SPORTS University Daily Kansan/Friday, November 22, 1991 13 Jayhawks vs. Retrievers Game 1:8:08 p.m. tomorrow, Allen Field House Probable Starters Kansas Coach: Roy Williams Record: 0-0 24 Alonzo Jamison Forward 6-6 Sr. 34 Richard Scott Forward 6-7 Jr. 51 Eric Pauley Center 6-10 Jr. 23 Rex Walters Guard 6-4 Jr. 30 Adonis Jordan Guard 5-11 Jr. Maryland-Baltimore County Coach: Earl Hawkins Record: 0-0 32 Derrell Thompson Forward 6-4 Jr. 42 Brian Watkins Forward 6-5 Jr. 33 Soni Nixon Center 6-8 So. 10 Dana Harris Guard 6-0 Jr. 21 Skip Saunders Guard 6-0 So. Tellevision: KKM (Kamasas Cifty), WI2W (Topeka), KKW (Wichita) Tellevision: KKM (Kamasas Cifty), WI2W (Topeka), KKW (Wichita) Michael Gier/KANSAN Jayhawk defense worries Williams Different starting line-up may be used against Maryland-Baltimore County By Jeff Kobs Kansan Sportswriter Defense defense defense Defense, defense, defense. "That's our bread and butter," said junior point guard Adonis Jordan. That's our outfit and ours. Junior point guard Adonis Jordan. It also has Kansas coach Roy Williamsa little worried. "My biggest concern is defensively guarding somebody inside," Williams said. "Some of the defensives grade up to 13, and for us to be a good basketball team." And defense is such a concern that Williams might even shake up the starting line-up. "Some of the guys are going to have to play better on the defensive end of the floor, or we're going to have a chance to win." Players players have done a pretty good job. Kansas will open its 94th year of basketball at b.p. tomorrow at Allen Field House against the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. "I could see in certain situations a much smaller line-up." Jamison said defense was a mindset that all Kansas players had to live by. "Our philosophy is defense first and then let our offense come from our defense," he said. "Our defense is team defense." Jamison said it usually took incoming players awhile to get the defensive system down. "For me, it took me about a whole year," he said, "Out of high school and junior college, it was just offense. I only played defense when I wanted to." "Now it's to the point where I like duck down the challenge to shut down my man. Williams said the team was not as far along as usual. "We're going slower this year than any other team I've ever been around, "he said" "That in itself puts us as far as long as I would like to be." The front end of Kansas' schedule could give the Jayhawks some time to develop. "Being very realistic, there's not a monster on the schedule early." Williams said. "It does give us some more time, which was one thing I was thinking about when I tried to get those games." "I think probably our schedule has the toughest schedule in the Bight." "It all starts Saturday," he said. "We've got to go in like we're playing the No. 1 or 2 team in the country." Last year, Kansas beat UMBC 97-46 in Lawrence. The Jayhawks scored the first 18 points of the game and led 49-12 at halftime. Jordan said it didn't matter what team they were plaving. This season, the Retrievers have lost both of their exhibition games. Kansas won both of its exhibitions. UMBC lost to the Maryland all-stars 118-103 and to a touring Soviet team, Spartak, 89-78. Kansas defended High Five America 99-82 and Eastside Melbourne 94-66. Courtside Sophomore Patrick Richey will not play in Saturday's game because of back spasms. Williams said Richey did not practice last week or this week. ■ Williams visited Georgetown on Tuesday to observe practice. Willems practices at Nevada-Las Vegas and Indiana during the past two years. In November, Kansas is 9-2 under Williams. The Jayhawks are 18-7 in November during the last 10 years and are all-time in November hom game. Basketball recruit signs Kansan staff report Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams announced yesterday that Darrin Hancock, a 6-7 forward from Garden City Community College, had signed a letter-of-intent to play for the Jayhawks next season. "Darrin is one of the best athletes in the nation," Williams said. "And he will be one of the best athletes to ever put on a Kansas uniform." "Darrin plays for an outstanding team at Garden City," Williams said. "He is without doubt one of the finest junior college players in the country." Hancock averaged 17.5 points and 8.6 rebounds last season for Garden City. He also led the team in assists and steals and finished as the seventh With Alonzo (Jamison) leaving there will be some good competition that position between Darrin, Puck Richey, and Steve Woodbery. highest scorer in the Jayhawk Conference West. Hancock originally signed with Nevada-Las Vegas out of Griffin High School in Georgia, where he was a two-time Georgia player-of-the-year. Kansas to take on Mizzou MU quarterback will test defense By David Mitchell The Kansas football team will meet Big Eight Conference rival Missouri for the 100th time tomorrow. Kansan Sportswriter Missouri leads the all-time series 47-43-9 and has won four of the last five