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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, December 3. 1986
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Jayhawks dish out 87-74 loss to Minnesota
Bv BRIAN SNYDER
Sports writer
The Minnesota women's basketball team needs a taste of home cooking.
Last night, the Göiden Gopher loses a road game — for the 15th straight time. Minnesota hasn't won on the road since 1984.
Kamas caused Minnesota's misery
lash, night, beating the Golden
Gate.
The Jayhawks' full-court-pressure defense and forward Lisa Dougherty's outside shooting paced Kansas.
Dougherty, the Jayhawk's leading scorer with 20 points, said after the game that she was looking for more shots than in the past. Because the Jayhawks lack height, outside lines has become more important
"She was hot tonight," Kansas head coach Marian Washington said. "Lisa will have games like that through the season."
Although Minnesota has six 6-footers on its team and KU has only two, Kansas had a 20-16 rebound advantage at halftime. The Hawks finished the game with a 42-41 rebounding edge.
The full-court pressure and fast tempo of the game was exactly what Washington wanted, she said. The steal and turnover statistics indicate that the quickness of KU guards Lisa Hornsby OT overmatched Minnesota's guards.
KU had 23 steals to Minnesota's eight, while the Golden Gophers committed 36 turnovers to Kansas' 16.
Most of the steals and turnovers occurred in Minnesota's backcourt, where KU trapped the ballhandlers.
"I would match our backcount pressure with anyone," Washington said. "We demonstrated that against Louisiana Tech."
Kansas lost to Louisiana Tech Saturday in the final round of the DCSAA playoff.
The high scorer in last night's game was Minnesota's 6-foot-2 forward Molly Tadich, with 22 points. KU forward jackie Martin, who was assigned to guard Tadich, praised her after the game.
Kansas 87
Minnesota 74
Minnesota
Kansas forward Lisa Baker scrambles for a loose ball with Minnesota players Mary Jo Nowak, left, and Deb Hilmerson. The Jayhaws won 87-74 last night in Allen Field House.
| | FG | FT | R | A | F | T |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Hilmerson | 5-6 | 3-4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 3 |
| Jimerson | 4-6 | 1-0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 |
| Boehland | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Tadich | 9-13 | 4-4 | 1-0 | 2 | 22 | 2 |
| Pram | 0-4 | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Phillips | 7-12 | 1-3 | 1-0 | 0 | 15 | 4 |
| Phillips | 2-7 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Nowak | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Bradley | 2-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Bradley | 30-85 | 14-19 | 41 | 9 | 17 | 74 |
Percentages: FG: 54, FT 737 Blocked Shots: 5 (Himerson, Baoheim, Tadich, Kinney, Bradley) Turnovers: 36 (Himerson 7) Steals: 8 (Himerson) Technicals: None
Kansas
| | FG | FT | R | A | B | F | Tp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Brady | 4-9 | 7-8 | R | 4 | A | 10 | |
| Martin | 4-10 | 1-3 | T | 7 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| Shaw | 4-10 | 1-4 | T | 2 | 4 | 10 | |
| Dougherty | 8-15 | 4-4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 20 | |
| Hawley | 3-6 | 0-0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Page | 2-7 | 0-1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 4 | |
| Ott | 3-8 | 0-0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |
| Berr | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
| Strouther | 2-7 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
| Totals | 35-84 | 17-24 | 42 | 14 | 18 | 7 | |
Percentages: FG 10.7, TG 708. Blocked
Percents: FG 19.3, TG 244. Steals: 23 (Waters 7),
dy Martin, Otf 3). Steals: 23 (Waters 7),
Half: Kansas 45-35. Officials: Mike Benson
Stewart Wurtz.
"She's a pretty tough ballplayer who's able to pass," Martin said. "She works to get open."
Martin said Tadich had a combination of finesse and toughness. Tadich exhibited a soft jump shot from 12 feet and out, combined with the muscle needed to force up shots in the freetrow lane.
"She put pressure on (Tadich) when it was needed," Washington said.
Tadich scored 14 points in the first half, but KU pulled away with a 10-2 spurt that began with 12:54 left in the half. KU led 20-12 at that point.
KU guard Shawna Waters stole the ball on consecutive Minnesota positions, setting up baskets by Martin
and forward Kerri Hawley.
