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University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 6, 1989
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Jayhawks beat OSU in final seconds
Oklahoma State's Darwyn Alexander and Kansas juniors Jeff Gueldner and Kevin Pritchard go after a loose ball. The Jayhawks defeated the Cowboys 78-79 Saturday in Stillwater.
by Mike Considine Kansas sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
For a couple of minutes after Saturday's Oklahoma State-Kansas game ended, the Cowboys' Thomas Brown came out to play in basket, expecting a foul to be called to him.
Forty-five minutes later, Jordan, in street clothes, stood near the same basket talking to Oklahoma State coach Leonard Hamilton.
"I didn't have time to think about it." Randall said. "I just went up and did it. I don't think I even touched him."
Kansas, 19-11 overall and 6-8 in the Big Eight Conference, finished the regular season with a three-game winning streak and sixth in the league. Oklahoma State is 16-11 and 7-7, tied with Iowa State for fourth place. The game was Oklahoma State's only loss at home this season.
It was as though Jordan still couldn't 'believe Kansas' Mark Randal had blocked his shot in the final second of the Jayhawks 78-79 victory.
He said assistant coaches Mark Turgeon and Kevin Stallings told him the ball would be thrown to Jordan.
Randall blocked Jordan's shot after getting beat on an inbounds play. He wanted Kansas coach Roy Williams asked him to line up inside Jordan to prevent him from catching a lob pass. Instead, Randall was in first base and the inbounds pass was thrown by the Cowboys' Royce Jeffries.
"I didn't want him to get the ball. We knew they were going to try some kind of job because of their athleticism," Randall said. "When they threw it up there, I knew he was going to get it."
"It was just like we diagrammed it," Jeffries said. "We wanted to throw it to Thomas Jordan, and I was sure that he was going to dunk it."
Randall said it was the most important block of his career. He said he didn't remember the only other block he made this season, Jan. 14 at Kansas State. He also had one shotbed shot as a freshman in 1986-87.
nantall said he wasn't worried about fouling when he went behind Jordan, who had a game-high 23 points, to block the shot.
Senior guard Scooter Barry, who is fifth in the Big Eight in steals, stole the ball from Cowboy guard Darwyn Hoyt after a series of bounds while diving to control it.
Another key defensive play by Kansas forced Oklahoma State to take the hall out of bounds with two seconds remaining.
Kansas
Kansas 79
Oklahoma State 78
"He got too close to the side, and I was trying to use the sideline to cut him off," said Barry, who had three steals. "Then he fumbled it off his back." I was not surprised. I it. I went down on the ground to try and grab it, and I thought I grabbed it
| | M | FG | FT | R | A | F | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Newton | 34 | 6-15 | 7-8 | R | 2 | A | 42 |
| Maddux | 29 | 6-15 | 7-8 | R | 2 | A | 42 |
| Maddux | 21 | 7-11 | 0-2 | B | 1 | 4 | 16 |
| Pritchard | 18 | 7-11 | 0-2 | B | 1 | 4 | 16 |
| Guelford | 29 | 0-1 | 2-2 | A | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Guelford | 19 | 0-1 | 2-2 | A | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Alvarado | 25 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Alvarado | 33 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Minor | 11 | 1-2 | 3-2 | C | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| West | 11 | 1-2 | 3-2 | C | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 20 | 31-57 | 13-17 | 18 | 21 | 25 | **75** |
Percentages: FG, 544 FG, 765 Threat point goals: 4: Locked Shots: 4: Blanked Shots: 3: Newman, Randal, Minor). Turnovers: 19 (Newton Guelner, 3 Randall, 2 Randich; Bary 2 West, 2 Madzoo, Avanado). Steals: 6 (Randall Barry 3, Avanado 2). Practical赫。
| | M | FG | FT | R | A | F | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Dumas | 27 | 1-10 | 3-4 | T | R | A | 5 |
| Houston | 27 | 1-10 | 3-4 | T | R | A | 5 |
| Williams | 34 | 10-12 | 3-6 | T | 0 | 2 | 23 |
| Williams | 34 | 1-9 | 3-6 | T | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Alexander | 38 | 5-8 | 3-6 | T | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Alexander | 38 | 5-8 | 3-6 | T | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Pittman | 9 | 1-2 | 1-2 | T | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| Gafney | 5 | 1-2 | 1-2 | T | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| Fowler | 1 | 5-2 | 1-2 | T | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Fowler | 20 | 27-51 | 18-27 | 32 | 12 | 50 | 78 |
Oklahoma State
Percentages: FG 509, FG 677. Three point goals: 6-10 (Alexander, G. Gabiney, I. Williams, 4 - Dumais 10-1) Bisha 2-11 (Alexander, G. Gabiney, I. Williams, 4 - Dumais 10-1) Turnovers: 2-(Alexander, G. Dumais, 4) Houston, 4 Williams, 4 Jordan, 3 Jeffries). Steals: 7 (Jeffries, 2) Jordan, 2 (Jeffries, 2) Dumains). Technique: None
Half: Oklahoma State 42-38 Officials Leimbach, Reynolds, Summers.
