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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 4, 1987
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Kansas guard Cedric Hunter should break the all-time KU career assists record tonight at Ahearn Field House in Manhattan. Hunter now is tied with Darnell Valentine at 609 assists.
Hunter set to break assist mark
By a Kansan reporter
Cedric Hunter should become the all-time Kansas career assist leader tonight against Kansas State in Manhattan.
Hunter's first assist will break the tie that exists between Hunter and former Jayhawk Darnell Valentine, Valentine, a guard for the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Clippers, set the mark with 699 career assists between 1977 and 1981.
Hunter began his drive toward the record with 52 assists in eight games his freshman season. He
added 145 assists in 34 games during his sophomore year.
Last season Hunter startled all 39 games for the Jayhawks and piled up 278 assists, a conference win. He scored this season. Hunter has 134
"He's a great all-around player," Turgeon said. "Most people don't appreciate all the things he does."
"As far as point guards, he's one of the best in the country," Kansas guard Mark Turgeon said.
Although Hunter has reached the top of the assist list, he does more for the Jayhawks than pass the ball to open teammates.
Hunter is second on the team in scoring, averaging 12 points a game. He has 867 career points and 59 of the top 30 list of Kansas career scores.
Hunter, the second shortest man on the squad at 6-foot, is also averaging 5.1 rebounds a game, tied for second on the team.
K-State's Kruger faces rival for first time as head coach
Lon Kruger has beaten the Kansas Jayhawks before with his jump shot. Now he must try to beat them with his coaching.
By ROB KNAPP
Staff writer
Men's Basketball
Kruger, Kansas State's first-year coach, was 5-2 against Kansas in his playing days at K-State. In the three seasons Kruger played, the Wildcats never lost to Kansas in Manhattan
Kruger's players will try to extend his winning tradition when Kansas State and Kansas meet at 8:05 p.m. today in Ahearn Field House.
But the Jayhawks under Coach Larry Brown have never lost in the cross-state series. The Jayhawks are 8-0 against KState during Brown's tenure, including three victories last season.
Channels 27 and 41 will televise the game.
Center Norris Coleman is back in the K-State line after sitting out the first 12 games of the season under a National Collegiate Athletic Association suspension. Coleman leads the team in scoring and rebounding, with 22.9 points and 10 rebounds a game.
K-State is 14-5 overall and 4-2 in the conference.
Kruger's Wildcats started quickly this season and took the early lead in the Big Eight Conference. But losses to Oklahoma and Missouri dropped K-State from first to fourth, and the Wildcats need a victory to stay in the conference race.
If the Wildcats can't get the ball inside, though, they aren't afraid to take the three-point shot. K State has put up 248 three-pointers, second in Oklahoma. Oklahoma, and hit about 41 percent.
Kansas has taken only 91 three-point shots all season.
K-State guard William Scott leads the Big Eight with a 59.2 percent three-point average and is averaging 16.3 points a game. Forward Mitch Johnson, averaging 17.7 points, is another threat from the three-point line.
K-State launched 26 three-point shots in Sunday's loss to Missouri but hit only seven.
As K-State has fallen in the stands, Kansas has moved up and now shares the lead with Missouri and Oklahoma. The Jayhawks, 15-5 have won the conference, have won six games in a row and eight of their last nine.
"If they're going to make a lot of three-point shots and take 26 of them, they could beat the Boston Celtics," Brown said.
KU vs. K-State
Tipoff: 8:05 p.m. Wednesday
Ahearn Field House
TV: Channels 27 and 41
Radio: KLZR-FM. KJHK-FM
Probable Starters
F Danny Manning (6-11), 20.6 ppg.
F Chris Piper (6-8), 7.1 ppg.
C Mark Pellock (6-9), 3.0 ppg.
G Kevin Pritchard (6-3), 10.4 ppg.
G Cedric Hunter (6-0), 12.0 ppg.
Kansas (15-5)
Probable Starters
KU to meet Huskers at home
F Mitch Richmond (6-8), 17.7 ppg
F Norris Coleman (6-8), 29.7 ppg
C Charles Bledsoe (6-7), 9.7 ppg
G William Scott (6-2), 16.3 ppg
G Steve Henson (6-1), 7.7 ppg
Staff writer
By DAVID BOYCE
The leaders in the Big Eight Conference, the Nebraska Cornhuskers, could be in for a light surprise from the women's basketball team 7:30 tonight in Allen Field House.
