SPORTS
University Daily Kansan/Tuesday October 22,1991
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Roster change catches Williams off guard
By David Mitchell Kansan Sportswriter
Last season the Kansas basketball team, which made a trip to the Final Four tournament, appeared to be the young corps of guards in the nation.
However, academic and disciplinary problems have shaken things up in the backcourt.
The Jayhawks lost senior shooting guard Terry Brown but planned to return four proven underclassmen to three highly touted newcomers.
Last summer, Milwaukee recruit Calvin Rayford, considered one of the best high school point guards in the nation, was declared academi- cal after failing to meet the NCAA's required minimum of 8 on the ACT.
Things got worse last week when Coach Roy Williams suspended senior backup Sean Tunstall for violations of unspecified team rules.
Williams and Tunstall have refused to explain the nature of the violations. Williams did say that the discipline of an individual player outweighed his importance to the team.
"He made some mistakes," Williamssaid. "It's going to hurt this basketball team, but I believe strongly that off the court I'm going to do what's best for that individual."
Williams said Tunstall, who averaged nearly six points and 17 minutes a game last season, might be reinstalled after the fall semester.
The addition of Rayford and the return of Tunstall would have meant
a d e d e p h.
N o w Wiliams
will be
forced to
shuffle his
deck
"It's messed up a few sheets of paper."
Williams said of the changes to his pre-season plans. "Calvin and Sean were both in those plans. It's important to change plays to fit your personnel."
"The person it's going to affect the most is Steve Woodberry." he said.
After backup up Adonis Jordan at point guard last season, Woodberry was expected to move to the off-guard position in his sophomore Woodberry. Woodberry would be spending more time at the point guard position.
The returning cast is led by Joran, who led the team with 154 assists last season and was third in scoring, averaging 12.6 points a game.
Besides Jordan and Woodberry sophomore Patrick Richie will return. At 6-foot-8, Richey can play either off guard or small forward Last year he was named to the Big Eight all-freshman team.
Freshman Greg Gurley, 6-5, also can play either off guard or small forward.
"Greg can do a lot of things." Woodberry said. "He will be a good role player."
A long-awaited addition to the
backcourt will be junior transfer Rex Walters.
Adonis Jordan
season after transferring from Northwestern.
As a sophomore, Walters led the Wildcats in scoring, averaging 17.6 points a game and hitting 53 of 112 three-point goals.
He already is shrugging off comparisons to Terry Brown, who hit 111 of 277 three-point attempts last season.
"The only similarity Terry and I have is we play the same position," he said. "He was a great shooter, I mean a pienomenal shooter, but I'm not Terry Brown. I'm Rex Walters."
Williams agreed that the only similarity between the two athletes was the position they played.
"erry was the kind of threat that really bothered other teams because he could make it from five feet behind the line," he said. "Rex is a better ball handler, a better passer, and will be a better defender."
Despite the loss of Tunstall and Rayford, the guards are confident they will excel
"We're all very good guards," Walters said. "We all play real well together. We'll be a very good back-court."
Kansas works to shed image of poor free-throw shooting
The label has stuck.
ByJeff Kobs
Last year, free throws were anything but free for the men's basketball team. In fact, they actually cost the team at times.
In the season opener against Arizona State, the Jayhawks shot a dismal six of 17 from the charity line, good for 35.3 percent. They lost the game by 49.8 points.
The slow start from the line left Kansas labeled as a bad free-throw shooting team for the rest of the season.
Consider that in six of last year's eight losses the team shot less than 60 percent, including 450 percent perforation of the NCAA championship loss to Duke.
Coach Roy Williams arrived in 1988. The Jayhawks ended last season with a 62.2 percent team average.
Kansas' free-throw shooting percentage has dropped every year since
Does Williams have a remedy?
"We're not talking about it this year," he said. "We're going to just go out and shoot it.
"After 15 or 20 games we'll decide if we're a good free-throw shooting team or not."
Junior guard Adonis Jordan sai
possible problem without anything else.
"You just have to have the confidence you can shoot it down," he said. "We have to go up and knock 'em down."
Williams agreed.
"I think all of it is mental," he said.
"We've got some good shooters."
Jordan, who shot 76.5 percent last season, said he would like to improve on that this year.
"My goal is to shoot 90 percent from the free-throw line," he said. "Every time I go to the line I have to focus, I can't worry about the crowd or anything else."
But Jordan is not the only one that will have to focus.
He said he spent most of his summer shooting free throws.
Scott shot 40.7 percent from the line, hitting 82.5% of attempts.
Sophomore Richard Scott had the distinction of being the team's worst free-throw shooter last year.
"I've been working on my free throws," Scott said. "I was shooting about 600 a day, shooting about three times a day."
For example, Petersen's '91-92 College Basketball magazine ranked Kansas at No.7 in the top 20 but wrote, "The Kansas Jayhawks will struggle in close games because of poor free-throw shooting."
The label has stuck, and the season has not even begun.
Declining swishes
This season the Kansas Jayhawks will try to improve on a free-throw shooting percentage that has dropped every year since Roy Williams took the helm.
