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Monday, February 27, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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It started under Dr. James Naismith in 1898, progressed through the era of Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen and the legendary Wilt Chamberlain, spanned 18 NCAA tournaments and qualified for eight Final Fours under just seven coaches, and now Roy Williams' Jayhawks of 1988-89 have won career victory number
Kansas' Milestone Victories
1400
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by Arvin Donlev
Associate sports editor
"I thought it was a good idea to show the fans that we appreciate them sticking with us through the bad times," Newton said. "Coach Williams is like that, being really appreciative, and I thought it was a good move on his
With their 111-83 victory over Colorado Saturday, the Kansas Jayhawks not only won the school's 1,400th all-time game and broke an eight game losing streak, they also may have won the hearts of Kansas fans.
With 1:09 left in the game, Kansas coach Roy Williams instructed his players to go into the stands after the game to thank the fans for their support during the Jayhawks' recent losing streak.
Kansas forwards Milt Newton and Mark Randall said Williams' gesture was appropriate.
High-fives and handshakes were exchanged between Kansas fans and players for nearly five minutes following the game.
"During the past four weeks, I've received a lot of mail and even some mail from students," Williams said. "There have been a couple of bad ones, but I'd say 90 out of them have been supportive. The students have been great."
"There were students out here (Saturday) morning waiting to get in the gym at 7 when I came over to run. It may be bus-league, and it may be too sentimental (to send players into the crowd), but I don't really give a crap because I wanted to show those people that we've really appreciated their support through a tough time."
with the victory. Kansas became only the third school in college basketball history to win 140 games. Only Kentucky (1,465) and North Carolina (1,455) have more all-time victories than the Jayhawks.
Randall said, "I think it just shows what kind of a coach that Coach Williams is. He's really caring person who is really grateful for the support that we get. I know I'm thankful for the fan support."
Although it took the Jayhawks nine tries to get 1,400 forward Freeman West said he was proud to be a part of such a tradition-rich basketball program.
it's really great to play on the team that won the 1,400th game," West said. "But "it's not only us. It starts with Dr. James (Naismith, Forrest C) 'Phog Allen, Dick Harp, Ted Owens, Coach (Larry) Brown and now coach Roy Williams. All of us together come up on the team that won the game."
Guard Kevin Pritchard said he was proud of the accomplishment but also was relieved the Jayhawks finally had reached the mark.
He said, "1,399 was like a jinx to us. I'm more interested in season records, but (the 1,400th victory) just shows how much tradition there is at KU. One of the reasons I came here was because of the tradition. It just shows all the time. (Former Kansas All-American) Clyde Lovellet was here today. It's pretty impressive."
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Kansas beats CU and ends winless streak
by Mike Considine Kansan sportwriter
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas guard Scooter Barry drives around Colorado's Brian Molis.
Although West's miss had no bearing on the outcome of Kansas '11-83 victory, it was memorable because it was one of the best games in the series.
With just more than eight minutes remaining in Saturday's Kansas-Colorado game, Jayhawk forward Stephen
Kansas' 86.7 percent (26 of 30) field goal shooting in the second half was significant because it helped the Jayhawks win for the first time this month Kansas had games since its 86-66 victory over Wichita State Jan. 25.
Jayhawk coach Roy Williams, an assistant coach at North Carolina for 10 years, said he only remembered two games when the Tar Heels shot as well as Kansas did on day, when it made a season high 70.4 percent of its shots.
Kansas led 46-39 at halftime and then sank its first 14 shots of the second half. The last basket in the scoring run came at 8:40 on a backdoor play from West to senior center Sean Alvarado, making the score 81-56.
The dayhawks shot well in the first half, making 12 of 24 field goals (50 percent) and 20 of 26 free throws (76.9 percent). Although Colorado shot better from the field in the first half, making 13 of 23 (76.5 percent), the Buffaloes' 6-foot-10 center Shaun Vandiver and 6-5 forward Rodell Guest were in foul trouble.