Earlier in the season, Nebraska defeated Kansas in overtime 81-78 in Lincoln, but this game is on the Jayhawks home floor and will be coach Marian Washington's 400th game as a KU coach.
"I was surprised when I was told I had coach that many games," she said.
Another surprise could be the appearance of a new team member. Tina Dixon, who played center for the team last season, practiced with the team yesterday.
Women's Basketball
But Washington said that the athletic department was checking with the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine whether Dixon would be eligible to play this game or any games at KU.
She is second on the K-State all-time, single-game scoring list with 35 points against Texas. She still holds the team's field goal percentage at 61 percent.
Dixon played with K-State during the 1982-83 season and the 1983-84 season before leaving the team. In 52 games, she averaged 9.9 points and 7.3 rebounds a game and blocked 74 shots.
Tonight against Nebraska, the Jayhawks must find a way to stop Cornhusker guard Amy Stephens, who scored 23 points and 10 rebounds in the teams' last meeting. Forward Maurice Ivy added 20 points and 12 rebounds for Nebraska in that game.
*Stephens is a good outside shooter and Ivy has international experience.*
Nebraska is coming off a 75-61 victory over Oklahoma State, which gave them a 5-2 conference record, a 12-8 overall record and sole possession of first place in the Big Eight.
Kansas (10-11)
Probable Starters
After Martin Salley made a layup and put the Pirares ahead 67-66.
Tip-off: 7:30 p.m. tonight Allen Field House
F Shawna Waters (5-9), 9.0 ppg
F Sandy Shaw (6-0), 7.5 ppg
C Jackie Martin (5-11), 9.9 ppg
G Lisa Bradby (5-7), 9.2 ppg
G Evette Ott (5-7), 10.1 ppg
"We are the only Big Eight team to have played five of the first seven games on the road," Washington said.
Nebraska (12-8)
The Jayhawks are in seventh place but are only two games out of first with a 3-4 conference record and a 10-11 overall record.
Syracuse nips Big East foe Seton Hall
Boston College improved to 9-11 overall and 2-8 in the league. The
From Kansan wires
Syracuse, 18-3 and 7-2, trailed 39-34 at halftime but Monroe and Sherman Douglas, who scored 11 of his 16 points in the second half, led a rally that enabled the Orangemen to overcome an 11-point second-half deficit.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
Greg Monster scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half yesterday sparking No. 11 Syracuse to a come-from-behind 84-80 Big East Conference victory over Seton Hall.
F Maurice Ivy (5-9), 23.1 ppl
F Shelly Block (5-9), 4.9 ppl
C Stephanie Bolli (5-10), 7.1 ppl
G Stacy Imming (5-9), 9.9 ppl
G Amy Stephens (5-8), 17.6 ppl
Seton Hall, 12-9 and 3-8, built its biggest lead on the shooting of Ramon Ramos, who hit four baskets in a game against the Mountaineers on April 6th with 10-17 rumping.
Syracuse surged ahead with a 17-5 burst. Monroe hit a pair of three-point baskets and Dougis scored four points, the return, which put Syracuse ahead 66-63.
Delray Brooks led a balanced Friars' attack with 12 points while Lewis had 11. Providence, which
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Troy Bowers led the Eagles with 20 points.
Seton Hall drew to within 81-80 with
44 seconds to go, but Douglas made a layup and Seikaly made a free throw to seal the victory.
Douglas made two free throws. Monroe hit another three-point basket, Rony Seikaly hit a jumper and Derrick Coleman scored on a rebound to give Syracuse a 75-67 lead.
Boston College 67
Providence 66
A 25-foot hook shot by Providence's Jacek Feld fell short at the buzzer
BOSTON — Ted Kelley rebounded Jamie Benton's missed 12-footer and scored with 4 seconds remaining last night, lifting Boston College to a 67-66 upset of No. 17 Providence in a Big East Conference matchup.
Ernie Lewis put Providence in front 66-65 with 50 seconds remaining when he hit a three-point shot.
Friars, who entered the evening tied with Syracuse and Pittsburgh for first place in the conference, dropped to 16-4 and 6-3.
Kelley, who finished with only four points, pulled down the rebound over Marty Conlon and threw up an off-balance shot that hung on the rim
After the basket, the Eagles moved the ball to midcourt and called a timeout with 35 seconds left. Boston College then worked the clock down to 9 seconds before Benton fired his shot that bunched off the rim.
Shaw hit 17 of 20 free throws to pace the Mountaineers. Wayne Yearwood added 10 points as West Virginia won its third straight game.
