Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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Mizzou next challenge for 'Hawks
Kansas to use delay to protect leads
By Matt Tidwell
Sports writer
The last time Kansas played Missouri, the Jayhawks nearly blew an 11-point lead with six minutes left in the game and had to rely on last-second free throws to escape with an 81-77 win.
After the game, head coach Larry Brown said he was disappointed with the way his team handled itself in the game's final moments.
Missouri
Men's Basketball
17.10; B(8-4) 4-1
8:05 tonight
(10:00)
@lawrye
at Lawrence
After more problems in the closing moments of tight games and some advice from a friend, Brown made a decision — it was time to switch strategies.
"We've put in a new delay game," Kansas guard Cedric Hunter said. "We tried it against Oklahoma State, and it worked out really well."
The strategy, which is designed to protect lead leads, involves a wide-open offensive alignment with more passing and full use of the 45-second shot clock. After passing the ball for as long as possible, the Jayhawks run a set play.
If Kansas' rematch tonight against
the Tigers in Allen Field House is anything like the last contest, the Jayhawks may need full use of their new delay strategy — one Brown calls a semi-stall.
Brown said Pete Newell, a former United States Olympic coach and scout for Golden State of the National Basketball Association, advised him on the switch.
"Coach Newell saw us play," Brown said. "He told me that with the 45-second clock, and the fact that we're not too deep that we had ought to get a good delay game."
Kansas guards Hunter and Mark Turgeon ran the new delay game in the closing moments of the Oklahoma State game, and both said they were confident with the new system.
"I think the good thing is that if we have to run it again we'll have more confidence," Turgeon said. "It gets everybody moving more out on the floor. We keep it as spread out as we can."
Missouri comes into Lawrence after having dropped two games over the weekend — a 64-62 nonconference loss to Virginia on Sunday and a 75-66 upset at the hands of Nebraska. Both games were in Columbia.
The Tigers' record fell to 17-10 overall and 4-4 in the Big Eight, white
Kansas defeated Oklahoma State 85-69 on Saturday in Stillwater to move to 22-3 and 7-1, good for first place in the conference.
Hunter said the Tigers' two weekend losses could make for a hungrier Missouri team.
"They'll be coming in pumped up," he said. "We'll have to put some pressure on them early."
Missouri looks to sophomore forward Derrick Chievous and senior guard Jeff Strong on offense. The two are averaging 18.4 and 18.1 points respectively and are the sixth and seventh leading scorers in the Big Eight.
Jayhawk Notes — Kansas is ranked third in the current United Press International basketball poll. Greg Drrelling leads the conference in field goal percentage (64 percent), and Hunter is first in assists with 178. Former Olympic coaching great Henry Iba paid a compliment to Manning last week, saying, "Manning's touch with the ball, wherever he is on the floor, is the best I've ever seen." At Oklahoma State, Kansas had four players in double figures for the fourth straight conference
"We have to stop those two and (Missouri center Dan) Bingenheimer, so we have our work cut out for us," Kansas forward Danny Manning said.
game. As a team, the Jayhawks are first in the conference in field goal percentage (60 percent) but sixth in free throw shooting (65 percent).
Probable Starters
Kansas
F 25 Danny Manning (6-11)
F 44 Ron Kellogg (6-5)
C 30 Greg Drillig (7-1)
G 35 Calvin Thompson (6-6)
G 22 Cedric Hunter (6-0)
Missouri
F 3 Derrick Chievous (6-6)
F 4 Mike Sandebothe (6-7)
C 5 Dan Bingenheimer (6-9)
G 12 Jeff Strong (6-1)
G 24 Lynn Hardy (6-2)
BIG EIGHT STANDINGS
Conference All Games
W 7 L Pct. W L Pct.
Kansas 9 0.975 W L Pct.
Oklahoma 6 2.750 21 3.913
Iowa St. 5 3.625 21 4.967
Nebraska 4 4.500 14 7.667
Missouri 4 4.500 14 7.600
Kansas State 5 3.750 14 8.350
Okla St. 5 3.750 12 9.971
Colorado 0 8.350 18 3.131
Tonight's games
Kansas State at Oklahoma
Tennessee at Texas
Tomorrow's games
 Iowa State at Colorado
Texas at Oklahoma
Nebraska
'Hawks ranked 3rd in UPI coaches poll
United Press International
NEW YORK — The Kansas Jayhawks, 22-3, took advantage of losses by Georgia Tech and Memphis State to move up two places to No. 3 in yesterday's weekly United Press International Board of Coaches college basketball ratings.
