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Monday, January 24, 1977
University Daily Kansan
'Hawks poor showing merits 80-65 defeat
By GARY VICE
Sports Editor
MANHATTAN-Wille Wildcat took a peek under a Kansas State cheerleader's skirt and saw the words "BEAT KU" ablaze him, "CLEAN," and "GREATEST." And you can bet that what happened.
That cheerleader made a far better showing Saturday night in the purple coliseum than the unwelcome Jayhawks, who were thrashed. 80-65.
It was a reversal of the two teams' first meeting of the season at the Big Eight Holiday Tournament where the 'Hawks romped, 81-64. But that contest was played in Kansas City's Kemper Arm and not in Detroit, where K-Slate had won 31 of the last 33 outings.
The Jay's-whks' fate became apparent early in the second half when impatience guided their offensive play. It took over six minutes for them to hit their second field goal and take a time span the flanks five-point-half ballooned to as much as 17.
SO AS THE snow fell on Ahearn Field House, where the Jayhawks haven't won since 1971, a capacity crowd of 10,960 chanted "What's the score KU?" What's the score?" as the Hawks fell out of a tie with Missouri and K-State for the conference title. "The Big Eight while the Hawks are tied with Oklahoma at 3-2. KU is 12-5 overall."
IT WAS AN affliction of impatience that KU couldn't shake. Time after time the 'Hawks came down the court only for someone to go one-on-one against the Wildcat defense and force a poor shot. Or as center Ken Koenigs said in a solemn KDU dressing room following the game, "We have played with a five-second clock."
Coach Ted Owens, whose teams are 16-13 against their intratease rival, moaned to the same time, saying, "We were impatient for this win and we are a better shot, setting up and getting a better shot. K-State played with better judgment than we did. They played at a good tempo for them and we were impressed."
KU'S PLAYING tempo included 28 personal fouls and 20 turnovers compared with 13 and 11 for K-State. There was also a big difference between Hassan Houston, 2-0-8, and forward Herb Nobles, 2-of-11, who is struggling to regain his shooting form that has eluded him in conference play. Nobles, who was harassed by the opposing defense, has been shooting at a 34 per cent clip.
Clint Johnson, making the transition to forward now that Houston has worked his way into the starting lineup, analyzed KU's difficulties on offense.
"Everybody knew how far down we were," Johnson said, "and started thinking to take it said upon themselves to score and get us back in the game. We pressured to get it down and didn't have the patience we needed."
GUARD JOHN Douglas tossed in 24 points to lead KU scores hitting 10-of-21 from the field, but it wasn't enough to threaten the Wildcats who got career-high scoring performances from both Curtis Redding and Scott Langton.
Redding, a freshman forward, broke out of a scoring slump that had shadowed him since the pre-season conference tourney by pumping in 27 points to lead the Wildcats.
Langton, a junior guard, responded to his first collegiate startning assignment by 14-6.
Now having earned the guard position that K-State coach Jack Hartman has had as his backup, Randy Baker on this team really wanted to beat KU. Even Tyrone (Ladison) and Curt (Redding), the freshmen, they had a feeling of how much we like to beat KU just from hearing all of them.
CERTAINLY THEN the Wildcats enjoyed their comfortable victory that started beading their way into a 12-point spurt in the game. The Jayhawks took over the lead briefly at 7:08 with a 27-28 margin after running off 10 consecutive points, but it was their last gap at taking charge. It was K-Water's first win to memorably不忘 one for Langton and Redding.
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| | FG | FT | R | PF | Pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Johnson | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Nobles | 9-11 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| Roosevelt | 9-11 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| Roosevelt | 2-8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 12 |
| Douglas | 15-21 | 44 | 12 | 6 | 13 |
| Sanders | 9-25 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Sanders | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Anderson | 5-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Anderson | 5-7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lath | 7-19 | 11 | 14 | 28 | 7 |
Staff rhnfa by GEORGE MILLENER
Brad Sanders stole the ball from K-State's Curtis Redding only to find Mike Evans the better thief.
| | FG | PF | R | RP | Pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Reading | 9 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| Danielle | 4:10 | 3:14 | 15 | 12 | 6 |
| Dante | 3:4 | 0:4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Lakatha | 8:4 | 10:3 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Evans | 4:13 | 4:9 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Evanon | 8:2 | 3:9 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Dronge | 0:0 | 0:0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Danner | 0:0 | 0:0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Danner | 0:0 | 0:1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Barton | 0:1 | 1:2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Barton | 0:1 | 1:2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| KANASIS | 77:41 | 10:41 | 38 | 17 | 65 |
| | FG | PF | R | RP | Pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| KANASIS | 77:41 | 10:41 | 38 | 17 | 65 |
Track team victorious
By ROBRAINS Sports Writer
The Kansas Jayhawks, scoring points in all but one event, ran away from the field to win the Sooner Indoor Relays in Oklahoma City Friday night.