1988-1989
Others receiving votes: Auburn 80,
UCLA7 Fresno 68, Texas Christian
36, Indiana 21, Air Force 20, Virginia
17, Arizona 14, Kansas 13, Texas
13, Mississippi 11, Mississippi 11, West Wor-
land 8, Kansas 7, Missouri 5, Utah 1.
Hilleary to start as quarterback against Sooners
1989-1990
1990-1991
Attempts 859 Made 585 Percent 68.1
| | Rec. | pts. | pvs. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Florida St. (56) | 7-0, 149 | 1 | 1 |
| 2. Miami (2) | 6-0, 141 | 1, 148 | 2 |
| 3. Washington (2) | 6-0, 140 | 1, 168 | 3 |
| 4. Michigan | 5-1, 130 | 1, 108 | 4 |
| 5. Notre Dame | 6-1, 124 | 1, 495 | 5 |
| 6. Florida | 6-1, 1212 | 1, 1214 | 6 |
| 7. Alabama | 6-1, 1014 | 1, 1010 | 7 |
| 8. Nevada | 5-1, 994 | 1, 989 | 9 |
| 10. California | 5-1, 989 | 1, 979 | 7 |
| 11. Iowa | 5-1, 888 | 1, 885 | 15 |
| 12. N. Carolina St. | 5-1, 845 | 1, 845 | 11 |
| 13. Texas A&M | 5-1, 752 | 1, 752 | 19 |
| 14. Ohio St. | 5-1, 686 | 1, 686 | 18 |
| 15. Tennessee | 4-2, 684 | 1, 684 | 8 |
| 16. Colorado | 4-2, 617 | 1, 617 | 22 |
| 17. Illinois | 4-2, 514 | 1, 514 | 13 |
| 18. Syracuse | 4-2, 412 | 1, 412 | 24 |
| 19. Clemson | 3-1, 408 | 1, 408 | 21 |
| 20. East Carolina | 3-1, 408 | 1, 408 | 23 |
| 21. Oklahoma | 4-2, 311 | 1, 312 | 12 |
| 22. Baylor | 2-2, 194 | 1, 195 | 16 |
| 23. Pittsburgh | 5-2, 145 | 1, 145 | 20 |
| 24. Georgia | 5-2, 114 | 1, 114 | 17 |
| 25. Arkansas | 5-2, 85 | 8, -- | -- |
Hockey club is making a big name for itself
Kansanstaffreport
The following are the top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll with first-place votes in parenthesis. (The last week's scores received and last week's ranking.)
Junior Chip Hilleary will return as startling quarterback this week. Glen Mason, Jay Hammond and Tommy Night on his weekly call-in show.
Mason said he was not unhap-
py with the play of sophomore
Nate Florel, who got his first
career start against Iowa State
on Saturday. But he said the
Jayhawks needed improved
offensive execution to beat
Oklahoma this weekend.
APtop25
Hillary had started the previous 16 games for Kansas, but was benched Saturday in favor of the Jays. In addition, during the Jayhawk pass attack
Mason said the switch back to Hilleary was not necessarily permanent.
Floreslled the Jaylawks to a 27-10 lead in three quarters of play. However, he completed just enough for 68 yards or one per inception.
Hillary led the Jayhawks on two scoring drives in the final period, rushing for one touchdown. The junior quarterback did not attempt a pass and ran for 39 vards on two attempts.
Darren Kave, Chicago junior, blocks a shot during the hockey club's night practice at an ice rink in Overland Park that costs $175 an hour to rent
By Janet Rorholm
Special to the Kansan
Every Monday and Wednesday night while other students study or lie in front of the television, members of the Kansas hockey club pack $1,000 of equipment into their cars and drive 40 minutes to practice.
The destination is King Louie Bowl, 8788 Metcalf Ave., in Overland Park. At 11 p.m., when employees begin to close the rink and clean up, the team piles on its equipment and hits the ice for a one-hour practice.
Jake Anderson, president of the club, said that Monday night practices tended to be more difficult than Wednesday nights, because usually the team just had returned from an out-of-state weekend series. He said the players were more tired and a couple of them were absent were absent because of an injury.
Despite receiving little recognition and little fan support, the team has created a name for itself. Last year, it placed first in the South division and runner-up in its conference.
What started out as a loosely organized team playing pick-up games against men's leagues is now an established club team.
Kansas is one of the better Division II club teams in the nation, Anderson said.
The team relies mostly on quickness, not size, because the average height of the players is about 5-foot-8.
Matt Otto, Tulaa, Okla., senior, said that he didn't let size bother him. The
sey is not to be afraid he said
"They're easy to coach because they want to learn," he said. "They also
Assistant coach Mark Uvodich had praise for the team's attitude and hard work.
"It's a great feeling to hit a guy so hard that he ends up on his back," he said. "If you're still standing in the end, you know it's a good hit. The next time you come around, he'll be thinkin' about and won't have his head in the game."
don't want to be embarrassed out on the ice.
With dedication, reorganization and a good group of freshmen, the team is well equipped.
