Sports
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. October 23, 1990
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Junior varsity tryouts attract hoop hopefuls
Final day will see squad trimmed to 15
By Derek Simmon
Kansan sportswriter
Men's Basketball
This year's junior varsity basketball team may not win all of its games. Coach Mark Turgeon said at a news conference, "tryouts, but it will be a good team."
The tryouts drew 65 players to the court at Allen Field House, and Turgeon was encouraged by what he saw.
"These guys want to be here," he said. "They'll work their butts off."
Players were divided into groups of eight, which rotated through four drills: defensive footwork, shooting, one play and four on-four play.
"I tried to think of ways they could show me what they could do." Turgeon said. "Some guys look good in drills and can’t play worth a flip, and I don’t know where to drill and can really play. I'm trying to see which guards really want it."
The final drill for each group was a seven minute full-court four-on-four scrimmage.
Of the 65 that tried out, Turgeon kept 25. Those 25 and eight other players who had midtermes lost last night cut to 15 after tonight's final trout.
The final 15 team members will begin practice later this week. Turgeon said he would have about 20 practices to prepare for the team's first game, which is Nov. 28 against Fort Scott Community College.
Between now and then, Turgeon said his biggest problem would be working around the team's weaknesses.
"Last year we had a lot more 6-6, 6-7 guys trying out," he said. "The tallest guy out there last night was 5-0, but there was only one."
Players who make the team can expect to practice five or six nights a week for about two hours, Turgeon usually practices from 8 to 10 p.m.
"For the time and what he had to work with, it was a fair test," said Daryl Coupe, Cincinnati sophomore. 412-760-8393
One player who was cut said Turgeon's tryout methods were a legitimate ability test.
Coach Mark Turneron, center, explains drills to trainees for the squad. About 65 attended the trainee.
"Probably," he said. "What have it to got lose?" The worst that can happen is he'll tell me that I didn't make it. And I might just make it."
Moore looks forward to playing against K-State
Bv Rob Whear
Intensity
Kansan sportswriter
Walking back to the huddle, backacker Curtis Moore angrily scolds himself because of a missed tackle. Moore is supposed to set an example.
Football
Moore doesn't explode when the rest of the defense blows a play. He wants his lead to be followed by example. Linebacker Pat Rogan said Moore was the most intense player the defense had.
"At first you think he's talking to you," Rogan said. "But then you see him talking. He is so intense what he does, it's it a note an example to your young guys."
Dedication.
Moore worked a few contact drills in practice, and had a large ice bag he thumbed to his thumb after the night he ended at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
Moore fractured his thumb in the Iowa State game and played a limited amount of time against Oklahoma play against Miami or Colorado.
After being out with a fractured and dislated thumb, Moore practiced with the team for the first time yesterday and is working hard in practice so he can prove he is able to play Saturday against Kansas State.
Though Moore has made 44 tackles this season, linebacker Wes Swinford, who was supposed to be red, missed this season, had to be activated.
Kansas coach Glen Mason said that he didn't know how much Moore would play Saturday, if at all, but he was encouraged by his prox.ress.
"We want to ease Curtis back into the lineup," Mason said. "If he feels OK, then we would to get him back in this week."
Yesterday, the team's doctor said a pin would not have to be put into Moore's hand to set the dislocation for the fracture to heal correctly. A pin would have caused Moore to miss the rest of the season.
Moore said he would play in a cast if he got the call Saturday, but said he couldn't wait to be back on the field with his team.
"I was kind of nervous about missing the season, or when I'd be able to play again this year," Moore said. "I
had to miss the whole season last year because of my knee, and then the thought of missing this season also . well, it didn't seem right.
"I not out of the clear yet. This band hasn't sustained a full hit so far. I can handle it, I should be all right. I thought he was practicing, I thought it couldn't."
Rogan said Moore tried to be in on every play and contribute to every tackle, both on the field and on the sidelines.
"When I think about Curtis on the field, I think about him飞ing," Rogan said. "He would fly right over me and get a tacckle. He had to be in on every one."
"Even when he was on the side-lines, he was yelling at Swinford or (linebacker) Brad Peebler, saying,
"Hit that hole!" and 'Knock him down' and things like that. Nothing stops him."
Moore said he couldn't wait for the Jayhawks to play K-State on Homecoming Day because of the school pride involved.
Rogan, a transfer from Ohio State, said the rivalry between Kansas and the Wildcats reminded him of the Buckeye's rivalry with Michigan.
But Moore said it was more personal for him since he was from Kansas and because of his ties to K-State.
"I have a lot of friends that play for KState, of course there are bragging rights involved," Moore said. "They have a better record than us, but I can't wait to find out how good they really are."
Nebraska's weak schedule hurts team's ranking
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska's numbers border on awareness — No 1 in total defense and scoring defense, No 1 in kickoff returns, No 2 in scoring and rushing offensives, and No 63 in strength of schedule.
That statistic seems to damage Nebraska more than all the others
The Cornhuskers' 7-0 record has been accomplished against Baylor, Northern Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon State, Kansas State, Missouri and Oklahoma State — teams with a combined 471 winning percentage.
help the team. Coach Tom Osborne knows what people say about his team.
