University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 27, 1987
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Treps still confident after surgery
Amy Rhoads/KANSAN
During team practice, Kansas tennis player Tracy Treps returns a lob shot. The women's team practiced recently at Alvamar Country Club, 4120 Clinton Parkway.
By DIANE FILIPOWSKI
Staff writer
Across the Midwest, Tracy Treps has become known as "Tracy the tennis player," and she likes it.
"I guess that is what keeps me going," Treps said. "Pride. Yes, it's pride."
Even Brian Bosworth knows her as a tennis player. He autographed a poster congratulating her on winning the Big Eight Conference No. 1 Singles Championship last year.
Trep's father, Mike Treps, the sports information director at Oklahoma, had a little to do with that, but the recognition still made her feel good.
Treps, Edmond, Okla., junior, is not a stranger to the court. Tennis has been a part of her life since she was 9 years old. She has competed in the national junior circuit since she was 12. And she has met Bjorn Borg and Martina Navratilova along the way.
But now Treps is facing a new challenge. She had surgery Nov. 19 on a shoulder she injured while lifting weights in October. What seemed to be only a muscle strain could be a tear in the glenoid lorem
Saturday, Treps competed in the team's dual match against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, her first competition since her eight-week lay off.
She won her match, but she played fourth singles, a position she was not accustomed to.
"I was just happy to be competing again." Treps said. "Plus, a win after surgery at number one or six helped build confidence."
Still, the level Tres plays at is important to her. She has never played in a position other than No.1 while at Kansas since the second semester of her freshman year when she played in the No.2 singles position.
But next week Treps must compete in the team's challenge matches that will decide the team's line up. She must compete well, injury and all, to preserve her No. 1 position on the team and in the conference.
Treps said she was concerned that she was not playing at her best because the eight-week layoff had made her lose her competitive
"There is so much pressure at the No. 1 spot." Treps said, "but that No. 1 spot is more important to me than anything."
weeks I know that I will be serving and hitting with the power I would like to hit with."
Treps said she did not want the surgery to affect her, but at times, it still brought her down.
"I can't serve the way I used to be able to, and my overhead shots are not strong," Treps said. "It's not so much the pain that's bothering me, but the fear of hitting all the way through. But in a couple of
"People kept telling me, 'Your junior year is supposed to be your best year and just think, you won Big Eights last year.'" Treps said, "When I found out about my injury, it was such a disappointment. When you are sitting out that month, you think about all those Big Eight girls and others
But KU tennis coach Scott Perelman said her break should not affect the outcome of her season.
across the nation who are practicing and you are sitting and doing nothing. It's frustrating."
"She's working hard enough to earn another Big Eight title because she works as hard as anybody in the country." Perelman said. "She is so eager to learn. She takes the weakest part of her game and works to improve
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Tar Heels take over top; KU returns at No. 20
The Associated Press
Kansas returned to the Top Twenty at No. 20 after a one-week absence after the Jayhawks lost to Oklahoma 76-74.
The North Carolina Tar Heels, 17-1 after an early season loss at UCLA, replaced Iowa at the top of The Associated Press' college basketball poll yesterday.
drastic up and downs
North Carolina's two games last week were Atlantic Coast Conference blowouts - 79-53 over Wake Forest and 92-55 over Georgia Tech.
North Carolina received 59 first-place votes and 1,236 points from the nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters and easily outdistanced the Hawkeyes. Iowa suffered its first loss Saturday and snapped a school-record 18-game winning streak.
Iowa received two first-place votes and 1,141 points after a week of
The Hawkeyes beat then-No. 5 Purdue on the road 70-67 and followed that with another Big Ten Conference victory, 101-88 over Indiana, the first time a Hoosier team coached by Bob Knight allowed more than 100 points. The Hawkeyes held momentum, however, as Ohio State beat the Hawkeyes 86-76 at Iowa City.
Nevada-Las Vegas, 18-1, received the remaining first-plACE vote and 1,127 points and finished third. The Runn' Rebels, fourth last week, won all three of their Pacific Coast Association games last week.
Two Big Ten teams, Indiana and Purdue, tied for fourth with 968 points.
Indiana, 15-2, third last week.
fourth, averaged with a 77-34
winners over Mansfield.
Purdue, 15.2, followed its loss to Iowa with an 87-86 overtime victory
over Illinois.
Syracuse improved one spot from last week's rankings as the Orangemen, 17-1, received 902 points after their two Big East victories, 70-58 over Villanova and 64-63 over then. No. 14 St. John's.
Temple, 18.2, also improved one place after receiving 788 points, 17 more than DePaul, which lost its first game of the season after 16 victories.
The Owls' two victories last week were over Massachusetts and Alabama-Birmingham. The Blue Demons, sixth last week, won their first two games last week before 7-11 on Sunday. No. 15 Georgetown had 7-11 on Sunday.
Alabama, 15-2, jumped from 13th to ninth with 666 points, just one more than Oklahoma, 14-3, which improved one place from last week.
Navy, 13-5, and North Carolina State, 12-5, fell from the Top Twenty
The Top Twenty
By the Associated Press
1. North Carolina 17-1
2. Iowa 18-1
3. Nev.-Las Vegas 18-1
4. Indiana 15-2
(tie) Purdue 15-2
6. Syracuse 17-1
7. Temple 18-1
8. DePaul 16-1
9. Alabama 15-2
10. Oklahoma 14-3
11. Georgetown 14-3
12. Illinois 14-4
13. Duke 14-3
14. Clemson 17-1
15. St. John's 13-3
16. TCU 16-3
17. Pittsburgh 14-4
18. Auburn 14-4
19. Florida 15-4
20. Kansas 13-5
MU football players charged for stealing card
each worth of telephone calls on the card last year. The charges against the seven are misdemeanors.
