Friday, Feb. 7, 1986
Sports
University Daily Kansan
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Seven-footers to stage rematch
Kansas needs win over Cowboys to stay atop league standings
By Matt Tidwell
Sports writer
Kansas center Greg Drelling has no problem remembering the Jayhawks' last game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
In the Jayhawks '95-72 win Jan. 18.
7-foot-1 Dreiling went head-tohead.
Oklahoma State
Men's Basketball
12-8. (Big 3, 8-4)
in tomorrow
(channel and 27)
at Stellwater
with the Cowboys' 7-4 inch freshmen center Alan Bannister.
Bamsteris rated 22 points and con-
tinually beat Dreiling with hook shots.
The Jayhawks will get another shot at Bannister and the Cowboys at 3:05 tomorrow afternoon in Stillwater.
"We need to keep the ball out of his hands on offense," Dreiling said. "I'll just have to keep him further out on the floor and away from the basket.
Dreling didn't talk about any special strategy against Bannister—a player who Cowboy head coach
Paul Hansen recruited from Bolton, England — but said he benefited by getting advice on how to play against the league's tallest player.
"Coach Manning said that when he used to play against Artis Glimore, he would meet him at the free throw line to try and keep him away from the basket." Dreiling said of assistant coach Ed Manning.
Bannister has cooled off since the Kansas game. He is averaging seven points and 3.5 rebounds a game and is one of the figures in just three other games.
Still, Drelling said he was convinced that Bannister was not to be taken lightly.
"He leads the league in blocked shots (37, 2.1 a game), so that's got to tell you something about the guy," Drreling said.
Head coach Larry Brown said he was impressed with the Cowboy center but was concerned about the hook shot Bannister used effectively several times against Kansas.
"He walks (travels) every time, and he uses his off-arm to push-off." Brown said. "That's an automatic foul in the pros. As soon as that off-
arm comes out they call it."
Dreiling said Bannister's non-shooting arm was in his face throughout the game.
"Yeah, I felt it." Dreiling said. "I felt it on my head, across my face, on my lip. I'm hoping the officials will become more aware of it."
Kansas, 21-3 overall and tied for the league lead with Oklahoma at 6-1, comes into the game fresh from Wednesday night's 100-64 thrashing of Colorado.
Oklahoma State, 12-8 and 3-4, also played Wednesday and lost to
The Cowboys beat the Iowa State Cyclones 67-65 Saturday in Stillwater. The Cyclones gave Kansas its last conference loss, 77-74 Jan. 28 in Ames.
Besides Bannister, the Cowboys look to guard Terry Faggins, who averages 13.5 points a game, and forwards, Kyvy, who scored 21 against Sonson.
Faggins and Ivy each scored 13 in the last game against Kansas, but Brown said it was Bannister who caused Kansas the most problems.
"He's going to be a great player
and he's a force in our league," Brown said. "But I don't think we'll change the whole game to try and stop him."
Jayhawk Notes — Danny Manning went 10-for-10 from the field and scored 21 points in the first Jayhawk-Cowboy game...The Jayhawks made 69 percent of their field goal attempts in the first game. Hansen is 7-9 against Kansas while Brown owns a 5-1 mark against the Cowboys. Dreiling scored nine points and grabbed five reboundes in the first game against the Cowboys.
Probable Starters
Kansas
F 25 Danny Manning (6-11)
F 44 Ron Kellogg (6-5)
C 30 Greg Drilling (7-1)
G 35 Calvin Thompson (6-6)
G 22 Cedric Hunter (6-2)
Oklahoma St.
F 44 Jason Manuel (6-7)
F 30 Terry Faggins (6-5)
C 50 Alan Bannister (7-4)
G 40 Melvin Gilliam (6-2)
G 10 Roshon Patton (5-1)
Kansas center Greg Dreiling and Oklahoma State center Alan Bannister will square off tomorrow when the sixth-ranked Jayhawks travel to Stillwater to battle the Cowboys at 3:05 p.m.
'Hawks tune up for big meet
By Jim Suhr
Sports writer
Sports Center
The KU men's and women's track teams, in preparation for the Big Eight Indoor Championships later this month at Lincoln, Neb., will host the Jayhawk Invitational today and tomorrow at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
The invitational, which will not be scored, begins for both men and women at 4 p.m. today and resumes at noon tomorrow. The Jayhawks will face several midwestern junior colleges and universities, including Big Eight rivals Kansas State and Colorado. Wichita State and Oklahoma Baptist also will compete. The women will compete against the same teams plus national power Iowa.
Bob Timmons, men's head track coach, said yesterday that six members of the men's team would compete today at the Oklahoma Track Classic in Oklahoma City. The Jayhawks that will compete in Oklahoma are pole vaulters Scott Huffman, Lance Adams and Chris Bohanan and jumpers Sharrieff
The Classic will be held in the Myriad Sports Complex, the site of this season's National Collegiate Athletic Association Indoor Championships. Timmons said the six Jeyhawks would have an opportunity to get used to the wooden runways at that complex in time for the championships.
