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Monday, March 20. 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Sports
Controversial season ends in loss
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
Gary Mook/Special to the Kansu
A season that began in controversy ended in controversy on March 10 for the Kansas men's basketball team
Kansas senior Milt Newton puts a hand in the face of Kansas State's Billy Ray Smith. The Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks 73-65 during the first round of the Phillips 66 Big Eight Conference Tournament in Kansas City, Mo., on March 10.
when practice opened Oct. 15, a three-year NCAA probation was pending. At the season's close, a timekeeper's error cost the Jay-Z team $3 million to the 74-65 loss to Kansas State in the first round of the Big Eight tournament.
Kansas finished the season with a 19-12 record.
"It was one of those years," Kansas coach Roy Williams said. "Every controversial decision went against us. From Halloween on, it has been the unluckiest time I have ever been through."
Kansas State led 66-63 with 1:05 remaining in the game when the ball slipped out of Wildcat guard LaKeith Humphrey's hands as the 45-second shot clock was about to expire. Chief official Mike Kouri said the time was closely considered Humphrey's bobble in a shot and reset the clock.
Kouri said that after some discussion, the officiating crew decided to continue play with two seconds on the shot clock.
One second later, a 35-foot toss by Steve Henson scored the key points for Kansas State.
"I was standing right in front of him," junior Jef Guelder said. "He knew he made it when he let it go. He knew, 'That's in baby.'
Senior guard Scooter Barry said the basket hurt Kansas psychologically.
"It changed everything," Barry said. "We could have died them the next time down, but instead we were alive. We had to be aware on us and forced a quicker shot."
In the final minute, Milt Newton missed a 15-foot jumper and Kevin Pritchard missed a three-point shot. Junior forward Freewren West scored the last points on a layup with seven seconds left.
Kansas State scored 11 unanswered points from the 3:29 mark until 15 seconds remained.
Newton, who led Kansas with 28 points, had given the Jayhawks a 63-62 lead at 3:50 am on a driving jump shot. The senior hit 10 of 18 field goal making six of eight from three-point range, in his final college appearance.
Newton is in 14th place on Kansas' all-time scoring list with 1,166 points. His 28 points were one short of his 350. He finished the 1988 Big Eight tournament.
"I just went out and played my game," he said. "I just had a truly good day shooting the ball."
Newton scored 18 points in the first half as Kansas built a 37-36 halftime lead.
Kansas State forward Mark Dobbins said, "Late in the game, I turned to (Wildec forward Billy Ray Smith) and said, 'Well, we held him to 28. The way he was shooting, he should have bad '45.'"
Dobbins said he thought the Jayhawks didn't get the ball to Newton enough in the second half.
"They played a physical game," said Newton, who made three of seven shots after halftime. "They were really stupid. They somebody glued to me all the time."
Sophomore Mike Maddox and West, with 10 points each, were the only other Jayhawks in double figures.
Pritchard, who averaged 14.5 points per game, had the flu and wasn't cleared to play by trainer until until 90 minutes before game time.
Pritchard was one of five Jayhawks to receive post-season honors.
"It didn't affect me at all during the game," he said. "I didn't produce I think that was a factor in the loss."
The 6-foot-3 guard was a memoir of the All-Big Eight second team selected by The Associated Press and the Kansas City Star and Times. He received honorable mention on the United Press International team. He was a member of the UPI all-defensive team and had the highest grade point average on the Big Eight all-academic team.
Newton, who averaged 17.7 points a game as Kansas' leading scorer, was a second team pick on the Big Eight AP, UPI and players' squads. He received honorable mention from the Star and Times and was a member of USA Today's national "most underated" team.
mention from AP and the players. Randall and West were named to UAP's "all-surprise" team.
Sophomore forward Mark Randall, who averaged 16 points a game, was a UPI two team All-Big Eight selection and received honorable
Williams, who was named Rookie Coach of the Year by Basketball Times magazine, said he hoped the team would be remembered for its accomplishments throughout the season and not for its final loss.
Williams said. "If I coach 50 years, I'll never be more proud of a group of kids than I am of the seniors."
Barry said he was disappointed to end the season with a loss.
"We could have been one of two teams to finish with a win," he said. "We showed a lot of strength. Unfortunately, things didn't work out. I could have gone out better. I wish the team could have gone out better."
"The biggest thing is to make sure that people don't think we gave up."
Sutton quits coaching job at Kentucky Recruiting probe and poor season probable reasons
The Associated Press
Sutton said that he was resigning "for one reason: the love I have for the University of Kentucky, for the university's fall program, and for the people at the school."
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky coach Eddie Sutton, hounded by an NCAA investigation of the school's basketball program, yesterday announced his resignation after four seasons.
