Thursday, April 3, 1986
Sports
University Daily Kansan
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NCAA agrees on 3-point field goal, television replay
United Press International
DALLAST — The National College Athletic Association announced yesterday the adoption of a three-point field goal from a team of 19 feet, 9 inches for the 1986-87 men's basketball season
"The rules committee believes that the adoption of the three-point field goal will do much to open up the game," said Edward Steitz, secretary-editor of the rules commission. "The three-point play defense away from the basket and assist in the problem of rough, low-post play."
The committee decided on a shorter 19-9 or top-of-the-key distance for its three-point shot. The National Basketball Association awards three points for a shot made from beyond 25 feet.
Steitz said the new rule would bring shorter players back into college basketball.
The committee also approved new rules designed to prevent timing controversies such as the one that followed an NCAA Midwest Regional semifinal game March 21 at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo., in which Kansas beat Michigan State 96-86 in overtime.
Archie Marshall of Kansas sent the game into overtime by scoring on an offensive rebound with 10 seconds left in regulation—but the computer scoring system used by the statistics crew confirmed that Marshall's basket would have
About 12 seconds later, a Kansas player scored, but the overhead game clock showed only a one-second lapse from Carr's free throw. The official scorers did not notice the stopped clock and the game progressed despite the error.
Under the new rule, NCAA officials will be allowed to use television replays to correct malfunctions made by timers and scorers.
scored after the buzzer and Michigan State would have claimed an 80-78 victory.
With 2:21 remaining in regulation play, Vernon Carr of Michigan State sank a free throw to increase the Spartans' lead to 76-72, but the game clock did not resume when the ball returned to play.
Coaches also will be allowed to leave the coaching box without being charged with a technical if they fail to stop timing, scoring or possession error.
"Under the new rules,
(Michigan state coach) Jud
Heathecote could have gone to
the timers' table without drawing a
technical foul." Stetz said.
He said the two rule changes should allow officials to correct any future clock errors.
Steitz said the three-point field goal had been popular with the coaches, players and fans in several conferences experimenting with the long shot.
Surgery repairs torn knee ligament
Injury may sideline Marshall for 1 year
By Matt Tidwell
Kansas forward Archie Marshall is expected to miss the entire 1868-87 season as a result of a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament detected yesterday in knee surgery at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the Kansas sports information office announced.
Sports writer
Marshall, a junior and the No. 1 player off the Jayhawk bench, scored in double figures three times in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament. He suffered his injury in a game and sent him to semifinal Saturday against Duke.
to the floor in Dallas' Reunion Arena with 8:10 left in the second half of the 71-67 season-ending loss. Before he went out, Marshall had scored 13 points in 16 minutes of that game.
Marshall's loss could be a big blow to the Big Eight champion Jayhawks. Marshall was playing his best basketball of the year before he fell
Archie Marshall
Marshall, a 6-foot-6 junior college transfer, whose hometown is Tulsa, probably will be redshirted next season, leaving him one year of
Marshall entered surgery yesterday morning at 11 a.m. and didn't come out until three hours later.
Ken Wertzberger, physician, used an arthroscope to discover what was a "complete tear" of the ligament. At first, he thought it had been performed to repair the injury.
eligibility
"It was what we thought it was in the pre-operative (examination) — a rupture of the anterior cruciale." Wertzberger said. "Initially, we found the damage with the scope but then we had to open the knee."
The crucible ligaments are the bands of connecting tissue that join the top and bottom bones of the knee joint, essentially holding the knee
Wertzberger estimated that Marshall would remain in the hospital for five days and said his rehabilitation would take one year to complete.
Marshall would have been in hot
Wertzberger said the chances that Marshall could come back any earlier than one year were very slim.
competition for one of the Jayhawks
starting forward soots next year.
Wertzberger said. "I just don't think you can try and push him back in there right away."
Larry Brown, KU's coach, was preparing to leave town yesterday.
Marshall played a key role on this season's team, coming off the bench to relieve starters Ron Kellogg and Danny Manning. Marshall had an exceptional NCAA Tournament, coming in to sprint for the goallowing 10 yards and grabbed 10 rebounds in a first round victory against North Carolina A&T.
In the Midwest Regional semifinal against Michigan State, Marshall scored 16 points while getting 13 rebounds. He ended the year averaging 6.8 points and 3.9 rebounds a game.
Colorado, Navy choose new coaches
United Press International
BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado yesterday hired Tom Miller, Cornell University basketball coach and a protege of Bobby Knight, to lead the Ruffaloes.
Miller, 37, signed a five-year contract with Colorado, which set a record this year for games lost during a single season.
Wyoming head coach Jim Brandenburg removed his name from consideration Tuesday.
