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University Daily Kansan / Fridav. Februarv 27. 1987
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Kansas needs win against Nebraska for chance at title
Kansas needs win KU enjoys share of Big Eight title
By ROB KNAPP
Staff writer
Those pre-game layups may be a little tougher for the Kansas Jayhawks to make tomorrow afternoon in Lincoln.
The Jayhawks probably will be watching the overhead scoreboard for the latest score of the Missouri game, waiting to see whether their Nebraska will be for a share of the big Eight Conference championship.
Kansas is tied with Oklahoma for second place in the Big Eight, one game behind the Tigers. The Jayhawks can capture a share of their second consecutive conference title, which will win their game and Missouri loses.
Men's Basketball
The game will follow the telecast of the Iowa State-Missouri game from Friday through Saturday.
Kansas plays in Nebraska in the regular-season finale at 3:10 p.m. in Boehany Sports Center in Lincoln and will be televised on Channels 9 and 27.
Kansas, 21-8 and 9-4 in the Big Eight, feli out of a first-place tie in the conference this week. Missouri lost to North Carolina on Tuesday, and the Javahays lost
66-56 at Colorado the next night.
conference, is coming off a 79-7 overtime victory at Oklahoma State on Wednesday night. Guard Briar Carr sent the game to overtime by hitting two free throws with 1 second left, then scored five points in the overtime period.
Carr and Kansas guard Cedric Hunter continue to move toward Jeff Hornacek's Big Eight career assist in record of 665. Carr enters the game in second place with 644 assists, with Hunter just behind at 642.
Though out of the conference race, the Cornhuskers should have some extra incentive. The game marks the final appearance at home for seniors Carr, Bernard Day, Anthony Bailous, Bill Jackman and Mike Martz.
Nebraska has been tough at home this season, posting an 11-2 record on their home court. The Huskers' only victory in the eight rivals Missouri and Oklahoma.
Carr and Day lead the Huskers with 11.6 points a game, and junior forward Derrick Vick with 10.3 points.
Kansas goes in needing a victory to finish with a winning record on the road in the conference. The Jayhawks are 6-8 away from Allen Field House, 2-4 in the Big Eight.
KU vs. Nebraska
Tip-off: 3:10 p.m. tomorrow
Bob Devaney Sports Center
TV: Channels 9 and 27
radio: JKHF-M, KLZR-FM, KLWN-AM
Probable Starters
Kansas (21-8)
Kansas (21-6)
F Danny Manning (6-11), 23.0 pp
F Chris Piper (6-8), 6.8 pp
C Mark Pellock (6-9), 2.8 pp
G Kevin Pritchard (6-3), 9.6 pp
G Cedric Hunter (6-0), 12.4 pp
Probable Starters
Nebraska (16-10)
F Bernard Gail (11, 6.pp)
B Bill Jacke (12, 6.pp)
K Neuebath Kaiten (6-5), 5.2pp
or Derrick Vick (6-5), 10.3pp
G Henry Buchanan (6-7), 6.pp
G Brian Carr (6-1), 11.6pp
From Kansan wires
WEST LAFAYETTE, Inc. — Troy Lewis scored 18 points for No. 6 Purdue and No. 3 Indiana failed to score from the field in the final 4:56 as the Boilermakers posted a 75-64 Big Ten victory last night.
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Purdue, 22.3 overall and 13.2 in the conference, pulled to within a half-game of the league-leading Hoosiers. Indiana, 23.3 and 14.2, has two conference games remaining while Purdue has three. The Boilermakers snapped Indiana's nine-game winning streak and avenged an 88-77 loss to the Hoosiers earlier this season.
Steve Alford, Indiana's scoring leader with a 22.3 points a game average, finished with 15 points. The noise from a sellout crowd of 14,123 at Mackey Arena caused Purdue coaches to use hand signals to communicate with players on the court.
North Carolina 77
Duke 71
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Kenny Smith scored a team-high 22 points as No. 2 North Carolina built a 26-point lead in the second half last night and held on for a 77-71 victory over 19th-rated Duke.
North Carolina improved to 26-2 overall and 13-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference with its eight straight victory. Duke, playing without senior
Joe Wole added 15 points and J.R. Reid 13 for the Tar Heels. Jebole, who scored 9 points in the first half, finished with 11.
point guard Tommy Amaker in the second because of a sprained left fall (21) to Jared
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Senior reserve Gary Graham scored 20 points and Armon Gilliam added 17 last night as No. 1 Nevada-Las Vegas rooted Pacific 82-55 in a Pacific Coast Association basketball game
Graham and Gilliam, both playing the final home games of their collegiate career, combined to score 25 of the Runnin' Rebels' first 30 points as Nevada-Las Vegas opened up a 30-10 lead and was never in trouble.
