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University Daily Kansan
CU faces possibility of winless Big 8 season
By Matt Tidwell Sports writer
Losing is something the 24-3 Kansas Jayhawks haven't been accustomed to this season.
Sports writer
But Colorado Buffaloa 'coach Tom Apke, Kansas' next opponent tonight in Boulder, gets reminded every day of what it's like to be a loser. Colorado is just four losses away from being the first Big Eight team ever to lose all of its conference games.
Colorado
Men's Basketball
8-15, (Big 4) 0-10
9:05 tonight
(106FM)
at Boulder
After Kansas, 9-1 in the Big Eight,
Colorado must play Oklahoma State,
Nebraska and Missouri. The Buffaloes are 0-10 in the conference,
including a 100-64 loss to the Jayhawks Jan. 29 and a 117-73 loss to Oklahoma at Norman on Saturday.
"It itens like we've been catching people at the wrong time." Apke said. "It's been 'Team X needs a win. Oh, here comes Colorado.' Then you want to break a long losing streak, and you have to face two of the top eight teams in the nation back-to-back."
In Kansas, ranked third in both national wire service polls, Apke is catching the Jahwahks at a time when they've been playing some of their best basketball of the season.
A Kansas win tonight, combined with an Oklahoma loss at Nebraska would give the Jayhawks at least a tie for the conference championship.
If Oklahoma wins tonight, Kansas
against Kansas State on Saturday.
"The schedule favors us, but only because we'-9 and they're 7.-3." Kansas coach Larry Brown said of Oklahoma. "But the way this season has gone I think the unexpected has been something you can expect, and I don't want to look past anybody."
Kansas has turned in five straight, solid offensive performances after its last loss, Jan. 28 at Iowa State. The Jayhawks have beaten their last five Big Eight opponents by at least 14 points including two blow-outs at home last week over Missouri and Nebraska.
in those last five games, Kansas has used good defense to create fast break opportunities — including numerous fast break baskets in the Colorado win Feb. 8 in Allen Field House.
"We've just got to play the way we've been playing." Brown said. "We like to run on everybody, and it's important we do that by defense.
if you don't play aggressive defense, then you don't create fast break opportunities for yourself."
Apke said the Buffaloa didn't execute well offensively in the last game, enabling Kansas to get numerous steals and unleash its fast break.
"The number one thing we'll have to excel at is our offensive poise to handle all of KU's traps and trick defenses," Apke said.
Kansas continues to lead the Big Eight in team field goal percentage hitting 61.7 percent of its attempts in conference games. For the last six Big Eight contests, the Jayhawks have had at least four players score in double figures.
Jayhawk Notes — All five Kansas starters are averaging in double figures in Big Eight play. Forward Danny Manny averages 19.6 points a game in the conference. Colorado's freshman Matt Bullard has been drawing praise from Big Eight coaches averaging 12.6 points and 6.5 rebounds a game. In the last game against Colorado, Manning had 20 points and guard Calvin Thompson chipped in 18. . The Jayhawks return home to play Kansas State in Allen Field House at 3:05 p.m. Saturday.
G 11 Michael Lee (6-4)
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Ron Kellogg and Danny Manning will lead the third-ranked Jayhawks against the Colorado Buffaloes tonight in Boulder. The game starts at 9:05 p.m.
KU seeks to avenge early season defeat
Bv Dawn O'Mallev
Sports writer
The Kansas Jayhawks are hopeful that they will be able to improve their shooting percentage when they play the Colorado Buffaloes tonight in Boulder.
The last time the Jayhawks played the Buffaloees, they turned in their worst shooting night of the year. The basketball team made
Colorado
Women's Basketball
15-8. (Big 8: 5-5)
6:35 tonight
at Boulder
only 29.9 percent of its shots in a 56-49 loss to Colorado.
"We lost that game because we didn't play at all, and that fires me up." Martin said.
Jackie Martin, Kansas forward, said she hoped the team's performance would improve from the last Colorado game.
Martin said by losing games like the one to Colorado, the Jayhawks had helped other teams stay in the Big Eight race.
Evette Ott, Kansas point guard, said she had to play with more intensity in order to help prevent another performance like the one against Colorado.
Kansas is in second place in the Big Eight with a 6-4 conference record. Colorado is in fifth place with a 5-5 record. First-place Oklahoma is 7-3.
keeping their point guard from penetrating the middle," she said. "When they sag off me, I'll use my jump shot."
Colorado head coach Ceal Barry said she thought the two teams were evenly matched.
"We do not have an advantage in the game," Barry said. "Both teams know what the game means. Every game is important, especially these last four games."
Barry said Kansas was a balanced team because all the players were capable of scoring. She said the most important thing Colorado had to do was contain forward Vickie Adkins.
Ott is one assist away from reaching 100 assists in a season. Only three other Kansas players have accumulated more than 100 assists in a season - Lynette Woodard, Cheryl Burnett and Mary Myers.
