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Monday, January 21. 1980
University Daily Kansan
Jayhawks keep basketball streaks intact
The masses should shout, 'Save Owens and fire KU'
Two weeks ago I wouldn't have given much thought to the possibility of Ted Owens being fired.
After all, his basketball team had just looked like the class of the conference with its 69-66 victory over Missouri, ranked 14th and the league favorite.
But three straight conference losses and a 7-4 overall mark have fizzled, reminiscent of the 1975-76 season when the cup-mockers t-shirts and T-shirts were popular
Jayhawk fans are searching again for a scapegoat to blame in KU's decline in stature, and canning Owens is again the popular race.
And, although I'm just a part-time sports editor and a full-time student, the question of Owens' job status has been put to me several times. I pondered that thought.
out on a limb
Sports Editor Mike Earle
David Mugel's sentiments are shared by most team members. As he付它 recently, David Mugel said that his attitude win. Coach Owen has kept a positive attitude and he hasn't been getting down on
"He's been getting the heat lately, but he can't get out there and play. It 's up to us."
It is always easy to second-guess a coach's strategy, especially when his team has been overly successful. But it hasn't been slapped into place. If a 4-foot jump shots and slapped poor defense.
IT WANT 'O'WENN who called to time-out against Kentucky last year. It wasn't O'Wenn who missed the front end of one-and-one free through to lose to Kansas State last season. It was not in the final minute against Southern Methodist this year. And it wasn't O'Wenn whose lasey man's defense gave Kansas State safe passage through the lane
All he can do is prepare his team for opponents and do his best to drill the funnibilities of the game into his team. With a large hand, he wields U, Owens is certainly capable of doing that.
He's a topnotch recruiter and with nearly 300 career victories he can't be as well respected as he is. Owens is well-respected among his peers and deserves that same respect from the team.
ONCE A TEAM爬 the in-bounds line, it's up to it to perform, and Kansas has failed. Maybe Owens isn't the best coach in the league, but it minutes is long enough to win a ball game.
There have been reports that there isn't enough harmony on the team. There is no problem, but when they now hat-tailed a team is, it won't function if there is even a trace of disarray among its members. It takes 12 players to win in such a situation. If your team don't always have everyone pulling in the same direction. If this is the case, the team members had better aid their feelings, and they would be happier.
FROM WHAT IVE seen and read about the other Big Eight teams, there is no doubt that KU has talent that is equal or superior to his peers. And that will it take to turn the "Hawks around"
The league title is still within conceivable reach and there is always hope that the Jayhawks will start winning and gain by going into the post-season tournament.
The 'Hawks can't let these past three games war on them and get them down or they can kiss any success this season good luck. There is a positive outlook for the remainder of the year.
But in all fairness, to the players, they are young and they haven't been playing together for a long time.
Yet KU hasn't been blown out of any game. When they've been down, they've always come back. They haven't quit.
The bright note is that the players realize they haven't been playing up to their potential. When, and if, they get together as a team, and realize championship teams are winning, they could pool at the right time and surprise the key. The team is workmark.
All Jayhawk fans can do is sit back and see if the team can pinpoint its difficulties on and off the court and work them out. In the meantime, the chorus of boos that was heard at the close of Saturday's game should be recycled into chen of environs.
"I DIDN'T EXPECT the booing." Dolph Carroll said. "There's hatred there. I stood and gave a dirty look when the booing started.
"They're our fans and we need them."
It's a safe bet Owens won't let the criticism get him down. He heard it all before, and has come back to silence his critics with some outstanding seasons.
Granted, he has never taken KU to an NCAA title, but very few coaches even reach the Final Four. Owens did that twice in the 1970s.
Save Owens and pull the team together, I say.
Reboundina rivalru
KU's Chester Giles (43) and Johnb Crawford (40) fought K-State's Dean Damer (43) for this rebound in Saturday night's game. KU lost both the rebound and the game, 82-11.
By PAM CLARK Sports Writer
Sports Writer
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The old adage that everyone loves a woman isn't necessarily true, but many women in women's basketball is, playing at the Hearts Center in Columbia, Mo. against
Legrant's inside power leads KU to crown again
That was made perfectly clear Saturday night when KU beat Mizzou in the finals of the Big Eight women's basketball tournament.
The Jayhawks kept their pose against the South team team and a very vocal coach. The Jayhawks won the championship for the second year in a row. The 86-46 victory raised the nint-bank ratio.
KU reached the finals by virtue of a 56-55 victory over Oklahoma State Thursday and a 59-76 victory over Colorado Saturday.
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What little support the KU entourage did receive in Columbia was limited to a crowd of 20 or 30 family members and friends of the children. UC captain, who is from nearby Centralia.
