Wednesday, March 7. 1979
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University Daily Kansan
On guard
Netters going south
**zorman, a junior letterman on KU's men's tennis team, practices to get ready for a spring break read trip.** Both the men's and women's tennis teams will see action down the court.
Forsaking the sands of Padrick岛 and the snows of Colorado, KU's men and women's tennis teams embark on a morning afternoon on a spring break road trip.
By DAVID COLBURN Sports Writer
The Jayhawks will tour laykourt courts in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, packing several taxing matches into the eight-day excursion.
The men will compete in four dual matches and an invitational tournament, and the women will play five dual matches. Kansas coach Tom Kivisto said he saw this rigorous schedule as more of a mental test than a physical one.
"IT'S GOING TO BE tough to be up for this amount of matches," Kivisto said. "The last couple of weeks of practice we've been thinking in terms of being ready to concentrate for this number of matches." The players are really looking forward to playing the amount of games they take that itself as a challenge."
The men and women will face three mutual opponents: Memphis State, Southwestern Louisiana University and Tulane University. The dual matches with Louisiana State University and Tulane University while the men participate in the 32-team Big Gold Invitation tournament at Mississippi University, Hattiesburg, Miss.
"the best girl's team is LSU," Kiviste said. "the second best team for the girls and the best team the guys are playing in Nichols State, which very few people know about. They have an extremely strong program."
"The tournament at Southern Mississippi is going to be tough from the standpoint of the number of matches our
people will have to play. A player will have to win five matches to win at his home field, but it's a really great national power in the field, but there are about six really solid teams—LSU, Nichols State, South Carolina, Owens Valley, Albuquerque, Alabama and Mississippi.
KU's utensils will be healthy and at full strength for the trip, and Kivisto said the rosters for both teams would remain the same as in previous matches this season, he said he would not decide whether he would include alternations on the tour.
"At this level all the players are good, so the player who can hold his concentration the longest, with that inner strength wants to win, will win," Kivino said.
KRIVSTO SAID one of his goals for the week was to develop and strengthen his players' ability to concentrate. Concerns have been raised that a player faces a challenge alone, than in team sports in which several teams compete to attribute to morale and strategy, he said.
"If you can concentrate for the whole hour-and 45 minute match, which is almost impossible, you will be a better player," Kivisto said.
Although the 'Hawks are prepared for the trip, Kivisto said, he expects to find several things during the matches that his players will need to work on. They won't have it time to correct the problems after they return from the trip, though.
Concentration is especially important at the college level, Kivisto said.
“It’s kind of a good thing we don’t have a lot of matches when we come back, because we’ll have a lot of things to work on when we do.” Kivisto said.
Stan Whitaker didn't have to run in the State Federation indoor meet in Manhattan
Whitaker set for NCAA
But now the senior captain of the men's track team is glad he did.
Whitaker led from start to finish in the 440-yard dash. His 47.9 clocking in an Ahearn Field House record and qualified for a second championships this Friday and Saturday in Detroit.
Whitaker, who had already qualified as a member of KU's mile relay team, was the second-place finisher in all national qualifiers. KU, however, did have several athletes finish well in individual competitions.
Tim Tay breezed to first place in the two-mile run, defeating second-place Pat Blackburn of Kansas State by almost 10 seconds. He was clocked in 9:01. 10
Hurlers might play
ir the field is dry, the KU baseball team will open the 1979 season at 1:30 after afternoon with a double-header against the Seattle Mariners at Quirk Field, south of Allen Field House.
Terry Sutcliffe and Dan St. Clair will start for the Jaybawks.
doy, if we can get in four games, it]'be great," Temple said.
Coach Floyd Temple also announced yesterday that Fort Hays State has been named the state's next governor.
FORT MEYERS, Fla. (UPI)-George Brett returned to the Kansas City Royals training camp yesterday and said he exchanged an agreement with April 5, despite a three-week layoff to recuperate from surgery on his right thumb. Brett underwent surgery in Kansas City
Brett back to camp
"It's numb now," he said, "but the doctor says everything is OK. There were no people."
bred underwent surgery in Kansas city last Friday to remove calcium deposits.
TERRY BRADSHAW, Tim Jones and Bob Lozito record second place finishes for KU. BradsHAW earned his with a 47-11% loss and D洛亭 a 6.28% yard-dash and D洛亭 a 6.28% yard-dash.
Brent Swanson was the only third-placed finer, with a 4.09-7 performance in the masters.
KU's two-mile relay team also captured first. But the squad of Tjm Jantsch, Kendall Smith, Swanson and Tays ran unopposed. The NCAA completed 80 seconds off the NCAA qualifying standard.
