6 Thursday, March 6, 1975 University Daily Kansan 'Hawks beat Huskers in double overtime University of Kansas basketball fans should have had faith in their team during the early goings of last night's 79-77 double overtime win over Nebraska, because when Rick Suttle does his dance, the 'Hawks are a sure bet to win. Sband danced his way to 29 points and 16 rebounds in the game, but in the end it was the reserve play of center Danny Knight that clinched the game for the Jayhawks. Knight scored all of KU's four points in the second overtime; the last two came from a quick turn-around 104ower with three seconds left in the game. Nebraska won by 7, but the play was half court by guard Jerry Fort, but the shot fell short and the game was over. The win put the Jayhawks record at 10-3 and assured them of at least a tie for the Big Eight championship. The Jayhawks are now in second place in Kansas State a game behind by loosing to Missouri 82-75 in Columbia. The Tigers are now tied with the Wildcats at 9-4. The Jayhawks can assure themselves of an NCAA play-off position Saturday by beating Oklahoma. They return home to a television in a televised game Saturday afternoon. Nebraska was an all uplift battle for the Jayhawks. Turnovers were costly in the NL, as they made up eight minutes were gone and KU had committed eight turnovers, the 'Hawks were behind 23-10. KU then promptly fell to the lowest point of the night—down by 19 with Kansas Coach Ted Owens tried shuffling players off the board, but each Jayhawk got his share of turnovers. At the half, KU had lost the ball 13 times and was down by 14, 41-27. Shooting wasn't a problem for KU. The Jayhawks hit 15-28 for an even 30 per cent in the first half and kept the No. 1 seed at 4-0. in which KU scored eight unanswered points and shot committed only six shots and shot KU held a slight rebounding edge over Nebraska at the half, 15-14. Fort, who was slowed down considerably by KU forward Roger Morningstar in the second half, became Nebraska's all time leader by dropping 17 points in the first half. Kansas came out fired in the second half and had numerous opportunities to cut the score. Nebraska finally cooled off on its shooting percentage and turned over the ball with a nice, clean keepin' in style with the first half. KU answered with two turnovers of its own. Owens put in the tall line uplead in the 2nd half, including Knight and Suttle, and threw up a staff 2-3 zone that bothered Nebraska the rest of the night. With 13:07 left in the regulation game, KU had pulled to within five at 47:42. Toward the end of regulation time, however, the Huskers shooting touch had much less force in Anaasass quickly pulled within three at 68-42 on Danny Knight in with 1:15 remaining. But after Fort hit two free throws and Tommie Smith goallanded on the next trip down court, the ball game looked for over 45 seconds left. KU was by dive by five with 48 seconds left. Fort had a chance to ice the game, but he missed the free throw. Again it was Suttle, this time putting in the tying shot with 13 seconds left to go and sending the game into overtime. In the first five minute period, Nebraska tried working the 30-second clock down to within five seconds before taking a shot. With the score tied at 75 apiece, Kansas had a chance to win it but blew two attempts and sent the game into the second overtime. Neither team was able to score in the first two minutes of the second overtime. Knight finally put one in with 1:38 on the clock. Bob Lowe answered, tying the score at 77 all. After Nebraska called a time out with 1:05 remaining, Fort missed a shot and Suttle grabbed the crucial rebound. KU took a time out with 28 seconds remaining. With the 30 second shot turned off, KU would until three seconds were left before Danny was hit. Suttle, however, was fouled on the next trip and had two free throws coming to him. After Suttle made the first one, he intentionally missed the second and Norm Cook put the ball in, making the score 67.65. KU then fenced Fort on the in-bounds pass. Kansas (79) FO-GFA FT-FAA RBD PP TP Suttle 13-22 3-4 16 0 32 29 Cook 5-13 4-8 12 0 3 14 Cook 5-13 4-8 12 0 3 14 Johnson 0-2 0-1 0 1 0 10 Merningarai 0-2 0-1 0 1 0 10 Merningarai 0-2 0-1 0 1 0 10 Knight 0-4 0-0 0 2 0 16 Knight 0-4 0-0 0 2 0 16 Knight 35-76 5-12 49 21 11 Nebraka (77) TD G-OFA TD-PFA RBD PP TP 12 11.30 6-10 6-10 2 0 38 Harris 0 1-18 0-0 0 4 28 Harris 0 1-18 0-0 0 4 28 Cox 14-18 0-0 11 3 4 12 Cox 14-18 0-0 11 3 4 12 Erwin 2-6 0-17 0-17 34 18 7 Tosai 3-6 0-17 0-17 34 18 7 43.6 52.9 49.9 6 4 - 79 Swimmers end careers Nebraska quickly pulled out to an eight-pin lead again with the help of KU's 17th BY STEVE BOYCE Sports Writer They are KU swimming team seniors Tom Hedgege, Steve King and Rudy Rodriguez. Although only 21 years of age, five ucla Valley Kansas students are nearing retirement. Only the Big Eight Championships at Stillwater and the NCAA Championships at Cleveland stand between these seniors and the end of competitive swimming. This season has been troublesome for the senior swimmers. They have had to face and overcome adversity in the forms of illness and injury. "A senior is a different kind of athlete," Dick Reason, swimming coach, said Tuesday. "It's not like football or basketball where you can go on professionally. It's strictly a dead end business and done purely for self satisfaction." And on their way to self