Sports
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 12, 1987
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Kansas holds on to beat Indians in Louisiana
By a Kansan reporter
Although the Kansas women's basketball team was listed as the home team, the Jayhawks played on Northeastern Louisiana's home court yesterday and came away with a 78-72 victory in Monroe in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Women's Basketball
lead, 66-48.
Northeastern Louisiana then scored 24 points in the next 6 minutes which put the Indians only four points behind at 76-72.
With 19 seconds left in the game, senior point guard Evette Ott stepped to line and hit two free throws.
Ott scored a career-high 20 points for Kansas.
Kansas will now travel to Athens,
Ga., to play the No. 2 seeded Georgia
Bulldogs, 26,4 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday
in the Georgia Coliseum.
The Jayhawks entered the 40-team tournament with 12 losses, which is more than any other team in the tournament. Despite that record, Kansas won its ninth game in a row and raised its record to 20-12.
Kansas is now the only Big Eight Conference team still in the tournament. Kansas State lost in overtime
Throughout last night's game, Kansas used its bench players. KU coach Marian Washington used 11 players, and 10 scored.
last night to Northwestern, 62-61, in Evanston, Ill.
The Indians used only seven players, with the starters seeing most of the games.
In the first half, Hailey kept her team in the game by scoring 18 points.
The Indians were led by senior Chrissa Hailey, who scored 27 points in her final game for Northeastern Louisiana.
Early in the game, it appeared that the Indians home-court advantage and NCAA tournament experience would be too much for Kansas. He brought Louisiana jumped out to a 17-10 lead when Washington called a time-out.
game.
Kansas went into halftime leading only. 38-36.
Kansas then outscored the Indians 14-2 and took a 24-19 lead. The Jayhawks never trailed again in the
The Jayhawks quickly built a 10 point lead early in the second half and maintained that lead throughout the rest of the half until late in the game.
Kansas turned the ball over 24 times. During one stretch midway through the second-half, Kansas turned the ball over four straight times.
'Lucky' red uniforms not going to Atlanta
KANSAN file photo
Former KU center Greg Dreiling drives to the basket against Duke's Jay Bilas in last year's Final Four game in Dallas. The Jayhawks lost the game, 71-67, wearing their red uniforms.
By NICOLE SAUZEK Associate sports editor
The basketball equipment room on the ground floor of Allen Field House was cluttered yesterday with towels, travel bags, equipment and even more towels.
It was 3 p.m. and the men's basketball team would be leaving within hours for Atlanta for its first-round game tomorrow against Houston in the NCAA tournament.
Bill Pope, student manager, was busy packing equipment for the trip. A bundle at a time, he pulled hanging blue and white warmups out of a cabinet and laid them in a long travel bag.
"They're up in a box." Pope said. He pointed to a large cabinet door about eight feet off the ground, and he was united with a large silver nodlock.
Everything was being accounted for - blue warmups, blue uniforms and white uniforms. But Kansas' lucky red uniforms were nowhere in sight.
"We probably won't be seeing them again this year," he added.
The reason KU's traditional red uniforms were put intoolitical confinement was a doing of Coach Larry Brown.
The lucky red had lost one too many games.
"They're history." Brown had said after KU's 95-86 loss to Iowa State at Ames earlier this season. The team had worn the two-year-old jersey in hopes that they could break the losing streak at Hilton Coliseum.
They didn't work. And they didn't work in KU's 71-67 loss to Duke in the first game of the Final Four last year.
Brown brought back KU's red during the 1985-86 season from the age of Phog Allen, Kansas' winningest coach. The last time a Kansas team had worn red uniforms was during the 1951-52 season when the Jayhawks won the NCAA championship.
Also last season, KU wore red during its 60-51 win over Detroit and its 85-69 win over Oklahoma
State.
Then at the beginning of this season, a superstitious Brown doubted if the red uniforms would be worn this year because they failed to pull through in the Final Four.
The red uniforms were doing fine until they went to Dallas.