"We wanted to emphasize running the basketball and getting it inside." Williams said. "I think we did a good job of that. Four of our first shots of the second half were javaws against their guys in foul trouble.
"I don't care about those two," he said. "I'm just happy these kids are able to have success and feel good about themselves. I didn't want to go zero for February, and I know they felt the same way.
"We did try to emphasize that we needed to get real good shots and to play unselfishly."
"Those guys are not just tall, but they're thick, like football players." West said. "We got the ball down low quite well. And we have players who, if they get the ball up, will win, will give him the ball." That's why we shot so well.
The Jayhawks scored 18 baskets within nine-foot range in the second half. For the game, Kansas outscored Colorado 54 to 32 inside. The Jayhawks out-rebounded the Buffaloes 37-21.
"In the second half, they went into a run where it seemed everything they threw up into the hole." Colorado coach Tom Miller said. "At the same time, we were in a drought and we had to play better and make good shots, but they wouldn't fall."
Junior guard Kevin Pritchard, the Jayhawks' leading scorer with 19 points, said he thought Kansas' defense
"I think we got after it on defense," Pritchard said. "In the past, I don't think our defense was as good as it needed to be. We don't have the numbers and we don't know where we are or last an edge that we needed to overcome the obstacles."
Kansas committed nine turnovers in the half, while forcing Colorado to make 13. Both teams finished with 20.
"I told them that regardless of what the score wasn't satisfied with it because I knew we could play a lot better." Williams said. "We needed to cut out the mental mistakes and cut out the unforced turnovers. I told them it was awfully important in the next 20 minutes that they do their best and (not) leave anything on the court."
"I don't know if it was just a monkey on people's backs or if we just had to push it a little extra to get over the hump," he said. "Hopefully, we did it today. We won't really know until we go out against Nedraksa. Worries."
Gueldera said the Kansas had played hard for the entire 40 minutes of the game. He said the Jayhawks had not played throughout many of the games during the eight-game losing streak.
day?
"We've got to continue to build on this in practice if we're going to be successful going into the Big Eight Tournament."
Missouri beats No.1 OU
Stewart helps coach Tigers from hospital
The Associated Press
KANAS CITY, Mo. - Stacey King had joked that Norm Stewart might emerge from his hospital bed to help move his mother, Jill, in a very real sense, Stewart did
At haftime Saturday, King had lea-
No. 1 Oklahoma to a one-point lead
over the seventh-ranked Missouri
state, where the national surpri-
surp, put in a call at haftime
The Tigers then went out an,
proceeded to make some points of
their own — 53 in the second half.
Oklahoma, needing a victory to win
the Big Eight championship, fell to
the withering Washington in the short end of a 97-84 score that had more than 13,000 Missouri fans rocking Hearns Arena.
"He told me. 'Hey, you're not having enough fun out there," interch termin Coach Rich Daly said. "He told me we weren't running the offense ence He got two or three points across."
"It was right on time," center Gary Leonard said. "We had some guys with the No. 1 team or not. We play that well the whole game."
against them is a great thing for us."
then is a great thing for us. In a game that means little to the post-season game, Nebraska cooled off Iowa State 77-74. And in a game that meant a great deal, Kansas State used the home court advantage to the fullest extent by beating Oklahoma State 69-62.
"I think this puts us in position to think not only of getting into the tournament, but fighting for a seed as well," said KState coach Lon Johnson, who up a technical foul in the game that KState dominated most of the way.
K-State and Oklahoma State could be fighting for the only at-large berthe NCAA plans to give the Big Eight, assuming that either Oklahoma or Missouri wins the conference tournament and the automatic entry.
By beating the Cowboys, K-State lifted its record to 17.8 overall and 7.5 in the Big Eight and put Oklahoma State at 16.9 and 7.5.
2 NCAI teams for sure were performing at Missouri's Hearnes Center, King, the Sooners' farsighted senior center, scored 36 and beat Kentucky by Byron Irwin broke loose from a game sista with a career high 34.
"I feel the NCAA will give the Big Eight at least four or five teams in the tournament," he said.