A: 61:381
before it went out."
The Jahayh trailed Oklahoma State throughout the second half until Milt Newton made a three-point shot with eight seconds remaining.
"It was frustrating for us because we were doing a good job defensively, but they were still making some baskets." Williams said. "But they aren't always with a lot of pose and some of their shots started coming up short."
Newton's shot accounted for the final points in the game. The Cowboys, who didn't score in the final 3:31, led 78-76 when Alexander missed the front end of a one-and-one free throw with 28 seconds left.
Williams said he was going for the victory on the final possession because he regretted tying Oklahoma in the final seconds on Feb. 15. Oklahan went on to defeat Kansas 94.48 in overtime.
"I told them when we were down two, to look for the three-point shot, but if we didn't get it, to drive to the basket." Williams said "So, during the time out, I said we wanted to look for the three-point shot."
Newton, who led Kansas with 22 points, said he didn't hesitate to take
the shot, although he was guarded closely.
"I just shot it," he said. "I figured if I missed, we would have a chance to get the rebound."
Oklahoma State led 72-62 with 8:09 left, but Barry said he wasn't 'concerned that the Jayhawks' winning streak would end.
"There was so much time left," he said. "I was told on the bench watching, and I kept saying, 'stay calm. I could see that you're not being because we kept making those runs."
Randall said the game films from the Cowboys' 87-81 victory Feb. 8 showed that the Jayhawks could
score inside on Oklahoma State, which leads the Big Eight in blocked shots. Kansas outscored Oklahoma State 28-20 in led, by Mike Maddox, who had it points, and Randall, who scored nine points and a game-high eight rebounds.
"Mike was doing a great job of getting the ball inside, faking and drawing the fouls on them," Randall said. "Plenty of times when we shot-faked, it looked like the whole team was going for the block."
Barry said, "Coach keeps telling us that we're a better team than we think we are. This could be a big boost for this team. It tells us we can do some things if we put our minds to it."
was going to take the game. The inside game helped Kansas to stay close to the Cowboys in the second half.
"At halitme, we were zero for three," he said, "told them that if we played with poise, we would be there at the end."
victory were boxing out on rebounds, preventing turnovers and playing tough defense.
Kansas will play Kansas State in the opening round of the Big Eight tournament at 8:20 Friday night at Kemper Arena in City Kansas. Mo
Williams said his pregame keys to
KU tennis team wins one match
by Laurie Whitten Kangan sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's tennis team lost to both Florida State and Lake Forest 5-4 before defeating South Florida 5-1 this weekend in the concussion round of the H.E.B. Collegiate Team Championships.
The country's top 20 teams competed in the outdoor tournament, which began Thursday and ends today in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Kansas lost its opening match Thursday to Santa Barbara 5-2; Sophomore Jeff Gross and freshman Carlos Fleming won Kansas' only matches against Santa Barbara, defeating No. 3 player Randy Flachman 6-4, 6-4 and No. 6 player Boryan Cory 6-4, 7-6.
On Friday, the Jayhawks lost to Florida State 5-4, Fleming, playing the No. 5 spot for Kansas, defeated Greg Anderson 6-4, 6-2 and Kansas' No. 3 player Jim Secrest defeated Minnesota's Rafael Rangel won Kansas' No. 4 singles match against Casey Creely 7-5, 6-2.
In doubles, Wildey and Fleming defeated Creely and Anderson 6-3, 6-2.