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BUT THE RUNNING, gunning 'Hawks gave the small KU crowd plenty of opportunity to try to drown out the catcalls of the maddened MU supporters.
The combination of Lymeite Woodsard, Sheen Legrant and Pat Mason trest his best to literally run the Tigers in the ground in the first half and MU never really stopped
Legrant was unstoppable. She racked up 23 points and 12 rebounds in the first 20 minutes.
A forward who is not known for her speed, Legrant surprises everyone, especially the Tigers, when she ran past the MU guards on the skate for an easy two points in the first half.
But Legerant isn't ready to switch to guard just yet. The inside game is her strength and it was inside, not on the fast break, that Legerant hurt the Tigers. Only three her game-high 31 points from free throws made only one came from more than five feet out.
Legrant agreed that maybe the Tigers had concentrated a little too much on Woodard.
BUT HOW CURRENT anyone blames the TIGERS for giving Largent a lot of room in room! At 5-11 and 150 pounds, the Vadala, who was one of them to throw her weight around under the basket.
"A lot of teams do think we're a one-man team," she said. "There wasn't too much pressure inside."
Or her elbows.
To say that Legrant is tough would be an understatement. Her toughness, along with her excellent vertical jump, has been a potent weapon this year for the Jayhawks.
All of these eightasket results in 55 percent shooting for KU and the Hawks also continued their excellent free-throw shooting, hitting 80 percent from the line.
Missouri didn't have much luck stopping Mason, either. The speedy guard repeatedly beat the Tigers down the court on the fast break and sent them off into the game were games. She had 18 points.
One person made the easy baskets possible. Woodard wasn't the man who gave her the most rebounds, but she showed everyone how the point guard position is supposed to be.
WOODARD SCORED only six points and grabbed only four rebounds in the first 20 minutes, but MU didn't have her stopped.
Woodard hit Legeran in the lane several times at the split-second she came open. And after taking the outlet pass or grabbing her phone, Legeran broke a streaking down the court on the fast break.
For the game, Woodard had 13 assists and five steals. She put the rest of her game together in the second half to finish with 22 points and nine rebounds.
Woodards' efforts were rewarded not only with a Big Eight championship, but also a place in the 2013 Tournament with Legrand. And for the second year in a row, Woodward was named the tournament's all-time leader.
Women's basketball doesn't get much coverage in the Midwest, but Lyndee is one of the all-ball-around players in the country," KU coach Marian Washington said during a game. "I feel she represents all of us at the University of Kansas and in the Midwest."
| NATIONAL LEAGUE | TEAM | REB | PTE | PP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Hartwell | 16 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| Mason | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Woodard | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Wendell | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Scott | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Patterson | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Durham | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Durham | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Durham | 37-45 | 12-19 | 29 | 21 |
| | FT | GT | REB | PP | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Hackettner | 24 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 18 |
| Plummer | 6.5 | 6.2 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| Skinner | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| Stiles | 3.4 | 3.4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Macy's | 15.22 | 9.2 | 7 | 3 | 17 |
| Money | 10.22 | 7.3 | 3 | 1 | 14 |
| Forret | 5.5 | 0.6 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Forett | 5.4 | 0.6 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Totals | 1141 | 101 | 24 | 18 | 40 |
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Kansas adds another dull chapter to losing story
Bv GENE MYERS
Associate Sports Editor
Kansas added another mundane chapter to its continuing slide as the Jawahyers played solid for most of the game, went into a cocktail for five minutes and then returned.
This time KU dropped a 61-52 decision to arch-rival Kansas State Saturday night in Allen Field House.
With 12-19 left in the game, KU entered its cucumber. The OKU turned off to toe and the KU was down by 65. Jayhawks reappeared by K-State had scored 10 straight points for a 45-37 advantage.
KU staged a desperate comeback, a tradition from the team's three straight losses and 7-8 season. Owens sent in Dolph
"THERE'S NO REASON for that."
"that hurt us in that spartan was that we missed some shots and then did it do a very big amount of damage," coach Ted Wews said. "That turned the game around. We gave up three layups,."
Carroll, his designated huster, and called for an anything-oes press.
Booty Neal fired in a 25-footer to slice the deficit to three, 53-50, with 1:47 remaining. But then K-Sate took charge.
KState's Ed Neally, a sophomore and the last of the one-handed dribblers, crossed the time line. His elbow crashed into Carroll and was knocked out to Carroll. Carroll was whistled for the back.
"It could have gone either way," Carroll said. "It went my way unfortunately. A bit of a break may be just what we needed."
Nally canned both ends of a one-and-one, just as he did last year to beat KU in the second half. The second-half kicked KU again. He hit Tyron Adams breaking for the basket and KU's John Rivers made it.
