Page.12 University Daily Kansan, December 5, 1980
KU victory could end worries
BYKEVIN BERTELS
Sports Writer
Two days ago there were many reasons to be optimistic about the chances of the Kansas basketball team this season. The Jayhawks had played well in two games, one on the road, and were 2-0.
One zone defense, one superstar scorer and one fired-up bunch of Michigan Wolterines later, there is much reason to be concerned. Twenty-eight points by the defense and a poor two against a tough one are two concerns. There are more.
ALL THESE CONCERNS could vanish with a decisive victory over Oral Roberts University Saturday night at Allen Field House. Toff is off at 7:35.
A couple of days of rest should help the Jayhawks against Oral Roberts. Michigan was the third game in five days for KU. The Jayhawks are in the
middle of five games in 10 days to open the season.
Head Coach Ted Owens didn't want to make excuses after Wednesday night's game, but he did think that the schedule has worn down the Jayhawks.
"I thought that we were flat when we were warm up," Owens said. "You can tell when a team is ready and I could see that Michigan was.
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"I don't know why we weren't. I don't think that we were physically tired but we were emotionally tired."
Oral Roberts returns only one starter from the team that beat KU early in the season last year and finished 18-10. That one man however, is an important one to the Titans. Gat "Cat" Johnson scored 19 points against KU last season and held KU guard Darnell Valentine to only nine points. Some said that those were the most important statistics of that game.
Roberts' games this season. The other starts have been Tom Prusor, a 7-0 senior center and Jeff Acres, a 6-4 foot-7 surprise be a pleasant surprise at forward.
JOHNSON, A 5-FOOT-10 junior,
averaged 10 points a game last season
and provided the ball handling, just as
he does this season. Two other returne-
stees, Steve Bontrager, a 6-foot-1 senior
guard, and Lance Williams, a 6-5 senior
guard or forward depending on the
situation, have started both of Oral
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Oral Roberts coach Ken Hayes calls Acres the best defensive player on the team and Acres has also played well under the boards, grabbing 10 rebounds in ORU's victory over Princeton and six in a loss to Oklahoma State.
In those games, the Titans used both man-to-man and zone defenses. Hayes prefers man-to-man, but with any scouting reports at all from the Michigan game, he will probably be inclined to set back in the zone and wait to see if the Jayhawks will break it, like they did against Pepperdine, or rush the offense and take bad shots, as in the Michigan game.
There won't be any question about the offense that the Titans will use.
"WE HAVE ALWAYS been a running ball team and we will always be a running ball team," Hayes said. "Our team is to run and that is what we will do."
If at any time Hayes decides that the Titans are going to slow things down, however, he will slow it down completely. Against Princeton, ORU employed of the almost the entire second half.
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The plan was to put four men in the corners and give the ball to Johnson. The goal was to force Princeton out of the 3-2 zone which it was using and into a man-to-man. It worked, ORU winning 66-61.
KU's Jayhawns could not force
KU out of its zone and it cost them
the game.
Despite the loss to Michigan, the Jayhawks won't be discouraged when they take the floor against ORU, according to senior forward John graffwright.
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"I THINK we're going to learn from this," he said. "I don't look for the guys to be down. They won't be hanging their hands out and play good, that is what I think."
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JAYHAWK NOTES: Tony Guy continues to lead KU in scoring after the Michigan game. He has scored 61 points out of 20.3 a game while finishing 58 percent.
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Victor Mitchell leads the team in shooting percentage with 60 percent. The leading rebouncer is Art Housey of the Mt Valentine lead in assists with 23.
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THE HAWKS ARE led by senior Lynette Woodard, who is 216 points away from the national scoring title for the N.Y.C. hockey team, a freshman from New Haven, Conn.
Iowa State was 1-5 going into last night's contest with Drake University with a record of 5-0. The Cyclones average 59.7 points a game and give up nine in five. The other hand, has scored an average of 83.5 a game and given up only 53.5.
That winning streak should continue tomorrow night when the seventh ranked Jayhawks meet Iowa State in the opener of a double header with the men's team at 5:15 p.m. in Allen Field House.
would use a full-court press against the 'Hawks and that they couldn't afford to give anything up inside or outside.
Iowa State doesn't have the height Kansas does, an advantage Claxton, Megan Scott and Legrant should be able to use. The three are KU's inside line, but the two dominate the boards. Iowa State's tallest starter is 5-foot-11 Gleason Gleason.
Claxton leads the team and the Big Eight conference in rebounds with 100 and is second on the team in scoring 126.
they couldn't afford to give anything up inside or outside.
This season the Jayhawks have a 7-4 record. KU outscored its opponents by an average of 32 points a game and have dominated all but one contest.
When basketball ability was handed out, the women who ended up at Kansas were not well represented.
