Sports
Thursday, March 27. 1986
University Daily Kansan
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KU, Duke have improved since earlier meeting
Bv Matt Tidwell
It was inevitable
Ever since No. 1 Duke and No. 2 Kansas were matched up to play Saturday in the semifinals of the Final Four, comparisons between this game and their last meeting — a 92-86 Duke win in the finals of the Big Apple-NIT on Dec. 1 — have been frequent.
Sure enough, in yesterday's Final Four telephone news conference, the two head coaches, Larry Brown and Mike Kryzewski, were asked the familiar question again.
This time, the coaches had a common message for those who thought this game would look anything like the earlier one in the Big Apple-National Invitational Tournament.
"All that means is that they know they can beat us," Brown said, "but it won't have any bearing on us. We don't fortunate to get to play them again."
The statistics from the first game already have been turned inside-out
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by analysts searching for a clue to Saturday's outcome.
But the questions remain. Will Duke's David Henderson have 30 points? Will Blue Devil guards Johnny Dawkins and Tommy Amaker again combine for 29 points and 11 assists? Will Greg Dreling have the same trouble inside — he fouled out in only 16 minutes in the first game — against Duke's big men?
"It happened so long ago it has very little bearing," Kryzewski said. "I could understand if we had played them in February, but this was last December. His team is much better and so is ours."
Brown said after the first game that he thought Duke was a better team overall than the Jayhawks.
"I believed they were better than," Brown said, "but it's obvious that when you play 38 games, as we both have, that you're a much different
team than at the start of the year."
Krzyzewski said the one similarity might be in the two team's offensive output. A score in the 90s could happen again.
All four coaches in the Final Four agreed that the road to success hinged on doing the things that got their teams to Dallas in the first place.
"In Kansas, we're coming across a team that shoots as well as any we've seen," Krzypzewski said, "and if both of us shoot as well as we did the last time it could be another very high-scoring game."
Denny Crum, Louisville head coach, "All of these teams have been on television a lot. We've all seen each other play. At this stage, there's really not any secrets." Crum's team takes on Louisiana State in the other semifinal.
Jayhawk Notes — Kansas forward Kornelli has not practiced with the team since Sunday's win over North Carolina State and will not practice until tomorrow because of a nagging foot injury.
Buckeyes win NIT title game
Fenish Dembah scored 27 points to
Wyoming, 24-12. Les Bolden added
16
NEW YORK — Dennis Hopson scored 28 points and Brad Sellers added 17 last night to give Ohio State the National Invitation Tournament championship with a 73-63 victory over Wyoming in Eldon Miller's final game as Buckeye coach.
The Buckeyes led 35-28 at halftime, powered by Hopson on 15 points. Hopson, a 6-foot-5 junior guard from Toledo, Ohio, hit 12-of-17 shots from the floor, including nine straight in one stretch.
Miller, fired Feb. 3 effective at the end of the season, finished his Ohio State career with a 176-118 record. He will coach Northern Iowa next season. The Buckeyes career record in 24 seasons. The Buckeyes finished the season 19-14.
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Sellers, named the tournament's Most Valuable Player, shot just 7-for-16 from the field, but grabbed a team-high 12 rebounds.
With Wyoming trailing 27-38, Debo scored the Cowboys first 5 points
Wyoming effectively kept the ball from Sellers, but Hopson compensated with torrid outside shooting, hitting 7-of-10 field goal attempts. Dembo had 10 points in the half.
of the second half to cut the deficit to 4. The Buckeyes then ran on a 13-4 streak to go up by 11, and later added a 10-4 run to take their largest lead, 16 points, which they duplicated three times in the final 4-43.
In the consolation game earlier last night, Willie Bland scored 23 points and Louisiana Tech held Florida to 2 points in the final 4:59 to earn a 67-62 victory. The Bulldogs finished the
Ohio State, making a school record fifth straight appearance in postseason play, defeated Ohio University, Texas, Brigham Young University. Tech to reach the final. It was the Buckeyes' third NIT appearance
In 1979, OSU advanced to the semifinals, and in 1984 it was eliminated in the first round.
In the first half, the Cowboys led 20-19 with 9:20 left, but OSU ran off a 14-4 spurt to lead by seven. Wyoming rushed for an 8-4 run to cut the deficit to 29-26.
season 20-14, and the Gators 19-14.
In the consolation game, Willie Bland scored 23 points and Louisiana Tech limited Florida to 2 points in the final 4:59 last night, leading the Bulldogs to a 67-62 victory.
Vernon Maxwell scored 18 points for Florida, 19-14, while Chris Capers added 13 and Andrew Moten made 12.
Maurice Jackson added 13 points, including 11 in the second half, and Robert Godbelt made 12 for the Bulldogs, with a record of 20-14.
Louisiana Tech led 35-33 at halftime, but trailed by six points three times in the second half. Florida opened the second period with a 6-2 run to tie the score 39-39.
The Gators ran off seven straight points to take a 48-42 lead. With 4:59 left, Capers hit two free throws to give Florida a 60-57 lead, but the Gators only other points came on Capers' jumper with 18 seconds left.
Godbelt put Louisiana State ahead for good with 4:04 remaining on a follow-up of Bland's blocked shot, and the Bulldogs led by as many as five down the stretch.
Danny Manning and the rest of the Kansas Jayhawks left for Dallas yesterday to prepare for their first game of the NCAA Final Four against Duke.