Then Pope suggested that Kansas wear the red uniforms to Iowa State since the team had lost wearing blue for three years in a row.
"We were in a team meeting after the St. John's game," Pope said yesterday. "Couch was sitting by Danny (Manning): I suggested to coach that we wear red. Then he gave Danny, and the guys said alright."
"It was only logical that we try something different."
It wasn't so logical the next day after the game.
"I didn't want to wear them," Cedric Hunter said. "No one did. I hate them things. It was stupid to wear them there."
Chris Piper didn't agree
"I don't have a problem with the red uniforms," Piper said yesterday. "When we wore them last, we didn't play well. I don't think it has anything to do with the uniforms. But I do think they have seen their last game."
Could be. The team left for the first round of the NCAA tournament without its lucky reds.
And if they return winners in the sub-regions, it's doubtful Brown will break out the key and pack the red uniforms for regional play.
If it were up to Hunter and teammate Manning, the problem would have been terminated long ago.
They both suggested that the red uniforms be burned.
But Pope said he didn't think Brown was ready to break out the matches just vet.
"They'll probably come back next year, knowing coach," Pope said. "If we don't, the JV will probably get them and we'll get new ones."
Manning named UPI player of the year
From staff and wire reports
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Danny Mann
ning, a junior who holds the Kansas
Jayhawks' career scoring record,
yesterday was named Big Eight
Conference Player of the Year by
United Press International.
Manning, a 6-foot-11 forward,
received $19^{\frac{1}{2}}$ votes in a poll of
sportswriters and sportscasters from the six-state Big Eight region. Missouri's Derrick Chievous, the Big Eight scoring champion this season,
was second with $41^{\frac{1}{2}}$ votes.
The Player of the Year award is
Manning was passed over earlier this week for consideration of the Wooden Award, given each year to college basketball's best player. Manning was not eligible for the award because he failed to qualify for a new criterion that required players to have a 2.0 grade point average.
Manning's second straight, a feat matched only by Oklahoma's Wayne Tisdale in 1984-85 and Kansas State's Lon Kruger in 1973-74. No player has won the honor three times.
"It's kind of upsetting to me and to Danny that he would be singled out," Brown said. "When they pick an academic All-American team, they don't single out the ones that don't make it."
The announcement that Manning and Horace Grant of Clemson did not qualify was made Sunday by John Wooden, the former UCLA coach after whom the award is named.
Cach Larry Brown said at a press conference Tuesday that he thought Manning had been singled out unfairly.
UPI's Big Eight Award had no such grade stipulations.
After last week's Big Eight tournament, Manning had 1932 points, 44 more than Lovellette's career total of 1888. With another year of eligibility remaining, Manning could become the all-time conference scoring leader.
Hanning recently eclipsed Clyde Lovellette's career point total to become the top scorer in the 89 years Kansas has had an intercollegiate basketball team.
See MANNING, p.12, col.1
Villanova guard tells of drug use during Final Four
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Gary McLain, the sparkplug guard on Villanova's 1985 NCAA championship team, said he used cocaine during the Final Four that year and was high when the Wildcats visited the White House.
McLain detailed his drug dependency and subsequent rehabilitation in a first-person story in the March 16 edition of Sports Illustrated.
He said he was treated for drug abuse at the White Deer Treatment Center in Allenwood, Pa., last summer. He was fired from his Wall Street job.
McLain, 23, said he used cocaine before several Wildcat games, including the 1985 NCAA semifinal against Memphis State in Lexington, Ky.
"I had played well on coke, I had played bad on it," he said in the story, written with Jeffrey Marx of the Lexington (Ky). Herald-Leader. "It didn't seem to matter. So I did about a quarter gram of blow before I arrived at Room 135 of the Ramada Inn, about three miles from Rupp Arena.
"I'd gotten it in my head that if we
didn't matter I just wanted the
beach."
McLain scored nine points and had two assists as Villanova defeated Memphis State 52-45. The Wildcats then upset Georgetown 66-40 to win the national title, with McLain chipping in eight points and two assists.
