University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 30, 1987
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*Basketball Extra*
Alan Haagman/KANSAN
Hunter, Turgeon finish careers remember last year's Final Four
Coach Larry Brown consoles seniors Mark Turgeon and Cedric Hunter in the closing moments of KU's final game. KU lost to Georgetown 70-57 in the Southeast Regional semifinals of the NCAA tournament in Louisville, Kv.
Bv NICOLE SAUZEK
Associate sports editor
Now that their final season at Kansas is over, seniors Cedric Hunter and Mark Turgeon are looking to the future, but they still can't keep themselves from thinking about the past.
"It's tough," Hunter said at his KU apartment while watching this year's seminal Final Four games in New Orleans. "I was just thinking about last year and looking at my ring.
Last year at this time, Kansas was at the NCAA Final Four in Dallas. They lost in the semifinals 67-71 to Duke, but at least they were there.
"If we would had gotten a couple breaks, it could have been us there."
But the Jayhawks aren't there. They are watching other teams play for the championship, an honor the young Kansas team had wanted for themselves.
"It's frustrating," Turgeon said. "I keep thinking back to last year and how special the team was. It brings back a lot of good memories.
The seniors big finale came to an end two weeks ago when they lost 57-70 to Georgetown in the Southeast Regional semifinal game in Louisville, Ky. The Jayhawks finished the season with a 25-11 record.
"This whole week has been kind of, well, I don't know. I've just been sitting around thinking about everything."
"I really didn't know what to expect," Hunter said of the season. "I thought Danny could go pretty far. Then, as the season went on, the freshmen got better and so did we."
Hunter broke the all-time KU and Big Eight Conference career assist records, finishing his career with 684. He also ranks 22nd on the KU all-time scoring list, tied with David Mangleton at 1,022 points.
The old KU career assist record was held by Darnell Valentine with 609 total assists. The old Big Eight record was set by Jeff Hornacek of Iowa State with 665.
Hunter was named to the Big Eight Second Team and to the Big Eight Tournament Team. He also was named Big Eight Conference All-Defense.
Turgeon became the first player
in KU history to appear in four NCAA tournaments.
Hunter is preparing for a shoot-out in Indianapolis consisting of 65 college seniors. Players were invited to play in front of professional scouts in Indianapolis and Chicago. Play begins April 1 and will continue for a week.
"I hope he does well." Coach Larry Brown said. "But, it's gotta be hard. Everything comes hard for him."
For Turgeon, concentration will
turn to school and the master's degree in personnel administration he hopes to earn in the next two years. He said he wanted to stay and help Brown to see if he liked coaching.
The leadership of Hunter and Turgeon will be missed on the young Jayhawk team, according to Brown and teammates.
"As far as replacing them," Brown said, "it's never gonna happen. I just hope we can find kids like them."
Coaches' efforts turn to recruits
Staff writer
By ROB KNAPP
Now that the college basketball season is over, Kansas coach Larry Brown and his staff have time to do some hunting.
This is no pastime, though The Kansas basketball coaches, already hard at work trying to flush out guards and rebounders for next year's squad, flew to Texas on Tuesday for their first recruiting trip since the season's end.
The new recruiting drive comes after speculation that two of the four high school seniors who signed early national letters of intent last fall to play basketball at Kansas will be ineligible next season because of the
The speculation concerns Antoine Lewis, a 6-foot-1 guard from Brooklyn, N.Y., and Mike Masucci, a 7-foot center from Grandview. Mo.
"Right now, we're serabbling from room to room in academics," he said Tuesday, mortifying.
Proposition 48 states that incoming freshmen with a minimum 1.8 high school graduation rate are
score at least 740 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or a 17 on the American Collegiate Test to be eligible to compete on the Division I level.
Lewis, a member of the all-New York metro team, averaged 16 points and seven assists a game this season as a point guard for Grady High School in Brooklyn, the same school that produced former Kansas State All-Big Eight Conference guard Rolando Blackman. Lewis averaged 17.2 points and 7.2 assist his junior year.
Richard Lee. Kansas assistant athletic director and head of academic support for student athletes, said no judgments could be made concerning recruits and Proposition 48 until they had received final grades.
