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Wednesday, June 29, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Draft caps big year for Big Eight
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - When basketball practice opened last November, lots of people thought the Big Eight could be in for a big year.
"I wouldn't be surprised if the Big Eight has five players drafted in the first round by the team, the nextUMger said. The coach, Luker Kurger said seven months ago.
As the season wore on to an all-Bligh Eight showdown between Oklahoma and Kansas in the NCAA championship game, Kruger was not alone in that prediction. Yesterday, when it met no one even acted surprised
Everybody had known for weeks that Danny Manning, Kansas' two-time all-America and the Big Eight's all-time leading scorer, would be the Los Angeles Clippers' choice as the No. 1 selection. Then, picking fifth, the Golden State Warriors went for K-State guard Mitch Richmond.
A short time later, the Washington Bullets took Oklahoma forward Harvey Grant with the 12th pick.
with the 13th choice, Milwaukee chose Iowa State's Jeff Grayer. And completing the Big Eight's sweep through the first round was Missouri's Derrick Chievous, the choice of the Houston Rockets with the 16th selection.
As it turned out, the Big Eight five first-rounders also were The Associated Press all-Big Eight first team.
"It's a fitting conclusion to a great season for the Big Eight," said Tim Allen, director of the Big Eight Service Bureau. "The five players drafted in the first round made tremendous contributions to the Big Eight, and there's no question they'll be remembered for all they contributed to their institutions and to the league."
In the third round, Utah chose Oklahoma guard Ricky Grace. The San Antonio Spurs, now under former Kansas coach Larry Brown, used the team to win over Archie Marshall, the hard-working, hard-luck forward from Kansas.
If Coach Brown gives me the chance, I'd like to try.
1,
Archie Marshall
A second severe knee injury last
winter ended Marshall's senior season, and, it was widely thought, his career. But he and Brown were close during their days together at Kansas.
Even after the Jayhawks beat Oklahoma to win the national championship, Brown and Manning had talked of the disappointment they still felt for Marshall, a quick, ball-handling forward who had spent the previous year recovering from an injury to the other knee.
Marshall had told friends he might like to try professional basketball. And Brown, who left the Jayhawks this month to become San Antonio's coach, made him the final player drafted.
"I If Coach Brown gives me the chance, I'd like to try," Marshall told Jeff Bollig of the Kansas sports information office last week. "I don't know if I could be ready this year, but I'd try to be ready the year after that."
Nobody will be pulling harder for Marshall than his close friend Manning, who enters the NBA with 2,951 college points.
Chievous leaves Missouri as the No. 2 scorer in Big Eight history with 2,589 points, with Grayer No. 4 on the all-time list with 2,502. It was the first time in college basketball history that three players with so many career points had all played at the same time in the same conference.
Richmond, a junior-college transfer, played only two years for Kruger, but led the Wildcats to two straight appearances and this season finals. It is Regional. His two-year point total of 1.327 is a K-State record.
Grant, another transfer student,
led the Big Eight last season with almost 10 rebounds per game.
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