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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 31, 1987
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Committee starts search to replace athletic director
By TIM HAMILTON Staff writer
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A seven-member committee was appointed yesterday to conduct a search for a successor to Athletic Director Monte Johnson, who announced his resignation last week.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said that the selection committee would recommend candidates to him and that he would name the successor.
Budig said that he hoped a replacement would be named within 45 days.
"Those individuals will review the applications and nominations for the position." Budig said yesterday. "I hope that they could limit the list of names to three.
"After they submit their list, I will sit down with them and seek their views on each candidate," he said.
Budig chose the selection committee members from the board of the Kansas University Athletic Corporation.
The committee members are Anthony Redwood, professor of business and chairman of the committee; Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs; Renate Mai-Dalton, associate professor of business; Don Green, professor of pertroleum engineering; two alumni representatives, Maurice E. King and Bill Sayler, both of Kansas City, Mo.; and student representative, Jack O'Leary, Lenexa freshman.
Redwood, chairman of the KUAC board, said the committee would meet later this week to review the athletic director job description and begin advertising for the position.
search, so we have to advertise in national outlets such as the Chronicle of Higher Education," said Redwood, who has been chairman of several search committees. "The University also has strict affirmative action procedures for the recruitment of applicants, which we will follow closely."
"We're conducting a national
Redwood said he hoped that the committee would generate the best possible pool of applicants in three weeks.
"It'll be three or four weeks before we can close off the applications," he said
Redwood said that after the application period ended, it would take the committee another three weeks to discuss the field of applicants, interview them and narrow the list. He said he hoped they would complete their task before the end of the semester.
Indiana captures NCAA title 74-73
"Our job is to choose the best athletic director we can," he said. "I know that everyone would like that to happen as quickly as possible, but we want to do the best job possible."
Green has served on previous search committees, including the one that chose Mike Gottfried, former KU football coach. He said that the search would begin as soon as possible.
"I'm sure we'll have an internal and external search and conduct it as quickly as possible and in keeping with principles of affirmative action," he said.
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“To be honest, I didn't know it was going in.” Smart said of the game-winning shot. “This is a fairy tale. Maybe I'll go up next year.”
The Hoosiers, who trailed by five points with 8:11 left, brought Coach Bobby Knight his third national title, putting him with John Wooden of UCLA and Adolph Rupp of Kentucky as the only basketball coaches to win more than two NCAA championships.
NEW ORLEANS — Keith Smart sank a 15-foot jump shot with four seconds left in last night's game and led the Indiana Hoosiers to their third national title in 11 years, a 74-73 victory over the Syracuse Orangemen in the NCAA championship game.
Syracuse Coach Jim Boeheim argued the timeout should have been declared immediately but officials would not roll back the clock. Smart intercepted Syracuse's inbounds pass as the buzzer sounded.
The 6-foot-1 point guard, a junior college transfer from Garden City Junior College in Garden City, Kan., was selected the game's MVP.
Smart, who hit 17 of his 21 points in the second half, including six of Indiana's last seven baskets, scored 34 points and held off left, pulling the Hossters within 73-72.
Indiana's Steve Alford then fouled freshman Derrick Coleman, who missed the front end of a one-and-one with 28 seconds to go. Indiana rebounded the miss and ran the clock down before Smart hit his basket from the corner, ending a game that featured 18 lead changes and 10 ties.
Though there were four seconds left when Smart hit his basket, Syracuse players failed to get a timeout until the guards until only one second remained.
Alford scored 23 points,21 on
"I was only taking what was given to me," said Smart, who scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half. The last two came on a baseline jumper with five seconds left giving Indiana a 74-73 victory over Syracuse for Indiana's fifth national title.
NEW ORLEANS — Indiana Coach Bobby Knight made a wise move when he collared Keith Smart for a strategy session at halftime of the NCAA basketball tournament championship game.
Smart named most valuable player
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It was a performance that earned Smart the most valuable player award.
"Coach Knight talked to me at halftime and told me I would have to get into the game — not just get the ball in the air, but also take the jumper." Smart
Just as Knight had before him, Smart realized that Syracuse was pressuring Indiana's All-America guard, Steve Alford. So smart got the ball instead, scoring 14 points in the last $9\frac{1}{4}$ minutes.
Syracuse also tried to deny the middle to center Daryl Thomas, so Smart consistently was able to move inside during the final minutes. He made his game-winning basket from 16 feet.
"The play was designed to go to Steve, but he was heavily covered," said Smart, a junior-college transfer from nearby Baton Rouge. La. "Daryl did the smart thing, I guess, by dropping it back to me.
"I don't believe this. I may sit down sometime next week and it'll dawn on me."
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said the Orangemen did a solid job of containing Smart "most of the time, but he broke loose at the end. We played good enough defense to win the game."
Alford, who led Indiana with 23 points, scored only one basket in the final 11:39, which came on a fast break layup with 4:05 remaining. Smart, however, picked up the slack.
Syracuse forward Howard Triche, who was guarding Smart on his game-winning shot, gave his opponent all the credit.
"He came up with a pretty good shot and made an excellent play," Trie said.