"We talked to 10 people," said Colorado athletic director Bill Marolt. "He had pretty much narrowed it to one person I like. He's an outstanding guy and the best man chosen from an outstanding field."
Miller succeeds Tom Apkle, who was fired after his team lost a school record 17 consecutive games en route to an 8-20 season.
"We're going to run things my way." Miller said. "We're going to play belly-to-belly, man-to-man defense. I spent six years at Cornell, five in Indiana and four at West Point
Miller took Cornell from the bottom of the Ivy League to among its top contenders since being coach in 1980. In the 1980-81 season, the Big Red were 7-19. This year Cornell was 14-12 and tied with Penn for second place behind league champion Brown.
The Buffaloes finished 0-14 in the Big Eight, the worst mark in conference.
to prepare me for this type of job."
Miller said he was "not a miracle worker, but the harder you work, the huckier you get."
Miller played forward for Bobby Knight at Army in the late 1960s. He began his coaching career in 1975 in Indiana where he joined his college coach as an assistant.
"I'm not a very easy person to work for or play for," Miller said. "I think that's good. I think Bobby Knight, when I played for him and worked for him, was not an easy guy to play or work for."
In Annapolis, Md., Peter Herrmann, chief assistant to Paul Evans for the past six years, was named to succeed Evans as head basketball coach at the Naval Academy, officials said yesterday.
Herrmann, 37, came to the Academy with Evans in 1980 and has played a part in Navy's success in re-recruitment. He is recruiting and with defensive play
Evans was named head coach at the University of Pittsburgh last week.
"We believe that Pete Herrmann can sustain the excellent program coach Paul Evans structured during his six years at Navy," said Capt. J.O. Coppedge, director of Academy athletics.
"He has shown he is a diligent worker and someone who has a great deal of loyalty to the Naval Academy, and we in turn have loyalty to him," Coppedge said.
Two women Jayhawks prepare for Texas Relays
Diane Dultmeler/KANSAN
Mary Burger/KANSAN
Kansas high jumper Ann O'Connor practiced at Anschutz Sports Pavilion yesterday for the Texas Relays. She won the high jump last year.
Kansas shot-putter and discuss thrower Denise Buchanan has qualified already for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships in the shot-put.
O'Connor seeks NCAA championship bid
By Dawn O'Malley
Sports writer
About 400 track and field athletes representing 45 schools and clubs will compete this weekend in the 59th Texas Relays in Austin.
Kansas junior Denise Buchanan and sophomore Ann O'Connor will represent the Kansas women's track team at the relays.
O'Connor is the defending Texas Relays high-jump champion. Last year, as a freshman, she won with a jump of 5-feet-11%.
Buchanan will compete in both the shot-put and the discus. O'Connor was a leader of the women's division.
She said she was surprised to have won the high jump because she thought she had finished third. O'Connor first discovered she had when she looked at the place sheet and saw her name in the No. 1 slot.
"There's no added pressure," O'Connor said yesterday. "It is a lot easier a second time. I'm used to it. I don't need it so quickly that I want to see it again."
Some of the best women high jumpers in the country will be at the relays, hoping to unseat O'Connor.
"The competition is tough. There is a high standard so there is not a lot of poor jumps. The best come out on top."
"It makes you feel good to be considered to compete," O'Connor said. "It is a great meet to go to for the competition and the facility."
O'Connor said her goal was to jump 6 feet and then to jump even higher. If O'Connor jumps 6 feet, she would qualify for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships in June in Indianapolis.
But to perform well at the relays, O'Connor said, she will have to maintain consistency. Lately, she said, she has had a tendency to lose her concentration when the bar is moved to a higher mark.
Buchanan, who qualified for the NCAAs in the shot-past last weekend with a put of 51.9, is aiming to qualify for nationals in the discus also.
Buchanan said she would use her experience to maintain her
composure.
Last year, she finished fifth in the tot-put and ninth in the discus. Since en, she has improved her distance the shot-put about 3 feet and is rowing the discus about 10 feet rther.
"I would like to place in the top four or five," Buchanan said. "Legitimately, I could finish second or third if I throw as well as I can."
She said she thought she could put the shot 52 feet or better.
"It is not a life-or-death situation to win or place," Buchanan said. "That pressure is asking for trouble. My technique feels good. If I don't get uptight and if it is nice, I should do all right."
Defending national shot-put champion Regina Cavanaugh of Rice also will compete at the relays. She has put the shot 57-11 this year.
Buchanan said, "You see some of the defending national champions and you're scared. They are top athletes and you are in awe of them. You can get caught up in it if you don't concentrate."
