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Jayhawks, Duke set for rematch in Final Four semifinal
Kansas needs to shut down Duke offense
By Matt Tidwell
DALLAS — Kansas head coach Larry Brown and North Carolina head coach Dean Smith talked during the Javahows' closed practice at Southern Methodist
yesterday. Kansas was the first of the Final Four teams to arrive in Dallas
Sports writer
Larry Brown didn't mince words when he predicted how his team would have to play in order to beat two-point favorite Duke in the semifinal game of the Final Four.
Duke (36-2)
"We're going to have to play our best basketball game of the year," the Kansas head coach said before leaving for Dallas. "We can't let
Men's Basketball
Final Four semifinal
5:00 p.m. tomorrow
at Dallas
them have second shots, and we have to cut their scoring opportunities. Those are the keys for us."
In composing his Duke game plan, Brown must feel like other coaches who have had to look for a place to attack the Blue Devils.
When he talked of the Blue Devils, 96-2 for the season and 92-86 winners over Kansas on Dec. 1, Brown's offensive abilities became evident.
Perhaps it's the fact that Duke maintained a lead over Kansas for an entire half that causes Jayhawk fans the most worry going into tomorrow's do-or-die game in Reunion Arena.
The Blue Devils stock enough weapons to make any opponent feel helpless. Like Kansas, Duke uses a setup of solid inside and outside play.
On the front line, the Blue Devils look to forwards David Henderson and Mark Alarie. Henderson has 14.2 points and 4.8 rebounds a game. He scored 30 points in the win over Kansas. Alarie averages 17.4 points and 62 rebounds a game.
In the back court, they look to All-
America guard Johnny Dawkins and
Tommy Anaker. Dawkins averages
20.0 points and 5.6 rebounds a game.
Amaker, who has 228 assists,
averages 6.2 and 2.0.
Duke head coach Mike Krzyezowski explained how other teams got frustrated by Duke's ability to score inside or out.
"I think one of the reasons David (Henderson) has improved so much is because we have an inside-outside attack." Krzeyzewski said. "Teams have to pay attention to Dawkins and Alarie and that opens things up for David. We have a good complementary team."
Duke has struggled with its team field goal shooting in the tournament, cooling off to 51.7 percent. Henderson also has fallen below his offensive battles against the tournament, scoring just eight points against both Navy and Old Dominion.
Even with those problems, Duke keeps winning.
"I don't think he (Henderson) is pressing," Krzysztew said. "People are just looking to stop David more and I think that opened things up for Dawkins, who's had a great tournament.
"We as a team have not shot well in this tournament, although we've played very good defense and rebounded well."
Kansas hasn't been flawless in the tournament either. The Jayhawks struggled for one half against Temple and nearly lost in regulation to Michigan State.
But it was a second-half charge led by Danny Manning and Greg Dreling in Sunday's 75-67 win over North Carolina. The team got back on track and into the Final Four.
In that game, Kansas shot its best in the tournament as a team at 57.7 percent.
Both coaches said they already had given some thought to how the squads would match up defensively.
"We haven't made any final decisions, but I know Armaker will be on Hunter," Krzypezwski said. "Alarie and Bilas will be on Drelling and Manning. But they have a lot of quickness on offense and that forces you to switch off on defense."
"We'll be pretty much like we were last time," Brown said. "We'll have Calvin (Thompson) on Anaker. A lot depends on Ronnie (Kellogg) ankle. Up front we haven't decided yet."
Krzyzewski said he thought much of the pressure had been lifted and that both teams would settle down and play their best basketball in the Final Four.
event," Kryzewski said. "Making the Final Four involves much more pressure. I think once you there, the teams play loose and play their best basketball."
Probable Starters
Kansas
"I don't think it is a pressure
F 25 Danny Manning (6-11)
F 44 Ron Kellogg (6-9)
C 30 Greg Drelling (7-1)
G 35 Calvin Thompson (6-6)
G 22 Cadcure Hunter (6-8)
Duke
DURE
F 32 Mark Alanie (6-8)
F 12 Dave Henderson (6-5)
C 21 Jay Blasn (6-5)
G 4 Tommy Amaker (6-0)
G 4 Johnny Dawkins (6-2)
KU's Kellogg ready to play despite foot
The Associated Press
Kellogg, despite a painfully sprained arch on his left foot, is hoping to add to his weekend showcase performances this Saturday against Duke in the semifinals of the National College Athletic Association basketball tournament at Reunion Arena in Dallas.