"We had never panicked, not one time this year." Smart said. "If Steve is covered, someone is going to step forward. Tonight, it was my turn.
It was the sixth championship game in the last eight years to be decided by five points or less and the fifth one-point title game to be played. The last one was North Carolina's 63-62 victory over Georgetown five years ago.
Knight, who last won the title in 1981, took his third crown in stride. "To me as a coach it doesn't mean
Indiana grabbed a 34-33 halftime advantage on a three-point shot by Alford one second before intermission. Seikaly hit two free throws and Greg Monroe connected on an 18-foot jumper dn started the second half, but Indiana scored seven straight points and regained the lead. 41-37
three-point baskets, and helped Indiana end its season at 30-4. Daryl Thomas added 20 points and Dean Smith scored 16 points and 14 rebounds for the Hoosiers.
anything," he said. "Sure I'm tickled, but for these kids — to come back like they did and to hang in the game the way they did."
Seikaly ignited a 15-3 run with a three-point play off a short bank shot as Syracuse moved to a 52-44 margin, the biggest advantage for either team. Derek Brower scored five points for the Orangemen inside during the sourt.
then led another Syracuse charge,
scoring seven points in a 9-2 dash.
Phomas then hit a free throw and a layup in traffic and Smart scored on a twisting drive and tied the score 31-61 with 5:42 left.
Seikaly leaned inside for a basket and put Syracuse ahead 70-68 with 2:03 to go. He was fouled on the play and missed a free throw, but Coleman grabbed his 19th rebound as the Orangemen retained possession.
The Hoosiers responded with a 10-0 run and moved in front 54-52. Douglas
Douglas missed a running jumper and Smart scored on a drive and tied the game 70-70. Howard Triche then made a five-tooter. When Smart missed for Indiana, Triche grabbed a two-pointing ball from one of two free throws and gave the Orangemen a 73-70 lead with 38 seconds left.
Basketball champs of '52 recall NCAA title
By ROB KNAPP
Staff writer
Bill Lienhard can remember coming home a champion.
"It was a terrific thing," he said last week from his office in Lawrence. "There were about 10,000 people lining Massachusetts Street."
And through the middle of them, perched at a fire truck, rode Lienhard and the rest of the 1951-52 season, suceeding heroes returning from battle.
The 1951-52 Kansas Jayhawks pose with their individual plaques and the team trophy after winning the 1952 NCAA Basketball Tournament in Seattle. The Jayhawks had just beaten St. John's 80-63 in the tournament final.
The Jayhawks had beaten St. John's 80-63 in Seattle and won the NCAA Tournament, and what seemed like the whole university showed up at 2 a.m. to welcome them home.
The squad remains the only in KU history ever to capture a national championship.
The 1951-52 Jayhawks won 28 of 31 games on their way to that championship. Coach F.C. "Phog" Allen would finish his 39-year career at Kansas with 590 victories, and senior center Clyde Lovette, just recently displaced as KU's all-time leading scorer, is one of the country's in scoring with 28.6 points a game and won several player-of-the-year awards.
"I wouldn't have done all that if Phog hadn't got all those talented guys and then said, 'You have this role, and you have this role,'" Lovellette said yesterday from his office in Muncie. Ind
Lovelle works as vocational coordinator and director of the graduate equivalency degree program at White Institute, a home for young people who've had trouble with the law.
Lienhard, a starting forward on the team and now a senior vice president at the First National Bank of Lawrence, described Lovelette as "the premier big man in the country."
"But we had a balanced scoring attack," Lienhard said. "The four other players were all good outside shooters."
Leading the Jayhawk sharp-shooters was Bob "Trigger" Kenney, a 6-foot-2 senior forward who averaged 131 points a game that season. Senior guard Bill Hougland and junior guard Dean Kelley also were dangerous from the outside.
Lienhard was called "the finest one-hand set shot artist in Kansas basketball history" in the April 3, 1952, issue of the Kansan.
These offensive weapons, plus an aggressive trapping defense instituted
"This team was just kind of overpowering compared to some of the other teams," Kelley said from his home in Morton, Ill., where he is a planning superintendent for Caterpillar Tractor Co.
by assistant coach Dick Harp, helped the team win its four NCAA Tournament games by an average margin of almost 15 points a game.
The Jayhawks earned an automatic berth in the Midwest Regional at Manhattan by winning the Big Seven Conference with an 11-1 record. Kansas then slipped by Southwest Conference champion Texas Christian 68-64 and Missouri Valley champion
St. Louis 74-55 to advance to the Final Four.
The Jayhawks traveled to Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle and defeated Santa Clara 74-55 in the semifinal game, setting up a rematch with St. John's, who Kansas had beaten by one point the previous season in New York City.
Kenney and Lienhard added 12 points apiece for the Hawjacks.
But the Redmen were no match for Lovelle and Kansas, which won 80-63. Lovelle scored 33 points, finishing a tournament with a record 141 points.
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MANHATTAN - Standout forward Norris Coleman yesterday announced that he would skip his senior year of eligibility at Kansas State and enter the NBA draft.
