University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 25, 1988
Sports
13
KU hands ball, game to OU's flying guns
By Elaine Sung
Kansan staff writer
NORMAN, Okla — During the last week, the Jayhawks have proven one thing: They can hold their own against nationally ranked teams.
Saturday, the Jayhawks took sixth-ranked Duke into overtime before bowing 74-70. In last night's 95-87 loss to fourth-ranked Oklahoma, Kansas held the Sooners to under 100 points.
"I was proud of our team," Kansas coach Larry Brown said. "We wung on. The bottom line is they are so athletic. They got to the loose balls and got a bunch of offensive rebounds."
Oklahoma, accustomed to tramp- pling visiting teams in Lloyd Noble Arena, was flustered in the first half and shot only 33 percent.
"We were taking good shots, but we weren't used to people jumping up to get them, so we rushe our shots," said Oklahoma center Stacey King, who finished the night with 22 points. Everyone says Kansas is a one-man team and are wrong. They have some great shooters, and they proved it."
Kansas is now 17-10 overall and fourth in the Big Eight Conference at #3.
Guard Jeff Gueldner, who had
started the last five games, sat out last night's game with an ankle injury he sustained Tuesday in practice. Brown was forced to use his 11th different starting lineup of the season, starting guard Clint Normore in Gueldner's place.
It was Normore's first start as a Kansas basketball player, and he scored his only points of the game with a three-pointer with half a minute left.
Kansas was ahead only three times, all of them in the first 8 minutes of the game. The last time the Jayhawks had the lead was when guard Kevin Pritchard's layup at 13:51 of the first half gave the Jayhawks an 8-7 advantage.
"Every time we get in a position to win a game, we can't get over the hump," said forward Milt Newton, who had 21 points and six rebounds. "For some reason, when we get back into the game, we start doing what got us into trouble again."
Kansas had trouble handling the ball, turning it over 24 times to the Sooners' 13 turnovers. The Jayhawks had more rebounds, with 41 compared with Oklahoma's 36, but ended up short on offensive rebounds.
"If we didn't turn the ball over
See KANSAS, p. 14, col. 1
Oklahoma 95 Kansas 87
| | M | FG | FT | R | A | F | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Newton | 27 | 8-14 | 3-5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 19 |
| Piper | 35 | 3-7 | 0-4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Norming | 37 | 7-17 | 0-0 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Nomine | 11 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Pritchard | 36 | 6-9 | 4-4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 16 |
| Barry | 10 | 3-5 | 1-4 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 17 |
| Murray | 10 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Livingston | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Harris | 17 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Masucci | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 40 | 28 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
Percentages: FG, 54. FT, 85. Three-point goals: 3-5 (Newton 23-8). Blocked Shoots: 4 (Manning 4). Turnovers: 24 (Manning 5, Newton 5). Stearns: 9 (Hairs 3). Technicals:
| | M | FG | FT | T | R | A | F | TP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Grant | 38 | 7-13 | 7-1 | F | 3 | A | 1 | 17 |
| Singer | 38 | 9-13 | 9-1 | F | 10 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| Steiger | 33 | 9-19 | 4-7 | 4-8 | 12 | 4 | 22 |
| Blaylock | 40 | 6-15 | 4-7 | 4-8 | 12 | 4 | 22 |
| Grace | 29 | 5-12 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 1 | 5 | 16 |
| Jones | 3 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 1 | 5 | 16 |
| James | 3 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 1 | 5 | 16 |
| Martin | 8 | 2-2 | 3-3 | 6-0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Team | 29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Team
| 10AAs | 32-74 22-33 36 18 18 |
| :--- | :--- |
| mnt engagements | 65-73 367 |
| Shots to gear | 9-26 (Gear) |
| Shots: 3 Turnovers: 13 (Blaylock 4) | Steals: |
| (14 Grand) Techs: None | |
Half: Oklahoma 35-32. Officials: Zetcher,
Harvey, Elehrhorst
Kansas guard Kevin Pritchard gets double teamed by Oklahoma forward Dave Sieger, left, and guard Mookie Blaylock.
Kansas center Danny Manning puts up a shot over Oklahoma forward Harvey Grant. Manning broke the all-time Big Eight scoring record, previously held by Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma.
Manning's record rings hollow
By Elaine Sung
Kansan staff writer
NORMAN, Okla. — Nothing.
Nothing was what forward Danny Manning's face showed after last night's 98-87 loss to Oklahoma.
Nothing was the fans in Lloyd Noble Arena did after it was announced that Manning was the new all-time leader.
