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SHORT SHOTS
By STEVE SHRIVER
By STEVE SHRIVER Assistant Sports Editor
If Saturday night's Kansas- Kansas State basketball game is any indication of things to come, the Big Eight should be well represented in the NCAA regionals. The game may well have been the two Kansas schools' best performances of the season. son.
Cotton Fitzsimmons, I am sure, would be one to disagree. He and his Wildcats wanted this
game badly, and the disappointment was plainly evident on their faces at the final gun.
This game must be regarded as KU's best team effort of the year. They were facing the conference champion, not to mention the cross-state rivalry, and they rose to the occasion.
"I was afraid we would be tight for the game." Owens said. "They (K-State) had a successful season, they clinched the championship early, and they could afford to be a little more loose for the game. We had to win to salvage something out of our season."
Coach Ted Owens felt K-State had the psychological edge.
At any rate, the game was highly entertaining to even the most unbaused observer. All Kansans can be proud of the basketball performances and reputations of Kansas and Kansas State. The two teams combined for a total of 36 victories and 16 losses this year and they are the top two basketball teams in the tough conference. K-State deserves the support of all Kansans, regardless of school affiliations, when they meet New Mexico State in the first round of the NCAA regional to be played here in Allen Field House, March 12.
Except for the egg-throwing incidents, the behavior the fans was disciplined and colorful. The signs and chants of both schools could only help add to this traditional rivalry, one which the state can be proud of. In the college tradition both schools exhibit tremendous school spirit.
It is terribly disappointing that the game was marred by a chosen few who felt they could help decide the outcome of the game from the bleachers. The players were doing an excellent job, all by themselves, and their sportsmanlike conduct merits praise, especially in the face of such adversity. The pressure was soley concentrated on the players and their emotions were strung out. but they all did a fine job of channeling their energies into playing good basketball.
6 KANSAN Mar. 10
1970
Nearly everyone was angry and upset at the egg-throwers. Most everyone could see that the incidents were extremely detrimental to the name of the school and to the KU fans. Several Kansas fans tried to help the ushers by pointing out the culprits, but to no avail. The ushers were just as interested in watching the game as the rest of the fans. It would be a shame if KU had to resort to the tactic of hiring policemen to watch the fans exclusively during games.
KU loss until Saturday in the playoffs against fifth-ranked Jacksonville. Notre Dame beat Ohio University Saturday as All-American Austin Carr canned 61 points. Both wins helped boost KU's national image.
The Jayhawks own prestigious victories over NCAA-bound Norte Dame and Western Kentucky, the former on the Irish home court. Western Kentucky did not lose a game after the
Fitzsimmons spoke earlier in the week of the "championship of Kansas" as the most important thing at stake. K-State won the first game at Manhattan, 71-68. In two games the total difference between the schools was only six points.
KU basketball had to have taken several steps forward after this victory, and with a bright outlook for the future, it can definitely be said. "We will be back."
Netters to rebuild
Tennis team looks up
By GALEN BLAND Kansan Sports Writer
The KU tennis team faces a rebuilding year. They return only three lettermen and only one competitor in the Big Eight meet.
Their season opens Thursday with a match against Washburn in Topeka. The squad will travel to Maryville, Mo., to face the Northwest-Missouri team, this weekend.
Last year the team won 13, lost 8 and tied 2. Their victories included one over both Washburn and Northwest Missouri. They went on to place fourth in the Big Eight tournament in Ames.
Coach Jim Burns is in his third year at the helm after being the assistant in 1966 and 1967. Burns played for Kansas in 1963-65 and won four Big Eight championships, two singles and two doubles.
Kansas has won 27, lost 15 and tied two in dual competition under Burns. They have finished in the upper half of the Big Eight both years, taking third in 1968 to go with last year's fourth place finish.
This year, however, the 'Hawks could be in for a smaller harvest. "It will be tough for us to be as good as last year," Burns said. "If our new kids come through, we'll be all right. But we are inexperienced. The new kids are good athletes, but we don't know if they are good tennis players."
Jim Ballinger, Leawood junior,
heads this years squad. Last year
he compiled a 9-5 dual record
in the No. 4, 5 and 6 singles pos-
itions. He combined with various
squad members throughout the
season to earn a 9-3 doubles mark.
In the Big Eight meet he lost
only in the finals of the No. 3
singles to Gerry Perry of Oklahoma.
Dan Oram, Prairie Village senior, is the only two year letterman on the squad. Last year he had an 11-8 dual mark while playing in the No.2, 3 and 4 positions. In his two years of competition he has recorded a dual mark of 25-15. He was runnerup in the No.3 singles at the Big Eight meet in 1968.
Chris Wells, Denver senior, had a 5-6 mark in singles competition
last year. The doubles teams he was on have posted an 8-2 record.
The other members of the squad are Tom Carlson, Leawood freshman, Ken Dickson, Topeka senior, Cal Simmons, Falls Church, Va., sophomore and Tim Williams, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, junior. The Big Eight meet will be held at KU this year. Coach Burns said he saw no way that defending champion Oklahoma could be dehroned. The Sooners have won four straight titles after Kansas won back-to-back championships in 1964 and 1965.
1970 Tennis Schedule
March 12 — Washburn at Topeka
March 12 — Washburn at Topeka
14 — Northwest Missouri at Maryville, Mo.
21 — West Texas State at Canyon, Texas.
23 — Texas Tech at Canyon, Texas.
24 — Hardin-Simmons at Abilene, Texas.
25 — Texas Christian at Fort Worth.
26-28 — Oral Roberts Invitational at Tulsa.
April 8 — Emporia State at Emporia.
10 — Missouri at Lawrence.
11 — Arkansas at Lawrence.
14 — Northwest Missouri at Lawrence.
17 — Wichita State at Lawrence.
18 — Nebraska at Lincoln.
21 — Emporia State at Lawrence.
22 — Washburn at Lawrence.
23 — Kansas State at Manhattan.
25 — Oklahoma at Lawrence.
30 — Wichita State at Wichita.
May 2 — Oklahoma City at Lawrence.
7 — Denver and Wyoming at Denver.
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