Lewis would be a candidate for the point guard slot left open by Cedric Mills.
Student athletes who do not meet Proposition 48 standards, but wish to compete in Division I, may keep their scholarships and forfeit one year of eligibility, or keep all four years of eligibility and pay full tuition their first year.
Masucci followed up an outstanding junior year at Grandview High School, in which he averaged 24 points and 11 rebounds a game, with 19.2 points and 11.2 rebounds a game this season. Van Coleman's Prep Report lists Masucci as ninth-best center in the country.
Another of Kansas' early recruits, Mike Maddox of Putnam City, Okla. was named Oklahoma Co-Player-Of The-Year by the state coaches association and the Tulsa World.
Maddox, a 6-foot-8 forward, led Putnam City North into the finals of the state playoffs this season and averaged 25.6 points and 10 rebounds a game. Van Coleman listed him as the fifth-best forward in the country.
The Jayhawks' other early signee, Ricky Butler of Huntington Beach. Calif., finished his senior season averaging 17 points and 14.2 rebounds a game. Butler, a 6-foot-6 forward, played at Ocean View High School.
Kansan associate sports editor Nicole Sauzek contributed information to this story.
Basketball 'Hawks and their fans turn in record-breaking seasons
The 1986-87 Kansas men's basketball team and its fans made their mark on the 89-year Kansas basket ball tradition with record-breaking years.
By a Kansan reporter
The streak breaks the school record of 33 wins set from 1951 to 1955 and ties the Big Eight Conference record. It was Lloyd Noble Center from 1883-1896.
The Jayhawks, undefeated in Allen Field House for the third year in a row, set a record for consecutive home court wins, with 48.
213,030, a 14,202 average, set by KU last season.
Here are some individual records and milestones accomplished this season:
KU fans also broke the school and conference records for attendance. Kansas' attendance of 233,000, an average of 15,587 a game, broke the school and conference mark of
Set a Kansas career scoring mark with 2,009 points, passing Clyde Lovellette's 1,888 set from 1950-52.
Set a Kansas and Big Eight single-season record for field goal percentage with 617 (347-562). The Kansas in 1963-68. 611 held by Greg Dreiling in 1963-68.
Recorded four consecutive 20-win seasons for only the second time in Kansas history.
Danny Manning:
Larry Brown:
Was named Big Eight Player of the Year for second year in a row.
The Kansas women's basketball team came together like pieces in a well-oiled machine, starting forward Sandy Shaw said when describing the Jayhawks' nine-game winning streak late in the 1986-87 season.
'Hawks start season slowly but finish with NCAA berth
Became the 26th All-American in Kansas history. He was named firstteam All American by The Associated Press, United Press International, Kodak and Basketball Weekly, among others.
By DAVID BOYCE
Set a Kansas and Big Eight career assists record with 684. The Kansas record was 609 set by Darnell Valentine from 1978-81. The Big Eight record was 665 set by Jeff Hornacek of Iowa State from 1983-86.
Women's Basketball
Staff writer
During the winning streak, the Jayhawks went from fifth in the Big Eight Conference to finish in a three-way tie for first with Kansas State University and Missouri.
The Jayhawks went on to win the Big Eight Tournament and a first-round game over Northeastern Louisiana in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. The team lost to Georgia in the second round, finishing 29-13.
Mark Turgeon:
Set Kansas record for career games played with 134. The record was 131 set by Calvin Thompson from 1983-06.
"No one expected us to do what we did," Shaw said last week. "I don't even think we expected ours."
"Early in the season we were not playing well, but then each player looked at their strengths and weaknesses and we put it together."
The Jayhawks lost their last conference game on Feb. 7 against Oklahoma State in Allen Field House, 81-68. They did not lose again until they lost to Georgia, 82-51.
"We just started playing together and something special began to take place," Shaw said. "During the winning streak we didn't realize the success we were having. We were just taking one game at a time."
Shaw said the team came together after the Oklahoma State game and was impressed by his play.
Became the first Jayhawk to play in the NCAA tournament four times.