meetings. However, the Tigers have had a rough season. The team stands 3-6-1 overall and 1-5 in the conference. Missouri has lost its last four games by a combined 130 points. The Tigers have started 38 different players and just seven have started every game. But Missouri does have one of the conference's most potent offensive weapons. Sophomore quarterback Phil Johnson leads the Big Eight in total yards for a game in which he completed 53 percent of his passes for 2,092 yards. "I think he's the premier young quarterback in this league, "Kansas coach Glen Mason said. "We'll have him." Johnson's primary targets, Kenny Holly and Skip Leach, are tied for fifth in the conference for receptions, averaging three a game. Johnson's 14passing touchdowns area a conference H. However, he has also been interpreted 13 turtles Kansas is ranked third in the conference in pass efficiency defense behind Oklahoma and Colorado The Missouri defense is the worst in the conference, surrendering an average of 409 yards a game in the first half. Of the eight highest totals of rushing offense by Big Eight teams against conference opponents this season, the The Tigers allowed Nebraska and Colorado more than 500 vards on the ground Kansas senior tailback Tony Sands needs 136 vrashes rushing to Laverne Mason's school si- nch Game 11: 1 p.m., Nov. 23, Memorial Stadium Kansas Jayhawks Missouri Tigers Offense WR J6 Jim New 6/1-080/Sr. WR 2 Victor Bailey 6/4-209/Jr. TE I Dwayne Chandler 6/2-230/Sr. LT 71 Tim Alvarado 6/5-305/Jr. LT 77 Chris Perez 6/5-280/Sr. LG 79 Mike Bedosky 6/5-305/Jr. LG 66 Hessley Hempstead 6/1-290/Fr. C 57 Doug Hembrough 6/3-270/Jr. C 75 Dan Schmidt 6/1-260/So. RG 76 Don Wright 6/4-275/Jr. RG 69 John Jones 6/2-265/Fr. RT 74 Russ McCullough 6/10-320/Sr. RT 74 Keith Loneker 6/3-205/Jr. TE 89 A, J. Ofodile 6/7-225/Jr. WR 85 Kenny Drayton 6/1-250/Sr. SE 81 Kenny Holly 6/0-176/Jr. FB 34 Roger Robben 6/0-125/Sr. QB 14 Phil Johnson 5/2-106/Jr. QB 18 Chip Hillery 6/1-185/Sr. FL 83 Byron Chamberlain 6/4-226/Jr. TB 24 Tony Sands 5/6-170/Sr. TB 40 Jerome Madsen 6/0-175/Jr. P 31 Dan Eichloff 6/1-125/Sr. P 35 Mark Plunkett 6/1-211/Jr. Defense OLB 97 Sylvester Wright 6/3-235/Fr. LE 59 Rick Lyle 6/6-271/So. LE 96 Kyle McLee 6/3-205/Jr. LT 97 Mario Johnson 6/3-190/Sr. LT 93 Gilbert Brown 6/2-305/Jr. RT 72 George Hunt 6/3-271/So. RT 71 Dana Stubblefield 6/4-285/Jr. RE 92 Stacy Ellott 6/4-248/Jr. RE 90 Guy Howard 6/3-230/So. OLB 39 Travis McDonald 6/2-200/Fr. OLB 7 Hassan Bailey 6/1-200/Jr. MLB 55 Darryl Major 6/2-215/Fr. ILB 52 Steve Harvey 6/4-230/Fr. OLB 28 Jermaine Wilkins 6/3-199/Jr. CB 38 Robert Vaughn 5-11/190/So. LCB 23 Maurice Benson 6/0-197/Jr. FS 10 Doug Terry 5-11/185/Sr. SS 24 Brad Scrivener 6/0-184/Sr. SS 14 Paul Friday 6/3-190/Sr. FS 18 S. Washington 6/0-205/Sr. CB 8 Tim Hill 5-8/170/Sr. RCB 22 Jason Oliver 5-11/171/So. PK 31 Dan Eichloch 6/1-215/Sr. PK 3.Jff Jacke 6/0-190/Jr. Source: Kansas Sports Information ge-season record of 1,181 yards. Sands is ranked 17th on the Big Eight's all-time rushing list. 4,495 yards on the track. "The Missouri game has a little extra added to it," Robbie said. "They'll come ready to play against us." Despite Missouri's difficulties, senior fullback Roberto Robertson said the Tigers might be saving their backs. Senior Notes Michael Gier/KANSAN - Perez will start his 44th consecutive game. He will have started every game of the last four seasons. * * Sands may become the first Jayhawk to ever lead the team in rushing for four consecutive years. * * Flanker Kenny Drayton needs five catches to hit the 100-career reception mark. He is fifth on the Jayhawks' reception list and has caught at least one pass in 30 of the last 31 games. * Illinois team first foe for Kansas Up-tempo game is key to Lady Hawks' opener Kansan Sportswriter By David Mitchell Kansas Sportswriter Forward Tanya Bonham attempts a shot over a player from the German National Team. In the Lady Jayhawks' exhibition game last week, the team overcame a large height disadvantage, foul trouble and the absence of sidelined center Lisa Tate to defeat the German National team. Tomorrow, Kansas will officially open its season on the road against another taller team, University of Illinois- Coach Marian Washington said the Jayhawks would have to run to win. "We'll be outuzed again," she said. "We have to force them into an-u-tempo game." Tate, 6.3, will be out for at least another two weeks, at which time the stress fracture in her left leg will be re Illinois Chicago starting center Valerie O'Neal stands 6-foot-4. Kansas' tallest starter is 6-2 guard-forward Angela Aycock. "I think we've been doing a lot of good things, 'Washing- it aside' to "B everybody's not healthy. That's really disapp- itated." Washington said junior guard Jo Jo Witherspoon was not 100 percent yet. She underwent minor leg surgery in October. Guard Stacy Truitt has a torn ligament in her shooting hand, but is expected to play tomorrow. Four players scored in double figures against the German National Team. Senior