Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1986
Sports
University Daily Kansan
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N.C. is first in poll; Jayhawks stay third
The Associated Press
North Carolina, unanimous as No.1 for the second straight week and the fourth time this season, led The Associated Press Top Twenty yesterday.
The Tar Heels have been in the top spot for each of the 13 polls since the regular season began.
Duke, 25-2, survived a tough weekend to hold on to the No. 2 spot. The Blue Devils beat No. 20 North Carolina State 72-70 on the road Saturday night and bounced back Sunday afternoon for a 75-74 victory over No. 14 Notre Dame.
Kansas, 24-3, stayed in third,
followed by Memphis State, 23-2.
Georgia Tech, 19-4, rounded out
the Top Five.
The remainder of the Top Ten were St. John's, Michigan, Kentucky, Syracuse and Oklahoma.
St. John, 24-3, moved up one spot from last week's ranking as the Redmen beat No. 13 Georgetown 60-58 on the road and won their 21st straight home game 74-54 over Connecticut.
Michigan, Kentucky and Syracuse moved as a pack, as the three were 10th, 11th and 12th, respectively in last week's voting.
Michigan, 22-3, handled two Big Ten Conferences easily as they downed Minnesota 92-58 and Iowa 82-66, while Kentucky, 22-3, registered a big Southeastern Conference road victory, 73-71 at Alabama. Syracuse, 20-3, beat Villanova and Providence and moved up to No. 9. Oklahoma, 23-3, which fell to Missouri 101-88, dropped two spots to tenth.
Nevada-Las Vegas, sixth last week before losing to Cal-Irvine 99-92, leads the Second Ten followed by Bradley, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Indiana, Louisville, Navy, Virginia Tech, Michigan State and North Carolina State.
Michigan-State is making its first appearance in the Top Twenty this season, while Navy hasn't been among the ranked since a tie for 19th in the preseason poll.
Texas-El Paso, which had been ranked for seven straight weeks, fell from the Top Twenty as did Alabama.
Syracuse, Louisville win
From Kansan wires
PITTSBURGH—Dwayne " Pearl" Washington scored 23 points, including six key points down the stretch, as ninth-ranked Syracuse held off Pittsburgh 69-62 last night to remain atop the Big East Conference.
Washington, averaging 28 points over his last five games, scored 16 points in the second half as Syracuse improved its record to 21-3 overall and 12-1 in the Big East.
Howard Triche hit a 10-footer to give the Orange the lead for good at 56-55 and Washington followed with a layup on a give-and-go pass from Triche.
Pittsburgh, 14-9 overall and 5-7 in the conference, again pulled within one point at 62-61 on Demetreus Gore's running shot from the lane. But Washington dribbled into the lane for an eight-footer with 1:34 to play and followed with two foul shots
at the 52-second mark to make it 66-61.
Louisville 83, Southern Miss. 74
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Billy Thompson scored 19 points and Pervis Ellison added 17 points and 13 rebounds last night to lead co-No. 19 Louisville to an 83-74 Metro Conference victory over Southern Mississippi
The Cardinals' fourth straight victory improved its record to 19-7 overall and 7-2 in the league. The Eagles fell to 14-10 and 4-6.
All five Louisville starters scored in double figures. Jeff Hall scored 15, Herbert Crook added 14 and Milt Wagner had 12 points and eight assists.
Derrick Hamilton, a 6-foot-6 sophomore forward, scored a game-high 27 points for Southern Mississippi.
Navy 66, William and Mary 51
Maryland 91, Md.-Eastern Shore 44
Hunter asserts himself as big scorer
Height makes no difference
Suzv Mast/KANSAN
Kansas guard Cedric Hunter has been on a scoring rampage of late. In each of his last three games he has scored at least 16 points.
After Cedric Hunter scored in double figures for the third straight game Saturday against Nebraska, Kansas head coach Larry Brown raised an interesting point.
"It's a shame we list him at 6-foot because he's probably the best player in America under 6-feet," Brown said.
By Matt Tidwell Sports writer
But Hunter said he couldn't be placed in that category.
"The last time we had our height and weight checked I was exactly 6-foot." Hunter said yesterday.
Hunter, whose role normally is to pass the ball to open teammates, has been eyeing the basket and taking the shots.
Whatever he height, Hunter might as well be the tallest player on the court with the scoring touch he's displayed recently.
He broke the Kansas season assist record earlier this season and is second in the Big Eight in assists, averaging 6.8 a game.
However, in the last three games,
Hunter has scored more often.
Starting with the Feb. 8 game against Oklahoma State, Hunter has scored 18, 16 against Missouri and 17 against Nebraska.
"He's really assuring himself laterly," said Jayhawk guard Calvin Thompson. "Cedric is surprising me more and more each game. He's giving 110 percent and he's doing
everything coach Brown asks of
bim."
And Hunter hasn't just been firing blindly. In the Nebraska game, he made six of his eight field-goal attempts. In the two previous games, Hunter went eight for 10 against Oklahoma State and seven for eight against Missouri.
Yet even as Hunter rolls up the points, he pointed out that it isn't noticeable in the Jayhawks' smooth and unselfish offense.