Kansas won both of its contents last week against Big Eight Conference opponents.
Nevada-Las Vegas, given an assist by Lady Luck last weekend, continued on its hot ice and advanced five places to No. 4.
The Rebels, winners of 14 games in a row and a loser only twice in 23 games this year, squeaked by previously ranked No. 4 Memphis State, 67-66, on national television Saturday and used that triumph to make the biggest climb among the top 10 ranked teams.
North Carolina, 24-1, which won two games during the week, including a 78-77 overtime victory over previously No. 2 Georgia Tech, remained in the No. 1 position for the 11th straight week.
Duke, 22.2, took over sole possession of the No. 2 spot which it had shared last week with Georgia Tech. The Blue Devils defeated Georgia Tech on national television Sunday.
Georgia Tech, 18-4, slumped three places to No. 5 after losing two of three contests, and Memphis State, 20-2, tumbled two places to No. 6.
St. John's, 21-3, won its only game of the week and moved up three places to No. 7, and Kentucky, 20-3, continued its climb up the ratings ladder by advancing four places to No. 8.
Michigan, 20-3, which split a pair of Big 10 Conference games during the week, dropped one place to No. 9, and Oklahoma, 21-2, fell four places to No. 10 after being upset by Iowa State on Saturday.
In the second ten, Georgetown,
19-3, remained in the No. 11 position,
followed by Bradley, 23-1. Syracuse,
18-3, suffered the biggest drop in the
ratings, falling six spots to No. 13.
Notre Dame, 16-4, beat Syracuse on Saturday and jumped into a tie at No. 14 with Texas-EI Paso, 21-3, Indiana, 16-5, was ranked No. 16 followed by Alabama, 17-4, which cracked the Top 20 for the first time.
Huskers can win without Hoppen
Honors keep rolling in for KU's Vickie Adkins
United Press International
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska has shown there is life without Dave Hoppen, and Husker coach Moe Ia says the key is hitting outside shots without the big man inside.
"If we hit outside shots, and I don't mean 25-footers, I mean from about 18 feet, we play fairly well." Iba said yesterday. "If we don't hit them, it seems to affect our play."
Iba said doctors told him they think Hppen would have a sound knee once he recovered from the surgery.
Vickie Adkins
"He said it was a good game. I said the kids played real hard," Iba said.
Nebraska beat Missouri 75-66 in Columbia, Mo., on Saturday, playing without two-time All Big Eight center Hoppen, who underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee.
Ibs said he saw Hoppen on Sunday. He said Hoppen congratulated Iba and the Huskers on their performance against Missouri.
Nebraska, 4-4 in the Big Eight Conference and 14-7 on the season, hosts Oklahoma State on Wednesday.
By Dawn O'Malley
Sports writer
To add to her long list of honors, Kansas forward Vickie Adkins was named the American Women Sports Federation Player of the Week for her performance against the Oklahoma Sooners earlier this month in Lawrence.
In the Feb. 1 game, Adkins scored 35 points and grabbed 2 rebounds to lead the Jayhawks to a 85-6 upset victory over the then-No. 14 Sooners.
ADKINS PROFILE
She will be awarded the plaque during halftime of the women's game
Adkins' list includes honors such as two-time Kodak Midwest All-American; All-Tournament team for WRAL, a television station in North Carolina which sponsored the North Carolina State Classic.
Also in her collegiate career, she has been named to 12 all-tournament teams, including three this season.
She is ranked in the Big Eight's history as the 12th all-time scorer and 16th in rebounding. This season Adkins is averaging 22.2 points and 9.2 rebounds a game.
Washington said Adkins probably would have been Kansas' second alltime scorer if she hadn't missed so many games in the beginning of her career.
Marian Washington, women's head basketball coach, said last week,
"Your best players are your consistent players, day in and day out,
game after game. She is just great."