Probable Starters
Kansas
F 33 Lisa Dougherty (5-8)
F 25 Vickie Akins (6-1)
C 40 Kelly Jennings (6-5)
G 24 Evelette Oit (5-7)
G 30 Toni Webb (5-8)
"I'm going to concentrate on
Colorado
Colorado
F 42 Tracy Tripp (5-9)
F 43 Crystal Ford (6-2)
C 11 LeaAm Banks (6-0)
G 24 Bridget Turner (5-8)
G 24 Kris Holwerd (5-10)
KU may be host next year
Anschutz a success as meet site
By Jim Subr
Sports writer
Sponsor representatives of Sunday's AAU/USA Junior Olympics National Indoor track and field meet said yesterday that they were impressed with the management of the inaugural meet at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
The sponsor, Sears Roebuck and Co., was so impressed with the sports pavilion that the University of Kansas may host next year's meet as well. said Jim Pilch, meet director.
"We got our chance to show off the Anschutz facility to the country," Pilch said. "And those people who attended the meet from all over the country generally felt it was the
Pilch said that although Sears hadn't made a decision on the location of next year's meet, the organization of the meet as well as the sports pavilion itself impressed the company. The meet began on time and progressed ahead of schedule, he said.
finest indoor track facility they had ever seen."
Richard Harkins, president of the Amateur Athletic Union, said Lawrence was selected as the site of this year's national meet because of its reputation for hosting quality meets in the past.
He said the prospects were excellent that Sears and the National Track Association would acknowledge the requests of the AAU and Lawrence Track Club to have the meet return to Lawrence next year.
Bob Timmons, Kansas head track coach, complimented Pilch and the Lawrence Track Club for the meet's organization. Timmons said he thought the organization of the meet caught the attention of the Sears representatives.
"I didn't hear anything negative about the meet at all," Timmons said. "We're hopeful they'll decide to have the meet here again next year."
competed in the meet. The competition was broken up into two age divisions — 15-16 and 17-18.
Pilch said the meet gave the competitors a chance to demonstrate their abilities for several college scouts in attendance.
"We got calls from all over the country from coaches who wanted to see these kids compete," Pilch said. "Those coaches came to see what these kids had, and with any luck, we got some of these kids a scholarship."
Timmons said scouts from Big Eight schools, including Kansas State, Nebraska, Oklahoma State and Iowa State were at the meet. Track scouts from national powers Wisconsin and Texas also attended.
The AAU/USA Junior Olympics began in 1948. It is a countrywide developmental program for amateur athletes offering 21 sports to youths age eight to 18 and is the largest multi-sport program in the United States.
Sanctions are halted at Kapaun
United Press International
TOPEKA — A judge yesterday issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Kansas State High School Activities Association from imposing sanctions against Wichita's Kapau-Mount Carmel High School.
The order, issued by Shawnee County District Judge Fred Jackson, said that the activities association's sanctions were applied to innocent students indiscriminately and that they were "vindictive as well as unreasonable, arbitrary, capricious and tantamount to a constructive fraud on the rights of the plaintiff-students."
Jackson's order states that on at least three occasions the executive board adjourned its public meeting to hold secret deliberations concerning the sanctions it would impose on Kapau. According to the order, the subject matter of those secret deliberations does not fall within any of the categories which may be discussed in secret.
Jackson based his order in part on arguments by Attorney General Robert Stephan, who contended that the activities association may have violated the state's open meetings law. Stephan said it conducted several closed sessions in last Wednesday's meeting to discuss the imposition of stringent penalties against the parochial school.
Jackson set another hearing for March 3 to decide whether to grant a temporary injunction that would lift the sanctions permanently.
In its meeting last week, the activities associated placed Kapaun on probation for two years and issued an order prohibiting the school from participating in post-season activities for one year.
The suspension included both athletic and non-athletic activities.
Nelson Hartman, executive secretary of the activities association, declined comment on the order until he could review it with legal counsel.
The sanctions came after the school's own admission that the tuition of three non-Catholic students was paid for by a school booster club. The payment violates a rule requiring parents or guardians of non-Catholics to pay all tuition costs at Catholic schools.
Sports Briefs
Manning is named one of 11 finalists
Kansas forward Danny Manning has been named one of 11 finalists for the John Wooden Award, presented each year to the nation's top collegiate basketball player.
The winner of the award, named after the former UCLA coaching team in 1976,
Among other finalists are North
Carolina's Brad Dougherty and Kentucky's Kenny Walker.
Mizzou upsets ISU
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Derrick Chievous scored 18 points and Jeff Strong added 16 points to lead Missouri to a 71-62 Big Eight victory over Iowa State in college basketball last night.
The Cyclones hit only 36 percent of their shots for the game.
Missouri, which made 45 percent of its attempts from the field in the contest, led 37-27 at intermission.
Lynn Hardy and center Dan Bingenheimer threw in 13 points each for Missouri, which raised its record to 19-12 overall and 6-6 in the Big Eight.
Grayer scored 19 points for Iowa State, now 16-8 overall and 7-4 in the conference.
Rovals start training
Pitchers and catchers for the 1985 World Champion Kansas City Royals are scheduled to report to spring training tomorrow. They will begin working out Friday.
The rest of the team is scheduled to report to camp Feb. 28.
