Friday, March 7, 1986
Sports
University Daily Kansan
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Hawks head for Kansas Citv
By Matt Tidwell
Sports writer
The men's basketball team leaves this morning for Kansas City, Mo. to start the most important part of its already record-breaking year — the postseason.
**The Big Eight champion hawkies, 28-3 overall and ranked second in the country by both national wire service polls, will play rival Kansas State at 2:10 p.m. today at the first round of the postseason Big Eight Tournament at Kemper Arena.**
Kansas State
Men's Basketball
2-10 today
Channel 27
at Kansas City, Mo
The Jayhawks own a 14-7 record in the tournament and have won the event twice, in 1981 and 1984. Last season, Iowa State upset Kansas 78-59 in the semi-finals.
in the semifinals.
If the Jahawks win, they will play
the winner of the Missouri-Oklahoma
game at 1:10 p.m. tomorrow in the
semifinals. The tournament finals
will be at 12:40 p.m. on Sunday.
In the K-State Wildcats, the Bayhawks, 13-1 in the Big Eight, face team that has been devastated by the loss of All-Big Eight forward Norris Coleman, who was declared academically ineligible.
With Coleman, the Wildcats lost
vice to Kansas in the regular
season, 64-50 at Manhattan and 84-69
at Lawrence.
This could be Wildcat head coach Jack Hartman's last college game.
In February before the last game in Lawrence, Hartman announced his retirement, Hartman, who has been K-State's head coach for 15 years, was honored before the game by the KU team and fans.
kansas head coach Larry Brown, named Big Eight Coach of the Year, said the game against Hartman and the Wildcats would be anti-climactic.
"I wouldn't have minded playing them down the road, but after the way our kids reacted to him (Hartman) here and the emotions involved, it would have been good to end it that way." Brown said.
"I really respect him for what he's done, but we've got to have this game, and it's as simple as that," he said.
Although Kansas dominated most of the two previous games against K-State, the Jayhawks had trouble with Wildcat guard Joe Wright, who scored 46 points in the two games.
"Joe's a great guard," Kansas center Greg Drelling said. "Our guards will have to play him straight-up defensively and not let him penetrate."
The last Kansas win was the seventh straight over the Wildcats, which marked the first time since 1953-55 that the Jayhawks have won seven in a row over K-State.
Brown said that as a whole he didn't think postseason tournaments,
such as the Big Eight's, were beneficial.
"If I had my druthers, I'd like to see them do away with all the conference tournaments and open up the NCAA tournament to all teams," Brown said.
"We have 32 teams in the NIT (National Invitational postseason tournament) and 64 in the NCAA. That is almost a third of all the teams in the country, so why don't they just open it up to everybody and do away with these silly conference tournaments," he said.
Jayhawk Notes — NCAA tournament pairings will be announced Sunday afternoon . . . Kansas is 23-9 in Kemper Arena . . . For the first time ever, four Kansas starters are 1,000-point scorers at the school.
Probable Starters
Kansas
F 25 Danny Manning (6-11)
F 44 Ron Kellogg (6-5)
C 30 Greg Drrelling (7-1)
G 35 Calvin Thompson (6-6)
G 22 Cedric Hunter (6-0)
Kansas State
F 34 Lance Simmons (6-4)
F 23 Ben Mitchell (6-9)
C 43 Percy Eddie (6-8)
G 20 Joe Wright (6-4)
G 11 Lynn Smith (5-11)
Cardinal outfielder shows power
United Press International
At first glance, last season's even- up trade of Lonnie Smith and John Morris looked like a steal for the Kansas City Royals. The St. Louis Cardinals, however, may yet reap dividends from that deal.
Morris, a former All-American at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, is one of the more highly regarded prospects in baseball. The 25-year-old outfielder may have a tough time cracking the St. Louis outfield this year, but yesterday he showed his teammates what he is capable of.
At St. Petersburg, Fla., Morris hit a home run and a triple and scored three runs as a team of St. Louis reserves beat a team of composed mostly of regulars, 8-1, in an intrasquad game.
A native of North Bellmore, N.Y.
Morris is five years younger than
Smith, and the Cardinals seem as if
they are read to let him grow before
Spring Training
bringing him up. He has two years of Triple A experience, and with Vince Coleman, Willie McGee and Andy Van Slyke in the outfield, Morris probably will not be rushed along. His best shot at a regular job with the Cardinals down the line will be to unseat Van Slyke in right.
Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, the Boston Red Sox's winning pitcher last season, checked into the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester for medical tests. Boyd showed up for camp 10 pounds under his listed playing weight of 144 pounds. Internists planned a series of tests to find out why the already skinny right-hander has lost the weight, and why a previous physical showed
Boston Red Sox
changes in the pitcher's liver.