Hometown: Oklahoma City Age: 22
Background: Two-time Kodak Midwest All-American and All-Big Eight selection. Led Jayhawks with 20.4 points and 9.0 rebounds a game last year. As a senior at John Marshall High School in Oklahoma City, she was All-City, All-Conference, All-State and Oklahoma Player-of-the-Year.
Although Washington speaks highly of her player, Adkins said that she was not comfortable in her role as a leader on the women's basketball team. In fact, Adkins said she hated to speak in public.
Family: Mother, Rachel Adkins Class: Senior
It has only been in the last two
years Adkins has not been plagued by injuries. During her freshman year, Adkins was redshirted because she had knee surgery for torn ligaments in her left knee.
"At first I didn't like being red-shirted," Adkins said. "but I learned a lot from sitting out."
By sitting out Adkins said she refined her skills, and her shooting became sharper. And she is running more than she used to.
In her junior year, she missed the first six games with a hamstring injury.
"I like to have the ball in my hands all the time," Adkins said. "I love to shoot.
"My playing has improved each year on defense and scoring. I keep getting better."
Although Adkins is no stranger to basketball, she was not familiar with
the full-court game when she came to Kansas. She was used to playing six-on-six in Oklahoma, in which three players stay at one end to play offense and three stay at the other end on defense.
"Six on six was good," Adkins said,
"but I never had a chance to run. I love to run now."
Adkins came to Kansas with her sister, Barbara. Adkins' sister graduated last fall. She said they still kept in touch.
"Barbara and I always played together," Adkins said, "I always talk better to her. She offers constructive criticism."
But as her college basketball career begins to climax, Adkins is thinking about playing women's professional basketball in Europe.
"I want to go somewhere else and meet new people," Adkins said. "I love meeting people. Traveling excites the death out of me."
KU forward Vickie Adkins, who is averaging 22.2 points and 9.2 rebounds a game this season, has compiled a long list of bonors.
Task force to promote non-revenue sports
By Jim Suhr
Sports writer
A task force organized by the KU Athletic Department has decided to use promotions to attract fans to women's athletics and other non-revenue sporting events, a KU athletic official said recently.
Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, said the promotions, which would be sponsored throughout the semester by area businesses, would be used to bolster attendance for women's basketball, golf, softball, swimming, tennis, track and volleyball.
The coaches of those sports, along with Hunter, Athletic Director Monte Johnson and some faculty personnel, compose the task force.
They will continue tomorrow during the women's game against Missouri. At tomorrow's game, Maupintour, Eastern Airlines and the Athletic Department will award
Hunter said the promotions began at a Jan. 29 women's basketball game.
two free round-trip airline tickets to Florida to a fan in attendance.
smaller sporting events which Hunter said were neglected in attendance. The increased attendance, he said, would provide a solid base for future fan support.
"We felt the women's teams at Kansas were not receiving enough fan support and recognition for the
"Few people are aware of how competitive and fun to watch women's athletics are." Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director
"Few people are aware of how competitive and fun to watch women's athletics are," he said. "If we can get the students there with the chance to win prizes, we know they'll enjoy the game and come back again."
Johnson said promotions had been held for Kansas' two big sports, football and basketball, in the past. Transferring promotions to the smaller, non-revenue sports was only logical, he said.
Hunter said he did not know when or how many promotions would be held, but he said they would be advertised before the event.
"There are a lot of schools in the Big Eight who don't market their non-revenue sports," Johnson said. "But we don't want to overlook any sport here, several of which are at a championship level."
quality of their performances," Hunter said.
Mike Reid, assistant business manager of the Kansas Union and member of the task force, said he
Reid, Hunter and other members of the support group said they couldn't understand why non-revenue sports didn't attract more student support.
"It is at a higher level competitionwise now than it's ever been," Reid said.
There's no end to the possibilities we can explore with this group," he said. "Women's athletics is very exciting, it just takes a little exposure to make people aware of it."
He said news coverage, fan support and University financing were not equal to the support men's football and basketball received.
The women's program finished second last year to Nebraska for the Big Eight All-Sports crown.
Berry leads St. John's past Georgetown
thought women's athletics hadn't gotten a fair shake.
From Kansan wires
The Redmen have won nine of their last 10 and improved to 23-3 overall and 10-2 in the Big East, while the Hovas slipped to 19-4 and 9-3.
