to stay there.
"I think we are a good team, and I hope that being No. 1 could help us be a better team," Phelps said yesterday after the Irish team lost to the weekly Associated Press college poll.
"But there are a lot of very good college basketball teams, and you're going to see the rankings being shuffled each week throughout the season," he said.
ALREADY THIS Year, Duke University and Michigan State. University have occupied the No. 1 spot before suffering losses. The Irish inherited the pressure position
Gymnasts win meet
Led by freshman Jackie DIPinto, KU's women's gymnastics team won a three-peat.
KU's Rene Nemev took third place in the competition for the four events at 29.45 mph.
after the Spartans lost two games last week to Illinois and Purdue in the Big Ten.
DiPinto swept all four events she entered, garnering a score of 32.20. KU was first in the meet with 118.90 points, followed by Colorado State University with 107.15 points and Emporia State University with 77.3 points.
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"I'm sure the experience of being No. 1 and then losing, will help Duke and Michigan State down the road," he said, "because now you know what it's like."
this year's two meetings. With another game against the Bruins, along with San Francisco, Maryland, North Carolina State and Michigan still on the schedule, Phlebs knows it will be difficult to stay No. 1 going into the NCAA tournament.
"I think our players are ready to be No. 1," Philip said. "We are ready to taste it. It's the next step in our program. I wouldn't want to be No. 1 all the way through the regular season, but we need to have the experience of facing up to the pressure."
"It helps you withstand the offensive pressures as well as the different offenses and defenses other teams will throw at you. You don't have to pressure the pressure of being undefeated isn't good."
Nore Dame, meanwhile, moved up from second place with its victory Saturday over Marquette. The Irish took an 8-4 record, the first time they, into last night's game against Lafayette.
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In fact, the Jayhawks, who were 6-3 before Christmas, were almost unstoppable during the holidays, winning one tournament and taking second in another. Both tournaments were on the road.
KU returned home and maintained its perfect record in Allen Field House this season by first downing Nebraska 85-67 on Jan. 9, and then repeating the performance last Friday night against an A83-62 victory. Kansas is 44 at home.
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On the road, KU took second in the Queen's College Holiday Tournament Dec. 27-29 in New York against at least two nationally ranked teams. Kansas beat Fordham 87-42 and handily beat then-128anded College 86-58.
CHEVNEY STATE, at that time ranked first in the country in Mel Greenberg's Philadelphia Inquirer poll, and KU in the championship game, 70-58.
Since then, however, Cheyney has been knocked to 12th in the poll.
KU continued to shine in the Shocker classic in Wichita Junction. 3-5. The Jayhawk breezed to the tournament before winning three games that weren't even close.
The Jayhawks closest competitor was the University of Nebraska-Omaha, who could only come within 20 points in the
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championship game, 78-88. In an opening round game, KU demolished West Texas State University 119-30 to score in the first period and scored in one game and widest margin of victory. The KU total is also the most successful a women's team in Henry Lefevit Athena.
KU ALSO BEAT Wyoming by a 40 point margin, 94-54, in a Shocker Classic semifinal game.
Head coach Marian Washington said yesterday that her team's play has been satisfying, especially against traditionally strong east coast teams.
"We did a super job against Queen who were ranked 12th then," she said. "We didn't come back with the same intensity against Chevrolet."
Washington attributed KU's overall success to the team's intense training, which includes regular weight training and distance running.
"I'm finding maybe one of the secret ingredients in maintaining conditioning. You can't rely on play on the court or practice," she said.
Another factor that has boosted the Jayhawks has been a strong bench and opportunities to take advantage of it.
"We've had several games when I've been able to get everyone in. We're
She exploded for 92 points in the three games of the Shocker Classic, including a 40 point game against Wyoming at Wichita State and a most valuable player for her efforts.
All-American Lynette. Woodard has been a prime factor in the Jayhawks' recent 7-1 strike. Woodard scored a total of 85 points in the three Queens tournament games, including a 41-point performance against Queens.
TEAM DEPTH has been bolstered by the addition of transfer Katy Cullen, 5-10, from Philadelphia area junior team. The play back up to center Shirah Velde.
"Lynette's having a better year than last year," Washington said of Woodward, a 6-1 sophomore. "Her defense is much better and she's becoming a more rounded ball player. And she keeps getting better."
Woodard leads the KU team in every offensive category and besides averaging 349.9 points a game, she pulls an average of 14 rebounds a contender.
Kansas' record is 13-4. KU is averaging almost 83 points a game while limiting its opponents to 65 points.
The team travels to Lincoln, Neb., today to begin play in this week's Big Eight tournament. KU returns home on Feb. 2 for a game with Iowa State University as a preliminary to a men's game.
deeper than we've been in the past," Washington said.
Jayhawks glad to be back home
Echoing singer John Denver's lyrics that it's good to be iname again, KU head basketball coach Ted Owens said yesterday that it is great to be back in Allen Field House.
The Jayhawks, ranked 19th this week by UPI and 20th by AP, face Missouri at 7:35 tonight. KU, now 94 overall, hasn't played a game in Game for a month. The Tigers
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Missouri's lone conference win came last Saturday against the team that handed KU its conference loss - Oklahoma.
One reason the Tigers have the same league record as everyone else is that former forward Curtis Berry has been moved to center. Berry is the league's leading scorer in conference play, averaging 20 points a game.
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