The Wildcats had the game in their clays, 50 at 10:6. That left the Jayhawks with 28 points to beat Iowa in charge. The team is now 14-3, with road losses to Nebraska and Iowa State, two of the top teams.
BUT OWENS REFUSED to concede anything.
"I'm not going to let myself be discouraged," he said. "Nor am I going to let my players be discouraged."
"We just have to continue to work and if we work at it, we'll continue to improve. It hope that improvement will make us a good team to learn to盈利 instead of losses."
He also would not criticize his team or attack his critics. Rumors about Owens' impending firing, but he was cool and collected in his office after the loss.
But the players have heard the grumbling and they're hardly happy about it. One neeved player was Carroll.
"I can't worry about that," he said of the rumors. "We have a job to do. Let other people worry about that. I won't go toiling."
"Sure we hear it," he said. "I get a little upset. It’s tough to lose and try to fight back."
The Jayhawks, least of all Owens, aren't ready to hit the panic button—at least not yet. The team could still make the NCAA
"it's hard to lose. It's no fun. And having a season is by no means an indication that we're going to give up and quit without a fight. That's where the heart comes in."
The KU distance medley relay team also broke new ground in the record books with a 12.08.25 time. The team of Lorca Torek, Cyny Dennay, Derrick Hertz and Michelle Brown elicited the old record of 12.20 seconds, second place floor by nearly 20 seconds.
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Tracksters successful in opener
Bv BILL VOGRIN
Records fell early in the meet as small, a freshman, nailed a brow of 41-11 to shatter the old mark of 45-11 1/4. The Jayhawks dominated the shot put, in three of the six scoring spots. Linda Newell, the previous record holder, scored third and Samantha took fifth.
IT WAS A long night for the guest teams, as only KU and Iowa had much success. Arkansas managed five first-place finishes and one more record by Wendy Harris in the 60-yard dash. But a lack of depth hurt them. Their only points came from those first.
Small brake the sled put record by nearly a foot and Kansas University cruised past six other teams in the KK Invitational at four points, 74 more than second-place Iowa.
Mickens places 2nd at New York meet
But he made his move in the final 50 meters to finish second in the 500-meters, broadcast nationally by NBC yesterday. Fred Sowery captured first in a world record.
For nearly the entire race, KU's Lester Mickens ran last in a four-man field Saturday night in the Olympic Invitational in New York.
Mickens, Decatur, Ga., senior, wasn't the only athlete with KU ties competing. Clifford Wilson, who was graduated in 1963, was also He. Failed, however, to make the finals.
"I've got a long way to go," she said. "I feel pretty good about breaking the record. It is a great beginning, but it is pretty early. I just can't get it to spring as well, as improve a little with every meet."
Though pleased with her performance. Small sees room for improvement.
Small's record breaker came despite a bad week in practice.
"I had a problem early in the week, and
"SURE, I'm FAMY about winning, and breaking the record," she said. "I had some good competition, and I can improve my time even more."
Harris, the Razorback, freshman was not as excited and didn't even realize how well she had run.
didn't practice much," she said. "I think it's starting to come around now."
Other KU winners were Carla Anderson in 800-yard dash with a 3.07 second, Hertz in 900-yard dash with a 2.68 captured the high jump with a 5.44. In that event, the Hawks swept the first three races.
Eldwanda Smith won the 66-yard hurdles in 8.08, while a former Jayhawk, Karen Fitz, ran unattached and snared the three-mile run in 16.38.7.
The Jayhawks won or placed in each of the 14 events, finishing first in six events and second in seven. Depth was the key to the convincing Jayhawk victory.
"It was a pretty good start for us," KU coach Teri Anderson said. "This was our first competition of the year against some good teams, and we performed pretty well."
"We are a well-rounded team—that is our strength. We score in every event.
"Their teams were not quite as well rounded. Our depth is what won the meet."
playoffs by winning the Big Eight post-season tournament, and KU's second home, Kemper Arena, will be ready for the tournament.
HOUSEY WAS THE KU hero. Early in the season he had the potential to be the first team to win a championship and his shot. But since the Hawks downed Missouri Jan. 5, Housey has had the soft touch of an opponent.
"We have to keep our heads up because we can have a fantastic basketball team," freshman Ricky Ross said. "We have a lot of bright spots, like Art House."
The jaco transfer had 12 points on 6-7 shotting against K-State. He went to 5-6 before Neak clamped down on him early in the second half.
"It was tough not only because it was a
wrong to K-State but because it was our third
K-STATE, MEANWHILE, missed only five or 22 second-half shots. Tjmankivok, who had 12 points, missed three of them and Jarr Will lead the scoring with 15 points.
