Thursday, Mar. 27, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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1985-86 Jayhawks keep up tradition
By Jim Suhr
Sports writer
Larry Brown and the 1985-86 version of the Final Four-bound Kansas Jayhawks are the latest additions to a basketball program rich in tradition.
Brown, who replaced Ted Owens in 1983, becoming the Jayhawks' sixth head coach in the program's 88-year history, has taken the Jayhawks from 22-10 and 26-6 finsches in his first two seasons to 35-3 this season. Kansas, under Brown, has earned three consecutive berths in the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament.
This will be Kansas' seventh appearance in the Final Four and its first since 1974, putting this season's Kansas team among the elite of those in the past.
With their success this season, Brown and the Jayhawks have revived the fervor and excitement of Kansas' top scorer. Jayhawks fans have come to expect:
- Kansas '1,331 wins in 88 seasons makes it the fourth winningest team in college basketball history. Only Kentucky, North Carolina and St. John's have more victories.
The Jayhawks rank fourth in NCAA tournament appearances with 16. Kansas has posted a 28-16 record in those appearances.
■ Kansas has won or shared 38 conference titles, twice as many as any other Big Eight program.
There are 11 former Jayhawks in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is in Springfield, Mass.
■ Kansas is the alma mater of All-Americans Wilt Chamberlain, Clyde Lovellette, Jo Joe White and Darnell Valentine and of coaches James Naismith, Dean Smith, Ralph Miller, Adolph Rupp and F.C. "Phog" Allen, Rupp, who won 874 games as coach of Kentucky, the winningest coach in college basketball history. Phog Allen won 590 games in 39 years as the Jayhawks' coach.
Kansas won its only national championship in 1952, was second in 1940, 1953 and 1957 and was fourth in 1971 and 1974.
Kansas' basketball heritage began with Naismith, who invented the game in 1891. As the first Jayhawk coach, in 1898, Naismith won seven of 11 games, but he is the only Kansas coach to have a losing career record.
He had a 55-60 record during his nine-
year tenure.
Allen, who succeeded Naismith, coached from 1907 to 1909 and from 1919 to 1956. In the decade from 1909 to 1919, W.O. Hamilton led Kansas to seven winning seasons. Allen's long coaching career at KU saw only two games in the entire career; he won 770 games, second all time behind Rupp.
In 1952, Allen coached Kansas to a 28-3 record, the Big Seven conference title and its only NCAA championship.
The Jayhawks defeated Texas Christian and St. Louis in the Western Regional before eliminating Santa Clara in the NCAA semifinals, Kansas, led by All-America center and tournament most valuable Clyde Lovellette, won the national title with an 80-63 win over John's.
Lovelletta, who lead Kansas to a 58-22 record in his three seasons, finished as the Jayhawks' all-time leading scorer with 1.880 points.
Dick Harp, a starter for Allen on the 1940 NCAA runner-up team, became head coach when Allen retired in 1956. Harp inherited from Allen a 7-foot-1 center named Wilt Chamberlain. In 1956-57, Chamberlain led Kansas to a 24-3 record before losing 54-33 in triple overtime to North Carolina in the NCAA tournament final.
Chamberlain, whose 52 points and 36 rebounds still stand as Kansas single-game records, ranks seventh on the all-time scoring list and second on the rebounding list despite playing only two seasons. He went on to star for the Philadelphia and San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association.
Harp had a 121-82 record in eight seasons. He was succeeded by Ted Owens in 1964.
From 1966 to 1969, Owens coached guard Jo Joo White, a two-time All-American and three-time All-Big Eight selection in three seasons with the Jayhawks. White led the Jayhawks to two NCAA tournament appearances and ranked eighth on the all-time scoring list.
Owens also coached Darnell Valentine, an Olympian and All-American. Valentine finished his four-year career with the Jayhawks as the school's second all-time scorer with 1,821 points.
Four starters to return next year
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Although the Kansas women's basketball team was eliminated by Kansas State in the first round of the Big Eight Tournament on March 4, preparations already are being made for next season.
Sports writer
The team ended its season with an 18-9 overall record. It posted a 9-5 conference record, which was good enough for a second-place tie with Colorado.
Jayhawk forward Vickie Adkins, an All-America candidate and Kansas' only graduating senior, finished her career third on the Jayhawks' all-time scoring list with 1,786 points. She averaged 18.6 points a game. She also finished third on the all-time school rebounding list with an average of 8.6 rebounds a game.
"They don't like to lose," Marian Washington, women's head basket ball coach, said of her players recently. "It was painful and disappointing not only for Vickie Adkins but also for the team."