The Jayhawks set four meet records, and
matched with 90 percent to 73 for defending
Cameron.
Among those who turned in good performances in the Jayhawks second meet of the season was Anthony Coleman.
"I was really pleased with the way our call performed," the coach Boltumms said. "It was good."
KU's 400-yard freestyle relay team turned in a time of 1:43.5 to beat the national team in the last round.
KU BUKE three other records in the meet. Jay Wagner wreck the record in the 600-yard dash with a time of 1:10.5, just two-tenths of a second off the qualifying time for the race. The result was a time of 8:45.85 in the two-mile run and Steve Rainbait went 7-00-0 in the high jump.
Coleman, a sophomore, broke both the KU and the meet records in the 60-yard high jump.
KU's once-powerful men's swimming team dropped two meets over the vacation, while the women's team set an AUR record. Big Eight records in a meet here Friday.
TWO BIG EIGHT records also fell, in the 400 medley relay and 200 freestyle. The team of Susie Padgett, Gle Jewel, Walters and Sheehan swam the relay time of 14:18.5. And Bunker set the conference mark in the freestyle with 16:58.
The men's team, which has been experiencing ups and downs this season, fell to Iowa State, 77-38, Saturday, and Missouri, 74-3, on Jan. 14.
Men's swimming team drops 2 while women drown 3 records
The KU women swam against the Kansas City Trailblazers, an AAU team, and then ran a sprint with an originally scheduled team, Catley College, Nevada, Mo., was unable to come to Lawrence. No score was kept for the meet, which was run like an AAU time-trial
The Jayhawks won only two of 13 events against Iowa State. Senior co-captain BWagoner won the 200-yard breaststroke and sophomore Kruska Flaske was awarded 87-72.
40 freeftest relay team of Bill Dostert, Jessie Gray, Paul Carroll and Peter Barkaker-Akram took the other first. Their season was 31.73 was the best for KU this season.
The relay team, comprising Maureen Sheehan, J. K. Walters, Cathy Call and Jeffrey Sloane, was called by Kemp called probably the fastest time for this event in the country so far this season.
"WE SHOULD have done better," coach Duck Reason said, "but our progress last week was minimal. I think the enrollment process and schedule planning caused us to lose some of our concentration."
In other action since Christmas break, the Jawhawks downed Drury College, 69-44,
Since that meet injuries have plaged Kansas, Jad Blackenbush suffered a broken collarbone just before Christmas; Tom Anmayson jabbed in the ISU meet, his hit by a deflating knee taken out of competition; and Mike Alley has been hampered by a shoulder injury.
The turning point in the meet, Timmons said, was the 440-yard dash. With the Jayhawks trailing Oklahoma midway through the meet, Timmons was worried that they might not have enough strength in the later events to win the meet.
Friday's meet was the only competition for the women's team during the semester break and its first since winning the Big Eight Relays in early December.
But Kevin Newell and David Blutter took matters into their hands, and gave the Jayhawks 10 quick points by finishing first and second.
"FROM THERE, we were on our way," Timmons said.
Also turning in first-place finishes for KU were Tommy McCall in the 800, Rick Enzs in the 1,000, and Jim Podrebarec in the shot put.
Freshman Jay Reardon added second-place finishes in the long jump and the triple jump. George Mason finished third in the 1,000 and the two-mile.
The Jayhawks lost an opportunity for more points in the 300-yard dash when Cliff Wiley elected not to run in the finals because of a tender muscle.
Women capture fourth at Big Eight tournament
Other Big Eight schools competing in the meet were Kansas State, third with 29 points, and Oklahoma State, sixth in the nine-tem field with 13 points.
The KU women's basketball team finished fourth in the Big Eight Conference tournament this weekend, after losing to Missouri in a consolation game, 85-81.
The fourth-place finish was the best ever for the team in the Big Eight journey. Center Adrian Mitchell, who was the only KU player named to the 12-player all-tournament team, and forward Chery McNabb, offense with 31 and 15 points respectively.
Head coach Marian Washington said the battle for third place was a close one, with KU's intense coating it the game. Two players were wounded seconds of the game sealed MUUs victory.