"The schedule has been a big knock against us," he said. "Sometimes the perception counts rather than the reality."
The perception is that Nebraska's early schedule, lacking ranked teams, does not include any real minefields. And the scores indicate in winning seven straight. Nebraska has outscored the opposition, 305-53.
This may explain why the Cornuskers remained No. 4 in this week's Associated Press Top 25 even though the two teams ranked ahead of them — Miami and Tampa Bay — remained at No. 1, Auburn (5-0-1) moved from No. 5 to No. 2 and Notre Dame (5-1) from No. 6 to No. 3.
"Some of those teams are better than people realize. If we had played teams with more name ree-
"Our opponents have done well against ranked teams," Osborne said. "Northern Illinois scored 73 points against Fresno State. Missouri beat Arizona State and gave Colorado a tough game.
ognition, it might have helped us with the voters."
The reality is that they did not
The penalty is that they did not. It's hard to ignore Nebraska's accomplishments. Osborne has the best winning percentage in Division football into the season at 813. The Collegepackers lead the pitch in kickoff returns (34 yards an attempt) scoring defense (7.6 points a game) and total defense (209.4 yards a game). They are second in rushing offense (363.3 yards a game) and scoring (43.6 points a game).
And yet there are lingering
doubles, perhaps because they have played no heavyweights. Occasionally, the voters punish Nebraska for a game that has been jumped over." Osborn said.
From Osborne's point of view, this season's real confrontations are ahead, starting Saturday against Iowa State, followed by Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma. "We think we're good," Osborne said. "If we survive the next four weeks, we can be awfully good."
Nebraska goes into this stretch tied with Colorado for the Big Eight lead.
National College Sportswriters Football Poll
1. Virginia (22)
2. Nebraska (3)
3. Auburn (2)
NCAA announces plans for tournament money
4. Notre Dame
6. Houston (1)
6. Houston (1)
7. Washington
8 Miami
9. Brigham Young
16. Tennessee
17. Florida State
18. Colorado
19. Georgia Tech
20. Florida
21. Texas
22. Mississippi
23. Iowa
24. Wyoming
25. Southern Cal
26. Michigan
10. Tennessee
Writers from the following schools participated in the poll: Texas, Kentucky, Miami (Fl). San Diego State, Colorado, Clemson, Notre Dame, Illinois, Syracuse, North Carolina State, Alabama, California, Utah, Southern Methodist, Penn State, Indiana, Auburn, Kansas, Ball State, West Virginia.
The Associated Press
Smaller schools would receive about a 180 percent increase over the way money is currently shared, while the larger schools would probably get a 65 percent increase, Schultz said.
The formula to spend the first $69.9 million of the seven-year, $1 billion contract with CBS was designed to reward schools with broad-based programs — schools that sponsor many sports and award many scholarships, NCAA executive director Dick Schultz said.
OVERLAND PARK — The NCAA announced yesterday an "equitable but not equal" formula to distribute the money from the rich contract it got for television rights to the popular NCAA basketball tournament.
A plan to distribute $131,250,000 to conferences based on the success their member teams had in the tournament was announced earlier.
Yesterday, the NCAA announced the second part of the plan — individual schools will share in another
For example, a school that gives 50 scholarships will be paid 87 for each scholarship while a school will be paid 400 for each scholarship above 250.
The NCAA estimated that the Big Ten would receive the largest amount of money at $7.1 million. The Atlantic Coast Conference would get $6.33 million. The Big East $5.23 million. The Big Eight would receive $4.2 million.
The "broad-based" distribution announced yesterday will be weighted one-third toward the number of sports and two-thirds toward the number. As the number of scholarships increases, the payment formula increases.
$31.25 million depending on how many sports they sponsor and how many athletic scholarships they give.
The third part of the plan is a direct $25,000 payment to schools that is to be used for programs that aid athletes academical]v.
Some other estimates include $4 million for the Pac-10, nearly $3 million for the Southwest Conference, and more than $2 million for the Atlantic 10, Big West, Metropolitan, and Western Athletic conferences.
The NCAA declined to say what payments individual schools would get. But Schultz offered three examples of unnamed schools.
The basketball tournament portion of the pool will be distributed to conferences, and each conference will at least initially determine how to distribute the money to its members.
A small school sponsoring 12 sports and giving 27 scholarship would get $2,350. An average-sized school sponsoring 20 sports and giving 66 scholarship would get $6,170. A very large school sponsoring 29 sports and
The broad-based portion of the pool will go directly to individual schools.
Independents were expected to receive about $2.3 million.
giving 268 scholarships would get $450,000.
The time schedule for making the payments, assuming the plan is given final approval by the NCAA Executive Committee in December, calls for the basketball pool to be made in April, the $25,000 academic year payment in June and the broad-based payment in August. Schultz said.
Those figures are exclusive of any money schools would receive from the basketball tournament portion of the pool.
Each game in the basketball tournament last year was worth $294,000 to each team, Schultz said. Each "unit" of the tournament under the new formula will be worth $40,000, he said.