Except Dougherty, who had 12 first-half points, the Jayhawks shared equally in the scoring.
The Golden Gophers got back to within one point, but the Jayhawks stretched their lead to 10 points at halftime.
In the first two minutes of the second half, Kansas built a 16-point lead. Again, the Golden Gophers came back, but Kansas maintained an eight or 10-point lead until the final minute when a wilting Minnesota defense was victimized by Kansas fast breaks.
"Shawna Waters (12 points) is finding her confidence," Washington said. "She's an excellent athlete who is beginning to get more acquainted with our system."
Washington said she was pleased with the performance of several players last night.
WSU ends football program
United Press International
WICHITA — Wichita State yesterday dropped its 89-year-old football program, citing poor community support and debts approaches $800,000.
WSU President Warren Armstrong made the announcement at a 4:30 p.m. news conference, after first breaking the news to the Shocker football team.
During the news conference, Armstrong said the only thing that would revive the program would be an influx of at least $3 million into the athletic department's operating budget. He said he did not expect that to happen.
Armstrong said problems in the state's agriculture, oil and aviation industries had made it difficult in the last two years for the athletic department to generate financial support for its football program.
"The university faces two major financial problems of immediate and critical concern," he said. "The first is a 3.8 percent budget reduction resulting from a continued shortfall in revenue experienced by the state of Kansas."
"The second problem relates to the university's athletic program. It is certainly no secret that the football program at Wichita State has operated at a deficit over the past several years. A deficit in the football program has grown to the point at which it can no longer be carried without serious damage to other sports."
Armstrong told team members earlier in the season that he was under pressure from school alumni to drop the football program unless the school played some winning seasons.
The Shockers finished this season 3-8 under head coach ChRim Schamir. They have had only two winning seasons since 1963, the last winning season was in 1982.
Chismar, with tears streaming down his cheeks, said at the news conference that he was upset with the administration's decision to eliminate the program. He said his players were devastated by the announcement.
The Wichita State football program has been ridiculed and plagued with problems over the years. Average attendance at Shocker games this season was less than 9,700 a game, the second-lowest level since Cessna Stadium was built in 1969.
This season, the Shockers set an National College Athletic Association record by losing a 35-3 lead to lose 36-35 to Morehead State. The victory was the greatest comeback in NCAA history.
The football program, which has been part of WSU athletics since 1897, is expected to lose about $700,000 this year after losing about $500,000 in 1895. The entire athletics program carried a debt of nearly $800,000 before the 1986 football season.
The decision to drop WSU football came at a time when the school was trying to make a 3.8 percent budget cut ordered by Governor-elect Mike Hayden as part of an overall program to trim state spending by $60 million.
Students have called for the university to drop the football program several times, most recently in 1985 when the administration proposed to increase funds for athletics by increasing student fees.
Alford leads Indiana in victory over Irish
United Press International
SOUTH BEND, Ind — Steve Alford scored four of his game-high 26 points in the final one
Top Twenty
The Irish, 0-2, came within a point of the Hoosiers, 2-0. four times in the final 4:40, but Indiana rallied each time to maintain its advantage.
Kentucky 66, Texas Tech 60
minute, nine seconds last night,
guiding No. 3 Indiana to 67-62 victory
over Notre Dame.
Kreigh Smith added two free throws with three seconds left to account for the Hoosier's final margin of victory. Keith Smart added 17 points for Indiana.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Ed Davender scored 23 points, leading
16th-ranked Kentucky to a 66-60 victory over Texas Tech.
Guards Sean Gay and Mike Nelson helped Texas Tech cut two double-digit Kentucky leads to two points, the last time at 41-39 with 10 minutes to play. But Kentucky, behind the three-point shooting of freshman guard Derrick Miller, extended its lead to 60-49 with 3:47 to play.
Temple 70. La Salle 66
PHILADELPHA - Nate Blackwell scored a career-high 33 points, rallying 20th-ranked Temple to a 70-66 victory over La Salle.
Blackwell, whose previous high was 24 points in the recent National Invitation Tournament, hit three home runs and to go to give Temple a 66-66 lead.
Mike Vresweyk hit two more with 11 seconds to play as the Owls, 5-1, rallied from a 20-point halftime deficit.
