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Wednesday, November 3, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Basketball team changes offense; Owens pleased with workouts
By ERIC MARTINCICH
When the University of Kansas basketball team opens its season later this month, it will be a different team from last year with KU fans opposing one—KU fans haven't seen before.
trying to better last year's record of 13-13, KU coach Ted Owens will use a less restricted offense than has been used in the past.
"It's a motion type of offense in that everyone is constantly moving," Owens said yesterday. "This offense is not quite as easy as it was for me, the freedom of choice in what we can do."
Owens said that the success of the new offense relied on the ability of the offensive players to read the defense and then respond to how that defense was playing.
KU fans also will see a team with more experience and depth than it did a year ago. The team is now returning to starters, returning from last year's squash, each bringing with him an added year of experience.
With the addition of three freshmen and a junior college transfer, Kansas has depth it will never lose.
Hasan Houston (6-2 guard), Mac Stalloup (6-7 forward) and Scott Anderson (6-7 forward) are the freshmen. John Douglas is a 6-2 junior guard who transferred to KU from John C. Calhoun Community College in Alabama.
Douglas, who finished his junior college
career with 14 school records, is giving last
Clint Johnson competition for a playing position.
"I've been very pleased with John Douglas. He's playing with good stability, and he gives the team good outside shootout." Owens said.
Another aspect that must please Owens in the first few weeks of practice is the absence of injuries that plagued the team last season.
Donnie Von Moore, who missed last season because of illness, is back with the squad this year and is batting Ken Koenig and Herb Noble for a position in the front
Paul Mokesi, who sat out part of last season with a pulled hamstring, also is back
Owens said that the practices, which officially started Oct. 15, had gone well.
"We've improved in the area of fundamentals, which was our primary goal," he said. "We're starting to get things fitted together now. We're making good together good."
Kansas has several weeks of practice left before it opens the season Nov. 27 here against Montana State. Owens knows that there is still work to do.
"Our biggest problem right now is the conversion from offense to quickly getting back and assuming a good defensive posture," he said. "The only way you can improve is to scrimmage a lot, which is what we're doing now."
Coach Ted Owens
Volleyball wins
Good net play by Laura Frost helped give KU's women's volleyball team its second victory over the University of Missouri at Kansas City this season.
The Jayhawks won in three games last
at UMKC, 11-15, 11-15, 15-9. KU beat
Boston, 12-7, 10-6.
KU coach Bost Stancliff said that UMKC was a much improved team from a month ago. "We've seen an improvement," he said.
The victory gave the KU squad a match record of 29-8.
UMKC's junior squad defeated KU'S JV, 15-6, 15-11.
Big Eight investigating OU
NORMAN, Okla. (AP)—Officials of the University of Oklahoma announced yesterday that they had been informed that the Big Eight Conference would make a investigation of allegations that football players had sold tickets at inflated prices.
The pending Bight Eight probe was disclosed in a release by the Office of Media Information, which insisted the allegations weren't being investigated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association as reported last month by the Oklahoma City Times.
OU President Paul F. Sharp said in the
According to a release by the school's office of media information, Big Eight Commissioner Chuck Neinas arrived on the OU campus yesterday to inform officials that "the adverse publicity in the press was due to the Big Eight involvement at this time."
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No notification has been received that the NCAA has initiated an investigation of the team.
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