The crowning moment for the Jayhawks was an 85-31 victory over K-State in the championship game of the Big Eight Tournament in Salina, which gave Kansas its first ever NCAA tournament berth.
"It was not a fluke that we won so convincingly," Shaw said. "We had played bad the two previous games, but we just came together both offensively and defensively."
For 5-foot-7 point guard Evette Ott, one of only two seniors on the team, the victory over K-State in the championship game meant she would finally play in the NCAA tournament.
When the season started, Ott said one of her goals was to play in the NCAA tournament. And the ease in which the Jayhawks beat the Wildcats to gain the automatic berth was of no surprise to her.
"It just confirmed my belief that we had a good team in conference," OW.
Ott finished her career with 268 assists, which ranks her fourth on the all-time KU assists list.
The other senior was Tina Dixon, who joined the team Feb. 14 against Oklahoma. Dixon played nine games with Kansas.
Dixon, 6-3, was added to the team because it lacked height. The tallest starter was Shaw, 6-0, with 6-4 freshman Lynn Page coming of the bench. But Page lacked the experience Coach Marian Washington wanted down the stretch.
Dixon saw her most action against Georgia in the second-round of the NCAA tournament. She was used to counter the Bulldogs size. Georgia had three players over 6-2 in the
starting lineup, including a 6-7 center.
After the loss to Georgia, it became obvious to Shaw that the women's team needed height for next year.
"We have a good nucleus of returning seniors, but we do need some height," Shaw said. "But going into the game, everyone on the team thought we could win. We were serious, but Georgia was better than we thought."
Ott said she was a little disappointed after the loss, but became pleased with the team's overall play once she thought about the entire season.
During the closing minutes of the game, Ott said she was still yelling encouragement to her team rather than thinking that the Georgia game would be her last for Kansas.
"I was saying, 'Come on guys, let's play ball,' " Ott said. "When we lost I was sad that it was all going to end here."
Ott said she would remember this season the most because of the team's closeness, what the team accomplished and the coaching staff.
Ott, like many of her teammates,
only rested a few days before picking
up a ball again to shoot around.
Ott said she started practicing to get ready for a tryout for the U.S. National team April 23-26 in Colorado.
Shaw said she started playing in
It did not take Shaw or reserve Kerri Hawley long before they, too, picked up a basketball.
1986-87 Women's Basketball (20-13)
% KU 67, C. Missouri St. 63
% LOUISIANA TECH. St. 64, KU 4
KU 87, MINNESOTA 74
KU 97, TULSA 45
KU 78, Drake 63
KU 91, PITTSBURG ST. 57
Wichita St. 70, KU 68
Creighton 62, KU 58
Western Michigan 84, KU 82
Bowling Green 89, KU 66
New Mexico St. 64, KU 62
KU 70, Harvard 52
KU 70, Arizona 68
CREIGHTON 71, KU 63
Nebraska 81, KU 78 (OT)
Oklahoma 81, KU 67
KU 67, Oklahoma St. 61
KU 74, MISSOURI 73
Kansas St. 71, KU 65 (OT)
KU 79, IOWA STATE 64
Colorado 83, KU 65
KU 88, Nebraska 74
OKLAHOMA ST. 81, KU 68
KU 81, Missouri 79 (OT)
KU 89, OKLAHOMA 73
KU 75, Iowa St. 68
KU 68, KANSAS ST. 63
KU 65, COLORADO 62
* KU 73, Iowa St. 67
* KU 74, Nebraska 73
* KU 85, Kansas St. 51
$ KU 78, N'east Louisiana 72
$ Georgia 82, KU 51
See WOMEN, p. 14, col. 1
ALL CAPS -- Home games
% Lady Jayhawk Dial Classic
Rainbow Wahine Classic
Tournament Tournament
$ IQNA tournament
$ IQNA tournament
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Kansas women's coach Marian Washington argues a point with a Big Eight official. Washington led the Jayhawks to their first NCAA tournament appearance this season and a 20-13 record.
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
SALINA — Members of the Kansas women's basketball team celebrate their 85-51 victory over Kansas State in the finals of the Big Eight Conference Tournament. The March 2 win gave the team an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament.
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