Timmons said for the rest of the team, the Jayhawk Invitational would serve as a stepping stone for the Jayhawks, who are preparing for the Big Eight meet. He said because scores would not be kept for the meet, his athletes would concentrate on their finishes as individuals rather as a team.
Timmons said he hadn't looked beyond this weekend's meet. He said the smaller schools, which would not be as strong as the larger universities, would send individuals who would push the Jayhawks.
Those performances, Timmons said, would help determine who will compete in which events for the Jayhawks in the conference meet.
"They may not necessarily be 'powered,' he said of the smaller schools. "But if you combine the skills, they will have it to be a touch meet."
On the women's side, head coach Carla Coffey said Kansas also would use the meet to get ready for the Big Eight championships. She said, however, she expected quality competition from the schools that attended — primarily from Iowa and Colorado.
"We have to have a team effort," she said. "Our people want to do well, and we expect them to go out and give 100 percent."
The Kansas women will be without shot putter Denise Buckingham to compete this weekend in the Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb.
Coffey said Buchanan, a junior who has already qualified for the national meet in the shot put, would travel to the Husker Invitational for competition that would push her more.
OU faculty wants tournaments changed
United Press International
Oklahoma faculty has asked Big Eight officials to quit scheduling tournements during final exams and said they may not allow athletes to make up tests when conflicts arise.
The Oklahoma faculty recently passed a resolution saying the faculty deplores being asked to make exceptions to its rule, which does not allow exams to be rescheduled for athletic events.
The faculty handbook says exams should be reset for individuals if there is a serious illness or a death in the family and for certain academic conflicts.
Faculty senate president David Levy said the question arose because of several requests for rescheduling final examinations on behalf of athletes by coaches.
"When a faculty member receives a request, the faculty member is reluctant to put a student athlete in the terrible dilemma of deciding to take the final exam with his classmates or participate in the sporting event." Levy said.
But he said the faculty felt it threatened the integrity of exams to have students take them at different times.
Big Eight Associate Commissioner Prentice Gautt said the conference had heard similar complaints from Nebraska.
"The concerns are more with the number of contests played," said Brinkman. "Final exams are just one of the problems. The only real
Del Brinkman, Kansas Big Eight faculty representative, said athletes' schedules always conflicted in some way with classes.
Brinkman said it would be difficult to schedule tournaments to avoid conflicts with final exams because they are given at different times at different universities.
answer is to cancel all spring sports because there are always conflicts "
Gautt said the conference would discuss tournament schedules at a later date.
Officials said most of the scheduling problems occurred in the spring when baseball and softball conference games were played.
"The conference is here at the pleasure of our conference institutions," Gautt said.
Gautt said coaches liked to set conference playoffs at the end of the semester so athletes would be in the best possible shape for NCAA tournaments which usually began when classes ended.
Cards want posters stopped
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals have asked the printer of a poster depicting an artist's rendering of the infamous call from Game 6 of the 1985 World Series to stop selling it.
Gary Blase, the Cardinals vice president of administration, yesterday said that attorneys for the National League champions sent a letter Wednesday to Tim White, 27, of Grand Island, Neb., asking him to halt sales and destroy his remaining stock of a poster depicting the ninth-inning call from Game 6.
the Cardinals," Blase said. "We had nothing to do with it and we did not approve it.
"What happened was Tim White is a good, solid Cardinal fan and the call and the game in the World Series upset him. The Cardinals obviously appreciate strong support of all our fans but this gentleman went a little too far. Unfortunately, he wanted to have a little fun and put this poster together."
"The poster was unauthorized by
The poster, produced by Rideren Printing Co., sold for $15 and had been advertised locally in a St. Louis newspaper. The poster depicts Cardinals pitcher Todd Worrell having his foot on first base with the ball in
his glove ahead of the Kansas City Royals' Orge Jarta and in plain view of ampire Don Denkinger, who is making a safe call.
White said he could not give an honest count but estimated he had sold somewhere between 450 and 700 posters.
Blase said he wanted to discount reports the Cardinals were planning on using it for a "Poster Day" promotion. He also said reports that Anheuser-Busch Co. Inc. distributors would sell the poster were false.
"we sent him a cease-and-desist letter," Blase said. "We asked him to stop selling the poster. If he doesn't, it's for the lawyers."
Duke topples Virginia by eight
From Kansan wires
Virginia, which upset No. 1 North Carolina last week, was unable to capitalize inside. Duke smothered Virginia center Olden Polynige and limited him to 7 points, the first time he did not finish in double figures this season.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- David Henderson and Johnny Dawkins scored 20 points each last night to lift No. 2 Duke to a 77-65 victory over No. 2 Virginia in an Atlantic Coast Conference game.
The Blue Devils broke to a 34-20 halftime lead and expanded the margin to 46-27 with less than 16 minutes to play. Virginia made a late flurry and cut the lead to 5.