KU's other NCAA qualifiers are Jeff Buckingham (pole vault), Anthony Coleman (shot put), Kyle Ramsey (long relay), Lester Mickens (440, 600 and mile relay), Kevin Newell (440 and mile relay)
All of the qualifiers except Whitaker skipped the State Federation Indoor.
Kansas drops; now 17 in poll
Top 30 women's college basketball team as competed by Mel Greenberg of the Philadelphia Inquirer on the votes of 40 women coaches. First place wins parents, and season records through Feb. 25.
Women can bring basketball recognition to Midwest
Old Dominion (21) ... 28-1
Bergamot P. Austin (7) ... 28-1
Louisiana Tech (11) ... 27-3
Denver State (14) ... 26-4
Maryland ... 25-4
Nebraska ... 25-4
Tennessee ... 25-4
North Carolina State ... 25-1
Penn State ... 25-1
Wyoming Baptist ... 24-4
Alabama State ... 24-3
New York ... 24-3
New Las Vegas ... 19-4
South Carolina ... 24-4
Louisiana State ... 24-6
Kansas ... 24-6
Missouri State ... 24-1
Montana State ... 19-4
Oregon ... 24-4
Name on at least 10 ballots ...
Other teams named on at least 10 ballads alphabetic; Delta St., Drake, Mississippi, Northwestern.
The KU women's basketball team gets a phantasy at the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national title when it takes the NCAA championship in the Region IV Impairment in Mineapolis.
Kansas has been seeded fourth in the Tournament, in which the top two finishers advance to sectional playoffs. The winners of four sectionals nationwide will make up the final field of four teams for the tournament, announced March 23 and 25 in Greensboro, N.C.
The chance that Kansas, the only nationally ranked team in this region, will be selected is $1\%$.
AND IF KU can make it, to at least the sectional level, the Midwest might get the recognition it deserves in collegiate women's basketball.
The lack of recognition of teams west of
the Mississippi is easily seen in the poll of the top 20 teams compiled weekly by Mol
The Jayhawks, who are a preseason pick by Street and Smith publications to finish eighth in the country, weren't mentioned in the initial preseason Greenberg
In fact, KU 26-7, didn't show up in the poll to stay until midseason. Few other Midwestern teams lasted long in the poll. Most of the Northwest have made brief appearances.
THE OLDER, established teams, such as Old Dionion, which has topped the poll since 2015. They have dominated in the East and the South and have dominated the poll and the national touring status.
Before the Bruins and their All-American
Ann Meyers broke through, Immaculata College in Pennsylvania had won the title three times and been runner-up twice. Delta State of Cleveland, Miss., which won the three tournaments prior to UCLA's victory, also has been a national power.
But even without Delta State, which had a poor record this season, the poll, which is determined by the votes of 40 women's teams from the South and five teams from the North.
the east Coast. Kansas is the only Mid-
western team in the top 20.
Kansas finished second in the Queens College Holiday Classic in New York during the Christmas break with victories over Fordham and Queens College, which has
KANSAS, RANKED 17th nationally,
deserves to be on the碗. The Jayhawks,
trapped in a medico but growing Midwest,
faced by a handful of opponents from this region.
When funds allowed KU to travel to the EAST to play teams there, which usually have more money and are less willing to pay their fees, they are better placed to play. The Jayhawks held their own.
KU took third in the Detroit Coca-Cola Classic by beating Detroit. Old Dominion won the tournament and beat Kansas 73-59 in KU's second game of the season.
been a national tournament runner-up. KU's only loss was to Cheyney State, of Pennsylvania, undefeated in 24 games this season and ranked fifth.
AFTER THE Cheyne loss, KU posted 11 straight victories before a loss to unranked Alabama.
Most of these were lopsided victories over young teams in this area. The games were highly typical in this part of the country where the sport is still growing. Admittedly, some of them have not been successful.
Such victories leave Kansas open to the same critics who knock undefended Indiana State. They say the Jayhawks have made mistakes without facing high quality competition.
BUT KU NOW has a chance to prove its most successful season ever is not a fluke.
The choice of KU as one of two at-large teams for the regional, even after it lost to K-State, showed that the AIAW takes Kansas seriously.
Also, Kansas has been invited to play in the National Women's Invitation Tournament, an honor usually reserved until after regionals are over.
But the Jayhawks, led by All-American Lynette Woodard and All-American candidate Adrian Mitchell, could make the Greensboro foursome.
However, even if Kansas just clears the regional hurdle and is beaten in the season, the Eastern season could open the eyes of the established powers to a growing basketball community in the Midwest that could some day enter the Eastern and Southern domination of the sport.