UNLV 82. Pacific 55
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Roy Marble scored 18 points and B.J. Armstrong added 15 last night as they led No. 7 Iowa to a school-record 24th victory in the Hawkeyes' 93-64 rout of Michigan State.
The Runnin' Rebels, who won their 14th consecutive game, improved to 29-1 overall and 17-0 in the PCAA, while Pacific feli了 to 10-16 and 6-11.
iowa 93. Michigan St. 64
Marble and Armstrong keyed a first-half spurt in which Iowa outscored 13.
Other games Vanderbilt 84, Florida 76
By DAVID BOYCE
For the first time in KU women's basketball history, the Jayhawks have gained a share of first place in the Big Eight Conference.
Kansas State's 90-81 victory over Missouri on Wednesday pushed Kansas into a three-way tie with K-State and Missouri.
"I was really happy that we finished in first place." Jayhawk forward Sandy Shaw said. "This is the first time in my career that we finished this high up."
Staff writer
Women's Basketball
The women's division of the Big Eight is in only its fifth year of existence.
The Jayhawks finished their conference season at 9-5 for the fourth time in the past five seasons. They finished 7-7 in 1983-84.
Last year, Kansas finished the regular season second to Missouri. The team entered the Big Eight in the playoffs and lost to Kentucky and seed but lost in the first round to
"She said, 'We now have to look here, take the Shaw and go to the Shop.' She said.
"Being the number one seed is good for us. It was one of our goals to study."
This year, Kansas enters the tournament as the No. 1 seed and will face eighth-seeded Iowa State at 2-0 in the Bicentennial Center in Salina.
K-State, a team the Jayhawks defeated twice that season.
The Jayhawks have defeated the Cyclones twice this season. Kansas beat the Cyclones 79-64 on Jan. 28 in Iowa and 75-68 on Feb. 18 in Ames, Iowa.
Although this year's team enters the tournament with the same conference record as last season,
Shaw said Coach Marian Washington had told the team that its next goal was to win the tournament.
"We are not overconfident," Shaw
said. "We know that every team in the
fortune is on track."
and we just have to be ready
Jumpers should lead men at Big 8 meet
Johnny Brackins, who is ranked second in the Big Eight Conference in the triple jump, practices for this weekend's Big Eight Conference Indoor Championships in Lincoln, Neb.
By DIANE FILIPOWSKI Staff writer
The coaches of the Big Eight Conference predicted last week that the Kansas men's track team would tie for fourth with Kansas State at the indoor conference tournament and tomorrow in Lincoln, Neb.
Kansas coach Bob Timmons said he wouldn't make any predictions until the meet was over, but the team could finish as high as second
Kansas' chances of winning the title were hurt when captains Craig Branstrom and John Creighton, valuate Pat Manson, and middle-distance runner Stacey Smediala and Brett Fuller were injured earlier in the season. None will compete this weekend.
"It's going to be important for us to compete as well as we can with out them." Timmons said "The best way to win is the best from the ones who are."
The Jayhawks entered the meet with only two conference leaders, Courtney Hawkins, who heads the 60-yard high hurdles with a time of 7.29 seconds, and Chris Bohanan, whose 17-9 vault leads the field.
Steve Kueffer, assistant coach,
said Hawkins was the favorite in
the high hurdles and had a chance
to qualify for the NCAA championships held in Oklahoma City on March 13.
"Courtney is a lot more prepared than he was last year." Kuefer said. "And this is the only argument he will have to concentrate on."
Rick Attig, also an assistant coach, said Bohanan, who already had qualified for nationalists, usually performed well at important meets where the competition pushed him.
"Tim McMichael of Oklahoma will push Chris." Attig said, "but Chris is ready to jump, and he will be hard to beat on a good day."
with a vault of 17-6.
McMichael is ranked second
Attig said that All-America pole vaulter Scott Huffman, who had surgery on his right ankle in January, was entered in the meet and might compete.
Huffman, who finished second in the pole vault at last year's indoor championships, is ranked third in the team standings with a vault of 17-9.
Timmons said the team would score most of its points in the field events, like it had in recent years.
Attig, who works with the jumpers, said his athletes set a goal each year to score more points than they did the previous year.
"We always try to outscore all the other teams in the jumping events and score most of the team's points." Attig said. "It gives our jumpers some extra incentive."
In addition to Bohanan, Attig said triple jumpers Johnny Brackins, who is currently ranked second with a jump of $50.7_{1/2}$ and David Bond, who is fourth with 49 laps that could be possible scorers for the team.
In the long jump, Ricky Mays is ranked third with a jump of 24-1 and Mike Rich is seventh with 23-6. A foot divides the top 10 jumpers minus Kenny Harrison of Kansas State, the leader, who jumped $25-\frac{1}{2}$ this season.
In the high jump, Sharriff Hazim is ranked fourth with 7-0. Cedric Fullard also is ranked fourth in the pole vault with a 16-6.
