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November 30,1984 Page 14
The University Daily KANSAN
'Hawks open home season with Detroit
By GREG DAMMAN Sports Editor
Fifteenth-ranked Kansas faces Detroit University tomorrow in its basketball home opener at Allen Field House. Tip off for the game is 2 p.m.
The Jayhawks, 2-1, are coming off a second place finish in the Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage. The University of Alabama Birmingham defeated KU in the finals 50-46. The Jayhawks' victories came against Maryland and Oregon.
The Detroit Titans are 0-1 this season, having lost their season opener to Michigan 80-66. They were 8-20 last season and 4-10 in the Midwestern Conference.
The Titans will start 6-foot-8 Lou Rainge at center. Six-foot six junior Greg Wendt and 6-7 sophomore Brian Humes will start at the forward positions. Six-foot two senior Keith Gray and 6-0 junior Kevin McAdoo will start at the guard positions.
THE STARTING LINEUP for the Jayhawks will include 7-1 junior Greg Dreiling at center and 6-11 freshman Danny Manning and 6-5 junior Kron Kellogg at forwards Five-foot-ten sophomore Mark Turgeon and six senior Tad Royle will start as the guards.
Detroit head coach Don Sisko said that his team needed to improve its rebounding. Siko said that he was concerned about how the team fared in frontline against Manning and Dreiling.
"Not only do they have great size, but they're also good quality players," he said of Manning and Dreiling. "We'll have to shut them down."
Sisko said that rebounding was a weak spot for his team in its 80-66 season-opening loss to Michigan.
"WE'VE GOT TO rebound better," he said. "We got outrebounded 40 to 20 against Michigan. They not only had a taller team than us, but they also had a lot of brawn. We got shoved around pretty good in that game."
Wendt led the Titans to Michigan with 19 points and seven rebounds. Humes had 13 points and Rainge and Gray added 10 points each.
Gray was the Titans leading scorer last year, averaging 17 points a game. He was named to the all-Midwestern Cities Conference team.
"He's a great athlete," Sicko said of Gray. "I really think he's in the top five or 10 percent in the nation as far as athletic ability. He was a junior college All-American and then he transferred to us and led us in scoring last year."
THE LEADING SCORER for the Jayhawks through the first three games is Kellogg. He is averaging 14.3 points and 7.7 rebounds a game. Manning is averaging 11.7 points and 10.3 rebounds a game. Dreiling is the only other starter with a double-figure scoring average. He is averaging 10 points and 9.3 rebounds a game.
Six-foot six junior Calvin Thompson has come off the bench this year for an average 36.7 points per game.
"I think with Calvin Thompson they have a super scorer off the bench," sicko said. "But if you devote too much of your attention to three players, you run the risk of the other two starting to score on you. It doesn't matter how much you win." Hunter. Whoever is in there can hurt you.
Sick said that playing a ranked team like Kansas would help his team in the long run.
"We have a very, very tough December schedule," he said. "KU is one of the tough teams we have to play, but it's good for the growth of the team."
The Jayhawks have played both man-to-man and zone defense under head coach Larry Brown. Sicko said that his team was prepared to face either defense.
"I really doesn't matter what defense they play, he said. "We're equally effective policies."
JAYHAWK NOTES: Kansas ticket manager Terry Johnson said yesterday that about 1,000 tickets remained for the Detroit team that he didn't expect the game to be sold out.
Turgeon leads the Jayhawks in assists with 15 Manning and Kellogg are tied for the team lead in steals with 4. Manning and leading the team in blocked shots with 4.
The KU junior varsity team will play Neooho Community College tomorrow before
The Detroit game is the first of five straight home games for KU. The Jayhawks will play South Dakota State Dec 4, Ahlene Carolina State Dec 10 and Houston Dec 15.
Ex-swimmers, coach tread rough waters
By CHRIS LAZZARINO
Sports Writer
In the fall of 1982, the KU men's swim team began to lay a foundation for the future with a freshman class of 14 swimmers and divers.
Swimming coach Gary Kempf makes a point to a swimmer. women's team, several members of the men's team have quit. Although Kempf has had tremendous success with the during the past two years.
But the foundation that men's and women's head swimming coach Gary Kemp counted on in 1982 has crumbled. Of the 14-member class, of only juniorDI Mike Pringle remains.
The 1983-84 men's swimming roster listed
37 swimmers. Out of that 37, 10 are on this year's roster of 27. This year, the roster lists
three seniors and two juniors.
The swimmers have left for a multitude of reasons. One had to return home to help with a family business. Some had to devote more time to their craft, not good enough to swim for an NCAA team.