In fact, the 9.785 Oklahoma fans booed, because it was their own Wayman Tisdale who owned the record printers.
The record-breaking shot landed with just over 5 minutes left in the game
It was a simple jump shot, cutting Oklahoma's lead to three. Manning saw it fall and headed down the court, not acknowledging the milestone he had just set, perhaps not even realizing he had done it.
But it turned out it didn't matter. Not to him, at least.
"I'd rather have the win. The victory is more important," he said. "Maybe the record will mean something to me later in life, but right now it means nothing."
Kansas coach Larry Brown recognized Manning's accomplishment as something more than that.
"I think what Danny did was phenomenal," he said.
"Wayman did it in three years, but I remember him as
a scorer. Danny's prowess is all-around ability."
The Sooners didn't want the record broken on their territory, and all but dropped their usual high-scoring style of play in the first half to prevent Manning from scoring too much.
"We are a team that cherishes things like that," said Oklahoma center Stacey King. "We went out and tried to stop him. We were trying to play him a little too hard the first half. The second half, we decided to go out and play our type of game and we held him to 10 points then."
But the first half was all Manning, scoring 20 points and shooting four for four from the line
His jump shot with 5:42 left in the game cut the Sooners' lead to seven, and his record-breaking shot half a minute later cut the lead to three points. Manning's tip-in with 3 minutes brought the Oklahoma lead back down to three following a Stacey King layup.
But with under 2 minutes remaining, Manning fouled out. When it was all over, he had a total of 30 points, 11 rebounds, four blocks and a steal.
As Manning sat in the locker room patiently answering questions, it all didn't matter to him. No smile, no glimmer of excitement.
"Nothing," he said one more time. "I don't feel anything."
Royals to fly friendly basepaths
The Associated Press
HAINES CITY, Fla. — Kansas City Royals Manager John Wathan, whose team had its first full-squad workout schedule yesterday, said aggressive base-running would get prime emphasis in spring training camp this year.
"We were last (in the American League) in scoring runs last year," Wathan said. "This year we are going to score more runs. I know we are. We're going to be more aggressive, more exciting. We're going to
manufacture more runs."
After Wathan took over as manager last August, 27, the Royals stole 48 games in 30 games, compared with 77 games in 126 games under Bill Gardner.
To evaluate his players' base-stakeing capabilities, Wathan plans to turn everyone loose during spring-training games.
"It's going to create more runs, because when guys are aggressive, it makes the defense concentrate more and sometimes make mis 'akes.
because they know we're going to take the extra base." Wathan said.
When Wathan was a rookie catcher with the Royals in 1976, the team stole 218 bases under the direction of Manager Whitey Herzog. That still stands as the team record.
Watsonian Safe Hirez, now manage
of the Taiwan Safer Cord, who hag-
d a度 of Tahiti.
The Associated Press
CALGARY, Alberta — George Steinbrenner will try to do for Yankas in the Olympics what he does for his Yankees in baseball: make them win.
"I think it's normal because he was my first big-league manager, and we
Olympic panel to review U.S.record, chooses Steinbrenner
Steinbrenner was named on Tuesday the head of a special review panel on the U.S. Olympic movement, which in the 1988 Winter Games has produced just two golds and four silver medals.
See ROYALS, p. 14, col. 1
medals overall with just four days to go.
"We can do better. We should do better. The American public deserves the very best we can give them," Steinbranner said. "I want to make sure we do right by our athletes, because that will produce medals and that is the bottom line.
"We want to make sure our athletes have everything they need to pursue the goal of
The U.S. Olympic Committee said the
commission would look at everything from training athletes and picking teams to the physical condition of school children.
"I can find no fault with the competitive spirit of the athletes." Steinbrenner said. "But are we doing all we can do to develop and prepare our athletes?"
U. S. competitors never have won more than 12 medals in the Winter Games, less than a quarter of them.
already have won this time. The four medals won so far in 1988 match the worst U.S.
U. S. Olympic Committee president Robert Helmck said the United States was at a natural disadvantage. But Steinbrenner, an Olympic Committee executive board member, warned that the fall in U.S. status might extend to this summer's Games as well.
"I don't know what it's going to be like in
Seoul, but it may not be any picnic there either." he said.
Steinbrener has made almost as many headlines with his statements and actions as the Yankees have with their success on the field.
H helmick, who helped name Steinbrenner to the board, said. "I wanted objectivity, people who were going to tell it like it is. And nobody will tell it like it is like George."