Other Jayhawks who currently are ranked include Steve Heffernen, who is third in the three-mile run with a time of 14:11.92, and Orrin Gaines, who is eighth in the 60-yard dash in 6.36 and in the 300-yard run in 31.58.
KU women's team gunning for high finish
"Our athletes have always been competitive after a hard week of training." Attig said, "but now we are confident I expect some very good uplims."
Staff writer
The majority of Kansas athletes
By DIANE FILIPOWSKI
The Kansas women's track team will have to fight hard to finish in the top four at the Big Eight Conference Indoor Championships in Lincoln, Neb., today and tomorrow.
"It's going to be very tight in the top half of the meet," coach Carla Coffe said. "It's the key meet of the year that the athletes train for, and they want to go out in the top of the conference."
Coffey, who estimated team scores according to the best individual conference performances of the season, predicted that Kansas would finish tied with Iowa State for third.
Nebraska is the overwhelming favorite to win the conference, followed by Kansas State. The teams finished first and second last year and Kansas finished third
"If an athlete is not going to place well, we are not going to take them up to the meet just to fill a lane." Coffey said. "We look at it in terms of quality, not quantity."
"But we didn't give our athletes the benefit of the doubt when we figured out the scoring." Coffey said. "They are all capable of scoring more, and on any given day they could."
Coffey said Kansas would compete with only 16 of the 24 athletes it was allowed to enter in the meet.
who are competing in the meet are field athletes.
"The team usually scores 60 percent of its points in these events," said Cliff Rovetto, assistant coach. "We have done this in past years and will probably do so again this year."
Roveto said it was to the team's advantage to compete with so many returning conference scorers.
"We have a lot of athletes who have been in the position to score at the Big Eight meet before, so the competition does not bother them." Rovello said. "You can always expect them to have their best performances there."
Roveto said that he expected the pentathlon to be the most competitive event of the meet, and his best chance to score a sween.
Rovelo told he would look to Rosie Wadman and Ann O'Connor, who finished second and fourth, respectively, at last year's indoor championships, to lead the five Jayhawks who are entered in the
"We have four national-level pentathletes in the conference." Rovello said, "and it's going to be a war between the first four places."
Rovetto said the field events had become more competitive since last year, so the pentathletes were in crowds in as many events as usual.
All-American Denise Buchanan will be defending her indoor shot put title this weekend at the Big Eight Conference Indoor Championships in Lincoln, Neb. Buchanan won the event last year but currently is ranked second in the Big Eight behind Kansas State's Pinkie Suggs.
The triple jump is a strong event for Kansas with freshmen Yolanda Taylor and Cynthea Rhodes ranked second and third, respectively, with jumps of 40- $ 4 1_{2} $ and 40- $ 3 1_{2} $ .
In the long jump, Jaci Metzger is ranked fifth with a mark of $ 1 9 - 0^{1} _ {2} $
Blount's payments reason for SMU penalties, newspaper says
DALLAS - Sherwood Blunt Jr. a developer and sports agent who was banned from booster activity at Southern Methodist two years ago, was the unidentified source of payments for student athletics cited in the NCAA's probation report, the Times Herald reported yesterday.
The Associated Press
In a copyrighted story, the news paper quoted sources close to the
SMU athletic department as saying that Blount made $61,000 in cash payments.
The NCAA Wednesday cited the payments as the basis for the harshest penalty ever against a college football program. The NCAA identified the source of the money only as "an outside athletics representative who had been disassociated from the university's athletics program."
Blount was one of nine boosters
barred from SMU athletics in August 1985 when the NCAA stripped the football program of 45 scholarships, placed it on three years probation and criticized alumni involvement in recruiting violations.
Blount told The Associated Press yesterday that he had no comment on
When told that sources had identified him as the booster referred to in the NCAA's report, Blount told the
The NCAA on Wednesday canceled
Times Herald, "I won't comment on that unless you reveal your sources
"Please make sure you're right, because I hold you personally liable if you print that. If you're wrong, we'll go to court and prove you wrong. Let me tell you this, unless you don't want it." We were told by an SMU official, we will look to you and the newspaper as responsible."
SMU's 11-game schedule for 1987, limited the team to only seven games in 1988 and cut the coaching staff from 10 to six until 1990, reduced scholarships and prohibited television and bowl appearances in 1988.
The NCAA report said 10 players who received the illicit payments, which ranged from $50 to $725 monthly, completed their eligibility last year or already had left the university. Three other players with eligibil-
but remaining also received money, but the NOA did not identify any of them.
According to the Times Herald, a source close to the athletic department said the three players with eligibility remaining are junior Jeffrey Jacobs, junior ice-hockey player and defensive lineman Robert McDade. All three denied receiving any payments, the newspaper reported.