But some, including last year's Big Eight conference champion in the 200 meter breaststroke, sophomore Todd Neelent, left because they did not want to swim for Kenny.
"It was 100 percent Gary," Neugent said the week after he left the team, on Nov. 2.
Neugent, who is planning to transfer, said Kempt worked the swimmers too hard and was impossible to communicate with, so he didn't get the most out of his swimmers.
Kempf said that part of the reason for the breakdown in communication between him and some of the swimmers was that they did not apt to talk with him about their grievances.
"We always worked hard, consistently."
Neugent said. "We swim hard consistently in practice, we never had any easy swims. I was always so tired; I couldn't swim very fast. And that is what keeps me going, swimming fast. It is what I find exciting.
“A lot of the people who say they don’t feel like they could talk to me never try.” Kempii said. “Todd didn’t try. I have people in and around you that talk to me talking about swimming, grades, anything.
"If I don't agree with something someone says, I say so. Some people just don't like being disagreed with, I coach 60 athletes. What has got to be a two-way honesty street."
Assistant coach Clayton Cagle said Neugent's departure from the team was a good sign.
"Neugent's leaving came clear out of the blue." Cagle said. "I was totally dismayed when it happened. In all fairness, I think the whole situation was dealt with properly."
Ron Neugent, Todd's brother and a co-captain on the swimming team in 1981-82 and 1982-83, said something was definitely wrong with KU's program.
"Just look at the makeup of the team," the older Neugent said. "The majority of the team is freshmen and sophomores. You have a lot of them, but there are upperclassmen and people are just not
lasting to their junior and senior years.
Something is wrong. I just don't know exactly
One of the things he said he did know was wrong that not enough people were having fun swimming in Kempf's program.
"Swimming is not a publicity sport or a glamour sport." Ron Neugent said. "What keeps the swimmers going is fun, and that is really the purpose of college athletics. When people are not having fun, they are starting to out."
Kemp said, "I feel that fun is a function of success and I know one way to achieve it."
Ron Neugent said he hoped his brother's leaving the program did not go to waste.
Although Kempf's men team has lost many swimmers, he has had great success with the women's program. The women have not lost a conference title since he became head coach in 1976. He became head coach of both teams in 1981.
"Todd loves KU." Ron said "I know how much he had to give up to leave and I would hate to see it happen to anyone else. I hope Todd's transferring will help wake people up."
understanding between coaches and swimmers. Gary has to have more of an open mind and listen to their ideas and not react instantaneously."
Doug Hiemstra, one of KU's top middle-distance freestyleers as a junior, left the KU team last spring after the Big Eight Championships.
There has to be a mutual cooperation and
"I was upset with the team we was run the whole season, right into the Big Eights." Heimstra said. "I am not against discipline, but he always had something to bitch about. There was so much bitching it wasn't fun anymore."
Butch Miller, a sophomore last year who competed in the individual medley and backstroke, left the team last year after a run-in with an assistant coach.
Miller criticized Kempf's handling of the tapering-down period, the time when swimwear is removed.
"Last March, no one hit their taper." Miller said. "They all worked nine months for that and they missed it. He would say 'Let them go.' You can't do what I say, and he blames it on us again."
Kempf said he guaranteed success to no
one, but he did guarantee he would give his swimmers 100 percent
"The program is very demanding." Kempt said. "We are in the Midwest, which has never been known as a capital of swimming. I want to make it the best it can be and everyone involved has to have a strong commitment to get there.
"Nobody walks in blindly. I have had a reputation for being tough for the last 10 years and I don't deny that I am."
Cagle supported Kempi's program, saying that many swimmers do not have the commitment level needed to do well at the collegiate level.
Krempt said that the program was constantly changing, but he couldn't help the swimmers who weren't happy unless they told him so.
"The program is always changing, it is never static." Kempt said. "The only way to do anything about unhappy athletes is if they give me the opportunity to work with them. They're poised to share their ideas with them. They are ready. They have got to take the time to do that."
Women's team plays tonight in Dial Classic
Sports Writer
By CHRIS LAZZARINO
For the second weekend in a row, the women's basketball team is going into a tournament with the possibility of facing a nationally ranked team.
The Lady Jayawk Dial Classic begins at 6 tonight at Allen Field House with eighthranked Louisiana Tech going against Stephen F. Austin State University. The Jayhawks play southwest Missouri State at 8.
The Jayahwaks are going into this weekend's tournament with a big victory under their belts from last weekend's tournament in Tulsa. KU defeated Vanderbilt, the 12-ranked team in the nation, 65-10 in the relationship game of the Oil Capital Classic.
