SPORTS
November 28,1984 Page 16
The University Daily KANSAN
Ron Kellogg, junior forward on the men's basketball team, maneuvers the ball around a defender. Kellogg leads the Jayhawks in scoring after their first four games this year and was named to the all-tournament team at the Great Alaskan Shootout.
Kellogg adapts quickly to new leadership role
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
What a difference a year makes.
At this time last year Ron Kellogg, a 6-foot-4 forward on KU's men's basketball team, was wondering where he fit in with new coach Larry Brown's system. He had a lot of time to think since he spent a good part of the pre-Christmas season on the bench.
This year Kellogg is one of the veterans Brown is counting on to lead a team that is long on promise but short on experience. Kellogg showed he 's up to the task by leading the Jayhaws in scoring at the Great Alaskan Shootout in Anchorage over the weekend.
HE ALSO MADE the ten man all-tournament team along with center Greg Dreling and forward Danny Manning. The three players, the prestigious season-opening tournament.
Kellogg started only one game last season, but has started each of KU's four games this year (including the exhibition game against the Chinese national team) and has led KU in scoring in three of those. During the three games at Alaska, Kellogg played more minutes for KU than anybody except Manning.
Kellogg said his new leadership role has increased his desire to improve.
"I'm playing an important role in rebounding and shooting, and that gives me some confidence that the team needs me," he makes me want to work harder and do more.
Kellogg, who played high school ball in Omaha, said he didn't so ready to try a shot at the No. 15 position.
"I USED TO have an attitude when I was coming off the bench, and that didn't help me," he said. "When I realized that I had a chance to help the team coming off the
Kellogg came into his own in the latter part of the Big Eight conference season last year, when he had a string of double-figure scoring games coming off the bench.
bench, I really started concentrating and playing better."
He's probably best remembered for drilling a shot from the corner with 41 seconds left in the finals of the conference post-season tournament against Oklahoma. That gave the Jayhawks a 79-78 victory and avenged two earlier defeats by the Sooners.
Kellogg, who has somewhat of a reputation as a streak shooter, said he was learning how to fight through his shooting slumps and not think so much about his missed shots.
"THAT CAN GET you frustrated." he said.
"When you start missing you've got to work on other parts of your game and sooner or later the shot will会死. I can't let it affect my game. Shooters can have bad days and they can have good days."
Despite the strong showing by Kellogg and the Jayhawks at Alaska, Kellogg said Sunday's loss in the finals to Alabama-Birmingham left him and the team pretty downcast.
"All weekend, when I'd look up to the balcony and see the banners of the teams that had won the tournament in past years, I'd keep seeing an imaginary banner with our name on it," he said. "It's early in the season when we have to find a new experience and find out what we need to work on, but we had set some kind of goal up there."
JAYHAWK NOTES. Brown said after an informal practice yesterday that he was "thrilled" with KU's performance at the Alaska Shootout. "I was encouraged with the way the kids played, the attitude they showed, and the condition they were in," he said.
Next contest will be last, Holmes says
By United Press International
PHILADELPHI — Undefeated heavyweight champion Larry Holmes said yesterday he would retire from the ring after a planned International Boxing Federation title defense in February against David Bey.
"I's getting out," Holmes said during a telephone interview from his Easton, Pa. office. "You can't go on forever. There's garbage." He added. "I'm tired. I am tired of all the garbage."
"Everybody is pulling on me pretenting I'm a prostitute. After 16 years of boxing and having a successful career, you don't want to involve yourself in things not coming down right. You don't want to leave a bad taste in people's mouths. Instead of hurting anybody, I'm just getting out."
In his first IBF defense last month, Holmes, who stepped down as World Boxing Council champion last December, scored a technical knockout over James "Bonecrusher" Smith in Las Vegas despite a broken knuckle on his right thumb and a cut over his eye. The win improved his record to 46-0.
Jayhawks ranked 15th in coaches' poll
As has been his complaint in the past, Holmes, 35, said promoters have made it clear that he is not a big fan of
“He (King) he said he'll go at it and see what he can do.” Holmes said. “That’s not good enough for me. I want the dollars. People are going to come out to see one of the great fighters of all time in his last fight. Even if I fight another year or year and a half, I see no one whipping me. The quality of opponents is less and less.”
By United Press International
NEW YORK - Georgetown was reaffirmed as the No.1 team and Alabama-Birmingham came out of nowhere to be selected No.1 yesterday in the first regular season voting by the United Press International board of college basketball coaches.
Kansas moved up three notches from the pre-season roll to No. 15.
Georgetown received 39 of 41 first-place votes for a total of 609 points, followed by DePau with one first-place vote and 433 points.
The defending national champion Hoyas, the pre-season choice of the coaches to win two straight titles, opened their season by beating Hawaii Lola 74-45.
Rounding out the top 10 were St. John's,
Louisville, Illinois, Duke, Memphis State,
Southern Methodist, Washington and
Oklahoma.
Flutie heads Kodak All-Americans
DePaul, despite a 59-18 squeaker over Northern Illinois, inched up a spot to No. 2. St. John's, although idle, moved ahead three berths to No. 3.
The early season surprise was Alabama-Birmingham. The UAB Blazers, unranked in the pre-season ratings, won three games to capture the Great Alaska Shootout. Included were victories over two ranked teams — Illinois and KU — and UAB was rewarded with a No.11 rating
By United Press International
The senior quarterback was joined in the offensive backfield by running backs Keith Byars of Ohio State and Kemeth Davis of Texas Christian, and wide receivers Eddie Brown of Miami of Florida and David Williams of Illinois.
ROCHIESTER, N.Y. — Boston College quarterback Doug Flute leads the list of players named to the Kodak All-America football team selected by the American Football Coaches Association.
The defensive linemen on the team are Bruce Smith of Virginia Tech. Tony Casillas of Oklahoma. Tony Degrate of Texas, Jack Wagner of California and Ron Holmes of Washington.
the offensive line includes Pittsburgh tackle Bill Fraile, Nebraska center Mark Traynowiz and interior linemen Lomas Brown of Florida, Lance Smith of Louisiana State and David Wilkes of South Carolina, tight end Jay Novack of Wooming.
Auburn's Greg Carr and Iowa's Larry Station, were the linebackers.
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