satisfaction, the seniors have left their marks upon the Kansas swimming scene and the Jayhawk record book. None of them knows what it means to lose a Big E championship. The Jawhayes have won seven straight and hope to make it the first team to defend at the 1975 championships at Stillwater. In the first event of the first meet this season, Ulffers dislocated his shoulder. Hodgson has been plagued by an injured back and contemplated quitting the team several times this season. Pneumonia caused King to miss a month of training and caused David Kegley, a senior distance man, to quit the team. The seniors say they will miss competitive swimming somewhat, but are also confident. King said, "I've got a lot of things that I want to do and now there'll be an opening for those things. I'm ready to start working with them." He said the goal is to get involved in other aspects of life." s helped them through the years See SWIMMING page 7 Although they're ready to leave competitive swimming, the seniors say that the 5 may qualify to make NCAA Five University of Kansas track athletics will have one last chance to qualify for the NCAA indoor meet when they compete in track championships tonight at Manhattan. Tom Koppes and Bill Landbender will try to meet the indoor standard in the three mile race, with a run of 160 feet on the 600 yard run, will try to duck under the NCAA done 1:11.4, will try to duck under the NCAA qualifying mark of 1:11.0 in the 600 yard run. Donald will try to qualify in the two-mile run. High jumper Keith Guinn, at 6-10, needs only two more inches to meet the 7-8 step. Field events begin at Ahern Field House at 5:30 and running events get underway at Kansas Nebraska Attendance: 8,466 Officials: Breig and Bain. PRIMARILY LEATHER 812 Mass. Lawrence, Ks. Greenhouse athletes face 6-day road trip Can you imagine a football team going into its first game without having scrimmaged? Or, a basketball team only being able to shoot baskets in preseason drills? That's the situation Coach Flood Tempel and his University of Kansas said was happening despite being unable to practice outdoors because of cold weather. KU travels to Texas this Monday for a trip to Flood Tempel. Temple said recently that because his team had been limited to indoor workouts, it was difficult to evaluate the players. Temple said he was using this road trip of 11 playdays, and they to find out about his young players, and particularly his pitching staff. "It's hard to evaluate anybody when you're looking at him through a batting net," Temple said. "I really don't know we'll be like until we are able to get outside." Last season, KU's pitching staff was its strongest asset. Temple said that probably would be true again this season. Rob Nixon, who earned run average (Bill Turner) 10-4, 290 and Mike Love (0-1, 3.14) are scheduled to start the first three games of the season for Kansas. Kurt Knoff (5-5, 3.70) counted on as a starter for the Jayhawks. "We're going to try to find our three starters for the conference season down there," Temple said, "and we hope to find a left-handed and a right-handed reliever." Temple's pitching staff received a blow when last year's ace, Roger Stagle (6-5, 2.63) had shoulder surgery in the off-season. He won't make the trip to Texas, and Temple said his availability for the rest of the season was questionable. Defensively, Temple said, the outfield should be KU's biggest asset. The Jayhawks return speedster Robert Ohn in left field, and Temple plans to start a newcomer Vince Monslow in right. Monslow has the best arm on the team, according to Temple. Temple said the infeld was relatively untested. He moved Carl Heirnich, who hit .247 last year, from third base to first base, and put Mark Hannifan, a transfer from Oklahoma State University, at third. John McCormack, a guard for the stop and Gary Nosek (.194) will make up the double-play combination. Steve Raab (.206) is the catcher. Kurt Knoff, who led the team in almost every offensive category last season, will start in center field when he isn't pitching. Randy Troutt (381) and freshman Alex Gilmore will be battling each other for the designated hitter's role. Temple is enthusiastic about this year's team, but realistically, he said he didn't expect KU to challenge for the league championship. Temple said the University of Oklahoma, as usual, would have to be considered the favorite in the race. "We're just going to try to do the very best we can. All I can ask is that the players try as hard as they can. If they perform 100 per cent it might not be good enough to win the conference, but it will be good enough for me." 1975 Summer Orientation for New Freshmen STUDENT STAFF POSITIONS AVAILABLE Desired qualifications: . . good academic standing . . . undergraduate at the University of Kansas . . . leadership qualities and skills . . . knowledge of University programs & activities Job descriptions & applications available in School Relations, 101 Union, or Admissions & Records, 126 Strona FRENCH-ITALIAN Applications due by Friday, March 21 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER KANSAS ROOM—UNION, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 3:30 to 6 p.m. STUDENTS & FACULTY OPEN HOUSE Informal talks about the French major, careers for foreign language students, studies abroad, scholarships, Italian studies. 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