Coach says errors caused Chiefs' slide
After finishing their home season Sunday against Denver, the Chiefs will close out the year against the Los Angeles Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers.
"We had mistakes and bad starts in other games," Mackovic said, "but we overcame them. Or the mistakes didn't turn into touchdowns. But that is why it is that the mistakes have turned into touchdowns."
But every time we made a mistake, it was a glaring error and it made a big difference in field post-
The slide began with a 38-17 setback to the Denver Broncos, then continued with a 23-14 road loss to the St. Louis Cardinals and a 17-14 loss to Buffalo at home Sunday.
To have any remote chance of snapping a 15-year NFL playoff drought, the Chiefs will have to win three remaining games beginning with this week's home finale against Denver.
The loss to the Bills was especially painful since Buffalo, a loser to the Chiefs earlier this year, had lost 22 straight road games.
"If you don't have a belief that it can be done, it certainly cannot be done very easily," Mackovic said. "I think the guys believe in themselves. I told them on Monday, 'When you come back on Wednesday you can expect the coaching staff will be ready to go. We'll have things in order and ready for a good week. We'll be planning how to beat the Denver Broncos. That's the attitude I want them to have because this game is so much a matter of frame of mind."
"We've tried to make our guys aware of the fact that you have to cover all the bases all the time." Mackovic said. "That's been the biggest thing We've played hard. We didn't play as well as we wanted in St. Louis. We did against Buffalo.
Jayhawks have room to improve
"We've hurt ourselves more than anything else." Mackovic said yesterday at his weekly news luncheon. "We've made critical errors, or missed assignments, or missed blocks, more than anything else. We've not been able to overcome that."
The Kansas men's basketball team has been greeted this season with all the respect of last year's Final Four team.
Kansas' Vaughn honored
The Jayhawks are ranked sixth in the country by the Associated Press. Phone calls and letters have flooded head coach Larry Brown's office, and KU fans are already envisioning a trip to New Orleans, the site of this year's Final Four, in March.
The Associated Press
Frank Hansel
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A three-game losing streak has turned the playoff-minded 7-3 Kansas City Chiefs into a troubled 7-6 squad that needs to concentrate more fully on the business at hand, says head coach John Mackovic.
Sports editor
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Willie Vaughn, who on Monday was named to the first team All-Big Eight Conference by United Press International, yesterday was given the same honor by The Associated Press.
But this is not last year's team, and the Jayhawks have a long way to go before they can make that claim.
A lot of the praise can be attributed to three things — last year's success, Danny Manning and Larry Brown.
That is not the impression that fans across the country and pollsters have had in the past.
"We're not very good right now." Brown said after the Jayhawks managed to hold off Southern 87-69 Monday night.
Then came the lackluster performances against Tennessee Martin and Southern.
Pollsters, however, were not swayed.
Brown said he was besieged with letters and phone calls after Kansas beat the Soviet National team in a game nationally televised by ESPN.
Third-ranked Oklahoma, 11-1 overall and 7-0 record in the Big Eight, had eight second-team selections, while both Nebraska and Colorado had two.
"If we're the sixth best team in the nation, then this is going to be a down year in college basketball," Brown said.
When defending national champion and second-ranked Louisville lost three times in Alaska and No. 5 Oklahoma lost to third-ranked UNLV in the preseason NIT tournament, Kansas vaulted from eight to sixth.
"I thought we were great after the Russian game, and a lot of people were telling me that we were great," Brown said.
Oklahoma, Colorado and Nebraska continued their supremacy in the Big Eight Conference by dominating the 1986 Associated Press All-Conference
Also for Kansas, wide receiver Ronnie Caldwell and defensive back Wayne Ziegler were picked for the second team.
Guard Cedric Hunter agreed
It is early in the season, and the Javahawks have time to improve.
Oklahoma quarterback Jamelle Holieway and tight end Keith Jackson lead five returns from the first-team 1985 offensive squad. Linebacker Brian Bosworth of Oklahoma, called the best player in the country by Kansas State head coach Stan Parrish, was one of five repeaters on defense.
Eight Oklahomans, six Nebraskas and five Coloradoans were named to the squad that was flying a panel of media observers.
"I can't say we're the sixth best team in the nation right now, but that's not to say we won't be," Hunter said.