Darnell Valentine, David Magley and Ross led the off-target attack by going 9-30. But Valentine had a game-high eight points and Magley had a game-high seven rebounds.
loss in a row," he said. "There was a pretty
matter in there at first and that let me
open for a pretty good shot. But I could
have done a better job in the second half."
And so could the entire KU team. The 'Hawks shot 43 percent in the second half and 42 percent for the game.
"Wills had a good game on both ends of the court," the wildcat coach Jack Hartman said. "We overcome the tremendous odds." He didn't feel that meant a lot, I felt we could go the
| | FF | FF | RLR | FF | TF |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Adelante | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 14 |
| Navarro | 2,59 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Niebla | 7,28 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Jakubovich | 6,62 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Jehovah's Witness | 1,48 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Ichkov | 8,44 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Ivanov | 8,44 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| N.K. (N.) | 14,95 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| | FG | FT | REB | PE | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Manuel | 6 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| Crawford | 6:11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Hineson | 6:13 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| Ikehue | 6:13 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| Guy | 0:4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gay | 0:4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Shaulk | 0:1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Giles | 0:1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Larder | 0:2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dunnley | 0:1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Donnely | 0:1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 26:37 | 14 | 30 | 17 | 52 |
last 20 minutes of the game, get the lead and keep it."
KANNASTATE 24 27 — 61
KANNA 25 27 — 32
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PASADEN, Calif. (ICPI) "The Pitsburgh Steelers, sparked by a record-breaking 72-yard touchdown pass by Terry Brady on Saturday," wrote NBC News. "at 3:19-Piper Super Bowl XIV victory yesterday over the dogged Los Angeles Rams and claimed the fourth NFL title, in the last six."
Pittsburgh belts Rams 31-19
The unprecedented fourth Super Bowl victory did not come easily as the lead changed hands six times before Bradshaw finally put the heavily favored Steelers ahead to stay with 12.04 left in the game on a spectacular TD bomb to John Stallworth.
Trailing 19-17, the Steelers looked lethargic as they begged down a game of a 3rd-and-4 at 27. But Bradshaw, having difficulties with three interceptions, calmly stepped back and went for a pass to Jake Eckert. A All-Pro wide receiver easily outcured Rox Red for the zone.
THE SCOURING game was Bradshaw's second of the game and ninth in his Super bowl career, breaking the record held by Dallas' Roger Stanach. Stallwouth also set a record with his third lifetime Super bowl reception.
Bradshaw, him hit 14-12 (32 passes for 309 yards, was named the game's Most Valuable Player. It was the second time he had
Los Angeles, an 11-point team; refused to give in with
years once Perrigo gamaged them; moved to a 10-and-14 at-
tendance.
Bradshaw applied the crushing blow when he threw a 45-yard pass to Stallwright to the Los Angeles 22, setting up Franco Harus* second touchdown of the game—a 12-yard ball off left of center. He punted on a 35-yard pass interference against Ranger; cornerback Pat Thomas.
But Ferragamo tested the Pittsburgh secondary once too often and Lambert, the Steelers' All-Pro middle linebacker, ended the Rams' dream of winning a Super Bowl in their first game against the Steelers. Over the middle and returning it 14 yards to the Steelers' 30.
The Steeleers extended the AFC's domination over NC PFCs in the Super Bowl with the 10th victory for the conference in the NFC Championship.
The Steelers won all three of their previous Super Bowl, beating Dallas twice and Minnesota once. A Super Bowl record has been set by the Steelers in 2013.
won the award, tying the honor held by Green Bay's Bart Starr in the first two Sunner Bowls.
Ortman paces gymnasts in Iowa
KU's gymnasts won four of six events for second place in Iowa's triangular meet Friday night.
By TRACEE HAMILTON
Sports Writer
Coach Ken Snow called the triangular "a good first meet of the semester."
But in the second meet of the semester Saturday, the Hawks were trounced 276-200 by top-ranked Iowa State in a dual meet.
In the triangular in Iowa City, Ron Ort-
man, all-around competitor, paced the Jayhawks, winning two events and finishing second in a third.
ORTMAN WON THE floor exercise competition with no 85, and scored another 107. The other team Ortman placed second in the long horse vault behind teammate Chrissi Phillips, who won.
Larry Kaplan won the pommel horse competition with an 8.75 and KU finished
with 227.7 points in the triangular, behind Iowa with 243.5. Northern Iowa was last with 179.7.
In the dual meet, the Iowa State team, led by Ron Galimore, defeated the Hawks by 76 points in Albany. Galimore, an Olympic hopeful, is "one of the best vaulters in the world," according to Snow. A two-time all-around gymnast at the top 10 all-around gymnasts in the country.