point guard Kay Kay Hart said the Jayhawks were encouraged by the team effort. "I thought we played pretty well," Hart said. "Everyone stepped up. I's surprised this early in the season, and it's been very good." Hart said the team did not know a lot about Illinois-Chicago, a team they have never played before. "At this point in the season, we said too worried about that the other team is doing," she said. "We just need to do that." During the early signification that ended Wednesda- kansas Kansas signed 6-foot-3 center J'Net Davis from Laws- ville. Fear of AIDS could end contact sports, coach says "She has tremendous athletic potential," Washington said. "She can be a dominant force in the lane." The Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska wrestling coach Tim Neumann said the AIDS scare may kill contact sports, even though medical experts think it is highly unlikely the virus that causes AIDS is transmittable in athletic competition. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome could be the death of contact sports. Dan Gable, the Iowa wrestling coach, said he favored mandatory testing for AIDS. "There isn't much we can do about it" he said. "I've been for testing for several years," he told the Oman World-Herald. "I realize there are constitutional rights, but I'm for prevention. In our sport, when we do have to fight an infection, I would think HIV testing would be a mandatory thing." Neumann said the sport'soptions are limited. *You'd almost have to wrestle in a plastic glove to cover yourself, he said. Chuck Fallis, a representative of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said it is highly unlikely that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, could be transmitted during athletics. And she said there had been no reported cases in the United States. "When exposed to air, the virus doesn't live outside the bloodstream." Failis said. "Although there is a theoretical possibility of HIV being transmitted in that setting a lot of blood is involved, it would not be very likely." There is no need to test college athletes for the AIDS virus because it is not widespread enough, said Dr. Paul Gikas, a pathologist from the University of Michigan and member of the NCAA's competitive safeguards committee. About 1.5 million people in the United States are infected with the AIDS virus and about 110,000 have died, he said. "Sooner or later, as the disease becomes more prevalent, we're going to have to face the music." "Gikas told the World-Herald. "The greater the threat to the public health, the more likely you are going to get mandatory testing." Mandatory AIDS testing does not appear imminent, said medical officials from the NCAA and Big Eight Conference. Four Big Eight schools — Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas — offer AIDS testing on a voluntary basis. Athletic trainers at those schools would not say how many athletes had requested testing. Gikas said mandatory testing could lead to a false sense of security. Swimming teams recognized SPORTS BRIEFS The Kansas men's and women's swimming teams have received 1991 All-Academic team honors from the University of America for the third straight year. The men's team record a cumulative v3.0 grade point average, the highest among state universities and fourth overall. The Jayhawks were the only men's Big Eight Conference team honored. The Lady Jayhawks also recorded a cumulative 9.02 GPA, 17th out of 34 teams honored. The Nebraska women's team, with a cumulative 2.92 GPA, was the only other conference team recognized. Earlier this month, three members of both Kansas squads were recognized by Phillips 66 as "Classroom Champions" for the 1991-92 season. Coach out at Michigan State Karl Gunderson (3.80), Dan Querciano (3.76), Curtis Tayler (3.79), Brar Pranger (3.87), Suzanne Ryan (3.26) and Kristie Taylor (3.02). George Peries is out as football coach at Michigan State but may remain as athletic director, university president John D'Abiglio said yesterday. In announcing his decision to split the jobs that Perles had held for almost two years, DIIBanggai empha- sized the need to approve of one man holding both jobs. "I have considered such a dual appointment inappropriate from the start," DilBaggio said. "The jobs are separate and distinct and a mistake was made when they were joined over my objections." Perles apparently wasn't given a choice of positions. K-State tight end honored Kansas State tight end red Campbell has qualified for an $18,000 postgraduate fellowship grant as one of 15 to participate in athletic officers announced "We are delighted to honor these 15 young men who have so clearly distinguished themselves on the playing field, in the classroom and in their football team. We are also chairman of the National Football Foundation, said yesterday. Campbell, a Wichita senior, is a four-time member of the Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight team. He has a 3.49 grade point average and is majoring in secondary-math education.