KU advanced to the championship round with 47-77 victory over Oral Roberts in pursuit.
"I am very pleased with the way we performed," Washington said yesterday. "The first game was 'twas the easiest, but it was a good win. Going into the Vanderbilt game, I just hoped we would stay with them. But to be honest, it was a good indication that the future is bright."
"We have a good foundation, but we are very, very young. At one time against Vanderbilt we had five freshmen on the floor. We need to maintain consistency in our play.
THE VICTORIES WERE certainly nice, head coach Marian Washington said, but she added that her team still had to take the game, and the Dial Classic, one game at a time.
The upset of Vanderbilt may make the Cowboys game with Southwest Missouri a hard one.
and we need to keep that in mind against Southwest Missouri."
"Southwest Missouri is big," Washington said. "Our lineup starts out 6-4, 6-1 and 6-0. They are going to be pumped. Playing against KU brings the best out of most teams, but they will be even more ready since we beat Wanderbilt."
Adkins and Jennings were named to the all-tournament team at Tulsa. Adkins was named the tournament's most valuable player after scoring 20 points against
WASHINGTON SAID HER starting lineup would include junior Vickie Adkins, senior Mary Myers and freshman Kelly Jennings. She was undecided on the other two starters.
"IT REALLY WAS a big confidence booster." Jennings said. "Before we played, I was a little unsure of how I would do. Now I know I can compete in the collegiate ranks."
For the freshman starter, having a successful career-opener was a big help, to say the least.
Jennings, a 6-foot 4-center, had 17 points against the Commodores.
"We have to box out and go to the boards, get good offensive rebounds and concentrate on defense," Jennings said. "We just have to go in and work hard. We aren't even thinking about the possibility of playing Louisiana." We have to get by Southwest Missouri first.
Against Southwest Missouri State, Jennings said KU needed to continue executing the
Kelly Jennings, a 6-foot 4 freshman center on the women's basketball team, earned a spot on the all-tournament team at the Oil Capital Classic in Tulsa last weekend. She will be starting when the Jayhawks take on Southwest Missouri State in the Dial Classic basketball tournament at Allen Field House tonight.
Norseth says KU may throw more next year
By PHIL ELLENBECKER
Associate Sports Editor
The new Anchutz Sports Pavilion, with its 70-yard artificial turf football field, provides the football team with a much roomer place for off-season work than it previously had, and Mike Norsett to spend a lot of time there this winter.
Associate Sports Editor
"There'll be a lot of time spent in the new facility throwing the ball to receivers," the Jayhawk quarterback said when describing what his off-season routine would be. "That'll be a big part of it right there, probably more important than anything."
Norseth will have his full cast of receivers from this season returning next year. Six players who caught at least 10 passes will be returning, including Johnny Holloway, who was the Jayhawks' leading receiver in their series. The receiver for the rest of the year with an ankle injury.
In addition, KU will have Sylvester Byrd, a two-year starter at tight end who redshirted this season, Sandy McGee, who caught 22 passes in 1983 but was declared academically ineligible before this season; and Murphy Ray, a transfer from Ohio State who had to sit out this season under NCAA transfer rules.
"We'll be very deep in receivers,very
capable receivers with a lot of talent, Norseth said.
KU passed the ball 304 times this season and ran it 500 times. In 1983, the Jayhawks threw 407 times and had 388 rushing attempts. Norseth said he expected the run-pass balance to shift back toward the pass next season.
"I imagine we'll throw the ball a little more next year," Norseth said. "Couch (Mike) Gottried probably wanted to throw the ball a little more this year, but early in the year our pass game wasn't where we wanted it to be, and sometimes our defense had trouble stopping people, so we wanted to keep the
"I think our defense will be very tough next year," he said.
Nine defensive players who were counted on to be first or second string players were declared academically ineligible this season, leaving the defense with little depth. If those defenses can be held at depth should make the defense less dependent on the offense to hold the ball next year.
ball in our hands as much as possible. I would hope we'll throw the ball more next year.
Norseth started all but one game this year after transferring from Snow Junior College in Utah. He finished second in the Big Eight and earned offense and fourth in passing efficiency.
Theismann leads 'Skins to victory
MINNEAPOLIS — Joe Theismann passed for 223 yards, including a 68-yard touchdown strike on the first play of the game, propelling the Washington Redskins to a 31-17 rout of the Minnesota Vikings last night.
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The victory gave the Redskins, 9-9, a slight edge in the tight NFC East division with two games remaining. Dullahs and the Giants are 8-3 heading into the weekend.
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The Vikings, 3-11, have lost nine of their last 10 games in Coach Les Stecker's inaugural season.
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