University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 10, 1987
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Crum rejects NIT bid
United Press International
NEW YORK — Louisville, the defending national champion that was snubbed by the NCAA Tournament, yesterday turned down an invitation to participate in the National Invitition Tournament.
Although Louisville team members voted 7-6 to accept the NIT bid, the coaches voted against going, Louisville Coach Denny Crum said.
"If their hearts weren't into it, it would be a waste of time," Crum said at a news conference. "We've got them who need the time for academics."
An NIT spokesman said that the tournament's selection committee would have no comment on Louisville's decision.
Meanwhile, the NIT completed the 32-team field with the selection of Washington and Stephen F. Austin. Washington, 18-14, will visit Montana State, 21-7, in a first-round game Wednesday. James Madison, 20-9, will go to Stephen F. Austin on Thursday for a first-round game.
The first three rounds will be played at sites across the country and the semifinals and finals will be held in New York's Madison Square Garden.
The teams that accepted the NIT bids Sunday include Rhode Island, Arkansas-Little Rock, Tennessee-Chattanooga, St. Louis, Akron, New Mexico, Cleveland State, Villanova, Nebraska, Utah and Jacksonville.
Amy Rhoads—KANSAN
Crum, whose team played in the NIT in 1985, said that he wanted to meet with NCAA selection committee about changing the selection process.
"I think it is about time in college basketball that the NCAA Tournament selection committee comes up with an absolute formula for picking their teams," Crum said. "There is so much politics involved in picking the teams."
He said that he wanted the selection process to guarantee that the strongest teams would make the field.
Crum said that the Cardinals, 18-14, were bypassed in favor of teams such as Middle Tennessee, of the Bay Area, to a better record, but better schedule.
Crum hinted that Middle Tennessee may have been chosen because the commissioner of the OVC was on the selection committee.
Louisville would have been seated in the NCAA tournament if it had won the Metro Conference tournament, and Oklahoma State in the championship game.
The Top Twenty
By The Associated Press
1. Nev.-Las Vegas 33-1
2. North Carolina 29-3
3. Indiana 24-4
4. Georgetown 26-4
5. DePaul 26-2
6. Iowa 27-4
7. Purdue 24-4
8. Temple 31-3
9. Alabama 26-4
10. Syracuse 26-6
11. Illinois 23-7
12. Pittsburgh 24-7
13. Clemson 29-5
14. Missouri 24-9
15. UCLA 24-6
16. New Orleans 25-3
17. Duke 22-8
18. Notre Dame 22-7
19. TCU 23-6
20. Kansas 23-10
Kansas first baseman John Byrn keeps a Missouri Southern runner close to the bag in the second game of a double-header.
KU baseball team splits twinbill
Bv DAVID BOYCE
Staff writer
Cold weather and a first-game loss did not stop the Kansas baseball team from taking the second game of a double-header at Quigley Field yesterday against Missouri Southern.
Baseball
Kansas won 6-5 in a four-inning game that was cut short because of darkness and avenged an opening game that the Lions won 7-3.
The double-header split gives Kansas a 5-1 record. They will face Tarkio at 1 p.m. today at Quigley.
Left fielder Hugh Stanfield tied the Jayhawk's hitting attack in the second game with a grand slam over the left-field fence.
Kansas was tied with Missouri Southern 2-2 before Stanfield's grand slam.
"Our kids showed a lot of hustle," Coach Marty Pattin said. "Unfortunately we lost the first game, but we came back and won
"I had a feeling it was going out when I hit it," he said. "It was a straight change and I was kind of fooled by the pitch."
Missouri Southern started the second game by scoring two first inning runs off one hit and two walks.
Two Kansas pitchers were responsible for eight walks.
"I was not too pleased with the pitching today," Pattin said. "The relief guys have to come in and throw strikes."
After falling behind 2-0, the Jayhawks responded by scoring a run in the bottom of the first on a RBI single by first baseeman John Byrna.
In the second inning, Kansas scored five runs, including Stanfield's grand slam, which was enough to give the Jayhawks the victory.
In the first game, Kansas scored first on a two-run homer by Stanfield in the first inning. Stanfield had two doubles collecting two of the team's four hits.
"Hugh has been hustling. He started this season in better shape
Starting pitcher Paul Henry was pitching well through the middle innings. In the third inning, Henry struck out the side.
