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Friday, February 14, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Cager fan sees game in graphs
If you're like most University of Kansas basketball fans, you probably not only go to the games, but also check the box score in the next morning's paper to see how many points he had scored. When if Gilmor had his way, you could check more than the box score.
Gillespie, a hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has been using graphs for four years to show the scoring progress and momentum of KU basketball
Gillespie would like to see graphs of games in newspapers along with the traditional box scores. He has scaled his graphs to be nearly the size of a box score, but they offer information not found in the write-up of the game or in the box score.
Gillespie said that things could be understood on the graph that couldn't be understood from a box score or written account. For instance, scoring progress and momentum trends throughout the game can be determined from the graph.
Determined from the graph
Gillespie uses a broken-line graph that
nas a horizontal and vertical axis, each representing a different team. A 45-degree neutral line divides the area between the two axes and whenever the scoring line touches the 45 degree line, it represents a tie score.
The line of progress, or scoring line,
begins at the intersection of the two teams'
axes and follows the scoring progress of the
game. Each square of the graph represents
a given number of points, depending on the
size of the graph.
The scoring sports and momentum of each team can easily be followed along the scoring line. Stretches where a team scores, or when a team is running in the direction of that team's axis.
The team with the scoring line on its side of the neutral line is the team with the lead. The greater distance from the neutral line, the greater is that team's lead. Each time the lead changes, the scoring line crosses the neutral line.
He said that the concept could be expanded to include rebounds, turnovers,
Another variation of the graphs would be to plot time-outs and significant points during the game, he said. That way you could tell if a time-out inspired a team or if a particular person's fouling out had an effect on the team's performance.
fouls, time-outs or about any other statistic, but that it was so difficult to many things on the job that it is difficult
Because his previous attempts to have graphs published had been unsuccessful, Gillespie said he had thought about writing the Associated Press or United Press International about the graphs. He's also thought about talking to the NCAA, whose headquarters are in Shawnee Mission, about the graphs.
Gillespie's enthusiasm for basketball may even exceed his enthusiasm for his graphs. Both are immediately apparent when one starts talking to him. He and his team play basketball in the last four years, and they follow KU basketball very closely.
Unfortunately, he hasn't had the chance
to find out whether fans would enjoy the graphs.
Maybe now he and his graphs will get the exposure they need.
KU gymnasts to face NU test
After winning its last two meets, the University of Kansas gymnastics team will be hard-pressed to make it three in a row. The team will take on the Nebraska team Saturday at Lincoln.
Bock Lockwood, KU gymnastics coach, said Thursday that the Cornhousers were one of the nation's top teams. They out-scored defended NCAA champion Iowa Mountain Open, and Lockwood said that Mountain Was probably out of KU's class.
OSU next stop on KU title trail
neuraska is pretty solid right now."
Lockwood said. "They've been scoring in the 214 range so I think it will be hard for us to challenge them."
Lockwood said Al Otverton and Sean Williams wouldn't go to Nebraska. Overton, a senior all-around performer, is suffering from shoulder pain. He should, Williams, who competes in vaulting and floor exercise, has a strained ligament in his knee.
lineup as it did against Iowa State, Owens said. That lineup includes center Rick Suttle, has spent much of the last two seasons as a substitute for Danny Knight.
The Cowboys will take an 8-12 over-all and a 3-5 conference record into the game. Missouri defeated OSU Wednesday 77-68. KU, 14-6 over OSU, will start the same
channels 4 and 13. Tpoff time is 12:05 p.m.
"You really don't have much preparation time," Ted Weds, KU basketball coach,
said Thursday. "We'll just have to play them the same as we did the two previous times."
The University of Kansas swimming team closes its dual meet season with a double dual against Oklahoma State at 4 p.m., and the North Carolina team at 2 p.m. Saturday in Robinson Natatorium.
KU has won three straight games since losing to K-State in Manhattan earlier this month. The most recent of those three wins was over Iowa State in Iowa State University Wednesday night.
With the Big Eight basketball season slowly winding to a conclusion, every game has become critical for the title contenders. For the University of Kansas, a victory in Saturday's regionally broadcast game at Oklahoma State University is a must. The 'Hawks, who trail Kansas State, also by one game, in the regional remaining game in order to repeat as the Big Eight champions, K-State is 7-1 in the Big Eight and KU is 6-2.
Swimmers end season
The game will be televised at noon on channels 4 and 13. Tipoff time is 12:06 p.m.
Dick Reisman, KU swim coach, welcomes
his opponent to a schedule of four
consecutive rounds.
"We had a very hard game with Iowa State and we can't afford to put in much time on the court practice," Owens said. In the last three games the Jayhawks had a tough defensive defense in beating Nebraska by 28, Oklahoma by 15 and Iowa State by 14.
KU enters the meet following a 7-42 loss to
Nebraska at Lincoln. The Jayhawks are in 14-4.
The Hawks' season ends on Friday.
"Colorado and Oklahoma State each have excellent performers and then they have some weak spots. But they complement each other well, so we develop in every event," Reasonn said.
In those three games Owens has and
has been the offense, defense and
rebounding as key victor.
"We have to do a good job defensively on them and at the same time control the backboards if we have a chance to beat them in Stillwater," Owens said.
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