The victory, the Redmen's second of the season over the Hoyas and fourth straight on Georgetown's home court, snapped the Hoyas' eight-game winning streak.
LANDOVER, Md. — Walter Berry, playing with a sprained left ankle, scored 22 points, including 14 in the second half, and No. 7 St. John's held off a late surge last night to defeat No. 11 Georgetown 60-58.
With the Hoyas looking for a tying basket, Mark Jackson of St. John's stole the ball from David Wingate, and Shelton Jones sank 1-of-2 free throws for a 3-point lead with eight seconds left.
Berry, who injured his saturday
Berry and missed the second half of a
victory against Boston College, sank a pair of free throws with 2:35 remaining, but Johnathan Edwards hit a free throw with 1:21 left to cut the lead to 58-56.
Michael Jackson made a layup with three seconds to go, but Jones hit another free throw with two seconds left to account for the final point.
Rowan added 17 points for St. John's while the Hovas were paced
The Hoyas, employing a stifling fullcourt press, surged back from an early 5-point deficit with a 12-0 streak, holding the Redmen scoreless over a 6:04 stretch in the first half.
MEMPIH, Tenn. -- Dwight Boyd and Baskerville Hills scored 20 points each last night to carry No. 6 Memphis State to a 98-73 decision over Florida State in a Metro Conference game.
Memphis State 99, Florida State 73
The Tigers, 22-2 overall and 7-1 in the league, played their second straight game without 7-foot William Bedford, who is sitting out an NCAA
The Seminoles, 8-13 and 1-6, lost their 19th straight road game. Florida State has been giving up 86 points a game in the Metro Conference. Randy Allen led Florida State with 21 points and LaRae Davis added 14.
enforced two-game suspension for a rules violation. He will return for Saturday's game against Southern Mississippi.
North Carolina State 103, Brooklyn Col. 52
Other scores
Louisville 93, Virginia Tech 83
Phieffer 86, Elon 74
Sports Briefs
Sports Illustrated to feature Manning
Sports Illustrated reporters and photographers were in Lawrence last month and took photos of Manning in practice and play during the Jan. 18 Kansas-Oklahoma State basketball game in Allen Field House.
Sports Illustrated magazine will feature a cover story on Kansas sophomore Danny Manning in its Feb. 17 issue. The issue is scheduled to be distributed nationally tomorrow.
Manning will be pictured on the cover under the caption, "Star on the Rise."
Receiver commits
Smith, 5-foot-11 and 175 pounds,
is slated to sign with the Jayhawks
tomorrow, the first day national
letters of intent may be offered.
Quintin Smith has made an oral commitment to play for Kansas on a football scholarship next fall, the Dallas Times-Herald reported yesterday. At Houston Yates High School, he was the No. 1 receiver on Texas' large-class state championship team last fall.
Crew to sell puppets
sales will go toward the crew team's operating budget.
This year, the team allotted $50,000 for their budget. However, Sean Turner, crew manager, said the team's money was depleting.
The puppet will be for sale again after the men's home game against Nebraska on Saturday.
The profits generated from the
The $10 toy is a puppet whose arms can be manipulated from under its cloth to sock-it-to-you.
The KU Crew team will be selling the "Punching Jayhawk" at the end of the men's basketball game against the Missouri Tigers today in the main lobby of Allen Field House.
The budget covers costs for the coach's salary, travel expenses and the cost of new boats.
The crew team begins its season during KU's spring break in Austin, Texas for a regatta against Nebraska, Kansas State, Washburn, Wichita State, Minnesota and North Dakota,.
The senior guard went the distance and scored 16 points to go with his 13 assists. He also hit two clutch free throws in the final 20 seconds.
Hornacek gets honor
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Iowa State's Jeff Hornack was named the Big Eight player of the week yesterday for his hand in the Cyclones' 73-70 conquest of thenNo. 5 Oklahoma.
Hornacek won in a split vote over Kansas State's Norris Coleman, who had 51 points in victories over Nebraska and Colorado.
Cards name coach
ST. LOUISE — Gene Stallings, a Dallas Cowboys assistant since 1971, yesterday was named head coach of the St. Louis Cardinals. The entire coaching staff had been fired 15 minutes after their 1985 National Football League season ended.
Stallings said one of his first priorities would be to build a staff of assistants.
From staff and wire reports