Stanfield has hit three home runs this year, just one shy of tying his single-season best. Also, by collecting three hits in the two games, he moves to within two hits of breaking Kansas career hit record of 178, held by Joe Heeeney, who played from 1981-84.
After the third inning, with Kansas ahead 3-1, it appeared that the Jayhawks had all the runs they needed.
He also breezed through the fourth and fifth innings before running into trouble in the sixth.
In the sixth inning, Henry gave up four runs and relief pitcher
Craig Houfek gave up two.
Henry said that he started throwing his pitches up in the strike zone, which allowed Missouri Southern to hit them.
Henry entered the sixth inning after throwing 90 pitches and said that he wasn't tired.
"I was tight throughout the game because of the weather, but I was not tired. I just started getting my mites on," he said.
As a general rule this season,
Pattin has allowed starting pitches 80 pitches before taking them out.
"Maybe I went with Henry too long, but he only threw one or two bad pitches," Pattin said. "We are a very young team and we are going to make mistakes. Hopefully we will learn from our loss today."
Today, Scott Taylor will start the first game and Steve Purdy will start the second.
Manning named AP All-American
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — David Robinson, the 7-foot-1 center who has been responsible for Navy's sudden success over the past three seasons, is the only unanimous selection on the 1986-87 Associated Press college basketball All-America team announced Monday.
Also chosen to the first team were Steve Alford of Indiana, the only repeat selection; Kenny Smith of North Carolina; Reggie Williams of Georgetown; and Danny Manning of Kansas, a junior and the only under-classman.
The team was chosen by a 10-member AP panel of snorts writers.
Robinson, a dominating shooter, rebounder and shot-blocker, led the Midshipmen to the Colonial Athletic Conference title and into the National Collegiate Athletic Association playoffs for three consecutive seasons. Last season, Navy was one of the tournament's final eight teams, and this season it takes a 28-5 record into the tournament.
Despite having a two-year naval commitment, which was reduced from five years because of his height, Robinson is a likely No. 1 draft choice in the National Basketball Association draft. He tied his career high with 45 points in a loss to Kentucky this season.
In four seasons, he has soed 2,619 points, 1,301 rebounds and compiled a 64 percent field-goal percentage.
Manning, a versatile performer who plays forward and center, led the 20th-ranked Jayhawks, 23-10, in scoring (23.7), rebounding (9.7) and field-goal percentage (62 percent). In the Big Eight tournament he scored a record 89 points in three games and was named the most valuable player despite Kansas' loss to Missouri in the final.
"I'm the only one who can stop me from scoring," Robinson said this month.
This season, Robinson averaged 59 percent shooting from the field, 27.5 points and 11.8 rebounds a game. He led the country in blocked shots with 142 and is the only player in NCAA history to score 2,500 points, grab 1,300 rebounds and shoot 60 percent from the field during his career.
Alford, a 6-2 guard and a four-year starter, is third-ranked Indiana's
all-time scoring leader with 2,300 points. A member of the gold-medal 1984 Olympic team, he led the Hoosiers to a 24-1 record and a share of the Big Ten Conference title this year, making 86 three-point goals (51 percent) while averaging 21.8 points.
Overall, Alford made 49 percent of his goal-field attempts and 89 percent of his hit-goal attempts.
Smith, a 6-3 guard and another four-year starter, led North Carolina in scoring this season, averaging 16.9 points a game. Smith made 51 percent of his field-goal attempts, including 75 three-pointers for 41 percent from long range. He led the team in assists (5.7) and tied back-court partner Jeff Lebo for the team lead in steals with 45.
Georgetown Coach John Thompson calls his four-ranked team "Reggie and the Little Miracles." He adds, "Without Reggie, there would be no miracles."
The 6-7 Williams, the only senior on the team, carried the offensive load in leading Georgetown, 26-4, to a share of the Big East Conference's regular season championship and to the postseason title.
The Big East scoring champion led the Hoyas in scoring (23.3), rebounding (8.7), field goal percentage (49 percent), free throw shooting percentage (79 percent) and three-point goals (67). He also holds the Hoyas' single-season scoring mark.
Second Team
Dennis Hopson, Ohio State; Horace Grant,
Clemson; Armon Gilliam, Nevada-Las
Vegas; Mark Jackson, St. John's; Ken
Norman, Illinois
Third Team
Derrick Chievous, Missouri; Dallas Comegys, DePaul; Jerome Lane, Pittsburgh; Derrick McKey, Alabama; Tony White. Tennessee.