Schultz said he thought that the formula would remove some of the pressure to win at all costs, particularly in the basketball tournament.
"There are going to be some schools that are happy and some schools that are unhappy." Schultz said. "It is easy to say let us distribute the money broad-based. But how do you determine that? They had a lot of ideas, but when you start to put it together it might be $2 billion instead
Sports briefs
Men's golf takes ninth
at weekend tournament
The Kansas men's golf team placed ninth out of nine teams during the weekend at the Ping Tulus Tours in Oklahoma. The early springern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oka.
The Jayhawks were in fifth place after the first round but shot consecutive 330's to finish with a three-round total of 983. Kent State shot 931 and
won the tournament.
Kansas finished 15 shots behind Missouri and New Mexico, who tied for seventh.
The top individual finisher for Kansas was Len Johnson. Johnson posted a three-round score of 243, which tied him for 22nd with New Mexico's Jim Wim. and the Univer-sity's Mike Johnson Hint and Jeff Junk.
Matt Gogel was the next highest Jayhawk finisher. Gogel shot a 245
have players of week
Iowa State, Nebraska have players of week
Brad Bruno tied Ben Godwin of Missouri and Brian Paulson of San Jose State for 35th with a 248.
which placed him 30th. Jim Young placed a 247 and tied with Missouri's Chris Collins and the University of Tulsa's Warren Pilman for 32nd.
Iowa State quarterback Chris Pedersen and Nebraska defensive
Walker had a career-high 12 tackles in Nebraska's 31-3 victory against Oklahoma State.
lineeman Kenny Walker were chosen Big Eight offensive and defensive plavers of the week yesterday.
Peder森, a junior, rushed for 148 yards on 29 carries and scored the winning touchdown in the final minute of Iowa State's 33-1st upset of Oklahoma. The 148 yards is an Iowa State record for quarterbacks.
From staff and wire reports
A's should stop crying about loss
Brent Maycock
Sports
editor
A World Series that had the pregame hype of being a laugher turned out to be just that.
Nobody, including myself, gave the Nasty boys from Cincinnati any chance of even coming close to touching him. So they jumped, let alone winning the whole thing.
But the joke was on the Athletics, and they didn't find it very funny.
I thought, like most people, that the Series would be a sweep — in Oakland's favor. But the Reds really showed what true champions are made of by soundly whipping a masse and arrogant Oakland squad.
Going into the postseason the A's were flat out regarded as the best in baseball. Their pitching staff was apparently unbeatable, and the late-season acquisitions of Willie McGee and Harold Baines formed what seemed to be an insurmountable team.
But, lo and behold, the Reds put everything together and became a wrecking crew that easily dismantled the defending champs. An incredible pitching performance by MVP Jose Rijo and an even more unlikely outburst by Billy Hatcher, who could have just as easily been MVP, was enough to land the Cincinnati kids on top of the world.
Rijon won both games he started,
posting a 0.99 ERA. Meanwhile,
Hatcher was putting on a record-setting offensive performance. He ended the Series batting .750 (a new record) and had seven consecutive hits in the first two games, also a record.
Chris Sabo also could have easily won MVP honors. Sabo hit .500, slamming two home runs and driving in five.
Reds' superstar Eric Davis was relatively quiet after opening Game One with a two-run home run off of Dave Stewart. It was probably that more than anything else, that boosted Cincinnati to the championship.
The Reds outhit, outstulted, outpitched and outplayed the Athletics completely. It seemed to me that Cincinnati wanted to win while Oakland expected to win. And now, for the second time in three years, the A's have been delivered a wake-up call.
Pitcher Dave Stewart has said that "for Cincinnati was in our division for 162 games they wouldn't even be in the World Series."
What really irks me, not surprisingly, is what a bunch of crybabies the Bashii (less) Brothers are being after such an eye-opening loss.
That might be true, and if the A's had to play in the National League where there is no designated hitter there wouldn't be near the offensive team it is.
Stewart also said that, "It makes it so much more painful when you lose to a team with less talent . . . We win by the capable of and we win hands down."
Grow up, Dave. That's the point of playing the World Series.
There is no rule that the best team should always come out on top.
The purpose of playing the World Series, or the Super Bowl, or any other championship-deciding game is to win. The pro安得 prove just that; that it is the best.
If that were the case, then the Cardinals would have won the Series in 1885 and in 1887 and Brigham Young never would have won the 1984 National Championship in college football.
This year, Oakland failed to live up to its billing as the best team in baseball. It's that simple.
Whether the A's think so or not, the Reds deserve credit.
Cincinnati has been awaiting the return of the World Series Trophy for a long time.
They have had the talent, but something has kept them from capturing the elusive title. After getting off to such a fast start this year and then enduring a mid-season slump, one had to wonder if the Boys in Red had enough spark to take that final step.
Not only did they have the gump, but the Reds put on a performance that should have made everyone in Cincinnati forget the past three or four years of disappointment.
Why can't the A's just take their medicine?
Brent Maycock is a Branson, Mo. senior majoring in journalism.