Saturday's match against Lake Forest was interrupted and finished the following morning because of low temperatures. After winning three of six singles matches Saturday, Lake Forest won two doubles matches yesterday morning, defeating Kansas 5-4.
Aer tossing to Lake Forest, the Jayhawks won five of six singles matches against South Florida. Only two teams from each conference so no doubles matches were played.
Wildley defeated South Florida's No. 1 player Warren Atkinson 6-1, 6-1, and Gross won the No. 2 match against Grant Fitzwilliam 6-4, 6-1. Freshman Paul Garvin, a walk-on from Batavia, ill., won Kansas' No. 6 match against Brian McAllister 7-5, 6-0.
The Kansas women's tennis team's match with Illinois yesterday morning was canceled because of the possibility of bad weather.
Kansas coach Eric Hayes said Illinois had traveled to Topeka on Saturday but decided to return home because of injuries. Bizzard like conditions yesterday.
"they came over, then heard there was heavy snow in the forecast and turned around and went home." Hayes said. "It was actually good for us not to play, because several of the fish and the dua. We needed the rest."
'Hawks get their first victory as they split a doubleheader
Leitner's HR in 10th beats Oral Roberts
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas baseball team impressed Coach Dave Bingham by splitting a pair of games at Oral Roberts University on Friday.
The Jayhawks, 1-4, won their first game of the season, defeating the Titans 7-8 in the first game of a new season. The Titans won the second game 13-9.
"I've always asked the kids to play aggressive baseball, to play hard and hustle," Bingham said. "They've done those things well. I've also asked them to maintain their compere's skills. Our games were a great example of them."
"When you can win in the 10th inning against a quality team, that's the mark of maintaining your composition, and we didn't do that a year ago."
Shortstop Lance Leitner gave Kansas its first victory, Leitner, a junior college transfer from the College of Southern Idaho, hit two run-game winning home run in the top of the
After Jeff Mentel reached base on an error, Bingham said he was going to have Leitner bunt to advance the runner.
"We showed bunt on the first pitch, and they didn't do anything." Bingham said, "so we figured they might give Lance a pitch to hit."
Junior Brad Hinkle (1-1) pitched $ _{5/4} $ innings in relief of starter Craig Mulcahay for the victory. Reliever Craig Stopel pitched the bottom of the 10th, recording his first save of the season.
Leitner, who had three hits in five at-bats, hit a line drive over the left fence on the next pitch.
Hinkle said he improved the speed on his fastball because of a drill he and junior Steve Renko did last week.
"He was fantastic." Bingham said. "Brad has a fastball in the upper 80% (mph), which rises and moves. He was just too fast for them."
Kansas' Watcke sets school record qualifies for NCAA championships
Oral Roberts, 9-4, scored three runs off Muley in the fourth to take the lead. After the Jayhawks had built a 5-3 lead, the Titans rallied to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth.
Hinkle allowed two runs, walked two and struck out six.
"That was better arm speed than I've had in a long time." Hinkle said.
The Titans jumped out to a 3-10 lead in the second game and built their lead to 6-1 after four innings. How did the Rangers cut out Oral Roberts' lead to 8-7.
Kansas' game against Wayne State yesterday was canceled because of poor weather. The game against Missouri Western scheduled for 2 p.m. today in Hancock, because of the weather. The Jachwahs have had four games canceled so far this spring.
"My strike to ball-ratl was bad, but when I was down in the count, I was using my fastball to catch up. I could have gotten out of it a lot easier."
The Titans scored five runs in the seventh and eight innings. Mentel, who had seven hits in 10 at-bats, hit a two-home run in the ninth.
"We just叮ed anything from that point on." Bingham said. "We didn't finish them off when we needed to stop them and take the lead."
Craig Watcke made his last chance count.
by Cynthia L. Smith Kansan sportswriter
watchte. St. Minister, Ohio, senior on the Kansas track team, won the 5,000-meter run in 13 minutes, 51.82 seconds, qualifying for the NCAA indoor and outdoor Kansas a Kansas record at the Silverstone Invitations on Saturday at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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His time surpassed both the 14:01:50 indoor and 13:58:12 outdoor national qualifying standards. It also bettered the former Kansas record of 14:06:63 set by Watche at the Franklin College on Feb 11 in Lincoln, Neh.
The weekend was the last opportunity for competitors to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 10-11 in Indianapolis, Ind.