DALLAS — Kansas' Ron Kellogg is known as "Mr. Saturday" to fans and teammates because all six of his 30-point scoring performances have been on that day of the week.
"If he can't start, he'll pick the starting lineup," Kansas head coach Larry Brown said yesterday. "I think he knows that Archie (Marshall) is the one who goes in for him."
Marshall, a junior guard-forward from Tulsa, Okaa, has averaged 8.5 points a game in the playoffs, including a 16-point performance against Michigan State in the NCAA Midwest Region semifinals.
Brown said a decision hadn't been made on which player will start.
Kellogg, who is second in scoring at 15.8 points per game and in assists at 3.2 per game, suffered the foot injury. March 8 against Oklahoma in the semifinals of the Big Eight Conference Tournament.
Brown said Kellogg worked out lightly yesterday with the Jayhawks at Moody Coliseum on the Southern Methodist campus.
Kellogg has continued to play despite the injury. He returned to score 12 points in the Big Eight championship victory over Iowa State.
After a victory over Temple in the second round of the NCAA playoffs, swelling caused concern that the defense would Neb., would not be able to continue.
Players work to find time for studies
In the Midwest Regionals
Kellogg's foot held up for victories
over Michigan State and North
Carolina State as Kansas advanced
to the Final Four.
By Sally Streff
Special to the Kansan
Chris Piper tried to hit the books last weekend, but it wasn't easy for him.
"I tried to study Saturday between games," the Kansas forward said. "It lasted about five minutes."
Arcie Marshall, another forward, said Monday that he too was struggling to keep up with classes.
"I'm behind. I had very little studying this weekend. I couldn't study last Thursday night because I was last night doing a game, wanting to do well," he said.
Piper's and Marshall's problems reflect what happens to student athletes competing in a national championship. The Kansas basketball players must juggle the same academic requirements all students face along with trips, missed classes, excited fans and pressure.
Players and academic support staff for the athletic department say the struggle became more difficult as advanced in the NCAA tournament.
"We don't try to over-remind them of their studies to the point it takes concentration away from basketball," Richard Lee, assistant athletic director for academic support, said.
"This opportunity could come once in a lifetime for some of them," he
said, "But we constantly remind them they still have an obligation to their studies. They're very much the GPA and hours needed to pass."
Mark Freidinger, assistant basketball coach, said, "We've got to have them back next year. We try and stay on top of them all year."
Players usually have time to study during trips, but studying on the road or in a hotel room is difficult, several players said.
"It's really hard to open a book in a hotel room the night before an important game." Scooter Barry said. "Hotels are hard to study in. You usually have one to two hours between eating or practicing and a game. You sit around napping or watching TV.
Greg Dreiling, center, said, "The younger guys are having more problems. I'm used to traveling. It's
Jeff Johnson said, "The coaches tell us to stay in the room."
"At least when you're at home you can go to the library and shut yourself off."
hard right now to study, though. You can get yourself to class, but it's hard to study."
Dreiling wasn't the only player who said he was having difficulty concentrating on school because of the tournament games.
"There's a lot of distractions," Piper said. "Everybody just wants to congratulate you. It's not as bad at home as on the road. On the road you get all the fans, alumns and media. But we appreciate it when everyone shows support.
"Half the people in class were daydreaming about how they're getting to Dallas," he said, referring to Monday classes.
"School's just so far away right now. I hate to say class is not on my mind, but you want to work on the game because the goal you've been trying to achieve here. It's hard to centrate on school when you're in the Final Four."
But Dreiling said he thought the team's trip to the Final Four was distracting to more people than just basketball players.
Mark Turgeon, guard, said he went to teachers before the team took a trip to tell them he would miss class. Most of his teachers arrange times
Marshall said, "When we got to the tournament, it was a do-or-die situation. It took total concentration."
Marshall said, "I talk to my teachers ahead of time. While I'm here, I'm going to do the work. Nobody gives something for nothing anymore."
Lee said both the coaching staff and his staff told players they should talk to professors before missing class.
"Professors have indicated to me that kids have talked to them," he said.
Nevertheless, Lee's office asked the executive vice chancellor's office to remind the players' teachers that players would miss yesterday's, today's and possibly Tuesday's classes.
Piper, who missed a test yesterday and one today, said it would be rough if he had to make up both tests next week.
"Once it's over, I'm going to have to work hard. I'll have to hurry up and catch up before the semester's over. It will be a long few weeks," he said.