Oklahoma State Coach Leonard Hamilton played down the significance of the loss.
Oklahoma, which had the No. 1 ranking for two straight weeks, fell to
24-4 overall and 10-2 in the Big Eight with two games left.
"If you want to break it down to one thing, Missouri had a great day today," said Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs. "They had a five-or six-minute spurt where they took it to us. We didn't shoot as well as we like to, and we didn't do the things we needed. I wasn't making me any excuses."
At Lincoln, Clifford Scales scored 18 points as Nebraska held off a last-minute Iowa State charge. The Huskers led 75-64 with 10:08 left when the Cyclones came alive behind senior Marc Urquhart.
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TOP TEN
College Basketball
| ( ) number of first place votes | total points |
| :--- | :--- |
| 1. Arizona 23-2 (1) | 169 |
| 2. Georgetown 23-3 (5) | 161 |
| 3. Oklahoma 24-4 (1) | 141 |
| 4. Indiana 23-5 | 132 |
| 5. North Carolina 24-5 | 111 |
| 6. Missouri 23-6 (1) | 89 |
| 7. Syracuse 23-5 | 79 |
| 8. Duke 23-5 | 46 |
| 9. Illinois 23-4 | 35 |
| 10. West Virginia 23-2 | 10 |
The weakly top 10 poll is voted on by the sports stats of the University Daily Kansan and JKHJ FM-90.7.
Georgetown wins Big East title; No.2 Arizona beats No.9 Duke
The Associated Press
6 NEW YORK - Georgetown
clinched the Big East regular season
title sooner than any other
school in the conference's 10-year
"It's phase one to win the league first and we won it," Georgetown coach John Thompson said Saturday night after the third-ranked Hoyas beat St. John's 63-55. "Now we'll focus on the tournament, the NCAA and hope everyone stays healthy."
But the honor didn't seem to impress the Hoyas or their coach.
The Hoyas, 22.3 overall and 12.2 in the conference, will be the top seed in the Big East tournament, with the team securing 9 at Madison Square Garden.
"We did want to win this one because we didn't want that pressure of having to win against or Syracuse." Thompson said.
The loss means St. John's is in a precarious position for its eighth straight NCAA bid and the Redmen are guaranteed their wore
St. John, 14-11 and 5-9, put up a struggle against the Hoyas but fell short, despite Georgetown's struggles from the field and free throw
Beating Georgetown would have been a big accomplishment for the Redmen. In fact, the game started as if an upset had occurred, and Georgetown came up on a 22-17
The Redmen jumped to a 22-17 lead with 8:35 left in the first half and were running the game at the speed they wanted.
"It was an 'L' that we cannot erase." St. John's coach Lou Carnesse said. "We have to learn there's holes you can't get out of by yourself. We know how big those last two games are."
"I thought we were playing at their tempo and we weren't putting enough defensive pressure on them either," Thompson said. "We were just content so I had to put them to put some pressure on them."
conference record.
What a reminder.
Arizona 77, Duke 75
But St. John's wouldn't disappear and neither would Georgetown's shots.
Sean Elliott scored 24 points
Elliott gave the Wildcats the lead for good with a three-pointer with 54 seconds left that broke a 70-70 tie.
yesterday and No. 2 Arizona needed a missed free throw with one second left to beat No. 9 Duke return to the top spot in the poll.
Duke missed two three-point shots before Anthony Cook gave Arizona a 75-70 lead with a layup.
Quin Snyder hit a three-pointer,
bringing the Blue Devils within
two points with 19 seconds left, but
Elliott was fouled on the ensuing
inbounds play and made two free
throws one second later. A layup
by Snyder with seven seconds left
made it 77-75.
Temple 74, West Virginia 56
Freshman Mik Kilgore made seven three-pointers, scoring 33 points at Temple beat No.1 West Virginia 74-56 Saturday and snapped the nation's longest winning streak at 22 games
The defeat was West Virginia's first since losing to Bradley 70-68 on Dec. 3, and it ruined the Mountaineers' bid for a perfect Atlantic to season.