After the opening win, the Jayhawks lost to eventual champion Kansas State, 88-45, despite a halftime tie. Mitchell led the "Hawks with 18 points.
KANSAZ BEGAN the tournament with a 72-45 win over Oklahoma. Mitchell led with 14 points, but everyone scored in the opener. Rudy Gay ended with 46 and played reserved the entire second half.
KU outbounded the much taller Wildcats, 40-28. Washington said the game went “basket for basket” all the way but KU scored a score inside was a big factor in the loss.
"We proved that we can play with anybody now," Washington said. "We have the talent to match any team but we must learn how to beat them in order to learn to play the entire game with pulse."
The Jayhawks, 7-9, also played four games over semester break in addition to the Nebraska State team, College of Indiana, Iowa, 76-66, and Wichita State, 61-57. At the Northwest Missouri State tournament, KU dropped decisions to Nebraska, 54-51, and to NWMS.
Gymnasts split contests
The University of Kansas women's gymnastics team won impressively Saturday morning in Topeka, and lost decisively Friday night in Lincoln, Neb.
The Jayhawks scored 108.63 points of 160 possible to win a triangular meet Saturday against Washburn, 86.27, and Wichita State, 72.79.
On Friday, KU managed 75.3, and Chadron State took third in the meet with
Laurie Propst and Karen Mundy won
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MUNDY ALSO PLACED in two other events at the meet taking second on balance beam and third on vaulting. Rene Nevile was second in the all-around competition with 27.93 of 40, and Propst was third with 26.6.
Mundy claimed the only first place for KU in Friday's meet with a win in vaulting with 8.65. She also was second on the balance beam, and Bee Thompson was third.
Missouri's good guvs may not be so good
By COURTNEY THOMPSON Associate Sports Editor
the majority of written accounts of the televised KU-MU game of Jan. 9 are to be believed, it would seem to be a clear-cut case of the good guys being roughed up and the bad guys being brutalized later. And it all occurred during an incidental game in the bad guys' home town.
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Stewart was referring to a free-swinging, first-fthrowing brawl that cleared both benches in the first half and resulted in the ejection of KU's Donnie Von Moore and Missouri's Jim Kennedy. The fight started when someone threw an elbow. I was there, three minutes later, and he returned four versions, each naming a different player as the instigator.
"It was a hard loss, but the loss was inscrer 1," said Missouri coach Norm Stewart after the 77-72 win by KU. "We were intimidated out of the game."
BASKETBALL IS an emotional game, Owens said, and many times players say things that become harmful in the long run. Coaches must face the often unpleasant consequences of remarks made in haste by players involved in an emotional game, he said, because coaches and future players must return to Big Eight schools each year
"As it was—needing a last-second shot to win—we weren't at our best. Something like this can break a team's concentration so easily."
Stewart also chose to publicize remarks made to him by Owens after the fight, whereas the KU coach decided there was no chance of repeating a "confidential" conversation.
Owens explained his position this weekend, citing this fight as the first he'd been through coaching. It was important that he and the team didn't speak out about the incident, he said.
KU COACH Ted Owens and his team have remained quiet about the whole thing. Stewart and his players, however, have been vocal in outspoken terms and without reservation. He has labeled Owens as "that self-rightfulent KU coach who isn't talking."
Wednesday that we had to prepare for. And if we'd let this whole fight take up our time physically and mentally we wouldn't have been able to set ready for that game.
"FIRST, WE've got to go to Columbia and play MU again this season. I wanted the players to put the whole thing behind them so that we could go into that game ready to beat them on the court—I feel that's most important, in no way incidental.
1 'FELT THAT those words we ex- tended then were between us and should have been there.'
Wait, the word after "those" is "we".
The word after "should" is "have been".
Stewart has accused a specific KU player of throwing an elbow and starting the whole fracas. He's probably right that KU made the first physical contact. Owen's doesn't
"Second, at that time we had another game with OSU coming up the following
basketball that MU's brand of the sport is special. Missouri is known for its crackerjack, aggressive style—it's become sort of an untrained tradition there.
GRANTED SOME of the language used probably didn't compare to the King's English, but what did he expect from KU players? No, he doesn't the language at most basketball games get a little "overly enthusiastic" at times? And it doesn't that he's one to talk. As one observer noted, "Stewart was not sitting at any game and intimidated everyone."
fair trade somehow. An interesting way to be intimidated.
The KU fans also have been the subject of Stewart's wrath. He accuses them of verbal abuse and physical attack as he left the floor after the game.