But he said the extra hassle was worth it.
"I'm estatic. Only four teams can have these distractions right now."
Kansas center Greg Drilling will try to get the upper hand on Duke in the second game of the NCAA Final Four semifinals 5 p.m. tomorrow at Dallas.
LSU's Brown never at a loss for words
United Press International
Brown, coach of the LSU Tigers,
brings his act to town this weekend
for the National Collegiate Athletic
Association Final Four. And one
one loves an audience as much as
the always cattie Tigers coach.
DALLAS — A dramatist will usually find a way to insert a little change of pace into a tense situation, which is where Dale Brown comes in.
Most of Brown's topics are all too familiar to those who follow college basketball. He likes to bring up his impoverished background. He likes to spar with the NCAA. He likes to be on the side of the underdog.
And as the LSU Tigers arrived yesterday at the site of the Final Four, Brown's team was quite clearly the underdog.
"Dale has done a tremendous job with his team," Georgetown coach John Thompson said yesterday. "He has them playing the way you have to play — loose and without fear."
LSU likes underdog role
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State Coach Dale Brown says he's willing to play the underdog right up to the national championship.
The Associated Press
Brown says he feels more confident this year, leading the only unranked team in the Final Four, than he did in 1881, when his Tigern had the best record in the country. LSU lost to Indiana in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament and said he expected better luck in the
"I relish the role," he said. "I'm more comfortable in that position. I guess I'm more familiar with the territory."
Brown said. "We've been the underdog through the tournament, and that is understandable. But there are some things that do not go in a poll. Those things are the emotional factor and a little bit
"There are some things that aren't figured in the polls or the latest line," he said. "Your image and reputation are only what other people think of you. Your character is what you are."
semifinals tomorrow against seventh-ranked Louisville.
It wasn't superior size or talent that allowed LSI to victories over Top 10 opponents Georgia Tech and Kentucky in the regional finish, he said, but a combination defense and high emotion.
Brown has talked a lot in recent days about the magic his team has and about its character and mental toughness.
of luck. You have to stay away from illness and injury, and you have to stay away from having dissension on the team.
"A guy asked me once when we were ranked second in the country
whether that put pressure on us. I said I hoped that every year they would say LSU was supposed to win. I thought that was what I meant.
"But now I think I relish this role more. I think I function better because I haven't had enough experience being on top. I have never had a chance to play under any legends or coach under any legends. I personally like the challenge we have faced this year and the kids have, too. People now ask would I prefer to be the underdog, and I guess that is the easiest role."
That recognition came when his teams were among the best in the country in 1960 and 1981. His 1981 team went to the Final Four before losing to Indiana in the semifinals.
Brown is in his 29th year of coaching. He spent the early portion of that time at high schools before becoming an assistant at Utah State.
He has been at LSU for 14 years, battling for recognition alongside the Tiger football team.
The Associated Press
Cardinal team similar to winning team of'80
DALLAS — The similarities between Louisville's team in this year's Final Four and his 1980 NCAA championship squad are too numerous for even head coach Denny Crum to ignore.
Both teams benefited from the emergence of a freshman center who
"I said all season long this team reminded me of the 1980 squad, and things just kept happening to add to that," said Crum, who is making his sixth Final Four appearance with a Louisville team in 15 seasons.
In 1980, it was Rodney McCray stepping in for his injured brother, Scooter. This year, it's 6-foot-10 Peris Ellison, who was born in New York and grew up in Savannah, Ga.
Again, as in 1980, there is senior
Ellison, the Metro Conference Freshman of the Year, is third on the team in scoring (12.8), second in rebounding (7.9) and leaded in blocked shots (89), blocking 15 more than Louisiana State's entire team.
leadership.
Then, it was All-American Darrell Griffith, now with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association. This year's "Mr. Clutch" has been guard Milt Wagner, back this season after missing last year because of a broken foot.
In both seasons, Louisville won the regional finals in Houston. In 1980, Louisville defeated Louisiana State 86-66. Tomorrow, Louisville will meet Louisiana State in the semifinals in Dallas.
This season, Louisville dispatched another Southeastern Conference team. Auburn. 84-76 at the Summit.
And in both seasons, Louisville finished strong after losing to a team from Arkansas.
In 1890, Louisville closed out the season with eight straight victories; after a 76-60 loss to Valvano's Iona team at Madison Square Garden. This season, Louisville has won 15 straight since North Carolina State downed the Cardinals 76-64 in Raleigh on Feb. 8.