Honorable Mention
Tommy Amaker, Duke; Freddie Banks,
Nevada-Las Vegas; Nate Blackwell,
Temple; Sherman Douglass, Syracuse;
Ledell Eackles, New Orleans; Tellis
Caldwell, Chicago; Michigan;
Michigan; Jeff Grayer, Iowa State;
Hersey Hawkins, Bradley; Kevin
Houston, Army; Derrick Lewis,
Maryland; Troy Lewis, Purdue; Reggie
Miller, UCLA; Oler Ortiz, Oregon State;
Chic Carolina;迪卡尔维-狄卢恩,
Notre Dame; DePaul; Rod Strickland, DePaul; Christian Whelp,
Washington; Joe Wolf, North Carolina.
Valvano leads N.C. State into NCAA tourney
United Press International
LANDOVER, Md. — North Carolina State's Jim Valvano has proved once again that he can do more with less than any college basketball coach in the country.
Valvano, who masterminded the Wolfpack's miracle NCAA title in 1983, took a team that was 14-14 weeks ago and transformed it into the Atlantic Coast Conference champions.
N. C. State, whose starting point guard quit the team in February and whose starting center has a slow-healing sprained ankle, shocked No. 2 North Carolina, 68-67, Sunday in the ACC finals, earning an automatic bid into the NCAA's 64-time NCAA field.
"All I asked is for the kids to play to the level of the game," said Valvano, the only coach in the country to lead his team to the final eight of the NCAA tournament in three of the last four years.
"To put the banners up, you need to win this," Valvano said. "This is the time to get it done, to do something extraordinary."
Valvano did the extraordinary five seasons ago, when he took a 17-10 team into the ACC tournament and came away with the league title. That triumph catapulted the Wolfpack to their eventual national title, when Lorenzo Charles slammed home the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" against Akeen Olajuwon's Houston Cougars.
In 1983, N.C. State beat Wake
Forest by one point in the quarterfinals, beat North Carolina in overtime in the semifinals, and beat the Virginia availers in the finals.
This year, the Wolfpack beat No. 15 Duke in overtime in the quarterfinals, beat Wake Forest in double overtime in the semifinals and needed two free throws by junior Vinny Del Negro with 14 seconds left to defeat the Tar Heels.
With ordinary talent, the Wolfpack held the Tar Heels nearly 25 points below their season scoring average and shot 70 percent in the second half for the ACC title.
That victory capped a tournament that was one of the most exciting in the 34-year history of the league. There were five overtime periods played, including double overtime in
both semifinals, one rally from a 17-point second half deficit, and a monumental upset in the championship game.
The Wolfpack is one of six ACC teams in the NCAA tournament. Also picked were North Carolina, Duke, Clemson, Virginia and Georgia Tech.
The Woltpack now faces former Wolfpack Coach Norm Sloan and the Florida Gators in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday at Syracuse, N.Y.
Valvano's team lost 10 of 12 games before winning its final six games. Kenny Drummond, the starting playmaker, quit the team, which forced Valvano to play unheralded junior Quentin Jackson and move Del Negro to shooting guard.
The Wolfpack is undefeated since Jackson's first start Feb. 25 at Maryland. Ironically, Jackson graduated from the same high school that produced Derek Whittenburg and Sidney Lowe, N.C. State's starting backout on the 1983 NCAA title team.
"I thought the end of the season was very key for us," said Del Negro, who was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. "We were 14-14 about 10 days ago, and everyone was saying, 'State this', and 'State that.' But we hung together as a team.
"No one put his head down, we worked hard, we were getting loose balls and rebounds. We were doing the things you have to do to win."
Students discuss athletics and academics at SMU
United Press International
Clements has made two public statements on the matter but refused to name those who agreed with him to continue the payments. He is believed ready to address the issue again today during his regular weekly news conference in Austin, the state capital.
DALLAS — The chairman of Methodist University's board of governors told several hundred students yesterday that SMU's administrative system "does not work," and pledged a reorganization that could lessen the role of wealthy Dallas businessmen on the board.
Another board member said SMU stands to lose several million dollars and untold numbers of students as a result of Gov. Bill Clements' revelations that other SMU governors decided to phase out — rather
the SMU board of governors, said members approved a resolution calling on SMU to "reconstitute" both the 16th and the 71-member board of trustees.