The Blazers, winners of 10 of their last 14 games, came within 37-35 before West Virginia scored 11 straight points. UAB could get no closer than six points the rest of the way.
West Virginia 79, UAB 64
entered the game leading the nation in three-pointer shots, went 5 of 14 from the three-point range.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Tyrone Shaw scored a season-high 27 points, including 14 straight free throws, and Darryl Prue added 23 points last night, leading West Virginia to a 79-64 triumph over Alabama-Birmingham.
West Virginia, 15-5, led by as many as 16 points in beating Alabama-Birmingham, 14-7, in the first-ever meeting between the schools.
Stars and Stripes wins to return Cup to U.S.
United Press International
FREMANTLE, Australia — Dennis Conner, fulfilling a three-year, $1 million quest and avenging yachting's most historic loss, returned the America's Cup to the United States today when his Stars team won a thriller over competition victory over Cookaburra III for a 4-sweep of the Australians.
In 1983 Conner, of the San Diego Yacht Club, became the first American in 132 years to lose the cup. His victory over the just must win him to win. lose and regain the trophy over three regattas.
Conner sailed on Ted Turner's Courageous as tactician in 1974. He successfully defended the Cup in 1980, only to gain greater fame
upon losing it.
Stars & Stripes led around all eight marks of the 24.1 nautical mile course, thwarting every Aussie bid to break his cover. Conner, a drapery manufacturer, will have to wait until Friday to receive the America's Cup, known as the "Auld Mug." The 27-inch-high prize currently resides behind a glass security wall on red velvet in the Royal Perth Yacht Club.
Conner, who defeated 12 other challengers from six countries during the grueling months of competition since October, rounded all 32 buys ahead in the final best-of-seven series, with Kookaburra III only gaining one start.
Women's sports have improved in Washington's 15 years
By DIANE FILIPOWSKI
Staff writer
Not long ago, women's athletic teams at Kansas had no scholarship money, did not travel outside the state and did not keep up with their own recruiting expenses.
That's the way it was in 1973 when women's basketball coach Marian Washington was the women's athletics coach. That's how women's basketball and track coach
Washington will coach her 400th basketball game at Kansas today, on the day that has been proclaimed the first National Women in Sports Day.
She said that the day gave her the opportunity to reflect on what has happened in women's athletics during her 15 years at Kansas.
"It brings a smile to my face to think back to all that we have accomplished in women's athletes," she said. "It has to make who anyone is a
part of the continual building movement of women's athletics feel inside.
Today, women's athletics at KU, which includes basketball, golf, softball, swimming, tennis, track and volleyball, receives approximately one million dollars annually or about 15 percent of the athletic department's budget, said Susan Wachter, assistant athletic director of business.
Marian Washington
Almost half of the money is used in scholarships and recruiting efforts.
Washington, women's athletic director from 1973 to 1979, was the department's only director. The men's and women's athletic departments merged in 1979.
In 1975, the first money that the women's athletic department received was $15,000, which department members raised themselves,
Washington said.
"It was not an easy process to scholarship money into women's athletics at Kansas," she said. "It was a new step forward, and that $15,000 meant staying in step with other
Women need some formal message of appreciation for their involvement, talent and contribution to athletics, she said.'
schools or setting ourselves back."
Marian Washington Women's basketball coach
moms or setting ourselves back.
Women's track coach Carla Coffey
said that the opportunities for women
athletes coming out of high school
ity of collegiate athletics.
Coffey said that when she arrived to Kansas seven years ago, the recruiting budget for women's track was $300. But today the women's team receives $7,000.
Washington said she thought Kan-
"We get the most we can out of the athletes that come here." Washington said, "but I would like to attract more All-Americans here."
and wanting to continue competing have improved greatly. She said that she thought these opportunities would enable her the quality of collegiate athletics.
"We still have a ways to go though to compete with other conferences financially, but we are doing well with what we have." she said.
Despite the increase in funds, Washington said she still had difficulty recruiting against other NCAA I programs with more money.
sas was a perfect role model for other universities because it showed what can be done with women's athletics.
"Kansas has produced good female athletes such as Tammy Thomas or Lynette Woodard and people take pride in these athletes. Washington is one of the other women athletes at Kansas that people could also take pride in."
Washington said that the recognition women athletes would receive from National Women in Sports Day could not have had better timing.
"Women need some formal message of appreciation for their involvement, talent and contribution to athletics." she said.
Washington said that the early years for women's athletics at Kansas were difficult, but she was proud to be a part of its growth.
"Sometimes you are just put into a situation for a reason," she said.
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