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April 8, 1988/University Daily Kansan
CHAMPS!
Player trades court for field
Normore plans to savor title
By Joel Zeff
Kansan staff writer
The distance between the 1988 NCAA national champion's locker room and the practice locker room of the KU football team is only a few hundred vards.
Clint Normore, KU football free safety turned KU basketball point guard turned KU football free safety, between locker rooms all to well.
Normore, who was the fifth-leading tackler last season for the KU football team, joined the KU basketball team Dec. 14 after Coach Larry Brown asked him last spring to consider playing basketball.
"I wanted him to come and try out if it was possible, but I knew football was first on his mind," Brown said in January. "I know he loves to play, and he's a great competitor. I have a lot of respect for him, and even when he was a high school player, I always felt he had the ability."
Normore said Monday that he would return to football practice soon to tell his football teammates about the thrill of victory and what the victor wears on his ring finger.
"And I'm gonna wear my ring. I know that." Morrise said. "Nice point."
Normore, who scored seven points
in Kansas' victory Monday night, said he would savor the championship because of the way it was achieved.
"I didn't think when I came out for basketball I'd be an NCAA champ." Normore said at the pep rally on Tuesday. "This is proof that with a group of guys with a lot of determination you can succeed. That's what we did."
Marvin Mattox, a free safety on the KU football team, one of Normore's teammates on the court and on the football field, was promoted to the basketball team from the junior varsity during the season.
"I may not have played much, but I still have this ring," Mattox said at the rally.
Mattox also asked the crowd at the rally where everyone was during the football season.
However, Normore was just happy he had the opportunity to play for a winning team.
"I want to win," Normore said in January. "Wining had a part in my decision to join. I consider myself a winner, and it's great to know that I'm on a winning team and that I had a part of it."
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