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Friday, March 28,1975
University Dally Kansan
KU, K-State cage results defy fans' expectations
Allen Field House is a strangely different building this time of year. The rows upon rows of seats are hauntingly empty, filling only partially for an occasional track meet or state basketball tournament. The band no longer plays, the fans no longer line up outside, the ticket office has slowed to a mere trickle of activity.
The University of Kansas basketball season, after one of the strangest and most gruesome defeats in its history.
Briefly and simply, it was a year that saw KU, unranked throughout most of the season, win the Big Eight championship and lose its first post-season game to Notre Dame, while K-State placed second, just missed going all the way to the final NCAA playoffs and finished 15th in the final next-to-finals. Associated Press (AP) notl.
AT FIRST GLANCE, the outcomes of the two teams would appear to be at odds with their capabilities and expectations. KU was the team returning four of five starters and two excellent substitutes from the 1974 season in which the Jayhawks ended up sath in the nation, making it all the way into the NCAA finals in Greensboro, N.C.
Later that year, very few of us payed heed to Ted Owens, KU coach, when he said that he didn't think anyone realized how much Ktvio meant to that year's team and how difficult it would be to instantly replace him. People were shocked at the fact that he didn't make it big in the box scores, he probably was just taking up space on the court.
But Kiwisto's contributions didn't belong nor fit in a box score. How do you rank ball handling, give merit to ability to think while on the court, rate leadership and categorize the knack of inspiring individuals to operate as a team?
KIVISTO ALSO PLAYED the role of mentor to Olsen and the KU coaching staff relaying how the players felt, if they were playing well. In a small areas of play. Kivisto was the link that spanned the communication gap that can grow quickly and easily between players and coaches. When Kivisto graduated, the team broke and there was no one to replace him.
So, the returning KU team looked strong on paper and unbeatable in the eyes of the fan. Ken Trickey, Iowa State head coach, accurately described the Kansas team before one game as a “coach killer”; a team that looked good enough to win it all, but really wasn’t, and thus, any ledow would be easily blamed on the coach.
The press fell right into the trap. The week before the season started in
Games put off until weekend
Wet grounds caused the postponement of today's doubleheader between the University of Kansas and the University of Virginia, Coach Floyd Temple said Thursday.
Temple said that the doubleheader would be moved to 1:30 p.m. Saturday and a single game originally scheduled for Saturday to 1 p.m. Sunday at Quigley Field.
The three-game series will be the first in the Big Eight conference for both teams.
Rab Allinder (2-2), Mike Love (9-2) and
Rob Thurmerhoff (4-4) be the starters in
the third round.
Improvement soon came to Gerlach, Winston and Snider, making a front line that under any other coach would have been only so much rubbish. Even an unobtrusive player such as Dan Droge improved to the point that he was able to navigate Nacropaea, he actually got 18 rebounds.
By Mike Fitzgerald Sports Editor
K-STATE AND KU, however, differed considerably in the manner of play that enabled them to stay on top of the Big Eight khe. State ran the ball somewhat, but
played one of its best games of the season against powerful and discipline Indiana.
against powerful and disciplined Indiana. He was one of the regular season before the Hoosiers escaped 74-10 in overtime. That night KU played to its capability and yet still not to the excerpts.
season, Hartman allowed them to shoot whenever open, for lack of an inside threat. The two soon averaged 20 points or more each game.
The Jayhawks had trouble in their first game against tiny Northeast Missouri State, an outcome with disturbing implications for surplus teams. The Jayhawks First game jitters, the fans brought. Just one uninspired performance, the media reported.
But KU was to play like that only two weeks ago when the Mets against Nebraska and at home against K-State.
December, the AP ranked KU No. 6, and Street and Smith, one of the more prestigious basketball magazines, put KU in the No. 2 spot several weeks earlier.
This year's Wildcat team was a tribute to the abilities of the Hatters. He had only Doug Snider rise, essentially, Hartman was him. He's been the season's third guard behind Lon Kruger and Danny Beard; Mike Evans, an untested freshman; Daryl Wristen, an inexperienced forward; and Carl Gerlach, the outperformed outweighed Rick Suttle by 10 pounds.
Williams and Evans quickly established themselves as an explosive offensive duo through the manner that Hartman unleashed them. In the early part of the
Between that time, the Jayhawks played alternately well and bad, sometimes winning easily, other times losing miserably. It was soon realized that one of their greatest challenges was that teams were lying in wait for KU. While the 'Hawks were being mugged on courts around the nations, the Big Eight team jumped up and constantly over-achieving.
KU was probably playing up to its capabilities at the time, but rapidly improved in its next two games. The 'Hawks picked apart Augusta 85-50 and then
I must admit that I picked K-State for better than this third year. After all, KU had all the returning players, and K-State had none. Therefore, on Coach Jack Hartman's prowess and proficiency alone, I gave K-State third.
not the outright run-and-gun like Trickey's Iowa State club. When the shots were going in and assistes were being made, the Wildcat offense was artistically picturesque.
On the other hand, KU killed on its usual disciplined passing game and its work-it-to-the-inside offense. In the Big Eight's new dawn of the Ken Trickey run-and-shoot age, KU's offense looked stodgy and old fashioned. It was an offense that opposing teams could plan on: they knew exactly where the ball was headed. It was only a matter of keeping it from getting inside. The defense was strong, the layhawks on the inside, and the offense was successful. Other times, however, it wasn't.
There was one time, nonetheless, that KU seemed to put the slowdown, planned offense in the back of its collective mind and absolutely destroyed the beautiful offense of our team. He moved to me if it could run with the ball and still take advantage of its inside strength.
over-all, it was a bitter sweet for KU basketball in the end. The 'Hawks did win the conference title, an honor to be sure, but the NCAA finals will get back on the band to the NCAA finals.
KU took 82 shots in that stirring performance, more than any other during the season.
many say K-State took the easier route by placing second and thus going to the East. Had the roles been reversed, however, K-State would have teamed that could match up inside with KU but not outside with K-State. K-State might have lost to Notre Dame. Speculation, unfortunately, does not as does the teams in the irregular league in redefining the Notre Dame contest.
RATHER, ONE SHOULD write off the 1975 season because it was successful in the next season.
KU will lose five seniors who have been the pride, joy and backbone of Jayhawk basketball for the past three years. Remaining will be the basics of a good squad, but a squad that is missing that one good player to make it exceptional.
KU coaches have been beating paths
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Most notable among the recruits is Darryl Dawkins, a 6-10foot, 240-pound senior at Baltimore College of Art in Orlando. Florida Dawkins, considered to be one of three high school prospects in the nation, has supposedly narrowed down his choices in schools to Kansas or Florida. But he is
recently to doors around the United States in hopes of landing guests able to help fill up the hotel rooms.
Also on the list is Henry Morton, from Parsons, who was named Most Valuable Player in 3A competition this year by the Wichita Eagle. Morton is supposedly
leaining towards K-State, but is being recruited heavily by Sam Miranda, KU
Trey Trumbo, a 6-foot-5 guard from Fayette, ark, is also on KU's recruiting list. Trumbo, an all-stater, scored 35 points in a Three-State All-Star game this season. On the altamount guard and another 3-A altamount pick, also being recruited by KU.
If KU could land just a few of these recruits, especially Dawkins, in the next summer it would almost make me wish I were gone to be around for another couple of seasons.
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