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University Daily Kansan / Fridav, March 13, 1987
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K-State slips by, Mizzou loses in NCAA first round
Lowly Xavier knocks off Tigers, 70-69
United Press International
INDIANAPOLIS — Byron Larkin scored 29 points and unheralded Xavier pulled off the first upset of the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament yesterday, stunning Missouri 70-69 in a first-round game at the Hoosier Dome.
Larkin made two free throws with 31 seconds remaining, giving the Musketeers a 70-66 lead. Missouri's Lynn Hardy made a three-point shot with 14 seconds to play, but Xavier ran out the final seconds and took the victory.
Xavier, 19-12, advanced to second round action tomorrow by ending Missouri's nine-game winning streak. Missouri, the Big Eight Conference champion, ended the season 24-10.
Hardy scored team-high 20 points
swinger Derrick Chiffreau, added 19 points.
with 10:15 to play.
Xavier led 50-48 with 7:40 remaining when Larkin began a string of eight straight Xavier points during a 12-6 run that put the Musketeers ahead 62-54 with 4:42 remaining. Missouri rallied again in the final minutes, setting the stage for the hectic finish.
Xavier's Stan Kimbrough, who scored 14 points, made the first five points of the second half and the Musketeers took their largest lead at 41-32 with 12-34 remaining. With the score 43-12, Hardy scored seven straight points and started an 11-2 Tiger run that tied the game at 45-43.
Larkin scored 10 first-half points and Dexter Campbell added nine of his 13 total points, boosting Xavier to a 36-32 halftime lead. The outsized Musketeyers hit 15 of 19 first-half free throws and outbounded the Tigers 24-9 in the first half.
United Press International
'Cats top Dawgs in tourney opener
SALT LAKE CITY — Mitch Richmond scored 23 of his 34 points in the second half and grabbed 11 rebounds yesterday in leading Kansas State to an 82-79 overtime victory over Georgia in the opening round of the NCAA West Regional.
Richmond scored 12 second-half points on three-pointers and finished the game 5 of 5 from long range as New York was handed to the second round tomorrow.
Norris Coleman, held to 14 points, forced overtime at 72-72 on an under-the-basket lapup with 27 seconds left.
Coleman put the Wildcats ahead for
great, 78-76, on an alley-oop feed from
Charles Bledsoe with one minute left
in the extra period.
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Reserve William Scott hit 3 three-point baskets for Kansas State and finished with 17 points while Bledsoe added 13. Willie Anderson kept Georgia, 18-12, in the game, scoring 29 of his 35 points in the second half. But the only other Bulldog in double figures was Chad Kessler with 16
points
The Bulldogs appeared headed for an easy victory, jumping ahead 16-8 midway through the first half. But the Wildcats then outscored Georgia 11-2 during a four-minute span to get back in the game.
Georgia had a chance to win in regulation, holding the ball after Coleman's tying basket. But an offensive foul on freshman Mike Harron sent the game into overtime.
Kansas State outshot Georgia 54 percent to 51 percent from the floor and outscored the Bulldogs 18-12 from the foul line.
Jayhawks to face Cougars in first round of NCAA play
By ROB KNAPP
Staff writer
The Kansas Jayhawks open NCAA tournament play today, and Kansas coach Larry Brown knows that his team will have to play well to duplicate last year's trip to the Final Four.
Kansas, ranked 20th by The Associated Press and the fifth seed in the Southeast regional, faces the 12th-seeded Houston Cougars at 1:35 p.m. in the Orni in Atlanta. Channels 13 and 41 will televise the
This season's Kansas team is quite different from the squad that lost in last year's national semifinals. Brown said Tuesday.
"Last year's team was more experienced, and quite honestly, a better team," Brown said, "but this year's team has the best player and the way he's been playing, there's no telling how far he can carry you."
Brown was referring to junior forward Danny Manning, who was named Big Eight Conference player of the year by United Press International on Wednesday and averaged 30 points a game in Kansas' three games at the Big Eight Postseason Tournament.