If Iowa State should shut down the inside game, KU still has Woodard, Mary Myers, Robbin Smith and Chris Stewart, all perimeter shooters. Woodward has found few defenses that she cannot penetrate in her career,
By PATTI ARNOLD
Associate Sports Editor
AFTER THE GAME with Iowa State, KU will take two weeks off to prepare for the Hanover Christmas Classic in Madison Square Garden.
Talent-laden Jayhawks take on ISU Cyclones
Shebra Legrant, who sat out the first six games of the season with a twisted knee, returned to the line-up Wednesday night and scored 18 points in 18 minutes.
KU HAS YET to lose to Iowa State in the teams four meetings.
KU runs up against first rated Louisiana Tech in the first round of the tournament its first top 10 opponent this season.
"We always draw the good ones," Marian Washington women's basketball coach said. "If we win it, would be great, but if we don't, we'll learn a lot and come home and start working again. It's a good challenge."
PROBABLE STARTERS
First-year ISU Head Coach Debbie
Bolger, said the Cyclones would use a full-
time instructor to teach.
Darmell Valentine ... G | 6-2 | Sr.
Tony Guy ... G | 6-3 | Jr.
Wayne Madden ... F | 6-7 | Jr.
John Cawford ... F | 6-7 | Sr.
David Magley ... F | 6-7 | Jr.
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Gary Johnson. G 5-10 Jr.
Stone Bontrager. G 6-1 Jr.
Tom Prusater. G 5-3
Lance Waiss. F 6-5
Jacent Acc. F 6-7 Fr.
Claxton said KU was going "all the way" this season, and that the high national rankings helped the team's morale.
"It means a whole lot," Claxton said after KU's 107-56 victory over Northern Oklahoma Wednesday. "It inspires us a lot."
KU's seventh place ranking isn't the highest drawn this season. Sports Illustrated, in the Dec. 1, 1900 issue, picked the Jayhawks to finish fourth. Washington was surprised by the rating.
“It’s good for the players, but I remind them that the polls won’t do it for us,” he said. “When Sports Illustrated came out with their rating, I gulped. The New York trip will do a lot for us no matter what. We’ll on the court with the first and fifth ranked teams.”
But Washington said that her team deserved to move up if the Jayhawks wanted to.
"If we beat Louisiana Tech, they'd better move us up," she said.
PROBABLE STARTERS KANSAS
Lynette Woodard. F 6-10 Sr.
Connie Means. F 5-10 Jr.
Cheryl Scott. C 4-9 Soph.
Megan Scott. C 6-2 Soph.
Mary Myers. G 5-6 Fr.
Jolene Leesman    G     5-8   Soph.
Tracy Eckert    G     5-6   Jr.
Jean Lewis      F     5-6   Jr.
Gleen Gleason    F     5-11   Jr.
Carol Hudgens    G     5-6   Jr.
"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?"
In the second Psalm God asks this question, and then answers it. He tells who the heathen are, why they rage, and the consequences. Webster says "a heathen is one who does not believe in the God of the Bible." This definition fits in with what God says in this Psalm. The consequences are that God laughs at man's rebellion, and that God loves man and vexes in His sore displeasure is not nearly the whole earth and the inhabitants in a state of voyest and fear?
Psalma 2:1 and Acta 4:25
It is the devil in men that cause them to rage against God's Moral Law, His Ten Commandments! The devil, God and man's enemy. Christians are not immune from the devil entering into them. This statement is based on the doctrine of Jesus as the Son of God, "Blessed" because God had given a revelation as to whom Christ was, but then in the context of the same passage Jesus said to Peter: "Get the beehind me Satan: thou art an offense unto Me; for thy saviour恶 not of the beehind me Satan: thou art an offense unto Christ; 16:13-18. Peter was saved through the intercession of Christ who after telling him of Satan's desire to possess him said: "I have prayed for these —" "The devil gained entrance into Peter because of his ignorance and unbelief in the meaning of the sins of mankind, their substitute. Peter was not seeking his own selfish ends when he left all to follow Christ. He
had gotten a vision of himself and had said to Him: "Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord!" He was seeking salvation, but even then he was in great danger when the devil got in him.
(Today the church is lousy with those "who saviorest not of the things of God, but that those be of men,") or of the things of God, but that those be of men." God's wrath fell on Christ to atone for the sins of all mankind, and Jesus was so angry that they had no spiritual kinship with all with Peter.
The devil also entered into another of Christ's disciples, held his ground, and finally carried him off to perdition a traitor and suicidle! He got into Judas because he was the most insane and insolent man in the meager means of the little "spinbait" band of Christ and His disciples. (Have you stolen something, without repenting and making restitution to the uttermost of your sins?) The devil might have known the devil knows he has a buddy, a friend and partner in a covetous, hoggish thief. That may account for the fact that the legion of devils about to be cast out one poor brother were caught in the midst of hogs. Beware of coveting that is another.
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MEDIATE DAY AND NIGHT." PSAIL 1: 1 and 2.
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