His major responsibility in the Kansas offense has been to key the fast break that the Jayhawks have perfected this season.
"I think it really shows our balance," Hunter said. "Everybody seems to be passing the ball around more and giving up the shot more often, and that makes it easier."
On Saturday, Nebraska was the most recent team to be victimized by the Javhawk fast break.
"They are a great team and they can run the half-court game, but the fast break is most important for them," Nebraska guard Brian Carr said after the game Saturday. "When that's going for them they are very, very hard to beat."
Hunter's name popped up often in the Nebraska locker room after Saturday's game. He is a native of Omaha.
"I'm not really surprised," Cornhusker coach Moe Iba said. "He's turned into a really nice guard for them."
Brown silences rumors,says he's staying
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Despite media speculation to the contrary, Kansas head basketball coach Larry Brown insists he is not going to become head coach of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association.
"I'm embarrassed that these rumors would be going around like this." Brown said yesterday.
He said such speculation was unfair to Hubie Brown, the Knicks coach who was no relation to him.
Brown is in his third year as Kansas coach and the Jayhawks, 24-3
"But I've been fairly treated here, and I really like what's been done at Kansas. I wish people would focus on what our team has done. We spend too much time talking to me."
"I don't want anything to take attention away from what our kids have done," said Brown. He has never coached a losing team, in a colorful career that included stops at UCLA, the NBA and the old American Basketball Association.
overall, lead the Big Eight by two games with four to play. They are considered by many to be a good bet to make the NCAA's Final Four.
"A lot of these rumors are based on the fact that I have moved before. I can understand that," he said. "But it seems to me that people talk about me moving, but they never question other people when they move."
Brown is a New York native whose wife, a recent graduate of Kansas, has taken a job with a New York advertising agency.
"It's a natural," he said of the Knicks speculation. "I'm a New York kid. I have NBA experience. I have a good relationship with Scotty Stirling, the Knicks' new general manager. My wife is working in New York. But I think anybody who knows me would attest to the fact that I'm
very happy here. I'll always be somebody rumored to be going after another job somewhere."
Brown said the rumors have been particularly disquieting to his mother, Ann Alpern, who lives in Florida.
"My mom has been worried about what she hears. She doesn't understand," he said. "She thinks people change jobs because they've got problems, because people aren't happy within the job you're doing. When people say they've got inside information, she believes them. She's a typical Jewish mom."
Recruit happy with 'Hawks
Sports writer
By John Sam Sports writer
Rv. Jim Suhr
Smith's signing ended months of recruiting pressure from a number of schools across the country, including national powers Texas, Iowa, Arizona State and Texas A&M.
After signing his letter of intent in Houston last week to play football for Kansas next fall, a relieved Quinton Smith smiled, set his pen down and sat back.
Their attempts failed, but Kansas' didn't.
Football
Cochran said Robert Ford, a former assistant coach with the Houston Gamblers of the United States Football League now with the Jayhawks, helped to recruit Smith.
About 750 miles away, a relaxed Jim Cochran, KU recruiting coordinator, reclined in his KU football office and contemplated what the speedy Houston prep wide receiver should do for a Jayhawk offense that will lose five receivers to graduation and the National Football League draft.
"Ford made some inquiries, and we focused on him once we determined he was undecided." Cochran said.
All the work paid off, allowing Kansas to sign Smith, one of Texas' top 100 high school prospects.
or so it seems. Smith, who runs the 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds, caught 59 passes for 958 yards and 12 touchdowns last season and led Yates High School to a 16-0 record and a state championship.
"He's an intelligent player," Cochran said. "He runs very well and catches everything in sight."
Smith said Friday that he felt comfortable with his decision.
"Everyone here keeps asking me what a Jayhawk is, and I just tell them that a Jayhawk is me now," Smith said.
Smash Terry Burkhar/KANBAH
Jay Kim, Leawood sophomore, takes advantage of the unassessionally warm weather to play tennis. He played yesterday on the courts near Robinson Center.
"The Texas schools don't throw the ball enough for me," Smith said. "Kansas does, and Coach Valesone said next season's offense would be like last year's except with more passing."
Smith, who plans to major in accounting, said football wasn't the only reason he chose Kansas. He said he looked forward to meeting new people and trading the tropic-like environment of Texas for the harsher conditions of Kansas.
"I like snow, but we don't have any down here," he said. "The last time it snowed I was 6-years-old."
Sports Briefs Coleman's grades create controversy
The newest controversy centers on Coleman's high school grade point average. KOMU-TV, Columbia, Mo., claims that a copy of Coleman's transcript indicates that Coleman graduated from Paxon High School, Jacksonville, Fla., with a 1.9 GPA.
MANHATTAN — Kansas State athletic director Larry Travis asked the Big Eight and National College Athletic Association for a clarification of the eligibility of basketball standout Norris Coleman.
"We have a certified transcript from Paxon High School that shows Coleman's GPA well over the 2.0 minimum," Travis said. "We've sent all the facts and information to the NCAA and asked them for a clarification. We hope that will finally clear it up."
The NCAA requires a 2.0 high school GPA for players to be eligible their freshman year in college.