KC wins, Cards lose
The Associated Press
SARASOTA, Fla. — Frank White's two-run-homer off Chicago White Sox starter Tom Seaver broke a 2-2 tie yesterday and led the Kansas City Royals to a 5-3 exhibition baseball victory.
The Sox played with a split squad.
Bret Sahberhagen started for the Royals and held the Sox to two runs in 42% innings. Dan Quinney earned his first save of the spring by finishing with two scoreless innings.
Trade talks continued to swirl around Seaver, who is scheduled to be the White Sox starting pitcher in the opener Monday against Milwaukee in Chicago.
"All I can do is have patience and see what develops," said Seaver, a 41-year-old right-hander who wants to be traded to a team in the East so he can be closer to his Connecticut home.
Ken Harrelson, White Sox chief of baseball operations, said he intended to talk with George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, last night regarding the possibility of trading Seaver to the Yankees.
"I can't force anyone's hand," said Seaver. "In essence I'm a third party in this matter."
In Bradenton, Flia., Sixto Lezcano slapped two hits and drove in four runs to help the Pittsburgh Steelers score 15 in duals 10-7 in exhibition baseball.
Lezcano hit one of two Pirates' homers at Pittsburgh ran up 19 hits against Cardinals' pitchers Rick Horton, Paul Cherry and Ray Soff.
The Pirates rallied from a 7-6 deficit with four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Junior Ortiz led off with a walk, reached second on a balk and third on a sacrifice. R.J. Reynolds drove Ortiz home with a double.
Pinch hitter Lee Mazzilli then followed with a two-run homer to give the Pirates a 7-1 lead. One out pitcher singled and singled Alton tripled.
The Cardinals had broken a 5-1 tie in the seventh inning against Pirates left-hander Chris Green.
Brett gets ready to start 1986 season as World Champ
United Press International
"This lads' looking dangerous today," said Hal M McAe, the Royals' 39-year-old designated hitter, of the 32-year-old third baseman in the batting cage. Cameras clicked, conversation stopped and players around home plate watched in admiration as George Brett took center stage. After 12 major-league seasons, two batting titles and 10 consecutive Star-Star berths, George Howard Brett finally
FT. MYERS, Fla. — The familiar No. 5 in the familiar powder-blue Royals' uniform was rapping out familiar line drives yesterday under a cloudless Florida sky.
found himself in spring training with baseball's world champions.
"I simply relaxed," said Brett about his off-season. "There were plenty of offers for banquets, but I didn't need the money so I only went to the ones I felt were necessary."
No, Brett doesn't need the money. He's in the final year of a lucrative five-year contract, with an extension through 1991 and options through 1993. With his chiselled features and articulate manner, he can name his endorsement, but Brett would rather leave his signature on the game.
"George may be the best player "
"Scherpberg, Kansas City, necessary."
vice president and general manager. "He loves the game of baseball so much and his established such a work ethic for this club. He is a terrific representative of the game of baseball itself, but not in an overt way — in a personal, subtle and committed way."
Brett's special gift for rising to the occasion was evident in 1985. In the four-game series against California on Sept. 30-Oct. 3 in which the Royals won three times to take the lead in the American League West, Brett batted .462 with four runs scored, two homers and seven RBI. He hit .348 with three homers and five walks in the American League Championship
Series against Toronto and had a phenomenal .452 on-base percentage in the World Series.
"His bat is beyond criticism," said Dick Hower, Kansas City manager, "but people should remember George also won a Gold Glove — and he deserved it. His leadership is but not a showoff. I don't like big talkers."
"The best leaders are the guys who show how things: should be done by their own example. Having George here makes my job so much easier. Let's face it, when your best player is a pain in the butt — and you'd be surprised how often that happens — you've got problems."
Kansas City is a good town for steak and chops, not national publicity, but Brett hasn't suffered. Despite playing in the heart of the Midwest, he's in no danger of qualifying for the American Express "Do You Know Me?" commercial.
"This team has been competitive for a long time," said Brett. "And when you've been on the Saturday Game of the Week consistently, played in a bunch of playoff games and two World Series, the next thing you know your name's on the All-Star ballot and people are calling.
"That's the biggest reason people know me. There's been a lot of great players that didn't get to play on winning teams. Yes, I feel for them, but I wouldn't trade places with them.
"I wake up some mornings and say to myself, 'Hey, I can’t believe things have gone so well.' I'm sure a guy like Andre Thronion wakes up some morning. I'm better than all of these other guys who get all this press."
Those skeptics waiting to see a Royal collapse in 1986 will need ample patience. Brett warned.
"This has been a very easy organization to play for and for that, I'm grateful." Brett said. "You don't get called in on the carpet or get criticized by the owner or general manager in public."