Recalling the team's visit to the White House, McLain said, "I was standing in the Rose Garden, wired on cocaine."
McLain said he had strange thoughts while watching President Reagan speak to the team.
"I was standing a couple of feet behind him, looking in his hair;
thinking, this guy has more dandruff than your average man. Thinking thoughts like, 'I could push him in the head, just a little tap, and make news across the world.' That's how high I was."
I'd gotten it in my head that if we lost it didn't matter. I just wanted the season to be over.'
Gary McLain Villanova guard
On his weekly radio show Tuesday night, Villanova coach Rollie Massimino said McLain's revelations were the most devastating thing that had happened to him in 30 years of coaching.
"I am crushed," he said. "I really, really am."
Phoenix Suns' forward Ed Pinekney, a college teammate and roommate of McLain's, said yesterday that the team was by the story of McLain's drug use.
"I really didn't know he had this problem," Pinckney said in an interview from Boston. "The things I'm reading about don't sound like the person I knew."
McLain, who admits he smoked marijuana in high school on Long Island, said other Villanova basketball players played marijuana with
In the article, McLain said Massimino confronted him twice about suspected drug use in 1844.
By a Kansan reporter
Athletic department stuck with 80 tickets
Only six more students paid for tickets to the NCAA Southeast Subregional at the Omni in Atlanta yesterday, leaving the KU athletic ticket office with 80 unsold tickets.
Ninety students registered for the Atlanta sub-regional tickets in the postseason basketball ticket lottery and the ticket office obtained seats for all of them, but only 10 paid for their tickets before the deadline at 3 p.m. yesterday.
Kansas tried to sell the extra tickets to Kentucky and Clemson, two other schools playing at the site.
Nebraska ran down the game clock and Carr scored the game-winner with 1 second to play. Marquette did not get another shot off.
Last-second jumper by guard Brian Carr lifts 'Huskers in NIT
Konzem said he would meet with officials from Southwest Missouri State today to see if they wanted the extra tickets.
Nebraska improved to 18-11 and Maroney finished its season 16-13.
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska guard Brian Carr hit an eight-foot jumpshot with 1 second remaining and helped Nebraska to a 78-76 National Invitation Tournament victory over Marquette yesterday in Lincoln.
The victory advances Nebraska to the second round of the NIT, with a game to be played the first part of next week. The NIT does not set brackets and Nebraska's next game and opponent is yet to be decided.
United Press International
The poor turnout for tickets probably occurred because the game dates fall on the first few days of spring break. Konzem said.
Carr totaled 12 points, including two three-point goals. He also had four assists. Forward Bernard Day scored a game-high 18 points, making all eight of his field-goal attempts and both free throws. He also grabbed six rebounds.
but both schools turned the offer down, Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director, said.
Marquette's Tony Smith led the Warriors with 18 points.
Anyone who is registered for a ticket to the Southeast Regional at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Ky., may contact the ticket office any time before noon Tuesday to confirm that seat.
Marquette tied the game 76-76 on a 23-foot goal by Smith with :27 minutes showing on the clock.
Yesterday, Nebraska held an early lead until the Warriors outscored the Huskers 9-2 in 5 minutes and led 29-23 with 8:08 minutes left in the first half.
The Warriors had a 44-38 halftime advantage, which took Nebraska about 10 minutes to overcome.
Marquette missed two free throws. Nebraska then took the ball down court where Carr hit a 22-foot three-pointer from the right side and gave Nebraska a 70-67 lead.
Marquette took a 67-66 lead when Smith hit a 10-foot jumper from the left side with 6:12 minutes to play.
Husker Bill Jackman made the second of two free throws and tied the game 67-67 with 5:39 minutes left
Down and out
Darcy Chang/KANSAN
John Hughes, Tusa, Okla., junior, looks to the referee, Jim Belch, for the pin in the Hill Championship Wrestling Tournament. Hughes beat Richard
Falton, Junction City law tudent, 13-5 last night in the 165-pound weight division at Robinson Center.