See BIG EIGHT, p. 13, col. 1
The Jayhawks started out on such a high note against the Soviets that their efforts since that game have fallen short.
With only two starters from last year's 35-4 team, Brown has had to play a lot of freshmen. It will take them time to develop into good college basketball players, and the Jayhawks may have to sacrifice a few more games in the experience that will help them in February and March.
"I expect the freshmen to struggle," Brown said. "I'm concerned with the older players. Freshmen are not expected to come in and carry a team, but every time they play, they're going to get better."
"The first game set the standard, and showed what we're capable of doing," said freshman forward Mark Hooker. "We must have to work to get back up there."
Brown is aware that the Jayhawks are a young team, and that December games are a spring training of sorts to prepare for the conference season. But he is unhappy with the effort he has seen on the floor.
"I want the same kind of effort that we're used to seeing here." Brown said. "Right now most of the kids on the bench are wondering when they will get in the game and how many minutes they're going to get. That's not what we need."
Even if Brown does get the kind of effort he is looking for, that will not make the Jayhawks as good a team as last year, and that's a fact KU fans will just have to accept.
Miami's Testaverde gets Maxwell award
"This is a great honor for me and for my team as well," said Testaverde. "I'm just a reflection of what they do."
United Press International
PHILADLPHIA  – Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde, who spent three years on the bench before becoming the country's most feared passer, yesterday overwhelmingly. He is now a top college football player.
He will lead No. 1 Miami against No. 2 Penn State on Jan. 2 in the Fiesta Bowl for the national title.
Testaverde received 960 first-place votes, and 1,352 points in the annual voting by the Maxwell Football Club of Philadelphia.
Palmer, the country's leading rusher, finished second with 435 first-place votes and 830 points. Michigan quarterback Jim Harbaugh was third with 347 points; Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth was fourth with 241 points; Penn State linebacker Shane Conlan was fifth with 189 points.
Temple running back Paul
Rozelle announces suspensions
Testaverte, who is expected to win the Heisman Trophy Saturday, is the first Miami player to win the Max-Paul. He is the 14th quarterback to be honored.
In his two years as a starter, Testaverte led the Hurricanes to a 20-2 record, completing 413 of 674 passes for a school-record of 6,058 yards and 48 touchdowns. His 5,738 yards in total offense is also a school record.
United Press International
NEW YORK — NPL Commissioner Pete Rozelle yesterday affirmed his two-game suspension of Green Bay nose tackle Charles Martin and suspended Chicago linebacker Otis Wilson for one game.
Martin was suspended Nov. 26 but played in the Packers' Thanksgiving Day game while his appeal was pending. Rozelle heard his appeal Monday. During the hearing in New York, Packers President Judge Robert Parins presented videotapes to Rozelle of Wilson's smash of Lipps and Chicago defensive tackle William Perry's roughing St. Louis quarterback Neil Lomax in an exhibition game.
Martin, who slammed Chicago quarterback Jim McMahon to the ground during a Nov. 23 game, will miss, without pay, Sunday's game against Minnesota and the Dec. 14 game against Tampa Bay. The suspension will cost him $15,000 — two-sixteents of his $120,000 base salary.
Wilson was suspended for delivering a flagrant forearm to the head of Pittsburgh wide receiver Louis Lipps Sunday. The shot gave Lippa a concussion, which removed him from the game. If he does not appeal the
suspension, Wilson will sit out Sunday's game against Tampa Bay.
"Following a review of videotapes of the Pittsburgh-Chicago game, I today notified linebacker Otis Wilson of the bears that he is being suspended without pay for one game as a result of his flagrant forewarm blow to the jaw of wide receiver Louis Lipps," Rozelle said in a statement released by the NFL office.
"Specifically, the review revealed that Lipps, after being in motion and following a handoff to a Pittsburgh running back, turned and headed toward Wilson as a potential blocker. Wilson cocked his left arm and delivered a forearm blow to Lips' jaw, knocking him down. It was the initial contact between the two players."
"Though Wilson's action went undetected by the game officials and no penalty was assessed, there is no justification for this type of dangerous action in the 'EL.'
Wilson and Perry were among players fined for fighting after the Chicago-St. Louis exhibition game.
Before Rozelle announced Wilson's suspension, Packers head coach Forrest Gregg said the All-Pro linebacker should receive the same punishment as Martin.