"I don't want the University of Kentucky to suffer anymore."
Rumors that Sutton would resign or be fired had been circulating since October, when the NCA4 announced that it would investigate 18 allegations of wrongdoing against the basketball program.
Kentucky finished the season with a 13-19 record, its first losing record in 62 years. In his three seasons at Kentucky, the 33-year-old Sutton had a 90-40 record. In 12 years of coaching — five at Creighton and 11 at Arkansas — he led the team to 45 victories and was 432-165. He was voted The Associated Press coach of the year in 1978 while he was at Arkansas and in 1986, his first season at Kentucky.
The Loisville Courier-Journal reported Saturday that Sutton would be fired in several days unless he resigned However, Sutton maintained his position Saturday afternoon that he had done nothing wrong and would not resign.
Sutton told CBS-TV yesterday that his resignation was not an admission of guilt.
"Not at all. I am innocent," he said. Sutton is not named in any of the 18 allegations.
Kentucky is the winningest college basketball program with 1,465 career victories.
Five swimmers earn All-American honors
Kansan sportswriter
by Brett Brenner
The Kansas women's swimming team may not have won the national championship, but it did make some waves. The team will compete in championships March 4 to 18 in Indianapolis.
The Jayhawks scored 27 points and placed 25th, but five team members came away with All-America honors.
Stanford won the meet with a score of 610.5, followed by Texas with 547, Florida with 358, Tennessee with 328.5 and California with 234.
The season-long goal for the Kansas team had been to place in the top 15. Kansas coach Gary Kemp said that he thought the goal had been within the team's reach during the championships.
"I was really proud of them," Kemp said. "We struggled in some areas. We weren't quite sharp enough or fast enough.
"We took five women and came back with five All-Americans. That's tremendous."
Jenny Fischer, Erin Eason, Barb Pranger and Sue Surge were named All Americans in both the 200-yard medley relay, in which they placed ninth, and the 400-yard medley relay, in which they placed 15th.
To be an All-American, a swimmer must place in the top 16 in an event.
They also competed in the 200 freestyle relay, finishing 17th.
Smith, a senior, swam to a ninth-
place finish in the 1650 freestyle and
a 17th place finish in the 400 individual
individual medley. 298
Two Jayhawk swimmers, Barbara Ann Smith and Pranger, competed in individual events.
"I was pleased," Smith said. "Last
I was really proud of them. We took five women and came back with five All-Americans. That's tremendous.'
Gary Kempf Kansas swimming coach
year; I only placed in one event. This year, I scored the most points for the team, which brought us closer to our team goal."
Pranger, a freshman, said that she was pleased with her performance, which included a 4th place in the 100 butterfly. She finished 25th in the 200 butterfly and had a career-best time in the 50 freesky, finishing 37th.
"She did a great job," Kemp said. "She has a lot to learn about national competition, but I think she learned a great deal this weekend. I expect her to become one of the top swimmers in the country."
Pranger said, "Actually, getting into (consolation) finals was exciting. You get to swim at night, and the pomp is great.
A former Kansas All-American, Tammy Thomas, was also in the news at the meet. Her six-year-old U.S. record in the 50 freestyle was broken by Leigh Ann Fetter, a sophomore from Texas.
"I definitely was nervous. You get excited to place (higher) in the races and try to better your time."
Thomas had set the record of 22.13 seconds in 1983. Fetter broke the record with a 22.05 in the finals.
by Cynthia L. Smith Kansan sportswriter
Men's track team 4th at NCAA
The efforts of four competitors added up to a fourth-place finish for the Kansas men's track team.
Seniors Craig Watchee, Cam Miller and David Bond joined junior Pat Manson in tying for fourth place at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 11 in Indianapolis.
Kansas tied Baylor with 22 points. The Jayhawks were beaten by Arkansas, Florida and Texas A
M. Last year, the Jayhawks finished 19th at the NCAA indoor meet in Oklahoma City.
"The guy who eventually won the meet just hammered the bar at 18-2. Manson said, "And he manned it, on account of 18-6, but the bar stayed up."
"It's a fantastic accomplishment," Kansas track coach Gary Schwartz said. "It's more than I hoped for in my first year."
Manson and Miller finished second and third in the pole vault with 18 feet, 2 inches on their first attempts. They were beaten by Illinois' Dean Starkey, who vaulted 18-6. Watche placed second in the 5,000-meter run in 14 minutes 19.42 seconds. Michigan's John Schier won the race in 14:19.02.
"The difference between the NCAA and the conference is that you can do well at NCAA with fewer athletes," Schwartz said.
Schwartz said it was difficult to predict results in the field events.
