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Thursday, February 19, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Playing time special to Kansas JV
By DIANE FILIPOWSKI
Staff writer
While the junior varsity basketball team played Cloud County Community College on Feb. 8 at Allen Field House, workers picked up the garbage, put away the cables and cleared away the other remains of the varsity basketball game against Notre Dame.
The packed arena of nearly 15,000 screaming KU fans just minutes before had somehow managed to hold seconds after the game was over.
Such is a familiar sight for the junior varsity basketball team, which will play its last game of the season at 5 onight against Emporia State University just before the varisty game against Kansas State in the field house.
Coach R.C. Buford, who is also a volunteer coach for the varsity men's team, said it did not bother the team when it did not play in front of a packed crowd because they don't expect to.
"All I want to do for them as a
coach is provide them with a situation that will allow them to play to the best of their ability. Buford said.
Chad Wintz, a KU senior from Colby, Kan., and starter for the junior assit team for three seasional seasons, was one of the game was not much better at times.
"Before the Houston game a couple of years ago, we played before the varsity team and the women's team," Wintz said. "We had fans there when we played, but they were playing Monopoly and cards and saving seats for the varsity game three hours later."
Lack of crowd support, however,
bothathered Wintz enough to
make it a hit.
"I just feel fortunate to go to a big
school and still be able to play basketball.
Likewise, Buford, who is not paid for his efforts, said he felt fortunate to be a head coach when he was only 26 years old of a team composed of athletes who were stars on their high school teams.
When Coach Larry Brown reestablished the junior varsity program in 1983 when he came to Kansas. Buford said Brown wanted to make the students a part of the basketball program because of the interest they had in it.
"Student involvement was one way for him to pay back student support." Buford said, "because Brown is a student-oriented coach."
The empty seats, lack of scholarship money, and the occasional 6:30 a.m. practices because of time conflicts with the varsity men's and women's teams have not been enough to turn away approximately 70 students that try out for the team each year in October.
Rusty Hymer, a senior from Overland Park, Kan., who has started for the team for three seasons, said he was thankful for the opportunity he has had to play basketball while at Kansas.
"I think we are even lucky to have the program," Hyman added, "of some of the best high-flying飞鱼."
Buford said he thought only five percent, or even less, of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association Division I schools across the nation had junior varsity programs.
At Kansas, Buford said the junior varsity program was started to give players who did not see a lot of playing time in varsity games an opportunity to play.
But this season, Buford said the junior varsity team had had to depend on its own members to win games because all of the varsity players had seen playing time this season in the varsity games, unlike last year.
"This season we have not worried about a win-loss record." Buford said. "We play more with effort and less pressure, so we are a team because it means something."
Those who play for Buford and graduate assistant coaches Bill Bayno and John Robic know that the team has a definite philosophy.
"I make it apparent from day one, that school is first. And however else they prioritize their life, that is what matters." Out of the program," Buford said.
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Dennis Hopson scored 23 points, and Curtis Wilson added 21 for Ohio State.
DePaul 96, Iona 82
NEW YORK — Rod Strickland scored 25 points and Dallas Comegys added 22 as DePaul pulled away from lona in the second half for a 96-82 victory last night.
It was the eighth consecutive victory for DePuhl, 24-1.
DePaul was in control throughout, but Iona kept the Blue Demons within range in the first half. After DePaul went on a 7-2 run for a 17-11 lead, Iona came back to tie the score at 22 on Tony Wright's jumper. Strickland answered with a three-point goal that put DePaul ahead to stay. The margin increased to 32-24 before Iona surged again at the end of the half.
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Alvin Lott scored 23 points for the Cools, 12.13
Grant's 33 points tied his career high. He became the first ACC player in 19 years to score 30 points and return 20 rebounds in conference play
CLEMSON, S.C. — Horace Grant scored 33 points and pulled down 20 rebounds as Clemson erased an early 10-point deficit and cruised to an 87-71 win over Atlantic Coast Conference foe Wake Forest last night.
Clemson improved to 24-2 overall, their best record ever, and 9-2 in the ACC. Wake Forest fell to 12-12 and 1-10.
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