Coleman, who scored 1,003 points in his two seasons at Kansas State, released a statement explaining his decision not to return next year.
"After weeks of long, hard thinking and exercising my options, I feel as though it is in my best interest to forego my senior year of eligibility and enter this year's NBA draft," Coleman's statement said.
"I would like to give special thanks to (former K-State) Coach Hartman, Coach Kruger and the entire Kansas State community for giving me the chance to fulfill one of my deepest childhood dreams — to play college basketball.
"When and where I go in the draft isn't really that significant anymore. I feel as though being in a situation to drafted at all in ... the route I came by is an accomplishment itself."
"With those thoughts in mind, and playing only 47 collegiate basketball games, I consider myself one of the most fortune guys around. My intentions while at Kansas State were to contribute to the best of my ability in basketball program at this university — nothing more, nothing less."
"I wish Coach Kruger, his staff and all of my former teammates all the success in the world. I will deeply miss Kansas State and that it has done for me. The fan support and the community have been outstanding."
"But the 'Sarge' era at Kansas State has finally reached its desi-
mance."
Coleman's teammates and tans nicknamed him the "Sarge" because he held the rank of sergeant upon his discharge from the Army before going to Kansas State.
In 19 games this season, the 25-year-old Coleman averaged 20.7 points and 8.4 rebounds, leading the Wildcats in those categories as well as in blocked shots, with 27 for the season.
He was selected Big Eight Newcomer of the Year during the 1985-86 season and was the leading freshman scorer in the country among NCAA Division I teams with a 21-point game average.
But his sterling record earned him a black mark in February 1986 when he scored 42.
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Athletes' early enrollment justified by exposure they give KU
Why enrollment continued to increase each semester at the University of Kansas was the most popular question asked of Chancellor Gene A. Budig when he visited my advanced reporting class at the beginning of the semester.
Diane Filipowski
Fall enrollment begins next week, and if your luck is as good as most students at the University, you will probably get your turn on the last day.
One reason, Budig said, was the KU men's basketball team's success last season. The trip to the Final Four was free advertising for the University and made the back and the school well-known.
It's not a secret at KU that classes close early, and getting that communications or business class you need may not always be possible. But that's not a problem for student-athletes who enroll before the entire student body does.
But you can't blame the 400 athletes that have brought national exposure and attention to the their number rarely changes.
What about the people who decided to come to the University because of the halftime clip they saw about a school they never knew existed, or one that they never had an interest in until it had a good basketball team?
You probably think about how unfair that is, especially when the computer in Strong Hall flashes "class closed."
Before I go any further, I want to clarify why athletes enroll before the student body at the University.
Enrolling first assures places for student-athletes in morning classes, allowing them to avoid schedule conflicts with practices held in the afternoon because of the availability of facilities.
Travel is another reason. KU teams leave in the afternoon for their competitions, and athletes cannot afford to miss classes that they would have been unable to up come because of their competition.
At KU, it seems as if athletics and academics have become a sore spot, primarily because only the athletes that are declared ineligible are publicized. The student-athletes that are performing well in school, and there are more that are than aren't, seem to be overlooked.
Why should the small number of athletes that are declared ineligible represent KU's 400 athletes? Why not concentrate on the eight athletes last semester that
received 4.0 grade point averages?
The Fall 1987 semester was as successful on the field as it was off the field for student-athletes at the University. Seventy-five percent of the athletes had GPA's above 2.0, 25 percent were above 3.0 and the overall GKA for athletes was 2.49. Twenty KU athletes were named to the All-Big Eight Academic team.
Those who have problems during the fall semester are monitored again during the spring semester.
KU coaches pay attention to academics. Each team has an academic coordinator who monitors each athlete's class progress and attendance three times during the fall semester.
At Kansas, the academic support office was added to the athletic department two years ago to continue the athletes' awareness of academics and to allow Kansas coaches to stay on top of the ever-
changing National Collegiate Athletic Association rules
Under the rule, student-athletes are required to declare a major after they have taken 60 hours, no more than fifth semester, to remain eligible.
Obviously, student athletes cannot be athletes without being aware of their academic careers as well.
Let the academic accomplishments of KU's student-athletes
One of these rules, the satisfactory progress rule which was implemented in 1985, states that an athlete must be enrolled in 24 class hours a year and all 24 hours must count toward a major.
Thank the basketball team, last year's ninth-ranked softball team, the women's swim team that usually makes a top twenty showing at nationalists each year, and the KU's other athletes who compete across the country and represent the University on the playing fields.
who are members of the All-Big Eight Academic Team be a source of pride. Focus on the positive, and allow yourself to look past the names of ineligible athletes that appear from time to time, because not all athletes perform poorly in the classroom.
Early enrollment does help KU's student-athletes balance their athletic and academic schedules.
These 400 student-athletes have committed themselves to representing and bringing nationwide attention to the University. If you don't appreciate that commitment, at least understand the attention academic coordinators and coaches at Kansas have placed on both their athletics' academic and athletic performances.
Editor's note: Diane Filipowski is a sports reporter for the University Daily Kansan.