Cincinnati Reds
At Tampa, Fl., the Baseball Committee of the Tampa Sports Authority is prepared to offer the Cincinnati Reds a five-year extension on their spring training contract, which expires in November. Reds General Manager Bill Bergesch was not pleased with the offer and said the club would continue to pursue an alternate location, with Port St. Lucie and Pompano Beach the preferable sites. The Reds train at Al Lopez Field, which will be torn down so a domed stadium may be built. Atlanta Braves
At West Palm Beach, Fla., the Atlanta Braves learned that starting shortstop Rafael Ramirez will be sidelined for a week to 10 days with an ankle sprain. Paul Zuevela, Andres Thomas and Paul Runge will see action at shortstop while Ramirez is out.
Weiser ready to attract fans
The new University of Kansas athletic marketing director, Kent Weiser, wants to use his new role to attract more fans to Kansas sporting events.
By Jim Suhr Sports writer
Weiser, who also is the women's golf coach, accepted his new position Feb. 1. He is responsible for athletic advertising, promotions and corporate sponsorship. He said those responsibilities had been handled previously by the Williams Fund, Kansas assistant athletic directors and the sports information office.
With his new role, he said he was hoping to create a promotional program that would encompass all sports with an emphasis on attracting fans to non-revenue sporting events as well as revenue events such as football and basketball.
Weiser is part of the recently created task force organized by the Athletic Department to plan promotions that would attract fans to women's athletics and other non-revenue sporting events.
He said there was concern today
that some promotions aimed at helping a specific program also might jeopardize that program by violating National Collegiate Athletic Association rules.
weiser referred to a recent incident at Indiana University earlier this season when the Hoosier's starting guard, Steve Alford, was suspended for one game after violating NCAA rules by posing for a campus charity calendar.
Closer to home, Weiser referred to the recent controversy surrounding the "Jayhawk Shuffle".
"In a nutshell, we're trying to reach people with the right message and not letting that message get messed up along the way," Weiser said. "We want to have the school and the community rally around the sports they're interested in."
"I saw one student athletic survey last year that had an overriding theme that it was their university and their sports," he said.
Weiser said a special emphasis would be placed on attracting Kansas students to athletic events.
Mike Horton/Special to the KANAN Kent Weiser, KU's new athletic marketing director, shows off some of the KU paraphernalia that decorates his office in Parrot Athletic Center.
Independents are hill champions
Lobsters, ROTC beat opponents
By Robert Rebein Sports writer
The independent teams in both the men's and women's divisions defeated their Greek opponents to win the championship games of the Recreation Services Hill Basketball Championships at Robinson Center last night.
Intramurals
count ball.
"We came out in the second half trying to work the ball inside to our big men," said Coatney, Westwood senior. "I think we had a little height advantage on them."
The game had been tied at 17 at the half, but the Lobsters scored the first nine points of the second half on a series of fastbreaks.
Duck coach Blake Wells, Ellinwood freshman, said his team lost because it couldn't get its offense going in the second half.
"We weren't blocking them off the boards," he said. "We came out flat, scored only four points in the first seven minutes, and you just can't do that."
The game was played with an intramural format — two continuous-clock 15-minute halves.
Lobster guard Sean Myers, Salina senior, said the clock was a factor in the game.
"We jumped ahead in the second half by about 10, and it started to get a little physical," he said. "After that, the refs turned it into a free throw match."
Because the clock did not stop for free throws, the Ducks had little chance of coming back, Myers said.
In the women's game, the Air Force ROTC team defeated the Delta Delta Delta team, 43-31. The Air Force team scored the first basket and never trailed.
The Delta team wasn't as polished as they would have liked to have been for the championship game, said Delta player Marilyn Phillips, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
"Throughout the tournament we practiced about twice a week," she said. "But we were not able to practice for this game because most of us had so much homework to do."
Diane Dultmeler/KANSAN
Tracy Duma, Kansas City, Kan., senior, a member of the Air Force ROTC team, shoots the ball over the heads of Mary Stanley, Wichita junior, left, and Annette Hoffelfmeyer, Topeka sophomore, both of the Delta Delta Delta sorority, 1630 Oxford Road. The ROTC team won the Recreation Services Hill Basketball Championships last night in Robinson Center by a score of 43-31.
Golfers start break looking to improve
By Jerry Ryan
Sports writer
The spring season for the Kansas women's golf team gets under way at the North-South Classic in Orlando. Fla., next weekend.