Manning has pushed his season scoring average to 23.7 points a game. He averaged 14.4 points a game for the Jayhawks in last year's NCAA tournament.
"We've just got to get more consistency from the middle and give Danny some help," Brown said.
Kansas, 23-10, lost a physically punishing game to Missouri in the Big Eight tournament finals, but guard Cedric Hunter said the Jayhawks were trying to focus on what was ahead.
"We're trying to forget about the Missouri game," Hunter said. "We're starting all over now."
Kansas will start with Houston, a team that finished at 18-11 after losing 54-12 to Baylor in the semifinals of the Southwest Conference postseason tournament.
Houston ranks seventh in the country in team defense, allowing 60.9 points a game. It beat NCAA tournament invites TCU and New Orleans during the season.
"Any team that beat TCU at TCU by over 20 points is a team that has to be reckoned with," Brown said.
Greg Anderson, an all-conference pick at forward, leads the Cougars with 18.2 points and 10.8 points in ninth in the country in rebounding.
Anderson, 6-foot-10, is joined by 7-1 Rolando Ferreira and 6-8 Rickie Winslow in the front court. Winslow, a second team all-conference pick, averages 12.5 points and 7.4 rebounds a game.
The Cougars and Jayhawks shared two mutual opponents this season. After Kansas lost at Arkansas 103-86 early in the season, Houston beat the Razorbacks 60-55 in Houston and 57-54 at Fayetteville.
Kansas beat Texas Tech in Allen Field House 82-52 in the Jayhawk's
sixth game of the season. Houston won 68-45 at home, but Texas Tech took the game in Lubbock 56-55 in overtime.
Houston coach Pat Foster is in his first season with the Cougars after six seasons at Lamar. He has a record of 152-60, a 717 winning percentage, and entered the season with the ninth-highest winning percentage among NCAA Division I coaches.
In Brown's first game as coach at Kansas, the Jayhawks were blown out at Houston 91-76. The Cougars, led by center Akeem Olaijapun, advanced to the final game of the NCAA tournament before losing to Georgetown.
Tip-off: 1:37 p.m. today
The Omni Coliseum in Atlanta
TV: Channels 13 and 41
Probable Starters
*Kansas (23-10)*
D Fanny Damni (6-11), 23.7 ppg
F Chris Pike (8-9), 24.5 ppg
C Mark Pellock (6-9), 2.8 ppg
Se alvarado Se Alamat (6-10), 1.6 ppg
G Kevin Pritchard (6-3), 9.7 ppg
G Cedric Hunter (6-0), 11.9 ppg
Houston (18-11)
**Houston (18-11)**
F Greg Anderson (6-10), 18.2 ppg
R Rickie Winslow (6-8), 12.5 ppg
C Rolando Ferraer (7-1), 9.9 ppg
G Randy Brown (6-3), 3.9 ppg
G Tim Hobbie (6-1), 7.5 ppg
Gareth Waltrip/KANSAN
Coach Larry Brown stresses a point about KU's offense during a practice earlier this week in Allen Field House. The Jayhawks have been working with intensity in preparation for their first-round game against Houston today in the Southeast region of the NCAA tournament at Atlanta.
Former Ohio State football coach dies
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Woody Hayes, who became one of the most successful coaches in college football history by guiding the Ohio State University team to 205 victories and two national championships, died yesterday at age 74.
Robert Murphy, Hayes' physician, said the retired coach allegedly died of a heart attack in his sleep. Anne Murphy, a nurse in his bed about 6 a.m., Murphy said.
Wayne Woodrow Hayes, the fifth winningest coach in college football, compiled a record of 238-72-10 in 33 seasons at Denison University in 1946-48, Miami of Ohio in 1949-50 and Ohio State in 1951-78. Only three other coaches won more major college titles than "Bear" Bryant, 323; Almon Alozo Stagg, 314, and Glenn "Pop" Warner, 313.
