December 4,1984 Page 12
SPORTS
The University Daily KANSAN
17th-ranked Jayhawks set to play Jackrabbits
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
The men's basketball team, 3-1 on the season and ranked 17th in the nation by United Press International, continues its December home stretch with a game against South Dakota State tonight at 7:30 at Allen Field House.
The Jackrabbits, an NCAA Division II school, own a 2-10 record this season. They're coming on a 70-88 victory over Dana College Saturday. They had a 21-19 record last year and returned eight letterman from that team. KU is the only major college team the Jackrabbits will play this year.
"I expect them to come after us," KU head coach Larry Brown said. "This will probably be one of their biggest, if not the biggest game they'll have this year."
The top returning player for the Jack-rabbits is Mark Tetzlaff, a 6-foot-7 senior center who averaged 16.3 points a game last year. He will be joined in the starting lineup by forwards Bob Ladoucer, a 6-4 senior, and Mark Schultz, a 6-5 junior; and guard Arbs Young, a 6-5 senior, and Derrick Wordlaw, a 6-0 senior.
"The they have good overall height but not nobody exceptionally big," Brown said. "From what we heard of the games they've played this season, the man-to-man defense and like to press a lot."
Brown has been installing a press of his own with his team in recent practices, but he said he wasn't sure whether he'd want to break it out tonight.
teams we play that will press us. I think I'd like to use it later on, but we're still just trying to figure out what we want to do with our team."
"I don't know whether we want to show people that yet," he said. "Mainly we just have it in so we can practice against it for the
The probable starting lineup for the Jayhawks tonight will be 7-1 junior Greg Dreling at center, 6-5 junior Ron Kellogg and 6-11 freshman Danny Manning at the forwards, and 5-10 sophomore Mark Turgceon and 6-4 senior Tad Boyle at the guards.
Kellogg leads the team in scoring through the first four games with an average of 15.3 points a game Other Jayhawks with double figure scoring averages are Manning (12.5), Dreiling (11.0) and Calvin Thompson (10.3).
Manning leads the team in rebounding with an average of 10 a game. Dreiling is second
Rebounding was one of Browns major concerns coming into the year because of the loss of Kiley Knight and Carl Henry, last year's leading rebounds for KU. The Jayhawks have outbounded their opponents an average of about three a game this year.
"Some games we've rebounded well," Brown said. "I was really pleased with the way we rebounded against Maryland (KU's opening game of the season at the Great Alaska Shootout), but overall, we need to be more consistent with it."
One area Brown thought his team wouldn't have trouble in this year is free throw shooting, but the Jayhawks made only 57.4 percent of their charity shots this year. KU led the Big Eight conference in free throw percentage last year with a mark of 72.4.
Brown said he's confident the team will break out of its foul shooting slump.
Head coach Larry Brown gives instructions to freshman guard Altonio Campbell during the Detroit game. The Jayhawks will face South Dakota State University at 7:30 tonight in Allen Field House.
Alabama defeats Jayhawks in swim meet
By CHRIS LAZZARINO Sports Writer
Sports Writer
The men's and women's swimming teams are in good position for next semester after four full days of competition, from Thursday through Friday. The head coach Gary Kemp said yesterday.
"The swimming went real well for us." Kemfad said, "but the scores didn't."
Alabama won the women's division 57-38 and the men's division 59-36.
The teams competed in a dual meet with nationally ranked Alabama on Thursday and in the Alabama Invitational through Sunday. Kempt said the swimming was close because of the course, but the men's and women's divisions, but Alabama came out on top in the scores.
Kempt said that in the women's division, the meet was so close that if KU had won an event such as the 200-yard medley relay, Mekha would have won by only five points.
"In the 200 medley relay, we got second with a time of 1:47.4, which is well under the national qualifying time." Kempf said, "and we only lost by three tenths of a second. If we had won that, it would have been a different story."
Kempt said that was typical of the day for KU, with many swimmers turning in
personal bests, such as freshman Chuck
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Kempt said that there were no official team scores kept for the invitational, but Clemson finished first, men's and women's combined, with 1.656 points. KU was second with 1.440 points and Alabama was third with 1.262
"There were about 15 teams there." Kermpt said, "but we were definitely the top three teams. We swam a lot of events. We wanted to see how we would hold up with a lot of people." We had very good times, but the biggest key was test our durability and conditioning.
Switzer claims BYU's schedule had weak teams
NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma's football team should be ranked No. 1 instead of No. 2. Solemn Coach Barry Switzer said Sunday while playing down the strength of the teams played by top-ranked Brigham Young University.
He said Kansas, which defeated the Sooners, was better than nine of the 10 teams on the BYU schedule.
KU women ready to face the Bluejays
BY CHRIS LAZZARINO
Sports Writer
"Creighton is 6-0." Washington said yesterday. "They had a great victory over Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma State the first time that was an important win for Creighton."
Head coach Marian Washington said Creighton would certainly not be a team to take lightly.
The first of two meetings with Creighton for the women's basketball team this season will be tonight at 5:15 p.m. in Allen Field House.
"Creighton is much improved, they will be tough. Washington said. "We are really going to have to keep a lot of pressure on them. You've very much near aware of our inside game."
KU's second game with Creighton this season will be Dec. 30 at Omaha, Neb.
Washington said she expected Creighton to be shooting a lot from the outside, but she hoped her team would be able to have an effective game inside.
Washington said she thought the intensity level of the team had changed this season.
"We had more intensity when we played Oral Roberts and Vanderbilt against Louisiana Tech. she said. "We were a little less intimidated, but our confidence inside and really take it to them."
When a team is effective from the outside, that team can be hard to beat. Washington is
"Creighton will not be an easy team to defeat," Washington said. "We will apply more full court pressure. I have seen a lot of teams that shoot from the outside and when they are on, they are tough to beat."
Washington said expected starters would be senior guard Mary Myers, junior forward Vickie Adkins and freshman center Kelly McCoy. "I wasn't sure who the other starter would be."
KU is coming off a second place finish in the Lady Jayhawk Dial Classic last week, losing to eighth-ranked Louisiana Tech in the final Saturday 76-65.
Myers was KU's high secerer in the game with 17 points. Adams followed with 15, Martin had 10 and Jeimmings had seven. McDonald was the founder in the championship game with 12.
Creighton was 18-10 last year. KU has beaten Creighton in both previous meetings of the teams. Creighton is returning six letter winners and lost two from last season.
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