Weiser said one of the players, senior Maureen Kelly, was among the best golfers ever to play at Kansas. He also said sophomore Tina Gneuwuch, the team's most valuable player last season, was the other top player.
The team has two top players returning from last year's team, head coach Kent Weiser said yesterday.
"Tina and Maureen have proved themselves as two of our top players for the season," said Weiser.
The Jayhawks finished third last year in the Big Eight Conference.
Weiser said he also expected junior Marieile Scheid, senior Brenda Sanders, and sophomores Michelle Mulvihill and Toni
Women's Golf
Weisler said he thought the competition made the team members play better and he expected good performances this spring.
Kelly said the recent good weather made it easy for the team to prepare for its opening tournament.
"It's nice that there is a lot of competition when it comes time for a tournament," he said.
Shockley to compete for top spots on the team.
"The important thing is that our shot average is getting closer to those of top-ranked teams," Weiser said.
The team's average last fall was six shots less than it was the previous fall, he said.
"We were outside for about three weeks, and everyone took advantage of the nice weather," she said.
Svracuse, St. John's win in Big East tourney
The Associated Press
Eighth-ranked Syracuse, led by Dwyane "Pearl" Washington's 27 points, set a tournament scoring record with a 102-79 rout of Boston College last night in the quarterfinals of the Big East Conference post-season tournament.
The victory put the Orangemen into the semifinals against No. 14 Georgetown, which edged Pittsburgh 57-56 in the second game of an afternoon double-header at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Syracuse's victory included a 20-point effort by sophomore center Rony Seikaly.
Selikaly hit on all six field goal tries, 8 of 12 free throws and grabbed six rebounds as Syracuse improved its record to 24-4.
I guess we bring out the best in him." Boston College head coach Gary Williams said of Seikaly, who totaled 30 points and had 30 rebounds in Syracuse's two regular-season victories over the Eagles.
Reggie Williams led Georgetown with 16 points as the team overcame cold shooting to improve its record to
David Wingate added 13 points for the Hoyas, while Curtis Alken led Pitt with 12.
23-6. But Pittsburgh's Panthers missed three opportunities to win the game in the final seconds.
Walter Berry had 18 points and 12 rebounds and guard Ron Rowan added 19 points as No. 5 St. John's, 28-4, advanced to the semifinals of the Big East Conference tournament with an 87-68 triumph over Seton Hall.
St. John's, which shared the regular-season Big East Conference title with Syracuse, got 14 points each from Willie Glass and Mark Jackson, and 12 points from Shelton Jones.
In the final Big East game, Villanova, behind Harold Pressley's 26 points and 14 rebounds, beat Providence 75-63.
15 before settling for a 45-35 advantage at the half.
Villanova set a swift early tempo, sweeping the boards and leading by
The Wildcats, 22-12, also received 18 points from Harold Jensen while hitting 33-of-40 foul shots. Providence, 15-13, was unable to elevate its level of play. The Friars were paired by Billy Donovan with 21 points while Ernie Lewis tossed in 11 and Don Brown 10.
The Wildcats went the first 7:27 of the second half without a field goal. But with Providence over the limit, Villanova capitalized at the line.
In Friday night's semifinals, Georgetown meets Syracuse and St. John's faces Villanova.
naments commence.
Earlier in the day at Lexington, Alabama crushed Georgia 79-59 in a quarterfinal game.
In the Southeastern Conference tournament at Lexington, KY., where third-ranked Kentucky played Mississippi last night, Louisiana State snapped a 10-game losing string in post-season play with a 73-66 victory over Florida. Derrick Taylor scored 27 points. John Williams added 20 points and 20 rebounds to pace the Tigers.
Top-rated Duke and five other ranked teams will see action today as the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Eight and Metro Conference tour-
nationals commission.
Duke will open the ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C., against Wake Forest, followed by No. 20 North Carolina State against Virginia, No. 6 Georgia Tech vs. Clemson and fourth-ranked North Carolina against Maryland.
In the Big Eight tournament at Kansas City, Mo., No.2 Kansas plays Kansas State in the first round and No.15 Oklahoma meets Missouri. The winners of those games will meet in the tournament semifinals.
Memphis State, ranked 10th, opens the Metro Conference at Louisville, Ky., against South Carolina. The host team, 11th-ranked Louisville, drew a first-round bye and will play the winner of the Southern Mississippi-Cincinnati game in the semifinals tomorrow.
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In Big Ten regular season action in Ann Arbor, Mich., Michigan center Roy Tarpley scored 22 points, and Antoine Joubert had 17 last night as No. 7 Michigan routed Ohio State 98-82 and joined Indiana at the top of Big Ten Conference college basketball.
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