Hayes.
"What sticks out in my mind right now are all the good things he did for his former players and coaches. He always had a lot of time for them," said Earle Bruce, coach at Ohio State, who was an assistant under
"He was a tremendously different person off the field than on. Off the field, he knew everybody's name and always had a word of advice. On the field, he was quite demanding, to say the least."
Hayes coached at Ohio State for 28 years, compiling a record of 205-61-10. Two of his teams, in 1954 and 1968, were awarded Associated Press national championship trophies.
Hayes' health had been failing in recent years. He suffered a stroke in May 1984 and a second stroke in the summer of 1985. On Sept. 28, 1985, he suffered a heart attack.
After he suffered a stroke in July 1985, he said in an interview from his hospital bed, "Every year after '68 I expected to be national champion. I didn't make it again."
While at Ohio State, 13 of his teams won or shared the Big Ten Conference championship, and eight of his squads went to the Rose Bowl.
KU to meet Georgia in second round of NCAA
Hayes was born in Clifton, Ohio,
Feb. 14, 1913, the son of a secondary
school superintendent.
The women's basketball team will play the Georgia Bulldogs, 26-4, in Athens, Georgia, at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
By a Kansan reporter
Kansas, 20-12, won its ninth game in a row with a 78-72 victory over Northeastern Louisiana on Wednesday night and is the only remaining Big Eight team in the tournament.
It will be the first time Kansas and Georgia have met in women's basketball.
Kansas State lost to Northwestern in overtime 62-61.
Georgia's top player, Katrina
Women's Basketball
McClain, 6-foot-2, probably will give Kansas center Sandy Shaw some problems on the inside.
McClain, is averaging 25 points a game with 12 rebounds. She recently was voted South East Conference Player of the Year.
Shaw is 6-0, plays with a knee brace and still is suffering from a broken little finger on her shooting hand.
Pole vaulter back after ankle surgery, set for NCAA indoor
If the Jayhawks beat Georgia, they will travel back to Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, La., for regional play.
By DIANE FILIPOWSKI Staff writer
Staff writer
Seven members of the Kansas track teams left yesterday for the NCAA Indoor Championships in Oklahoma City today and tomorrow.
"I never thought about competing at nationals because I was told that I would not be able to," Huffman said. "I'm not too nervous about the meet because I wasn't even supposed to be there."
But earlier this season, one athlete didn't think he would be traveling WM.
All-America pole vaulter Scott Huffman had exploratory surgery on his right ankle in September and was not expected to compete for the rest of the season.
Last weekend, Huffman won the event with a vault of 17-6 at the Capital City Track and Field Invitational in Indianapolis. He was competing against many of the vaulters that he will see in Oklahoma City.
Huffman qualified for nationals at the Big Eight Championships in Lincoln, Neb., with a vault of 17-3, and a thirdplace finish.
Teammate Chris Bohanan, also an All-American who finished second at the conference championships with a vault of 17-5 $^14$, said he was confident he would meet this year and was glad that Huffman would be there with him.
Rick Attik, men's assistant coach,
said he never doubted that Huffman
would be a great fit.
"Scott is such a competitor and he is so coachable," Attig said. "I knew sitting out of competition would not hurt him. I knew that if he was well, he would qualify."
Attig said Bohanan and Huffman wanted to finish first and second at nationals, and because they were two nationalities, they waited in the country, it was possible
"They use teamwork and help each other out when they compete," Attig said. "One will have a good jump and that will pull that other one right up to his level."
Competing together at the national championships is nothing new for Bohanan and Huffman, but it will be a first for freshmen triple jumps Yolanda Taylor and Cynthia Rhodes.
Rhodes qualified for nationals at the Big Eight Conference meet with a jump of 40-10 and a third-place finish Taylor had to wait to qualify for nationals until last weekend, when she jumped 40-9 at a meet in Indianapolis.