However, Travis said yesterday that was not true.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Oklahoma's Darryl Kennedy yesterday was named the Big Eight's player of the week.
Sooner gets award
The 6-foot-5 Kennedy scored 79 points and had 15 rebounds as the Sooners won two of three games last week. He won in a split vote over Kansas guard Cedric Hunter.
Practice pays off for divers
From staff and wire reports.
Spurney, Prangle and Clark qualify for regional meet
By Dawn O'Malley
Three meters above the ground, Kansas swim team divers practice their twists and twirls, looking for the perfect dive.
Sports writer
For three divers the heavy workout schedule has paid off. Mike Prangle and Lori Spurry qualified for the Zone D National Diving Qualifying Meet March 14-15 in Carbondale, Ill., on the
Mike Prangle
one- and three-meter boards. Pat Clark qualified on the one-meter board.
If they should finish in the top four places at the qualifying meet, they will advance to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships. The men's competition will be held in Indianapolis and the women's will be held in Fayetteville, Ark.
Swimming
Before the qualifying meet, the divers and the swim team will compete in the Big Eight Championships March 6-8 in Lincoln, Neb.
Barry Susterka, Kansas' first year diving coach, said his goal of Pangler making it to the qualifying meet had been reached.
"This was a goal of mine and a goal of his to quality." Susterka said. "We're in a tough zone, but he has all the tools. He's been preparing. Now all he has to do is go in there and put it all together."
Prangle, a senior, said his routine had undergone some changes because Susterka had stressed the fundamentals of diving.
"Fundamentally I am a lot better." Prangle said. "By that I mean technique and take-off are improved."
Pangle is no stranger to the high quality competition he will compete against in the Zone D Meet.
Last year at the zone meet,
Pangle finished ninth on the one-
meter board and 11th on the three- meter board.
"Mike is very conscientious," Susterka said. "He is concentrating to be the best."
This season, Frangle qualified on the three-meter board in the dual meet against Wyoming in Robinson Natatorium. Then he qualified on the one-meter board against Nebraska.
"It was good to qualify against Nebraska," Prangle said. "I was struggling on the low board; this built up my confidence. There is more competition against yourself. It is more mental."
Spurney said Prangle had helped her build up her confidence. She said he had encouraged her to perform her best.
Spurney, a sophomore, said she was not pleased with her performance last year. To polish her skills, she practiced at the Justus Aquatics Center in Orlando, Fla., for one month last summer.
"I never expected to do this." Spurney said. "It didn't seem like I would ever do it.
"My change in attitude really helped me. I tend to underestimate myself, I have to be confident. This has always been a wish deep down."
Lifter isn't satisfied with win
Bv Robert Rebein
Sports writer
Al Jakubowski won his weight class in the 1986 Missouri Valley Masters, Open and Collegiate Weightlifting tournament at Robinson Center on Sunday, but he wasn't satisfied.
Jakubowski, KU assistant speed and strength coach, wasn't satisfied because he didn't lift as well as he had wanted to.
"I didn't accomplish what I wanted to in the clean-and-ierk." he said.
His best lift in the clean-and-jerk is 374 pounds, but Sunday, Jakubowski only lifted 363 pounds, almost 180 pounds more than he weighs. He competed in the 181 pound class.
Jakubowski had hoped to do better because he is training for an international meet in March.
He and fellow lifer Gary Savage, 26, of Kansas City, Mo., will travel to Hungary to compete in an international invitational weightlifting meet.
Jakubowski said that to do well in
international competition, he would have to do better in the clean-and-jerk.
Savage won both events in the 165 pound weight class.
"The snatch is my better event," he said. "I've been trying to work on my clean-and-jerk. Gary and I train together and he's been helping me with my technique."
pound weight class. In each event, he lifted a barbell that weighed at least 100 pounds more than he did.
Lifting that much weight required a lot of concentration, Savage said.
Jakubowski will be one of only three Americans competing in the Hungarian meet. He and Savage were invited to represent the United States because of their performances at national meets.
A snatch is completed by lifting the barbell from the floor to above the head in one motion. A clean-and-jerk is completed by lifting the barbell from the floor to his chest in one motion, then, in a second motion, lifting it above his head.
Sunday's meet, which was viewed by about 150 people, drew a number of world-class and nationally-ranked lifters.
Scott Lofquist of Overland Park set a new Kansas record in the clean-and-jerk with a lift of 462 pounds. Lofquist, who has been competing for only six months, was a three-time All-American in the shot put at the University of Arkansas.
The winners in each division were:
Masters Division — 40-44 age group, Ken McCain; 50-54 age group, Walter Zook; 65-68 age group, Henry Sexton.
Open Division — 132 pounds, Brian Wilson; 165 pounds, Gary Savage; 191 pounds, Al Jakubowski; 180 pounds, Kevin Viet; 220 pounds, John Anderson; 242 pounds, Bob Burtzoff; 242 and over, Scott Lofquist.
Collegiate Division — 132 pounds.
Brian Wilson; 165 pounds. Dirk
Yasko; 181 pounds. Al Jakubowski;
198 pounds, Book Meelier; 220
pounds, Craig Schinck.
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