The Jayhawk team was unique this year, Washington said, because there was a feeling that the women respected each other as individuals as well as players.
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"This team is special, unique," Washington said. "They do care about one another. Since they have been together as freshmen, they will want to maintain that healthy atmosphere. But we're competitive."
Eleven of the 12 players from this year's squad will return for next season.
The only player the Jayhawks will lose is All-Big Eight senior forward Vickie Adkins.
Adkins led the Jayhawks in both scoring and rebounding. Although injuries forced Adkins to miss about 70 games early in her career, she finished as Kansas' third all-time scoreer with 1,786 points.
She also is Kansas' third all-time rebounder. She ended her career as the Big Eight's 10th best rebounder with 852, an average of 8.6 game.
Washington said that next year's
tour would be a lot more
experiential.
"A lot of things will change." Washington said. "We have an older club. You will find them to be more consistent.
"You're bringing along a young club, so you are hopeful the seniors will be tough."
"You can't run if you don't get the ball," she said. "We are always working on rebounding."
Lack of rebound skills hurt the team this year. Washington said.
Even though the team loses Adkins, other players contributed to the team's success.
Washington is hopeful that sophomore center Kelly Jennings will dominate the boards next season. She averaged eight rebounds
a game this season.
the All-Big Eight team.
Kansas junior point guard Evette Ott handed in 125 assists this season to become Kansa's fourth all-time leader in that category. She has 182 career assists. This year, Ott was selected as an honorable mention on
Sophomore forward Jackie Martin is a strong inside player. This year she grabbed 8.1 rebounds a game and scored 6.4 points a game.
Lisa Dougherty, sophomore guard,
became a starter midway through
the season and ended the year as the Jayhawks' third leading scorer. She averaged 9.9 points a game. Dougherty also is second in assists, behind Ott, with 65. In addition, she led the team in steals with 44.
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Riding high
Kansas center Greg Dreiling gives head coach Larry Brown a boost after KU's win in the Midwest Regional final. Reserve forward Chris Piper joined in the celebration Sunday.
Reserves have part in team
Time on bench doesn't dampen backups' hopes
By John Buzbee Special to the Kansar
"Scooter" Barry, with no points and no rebounds, was not the key to the Jayhawks' victory Sunday in the final of the NCAA Midwest Regional tournament.
Rodney Hull played only one minute in the game, in which Kansas edged past North Carolina State 75-67.
Jeff Johnson never got to the beach. He watched the game in street cloth.
Milton Newton didn't play at all during the Jayhawks' most victorious season.
None of them has been featured in Sports Illustrated. None of them is happy about not playing. But they all feel like a part of the first Jayhawk team to reach the Final Four since 1974.
"I like to think I'm a motivator," Johnson said. "I don't think anyone's losing sleep over the fact that I'm not suiting up."
Barry played about five minutes in
Kansas' first two tournament games against North Carolina A&T and Temple, but he has not played since.
"When the situation's tight, I reel helpless sitting on the bench," Barry said. "You don't want to be nervous. You want to be anxious to go in there and do something."
Hull said, "I've been disappointed that I haven't been playing, but I'm learning to handle it better."
Johnson wasn't able to suit up because of a National Collegiate Athletic Association rule that limits the number of players dressed for a game to 11.
"Being on the bottom of the toot pole," he said jokingly, "I got the shaft."
Newton, who played occasionally during his freshman season last year, was redshirted this year. He is perhaps the most anxious of all to play.
"When we decided I would sit out," Newton said, "the first thing I said was, 'If those guys make it to the Final Four, I'll be really mad.'"
"I wanted to play all along, but now that they've made it to the Final Four, it makes it beatable."
Newton hopes to start next season because seniors Ron Kellogg, Greg Dreiling and Calvin Thompson will be gone.
"Coach Brown will tell me it's up to me whether I start, and I plan to start," he said. "I plan to work my butt off."
"I just hope we can put it together and repeat. With Coach Brown, I think we can."
Newton was known for his stunt dunks during his freshman year. He said he envied his teammates for the opportunities they had to dunk this year.
"Next year," he said, "when I get those opportunities, I'm going to do a 360 or something.
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"That comes natural to me. It's a God-given ability that I can jump so high and I'm so wry."
Hull also plans to start next year, and Barry hopes to be starting by his junior year. But Johnson said he would be leaving the team.
"I'm going to move into the Phi Delthe house, play frat ball and enjoy the other side of life," Johnson said. "It is a lot once the season rolls around."
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