Duke, 21-2 overall and 8-2 in the ACC, received 16 points from Mark Alarie, Virginia, 14-6 and 4-4, was led by Mel Kennedy's 23 points, Andrew Kenndy added 12 and Richard Morgan 11 for the Cavaliers.
Duke, which has not lost to Virginia since Ralph Sampson graduated in 1983, took control late in the first half, using a 16-3 run to break from an 18-17 lead.
Duke jumped to a 19-point lead before Virginia started nibbling away. A flurry of 7 points in 58 seconds by Morgan brought Virginia within 11 with 10:29 to play. A steal
and layup by Tom Calloway with 4:09 left trimmed the lead to 64-59, but Virginia came no closer.
Georgia Tech 87, North Carolina-
Charlotte 78
ATLANTA — Freshman Tom Hammonds scored a career-high 24 points as second-ranked Georgia Tech overcame a sluggish first half and downed North Carolina-Charlotte 87-76 in a basketball game last night.
N. C. Charlotte, 5-15, held a 42-37 lead before Tech opened the second half with a 9-0 run, then took command with a 13-2 spurt to hand the 48ers their 10th loss in a row.
Hammonds, who hit 10 of 12 shots from the field, Mark Price and Bruce Dalrymple keyed a 13-2 run with four points each as Tech stretched a 58-57 lead with 9:53 remaining to 71-59 with 7:22 to play.
The victory lifted the Yellow Jackets to 18-3 on the heels of Tuesday night's 78-77 overtime loss to No. 1 North Carolina and going into Sunday's clash with No. 3 Duke in Durham, N.C.
Michigan 80. Purdue 79
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Roy Tarpley scored 16 points and No. 8 Michigan overcame poor free-throwing late in the game last night to hold off Big Ten ten Feardur 80-79.
Despite missing the front end of one-and-one situations four times in the final two minutes, Michigan was able to improve to 20-2 overall and 8-2 in the league.
The Wolverines took the lead for good with 8:25 left on a 3-point play by Gary Grant that made the score 64-61.
Todd Mitchell scored 21 points for Purdue, 16-7 and 5-5, while Troy Lewis had 17.
Butch Wade contributed 13 points for Michigan. Antoine Joubert and Richard Rellford each scored 12.
Louisville 103, Virginia Tech 68
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Billy Thompson scored 21 points and Herbert Crook added 19 last night to lead No. 16 Louisville to a 103-68 Metro Conference romp over No. 15 Virginia Tech.
The Cardinals posted their highest scoring game since 1983, when they beat St. Louis in Staples.
Dell Curry, Virginia Tech's star guard who averages nearly 24 points a game, was held to 13, with only 4 in the second half. Keith Colbert and Bobby Beecher added 13 apiece for the Hokies.
With its four straight victory, Louisville improved to 15-6 overall and 4-2 in the conference. The Hokies fell to 18-5 and 4-3.
Mark Hanna, Kansas City, Mo., junior concentrates on his workout in the weight room at Robinson Center. Hanna was working with the rest of his physical conditioning class yesterday.
Mike Horton/Special to the KANSAN
Sports Briefs
Jayhawks lose twice in tennis tournament
The KU men's tennis team suffer a doubled setback yesterday at the ITCA National Singles-Doubles tournament in Houston.
Mike Wolf, the Jayhawk's No. 1 player, lost to Richard Bergh, of Long Beach State, 6-3, 6-3, in the first round of the singles competition.
Wolf and the Jayhawk's No. 2 player, Mike Center, lost to Ricky Leach and Tim Pawsat, of USC, 6-4, 6-4, in the first round of doubles competition.
The consolation round for singles and doubles will be played today.
Surgery for Marino
NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma forward Anthony Bowie could miss tomorrow's game against Iowa State because of an injury, university officials said yesterday.
MIAMI — Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., it was announced yesterday.
The surgery, which is not expected to be serious, will be performed today by J.R. Steadman. A team spokesman said the surgery was designed to find any loose fragments in Marino's right knee and remove them. It is the third straight year Marino has had surgery on the knee in the off-season.
OU star on crutches
Bowie left Lloyd Noble Center on crutches Wednesday night after Oklahoma defeated Oklahoma State 106-84.
OU sports information spokesman Larry McAlister said doctors determined Bowie had sprained his ankle. They placed Bowie's ankle in a walking cast.
Bedford suspended
MEMPHS, Tenn. — Memphis State center William Bedford has been suspended for two games by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for violations last spring, officials said yesterday.
Bedford, a 'foot junior and the fourth-ranked "Tigers" leading scorer, will miss tomorrow's nationally televised game against Nevada-Las Vegas and Monday's game against Metro rival Florida State.
The suspension apparently stems from several incidents last spring when Bedford drove cars loaned to him by MSU boosters, a violation of NCAA rules.
From staff and wire reports.