FOR EXAMPLE, it seems strange that a coach of any team involved in a major college basketball game would label the game incidental. The consensus among many basketball fans would be that the Missourians were faced with an unsetting, if not impossible, to win their important game—and were seeking a way to avoid facing the unvaried truth.
So KU's coaching staff and team kept quiet while Missouri's good guys eagerly publicized the injustices they thought had occurred in their school. We several knowledgeable sources agree that the MU coach has made himself the laughing stock of the Big Eight conference. Whether or not you choose to agree with the unfortunate inconsistencies in Stewart's comments.
And as far as being intimidated goes, it's no secret among followers of Big Eight
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But if the Missouri players were intimidated, they managed to get in their share of ablowing at the beginning of the game and during the Big Eight Holiday Tournament. Courtside observers at the holiday tourney say that vicious language can be indicative KU player by a group from the MU team. Owens says he's heard nothing of it.
But, if true, KU would have had reason to feel "aggressive" toward the Tigers.
OWENS EMPIHASIZED that he didn't see all of the mimes, but he said he didn't intend to condone the illegal tactics. That he had to avoid making it clear to all KU players, he added.
whereas team members may graduate or "fade out."
deny that fact after studying the game films.
Although it's no secret that Stewart's Tigers play rigor, aggressive basketball, turn about apparently isn't fair play in their game. They don't do it well elbow with a left book—doesn't seem like
It seemed that, for the most part, the crowd in Allen Field House conducted itself well. I don't know whether the fans were scared; surprised, shocked or what, but I never knew how they reacted to the student bleachers, everyone generally stayed put. It was an electric moment and could have gotten unpleasant—but onlookers seemed to watch the action open-mouthed as if the crowd was getting to get a better view. Not bad behavior for a bunch of "victims" juice.
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I SAW STEWART leave the court and saw no one strike him or otherwise attack him—mudge maybe, but after all KU won and the fang were excited.
Owens talked about his thoughts on the involvement of KU fans in the fight and the potential for future success.
"I can't say that I feel Stewart's accusations against our fans were justified. However, I didn't see all of what went on as he left the court. Whatever did happen in terms of verbal abuse he was be corrected. If however no way intent to say we're blameless."
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He said that, since the KU-MU incident, he'd had some thoughts about the conduct of his team. "I think it's going to be fine."
suggested that students might consider two things.
"THE BOOING of the opposing team by KU fans when their players are introduced often gets a little heavy, I think. And I don't think students realize the enthusiastic booing often helps the other team psychologically.
Owens said he thought booing made the opponents feel the home team was really worried about them and acted as an added incentive to win.
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"I also know from my experience as a player that if fans just clap politely as you're introduced, it gives you an awful lonely feeling out there. Some schools in the Big Eight do that well—and it really undoes you, completely."
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me."
OWENS CITED the case of a premier recruit, sought after by the University of North Carolina but who chose to attend the University of Maryland instead. When the two teams met at North Carolina, the player expected an onlaught of boos but instead received a standing ovation. This hecked up a volunteer to give the player who had been an awsome scoring threat was limited to an unimpressive three points.
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"I've been told from other coaches, not just Stewart, that our language gets really bad. I don't think it accomplishes anything," he said on an official, that's okay because they
pretty much expect it. But even that can get excessive at times."
IT'S IMPORTANT that KU fans understand that their enthusiasm at games is limited because that support of the team has been vital part of KU basketball. But students might consider ensuring that the environs through the right "channels," be explained.
It's something to think about. An obviously police and "well-behaved" crowd can make remarks alleging "ridiculous behavior" by fans seen only all the more unfounded.
Owens said his purpose in explaining the reasons for his silence and expressing his thoughts about the atmosphere at KU because he wouldn'tn't attempt to "get in the last word."
"I HOPE IT will be understood that KU's intent is to correct the parts of the fight that are our fault and for which we were wrong. And the other school involved does the same."
Most basketball fans would agree, I think, that Stewart's abrasive comments and permission given to his players to speak their mind served only to encourage an aggressive attitude among MU players and fans.
The statement made by Stewart that, "Kansas University, its players, its fans and its coaching staff are responsible," just doesn't wash. Some might even say he has given his players license to come out swinging if they get elbowed, mudged or whatever—at any game—not just against KU.
IT SEEMS, then, that Owens' decision to apologize for the incident and let it go at that was a sound one. You may not agree that there's a fine line between being self-righteous and being smart, but I think in this case there is.