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Wednesday, February 16, 1977
University Dally Kansan
KU seeks out of second division
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
Associate Sports Editor
If a good team with a good record inspires other teams to winning performance, the team will be more competitive.
The Jayhaws meet Iowa State, the team with the worst overall record (6-18) in the Big Eight conference, at 7:35 tonight in Omaha. The team would seem to be patently unimpressive.
And KU needs inspiration, or something.
And the players still have the less than enjoyable memories of the Kansas State loss filed too far back in their minds.
But KU coach ted Towens says the team is coming to this point, to con- template its troubles.
"SOMETIMES YOU just have to do what's required. We can't afford to让kid our wounds now because we have to go back out and win these three last games."
The object of concern now is the home
court advantage for post season tournament play. Worries about the Big Eight contest are not to be missed.
Owens said that the Jayhawks can't win only two of their last three games and still win a game in each round of the post-season tournament, Feb. 26. All three must be wins, he says—against Iowa State tonight, Nebraska here this weekend and Colorado next Wednesday in Boulder.
If KU can win all three games, the Jayhawks will finish with a 9-5 conference record. The loss to K-State on Saturday dropped KU to fifth (6), behind Oklahoma and Nebraska, both with 74 records. The State share the conference lend at 8-5.
Kansas seems relatively well assured of at least the fifth-place spot -the problem is that only the first four teams get the home court advantage.
It looks now as if the Jayhawks will play either Nebraska or Oklahoma in the first round of the playoffs. The 'Hawks are now up to determine the location of that game.
So being at the top of the second division doesn't get it.
BUT KANSAS still has two remaining games on the road (at Iowa State and Colorado), and the Jayhawks' success on the road has been inconsistent. Nebraska plays all of its remaining games on the road but the Sooners have only one road game against Dallas. But the game favor Oklahoma which means Nebraska is KU's likely opponent—either here or there.
Although 7-0 center Paul Mokesi said he was physically able to play and wanted to be in the game against K-Site, he didn't play. Instead, he made a nature of Mokesi's potential for play tonight.
"He has the flu now,but will probably
make the trip. But we can't afford to experiment at this point though. If he can demonstrate in practice that he can be effective, he may play."
KU may need that height however, to deal with the rebounding of the Cyclones' freshman center, Dean Uthoff. He leads the conference in rebounds and averages 10.4 a game, and also is the leading Iowa State scorer. Uthoff is unusual in that the has more total rebounds to his credit than total points he leads his team $^{1}$ both categories.
Harris Nobbles, 6.7 senior
Ryan Foster, 6.5 junior
C Kim Horns, 6.10 junior
K Cam Kenny, 6.10 junior
G Haasen Houson, 6.42 state
W State
S Steve Borgstenau, 6.31 sophomore
A Andrew Ullman, 6.29 sophomore
U University of Akron, 6.24 junior
L Leonard Alex, 6.44 junior
World record is no stopping point for Wiley
Bv ROB RAINS
Sports Writer
A few people may have been surprised by Cliff Wiley's performance at the United States Track and Field Federation (USTF- F) Indoor Championships last weekend.
If they were, they don't know Cliff Wiley.
If they were, they don't know Cliff Wiley. Wiley, Baltimore, Md., junior, tied the world record in the 300-yard dash and the second in the 80-120 pace to the Jayhawks as the team hit.
Wiley's time in the 300-29.8 seconds-
tied the record for a 176-yard track. The
record for the more common 220 track is
sleighter faster-29.3
"It (the record) is nice to have," Wiley said Monday, "but it hasn't been one of my goals. I like running that well, but it's not something I can stop with."
ONE THING the race did for Wiley was build up his confidence. And that, according to head coach Bob Timmons, has been one of his problems.
"Cliff wants to be a world-class spinner." Timmons said. "He needs to have all kinds of confidence in his own ability before that is soining to happen."
Wiley says that he needs to be more confident, saying that he has been too inconsistent in his races this season. He wants to change that soon.
Wiley has one advantage in trying to build his confidence this year that he didn't have. He has a solid reputation.
"I'm looking forward to a good Big Eight tour," he said, "but I I'm looking more toward national."
HIDEN't participate in meets during KU's outdoor season last year because of a snowstorm.
Speedster Cliff Wiley
limits on the amount of financial aid he could receive.
The problem arose because Wiley was on a full athletic scholarship and also received financial aid through a federal program that assists students from underprivileged families.
Wiley took the case to court and won. The NCAA, however, has appealed the federal district court decision to the 10 U.S. court of Appeals. No trial date has been set.
"The whole thing disturbed me more
academically than anything else," Wiley said. "It was hard to come in and sit down to study when you didn't know if you would be in school the next week or not.
"ITS BAD when the NCAA can't see what I see," Wiley continued. "Here I was, a sophomore in college and basic logic told me that I couldn't have had no connection to my athletic ability."
But the NCAA officials thought otherwise and Wiley missed the outdoor season.
"I don't have a bitter taste in my mouth because of the whole affair," Wiley said. "It's one of those situations in life that you just have to deal with."
Foremost in Wiley's mind is the Big Eight meet Feb. 25-26 and the NCAA Indoor Championships March 11-12. He has qualified for the nationals in the 60 and as a member of the mile relay team. The 300 is not run in the nationals.
Wiley said his favorite events were the 100 and 200 meters. It is in them that he hopes to succeed as a world-class athlete.
"I don't run that great early in the season," Wiley said. "I prefer to run out-
"I look at this as the pivotal year," Willey said. "I'm planning on going to Europe this summer and running over there. I want to see what I can do."
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Leonard, who won 17 games last year with an earned-run average of 3.51, is the only Royal regular represented by Jerry Kupcik and the history of taking tough negotiating stances.
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