United Press International
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Seven University of Missouri students, including six members of the football team, were charged yesterday with using q
stolen credit card number to make more than $2,700 in long-distance calls.
University police said the credit card number was stolen from a female student, who reported her
The charges filed by Terry Cox, an assistant Boone County prosecutor, allege the seven made more than $50
The number used to make the calls was that of the student's father, who lives in Rolla, Mo.
purse missing after she left it in the lobby of a campus dormitory.
Jayhawks to test new Big 8 ranking
By ROB KNAPP
Staff writer
The Kansas Jayhawks, Big Eight Conference leaders since Saturday, tonight face their first league test since rising to the top of the heap.
Kansas plays the Iowa State Cyclones at 8:05 at Allen Field House. The game will be shown on Channels 27 and 41.
Thanks to an Oklahoma victory over Kansas State on Saturday, Kansas moved into first place in the Big Eight. The Jayhawks, 13-5 overall, beat Oklahomah, K-State and Missouri by a ball game in the standings.
Iowa State, expected to vie for the Big Eight crown, will try to rebound from a 73-71 loss Saturday at Ames. The Cyclones, 10.7 overall and 2.2 in points, are still game away from their home court this season and are in fifth place.
The Cyclones were one of only three teams to beat Kansas last season, winning their first meeting with the Jayhawks 77-74 in Ames. Kansas avenged the loss with a 90-70 victory in Lawrence.
"They're going to come in here with a lot of confidence because they've always played us well," Kansas coach Larry Brown said.
The teams met again in the Big
Eight Conference Post-Season Tournament Championship at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo. Iowa State had a chance to tie the game in the last seconds, but Cyclone center Sam Hill was called for a walking violation, and Kansas escaped with a 73-71 victory.
Iowa State almost had the opportunity to pay the Jayhawks back in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. The Cyclones advanced to the Midwest Regional Semifinals but lost 70-66 to North Carolina State. If Iowa State had won, it would have played Kansas again for a trip to the Final Four.
The Cyclones lost play-making guard Jeff Hornacek, but return with junior forward Jeff Grayer, Grayer, who averaged more than 23 points a game against Kansas last year, has a 21.9 point score average this season.
Hill holds down the center of the Cyclone defense with an average of 7.5 rebounds per game and 21 blocked shots so far this season.
Senior guard Cedric Hunter also will try to advance toward Darnell Valentine's Kansas career assist mark. Hunter needs 13 more assists to tie the record.
Kansas leads the series 130-42.
KU vs. Iowa State
Tipoff: 8:05 p.m. today
Allen Field House
TV: Channels 27 and 41
Radio: KLZR-FM, KJHK-FM, KLWN-AM
Probable Starters
**Kansas (13-5)**
F Danny Manny (6-11), 21.1 ppg.
F Chris Piper (6-8), 6.9 ppg.
C Mark Pellock (6-9), 3.3 ppg.
G Kevin Pritchard (6-3), 10.5 pgs.
G Cedric Hunt (6-0), 12.4 pgs.
Probable Starters
**lowa State (10-7)**
F Jeff Gray(6-5), 2.19 ppg
F Tom Schater(6-7), 17.5 ppg
C Sam Hill(6-9), 9.2 ppg
G Gary Thompkins(6-3), 8.1 ppg
G Mark Urquhart(6-4), 4.5 ppg
United Press International
Manning tops Big 8
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas forward Danny Manning, who averaged 24 points a game in victories last week over Missouri and Nebraska, was selected the Big Eight player of the week, the conference announced yesterday.
Manning hit 17 of 28 shots from the floor, grabbed a total of 23 rebounds and blocked nine shots in the conference victories that took the Jayhawks to the top of the Big Eight standings.
Manning had 25 points against Missouri as Kansas gave the Tigers their first conference loss of the season. He then scored 23 against Nebraska, despite having just six points in the first half. Manning's 30-point, 14-rebound effort against North Carolina State was not taken into consideration by the voters, who unanimously gave the Kansas forward his second player of the week honor. Manning previously was named to the honor for the week of Dec. 8.
Other players nominated for Big Eight player of the week were Iowa State forward Tom Schafer; Kansas State forward Norris Coleman; Oklahoma State forward Todd Christian; Colorado forward Scott Wilke; Missouri guard Derrick Chievous; and Oklahoma guard Tim McCalister.
BIG EIGHT STANDINGS
Conference Overall
W L 1 Pct W L 1 Pct
Kansas 4 1 800 W L 1 Pct
Oklahoma 3 1 750 W L 1 34
Kansas St 3 1 750 W L 1 32
Missouri 3 1 750 W L 1 37
lowa St 2 1 500 W L 1 65
Nebraska 1 3 500 W L 1 38
Okla St 1 3 250 W L 1 29
Colorado 1 0 500 W L 1 343
Last Week's Results
Lake Tahoe 71. Nebraska 65
Oregon 86. Nebraska 70
Lake St. 91. Nebraska 74
Kansas 92. Nebraska 61
Lake St. 92. Columbia 61
Oklahoma 81. Kansas 71. 78
Illinois 92. Kansas 78
Missouri 77. Colorado 60
Missouri 77. Colorado 60
Today's Games
Iowa. at Kansas
Oklahoma at Colorado
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