"They go up against some good club teams who get a lot more commitment from their schools with easier access to facilities."
The team's goals for the year are to win the Division II championship and go to Club Nationals, which are held in Chicago.
Club Nationals are comparable to basketball's NCAA tournament.
The team plays about 35 games a season. Most of these games are out of town. The bills add up, especially with the $175 an hour it pays to practice at King Louie, the only ice rink in the area.
As a club team, hockey receives $12,148 from the University, the highest funded club other than KU Crew. It has four scholarships and has fundraisers to pay for the sport.
Twin denies wrestling Brave from first base
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Kent Hrbek, Minnesota first baseman and the future "T.Rex the wrestler," says if he intended to body-slam Ron Gant, everyone would have known it, especially Gant.
Hrbek, who plans to become a professional wrestler under the name T-Rex when he's finished with baseball, had an 80-pound weight advantage over Gant as they tangled briefly in Game 2 on Sunday night.
"He would have been flat on his back," the 258-pound Hrkeb said after he pleaded innocent to Gant's charge that Hrkeb acted maliciously in the most important, and certainly the strangest, play of the World Series so
"It was no T-Rex move, just a base-
ball move," he thought. "You might
be wastry trying to take base."
Whether it was a wrestling move cleverly executed, or Gant simply losing his balance and falling off first base, the result was the same: an end to Atlanta's third-inning uprising and a dramatic turn in Minnesota's 3-2 victory, which gave Minnesota a 2-0 lead in the Series.
"I felt the whole force of him pulling me off the base," Gant said. "I don't think he was really trying to pick me up. I just think he was trying to pull me off the base. He's twice my size, so he was pretty successful.
Last weekend the team traveled to Colorado, where it played non-conference games against Colorado State, the University of Colorado and Denver University. The team lost each game, taking its record for the season to 0-5.
"This weekend looks bad on the win-
lose record, but just the fact that they
wanted to play us says a lot for the
team that our young team is making."
Ottie said.
base. He fell into me. I wasfalling back and kept my hand on his foot. His momentum knocked me back and knocked him off the base."
"I was clearly on the base. I'm sure everyone on television and in the stadium knew I was on base."
Gant was not buying any of it.
Tonight's aame
Game 3-7:29 p.m.
Minnesota at Atlanta
Erickson (20) Avery (18)
Notes: Minnesota took a 2-1 lead in the Series Sunday night, defeating Atlanta 3-2. The Twins won 5-2 Saturday.
Source: The Associated Press
Kansas' first home match will be at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 16.
Kelly leads Bills to victory against winless Cincinnati
The Associated Press
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The mild concussion Jim Kelly sustained last week seemed to bother him last night — for a while.
What had been bothering the winless Cincinnati Bengals all season did them in for 60 minutes in a 35-16 loss to the Buffalo Bills.
Kelly looked confused in throwing three first-quarter interceptions, but things cleared in time for the NFL's top-rated passer to complete 18 of 27 for 392 yards and five touchdowns.
As the losses have piled up for the Bengals so has the frustration and it spilled onto the field last night, including a penalty against
Kelly throw the interceptions on Buffalo's first three possessions, but the Bengals were only two goals up. Jim Boechthoff's 9-ward goal goal.
coach Sam Wyche for running onto the field arguing an official's non-call on a Buffalo touchdown.
The Bills, winners of 15 straight and 30 of their last 32 at Rich Stadium, improved to 7-1 going into their bye week. At 0-7, Cincinnati is off to its worst start since 1978.
Two went to James Lofton, who finished with a career-high 220 yards on eight catches, while the team lost four in just his second catch of the season.
Buffalo's first three touchdowns came on passes directed at rookie cornerback Richard Fain, who was making his first start in place of Lewis Billups, the veteran who dislocated a finger Friday night and didn't make the trip to Buffalo.
After Breech gave the Bengals a 3-10 leading follow Rickey Dixon's interception of Kelly, Cincinnati got the ball and he was picked off by Leo Barker, who returned the ball 29 vards to the Buffalo 27.
The Cincinnati offense stalled after three plays and the Bengals lined up for a 40-yard field goal on fourth- and 6. But holder Lee Johnson took the snap and flipped it to Rodney Holman, who was tackled short of the first down by Cornelius Bennett.
Season starts for swimming diving team
Kansanstaffreport
Barb Pranger, Davenport, Iowa,
senior, and three-time all-American,
won the 150-yard butterfly with a time
of 1:32.74, and freshman Hugheman
and 200-yard freestyle with times of
$3.69 and 1:54.00, respectively.
The Kansas swimming and diving team began its season Friday with an intrasquad at Robinson Natatorium, where they defeated the Crimson team 136-102.
The meet consisted of event distances that are not usually swum in collegiate competition. Pranger said the distances made the meet fun.
"It was great for everyone to get up and compete." Pranger said. "Everyone loved it."
Ed Ridkler, men's team captain, also thought the meet was helpful.
"The meet was a good indicator of where we are at," he said. "People are swimming like they are training, which is very strong. The team really came together both in the water and out of the water."