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Fridav.March 4.1977
University Daily Kansan
Wildcats finish off 'Hawks, 80-67
By GARY VICE and COURTNEY THOMPSON
Snorts Writers
KANAS CITY, Mo.—Whatever Kansas can do to keep ahead of Kansas State last night was undone in the last six and one-half minutes by K-State's Curtis Redding as the Jawhawks lost. 80-67.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
the loss ended KU's season and any chance for an NCAA tournament berth. The Jawhawks were 18-10 this season.
Redding led a K-State sprint in which KU was outscored, 25-8, to the semifinal round of the Big Eight Post-Session game.
THE WILDCATS WILL PLAY Missouri, winner of the other semifinal game, tonight at 10:30 in Kempa. The Tigers will face the Grizzlies on Sunday.
The Jayhawks were leading 59-58 when K-State left the foul-rep and cold-shooting KU team behind. Reddin scored 23 of his 27 points in the second half, including 13 points from the foul line.
In all, the Wildcats collected 28 points from the line with is in the final minutes, when they wiped out KU's four point
John Douglas gets caught in the K-State squeeze during the second half
That ruined what until they was a close game. The lead changed 14 times and the score was tied 15, but most of that time it was over. The game was over.
THE CLOSE PACE continued until KU broke loose to take a 48-41 advantage five minutes into the second period. That was KU's largest lead, but Redding took care of it. He scored 11 seconds in the next seven minutes to bring K-State over.
Redding has been poison against the Hawks in their last two meetings, taking high point honors each time with a score of 50.
It had been KU coach Ted Owens' plan to check Reddings by inserting 6-9 forward Donnie Von Moore into the startling place in place of a 8-2 guard Haasen Houston. Von Moore held the K-State freshman to only four points in the first half but Redding, who was named to the Associated Press All Big Ten advantage of Von Moore's foal handicap in the second half.
Owens said, "Size bothered him in the first half, thought. Donnie did a good job on him. But in the second half we were in fool trouble. Clint (Johnson) had him in the man-to-man and Donnie had him in the man-to-man and he had four."
FOULS PROVED TO BE THE 'Hawks undoing as KU's startling lineup of Von Moe, Ken Keenigs, Johnson, Herb Nobles and John Douglas combined for 24 fouls. Only 15 minutes with more than 15 minutes to play, keep from outgoing.
The game ended up being a free throw contest for K-State as they more than compensated for KU's 56-32 point advantage.
Although KU outscored the Wildcats from the field, Owens wasn't pleased with his team's shot selection much of the second half. KU's 45 per cent shooting in the first half dropped to 37 in the second half for a game average of 41.
"With a lead we didn't have good patience and go for high percentage shots," Owens said.
WHEN KU HAD the slap it slowed the pace of its play considerably, occasionally soine into a four-corner offense.
which is how the first half came to an end, with KU running down most of the last two minutes in a stall before Nobles put up a shot from the corner. The ball was tipped over as Nobles fell back and then never in—as the 16,875 fans held their breath watching in
silence as time expired.
The 34-44 halftime score was representative of the play as no team ever led by more than four.
John Douglas equalled Redding's 27-point performance, hitting 10-of-22 from the field and 7-of-9 from the foul line. Von Moore and Nobles were the only other "Hawks in double figures with 14 and 10 points."
Tracksters eye qualifying times
Members of the Kansas track team will have their last chance to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in a meet tomorrow at Kansas State University.
Podrabeira's best throw of the season is 57-11. He needs to hit 59-0 to qualify. Wikie has gone 24-10 and Reardon 24-5 in the long jump, where 25-0 is the qualifying standard.
Among those who will be trying to qualify for the NCAA meet at tomorrow afternoon's meet will be Jim Podrebarae in the shot, Mike Wilk and Jay Reason in the long jump Glen Harter in the 1,000-yard run and George Mason in the three-mile run.
Mason and Roscoe will try to qualify in the three-mile, but only the top eight times in the country qualify for the national. Mason has run 13:39.5 and Roscoe 13:42.0.
HARTER, DENIED in an attempt to qualify in the 1,000 at last weekend's Big Eight indoor Championships when he failed on a jump and missed ten tenths of a second off the qualifying time.
"it's tough to qualify in this meet," assistant coach Gary Pepin said yesterday. "I officer off a emotional thing last weekend, and it's kind of a self-motivating thing."
KU tennis team travels to NU
The Jayhawks, who didn't qualify anybody in this meet last year, already have qualified ten individuals and the mileage will be posted. The team, which will be March 13 and 12 in Detroit
"IF A GUY can quality there he ought to be, a good chance of doing something in the office."
The men's tennis team travels to Lincoln, Neb. this afternoon where it will compete in the championship.
The Jayhawks will face Doane, a Nebraska college, tonight and tomorrow morning Kansas will take on Wichita State University, a team KU beat 6-3 earlier this season. The 'Hawks will wind up come tomorrow night when they meet Nebraska
Coach Kirkland Gates said that KU could
win the tournament but that it would take a good team performance.
"We know that Wichita State is strong," Gates said. "Our win over them earlier this season was a close victory. It's important that everyone be up for this one."
Gates also said that because of the addition of several new recruits, Nebraska was stronger than last year. KU downed the Cornhoppers twice last season, 3-8 and 1-8.
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