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Fools Festival attracts Frisbee fanatics
By Dawn O'Malley
Sports writer
The tournament will go on as scheduled Saturday and Sunday at the 23rd and Iowa Steets fields regardless of rain or shine, sleet or snow.
Three Kansas teams will participate in the tournament. Two Kansas teams are entered in the men's division — the HorrorZontals and Subhumans. The HorrorZontals are now ranked sixth in the nation by the Ultimate Players Association, a national organization that ranks the top 20 collegiate teams. Cornell is the top-ranked team.
The Prairie Tarts are entered in the women's division
Teams can play up to three games a day in the tournament.
The Fools Festival started four years ago with the idea to have a tournament as close to April Fool's day as possible, grown into a respected tournament.
"It is the beginning of the collegiate season," Matt Logan, Topeka freshman and HorrorZontal player, said.
This year, teams from across the country will participate in the two-day tournament. They will come from Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado, Oklahoma, Illinois and New York. There will be 17 men's teams and four women's teams participating in the tournament.
The teams are hoping to break a four-year weather jinx by worshipping the weather gods.
"We try to emphasize having fun and enjoy being foolish as hell."
Because of the bad weather, the KU Frisbee teams have developed a ritual. This year the team began the season by planting cactuses.
The KU Fools Festival has become known for its post-game party. The party will be Saturday after the tour, and the festival offers foolishness come out. At Jeast a few
"The thought is to establish positive waves with the weather gods," Mark Cerney, Ultimate Fools Festival director, said yesterday. "It's nice to get the team together. It's the beginning of the Fools Festival."
people will dress in costumes for the occasion.
"I was psyched for the Fools Fest," Dave Dimbert, Overland Park sophomore and Subhuman player, said.
Cernay said Ultimate Frisbee was similar to soccer. It requires a combination of endurance, speed and athletic instinct.
Ultimate Frisbee is a non-contact sport. There are seven players on each team. The Frisbee is passed forward, but the player with the disc cannot take any steps. A goal is made when the Frisbee is passed to a teammate in the end zone. The game is played on a 70-yard by 40-yard field. The end zones are 25 yards deep.
KU gains confidence from win in tourney
Sports writer
Bv James Larson
The Kansas men's tennis team will be in Wichita for the Mid-American Invitational this weekend.
The women's team will travel to Provo, Utah, to compete with Brigham Young, California-Santa Barbara and Texas A&M. BYU is ranked No. 1 in the region.
Brett Perelman, assistant tennis coach, said the women's team was still elated about an unexpected win in the Southwest Louisiana Invitational.
"It was a major victory," he said. "Our girls really came
ed out on the play in the first game of a double-header yesterday against the School of the Ozarks.
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through. Now they are really confident. They believe they're going to win."
The men's team will take on Tulsa in the first round of the eight-team Mid-American Invitational tommorow. The Jayhawks narrowly defeated Tulsa 5-4 on the Allen Field House courts Tuesday.
If Kansas gets by Tulsa, they probably will face Wichita State, Perelman said. Kansas is eager to play Wichita State again because the Jayhawks lost by one point in their last meeting.
Kansas second baseman Geno Nebbitt sends Dave Prather, plate宅 ump, firing in the fourth inning when Nebbitt slides into home. Nebbitt was call-
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Kansas wins 1 of 2 against the Ozarks
By Jim Suhr
Sports writer
The Kansas baseball team, motivated by a between-games pep talk by head coach Marty Pattin, came back to split a double-header yesterday with the School of the Ozarks.
The Jayhawks, 13-14, lost the first game 8-7 after several of their rallies fell short. They came back to win the second game 7-1.
Twelve walks by three Kansas pitcher and two errors in the first game less prompted the talk from Pattin
"We walked 12 men and booted the ball around," Pattin said. "We were back to our old habits. I got after them a bit and told them they have to stop making silly errors. I can handle small errors, but not mental ones."
The Jayhawks rallied with two runs in the second inning. They scored one run on a sacrifice fly by catcher Joe Pfister and another on a double by first baseman John Pattin.
Pattin lead the 10-hit Kansas attack in the first game with three hits in four at bats, and second baseman Geno Nebbitt, center fielder Hugh Stanfield and right fielder John Hart each had two hits.
In the first game, the Bobcats jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the second innning. Jayhawk pitcher Scott Taylor dropped two outs. He walked gor consecutive bettles.
The Bobcats increased their lead to 5-2 with two runs in the third inning by capitalizing on an error by first baseman John Byrn and two walks and a wild pitch by losing pitcher Bret Morris, 0-1.
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Kansas tied the score at 5-5 in the third iming, scoring on a home run by right fielder John Hart, a fielder's choice and a throwing error.
But the Bobcats, in the fourth inning, regained the lead with three runs on two hits and two more walks by Morris.
The Jahayhw added one run in the fourth inning on a double by Stanfield and another in the sixth infield on a solo run by Nebbitt.
The Jayhawks came back strong in the second game with four runs in the second inning. They scored runs on a solo home run by Hart, a single by left fielder Darrel Mathews and a double by third baseman Mitch Wiles.
Strong pitching by Kansas pitcher John Quinn, 2-1, kept the Jayhawks in the lead for good.
"Quinn pitched a great game," Pattin said. "I'm noticing a difference in him from last year. At this time last year he was walking six or seven men per game. Now he's not rushing himself so much, and he's in a good pitching groove."
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Quinn's rhythm showed, as he scattered seven hits, struck out three and walked one in the seven-inning complete game. He only gave up two runs — one in the first inning and another in the fifth inning.
"When you have good pitching and defense, you can create things on offense," Patty said.