Rhodes said that the pressure was off now that she had qualified and that she was looking forward to the competition.
"I'm going to learn a lot this weekend," Taylor said. "It's an honor for me to have made it there."
Carla Coffey, woman's coach, said that having young athletes participate in national competition was important to the women's program.
"This is a trend of what we would like to happen in our program," Coffey said. "We like to have the diversity in age, because it helps us to compete well on the national level."
Coffee said that having four women compete at nationals was the most the Jayhawks had had in the past four years.
Cliff Rovello, assistant track coach, said senior Denise Buchanan, who finished second at conference championship. "Kansas best all-America candidate
Ann O'Connor, this year's Big Eight pentathlete champion, will compete in the high jump, the event she received All-America honors in as a freshman.
Hawkins said that this was his first NCAA meet and that he was going to take advantage of the opportunity.
The only individual conference champion of Kansas men's team, Courtney Hawkins, will compete in the 60-yard high hurdles.
"This is a definite test for me." Hawkins said. "This will determine if I need the competition to make myself improve."
Plane ride to be first for KU baseball team
Staff writer
Bv DAVID BOYCE
For some baseball players, the trip by airplane to Texas may make them more nervous than having to play against the No. 8 ranked team in the country.
Kansas will take on Michigan on Sunday in the Pan American Tournament at Edinburg, Texas.
"Many of our players are excited about flying by plane," Coach Marty Pattin said. "Some of them have never flown before."
One of those players is senior second baseman Steve Estes.
"I am not nervous. I am excited about flying," he said.
Estes' greatest concern, though, is to continue his hot hitting. Estes presently has the highest batting average on the team at 450.
Kansas, 7-1, will leave today and for the first time, fly for its southern road trip.
The team was able to afford airfare by selling $10 T-shirts. Every member of the club was asked to sell 30.
"It's a nice trip for the team. Usually many of the parents go and everybody has a nice time," Pattin said.
"We'll find out in a hurry how good we are." he said.
but the main objective is for the team to continue to play well and win, Pattin said.
Starting rightfielder Darrel Mathews said he hoped the team would peak at the right time and play well against NCAA Division I teams.
The Jayhawks' first eight games have been against NIAA competition.
Last year the team won two games and lost five.
This year, besides playing Michigan twice, Kansas will play St. John's, Miami of Ohio and Pan American twice also.
Pattin said that he probably would start pitcher Paul Henry in the first game against Miami on Sunday and then go with him on Sunday. The two played against Mirabilis
Kansas enters the tournament with a team batting average of .283.
Leftfielder Hugh Stanfield, who is batting, 400 and leads the team with three home runs, needs only one more hit to break KU's career all-time hit record of 178 held by Joe Heeney.
The Jayhawks will play Washburn after they return home on March 24.
Navy's Robinson, Texas' Davis recipients of Naismith Awards
United Press International
ATLANTA — David Robinson of Navy and Clarissa Davis of Texas yesterday were named winners of the 1987 Naismith Awards as college basketball's best players.
The top five players were named to the Naismith All-America team and included Robinson, Steve Alford of Indiana, Kenny Smith of North Carolina, Danny Manning of Kansas and Reggie Williams of Georgetown.
Awards spokesman John Steen said the winners were chosen in a nationwide poll of more than 400 college basketball coaches and sportswriters. The awards will be presented at the 19th annual Naismith bannuet in Atlanta on April 21.
The Naismith Award caps a four-
year career in which Robinson grew from a virtually unknown 6-foot-7 forward from Woodbridge, Va., the son of a career Navy man, into the most dominant collegian in the game.
Robinson led the Midshipmen to three straight Collegial Athletic Association crowns, three trips to the NCAA tournament and a bern in the final eight last year before losing to eventual national runner-up Duke in the East Regional.
"It's been a lot of fun," he said. "I wasn't that highly recruited. But I grew and I got better each year. I've met and played against a lot of great players. And I've learned to love this game. It's been a long road."
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