The team also finished fourth at the Big Eight Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships on Feb. 25 in Lincoln, Neb.
Both Manson and Miller had hoped to finish first, they said.
"Sometimes people can hit the bar and it still happens to stay up." Schwartz said. "And that one happened to stay. We were all rooting for Kansas, and we were all hoping it would fall."
But it stayed up, costing Kansa an anticipated sweep of the top two places.
"I never want to say I’m dispa-
nied with something other than
a no height, but I still got six
place at nationalists so shoot ..."
Manson said. "I keep telling
myself I’ve got still time."
Schwartz said Miller's efforts were impressive because he had been injured earlier this season. Miller cracked his left shoulder while skiing during winter break and came to sit out most of the season.
"It was a big credit to him because it was a totally tactical race." Schwartz said. "It not only talent, but a lot of patience."
He added that Watchee also deserved recognition because the 5,000-meter run was a difficult race at the NCAA meet.
He said none of the runners wanted to set the pace.
"They were literally jogging and then somebody made a break, and they all went." Schwartz said. "It was a mad scramble."
Bond finished 10th in the triple jump with a leap of $52_{3/4}$, an effort that his qualifying mark on the Jayhawk Invitational on Feb. 4.
"My performance as was weak as it could get," Bond said. "I told the coaching staff before I left that every meet from here on out is a comeback. I want to score so high in outdoor."
Steve Traynor/KANSAN
Kansas senior Craig Watcke cools down after winning a heat. Wat栓, pictured at the Big Eight Conference championships, placed second in the 5,000-meter run at the NCAA Indoor championships on March 12 in Indianapolis.
KU tennis teams see action during Spring Break
by Laurie Whitten
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas women's tennis coach Eric Hayes said that out of five matches played last week, the Jayhawks' 5 victory against 12th-ranked Kentucky on Friday was the biggest surprise.
The victory marked the first time for a Kansas women's team to defeat a team ranked in the top 15 nationally. Before slipping to the No. 12 spot in this month's Volvo rankings, Kentucky had been ranked sixth.
"We were traveling with a lot of freshmen, and we hadn't been playing that well." Hayes said of the senior, two sophomores and five
freshmen. "A lot of teams would have probably packed their bags and gone home. It is intimidating for freshmen to go up against teams that are ranked nationally and are supposed to be better than they are.
"Beating Kentucky was such an amazing win. There's a pecking order in tennis — especially women's tennis — and for us to knock off the No. 12 team in the country really shocked a lot of people."
Freshmen were responsible for almost all of Kansas' victories against Kentucky. Eveline Hamer defated Jane Yates in No. 1 singles and defeated Larry Gibbs in 5 singles match against Helen Fabiswell 6, 2, 4, 26, 6. Rene Raychaud-
Women beat No. 12 Kentucky; men's team record drops to 4-13
huri, who had been limited to playing doubles because of a back injury, won the No. 6 singles for Kansas against Lane Horn-Larson 6-0, 6-2
In doubles. No. 1 duo Hamers and Page Gomeis defeated Anointette Grech and Chris Karges 7-5, 1-6, 74 and No. 3 duo Raychaudhuri and sophomore Mindy Kelp defeated Fabisewicz and Yates 6-1, 5-7, 6-4
The Jayhawks began their week of matches March 10 against Georgia Tech, and we defeated 6-3 Hayes
"We should have been positioned to beat this team. It was tough for us to lose" he said. "We also played very well and we're quite used to playing outside yet."
On March 11, the Jayhawks lost to 25th-ranked Clemson 8-1.
said be withheld Pinoer because of academic reasons, and that might have weakened Kansas' lineup.
Kansas then lost to Furman 5-4 on Monday. Hayes said the Jayhawks were split with Furman 3-3 after
singles but failed to play strong doubles.
"We played extremely well," he said. "Our objective was to still be coming at them after playing tough games, and that's what we accomplished."
Kansas did not win any matches against 4th-ranked Georgia on Wednesday, but Hayes said the Jay-Z game was better than the 9- score indicated.
The Kansas men's team won one of five matches last week as it competed against three nationally ranked teams. How did that happen? Otterbein pitched to the team played well and was determined to improve its 4-13 record
before the Big Eight Conference Championships in April.
"There were some encouraging moments this week." Perelman said. "After it was over, we had a team meeting that lasted over four hours. We knew all of it time to start winning. They want to repeat as Big Eight champions."
On March 11, the Jayhawks lost to California Berkeley 6-3. The Golden bears, ranked fourth nationally, won a victory over Team Championships last month.
In doubles, the No. 1 duo John Falbo and Jim Secrest defeated Bennock Hunt and Ted Scherman, the top-ranked pair in the country, 6-4, 7-6.