The Royals will play a 29-game spring training schedule. Their first game will be on March 8.
From staff and wire reports.
Basketball success benefits athletics, academics
By Frank Ybarra
Staff writer
Even when the KU basketball team isn't playing, it's winning.
Big time basketball has come to Kansas, and the Athletic Department and the University are finding out that a top ranking goes hand in hand with making marketing dollars and image promoting.
"There's no doubt that our great basketball success has piqued the interest of some corporate sponsors," Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, said last week.
The sponsors Hunter is referring to are among the top names in industry: Lite Beer, Pizza Hut and Wendy's. They all want to be part of a program that is one of the best. Each one has sponsored an event or paid for some materials related to KU basketball.
No one associated with KU basketball promotions would comment on the total amount of money the Athletic Department receives from a sponsor.
However, Hunter did say that in return for their publicity, corporations can give the University money, promise to buy a certain number of radio spots or purchase something for the University.
For example, Wendy's helped offset the costs of printing tickets in exchange for an advertisement on the back of the tickets.
According to Susan Wachter, assistant athletic director, Wendy's paid about $6,000 to Kansas to help print the football and basketball tickets.
Students screaming "we're number one" while waving foam-rubber fingers, with the Miller Lite logo proudly displayed. Or hundreds of hungry fans calling orders at local Pizza Huts have put smiles on the faces of these basketball capitalists.
dent of Leweike and Co., Kansas City, Mo., which works with Hunter and the Athletic Department to find promoters of KU sports.
"Without a doubt, the sponsors who have been involved are really enjoying it," said Tod Leiweke, vice presi-
Hunter said the promoters had plenty of incentives to spend money on the University.
"They know we're going to have a full house," he said, "and our national ranking has helped considerably."
Success generates ticket sales
Another place where the success of the basketball team and the success of the promotions can be measured is in the amount of money generated in ticket sales and concessions.
Wachter said that last season Kansas made $46,224 dollars in concession sales from 15 home basketball games.
This season, through seven home games, which was the latest game she had statistics for, she said Kansas had retted $23,023 dollars, over half of what was made last season.
And with a sold-out Allen Field House this year, Kansas has made $228,500 for ticket sales compared to $853,800 at this time last year.
Wachter said the money made off of tickets and concessions went into the general operating fund of the Athletic Department and helped other sports run their programs.
The success of the Kansas men's basketball team has attracted more fans to Allen Field House and more money to the University.
Tony Vourax/KANSAN
He said high school seniors often paid more attention to a university with a high ranking or a lot of exposure.
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, said the success of the basketball team could mean more than just money to the Athletic Department.
And if Kansas reaches the final four, he said, the admissions office could become very busy.
Exposure attracts new students
"We can count on the phone ringing
off the wall," he said. However, Lindvall added, "I don't think anyone is going to attend KU just because of the basketball team."
Head coach Larry Brown said he liked the idea of the basketball team helping the University recruit high school students.
"I think it's great," Brown said.
"It all works hand and hand."
Athletic Director Monte Johnson agreed with Brown's assessment.
"I'd like to think it's a recruiting tool for all parts of the University," he said.
The success of the basketball team also has the potential to help other athletic teams, Leiweke said. He said he hoped to have more promotional packages in the future that would tie basketball promotions to the indoor relays in the spring and football in the fall.
"It's our dream to have 70,000 people in Memorial Stadium," he said.
Others seem to snare his hopes for the football program.
Head football coach Bob Valesente said when recruits attended basketball games or visited with Brown for a few minutes, they came away impressed with the University.
"It has had a very positive influence on our recruiting program," he said. "I think it's great for a part of our program to be so outstanding."
Doug Vance, sports information director, said the publicity generated from stories in Sports Illustrated and in the local media always had a positive effect on other Kansas teams.
Vance is responsible for catering to national networks and local television and radio stations when the Jayhawks are on the air.
He said his job was easier when Kansas had a winning team because he didn't have to convince anyone
about how good the Jayhawks were. "They come here because we've got a great product," he said. "While they're here we make their jobs as easy as we can."
Treating the media well is an important job when one considers he's dealing with people who pump money into the Athletic Department through game rights.
Monte Johnson said Kansas received $55,000 a year for radio rights to basketball games. Learfield Communications, the Jefferson City, M. company which runs the radio network, also is involved in an equity sharing program with Kansas. It guarantees a share in the profits if
the network runs in the black this year.
The conference shares the revenues
Kevin Meyer, general manager of sports for Learfield, said the success of the team most likely would help the success of the network, thus increasing its profits.
The Big Eight Conference receives $3.2 million from its contract with Raycom Sports which owns the television rights to all conference games. Johnson said the revenue wasn't divided in exact even shares but about $400,000 of the television money was coming to Kansas.
Johnson said the visibility of the program, because people are watching an exciting team on television, helped the ability to market the team.
Brown said he didn't worry about the outside attention that KU basket-ball was getting. He said he was only interested in his team.
But others in the Athletic Department say they're always thinking about the promotions getting out of control.
"We're very careful about not becoming too commercialized," Hunter said. "We're very careful and cautious about doing our promotions in good taste."
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