William Hutchison, a Dallas businessman who is the chairman of
can immediately abolish — payments to SMU football players.
Football
After the morning-long meeting, Hutchison announced the decision to an estimated 500 to 700 SMU students on the steps of Dallas Hall, where they had gathered for a "teach-in" on the place of academics and athletics at SMU.
The resolution urged that the two governing bodies be "smaller in size, more inclusive and diverse in membership, more broadly accountable to
SMU's multiple constituencies...''
It also called on limits on the authority of board officers and limits on terms of office. Hutchison said he knew that there would be a maximum of four terms a member.
"One thing is evident + the current system didn't work," Hutchison said, drawing applause from students. "It didn't work because the structure at SMU failed to provide the necessary checks and balances required to effectively govern the institution."
Critics have said power at SMU has passed from the United Methodist Church to the governing board, and
from there to a small group of Dallas businessmen within the board. University officials say they expect the church to assert more authority, with a corresponding drop in business influence.
A fifth meeting is scheduled today to draft a reply to an NCAA order that SMU disassociate itself from nine boosters suspected of making improper payments to players.
SMU was placed on probation by the NCAA in 1985, but the payments continued in 1986, resulting in an NCAA decision Feb. 26 to ban SMU from playing football in 1987.
Envelopes please, it's time for Big Eight Awards
The final Big Eight Conference standings are in, the postseason tournament is over and the all-Big Eight teams have been named. It's all over but the shouting.
Rob Knapp
The lure to add one's own voice to the din can be strong, sometimes too strong to resist, and so a Big Eight awards column is born. Such an exercise is a good way to pass some time before the NCAA's start, plus it fits up some space on a slow sports day and it's an easy
way to get a really lousy picture of myself in the paper.
Least successful good-luck charm: A bad preservable rabbit's foot and some dead four-leaf claws go by a unanimous vote to Kansas for its "lucky" red uniforms. Opponents begin icing the foot, then time the postgame party any time the Jayhawks wear red.
Hand me those envelopes and let's get started.
The idea for red uniforms came from the 1952 Jayhawks, who wore red uniforms and sneakers when they won the NCAA championship game in Seattle. But as the Iowa State game in Ames this season proved, what was good luck in 1952 doesn't always work 35 years
later.
On the other hand, how bad would Kansas have lost if they had worn their usual traveling blue uniforms?
Best move away from the ball: Missouri athletic director Jack Lengyel wins a resoled pair of Air Jordans for his off-the-court performance at the tournament final.
When Kanas' Chris Piper's and Missouri's Mike Sandbottie's little discussion cleared both benches in the second half, Lengel was out of his seat and down the stairs to the Kemper Arena floor. He showed some agility in getting over a retaining wall onto press row but saved his best move for a one-on-one encounter.
A tournament employee tried to
stop Lengyl, who did not have a press pass, but the Tiger AD made a niffy head face and then broke away from a flagrant holding foul. By that time, though, the players had calmed down, and Lengyl returned to his seat.
Most vicious fans: This is a tough pick, because fans at both Oklahoma and Missouri dish out some quality abuse. But the Tiger faithful win the prize, a case of raw meat, by virtue of a clutch performance earlier this season against Kansas.
Missouri had just beaten the Jayhawks on a three-point shot by Lee Coward with three seconds left in the game, and some Tiger fans remained true to their commitment to be obnoxious. They
Most valuable player with the same first name as a piece of oil field equipment: Chievous again.
delayed celebrating the exciting victory long enough to gather around the tunnel to the dressing rooms and shout "Chokers!" and several more intense names at the exiting Jayhawks.
Best sowi! Missouri's Derrick Chievous wins by a glare over teammate Lynn Hardy. Chievous' expression during a game varies somewhere between simple displeasure and outright disgust, and he directs it indiscriminately toward fans, referees, and the opposing bench. He wins a customized vanity mirror.
Best performance by an actor in a leading Big Eight role: Chievous
makes it three in a row, winning a bottle of aspirin and a seat close to the scoreer's table for his continuation. He rushes down 0, trainer, I am seriously injured."
Chievous, the unofficial conference leader in injury time-outs, has been helped from the floor numerous times this season only to return to the game after a few moments on the bench with the trainers.
Chievous left the tournament championship game against Kansas holding his head and grimacing, making his third injury exit against the Jayhawks in as many games. He sat out almost a minute and a half of playing time, making it one of the more serious injuries he suffered.