"I felt pretty confident going into the race," Watchee said. "I knew that."
if everything went OK, I would probably qualify."
watke and three other competitors in the race qualified for the championships, bringing the number of eligible competitors to seven.
Kansas coach Gary Schwartz said that he was confident that Watcke would qualify.
"But you never know." Schwartz said. "5,000 meters is a long way to run. A lot of things can happen."
Oklahoma closes season with league's best stats
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — By just about every statistical measure, Oklahoma earned the No. 1 seed for this weekend's Big Eight Conference Tournament at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
With a 103-76 victory over Nebraska on Saturday, the fourranked Sooners closed the regular season as the conference champions in win-loss record, scoring and rebounding.
With Stacey King and Mookie Blaylock. Oklahoma also goes into postseason play with the league's top two individual point-producers. King, the 6-foot-11 senior center, also led the rebounds.
"I thought it looked like our young men were running with snowshoes on at times," said Nebraska coach Danny Lee. "We don't have the manpower to come back here, we get down by 18 or 24 points."
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Elsewhere on Saturday in Big Eight regular season finals, Iowa State defeated K-State 101-89, and No. 7 Missouri nipped Colorado 66-65 in what almost became the upset of the year.
The Tigers, though, used Greg Church's last second heroics at the free-throw line to wrap up a 24-7 record and a 10-4, second-place finish in the Big Eight. Colorado, which has lost 99 of its last 12 games, finished 7-20 and 2-42, and will have to line up against Oklahoma on Friday at 2:20 p.m. in the first round of the Big Eight Tournament.
College Basketball
(1) number of first place votes total points
Arizona 24-3 (16) 178
Oklahoma 26-4 (2) 161
Georgetown 23-4 178
Duke 26-4 99
Indiana 25-4 90
Illinols 25-4 66
Michigan 21-6 83
Syracuse 25-4 74
North Carolina 21-7 43
Missouri 24-7 29
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Missouri, as the second seed, will go against Nebraska, 16-14, 4-10, in the 6:10 p.m. first-round game in Kansas City. In the other first-round games, the state, 16-11, beat Iowa at 7:7, at 12:10 p.m., and K-State, 18-9, 8-6, will take on Kansas, 19-11, 6-8, at 8:29 p.m.
Iowa State also is coming into
"I felt like we were lucky even to be in the game at halftime. It seems that we were awful flat. Defense, we were really bad."
the postseason in a rush. The Cyclones under Coach Johnny Orr have won six of their last seven games and got a career-high 23 points on the Victor K-State's Steve Henson scored a career-high 33 points.
story. Alexander, 6-9, has been a catalyst in the Cyclones late-season spurt.
"This team certainly deserves an NCAA bid." Orr said. "You saw us play a tremendous game. You also got to see one of the great players in the nation, that being Steve Henson."
Oklaahoma's scoring average of 104.9 points, based on all games during the season, is tops in the N.F.L., and Oklahoma rebounded average of 44.3 a game.
The regular season scoring score goes to King at 26.2 points a game, followed by Blaylock at 20.8. King's rebound average of 10.4 shaded out Colorado's Shaun Vandiver, 10.3.
Oklahoma guard arrested, charged with drunkenness
The Associated Press
NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma guard Daron "Mookie" Blaylock was arrested yesterday for alleged public drunkenness following a report of an argument at a convenience store, police said.
Blaylock, 21. was arrested shortly after a 4 a.m. and booked into the Cleveland County jail on a municipal public drunkenness complaint, said police Sgt. Olan Nystrom.
He was released on bond and is expected to appear next week in municipal court.
A convenience store employee called police to the store because Blaylock was arguing with a female companion, Nystrom said.
"He displayed the characteristics of an intoxicated person," Nystrom said. "He was arrested for public intoxication."
Oklahoma basketball publicist Mike Prusinski said basketball coach Billy Tubbs would not issue a statement on the arrest, which came hours after fourth-ranked Oklahoma completed its regular season with a 103-76 home victory over Nebraska Saturday evening.
Athletic Director Donnie Duncan said he would have to get the facts before commenting on a "speculative situation" when asked how the arrest would affect Blaylock's status on the team.
"Billy and I have talked." Duncan said. "What we're trying to do is get all the information. We have not reached a decision or discussed a decision that would affect Mookie and the team."